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Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-12
The Wedding Cake.

The custom Of having a special cake
at weddings was introduced into Eng
land by the Romans. This cake, or,
rather, biscuit, signified fruitfulness,
hospitality and prosperity. The rice
that was showered upon bride had a
similar meaning. For many centuries
after the Romans left the custom was
to break the biscuit over the brides
head, and then the fragments were
picked up and piled before her for dis
tribution to her friends. At the resto-
ration Charles II. returned with a
small army of French cooks, who
speedily converted the ancient biscuit
into a delicious piece Of confectionery.
iceG It with sugar and gradually adorn-
ed it with mathematical devices, till II
lowered into the amazing structure
which the luxury of later times has de-
veloped-London Chronicle.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-12
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE,

By virtue of the authority vest
ed in me by a deed of trust bear
ing date the 3Oth day of Janu-
airy 1904, executed by Charles W.
Cox of Sistersville, w. Va, to the
undersigned, A. B. Wilson, as trus-
tee, to secure P. B. Lowry, special
receiver for Bessie Morrow and
others, the payment of a certain
note therein described, and re-
corded in the clerks Office Of the
county court of Tyler county, and
the state Of West Virginia, in
trust deed book No. II, at page
351, the undersigned being re-
CURED so to do by the special re-
ceiver for said Bessie Morrow and
others, the creditors secured by
said deed of trust, and said note
now being due and payable, and
default having been made in the
payment thereof, will offer for
sale at public auction to the
highest and best bidder, for cash,
on the premises, hereinafter de-
scribed, on the LIST day Of June,
1905, at 10 o'clock a. M, the fol-
lowing real estate, to-wit:. That
certain lot or parcel of land sit
uate in Lincoln district, Tyler
county, near the cemetery, bound
ed and described as follows:
Beginning at post corner, cor
ner to the cemetery, thence 80 de-
grees, east 4 as poles to stake,
corner to Robert Travis land !;
thence north 70 degrees west Is
poles to a stake in line of Mrs.
Elizabeth Woods line; thence
south 1914 degrees west 1913
poles to a stake corner to ceme-
terry; thence east 2O1s poles to
place of beginning, containing 2
rods and 90 poles, more or less.
Together with all the appurten-
ances thereto and Herewith be-
longing, being the same parcel of
land conveyed to the said Charles
W. Cox by Jonathan Rice and
wife by deed bearing date the
Goth day of September, 1901.
A. B. WILSON, Trustee.
At the request of the lien deb
tor, G. W. Cox, and by consent of
the lien creditor, j. C. Morrow,
special Receiver of Bessie Morrow,
ct al, I continue the sale of the
above described property until
July, the 1st., 1905, at the same
hour and the same place. Given
under my hand this firsa day of
June, 1905.
A. B. WILSON. Trustee
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-12
Found a Cure For Dyspepsia

Mrs. S. Lindsay, of Fort Will
liam, Ontario, Canada, who has
suffered quite a number Of years
from dyspepsia and great pains
in the stomach, was advised by
her druggist to take Chamber.
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
She did so and says: 81 find that
they have bone me a great deal Of
good, I have never had any suff.
ering since I began using them. u
If troubled with dyspepsia or In
digestion, why not take these tab
lets. Get well and stay well. For
sale by Hill Bros.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-12
The Salve that Penetrates.

Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve
penetrates the pores of the skin,
and by it's antiseptic, rubofocient
and healing influence it subdues
inflammation and cures boiles, Burns
Cuts, Eczema, letter, Ring Worm,
and all skin diseases. A specific
for blind, bleeding and itching
and protruding Piles. The origi,
nal and genuine Witch Hazel
Salve is made by E. G. Dewitt &
Co., and sold by A. R. Corbett,
Opera House Drug Store.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-12
Brief Criticisms.

