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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12
BLACKMAR COMING.
Commander in Chief of G. A. r. to
Attend Kansas Meeting.

Department Commander Charles Har-
ris of the Kansas G. A r., announces
the following list of speakers for the
state encampment to be held at Par
sons. Kan, from May % to 25:
Wilmon H. Blaclmar, Boston, com
mander-in-chief of the national G.
A r.
John F. Gilman, Boston, adjutant
general of the national G. A. r.
Mrs. Fannie E. Minot, Concord, N. H,
president Women's Relief corps.
Mrs. Hager, Chicago, national presi-
dent of the Ladies Of the @. A. R.
William G. Dustin, Dwight, III. com
mander-in-chief of the Sons of Veter-
ans.
It will be new experience for Par
sons to have a state G. A. r. encamp-
ment on it's hands and the people in
that part of the state are planning to
make a great event of it. There are
large number of prosperous G. A. r.
posts IN that locality, and everything
indicates that the attendance at the en-
campment wilt be unusually large. The
presence Of all of the national officers
of the various soldier organizations
viii add materially to the interest of
the occasion.
The railroads have made a rate of
one fare plus so cents from all parts
of the state, also Kansas City and St.
Joseph. This viii make the round trip
rate from Topeka between SIS and IS,
and there will be about carload of
Topeka old soldiers make the trip
Commander-in-chief Blackmar and
Adjutant General Gilman are now en-
gagged in q three months tour of the
country They have been on the road
a month, and today are at MarysvilIe,
Cal
HARRIS PROCLAIMS
Department Commander Charles Har-
ris has issued a proclamation, in which
he asks the people of the state to cut
Goth Of May. Commander Harris says:
Let due solemnity characterize all
your proceedings; let there be no fes-
tivity, feasting, or sports but strive in
all the hours of this sacred day to OBJ
serve and impress upon others the CEN
trail idea of the occasion, that the hon
oring of the nations dead is the guar
anty of the nations lie.
religious services should be held
under the direction of the Grand Army
of the Republic, on the Sunday preced-
ing Memorial day, and q. full report Of
the exercise on both occasions should
Immediately thereafter be forwarded
by the several post chaplains to these
HEADQUARTERS that the department
chaplain may make his report to the
aplain-in-chief-
Posts may conduct the exercises IN
any manner deemed most expedient and
proper. subject only to the general re-
duirements of the service book.
All comrades are expected to appear
in uniform or to wear a memorial
badge"
on the Friday before Memorial day,
the public schools throughout the state
win have special memorial services An
old soldier Will be present at each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12

kPeople sending items to this department
OF the State Journal will confer a favor
by giving the full first name or two
initials, with all proper names. Items
must be accompanied by the name and
address Of the writer or they can not
be publishedl
Mrs. John Plantz Davis and Mrs.
Frank Scott Davis viii give an infOr-
mai afternoon tea Wednesday of next
week from 4 to 6 o'clock for Mrs Thos.
Bancroft Frost of the City of Mexico.
The monthly social and business meet
ing of the Topeka chapter of the D. A
H., viii be held Saturday afternoon at
the residence of Mrs. A T. Daniels,
Iwenty-drst and Topeka avenues Mrs.
"a. D. McGimert, Miss Edith Dodds.
Miss Mary Barley and Mrs. Theodore
Saxon Will assist the hostess. The Oc-
the capture Of Ticonderoga by Ethan
Allen
Mrs. Eugene S. Quinton is entertain
ang Informally this afternoon for her
mother. Mrs. Kendall of Denver and
Mrs. Fred c. Gay Of Kansas City.
After wedding cards sent out yester-
day by Mrs. Joseph c. Wilson announce
the marriage of her daughter, Helen,
70 Mr.. Everett Hood Dallas. Wednes-
day, May the tenth. nineteen hundred
and five, Topeka, Kansas. At home af-
ter August first 1859 Fillmore street.
Mrs. William A Morton was the hos
tess of the Fillmore street whist club
yesterday Mrs. 3. F. Akers. Mrs.
Harry c. Ashby and Mrs Harold T.
Chase were substitutes. The next meet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12

school house and tell the children a
war story.
Rev. B. f Boyle, of Atchison, past
department chaplain Of the G. A. R.,
viii make the Memorial day speech in
Topeka at the Auditorium.
Rev. DR.. Estey, of the First Presby-
terian church, viii preach the Memoir
iaI Sunday sermon at the First Presby-
terian church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12

