The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 22, Ed. 1, Saturday, June 16, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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The Muskogee Cimeter.
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Vol. It No. 22
Will I
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That segregation ordinance
introduced in the City Council
recently is without cause or rea-
son and is the devil's broth
aerved by the most prejudiced
unpatriotic minion of that
rer disgraced public office. We
ay there is noiause for the ordi-
nance becauseNegroes Cannot
now purchhsejjprpperty in white
neighborhood m (Unless they
are minors.) fThc originators of
tne prdpojNsdtfaW are playing a
game o 'cheap politics and mak-
ing a grandstand play at the ex-
pense of the Negro.
Real big aggressive and pro-
gressive white men areproud of
the efforts the Negro is makings
to improve his condition and will.
not place a-aglc obstacle in his
path'i)ut always " gives him a
helping hand. It is the qowardly
slacker in trje body poHtic that
wears a vyhife skin butMias' a
heart as black as hell and a dag- yar-f the Company to the cal-
ger in his-band to stab: the Ne-jqndaVyear beginning Jan. 1st
gro. The. slacker is n6t a tealJandJ&nding Dec. 31st of each
Aman; he is.
belongs to that class of
immoral lepers who
p. join in the mob-
bing of Negro malA.
Dante in' his description of'
hell had .thiS'kind of monstrosity
in iuwbejgmsc is so full ofj
them that their pedal extremi-
ties stick out of the window.
While our boys are rushing to
join the colors and oflfering-their
lives to protect the flag placing
their lives on the altar for the
country's good these cow-
ardly slackers arc passing laws
to impose upon degrade and
atcaljfthe liberty of the fathers
and mothers of the brave gal-
lant and patriotic soldier boys.
We don't believe that the better
element of the white people of
our city approve of this attempt
to confiscate property ..but
whether they do or not it is fl
duty of the Negro to proceed
long safe and sane lines pre-
pare and fight
Our boys at the front will
harlots until hell freezes over
and continue the battle on the
ft
NOTICE.-
Okmulgee Okla. May 31 1917. 1
To the Stockholders of the Ad-'
Without taking any part in
the Manuel controversy we de-
sire to go on record as saying
that Judge Enloe Vernor our
County Judge has the confidence
and respect of the citizenship of
this County regardless Of polit-
ical leanings. He is a splendid
official and all who have business
in his court get a square deal no
matter what their race color or
creed may bo. The Negro law-
yer gets the sanits courtesy in
this court as other lawyers. The
colored people of the County
have the greatest confidence in
Judge Vernor because he always
gave them a square deal. We
have known the Judge for many
years and knew him long before
he went upon the bench and we
know he has always been fair
with our people man of whom
were his clients in U. S. days.
W. Scott Brown W. H. Twine
.Jr. Prof. S. E. Williams C.
.Byard Eddie Isby Herman
Austin and Prof. Dade all of
.Muskogee passed examination
At Fort Sill and will go to the of-
fers' training camp at Des
JHoines Iowa. Muskogee will
watch these yuong men and will
be proud of the record they
make because we know they will
make good and wherever for-
tune sends them they will have
the prayer and good wishes of
tho citizenship of their home
town.
Negroes who failed to register
are very few but there are some
Under the advice of broken-
down political hacks and preach-
ers failed to do their duty and
when they aro arrested as slack-
ers the cuescs responsible should
and. will be arrested'with them
and wo will take pleasure in see-
ing to it that the real curs in dev
wm
ams Oil Gas and Development
Co.:
Notice is hereby given that
by virtue of authority vested in
me as President of The Adams
Oil Gas & Development Com-
pany a special meeting of the
stockholders of said company is
hereby -fulled to assemble at
Washington D. 0. (Street and
number to .be designated upon.
Applying to tvo Secretary or
President at 2.. 1-J3 You St.
N.' W.. Washington p. C) on
Thursday evening June 14
'(917t 8':30 p. m. tin transact-
ing th following business:
- " l.itj) soamcnd Par. three (3)
9f thfc.A rujcles of Incorporation
said Company as to re-estab-
isli remain" oince or. said uom-
fpany in Oklahoma and to abol-
jsh Washington D. C as a
branch office altogether.
