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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
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Mrs. Robert Smith and little
daughter of Oberlin, Kan, are here
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Crook of 400 Lafayette street and
other relatives.
Mrs. o. c. Goenour and children
Mildred and Irving will go to Rich
land, Kan, tomorrow to visit her
mother, Mrs. j. j. Huyett for few
days.
Mrs Geo. Tyson of 301 Chandler
street is able to be out and around
again after several days illness.
Mrs. Chadwick spent the day today
the guest of Mrs. ]. r. Stitt Of 232
Chandler street.
Miss Margaret johnson of Sa1ina,
is spending a few days with friends
here.
Geo. Karn of Kansas City spent the
day on the East side today looking af-
ter his property interests.
Miss Pearl Garvin of E1dora, Kan,
will come here tomorrow to spend a
week with friends and relatives.
Mack Mitchell of Thompsonville,
is spending few days here with his
brother, Tom Mitchell.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Spiker and child
rem, Florence. Ada and George of
Whiting, Kan, were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. J. E. Sheafor, 631 Jefferson
street Mr.. Spiker returned home
Sunday morning, Mrs. Spiker and
children went to White City to visit
relatives.
The Oriental Embroidery club met
this afternoon with Mrs. ]. w. Bank
er. 1900 Jackson street.
Miss verna Rake of 406 Liberty
street entertained last evening at a
leap year party. The evening was
spent in playing games, conversation
and music, after which dainty re-
freshments were served. Those pres
ent were Messrs. Fred Bechtel, Ed
Campbell, Percy Reginald Uhoj, Ev-
ert Morford, Ross Thomas, Carl Will
Iiams. Geary Robson, Chester Stamm,
Preston Sawyer, Ire Robson. Harry
Petri, Misses Elizabeth Zimmerman,
Frida Bechto1, Kate Alsdorf, Beulah
Thomas, Hazel Jolley, Josephine Jol-
lev. Verna Rake, Anna Coulter, Eva
Stitt, vesta Sprecher, Anna Rake and
Taura Heylin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
JERRY SIMPSON BOOK IS OUT.
Mrs. Annie l.. Diggs Has Written Life
Of Late Congressman.

THE Story of Jerry Simpson" by
Annie. L. Diggs has been published,
and the first copies have arrived In
Topeka. The book is printed in Wich-
ita, and Mrs. Jane Simpson, wife of
the former Kansas congressman. is the
publisher and owner Of the copyright.
While not much of credit to any,
the 275 pages of the book are filled
with interesting facts about Jerry
Simpson, his private and public life in
Kansas, and all about his political
compaigns for control of the big
Seventh" There are half a dozen half
tone cuts in the book of various mem
bers of the Simpson family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05

Ind. phone Gill
Mowers and rakes-Pratt Bros.
Mr.. G. p. Sturgis went to Maple Hill
today on a short business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sly returned to their
home in Salina, Kan. after being here
a few days on a business trip. ~
Mr.. T. w. Andrews of Rossville
spent the day in town today.
Mr.. c. D. Shields and wife left today
for Newcastle, Ind, where they will
spend several weeks. Mr.. and Mrs.
Shields have started on a years travel.
They will go to California and visit
points in the west as soon they return
from their old home, Newcastle.
Soldier creek was over its banks in
several places today.
Mr.. L. B. Willis Of Volland, Kan,
spent the day in town on business
today.
Mrs. Charles steinberger of Wa
Keeney, Kan, is here visiting relatives
for few days.
Mr.. Ed Graft of Kiro spent the day
in town today on business. -,
The class for teachers training Will
meet this evening at the Christian
church study. All interested in Bible
study are invited to attend.
Mrs. Dedrich and Mr.. and Mrs,
Kirkwood of Elmont were guests at
the Cottage home Monday.
The Ladies Good Will society of
Fairview neighborhood, route No. 3.
have postponed their ice cream social
which was to be given Wednesday
night.
Mr.. H. Neiswander of Kiro spent the
day In town today on short business
trip.
Miss Myrtle Anderson went to Usage
City today to be the guest of relatives
for about two weeks.
Mrs. M. Williams is able to be out
and around again after several weeks
serious illness with an attack of rheu-
matism. ~ a-~4-.
Mr. Walter Metzsker of Holton,
Kan, came here last night to spend a
few days on a business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hall returned
to their home in Kansas City last night
after several days visit with their
parents here.
Miss Vernon Douglas is able to be
out again after a months illness.
Mr.. Harry Brewster of Wamego,
Kan, is spending this week with his
sister, Mrs. J. J. Wilson.
Miss Lottie Lyme of TonganOxie,
Kan, spent the day in town today
with friends.
Mr.. Paul Mann of Hannibal, Mo-,
stopped here today and visited with
relatives for short time while on
his way west where he will spend three
months for the benefit Of his health.
Mr.. Albert Rich erter of Silver Lake
spent the day in town short business
trip.
The missionary corcle of the North
Topeka Baptist church will. meet We'd
nesday afternoon with Mrs. E. c..
Smith, 1920 North Polk street. After
the missionary programme the ladies'
aid society will have a short business
meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05

