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The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-18
STOP PAYING RENT

New comp1ete modern room house. 11k
east front lots, paved street, on Quincy.
Price $500; $500 cash, bal. SIS monthly.
Good rental.
New room modern home, close in,
Quincy street, paved street, 81, 100.
Nice 4 room cottage, East 9Th, paved
street, 81, go Terms.
New modern Z room home, Clay street,
minute car service, east front, IL lots.
$3.50
New room Harrison street corner with
. lots; will make inducements for quick
WINGETT LAND co.
Ind. 1914. 1O9 west 9Th Ave. (ground floor
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FOR RENT.

519 Clay, rooms, modern.
T04 Polk. 6 rooms. gas. hydrant, barn.
324 Polk, s rooms, gas, city water.
91S w. 5th, rooms, gas.
sO7 Kansas ave, office rooms.
1922 w. 6th, 8 rooms, gas, city water.
]. E. ToRRINGToN, 1os w. 6th st.
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS.

published in The Topeka State Journal
March IS, 1909
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SECOND HAND FURNIrURE.

G. H. BOWER & son.
522 Kansas Ave. Ind S4l
BUYS sells and exchanges new
and secondhand furniture and
stoves.
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UNDERTAKING.

L. NJ. PENWELL.e funeral director and
e1Inoaimer- First class service, reason
able prices. 511 Quincy st. Both phones 1872
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CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.

NJ c. PLANK. gen. contractor. has an
fully given. Ind. phone 1890. Bell 1890.
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PROPOSALS

[First published in The Topeka State
Journal March II, 1909
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BANK STATEMENT.

IFirst published in The Topeka State
March Is, 1909
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE FL
NANCIAL CONDITION
of the
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MONEY.

to loan on live stock. pianos. per-
sonal security. household goods. typewrit-
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LEGAL.

stenographic services during the 1909 ses-
sion of the legislature 5000
No. S. To the following named per-
sons for use of typewriters during the
session of the Legislature of 1909, and as
payment in full of all demands against
the state, the following sums are appro-
priated: Wilson Office Supply Co, 500;
]. ID. Myers. 800; c. J. Carver, $780,
Estelle v Ingels, $7.00; Mamie Robert
Nell Tutcher ......................... 81 90
w. w. Stahl ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ST 90
L. B. Fankell Observation-Disclosures. 81 90
J. F. Overfield ..................... 81. 90
Fred Partridge ...................... s.. 90
No. 81. To las la riu1er Clerk of
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Published in The Topeka state Journal
March Is, 1909
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c. H. TITUS. Secretary.
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PATENTS

J. A. ROsEN, patent attorney. SO Kan
sas ave, Topeka. Kan.
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JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and Opti-
ciau Complete stock of watches, uia-
monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined
and spectacles properly fitted.
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PICTURE FRAMING.
PAVING.

CAPITAL CITY vITRIFIED BRICK &
building, paving and sidewalk brick.
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IN THE DISTRICT. COURT OF SHAW
NEE COUNTY, STATE OF KANSAS.
(Third Judicial District.)
Daniel L. Stallsmfth, Plaintiff,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-15
eds and Hov to Combat Them,
BY c. v. GREGORY

WIN attempting to produce large
81 crops the farmer finds that he
81 has many enemies working
n against him. Among the worst
of these are weeds One Of the great
est problems that confront the farm
er is that Of keeping his crops free
from these pests. After field has
been so handled and prepared that
large amount Of plant food Is in availa-
BILE form, with plenty Of moisture to
dissolve it, it is poor policy. to allow
weeds to seize this food and moistsre
and convert them into worthless
product.
Weeds may be divided into three
general classes-annuals, biennials ana
perennials. Annual weeds are propo-
gated entirely by seeds and live but
one year. An exception to this Is
found in the winter ANNALS, which
come up in the fall, live through the
winter as small plants and produce
seed the following spring.
Among the most troublesome annual
weeds are the foxtails. These are
grasslike plants that are too common
to need any special description. The
fact that makes them SO difficult to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-15
lust TO SAY IT OVER AGAIN.