ward A. Herbst.
The marriage of Miss Santa Rhea
Walker, daughter of Mrs. A NJ Walk
er of PIT Seventh street west, and Mr..
George Cary Hart, took place in Kan
sas City, Kansas, yesterday, the Rev.
A. B. Williams of the First Methodist
church Of Kansas City, officiating. Mr..
and Mrs. Hart left Immediately for
Port Arthur, Texas, and New Orleans,
and Will be at home after June at
a. bookkeeper for the w. A L. Thomp-
son Hardware company. Mrs. Hart is
a sister of Mrs. D. r. Hite of 1921 Har-
risOn street.
The Kansas University chapter of
the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity has
issued invitations for a pavilion
dance and garden party at the chapter
house at Lawrence Friday, May 10.
Mrs. r. H. BaIding gave today the
second of two afternoon entertain
ments. A lecture on LOngfeIlow by
the hostess was a feature of the after
noon.
Miss Elizabeth Gavitt is entertaining
this afternoon in compliment to Miss
Edith Snyder whose wedding to Mr..
Henry F. Gavitt will be celebrated next
week. Her other invitations were ex-
tended to Mrs. Everett Akers Mrs
Frank Moss of st. Marys, Mrs. George
Fleishman. Mrs. Gill Updegraff, Mrs.
Robert Carver, Mrs. W. 2. Hemphill,
Mrs Arthur McCIintock of Lincoln,
Neb-. Mrs Dick Alden, Mrs. Don Null
vane. Miss Hoch, Miss Anna Hoch,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12
Carnegie oners $4,000.

Cambridge, Mass, May 12.-Andrew
Carnegie has offered to Radcliffe col
lege $4,000 for a library building on
condition that an equal sum shall be
raised among alumnae and friends of
the college for an endowment of the Ii
brary. An effort will be made to meet
the requirements Of the gift.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12
AT THE SUPPER TABLE

Mr. B-''Well, I declare!''
Mrs. B.-''What is the matter now, my dear2'
Mr.. B.-''Why, I forgot those tickets today"
Mrs B-s'What tickets?7
Mr.. B.-"The tickets to the lecture course"
Mrs. B.1''What lecture course?'
Mr. B.-"Why, didn't I tell you of the splendid
lecture and entertainment course that the United
Brethren general conference people are putting on in
the Auditorium beginning Saturday?'
Mrs B.-''No. viii it be good?7
Mr. B-''WeI, [ should say so! Just splendid
And tickets can be purchased in advance for the five
numbers at Stansfeld's for $1.OO.'
Mrs. B.-.'You be sure to get the tickets in the
morning..
MI BIT will. You remind me of it, please
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12
Notes and Personal Mention.

DIR. and Mrs. Judson Thomas and
their daughter Laura of Chicago are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John R. Null
vane. DR. Thomas was formerly pas
tor of the First Baptist church of To-
peka. Mrs. Charles BeIden and Miss
Lura Belden of Lyndon are also
guests of the Mulvanes.
Dr.. G. B. Reed and DIR. A. H.
Thompson went to Kansas City yester-
day to attend a dental alumni ban
quet. They returned today.
Miss Frances Duncan of Denver is
the guest of Miss Margaret Going
Mrs. Clare 3. Ellis has returned
from an extended visit to Washington
New York and Chicago and is with
her daughter. Mrs. Melville L. Met
calf at the Blower house. Mr.. Met
calf, who has been very ill, is recover
ing
Mrs. Howard S. Patrick of Kansas
City was the guest of Mrs Charles
Francis Adams at the Blower house
this week.
Mrs. Adrian l. Greene is visiting in
Newton.
Mrs. William L. Newcomer will go
to Pittsburg the first of next week to
spend a fortnight with her sister
Mr.. Charles Blood Smith is in St.
Louis
Mrs. Harry Weaver of Kansas City,
who has been the guest of her parents
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. McClintOek this
week while Mr.. Weaver has been in
New Orleans on q business trip, will
return to Kansas City Saturday.
Mrs. H. R. Prather of Edgerley,
La, who has been visiting her sister,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12

Miss Blossom Devlin, Miss Mamie
Veale, Miss Mary Meade, Miss Eliza
beth Meade, Miss Ethel Davis, Miss
Quinton. Miss Fay Quinton, Miss
Marion Garretson. Miss Hazel Wolff,
Miss Margaret Jones, Miss Nellie
Baker, Miss Berenice Fuller. Miss
Wood, Miss Louise Wood, Miss Lois
Porterheld, Miss Lillian Foster, Miss
Fay Smith, Miss Louise Kellam, Miss
Eta CoveIl, Miss Nellie Kirk, Miss
Alice Lakin, Miss Maud Bates, Miss
Laura Southwick. She will be assisted
by Mrs. c. ". Snyder Mrs. George
Hanley, Mrs H. l. Alkire, Mrs. G. w
Graves, Miss Louie Gavitt and Miss
Hazel Graves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12

tie A. Case. 1872 Sixth avenue west. Miss
Mary Bunker will give a Story in
Colors.
Special display of midsummer miIlin-
cry Saturday. May 10 at Picken's, Ia
dies hatters
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-12
excursion to Kansas CITY.