corner of Huntington avenue and van
Buren, streets for a tennis court until
such a time as the school BOARD may
have other use for them. They will not
know for a time at least about the
proposition, as the matter was referred
to the building committee and is
buried there for the present.
of a committee consisting of c. F.
Hardy and C. c. Nicholson, who visited
Kansas City last week and inspected a
number Of the finer school houses the
vitrffied brick for the new Central
Park school building in the place of
pressed brick as was at first contem-
plated. This change will materially
reduce the cost of the building without
detracting from its appearance to any
great extent This same committee
also recommended that the brick work
commence at the ground which will
do away with the cut stone semi-base-
ment and also reduce the cost.
Carthage stone is to be used where
ever stone of any kind is necessary,
but terra Gotta will enter largely into
the construction work where it was
at first planned to use cut stone.
The coping and fire walls will be of
terra Gotta and cut stone will be used
trimmings about the windows or over
them, steel plates taking the place in
the latter instance
c. H. Kutz was appointed acting
principal Of Jackson street school
during the absence of the principal,
Miss Fenella Dana, who will go
abroad this month, and during her
absence will draw the salary as prin-
cipal. Miss Dana will be allowed the
difference between her salary and
that Of a supply teacher while she is
abroad.
Miss Sara T. Voolfolk was elected
to the available list of teachers for
the remainder of the year.
The matter of higher salaries for
the teachers of the city schools was
brought up by ]. A. Ramsey and dis
cussed by himself and A. B. Poole,
who is heartily in favor of the ad-
than bring out the fact that the
school board will be behind between
three and four thousand dollars on
teachers salaries this year if the
schools are run for the full term of
nine months.
board seems to recognize the justice
of the demand for higher salaries for
the teachers, no action was taken and
1t Is not likely that anything further
than a discussion of the matter will
result at this time
ut seems to me that we have gone
mad on the building proposition"
said J. A. Ramsey. "It is now pro-
posed to expend six or seven thousand
dollars for steel viaduct which we
do not need. The exercise of cross
ing Eighth avenue a few times a day
is good for the scholars and the mon
ey can be applied to a better advan-
tage in other ways.
There are teachers in the Topeka
schools who are receiving no higher
salaries at this time than they did Is
years ago and that in the face of the
fact that living expenses have in
creased rs per cent. Yet we are
spending thousands and thousands of
dollars each year for new school
buildings in place of increasing their
salaries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
shonts to Be a Grandpa.

Paris. May 5.-The widow of Due
De Chaulnes who was Miss Shonts Of
New York, will not return to Ameri-
ca with her father, Theodore p.
Shonts, who came to Paris upon
hearing of the death of his son-in-
expected and it is not considered safe
for the duchess to- make the long
journey to New York. She will re-
main in France with her sister-in-
law, the Duchess De Uzes, until after
her ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
City Gets Some Cash.

Again the city of Topeka will be
able to pay salaries. County Treasur-
er Stanley Medlicott this morning
made another donation to the city
900, One thousand dollars on the 1907
sewer tax. $4,000 on Ordinance
1892" which means the levy for the
Arch street park, 100000 on paving
tax and $4,000 on city general tax
This makes a total of $246,83S which
the county has paid to the city. on
taxes collected during the past three
month";
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
HIM 500, 900, 1000.
Union Pacific Stockholders Grant Har-
riman What He Asked For.