Lest we forget, the fool and the re-
volver which he didn't know was load
ed, appeared again Sunday in the &C
customed and time honored roles and a
Council Bluffs family is mourning over
the common tragedy. A party of young
people brought out three old revolvers
and fooled with them. One of the
young men picked up a pistol he sup
posed to be unloaded and "playfuily'
shot his sister thru the heart. There is
no occasion to go into detail. 1T was
the same as those which have occurred
and as those which are certain to &C.
cur. Admonintion and warning fails to
prevent their repetition. 1t is as GER
tain as, sunrise that another careless
fool will take another innocent life in
the same way. Perhaps were the sta
tistics of fools in hand, some actuary
might offer exact figures and predic-
lions Of these accidents based on the
census of fools. And it is pitifu1. When
the grief and distraction of the broth
err is Imagined even he>is an object for
pity as he should be for severe pun
shment; for every person who points
a deadly weapon at another in play
should be subject to the same penal
ties as tho he had attempted life >un-
der criminal impulse.
Why this family should have been
provided with three revolvers, why
they should all have been loaded and at
hands why party of young people
should have resurrected them and
amused themselves by loading and un--.
loading and pointing them at one an
other, is matter for wonderment. But
they did and with the usual result.
There is a corpse in one room of that
house and boy insane with grief ana
horror in another.
Take it home. If YOU are bidding for
accident ard the horror Of violent death
in your, home, keep loaded revolver
handy. Let the boys bring it out and
exhibit it to their friends. Let them
play with it. The result will come as
surely as tho you put sugar coated
strychnine pills within reach of the
baby.
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every four years or SO. They are very
fond of the roots and stems of peren-
NAL weeds, especially those of quack
grass and morning glory, and they
will continue to root until the last
piece is brought to light and eaten.
Where all the fields are not fenced
hog tight temporary pen may be
used. This can be moved about over
the patches of quack grass and morn
ing glory until they are destroyed.
The weed problem is not nearly so
difficult as many people believe. The
remedy for weeds is good farming.
and when good farming becomes the
rule weeds will largely disappear. In
a way weeds are more of benefit
than an injury. If it were not for
them we would often be tempted to
let the cornfeld go few days longer
before cultivating and thus fail to get
as large crop as we might otherwise
have done. 1t Is the cultivation that
the presence of the weeds forces upon
us that makes plant food available
and prevents the escape OF capillary
moisture and so enables the plants to
put their best efforts into producing
max imum yield.
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LIVING AND LEARNING.

gAT.-R. representative who covers
xzrundy county, reports that the acre
age of potatoes to be planted in that
beading potato county Of the state is
to be much greater this year than in
any previous season. Potato ware
houses are to be built and the BUSH
ness of potato growing is to take ON
all the dignity of corn, oats and cattle
has been making money hand over fist
His neighbors are falling into line as
neighbors will when some pioneer and
a,dyenturer in a new line has demon
strated that it brings the returns. The
man whose ambition was to feed
load" as the big farmer next door was
doing with a half dozen loads, has
discovered that he can make more.
make it easier and with more GER
tainty raising potatoes. Having been
shown he is going to grow potatoes.
And the neighbor with the big farm IS
putting out dozen acres himself. II
the cattle should go wrong it is as
well to have an anchor to wihdward.
Farmers live and learn. Here and
there over the state communities are
appearing where the dairy business is
the principal business. No one knows
how extremely profitable dairying is
until his Ieighbor shows him or he
nuts his own energies and intelligence
TO work on mich COWS and the pro-
duction of butter fat Note how sud-
denly the intelligent dairynan lifts the
mortgage on his farm. A case in point
occurs. 1t was at Eagle Grove. A good
farmer, one who had come to the coura-
ty as young man and acquired
good farm went into the "trotting
horse business" at the time when it
looked like a gold mine bonanza. He
sold the farm and started out to amass
wealth in hurry. The bottom fell
cut of the horse business and he found
himself broke and with a young fam
ily. He had sand and knew where to
find what he had lost. He bought a
farm near town on a pitifully small
1ayment and his reputation as work.
er and good farmer, went into the
dlairy business, gathered herd of cows
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and watched them like a hawk does
chickens. Long ago the farm had been
paid for, more land bought, a business
in the city acquired. He is extremely
we'll to do today. The dairy did it. 1t
is doing it wherever intelligence and
industry gives it a chance.
There is; scarcely a limit to the de-
mand for potatoes and dairy products.
The trusts do not and never can con-
troll them Always the cities call for
more and the demand grows with the
cities. The potato field. the silo and The
milk pail are trio of financial graces.
And the greatest of these is the milk
pail.
The Iowa farmer has still much to
learn but he is learning and as he lives
will learn more. He must or get off
the earth when it sells, as it soon
must at 5000 to $3.50 and acre.
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TALKS ON ADVERTISING
w. Getting New Customer,
And Holding Them
By Henry Herbert Huff



