The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 8, 1912, Page 6

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FRAD DELERNTES ARE TURNED DOWN Progressives Adopted Report of Com- | mittee Without Debate, [ AN OLD WO. MAN'S WILL By M. QUAD Copyright, 1912, by Associated Lit- erary Her proper name was Eliza Craig, but she was always referred to in the village of Howland as old Mrs. Craig. GREAT CROWD HEARD ROOSEVELT | she was a widow when she came there, and she was a widow when she died, ten years later. The arrival of a stranger in a village of 1,200 inhabitants, and that stranger a woman and a widow, is bound to 6tir up things. She bought a house of - Deacon Craft for $600, and when ask- Chicago, Aug. 7.—The second day 0!} eq where she came from her prompt re- the Progressive national convention] piy was: Opened with a well defined fight over “None o’ your darned business!" She bought new furniture and moved Tn OOEe in, and that was the beginning of a Greeted by Demonstration Lasting 57 Minutes—Convention Adjourned Till Morning Without Com- pleting Organization. interest with Col. Theodore | velt's delivery of his “confession of} pty or strange life. Word went around faith” to his followers in the progres-| tno town that the newcomer was sive cause. “techy,” and it did not prove a mis- Some of the delegates declared that) tao, She carred a grouch on either the elimination of the Southern negro) shoulder. She was judged to be sixty from participation in the formation of} years old, but she was as spry as a the new party had become the para-| piri of sixteen. She paid cash for ; Mount issue of the convention. East-} what she bought, but whether she had | ern negroes joined with their brothers/ plenty or little could only be guessed from the South in denunciation of cer-} at. Any queries thrown out on this | tain things that occurred at an all-} subject were met by: night meeting of the credentials com- “You' mind your business and I'll mittee, when the last of the Southern] mind mine!” negro delegates was barred from the| Several ladies called on Mrs. Craig in floor of the convention in a close vote. | a neighborly way. They wanted to let Blacks indignant. her know that, although she was a The negroes were indignant, and stranger within their gates, she could ; 3 at once begin to lend and borrow tea, excitably voluble throughout the ses. sizan and coffee the aameascani old sion of the committee, which berap! ecient. None of them got into the at S p. m. and continued until nearly house. At the front door they were daybreak. The Mississippi contest] 9:\:oq their business and told they were was the last to be taken up and it wag not wanted, begun shortly after midnight. Elder Hazlett was her neighbor on The vote in the committee stood 17} the right. He kept chickens the same © 16 against the negroes, those from| as all other residents. Among them ssissippi, and immediately Julius T.| was a Shanghai rooster, who could Mitchell of Rhode Island and other} crow like a two-year-old bull. His | Mastern negroes joined in crying that] crowing didn’t seem to annoy anybody ja semi-circle Strictly Confidential All transactions between this bank and its depositors are considered strictly confidential. No matter what your business may be with us it will have the utmost secrecy. This is a valuable asset in your favor as well as ours. Few people care to have their banking affairs made public. This rule holds good without exception in this bank. Your business, whether large or small, will be appreciated. PEOPLES BANK BUTLER, MO. “The Bank on Which you Can Always Bank” the deciding ballot had been cast by a suestionable proxy on the committee. Yairly sputtering indignation, the ne- groes announced they would carry the matter to Col. Roosevelt for a persona: ruling on the point. The vote on the Mississippi case came in a secret session of the com- mittee at 3 in the morning, a few hours after both white and negro dele- gations from Florida had been barred. Roosevelt Holds Reception. When Col. Theodore, Roosevelt ap- peared on the stage of the convention in the afternoon to make his “confes- sion of faith” address, he faced one of the greatest audiences ever gathered in the big Coliseum building. The demonstration of delegates and spectators that greeted him lasted 57 minutes. The colonel had an improptu re ception during the enthusiastic noise making and was still broadly smiling his appreciation when Senator Beve- ridge introduced him. He began his speech at 1:48 o'clock. Col. Roosevelt continually departed from his prepared speech, interpolat- ing many side remarks and skipping over portions of the printed speech. He spoke somewhat slowly, with great emphasis and was constantly inter- rupted by applause and c¥eers, There was no question of Roose velt’s happiness. is face radiated it and as he nodded to the blue uni- formed G, A. R, drum corps as it came across the stage and ranged itself in about the speaker's stand. Greets Confederate General. Roosevelt grasped each of the veter- ans by the hand, shook it warmly ana then, at his suggestion, they struck up a wild marching tune. The blare oi the fifes and the boom of the drums aided the enthusiasm and as the music died_down-Gen._McDowell-of-Tennes- see, veteran of the Confederacy, passed forward and Roosevelt shook him warmly by the hand and patted him on the back. Hoosevelt finally swung into the spirit of the enthusiasm himself and waved his arms and