Salt Lake, Utah Nov Sat a meet
ing of the stockholders Of the Union
Pacific railway at which rs per cent
of the stock was represented, the di-
rectors were authorized to issue $780,
600, 900 in bonds for improvement Of the
system and for the purchase of the
Kansas and Western and Topeka and
Northwestern railroads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
1t Reached the SPOT,

Mr.. e. Humphrey, who owns a large
general store at Omega, O., and is pres
ident of the Adams County Telephone
Co., as well as of the Home Telephone
Co., of Pike County. O.. says of Dr.
Kings New Discovery: 1T saved my life
once. At least think it did. 1t seemed
to reach the spot-the very seat of my
cough-when everything else failed" DR..
the cough spot; it heals the sore spots
and the weak spots in throat, lungs and
chest Sold under guarantee at all drug
gists SOC and $1.00. Trial bottle free
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
EVANS AGAIN AFL0AT.
The Admiral Goes on Board the Con-
necticut at Monterey.

Monterey, Cal, May 5.-The special
train bringing Rear Admiral Evans
from the Paso Robes hot springs, ar
rived at the Monterey depot at $50
o'clock this morning. After a. brief
delay the admiral was taken on board
the flagship Connecticut, which imme-
diately sailed to rejoin the fleet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
Ran Into q Washout.

Seymour, Ind, May 5.-The east
bound passenger train on the B. &
o. Southwestern road ran into wash
out near Sparksville, near here, early
today, the engine, mail express and
baggage cars going down an embank-
ment. Engineer Benos Humphrey OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
Tacky Party at Y. M. C. A,

The senior A and B classes of the
Central Young Mems Christian asso-
citation gymnasium will have "tacky''
party in the big gymnasium tonight.
A committee Of the two classes have
the arrangements in hand and promise
hilarious evening to the elect. Games,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05

No Game at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, May 5.-The game here
scheduled for today with Chicago has
been postponed on account of rain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05

A broken inlet valve key generally
will indicate itself by back firing
through the carburetter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
Ever Been Deceived
By the Cook ?

Many have and have deceived themselves
When Cook sends weak your order
for Postum have right to protest loud
She has ignored the directions the pkg only min
Demand that be boiled full Is boiling commences
then will have breakfast drink with seal brown
which golden the cream is added
Boiling brings out not only the value of Postum
but favour similar the soft blends of Old Govt
you have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
HEART RIGHT
1t Makes a Great Difference.

About two years ago became
alarmed because my husband had at
tacks from fainting spells caused by
weak heart, from drinking coffee.
AT first he did not like Postum T
had not then learned to boil it long
as directions say, to get the rich flaw
our and brown color
AFTER it was made right, he liked
It, and now for more than a year he
has not been troubled with his heart
in fact. his general health is better
tnan 1or years. There's Reason
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, 1.-THE Road to
Wellville." in pkgs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05

kIlen-s Tor the ;-o.ta Tckehs. column may
be eft at the Petfo & Woodford drug
tie North 9ade reported at her home.
lad. phone G1.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05

The Walnut Grove Tennis club
wants the use of the vacant lots at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05
POSTUM
rich and right

Shout, if the cook don't treat you well!
Many an ache and all can be traced d.
rectly to coffee drinking, and one can be well
again by leaving it off and using well-made
Postum. Trial proves!
''There's a Reason"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-05

Miss Sara T. Voolfolk was elected
to the available list of teachers for
the remainder of the year.
The Carlisle independent., 1908-01-16
A School for Servants.