Via Rock Island, Sunday, May II,
Is1.25 round trip. Train leaves $3.50 /
a. m
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04

at EN- through; but they certainly did add lot
to the landscape Oh yes, suppose some folks did
find it hard to get along with all of Gales notions;
but you had to consider that he was genius and
entitled to some of his crankness and then you
didn't think anything more abort it.
Widower Gale was, and the women folks who
had watched him for ten years allowed that he
wasn't ever going to hitch up again. First wife
didn't get along with him very well-genius YOU
know; and he kept her guessing all the
time
Well the first any of us in the village suspected
that hen on was when Alp Hansons boy
came into the grocery store one evening and snic-
cred awhile side of the stove, and finally out and
said he was just coming down past Widow Spragues
house and saw Gale going up the front walk. He
said that Gale was hurryng like sin, though he
was afraid some one would see him, and struck
glarv place on the walk and fell down, and paper
bag he was carrying busted, and moren peck of
apples scattered every which way. Boy said that
the way Gale talked to himself when he picking
up those apples was certainly comforting to cold
ears. Boy brought along of the apples that
had rolled his way, and showed it to us to prove his
story. for it certainly did sound unbelievable. The
apple was a Tallman sweeting, and old Ike Elwell
snufed of it and said that he didn't know how it
was in city places and high society, but when
widderer an old bach started out in Carmel with
a bag of sweet apples to call a widder it meant
more than simply passing the time O day.
Hes beginning to show attentions, that's what
he's dom" said Ike
And that was the general opinion of all those
in the grocery store at the time. Some renem-
bered back and those that couldn't remember could
guess how it might be if they had the chance.
Some of the citizens said they were good mind
to put the thing right to Gale the next time he
came to the store; but there wasn't anything
SO mighty definite about it, and then YOU never
know how a genius is going to take hectoring
We let things hang,
The next item that happened nearer to the
point.
Uncle Cv Bryant, who is a kind of near-sighted
old poke came humping into the store one evening
a little 1ater-it in March, if l remember
about the time the crust got hard and cy-and he
said he believed the Sprague sugar orchard
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04
By HOLM AN d a 7

s'Ostrich, YOU mean, don't ye?" asked the store
keeper.
':Wal, the long-shanked bird with a millinery
store on his tail said Cy Don't buther me
when I'm tellin a storv" So we kept still
He went on to say that this thing seemed to be
letting the blue yes out of him or her for all him
or her was able. He explained that some of the
yels were way up squawky-llke and some were
down gruf and SO he couldn't say as to whether it
was him or her. Anyway there terrible tO-do
on. according to his tell First it would scoot one
way and then the other, and finally something, he
couldn't tell what, shot off away from 1t, and then
whilst he stood there in the road the ostrich thing
came whoopi over the stone wall, ker-Whlsh across
the road, ker-wOW the opposite stone wall,
and down into the meadow. And by that time
he was fused up that he didn't stop to any
and came along full pelt to the store He
said that the yels of the thing when it crossed the
road too much for his nerves. He didn't
have any grit left to chase it.
lust as We were getting up bee to go and investi
gate, the store door slammed open and in stomped
Silas Sprague the Widder Sprague's nineteen
year-old boy. where's Constable Britt?' he
yelled.
Right here" said Britt shifting his chaw.
The Sprague boy a big, 1arruping chap, and
he cracked his fists together and hOllered: I've
found out that l lick him, and I've licked
him good and plenty; but that amt all there's
going to be to this. [ want him arrested now
and sent to States prison for his whole ding
blamed 1ife!
He tearing out of the store, motoning for us
to follow him; but Britt bumped along and grabbed
him.
You amt told me whether it's Napoleon Bony-
parte King George you want arrested yt," yelled
Britt "Do We think [ work without any
clues?"
Its Gale A11en!" how1ed young Sprague
"And l want him put into States prison where he
belongs"
And then as near as we could get at it from him,
it seems that Gale had come around to the Sprague
house that evening with kind of sled that
he had tinkered together, and made Widder S
bundle up and come out, and he put her on board
and sat on behind and started down through the
sugar orchard spite of all that could be said.
Sprague boy said that the hill was glare of ice
with bumped around each tree, the way it
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04


