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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09
ORNER MAKES HAY.
Oakland Man Is Busy Night and Day
Seeing Voters.

The sun has never been too hot or
the mud too deep to stop Ira Orner
since he started out to land the Sheriff
nomination il Shawnee county.
Not a single candidate in the race for
sheriff has put in more faithful hours
or harder efforts to see every man IN
Shawnee county than Orner. No gath
ering in the country, group of farmers,
merchants or working men has been
complete unless Ira Orner was there
shaking hands ana telling them who
he was and why
For the benefit of those readers who
have never met Orner this sketch IS
written. Orner is a nurseryman and
farmer, has lived in Oakland 26 years
and has been a Republican all the time.
He was councilman in the Oakland
council two years, has served on the
Republican courty central committee
and has been sent as delegate to Re-
publican state conventions.
He claims to be the first nurseryman
in Topeka to raise the wages of his
employees and reduce the hours. The
men and boys who have worked for
Orner always have been glad to return
to his employ. Orner is one of these
fellows who will pull off his coat for the
other fellow and go to the last ditch
With him. Now he is asking similar
support from his friends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09
BELTS IS A BUILDER.
Has Helped Shawnee County. as Well
as Topeka.

Over near Granville is the birth
place of J. B. Belts. About forty
years ago his father gave him his first
knife. He began to white. make
things. build something A few years
later he left the farm and with his
two hands. a hammer and a cracked
saw he began the contracting business
in earnest.
He worked by himself in those days,
today he has 800 men working for
him and the most of them are from
Topeka. Belts has the contract for
the construction of the court house at
Salina, two state hospitals at Osawat-
omie. a depot at Amarillo and round
house for the Atchison. Topeka &
Santa Fe in Topeka, and is making a
big campaign for the nomination for
sheriff of Shawnee county. all at the
same time.
He is a reasonably busy man. He
has always been busy. Besides attend
ing to his own business, he has served
his ward in the city council two terms,
as representative in the legislature and
two terms state senator.
J. B. Belts was one of the organic
ers of the German-American State
bank, is a lodge man of wide acquaint-
ance being q member of the Work
men, the Elks. the Masons and the
Odd Fellows. His associates say that
Belts was the first contractor in To-
peka to raise laborers' wages from
$175 to $500, and that was done
when he was rebuilding the Davis
Mercantile company building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09
RAIL MEN MEETING.
santa Fe Trainmen's Conference With
Officials Closes Tonight.

The annual meeting of the train
men of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa
Fe is being held in Topeka. 1t began
the middleof the week and will close
tonight.
This meeting is called the Getting
Acquainted seance by the Santa Fe.
1t is the one time in the year when
the brakemen and the conductors put
on their stiff collars, pull off their
badges, visit the barber shop and
make a good showing before the Of
f1cials who head the work of the OPP
Grating department.
G. w. Kouns, assistant to second
vice president j. w. Kendrick, Gener-
AL Superintendent F. c. Fox and Cen
eraI Manager Hurley are the officials
and every representative trainmen in
this district compose the audience.
The meetings are not public.
The Santa Fe has many plans in the
close association between officials
and employees for the betterment of
the work and this is one of the inn
portant things considered. Schedules,
rules, freight and passenger traffic
and other things are talked.
This is the last time General Man
ager Hurley will be able to meet with
the men. Following a long siege with
the striking switchmen in the north
west and several other important rail-
road matters, the general manager
has found it necessary to take va
cation in Germany for his health
He departs next Tuesday and sails
y,1lv 10. President Nudge Of the Rock
Island. a close friend of Mr.. Hurley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09
SCHLICHTER IS CALM.
This Democrat Dares the Republican
Opposition.