Bridget and Dinah and Katrina con. tinue to receive the censure, not to say abuse, of the public press and pri- vate individuals for their alleged un- satisfactory performances of their du- ties in the kitchen, in the laundry, in the dining room-in short, upstairs, downstairs, and in their ladies cham bers. The abuse is sometimes ex- Bridget and Dinah and Katrina often do much better than the newspapers and the mistresses would have us De- lieye. But. conceding that, upon the whole. household servants are not as efficient as they might be. is it sur prising? If you found a man who had saw, and set him to work at the frame of house, and presently began to be- rate him because he was a poor caT penter, you would make yourself more ridiculous than you would make him. If you wanted a coachman, or groom, you would hardly engage one who had never seen a horse. If you did, and your stock were badly cared for and yourself run away with. you would be laughed at if you blamed your incom- petent retainers. Yet this is just what is done by housekeepers in re- gard to servants, says the New York Weekly. It is as unreasonable to ex- pect women to cook or do other house. work before learning how as to expect a man to build a house or manage horses without any instruction or ex- perience. What is needed is school for servants, or a system of appren- ticeship, or some other means of training them to household work be- fore they are called upon to fill house hold positions.
The Carlisle independent., 1908-01-16
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
By John Kendrick Bangs

Its mighty seldom that the presi- dent misses a pint" said the Postmas ter. as the Nature Fakir association gathered about the office stove. And I kind O think maybe when he seems to it's all done intentional. He's great believer in amendments, an ye notice whenever he says or writes any thing, he leaves loop-hole for tackin' on few footnotes in case the other side gifts too perky"
 " Whats he left undone now?" asked the Captain. I'm a putty close ob- server, Joe, an I ain't noticed nothin' under tn canopy he ain't tackled"
 You ain't as good a scrootinizer as ye think you be, Cap,' returned the Postmaster If ye was you'd ha' no- ticed that when he skinned them Ma ture Fakirs he didn't tetch on the habits O the worst offenders O the lot the fellers that lies about fish
 We've a lot to learn yet, Joe." said the Captain with a smile. Stick by me an yell be wearin' libral eddi- cation before ye git through. Preaps
 
 the early sixties when tn Kennebec Dverf1owed her banks an raised old scratch with the surroundin' coun- try"
 I've hurn tell on it" said Joe. But I wasn't there when it happened"
 Well I was" said the Captain, "an' l tell ye it was great sport. I was workin' on my grandfather's farm up about twenty miles back O Socka- mackractac. It had been putty hard winter, an it come on us all on sudden. It was so cold that year ye could take cake O ice an saw it up into thin slices an use 'em for win derglass. We glazed thirty-two win ders an a dozen hotbed frames with 'em-an' raised vilets an summer squash under 'em, too, b'gosh. But that ain't what 1 started in to tell ye When the spring come, an the snow an ice up in the mountains begun to get fiirtatious with the sun, we got freshet for fair. I don't like to brag none. but the flood that come down the P'nobscot-"
 Thought ye said it was the Ken nebec?" interrupted the Postmaster
 You're gettin' very thoughtful, ain't ye?" retorted the Captain. Well, this time you're all right, Joe. I was talkin' of the Kennebec. What I was
The Carlisle independent., 1908-01-16

father'd married grandmother because she was the best cook in Aroostook county, an she lived up to her rep pytation that week 1 can tell ye. She roasted, billed and fried them part ridges, an the way she didn't serve up sammon. pike, trout an bass aint been invented yet. Tn only thing we missed was our pie for breakfast an I tell ye it come hard for awhile doin' without it. When ye'd had a thing all your life, an it's suddenly cut out it gifts on your nerves lit tle''
 "P'tic'larly coffee" put in Si VI otherspoon q sh'd think yed ha n ssed your coffee more n the pie"
 We would have said the captain. But ye see grandfather bein' first class swimmer-he'd been logger for 50 years of his life, an what he couldn't do in the waiter can't be did he dove downstairs into the kitchen an swum to where the coffee was, grabbed a canful off the dresser,
The Carlisle independent., 1908-01-16

old man struck out for hone. When we got there the waiter had rig up as high as the second floor, an I tell ye grandma was putty glad when she see us climbin in the bedroom winder, none the worse for our little swim
 Soon s he got me landed safe, tn old
 man dove in again an swum over to the hen house, an lowed it back an fastened it with rope to the brick chimbly sos we wouldn't lose none O
 the poultry, after which we set down an played peenuckle until dinner time Grandmother d had the sense to move the kitchen stove upstairs, an enough kindlin' to keep the fires goin', an for three days we fed on spring chicken. 1 never thought I'd see the day when I'd had enough chicken t eat, but on the beginnin' O tn fourth day it sort O made me tired to have it brought on tn table agin, an I said so. 1 guess I must ha' been one o them spilled youngsters, because as soon as said that grandfather said
The Carlisle independent., 1908-01-16
he guessed he'd go foragin' for little