cheered. The demonstration was the most re- markable yet tendered to Roosevelt during the present ‘campaign. Not a person was in his seat, even the women and the galleries standing on their chairs to contribute to the un- dulating sea of color made by the wav- ing bandanas. From the rear of the stage many pressed forward to shake hands with the colonel. Shook Hande With Negro Delegates, Two negroes, wearing delegates’ badges, climbed to the stage. The critical negro question was in the minds of the crowd and as the colonel reached out a hand to each of the ne- &roes, those around them fell back. For a minute the three stood in a Uttle knot. The colonel gesticulated and talked, the n¢groes listening, their faces serious. As. the colonel con- cluded one of the negroes reached over and pounded him on the shoulder. The three stood hand in hand and the crowd yelled. The negroes were dele- gates from West Virginia. When Col. Roosevelt had left the Coliseum the business of the conven- tion was resumed. The report of the credentials committee unseating the Negro delegates from the South was considered. The report of the committee on cre- dentials was adopted without debate and without a dissenting voice. Without affecting permanent organ!- zation the conventio at 3:55 o'clock adjourned until 11 o'clock morning. Pa in the but the widow She jumped on the elder with a suit for damages, and she seared him inw paying her $10 and wringing the rvoster’s neck with such a wring that Le never crowed again. The rooster incident was the begin- ning of a dozen lawsuits. The woman reveled in them. She brought suits against men and women and the vil- lage. She had the money to pay her lawyers and the costs, She had the spunk to appeal when beaten. For five years she kept the town in a turmoil, and finally it was decided that she must be crazy, and an order was pro- cured from the court to have her sanity inquired into. Six medical men did the business—that is, they came out of ft with features dragging. It was shortly after this that Mrs. Craig was found dead in her bed. She had said that she had no relatives, and- the courts took charge. A will was found, and when in due time it was opened it knocked the breath out of many villagers. There were 149 be- quests, and only samples of them can be given here. One of her first be- quests to the village was: “1 hereby bequeath the sum of $2,000 to the village of Howland for the pur- pose of buying a fire engine and erect- ing a house for the same.” There was u hum of approval as that paragraph was read, but it died a sud- den death. “Provided that,” it continued, “old Squar Billings rolls the length of the mudhole on Main street three times a day for ten successive days. “To Elder Hazlett, who called me a crank, the sum of $1,000, provided he will ride his old spotted cow four times around the Methodist meeting house on the first Sunday of each month for a year. “To Mrs. Henry Rayburn the sum of $1,000 to buy herself a new nose. I never Hked the one she has. It has always poked into other people’s af- (On Ut ©) YOUR. PERSONAL CHECK When you draw a personal check you keep control over your money until the bank pays the check. When you carry a check you can’t lose the money it represents even if you lose the check itself. 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Sold only by THE HUGH-STEPHENS PRINTING COMPANY Jefferson City, Missouri 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. 8 9 1 10 1 ee Mrs. Rayburn had helped to prepare the old woman for burial, and at the reading of the paragraph she was heard to murmur that she wished the body had been thrown into the river. “To the county of Dwight the sum of $20,000, to erect a new Jail, provid- ed that Mr. James, Mrs, White and Mrs. Graham are the first three prison- ers in it and serve not less than sixty days-as a cure for their gossipy | tongues.” Dwight county didn’t get the money and the jail. “To the village of Howland the sum of $5,000 for the grading and paving of fits main street and putting in sewers, provided Deacon Darius Black of the ‘Methodist church stands on his head {n front of the postoffice for five min- utes on five consecutive days.” ‘The deacon was told he would be considered the meanest man ever if he it the town out of that bequest, but e got mad about it and offered to lick any man that would step outdoors with him. $ “To Mrs. James French the sum of 1,000 to spend in soap and towels to eep her children’s faces clean and the ks and eyes sewed on her dresses.” jo proviso, but it was not claimed.) ' “The sum of $1,000 to Mrs, Caleb jackson and Mrs. Charles Tinker, pro- led they quit lying about their neigh- bors for the space of one year and a day.” ‘There were numerous other bequests just as strange, and the windup was the strangest of all. The sum of $40,- 300, which was found in the house in cash and bonds, was left to.a widow in the village to whom Mrs. Craig had never spoken. The proviso was that she should not marry a fat man, if she took another husband, and she gave bonds and got her legacy and married 9 fean one. 4 PROFESSIONAL CARDS Eeo—CC——————————=—=—=—=—=—=—== Diseas.s ot Women and Children a Specialty Office Phone 20 Office Phone 8, Residence Phone 968 DR. J. M. CHRISTY BUTLER - MISSOURI House Phone 10 Entrance same that leads to Stew- North side square Butler, Missouri DR. J. T. HULL Dentist ard’s Studio. DR. H. M. CANNON H. E. 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