OF Grays "Elegy" a contemporary
reviewer wrote: The excellence of
this little piece amply compensates for
its lack Of quantity" That and moth
ing more. OF In Memoriam" con-
temporary estimate was that its "sim-
pie but touching verses" were evident
" inspired by "the full heart Of the
widow Of military man."
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-12
FiSk'S
Corner

Pianos, Organs, Sewing Ma
chimes, Talking Machines, etc.
Repairing of Organs and Sewing
Machines. We can make them
sew as good as new. Give US a
trial Write us. We travel by
wagon everywhere. No trouble to
cali and give prices on repairing
Singer Sewing Machines from
$3.50 to $24.6O.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-12
4tW
Low Rate Excursions to Portland
0rn0on

Low hdLc CACuAS1 w Va VAoSAS-
Oregon.
Account Lewis and Clark
Exposition, will be effect via the
Wisconsin Central Railway. II
you intend to 60 to Portland this
year ask the ticket agent to make
your ticket read via Wisconsin
Central between Chicago and st.
Paul. Pullman sleepers, free re-
clining chair cars and a la carte
meals make the journey comfort
able spd pleasant. Further in
formation cheerfully given by ad-
dressing W. H. Allen, T A. GIL
Park Building, Pittshurg Pa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
Railroad Y. NJ. G. A. Notes.

Four most interesting meetings were
held during the week, two at the coach
shop and two at the machine shop. D.
F. Shirk, of Newton, spoke in the
machine shop Wednesday and Rev.
RawIins, of Lyndon spoke Thursday
noon. DR.. Cowen, OF Boston, spoke
in the coach shop Thursday noon and
Dr.. Stevens, OF Wichita, spoke We'd
nesday noon. At each of these meet
ing, a company of about fifty Christ
ian Endeavor delegates were present
and under the leadership of instruct
ors Mcconnell and Tracy, made the
shops ring with the singing of familiar
hymns. All the meetings were largely
attended.
Rev Raymond of the Parkdale NJ.
E. church. will address the men at the
machine shop Tuesday noon.
O. H Smith who has been spending
a short vacation at Horton. Kansas,
with his son, is again about his duties
at the building.
Assistant Secretary H. E. Little will
address the mems meeting at $3.50 p.
m. Sunday. His subject will be Hap
piness Bought and Sold" Men are all
invited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
Sunday Ban Not Illegal.

Guthrie, o. T., June 24.-J. K. Nor
rilI, probate judge of Kiowa county,
has held that Sunday baseball is not
illegal in Oklahoma. The members of
a baseball team were arrested there
recently in order to make a test case
of the matter. The Oklahoma statutes
say: "All shooting, sporting, horse
racing. gambling or other public sports
upon the first day of the week are
prohibited" Judge Morrill, held that
if it had been the intention of the leg
islature to prohibit baseball it would
have specifically enumerated baseball
in the list of sports. He holds the law
applicable only to sports of an i'm
moral tendency and not to innocent
games,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
kAlLRUAD NEWS.
Union Pacific and Rock Island
to Make New Speed Records.
Passenger Trains to Run Faster
Than a Mile a Minute.
FASTEST IN THE WEST.
Block Signals viii Protect
Trains on Double Track.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.
IN THE WEST.

Western passenger speed records TwiI
be broken by the Union Pacific and
Rock Island railroads when the double
track between Topeka and Kansas city
is completed and opened for trafic.
Bottle roads use the same rails between
Topeka and Kansas City.
Announcement is made today upon
the authority Of the Union Pacific OPP
Grating officials that passenger trains
will be regularly scheduled to make a
mile a minute or better between kan
sas City and Topeka
The present single track of the Union
Pacific between this city and Kansas
City is a triie more than 81 miles. In
rebuilding the line for the double track
over two miles of the distance is being
eliminated by cutting out curves in the
present line In addition to straighten-
ing the track, the few places where the
grade is a little hard, are being reduced
30 that at no place will the grade be
one-haIf of one per cent
With all trains moving in the same
direction, on the respective eastbound
and westbOund tracks; with curves
eliminated and with grades reduced to
a minimum, trains will be run at I'M
precedented speed for this section Of
the country.
The fastest trains Of the Union Pa
cif1c and Rock Island between Topeka
and Kansas City are now scheduled to
make the trip in one hour and forty
minutes, or at an average speed of a
Crtle over 40 miles per hour.
When the new schedules go into ef-
feet, the running time between the two
points, a. distance of 65 miles, viii be
regularly made in one hour and ten
minutes counting stops, or in one hour
Of actual running time, which will make
an average OF just trifie faster than a
mile a minute. Rear end collisions OF
trains will be prevented by the use of
block signals.
The fast trains of the Union Pacific
Will make three stops between Kansas
City and Topeka; one at the railroad
crossing at Bonner Springs, and at the
the train enters North Topeka, and at
the station at Lawrence, Kan.
The Rock Island trains will make
only the stops for the railroad cross
ings. cutting out the stop at the station
at Lawrence and will therefore be able
to make a trihe better time than the
Union Pacific.
The railroad officials are at this time
considering the advisability Of putting
interlocking plants at both the railroad
crossings referred to at Bonner Springs
and North Topeka, for the purpose of
eliminating the necessity of making the
two stops.
From five to ten minutes are lost in
bringing trains to a standstiu and in
getting the trains under full Roadway
again after a stop, and with interlock-
ing plants at the railroad crossings, the
waste of this time will be unnecessary.
The saving of time at the two crossings
ia question would be from Is to 20
minutes on the trip if the interlocking
plants are installed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24