he guessed he'd go foragin' for little variety" :
 50 he took the cat boat, I s'pose, that ye kep' in the cornfeld, an went cruisin'?" put in the Postmaster sar- castically.
 t'If I was romancin' I might say that he did" said the Captain calmly But seein' as I am tellin' ye nothin' but what happened I'm goin' to stick to the facts. He took the door O the cloe's closet off the hinges, fastened couple O bed-slats an thole pins into the sides for oars, lanched the door through the winder an rowed off to see what he could find. Bimeby he came back again and said they wasn't nothin in sight, an he guessed we'd have to stick to chicken until the wat ters subsidized. The words was hard ly out O his mouth when we heard terrific floppin goin' on out in the hall and, 1 gorry, when we went out to see what it was, goshed if we didn't see bustin' big sammon swimmin' around just over the staircase, an fghtin' like the dickens with cou- pie of pick'rel. Tn old man bust into a fit O laughter, when he sees the fish an turning to grandmother he says, l guess ye must O left the back door open, Ma he says. The house is full O fish An I gorry it was. I never see such lot of 'em, or so many kinds O em all to oncet There was pick'rel an sammon, an trout, an bass, an sturgeon till ye couldn't count em, an every mothers son of 'em as mad s hornet because they couldn't git out. Ye sec the old farm house had acted jest like net, an after they'd swum in the back door, through the kitchen into the parlor, they couldn't find their way back. They was ketched jest as sure as if they d swum into net. The only trouble was how we'd ketch 'em our selves. xii our tackle was down stairs, but my grandmother was mighty inventive old lady considerin her eighty-seven years, an it didn't take her long to fix matters sos we had all the fish we could eat. She cut open one O tn pillars, an threw a half dozen feathers on the surface of the wate., sos the fish would take 'em for flies, an when they rig for a snack, she'd lean over the top step an scoop 'em in with pillar-case fast ened on to the handle of warmth pan. On top O that a half O dozen nice fat cartridges lookin' for place to light flew in the winder an dropped exhausted on the foot O the bed. Well, sir, I never lived so high in all ray life as We did that week. Grand.
The Carlisle independent., 1908-01-16

swum through the back door an come up with it sputterin' like porpoise outside the house jest under the win der where grandmother was sittin' waitin' for it. Of course we had to do without milk an sugar, but after a couple. O trials O pure coffee we got to like it, an from that day to this I ain't never used milk an sugar in mine, an as far as I know, neither has my grandfather an my grand mother"
 T hope they're very we'll an en- joyin' good health" said the Postmas. ter, gloomily.
 First rate, thank ye." said the Cap tain cheerfully.
 Are they still Twin on the second floor?" said Si Wotherspoon.
 "Oh no," replied the captain At the end of the week the waiter sub sidized, an things resumed their nat eral course, but ye never see such Q place as the first floor when the last drop O that freshet trickled out the
 
 We was putty nigh onto week pick in 'em up. I guess there must ha' been 600 sammon averagin' eight pounds apiece in the parlor. The melodion was teemin' with trout, an the way the bass an sturgeon was strewed all over was a caution. We made enough out O the haul to re- paper the whole house, an pay for paintin' tn outside with the trim in three different colors. It was a great experience, Joe, an it has learned me never to cast no doubts on the stories fellers tell about what happens when they're out fishin' I reckon that if thing like that has happened to me, other extraordinary things in the fish line may happen to other folks"
 "All of which is very eddicatin' |" observed the Postmaster. But don't see what it's got to do with tn pint we were discussin You said ye'd gone gunnin' in the woods for fish, an up to date we ain't heard anything like a bullet whizzin' through the air''
 That's because I ain't come to that part of my story yet" explained the captain. You're one of them fel- lers that wants to git through before your finished, which aint thurro way O doin' business. No, I ain't never through. till I'm done. I was goin' to say that as soon as we was able to go outdoors on tollable dry land, to look after the horses an cattle, we found a most surprisin' state O affairs in the woods. They was mostly tall pines the kind ye made masts for schooners ol a them days, an that is now used