ordinary run of men; but we've got such an
almighty matter-of-fact set OF women in Carmel
that YOU can't make them understand such
things.
II ALWAYS has been little different with the
men. We acknowledged that Gale Allen
genius and put up with him 1t was a mite tough
on Doc Bragg to have to ride around IN that sleigh,
with the body made like duck, and to have the
bows 90 ''OuaCk, quack.' alter him; but Doc can
take a Joke and we all know him in Carmel, and It
didn't hurt his business any, and 50 1t was all
right.
Gale. YOU understand, has been our carriage and
s1eigh-1naker in Carmel for thirty years, and he'll
do a lob that YOU can't match this side the golden
chariots 1t isn't very hard to put up with the
eccentricities of genius when you know you're
getting something for your money | bought one
factorv-rnade top-buggy; but that was enough for
me- 1t was a good sample OF crochet-WOrk; but
it wouldn't stand up any more than lce-cream
in hav-field So | went back to Gale. and
he built me a wagon that looked like punkin
sawed in two and set on four wheels He al
lowed that it would remind me that L was a
punkin-head
| took it. l had to take it or nothing. That
was Gales stv1e. Feller went to him and ordered
q carriage or a sleigh and he got it. but Gale never
allowed him to say a word to what the model
should be- Being a genius, he insisted that he
knew better than the customer Ot course he mad
10 stick more or less to straight patterns on car
RACES. but when snOw-time came, then you would
1,bo1d IN Carmel the result of Gale Aliens in
oen,,itv in invention. When Carmel folks drove
into other towns with their sleighs the people would
run to the windows, Once when we took Squire
,- over 10 the Etna Tomb in February, with
a procession of sleighs from Carmel about half
mile long. we drew bigger crowds than Haskells
Hppodrome Circus
There was the old red-cradle style for new
married couples and the rochng-chair stye IoI oo
folks and the minister drew one that had the blpIe
7,air1ed on the high back and hy1nn-book on the
lender and covering like soundng-board He
certainly always showed good taste, Gale did
Folks wondered where he ever thought up all the
stvles and all the colors he slapped on; but Wlen
YOU came to analvze the thing 1t always nit OF the
,,-er inst right When about fifty of those sle1ghs
were hitched around the church door, feler would
kind of banker for piece OF smoked glass to look
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04

ha'nted He was kind of all up in a
heap about it, old Cy was. He said he
was coming along the road at the foot of
the slope and from away up amongst the
trees came sky-hooting some kind of
contraption that looked like-well, old
Cv called it an OSTRICH
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04

NOV, genius-well, if you'll show
N me any really smart man that
hasn't a sIew-angle on one corner
or the other of him, then I'll set up the
cider the next time you come around to
nv house. And a genius does even his
Co1lrting a little different from the
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-10-21
UNIVERSITY GRADUATES.
Catalogue to Be Published of All Wis
consin's Former Students.


The regents of the University Of
Wisconsin have authorized the publ
cation of the quinquennial catalogue of
graduates and former students of the
University of Wisconsin, and Max
Loeb, '05, editor of the Alumni Maya
zine, has been placed in charge of
compiling the necessary information.
The catalogue will include the name,
residence, occupation and officers, not
only of all graduates of the university
as in previous issues, but also OF all
former students
Henry Gund of La Crosse Wis, has
presented the University of Wiscon-
sin funds with which to establish a
graduate scholarship in the depart
ment of German at the university The
purpose of the scholarship is to en-
courage advanced study in German
literature and philology. Elias L.
Tobenkin, '05, Madison, has been
the Gung graduate scholarship in Ger
man.
Col. C. A. Curtis, commandant of the
University of Wisconsin corps of ca
diets, has made the following appoint
ments of officers of the university reg
iment for the year:
Colonel, Henry G. Duke, Madison;
lieutenant colonel, George R. Ray,
Waukesha; major and adjutant, Rich
ard A. Schmidt, West De Pere; major
and inspector. Howard G. Hopson, Fort
Atkinson; captain and quartermaster,
Colin w. Wright, Monroe; sergeant
major, Charles S. Mott, Milwaukee;
sergeant and chief trumpeter, Robert
A. Wood, Chicago; major First battal
ion, Perry G. Stroud, PORTAGE; major
Second battalion, Albert L. Under
mann, Milwaukee; captain and adju-
tant First battalion, Harold E. Ketch.
UNI, Madison; first lieutenant and
quartermaster First battalion, Edwin
r. Birkbolz, Milwaukee; first lieuten-
ant and quartermaster Second battaE
ion. Herbert B. Sanford, Bunker Hill,
ILL.,; sergeant major First battalion,
Arthur Walline, Upland, CAL; captains
of companies, Albert A. Johnson, Nc
Farland; Paul w. Hammersmith, Mil
waukee; Walter S. Underwood, Mil
waukee; Walter F. Tschan, Milwau-
kee; Benjamin F. Bennett, Baltimore,
Md; William K Winkler, Milwaukee;
captain target department, Cyalton r.
Murdoch; captain signal corps, Chas.
R. Clark, Carthage, III.
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-10-21
.I666t 20 20 & 80 665-0-6G60O
{ In and About the State )
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FUND OF $4,000 NEEDED.