The assault was committed near the
Santa Fe depot in box car when the
man who was pursuedflad fallen asleep.
His enemy split the side of the sleeping
mans head open with a spade and fed.
DR.. o. F. Narcotic seWed up the wound
but not until a few days ago did the
secret of the injury leak out in this
city.
The names of the parties are I'M
known. When DR.. Narcotic attended
the injured men nearly two years ago
he could not obtain by the most rigid
questioning any information concerning
the injury or the method by which 1t
was inflicted. Last week the patient
returned to the city and told his story.
Some years ago, said the nara tor,
he was witness against his own cousin
and another man in the old country.
By reason of this testimony one of the
men was sent to the prisons of Greece
for ten years, at the expiration of which
he came to the United States to seek
out and be revenged upon the man
whose evidence had brought about
penal servitude.
The man he sought for was at work
with a railroad grading gang which
happened to be quartered here temper
arily. He did not recognize his friend
of former days, now his most relentless
enemy, but says that at times he did
observe a disposition on the part of one
of the new arrivals to quarrel with him
There was no open rupture but the man
who was seeking revenge was in time
recognized. He was deprived of the OPP
portunity to infict his stab in the dark
by careful hiding at night At last
while the victim was asleep in the box
car the ex-convict struck the blow with
a spade and with his companion fed
out across country north of town.
After the victim had recovered he
quit his job and went to Chicago and
after several months search met his
enemy in the street He bounced upon
him and in the fight which ensued the
man who used the spade had five ribs
an arm and leg broken. after which the
victim of the spade fed and is still
moving from place to place because af-
ter six months in the hospital the other
party to the transaction is beginning to
sit up and take notice and will soon re-
sumo the war path.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24

As a rule. physicians are opposed to
proprietary medicines.
Many are opposed to Peruna just be-
cause it is a proprietary medicine.
In spite of the natural prejudice
against 1t, however, Peruna has won
the favor of a great many physicians.
Some very prominent physicians use
and prescribe Peruna.
Many times Peruna finds its way
into the physicians family first.
His wife or children make use of ii
and its value is demonstrated in the
physicians own home.
Then he timidly prescribes it for his
patients.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
L. N. PENWELL.,

as official stakeholder, the arena with q
pleted and Hart Is going into great
form. Root is expected here the first
of the week. James ]. Jeffries has been
agreed upon by both managers as ref
cree for the heavyweight championship
battle, which is to take place on July
8. Late last evening J. P. Egan wired
Jeffries that his offer to referee the fight
had been accepted by the club and all
concerned. Harry Corbett has been
agreed upon as final stakeholder and a
certified check for the amount of the
purse of $1,000 was sent him at San
Francisco last night as well as Marvin
Harris forfeit which has been on depos-
it in a Reno bank. Roots forfeit was
placed on deposit with Corbett when the
match was made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
OI.Iahoma's Footban Schedule.

Guthrie, Okla, June 24.-The fol-
lowing schedule of football games has
been announced by the University OF
Oklahoma for the year 1905: Ed
mond Normal at Norman, September
%; Haskell Indians at Normal, Octo-
Der 16; Kansas University at Law
renee, October 21; Kansas City Medics
at Kansas City, October Is; Wash
burn college at Topeka, October %;
Texas University at Norman, Novem-
Der 8; Edmond Normal at Edmond,
November IS; Oklahoma City high
school at Norman, NoveRnber "a;
Bethany Swedes at Oklahoma City,
November 30. Games for November
II and October z are still open.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
"GHENT'' sTILL IN USE.
Pullman Car Which Figured in A. r.
u. Strike in "a in Use.