OF course Schlichter has opposition
in his own party, but thus far he is the
only man to fly his kite for sheriff in
the face of the strong opposition on
the Republican side. In the last
month Schlichter has been busy seeing
people. in the city and in the country.
He considers he has a fighting chance
to win the election in November If
nominated August 2.
w. E. Schlichter is the son of S. T.
Schlichter, who for twenty-one years
was the foreman of w. I. Miller's lum-
Der yard. Schlichter does not have to
depend entirely on the record of his
father, however, for in the twenty 7one
years that he has lived in Topeka he
has made a reputation for himself.
In the past nine years he has been
the foreman of the Dibble Grocery
company, two years with that firm on
the north side of the river, and seven
on this side. He has become acquaint-
ed with most of Topeka's people.
Schlichter has been constant work
err with the Democracy of the county
since he has been old enough to take
any interest in politics. He has never
held Office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09
BRING ENCOURAGING NEWS.
New York Bankers Return From
Abroad Much Pleased.

New York, July s.-Bayard Domi-
nick and Henry w. Canon, both promi-
nent local bankers, returned from
Liverpool yesterday on the Maure-
tania with pleasant news regarding
the feeling abroad concerning Ameri-
cas- business future. Mr.. Dominick
said that in Germany and in England
there was no loss of confidence in
American securities. The foreign
bankers, he said, had no fear of i'll
effects arising from any interference
of the interstate commerce commission
with the American railroads.
Samuel Rea, vice president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, also was pas
senger on the Mauretania. He had
been abroad four weeks on a pleasure
trim.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09
FOR LAW AND ORDER.
Jonathan ID. Norton Making His Race
on This Principle.

When John Wilkerson resigned the
Office of sheriff of Shawnee county
about a year ago, Col. Jonathan d.
Norton was appointed by Gov
ernor Stubs to fill the vacan-
cy. Norton has never been elected TO
the office. He had served as under
sheriff for three years. He is the one
man in the race with actual expert
ence in the sheriff's Office.
Col. Norton has been busy the last
few months in an effort to convince
the voters of Shawnee county that he
is entitled to one full term. His friends
and supporters can see no feasible rea-
son why this should not be granted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09

also will sail for Germany this NONE.
1t is probable that the two officials
will meet at the big meeting of the
international railway association in
Europe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09
Card of Thanks

We wish to state our appreciation of
the many kind acts of the Court of
Honor and the many kind neighbors
and friends for their kind assistance
and help given US during the sickness
and death of Mrs. Thomas L. I.ibbey
Thomas Libbey and children and
brothers of deceased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-09

Fresh Blackberries 10c per box, 81. Is
ger crate. Cope's Market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02

Ontario. His father was a clergyman and he has four brothers in the ministry. Trinity chapel Is one of the most impor- tant of the ten houses of worship main- tained by Trinity church.
 Rev Dr. Arthur T. Pierson and wife will depart October 19 on tour of mis- sions of the world. They vii lbe sent by friends who have organized the Pier son jubilee fund for bible study and Foreign missions. MT. William R. Moody. of East Northfed, Mass, has announc- ed that the fund will be left open until Dr. and Mrs. Pierson depart. The Amer ican treasurer of the fund and the Eng fish treasurer is Lord Kinnaird, of Lon- don.
 The Jerry McAuley Mission, No. 316 Water street, will have a new structure on it's present site. The building it now occupied was erected thirty-seven years ago, and has been used by it ever since, The new building will also cover an ad- joining lot. It will have five stories and will cost S100,000.
 Sunday, October 9, has been set aside by Presbyterians. at the suggestion of the general assembly evangelistic conn., mittee, as John H. Converse memorial day. MT. Converse, late head of the Bald win locomotive plant at Philadelphia,
 was the chairman of the committee and its chief benefactor. Upon his death he left a fund to provide for continuance of the Chapman-Alexander evangehstic work. The morning service on that Sun
 day will have a service on the life and work of MT. Converse, exemplified in his devotion to evangelestism At this ser vice the organization of John H. Con- verse bands. for the study and partici-
 patton in personal work will be formed. The evening service will be eyangelistic. MT. Converse's Chester Plan," carried out by the presbytery, of which he was a
 member, is to be recommended to- all Presbyterians this fall for adoption. By
 Its plan laymen of Presbytery under write salary and expenses of an evange- ist. to work principally among weaker churches of the Presbytery.
 Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman will return from
 England on October 13, bringing with him Charles M. Alexander, Robert Hark-
 ness and others of his associates who
 have been there for the summer After one meeting in the city the entire Chap man-Alexander party of over sixty work CTS will open campaign in Chicago. l The final revise edition of the New | Testament together with the first com | plete book of the old, - the Psalms of | David, is now issuing from the press in | Chinese, and stacks of the volumes are being shipped to the remotest parts of | China.
 l The special committee of translators are now gathered together at. Chefu, al | their annual conference on the work which they hope will be to China what | the authorized version of the Bible Is | to the English speaking world.
 The project was inaugurated in 1S9c at a conference of all the missionary
 bodies at work in China, and is being consummmated at the expense of the Bi- ble societies of the world. Several books
 are added each year, and 1t Is estimated
 that the whole volume will be complete | about the year 1915.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02