. Xo change the present fiscal
fyeaftVj
eLTo consider and act upon
the .matter of holding an Annual
Meeting of the stockholders of
said jEompany immediately fol-
lowing an adjournment of the
sp&ial meeting called herein
fotf'ltoe purpose of electing Di-
rectora of said Company to serve
until Dec. 31 1917 should the
fiscal year be changed to the cal-
andar year beginning Jan. 1st
4. .For considering and acting
and ending Dec. 31st of ecah
year.
upon such other matters as are
deemed timely and of special in-
terest to the said Company.
SPENCER ADAMS
President.
Do you get up at night? Sanol it
r.urcly the best (or nil kidney or blad-
dortroublcs. Sanol gives relief lu 21
hours from all backache and bladder
troubles. Sanol Is a guaranteed
ramedy. 35c und f 1.0 Oa bottle at the
drug gBtore.
Indian minors should invest
in the Liberty Loan. There are
many colored minors whose
guardian would be doing a patri-
tip act to make such invest-
ment. "
iltry and hellishness get their
just duos.
People whose sons have regis-
tered are not going to stand idl
by and let these slackers escape
service. It is a duty we owe to
ourselves and our country to in-
form the U. Sfl marshal who the
slackers are that they may be
dealt with according to law
Many young men not quite 30
who jumped to 32 and those who
were 21 and backed up to 19 are
3lackcrs that need strict atten-
tion. We admire the boys who
though not quite 21 got in the
ranks and got their certificates ;
they are patriotic and if they
stretched things a little will be
forgiven and the recording an-
jel when she writes it down wih
drop a tear on it and blot it out
forever but the slacker will
catch liquid hell in big doses now
and hereafter and deserves all
he gets.
The City and County officers
should clean up the thieving
murderous elemtnt both white
and black that infests our city.
The loafers thieves thugs and
bums of all descriptions should
be made to know that their room
is better than their company. A
Negro who murders a white man
for money will murder a Negro
for the same and the same js true
of the white fellow.
Every time there has been a
near-lynching in this city the
cause has been traced to a worth-
less Negro a thug or a thief whe
has committed crime and who
would commit the same crime
against the Negro. Thege thuga
white and black have no color
line they commit murder indis-
criminately. Our position is
that the country ought to berid
of these parasites but do it law-
fully and not by the mob route.
MUSKOGEE OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY
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Our people should notify the
officers of the dens where these
black thieves hide and help rid
the city of the undesirable. It's
a duty we owe ourselves and the
community. The preachers and
other race leaders should help in
a general clean-up campaign;
this would be far better than ad-
vising our boys to be slackers
as we understand some worth-
less preachers did.
After reading tho address of
the Farmers' Congress which
appedrs in this paper we con-
clude that they too are opposed
to the retention of Marquess an
president of Langston Univer-
sity. He is n huge joke and de-
serves his walking papers in-
stanter. His retention would
mean that the great body of peo-
ple on tho. east side of the State
.s well as those on the west side
will send their children else-
where and Langston will remain
at the tail end of the procession
until some time in the distant fu-
ture. We the members of the
State Farmers' and Educational
Congross in convention assem-
bled at the Flipper-Key-Davis
University Tullanassee Oklaho-
ma May 30 1917 do issue the
following address to our people
and the country :
We believe in and are working
for the preparedness of Negroes
for universal service and we
hereby call upon our people and
wr friends to bend overy possi-
ble effort toward this great end.
We realize our importance to
our country in this particular
;risis and wc take this oppor-
tunity to re-affirm our faith in
)urselvcs in our possibilities
ind in those who believe In us.
We call upon our government to
recognize the Negro soldiers'
last records and achievements
Such service typified by unex-
impled loyalty from Boston
:ommon to Carrizal points the
source of a part of America's'
oest soldiery. It will be the part
Df simple if belated justice to
:all to tho colors such potential
leroes .officered' by men of Ne-
jro blood. ' No Negro has ever
:un from service none have har-
oored treason in their hearts
md although our enemies would
leem to suspect that we feel we
lave just reason for disloyalty
ve recognize no condition in loy-
ilty at this supreme hour of
leed. We call uopn our men to
tnswer the call t othe colors or
eport to God the reason why.
Ve believe wjth all pur hearts
n thoroughness of preparation
'or the tasks which we are to
issume and in developing every
esource physical mental and
ipiritual fo rthe accomplishing
of these great and necessary ob-
jects in human service.
