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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21
MUST USE CARE
Handling of s.Pest Destroyer
Needs Extreme Caution.
Otherwise 1t Will Prove Fatal
to Users-The Rules.

Washington, Dec. 21.-The depart
ment of agriculture denounced as GRIM
inal story sent out that hydrocyanic
acid could be used indiscriminately to
exterminate househ' ID pests. 1t was
said at the department that the care
less use of this deadly gas might easily
result in the death of the user. The
following method of using the gas was
given out today:
First remove from the house all
meats. liquid food. milk or other ar
ticles of food. so they may not absorb
the gas. Then seal all the windows
and doors and stop up the fire place.
Prepare windows so they may be
opened after the fumigation from the
outside for to enter the room before
the gas has been dispelled, will be i'm
mediately fatal. Then take a three
gallon earthernware jar and put it in
the middle of the rom. For an aver
age sized room use the following form
ula:
Put 'seyenty-two ounces of water in
the jar, add pa ounces of commercial
sulphuric acid, then add twenty-four
ounces of cyanide of potassium and
get out of the room at once, locking the
door behind you. Stay out of the house
for about four or five hours, then
open the windows from the outside and
let the air dissipate the fumes before
you venture in the house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21
Topeka Company Makes Many
Muffs and Scarfs.
From Feathers of Chickens,
Ducks and Turkeys.
THEY BRING FANCY PRICES
Sold to Shops in This and
Other Cities.
Business Organized Only One
Year Ago.

Perhaps that scarf which your wife
or best girl wears around her neck is
made of fur of some animal and may
be it is made from feathers taken from
the body of the familiar barn yard
fowls. There is a plant for the manu-
facture of--articIes-of this character, in
North Topeka but very few people are
aware of the fact.
The Partisan Plumage Company is To-
Gated at 1922 Central avenue. Fur
scarfs and muffs are made and sold
for fancy prices, and people who wear
them are not aware that they are made
in this city This company makes fur
sets and all kinds of hat trimmings
and furnishes the millinery stores in the
city with their wares.
The produces of this company are
made from feathers of fowls. Ostrich
feathers are used occasionally only to
a small extent. These products when
exhibited deceive the human eye ex-
cept when a close examination is made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21
Large Firms in Topeka Re-
member Their Employees.
Some Give Money, Others Sc
IectiOns From Their Shops.
Topeka RAILWAY LIBERAL
Dinner, Silver, Gloves and Mu-
steal Comedy for Men.
Continental Creamery Will
Give SIS to Each Worker.

The large concerns in Topeka don't
feel that it is a burden to give gen.
erously at Christmas. There is not a
SiIas Mariner among the prominent
firms in town. After the employees
have received their holiday gifts, they
are a remarkably jolly set of persons
better and more loyal workers.
Albert y. Patten, general superin-
tendent of the Topeka Railway COM
pany, is one of the most munificent
donors in Topeka-annually he gives
his motormen, conductors and operators
an all-night party on Christmas night
Refreshments are served from to 9.
There is a hot welcome waiting for
every man as he trails in from duty.
This year the Lee Musical Comedy
company, who open in the Cook La
dies Union" at the Majestic next
week, have been engaged to give
farce in the street railway auditorium.
Moreover the company gives like
king-turkey, cranberries and celery
for the married men. How's that?
And a two-piece silver set for their
wives. Each single man receives
pair of gloves.
The employees of the Capper Publish
ing company make of the holiday sea-
son a roIIicking good time. They give
a party between Christmas and New
Years day.
We're going to have a big party
at the Auditorium said Arthur Cap
per, and give it week from today.
Everybody's invited-news department
mechanical department. and business
department. We have music dancing,
and refreshments, of course. This year
We're to have a midsummer fete, an
Indoor lawn party. Everybody's go
ing to wear his summer clothes"
There is one bank in town that
Drl2htPnS n 6Y-iS n
by the gift of sparkling gold piece.
We always give cash." said G. c.
Bowman of the Seymour Packing
company, that is something that ev-
erybody can use
we generally give a certain amount
in merchandise" E. H. Crosby ex-
planned, of Crosby Brothers Co. that |
has been our custom since we had six
men in our employ-four, l should /
say, for my brother and 1 completed +!
the even half dozen. We let our clerks /
choose what they want"
cash girl that has been admiring |
a ruffly Jabot or an errand boy that |
wants bulldog stickpin is made glad |
on the twenty-fifth of December
1t has always been our custom to |
give our employees So at Christmas !
time said S. c. Petit, of the Con- |
tlnentai Creamery company, we've I
been doing that for several years. and I
think We shall continue it this time"
We have no special policy" de- /
CAeiA GU w w A1lIlS, VINO mas a cOmpe-
tent force of $50 people under him.
we always try to remember our /
clerks in some way, but have not yet /
decided how"
we give each of our 100 employees
something to eat chuckled w H
Davis, of the Davis Mercantile COM
pany. that seems to be as acceptable
as nything-chickens celery, oysters
cranberrles, everything that goes to
make up good dinner. We've been
presenting eatables for several years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21