Albuouerdue. N. M, June 24-The
A. r. u. strike of 1894 is now a part
of history and but a recollection re-
mains in the minds of those even who
are in albuquerque who took a part
in it. Last night there arrived on No
s from the west the sleeping car
"Ghent" and there were those on the
platform who recognized it. It was
the first Pullman car detached from a
Santa Fe train in New Mexico. In
June "a this car was set out at Ration
the day the strike started and it re-
NAMED on siding for some weeks
before it was moved. The car is still
in service. and those who were in Ra-
ton the day it was taken from the
trainE say that it looks the same now
as it did on that eventful day. The
refusal of the trainmen to haul that
car was the cause of much strife. suf-
fering and trouble in New Mexico.
J. +. Hurley, the present general
manager of the Santa Fe, was super
intendent of the mountain division at
the time of this strike. All but seven
employees of the company on that divis-
ion were out ON the strike and for two
weeks nearly 500 miles Of the road
s5vere operated by the seven men w
X. Etter. chief clerk in the Office of
the general superintendent in Topeka,
was one of the seven. Director Q. s.
Gleed happened to be at Ration at the
time and he assisted in running trains
General Manager Hurley's tact and
generalship in handling the affairs OF
the road during that trying time are
doubtless considerable factors in MS
rise and success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24

Litigation over the lease has lasted
over two years. The legal firm of KEEP
Iinger & Trickett, Kansas City, assist
ed by local firms, pushed the case, and
the defendants legal array was equally
strong. The defendant company had
invested S23, 600 in oil operation, and
the lease was one of the most valua-
Bile in the Chanute field, several big
oil wells being located on it. Suit has
now been commenced by the Chapples
against the Prairie Oil company and
the brick company to recover S14,250
for oil sold from the lease during the
last two years This case will be
heard in the Montgomery county dis
trict court at the fall term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
Accused of Killing Her Husband.

Atchison, Kan, June 24.-Mrs. Mamie
Mitchell, charged with shooting and
killing her husband, William Mitchell,
in Troy June u, was brought to the
county jail here from Troy. There are
no suitable accommodations in the DON
iphan county Jail at Troy for woman.
Mrs. Mitchell says her husband killed
himself. The coroner's jury returned a
verdict that Mitchell was killed by IN
known parties. G. B. Mitchell of Kan
sas City, a brother of the dead man, had
the warrant issued for Mrs. NltcheIPs
arrest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24

daily during the summer. First class
limited travel is so light during the
summer that it was later deemed IN
advisable to maintain the train as a
limited" train, and consequently the
all kinds of travel on the train.
The Santa Fe railroad carries its
California mail on another train, and
has abandoned the daily service of the
limited train, which has been changed
to a semi-weekly service to accOmmo-
date the Limited" travel on that road.
The other Rock Island California.
trains are No. % westbound and No.
80 eastbound.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
its engineering departments in St.
Louis. Engineers have already been
moved from Osawatomie and Sedalia.
LIMITED FEATURES ABANDONED

Golden state Limited No BTore-"Caii-
fOrnia Special7 in It's Place.
The Rock Island has discontinued
the use of the name Golden State
Limited which has applied to trains
No. SO and A between Chicago and
California.
Announcements were recently made
that this train would be maintained in
daily service throughout the summer.
but It has just been decided to call the
westbound train the california Spe-
cial' and the eastbound train the ''St.
Louis tand Chicago Special
The reason for abandoning the title
Golden State Limited" is that the
limited features of the train have
been eliminated. The train now car
ries a tourist sleeping car and a chair
car and makes local stops between
Topeka and Dalhart, Texas
The standard Pullman equipment
maintained on this train, however, is
the regular Golden State Pullman
equipment.
Transportation of all classes except
Communication tickets are honored on
the train as we'll as newspaper and
complimentary passes.
The Rock Island recently secured a
mail carrying contract which neces-
STATED maintaining double daily ser
vice to California, and it was at first
decided to keep the Limited train on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
Fast Record at Parsons.