We believe in physical prepar-
ation. Whether our people live
in city or country it is our sol-
emn duty to atruggla for sound
ninds in sound bodies. In the
ities we need organization for
sanitation that we may bettor
use the Negro doctor the Negro
nurse the Negro preacher the
Negro lawyer and the Negro
teacher pot so much for curing
disease as for preventing it. It
is the sacred duty of all trained
Negroe sto aid in conservinc
rracial physical disability as we
need every item of manhood and
womanhood to fight our battles.
Pure air clean houses good
food exercise and unnecessary
worry should be persistently
and consistently fought for by
our trained men and women.
True education presupposes a
willingness to assume responsi-
bility. In the open country we
deem it our duty to fight for bet-
ter health conditions better con-
veniences for women and bettei
attractions for hloding the inter-
est of younger people to the ad-
vantages of farm life. Now that
our country calls loudly for the
assistance of all pot only in a
military but in an. industrial
way we are called upon to fur-
nish physical stamina not only
for a time of peace but a time
of war. We must stress temper
JUNE 10 1017.
. --a-s-g
ance in all things in eating in
drinking in spending. Wo must
use every physical means per-
sonal and real for the produc-
tion of more and better food for
its proper saving preparation
and use in order that our bodies
may neither bo underfed nor
overfed.
We call upon our people for
mental preparation for th.
struggles and duties to which c
are heirs. We need all sorts of
education and especially do mo
need competent in spirit mind
and body to tr.vn our people in
the trades and the professions
including tho leaching profes-
sion to prepare our people to
answer the great industrial call
made to them from tho North
and the South as well as to serve
ourselves and the South in con-
struction agriculture and other
services of the common profes-
sions. Especially do we call for men
and women with trained hearts
men and women who can feel
what all of us feel recognize the
justice and injustice of de-
mands made upon us and stand
with all the powers of their be
ings for what wc know is noues
sary to sound and lasting raei.J
development. Wo see keenly the
need of ''men whom the lusts of
office cannot buy; men whom the
spoils of office cannot kill." We
deprecate wjth all our souls the
truckling hat-in-hand policy of
some Negro leaders who would
barter for a moro mess of pot-
tage the birthrights of genera-
tions yet unborn. When "di-
plomacy" resolves itself into
skillful polite lying wo call
loudly for stamping out the so
jailed diplomat and substitute
for him a man of sturdy simplic-
ity. We call for men who believe
In working together but we
would warn our people that co-
operation means a giving up of
some of our personal prefer-
ences especially when those
preferences mean a stubborn
reaching out for a personal fol-
lowing forpersonal gain in any
way whatever. The worst sin
from whic'n we suffer is the aiu.
of selfishness which substitutes
men pull for men of true power
places men with political power
in the place of men with proper
pedagogical principles substi-
tutes financial force for Chris-
tian courage and fools the youth
of our race into believing they
know how to swim educational-
ly whereas they have merely
been nlavincr around the ndo-na
of the stream of power
o-qperation means service m
.season and out of season long
hours and short pay with often
nothing in sight but the "well
done" of tho appreciative few
who havo prophetic vision
mough to look into the future
and see the benefits to accrue to
those who shall yet rise up and
call us blessed for the suprmce
sacrifices we have made.
O. R. Tucker Chairman; H
S. Murphy Secretary? C. E.
Smith W. L. Haywood M. D.
J. H. A. Bressleton J. T. A.
West J. E. Toombs V. E. Day
Rev. G. T. Sims Rev. T. H.
Wiseman L. E. Nelson M. W.
Austin Mrs. L. S. Forte Mrs.
M. L. Brookins S. T. Wiggins
P. M. DeLancey E. D. Jefferson
R. J. Patton Rev. T. W. Kidd.
While Atlanta. fi.. was lin
ing destroyed by fire and prqn-
wn-jf iuiu UII1UUII9 JjUlllg Up "II)
mioke the people near Memphjs
Tenn. were having a lynching
t the atako. Of course he was
bee and burning a human boing
a Negro and' while his piteous
cries were1 ascending haven-
ward the barbarians shouted in
?reat g less. Many Negroes lost
property and were sufferers in
the Atlanta fire and many white
persons it will bo found are the
sufferers who attended the Ne-
?ro burning because raaay of
vhem were women and some
doubtless in delicate health and
when that child comes in tho
world it will come branded with
the mark of a Cain and all
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through life the sin of its par-
ents who participated in tho
barbarious and hellish murder
will bo visited upon it. God
moves in mysterious ways his
wonuers to porlorm.