"Mr Business Man. it just much for running
persistent light, fuel clerk hirewhether you sell ten OF
hundred dollars worth Of goods per day does it not! You call
them fixed expenses Now the only to lower fixed expenses
to increase sales Up certain point all excess business
brings YOU added profit pays lay hold all possibly
can Advertising offers the best for Increasing trade
New attracted by eadersnerchandise at ns1
ally prices An told of an old lady who nine
miles get spool of thread for cents but she purchased
several dollars worth goods before leaving the The adj
within the DOORS the difficult part It is then up
to the merchant make the most OF the opportunity and win
him for permanent customer
he merchant who utilities newspaper publicity has the whole
world trade from. He is confined particular neigh
borood He knows barriers Wherever he send his adj
versn there he solicit business Some of the amb
ous country merchants drawing business from the big towns
The advertisers opportunities unlimited Through the
paper he reach people be who perhaps
heard Of his store" ..4.
sBut how about holding them?"
That depends quite much upon the merchant the adver
Using If customers receive satisfaction they will continue to
But nothing HOLDS them like continued bargain offers
Have few specials Saturday Keep the farmers guess
ing what will come next
hat you give the dealer starting busnessY
What at variance with good judgment could be imagined
than for merchant to to town. rent store till the shelves
and counters with goods attractive displays the
windows competent statesmen behind the counters and then
business; WAIT for people in and buy; WAIT
his existence? And it for
ths Advertising would have carried all such information to
prospective buyers He expense to have stock and fix
lures yet nec the greatest essential ofa Should
YOU INQUIRE why he spends nothing publicity he would probably
and his window displays sufficient adj
vrsng Word Of mouth publicity is the BEST but too slow
Gossip has but favorable travels slowly And as to e
newspaper is often to call at
tenton TO IT. s-4sests @ssss
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-15
THE LOS ANGELES CASE,

The use of the recall In the Los An
geles case reported by the newspapers
Saturday gives a gratifying sense of
how satisfying the opportunity must
have been to the citizens of that city.
The recall had been invoked in the
case of the mayor and events justified
Its use. He was forced to stand for
Endorsement or defeat at the polls.
When it became known that his per-
sonal- and official records were to be
given publicity he offered his resigna-
ton which was. accepted. Other offic-
aals IS predicted will be likely to send
in designations following that of their
chief
It is not certain that the new may
or to be elected will be better than the
one who has resigned but it may be
predicted with confidence that an
awakened city will see that man of
character is chosen. There will be
strict inquiry into, candidates. in the
coming elections. The house cleaning
has been Started and will be continued.
If the people elect a bad man next
time it will be because they are fooled
more than because they are careless
And If they are fooled the way is open
as it was before.
The recall may not prevent the cleo.
stion Of men. who are unfit for office,
but it will make even such men cau-
tious and afraid while they are in Of
hce; It can not insure /decency but 1t
can throw indecency out Of office and
take another chance. II reports are
true the Los Angeles mayor was of a
kind at which ordinary decency re-
volted He failed to represent the cit
izenship Of Los Angeles. SO a percent
age, OF the voters demanded q show
down. The newspapers proposed to
sorint a few things that had been talked
all over town. He got out of the way.
Lacking the recall he might have pur-
sued his course and held his office to
the disgrace of the city. Had his Of
flee been secure he might have been
deaf to the threats Of publicity for
men continue to cling to office in the
shadow of disgrace. But to hold it by
the votes of the citizens in the face Of
la justified exposure was different
matter. He knew the handwriting on
the wall when he saw it.
The conclusion will be that the re-
call has it's excellent uses one of which
is to get rid of an official whom the
community is ready to repudiate. 1t
puts the officeholder under tenure of
knffice during decent behavior. The next
mayor of Los Angeles will walk warily
II not uprightly.
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heads appear will not kill the plant.
but if kept up throughout the season
will prevent it from producing seed
In bad cases about the only remedy is
to pillow up the field and put it in to
some cultivated crop. Where regu
lar rotation which includes the mead
ows and pastures Is followed thi.
weed can be readily kept in check. a
point that must bn carefully attended
to in preventing I'll. spread of this as
we'll as of any other weed is to keep
the roadsides and fence corners from
raising weed seed enough each year
to keep the entire farm seeded.
Another troublesome annual in some
sections of the country is the Russian
thistle, a form Of tumbleweed. By
rolling across the fields after it ripens
it scatters its numerous seeds very
widely. These weeds are, usually not
so plentiful but that they can be easily
destroyed by pulling before they form
seed. BY doing this they may be kept
from becoming thick enough to do any
serious damage.
Biennial weeds live through the FIRST
winter and produce seed the second
year Of their life. They die as soon as
the seed is ripe. The common bull and
prairie thistle and burdock are con-
spicuous examples Of this class OF
weeds. Biennials are not difficult to
subdue. In cultivated fields they sci
dom live long enough to produce seed
They seed so late that they hardly
ever ripen seed in meadows. In per
manent pastures they may be con-
trolled by cutting off below the sur
face Of the ground Just at the begin
ming Of poisoning time. Sheep and
goats will rid a pasture Of these and
all other troublesome weeds.
The hardest class Of weeds to COM
bat are the perennials. These do not
depend entirely upon seed production
to spread themselves, but are propa-
gated by means Of underground
stems. These stems extend. along be-
meath the surface Of the ground, send
ing up stalks at short distances. They
live in the soil from year to year. send
ing up fresh shoots every spring.
Some of the most common and trou-
blesome perennials are the Canada
thistle, morning glory, wild artichoke
milkweed and auack grass These
weeds are found on oil parts OF the
farm-in cultivated fields, in small
grain and in meadows and pastures
The only way to. kill them is to de
stroy the roots or starve them by pre-
venting leaf growth. This is much
more easily said than done. Where
the weeds occur only in small patches
the desired result may be accomplished
by covering them with thick layer
Of straw. In dry season thorough
cultivation will discourage them
though it will seldom exterminate
them entirely. When the ground Is
wet cultivation will do more to spread
perennial weeds than to kill them
The pieces of the underground stems
which stick to the shovels will grow
wherever they happen to fall and thus
start a new center of trouble.
OF all the means of getting rid OF
perennial weeds that have been triee
none is so effective as turning the field
into hog pasture. If the fields are
fenced hog tight and the rotation In
cludes the hog pasture the hogs will
get a chance at all parts of the farm
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-15
THE SOLDIER AND THE CIVILIAN
SMITH DOESN'T LIKE IT.