The prospective crop in Illinois is S55, ,4o2,- GOO bushels. against the August estimate of 946,914oO0 bushels; in Iowa, S31,Sl300o bushels against an August estimate of 3OS, ,232, ,000.
 The greatest loss in the corn crop fell Ito Ohio, which suffered a decrease of % ,000,000 bushels for the month. Indiana lost 6,00O,00O bushels, thanks to unseason- able weather. i+- record. The September estimate makes it total 1,o45,ooOOOO bushels and the ex- perts say that probably when the Octo-
 Der figures come out they will exceed | this amount. The total is 3S,000,000 in eX-
 cess of the figures for 1900 and 23S, ,000, ,00C
 bushels over the 1908 totals. Here agair Illinois and Iowa are in the lead, with
 yields of 16S, ,297, 0O0 and 169 S50, GOO bushels | respectively. Iowa's Improvement fol
 August was almost 10,000000 bushels
 while Illinois gained 100000 bushels. | The barley crop lost about 100000 bush-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02
DEAFNESS CURED
TT have demonstrated that deafness can be cured" "- Dr. Guy Clifford Powell.

<. The secret of how to use the mysteri- pous and invisible nature forces for the cure of Deafness and Head Noises has at last been discovered by the famous Physician Scientist, c-. Guy Clifford Powell. Deafness and Head Noises cis- appear as if by magic under the use of this new and wonderful discoxery. He will send all who suffer from Deafness and Head Noises full information how they may be cured, absolutely free, no matter how long they have been deaf, pr what caused their deafness This marvellous treatment is so simple, natural and certain that you will won der why it was not discovered before Investigators are astonished and cured patients themselves marvel at the quick results. Any deaf person can have full information how to be cured quickly and cured to stay cured at home with out investing cent. Write today to pr Guy Clifford Powell, 7030 Bank Building, Peoria ILL, and get full in- formation of this new and wonderful ' discovery, absolutely free.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02

scorched in the northwest and the loss in June in the northwestern states had threatened to send bread prices soaring during the winter The August rains, however. saved much and the govern ment's experts figure that the August iml provement added 100000 bushels to the' prospective crop. The total crop of 21S OOO00 bushels will still be more than 72, ,0Q0.000 bushels short of last years.
 The winter wheat crop for the year to- tailed 45S, ,000, 600 bushels, against 446366, 900 for 1909, making the total wheat crop for 1910 just 676 6o00, 600 bushels, loss of 6l,00o = 900 from last years total.
 The biggest crop of the year-as usual | will be that of corn. Of this cereal the
 nations barns will hold the stupendous
 total of 2,s96, ,o00 600 bushels, more than 8
 bushels for each of us 9Q,000,000. This
 crop suffered a slight loss in August, the
 decrease totaling about 44,000,000 bushels
 The biggest corn states-Illinois and l Iowa-however, showed slight increases,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02
MONSTER CROPS OF 1910
With One Exception Grain Output the
 Largest on Record

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 With 4S00.0o0. bushels of grain in sight in the crops of 1910. Uncle Sam need have little fear of starvation before the crops of 1911 are garnered into the na- tions barns.
 With one exception the prospective grain crop will be the largest on record for the United States, according to the govern ment crop estimates for September, which have just been issued. In 1906 we harvested total of 4S39, GOO bushels of wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley. In 1909 the total was 47l9,4 Al 900 bushels.
 Of chief interest-because 1t fixes the price of the staff of life--is the improve ment In the wheat crop which is shown by the August. record. At the end of July the spring wheat had been badly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02
Southern Railway, best way to Atlanta; dining cars on morning and afternoon trains.
CYRENE COMMANDERY
 No. 10. K. T,