The Stella Manuel case prom-
ises to be as interesting as that
Df Luther Manuel. The young
woman is the owner of property
easily worth a hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars and
thero arc others of therace
equally as wealthy. Oklahoma
has many colored peoplo made
wealthy by reason of her rich
deposits of oil coal gas and oth-
er minerals.
Give the vouner colored man .1
Jinnee of being trained for of-
ncers. it is a duty our Govern-
ment owes lo its loval nnlnrorl
citizens. If there is any colored
prejudice lurking in the cuticle
of the administration it should
be eliminated iiistanter. The
war if won at all must be won
by tho loval sons of tho llnn.11.-
lic regardless of race color or
creed.
Road tlio advcrtlHomnnlH In thin
n.ipor and nntronizo thrum wim mi.
0rtlB0 with tin; thoy desorv your
trndo. Our Hubwrlntlon la f 1.00 per
your. ARents wanted Good commis-
sion uuld. Wrlto ub.
It Is gunrantccd to nny woman who
will U80 Sanol Cczemn Proscription
will find n jiorfect complexion. It will
euro nny eruption on tho Bkln. It la a
skin Tonic. Sanol FJcztmn Curo Is a
household remedy. A trlnl will con-
vince you. Get It at tho druc store.
On account of her fair treat-
ment to all of her citizens France
stands in the front rank of tho
Nations of the world and her
loyal black patriots are her sa-
viors and they como from tho
.most romote parts of the domin-
ion to fight and die for France.
The United States should profit
from this example. "If that bo
treason mako tho most of it."
X-nrgo Trial Dottlo ot Sanol for 35c.
Sanol Is a family remedy. S.inol is
Hold on an absoluto guarantoo. Ilo-
membor Jf It says Sanol It Is all right.
35u and 100 at the drug sturo.
NtiGRO TRAINING CAMP.
Washington May 23. A
training camp for Negro ofiicers
will bo Ofitablishod jf. Vnvr TW
I Moines la. where 1200 candi-
I datoa for commissions in Negro
j regiments of the new army will
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Tobacco Redmr eo:itna no haMt-
formlnit druim of nny ktuJ-a mot mar-
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t'loroufhly rcllabln remedy for tht traatMat
of tho tobacco hnblt.
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be trained. A draft of 250 men
Will be taken from the colored
regiments of the regular army
relected from tho non-commissioned
ofiicers and privates whe
havo shown qualifications fitting;
them for command and assigned
to the new camp. The remain-
der will come from Negro regi-
ments of the national guard and
from grades of the various edu-
cational institutions for Ne-
groes. When you hav Backache th liver"
or kidncyn aro sure to be out of gtar.
Try Sanol It tfoei wondra for the
liver kidneys and bladder. A trial
35c bottle will convince you. Get It
at tho drug store.
I.n tho District Court la aad far
Muhkogco County BUta of
Oklahoma. -v. 1
Pi auk L. Drown Plaintiff
v. No. 6774.
Annie U. nrown Defendant.
NOTICE IIY rimiilCATIOX. '
Said Dofondant Annie D. Drown
will take notlca that alio has beaa
fined In tho above named Court by
tho ahovo named plulntlff for an
abscJiito divorce from her the Mid
defendant upon the ground of
nbuidoument; that she must answer
tho Petition by plaintiff filed therein
on or heforo tho 2nd day of July
1917 or said Petition will be take
iih 1 true und a Judgment for said slain-
tlir v)ll bo ronderod accordingly.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I Hot
horounto set my hand as Clerk of
stld Court and affixed the seal there-
of this 13th day of June 1917.
J. H. GAINES.
(SEAL) County Clerk. '
Dy CIIAS. E. HART
Detuty.
A. O. W. SANQO 2
Attornoy for Plaintiff. i
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The best trained troop.JjM
world has ever saw arergoing to
Europe with General Pershing
and that meaijathat the Black
Battalions of the. Republic the
0th and 10th Cavalry and 24th
and 25th Infantry will be with
him.
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A Negro mechanic has in-
vented a device that will deskrey
submarines and thus you see
that the Negro is using his
brains as well as his brawn to
help out Uncle Sam. All of
which shows he is entitled to all
the rights of a citizen including
the right to vote and be selected
as a juror in Oklahoma and elao
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