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30TH ANNIVERSARY ST. PAUL SUHOOU NOTABLE EVEN! Splendid Work of Famous Normal and Industrial School Attracts Attention. Lawrencevllle, Va.—The St. Paul Normal and Industrial School, at the close of its thirty years of service to the community, the Church and the Nation, merits the praise of those who are experts in the field of voca tional education, and commands the support of many thoughtful Christian men and women who put education above ignorance and who see in * America’s army of twelve million Ne groes a National asset of untold value. To the recent St. Paul commence ment there came the Bight Reverend Beverley D. Tucker, Bishop of South ern Virginia; the Right Reverend Ar thur C. Thompson, Bishop Suffragan of Southern Virginia; the Rt. Rev. Arthur S. Lloyd, president of the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church and Bishop of Li beria; the Rev. Dr. David W. Howard, rector of St. Luke’s Church, Norfolk; th# Rev. Dr. C. Braxton Bryan, prin cipal of the Bishop Payne Divinity School, Petersburg; the Rev. Edmnn I P. Danridge, rector of St. Paul’s Church, Petersburg; the Rev. Her bert N. Tucker, rector of St. James Church, Boydton, Va., the Rev. Her bert H. Young, Kendridge, Va., the Rev. Junius L. Taylor, rector of St. Stephen’s Church, Savannah, Ga., the Rev. M. P. Birchett, rector of St. James Church, Portsmouth, and many others who were vitally interested in „ the development of sound ideas of education. Bishop Lloyd, comparing the task of > ■ .... • the Liberians with that of the Amer ican Negroes, paid high tribute to the Negroes, paid high tribute ito the splendid citizenship being developed in Liberia and to the high moral sta tus of the people. I)r. Taylor, who was graduated from St. Paul School in 1901, after a hard struggle for an education, told graphically the story of the Colored man’s desire to obtain better schools, homes and churches. He said inpart: “To combat this monster, ignorance, the Rev. James S. Russell, founder and principal of St. Paul School, came among the good people of Brunswick county over thirty years ago. “With the small sum of five dol lars Dr. Russell began his great work. Thirty years ago he had .three teach ers and a few boarding students. To day he has more than fifty officers, instructors and employees. St. Paul has five hundred students. It has sent out 600 academic and trade grad uates, who are useful men and women, as well as over 4,000 former students. Today the school has ovelr (thirty buildings and COO acres of excellent land. “Of the 130 ministers of the Church, twenty-two have gone from St. Paul School. These ministers are in great demand.” Archdeacon Russell in his excellent j report to the trustees states that the school is facing a deficit of probably $30,000. He believes, however, that the public, when it fully realizes the :mportance of the school’s influence for good, will furnish the necessary funds to continue the school’s work tor the training of citizens and Chris tian leaders who will remake com l munities. | Entire $15,000 Shoe Stock I Forced Out J We are compelled to close out our entire stock of women’s and misses' f t shoes. We need the space for our ladies' ready-to-wear department. I * Footwear for Women, Misses and Children at t Less Than Cost j Children’s Tennis Slippers, in white and black; HBc values, f"($ sale price. Ladles, White Shoes and Pumps, in canvas and poplin; high and low heels; $4.SO values; tffcO 1 O sale price. 1 ' ■ - - — Children's Sandal* and l’lay Ox fords; in tan and black, 1 ^(1 $2.2f» value*. »ale price M I One lot of Shoes, 1’uinps and Ox . ford*; mostly small sizes; values i . I.. i - to 17.00: sale prices, (j> I nQ $1.49 and. O l • l J Infants’ Shoe* and Pumps; values to $2.00; sizes 2 to 5; 08c sale price. Misses’ and Growing Girls’ White Tennis Pumps; rubber soles and heels; $2.00 values; sale QC* price 79c and. Ladies’ Pumps and Oxfords, pat ent and kid leathers; colors sliver, gray, ivory, brown and white kid; covered French and military heels; values $9.00 to $12; sale ^^7 QC prices $3.45, $3.95 up to BERNSTEIN’S 111 South 16th Street. Opposite Hayden's. Want to Buy or Rent a House? | THEN GET IN TOUCH WITH A. J. DAVIS & CO. REAL ESTATE ANI) RENTALS. 