The members of Cyrene Con- mandery are requested to met at. the asylum Sunday, October 2, 1910, at 1:45 p. m., to act as an escort to the grand comman- dery of Alabama in conducting the burial service of our late frater, Sir Charles Wheelock, past grand commander.
 J. D. MATLOCK,
 Elm. Com. CHARLES J. GOHEGAN,
 Recorder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02

els in August, almost neglible de- crease, for the September estimate is 152,- coo 900 bushels. Last year it was 17o,2S4,- GOO bushels.
 The rye crop. which has been harvested. totaled 32,0SS,0O0 bushels, against 32,239OO0 bushels in 1909.
 All hail to the farmer whose industry thus not only feeds this nation, but must help to feed the hungry peoples of all the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02
The Difference

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 A fool is unable to see his own faults. A wise man, seeing his own faults. is able to keep other people from noticing them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02
1911 Whiting Twenty, $75O

Ignion--Jump Spark. Current Suppy-Remy Magneto, extra set of dry Lubrcaton-Splash Carburetor-Schebler, Model b. Transmson--Selective sliding type. and cutchCone large improved with balbearng Drive-Shaf.
  Equpment-Gas lamps
 and horn, complete tools
 to
Smyrna times., 1910-08-17
ROBT d. HOFFECKER,
EditOr and Business Manager.

Much has been said about tres
passing on railroad property and the
dangers incident thereto, and in COM
menting on it we can but heaitily
endorse the editorial of the Will
mington Evening Journal which
says: "Steadily well managed rail-
road companies have been greatly re-
ducing the dangers of travel. The
trains are being operated more safe
ly for those who ride in them but the
death roll of those who insist on
walking the tracks is still very
large.
''The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany is making extraordinary efforts
to keep all but employees off its
right of way. The problem of deal
ing with trespassers is most serious
from the fact that the Pennsylvania
lines go through the most d"nsely
settled part of the country.
During the last eleven years, &C.
cording to a circular issued by the
company, more than so, 900 persons
were killed and 55, 900 injured in this
country while trespassing on the
property of the railroad. During
the same period on an average 725
per year were killed on the Penn.
sylvania tracks property.
GA strenuous campaign against
trespassers was started by the COM
pany several years ago with the hope
Of decreasing this high death rate.
Ten thousand arrests were made dur
ing 1909, but this seems to have had
little effect for the high average of
deaths continued. In order to reduce
the number of deaths the laws
against trespassing on railway prop
erty will have to be rigidly enforced
but the company has been confronted
with judges and magistrates whC
hesitate ABOUT applying the law anC
often censure the railroad officer fol
making the arrest. 1t should be re
membered that the railway com
panies wage war on the trespasser
merely as protection for tn,
trespassers themselves, and whei
this is fully understood the problem
will become one easier to deal with. ,
Smyrna times., 1910-08-17

When one woman in a spirit of
home pride and Smyrna beautiful"
offers to donate $4,000 fountain and
our progressive Century Club adds to
this 500 toward improving the sur
roundings to the standpipe, and be-
cause a desire was simply expressed
for a stone wall in preference to an
iron fence or anything else, it is
nothing short of an inexcusable
blunder for Council to have turned
down the opportunity when they had
S11OO donation in their grasp.
Better to have made a sacrifice and
purchased the stone wall than to have
lost such magnanimous offer. The
whole dilly dalling tactics of Coun-
Gil have been discourteous to say the
least and it reflects nothing to their
credit.
Smyrna times., 1910-08-17

Smyrna Town Council is perfectly
right in wanting its ordinances en-
forcei. They might as well have no
ordinances as to have them and not
enforce them. There is no need to
dilly daily with it. Council should
have Alderman Grow, who is at the
head of the Police Department en-
force every ordinance on our books
and see to it that the law IS re-
spected. The well regulated and
orderly community is the community
which lives under, obeys and respects
the law and no officer should assume
the responsibility of office unless he
intends to do his duty.
Smyrna times., 1910-08-17