Parsons, Kan, June 24.-The third and
last day of the races at Marvel priv
ing park witnessed the track record of
2:14 fiat broken by Bessie K, owned by
]. W. Mitten of Corsicana, Texas, the
little mare making the mile in 2:18%.
In the 2:20 trotting race with eleven en-
tries, Gamestead, owned by J. Maple
of Blackwell, Ok, won all three heats,
the first being done in 2:1515. In the
running race the half mile dash was
won by MCKEE D. in :511z and the three
quarter dash was won by c. @. in lis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
Nay RuIe Ont star.

New Haven. Conn, June 24.-The
Yale university crew had a shock
when it was learned that an official
charge had been brought before the
Yale faculty that Con DAILY. the star
oar of the varsity shell. had been crib
bling in the examinations in his studies,
and that he may be removed from the
shell by the orders of the faculty and
also dropped from the university.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24

oil, to be used as fuel by the latter
company. The Sunf1ower company is
located in the Trans-Neosho field, and
a pipe line will be laid from its lease
to Rollin, where the loading racks will
be built Immediately. The refinery be-
ing built here by the Austin
company. is rapidly nearing compile
ton. Other companies are figuring on
fuel contracts, and there is a decid-
eddy better feeling and tone to the oil
Sifr1a ffcu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24

Dr.. W. Green. s30A S. Spring
St. Los Angeles, Cal. writes:
eff people would take less medi-
cine and pay more attention to the
general laws governing health, they
would be better off.
81 am satisfied that the major
ity of patent medicines are at best
almost worthless and unfit to take
or cure anything.
''I have found, however, one ex-
ceptiOn to this rule, and that is In
Peruna.
II have often prescribed it In
cases of catarrh of the respiratory
OF digestive organs, and have also
found it very valuable for female
weakness and ovarian troubles and
scores of women are happy and
healthy mothers today ON account
of Peruna."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
Boy Attempts Suicide.

lola, Kan. June 24.-Harold
sRichey, IT years old, attempted to
commit suicide here by shooting him
self with a 32-caliber revolver. Dis
appointment in love is said to have
been the cause. It is probable that
he will die. The bullet entered near
one of the lungs. John F, Richey, the
boys father, is employed as a travel
ing salesman for the Parlin- Orendorf
implement house of Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
CHECK NOT A PAYMENT.
Decision Brings Out a Big Controversy
at CInanute.


at Chanute.
Chanute, Kansas, June 24-In the
district court at the county seat
Judge Stilwel sustained a motion by
plaintiff for judgment on pleadings in
the case of F. H. and Mary Chapple,
versus the Kansas Vitrif1ed Brick
company. thereby settling the most i'm
portant oil lease question ever brought
into southern Kansas courts.
This case has been through the state
supreme court. where d decision favor
ing the defendant by the district
court was reversed and the cause re-
manded for rehearing. The supreme
court held that the deposit of a check
in bank was not equivalent to pay
ment of lease rentals due.
The amount had not been placed to
Chapple's credit and the oil lease held
by the defendent was, therefore, con-
sidered null and a suit in ejectment
was begun when the brick company
commenced operating the lease for oil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
To Have Polo Ponies.

JUNCTION City, Kansas, June "a
"Zack" Miller, of the "101" ranch at
Bliss, Oklahoma, arrived here with
fourteen polo ponies, selected at the
ranch several weeks ago by Captain
Walter c. Short. The ponies were
bought for the polo team at Fort Riley.
They will also be used in the officers
course of equation at the post. They
are unbroken Indian ponies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
TIE AUTO ACTED UP.
Serious Accident at Ell Dorado to DIR.
Mackenzie and Sister.

Ell Dorado. June 24-Dr. J. A. Mac
Kenzie and his sister. Mrs. Steele, of
Kansas City, were badly injured in an
automobile accident, the former prob
ably seriously.
They were starting to climb d hill
and the auto, not having up enough
speed, began to back down. The doc
tor turned the guiding lever the wrong
way and the machine backed off a cul-
vert eight feet high, and turned up
side down on the doctor, pinning him
down until assistance arrived. By
some means, the doctor pushed his
sister out of the auto as they were go
ing over and she escaped with a badly
sprained shoulder and back. The doc
tor suffered a broken rib and his back
hurt and internal injuries