220 South 13th St. Doug. 7150. Residence Web. 839. PEOPLES’ CLEANERS and DYERS CORPORATION We make a specialty of Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing Men's and Ladies’ j Clothes. Send us your soiled, wrinkled suit or skirt. : We clean White or Colored Kid Gloves perfectly. Let us convince you. Plumes and Feathers are finished with the utmost care. Woollen Blankets are made as soft, fluffy and warm as when brand new. Curtains, lace or other materials are handled with the best of care. Your wrinkled or faded portieres are made as good as new. A telephone call will bring our auto for your work immediately. -ALL WORK GUARANTEED 2*16 ERSKINE STREET PHONE WEBSTER 3991 MARSHALL & LEE RELIABLE TAILORS SUITS MADE TO ORDER FOR $18.00 AND UP Kxpertx in ihe arts of repairing and remaking. Our dyeing and cleaning ix unexcelled. Our aKxixtant manager, Mr. Harold Hentley, who recently returned from Wextern University, ix rendering hix moxt efficient xervice in our xhop. Call Red 7306 103 So. 14th St., Omaha, Neb. m U. S. AIRPLANES ACTIVE IN TOUL Pursuit Squadron Engages in Number of Clashes. — MORE VICTORIES ARE SCORED _ Tennessee Aviator Achieves Success In Unequal Combat—Brings Down One Hun and Evades Three Enemy Planes When His Machine Gun Be came Jammed—Auto Racer Scores Another. An American aerial pursuit squad ron Is operating over the American sector northwest of Toul It Is per mitted to announce. Ail the pilots whose air exploits hove been recorded up to this time belong to this squad ron, which hns a special Insignia. The squadron Is flying In Nieuport chasing machines. The first victories, In which the American squadron brought down two German mnchlnes, were gained the day after they took up flying on this sec tor. The occupants of the German ma chines were made prisoners. Other mnehlnes. aside from those in this squadron, also are flying on the Toul front. Tlie fact that an American squadron was there eouhl not he men tioned previously because it wns not desired that the Germnns should know’ of the fact. Hut after there have been so many fights at eiose range and two American mnchlnes have fallen It Is believed cer tain the enemy knows an American squadron is operating on this front. There is also the fact that Capt. James Norman Hail hns fallen hehlnd the German lines and been made a pris oner. Downs German Airplane. Lieut. Edward Buford, Jr., of Nash ville, Tenn., wns officially credited with shooting down a German airplane over ! St. Mihiei on May 22, Buford while patrolling encountered two German pursuit planes. The fight j ing continued only a few minutes ! Lieut. Buford nttneklng one of the Oer ! man planes, which tried to lend him ; into the fire from the other. Suddenly j Lieutenant Buford looked overhead and saw two more Germnns coming down from out of the clouds for him. He took a dive, all of the Germans div ing at the same time, and when he | came up he had one of the enemy i planes in front of him. Buford began firing with his machine gun, causing | his adversary to disappear In a nosf dive. Although he was sure ho had hit j the German, it was not until later that i the victory was confirmed. A few minutes later Lieutenant Bu ford by maneuvering managed to get hehlnd two of the remnlnlng three ma I chines and opened fire, hut his ma chine gun jammed. As he was unable , to nse his weapon he started in a se i rles of skilful dives and turns and wns I successful In shaking off the three ene my planes. Lieut. Edward Rickenbacher, the former automobile racer, hns added an other aerial victory to his record. An nouncement wns made that It had been confirmed that the lieutenant shot down a German biplane In the neigh borhood of Tlilnueourt on May 22. The fight took place 5,500 meters in the air. Gets on Enemy’s Tail. With another pilot Lieutenant Rick enbacher engaged In a long fight with two enemy machines. Rickenbacher finally got on the tail of one machine and fired more than a score of shots at short range. The enemy machine went Into a spinning nose dive, but It was uncertain whether It hit the ground, so the lieutenant was not credited with a victory at the time. Positive con firmation that the machine crashed to the ground has since been obtained. No confirmation Is obtainable con cerning the German report that three American airplanes have been shot down in the Lys region. FAMILY IN SIX WARS Some Member Has Served the United States in Each One. When P. Levi Dees, aged fifty, en listed recently In the engineering corps In St. Louis, n record of 140 years wus perfected, a member of the Dees family having served in every one of the six wars in which the Unit ed States has participated. His great-grandfather served In the Revolution, furnishing his own rifle, clothing, etc. His father. Justice j J. H. Dees of Edwurdsvllle enlisted for the Civil war at the age of four teen. Levi Dees Is an expert engineer, and his age, which In other branches would be considered a drawback, was regarded as an asset. After passing the examination he was sent to Wilmington, Del. COAL ALLOWANCE REDUCED No Fuel for Heating Being Sold in Paris. The allowance of coal In Paris Is be | ing reduced In view of the smaller re quirements of the summer. Coul will be sold during the summer months only for kitchen use und the coupons which permit one to purchnse a cer tain quantity for the heutlng of liv ing rooms will not be available. LIFE IS A MYSTERY (Written for The Monitor.) Life is a mystery—a vast, complicated profound mystery. Behind us is the irrevocable past, fast fading away like the receding waves broken upon j the shores of time. Before us lies the unknown and unexplored future—a future so pregnant with doubt and perplexities, a future along whose pathway