River Improvement Association Makes
Assessments.
The recommendation made by the
financial secretary in his report to the
convention of the Upper Mississippi
River Improvement association at La
Crosse that fund of $4,000 be raised
with which to continue the work of
securing permanent improvements,
was made part of the report of the
ways and means committee.
The latter was the strongest report
ever made to a river convention and
was unanimously adopted. 1t calls for
the raising of at least $4,000 by the
association in carrying on it's cam
paign for the improvement of the up
per river 1t shows that the associa-
ton has progressed to a point where
it has become a business proposition
for the members and those spending
the money now will see it returned
after the improvements have been in
stituted.
The means suggested for the raising
of this amount is by assessing the vari-
Gus cities and towns along the river
valley, the assessment of all the cities
which were assessed last year to be
raised to meet the new requirements
and new ones added. Each city and
town is assessed according to the
number and value of it's manufacturing
and producing institutions, and it was
recommended that a competent solicit
tor be employed by the association to
visit these various cities and towns
and collect the assessments and keep
up the interest in the objects of the as
ISOLATION.
The assessment of the various towns
where the assessment is over $50 is as
follows: Alton, 500; Davenport,
$500; Dubuque, $500; Fountain City,
$125; Fort Madison, 5000; Galena, $50;
Hannibal $780, Keokuk, $500; Lam
sing, $50; La Crosse. $3.50; Minneapo
lis, $1,000 Muscatine, $500; Moline,
$500; Quincy, $780, Rock Island, $500;
Savanna, $50; ST. Louis, $1,000 St.
Paul, $1,000; Winona, $500; Red Wing,
$500; Saltwater, 500; Burlington,
$500; McGregor, $50; Gutenberg,
800; Waukon, $50; Lake City, $50;
Hastings, $50; Wabasha, $50; st. Clair,
$50
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-10-21
INDIAN TURNS WHITE.
Result of Serious Illness Hawk Had
About Two Years Ago.

Result of a Serious Illness Hawk Had
About Two Years Ago.
Pierre, S. D., Oct. IA delegation
of Grow Wing Indians was in this city
yesterday for a conference with Con-
gresham Burke in regard to claims
for land payments for land located in
Sphinx county, which they assert the
government never paid them for. They
brought with them the original of a
treaty which was made at Fort Look
out, with the Yankton and Teton Sioux
in 1925. Among the whites who signed
this treaty were many who afterward
became noted for their work on the
frontier, among them H. Atkinson,
brigadier general; H. Leavenworth,
colonel; S. w. Kearney, major, and
William S. Harvey, lieutenant. One
of the party had with him a silver
medal which was presented to his
father in 1917, and bore the name Of
James Monroe, president, as the donor.
Among the party was Hawk, or as he
now signs his name, Howell G. Hawk,
who was a government scout under
Gen. Sully, for which service he re-
ceives a pension from the government.
Two years ago he had serious illness,
and as a result of that illness his
hands and face are ! turning white.
Spots on his head are changing and
are covered with snow-white tufts Of
hair
The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-10-21
INFATUATIoN LEADS TO DEED.
Jealousy or Poverty Cause Of Sioux
City Tragedy.


Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 10. - It de-
veloped yesterday that e. H. barrow
of Lead, S. D., who shot and killed
Mrs. w. E. barrow, his daughter-in-
law, and then killed himself, had for
some time been insanely jealous OF the
woman, and that he killed her because
he feared another sutton for her affec-
lions might win her from him. The
verdict of the coroner's jury was that
the woman had died at the hands OF
barrow and that barrow had commit
ted suicide. George E. barrow, who is
studying dentistry in Omaha, and who
is a son of the murderer, testified, but
protested no knowledge as to the IL
licit relations between his father and
Mrs. w. e. barrow. The theory OF
the police is that barrow was insanely
jealous of the woman, or that he had
decided, because of his financial con-
dition, that he and the woman should
die together. Strength is given to the
latter theory by certain sentiments
found written in the notebooks OF the
couple. They had little money, So be-
ing the total found in the mans peck
cts and rs cents in the woman's.