scranton JCuIlIdl.l
The Cosson bill for the removal Of
cowardly county officers passed the
senate after it was loaded down with
amendments enough to break the back
of an elephant. The amendment which
REQUIRES that ten men must file a COM
plant before the attorney general
will take notice, and then if for any
cause the action fails the ten citizens
are compelled to pay the costs. There
is not a liquor law violator in the state,
that does not admire that amendment;
for what is more uncertain than the
outcome of a liquor case! Ten. good,
citizens. may file an information
against county attorney derehct III
office and he will subpoena a half doz-;
en- saloonkeepers and bootleggers who!
deem it a browning privilege that they.
are given an opportunity to. perjure
themselves, and under such circun-5
stances the county attorney knows,
what kind of evidence is necessary TO
acquit him and these outlaws are on
hand to- furnish it, and their friend,
the county attorney, goes free and. the
must step up and pay the
costs. That amendment has but one.
purpose and that is to make the law
null and void. 1t is, an absolute in
suit to the citizenship of the state, and
an evidence that the state senator's are
in. league with the liquor vendors.
Where are the respectable citizens that
want to subject themselves to large
bills of cost for the awful crime If
trying to run down criminals? The
journal hopes that the statute books
Of the state will never be cursed with
such disgraceful law.
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owA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Hardin County Citizen is watch
ing the position that the new Iowa
congressman take with much interest
and says eff they vote with Cannon for
the continuation of the present rules
it is a pretty good indication of their
future alignment. All four of them
went before the people as progressive
republicans. Will they stand pat?' in
quires the Citizen.
In the judgement of the Knoxville
Journal 1.-The present liquor law is the
most drastic and effective weapon the
temperance cause ever had in any
state. 1t is practical and the question
of enforcement is the really important
thing. If however a majority OF the
people want to try prohibition again
there can be no question but that they
should have their way"
Speaking of Shaw the Glidden
Graphic says This leaving Iowa to be-
come resident of Pennsylvania is ev-
idence that he has practically given up
hope of future political preferement
and proposes to henceforth devote his
energies to the accumulation of wealth.
a field in which he has always been
conspicuously successful, and which,
even in his busiest political hours. has
not been entirely absent from his
mind
'srhe Cosson bill which prohibits I'M
der severe penalties dealers in grain,
creamery supplies, chickens and eggs
mi, to
crush out small dealers ought to pass
the hoo lse and become a law" declares
the Parkersburg Eclipse. THE manip-
ulation of prices is fast becoming the
bane of the present age. BY 1t monop-
oles are created. markets rendered UNI
stable and small merchants and deal
ers caused to lose immense sums each
year"
The Iowa City Citizen asserts that
"the Iowa educational institutions
need, not less for buildings, but more
for salaries. The governing boards
have been asking for both, and have
been receiving from the legislature
principally buildings. Now that the
building era is we'll started the sal
airy question should have more con-
sideration by our lawmakers"
Nevertheless the Missouri roads
will probably sell 2,oo0-mile books at
2 cents per mile" hopefully ventures
the Mason City Globe Gazette.
Since Bryan's daughter has procured
a divorce the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
thinks 'she will now be in position
to devote more time to her fathers
profession of running for the presi-
dency an occupation for which She
seems to have a decided liking"