are hidden pitfalls, concealed quicksands and rugged rocks beneath treacherous waves. Can we shun these as we go blindly grouping our way? We cry aloud for light, and j the echoing answer to our plaintive wail repeats our question. We look around us upon the wide ocean of time and we see it strewn with wrecks — some financial wrecks, some social wrecks and some physical wrecks. Misfortune seems to be the common heritage of man. There is no class or sect that can claim exemption from these disasters. They are incidental or accidental at' all, be it as it may are we not more concerned about the future than the past? One is irre vocable, the other is uncertain, per plexing. One we wish to forget while we are always longing for some in sight into the future. It is the future that has puzzled the minds of all peo ple of all ages. Nor can we hush or stifle this inquiry that arises in every one’s mind. It was seen and satisfied in the early days of prophecy in the oracles and soothsayers of the Middle Ages, in the astrologists and physiol ogist of the present time. The dis membered fragments of empires, kingdoms and principalities drifting down the stream of human history •solemnly and sublimely proclaim in their utter desolation the inexorable truths that fell from the lips of priest and prophet. The disasters and deaths that fell like terrible judgments upon the lives and works of great military chieftains have only tended to fasten the facts so prophetically spoken by soothsayer and oracle. And now in this age of progressive thought his I tory is fast repeating itself. Ap | parently the whole world is in an up roar and at war. Lives of great men have fallen and there seems to be a general uprising among all nations | for supremacy. Sooner of later the I son of man will be unlike the beasts of the field—the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man hath not where to iay his head. Let us forget the past and look for ward to a brighter and more pros perous future. Let us rally around the Stars and Stripes of this great country for its glorious achievements and betterment of all conditions and after’having won this great conflict, which the country is now engaged, trusting in a divine providence for His guidance in the right direction that we may live that life so pure and simple that we may be able to over come all difficulties and then can sing ‘America” and the “Star Spangled Banner” with a glad heart. J. WILLIAM SHIELDS. SOUTHERN CONGRESSMAN LAUDS RACE WAR WORKERS Washington, D. C.—Representative I Pou of North Carolina praised the | work of the Negro in war in the ] House today. He declared that the | Negro has subscribed liberally to I Liberty bonds and to the Red Cross ' and is doing his part at the front. _ Thrift and patriotism are synony mous. Lodge rooms at 24th and Charles streets. Vacant two nights each week. Persons wanting to rent same, call Allen Jones, rental agent, Web ster 1100. Rusines as usual now may mean no business later. LODGE DIRECTORY Gate City Lodge, No. 6674, G. U. O. of O. F., meets the first and third Monday of each month at Petersen's hall, 24th and Burdette sts. W. H. Payne, N. G.; R. L. Woodard, P. S., 4912 South 26th st. South 4459. Omaha Lodge No. 146, A. F. and A. M., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third Thursdays of every month. Lodge room, 2201 Cuming street. I’. H. Jenkins, W. M.; W. H. Robinson, Secretary. Keystone Lodge No. 4, K. of P., Omaha, Nebr. Meetings first and third Thursdays of each month. H. A. Hazzard, C. C., J. H. Glover, K. of R. and S. Weeping Willow Lodge No. 9696, G. U. O. of O. F., meets second and fourth Thursdays of each month at U. B. F. Hall, 24th and Charles. R. S. Gaskins, N. G.; T. H. Gaskins, P. S. International Order No. 631 Col ored Engineers and Portable Hoisting Enginemen meets at 2225Ms Lake street first and third Wednesday in each month. W. H. T. Ransom, pres ident; J. H. Headly, Cor. Sec.; J. H. Moss, Rec. Sec.; S. L. Bush, Treas. Faithful lodge, No. 250, U. B. F., meets second and fourth Fridays in each month at Rescue hall. Visiting brethren welcome. Earl Jones, W. M.; James Tubbs, W. S. » Thompson, Belden & Co. The Fashion Center for Women Established 1886 tfaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaHM«aaHaaa«aaaBaai j MAGIC HAIR GROWER j AND STRAIGHTENING OIL I i -I * I MME. JOHNSON AND SOUTH * The most wonderful hair preparation on the market. When ■ we say Magic we do not exaggerate, as you can see great re * suits in the first few treatments. We guarantee Magic Hair ! Grower to stop the hair at once from falling out and breaking f off; making harsh, stubborn hair soft and silky. Magic Hair * Grower grows hair on bald places of the head. If you use * these preparations once you will never be without them. ■ MagicHair Grower and Straightening Oil are manufactured ■ by Mesdames South and Johnson. We also do scalp treating. Magic Hair Grower, 50c. Straightening Oil, 35c. 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