Founded by Robert D. Hoheeker July 5, 1854
Editor and Proprietor until February TO- 1907
OFFICE-Next Door to the Fruit Growers
atiOnal Bank.
Telephone. No. 10.
Smyrna times., 1910-08-17

TIE SMYRNA TIMES is published at Smyrna
DEL, every Wednesday afternoon.
rHE TIMES is an independent paper devoted to
she welfare of the town it represents and the
state of which it is a part. II also gives the
TENS of importance of the Eastern Shore OF
MARYLAND.
ROBT d. HOFFECKER,
BditOr and Business Manager.
a HOVERTISEMENTS-T SMYR TIMES is tn
business medium not only for the town it rep
resents but for the outlying district ofw which 1t
is the centre, embracing the towns of Clayton,
Keuton, Cheswold, Leipsic, &c. A rate OF 90
cents an inch for frst Insertion and % cents
For each subsequent insertion will be charged
or transient advertising. Locals and Reading
Notices, 10 cents per line per issue. spec
discount on ali semi-snnual and yearly adver
tisements
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-12-29
Worked the Old Man.


An interesting. story is told of a
boy who lives in New Jersey. He
conceived the idaa of obtaining
money from his father by running
away and writing his father a note
telling him his boy had been kid
naped and to leave $4,000 in the
wood shed at a certain hour and
the boy would be returned. The
old man. left the money at the
place designated, and sure enough
the boy turned up at home the
next morning. The youth told a
narrowing story of how his kidnap-
ers threatened to kill him if the
money was not forthcoming. The
boys of the town were envious of
Johnny because he had so much
spending money.
Soon afterwards he ran out of
money and succeeded in working
the old man on the same game
this time for twenty-five dollars.
The third attempt, however, was
failure. Being suspected, the town
marshal was called in to watch at
the wood shed. At the appointed
hour Johnny appeared in person
and was nabbed by the marshal. 1t
is told that for some time after this
experience Johnny stood up at the
table when he ate his meals. Ex.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-12-29
When to Advertise.

The time to advertise is all the
time The man who fishes longest
has the largest basket of.fish. Stop
ping ain ad to save money is like
stopping a clock to save time says
an. exchange. Advertisement is an
insurance policy against forgetful-
ness. 1t compels people to think of
you. Like eating, advertising should
continuous. When today's break
fast will answer for tomorrow's you
can advertise on the same principle
No one lies awake thinking of your
business; out of print out of mind.
The presidential candidates are we'll
advertised every four years. Ask
your neighbor who ran with Bryan
the last time five out of ten will
say they have forgotten and the
other five will think long before
they correctly answer. I'll pton
Timas as, - >
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-12-29
What a Republican Says.

That stauch Republican paper,
the Kansas City Journal says of
Col. Roosevelt Bot in New York
they know the ex-president better.
There he is.referred to as the man
who never acknowledged an error
never admitted a mistake, never
apologized for a wrong and never
in his whole career conceded that
on opponent could be anything but
a lar;and.a crook. Gallatin Dem
Ocrat. '''s
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-12-29
Card of Thanks.
Stumped BY Sammy.

DO not sneer at the juvenile in
tellect," said John L. Chickering,
district superintendent of schools.
Sometimes boy can ask questions
that a man can't answer" And he
went on to tell of an experience he
had when he was principal of one
of the New York schools. He was
called on by a teacher to come to
her aid.
It's all right" said she, until nat
ural history hour comes. Sammy
Jones lives on farm, and he thinks
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1910-12-29
HObble Skirt New to Him

The hObble skirt was being dis.
cussed at the Colony club in New
York, and Miss Elizabeth Marbury,
the famous dramatic agent, said
with a smile:
You'd think the hobble skirt
had penetrated everyone. but
listen:
In Camden the other afternoon
a young girl in a brown hobble
skirt hurried with short quick steps
to a football game, Her skirt was
tight enough in all conscience, but
a narrow black band, encircling it
just below the knees, urew it still
tighter.
AS the young girl tripped out
Mickle street, a coal-heaver, laying
down his shovel. ran after her.
Say, miss" he said, in a low
confidential tone yer belts slip
ped down. '"-Ex