The Christmas greens, like Birming-
ham woods, have come to Topeka
| boxes and barrels and forests of them.
They are the very quintessence of the
pervasive spirit of Christmas Seldom
have we had so much greenery in the
Topeka shops.
! Nowhere is the holiday season felt
so keenly in a large city as in the
market place. There are ropes of ever
green twined about the wintry awning
! poles. There are crates OVERLOOKING
with scarlet beaded holly. Most of all
there are Christmas trees-bushy
triangular ones for cosy nursery,
and towering ones, like the first
christmas tree, of which Henry Van
Dyke has told US. Then there is the
pearly mistletoe, which is the best of
ALL
People have wondered why we have
the three distinc- emblems of Christ
mas-trees, mistletoe and holly. Some
one has answered that they are for the
three stages of man-trees for the kid
dies, who like the tinsel; mistIetoe for
the young people, who like-why dis
guise it?-the kisses: and holly for the
grandparents who think the cherry red
berries the jolliest thing in the world
There are hundreds of trees in To-
peka this December. Carloads have
been coming all the week from the
misty cold of the Great Lake regions
We have tall ones for the Sunday
school entertainment, and short ones
for the table in the new baby's room
Going to have a Christmas tree,
sonny?" someone asked a red checked,
red nittened youngster, who was gaz-
ing wistfully at a host of trees.
Nope" said the small boy, bright
ly, but we're going to have one to
our Sunday school,
Trees are selling anywhere from two
bits to eight dollars. Wreaths are 25
cents apiece. Holly-lots of it-may
be bought at ten cents pound
Mistletoe-very rightly-is choicer,
and costs twice as much
Stroll down Kansas avenue tonight
and find the very heart of the Christ
mas season
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21
D0DCED ARATTLER
GOvernOr-Elect Hodges Has
Exciting Experience.
SidestepS Big Snake and Puts
Load of Shot in Him,

Kansas City. Dec. 'Rattlesnake
antidote,' recent press dispatches
state, has risen out of reach of the
proletariat along with the other des-
serts of life. However. Governor-elect
Hodges of OIathe, Kan, came very
near needing supply, however costly,
while on a hunt at Cactus, Tex, last
week The governor-elect side-stepped
the imminent cause, however and put
a charge of shot into its head. 1t was
a rattlesnake six and one-half feet
long, wearing fourteen rattles and a
button"
Mr. Hodges and his brother Frank
with DR.. A. H. Cordier and Ferd Helm
OF Kansas City, arrived home yester-
day noon. Each brought a brace" of
deer. ]. j. Helm and J. W. Perry. who
went down with the party, returned
home several days ago.
THE governor-elect and were
hunting together" said DIR. Cordier
yesterday. Rambling along we passed
very close to a bunch of cactus We
heard the buzzing of a rattlesnake
Hodges leaped back He had been
standing right over the reptile, which
had coiled and was ready to strike.
As he stepped aside he turned and
shot the snake. There are lots of rat
tlesnakes down there but this was the
only one killed so far as 1 know"
DR.. Cordier said that on the ranch
where the party hunted it is fourteen
miles from the front gate to the
house and thirty eight miles from the
house to the back fence.
You hunt over here in the horse
lot" DR.. Cordier says one of the
ranchmen told him one morning. IF
you get lost just follow any fence and
it will lead you to the house"
What size is this horse lot?"
asked the doctor obviously. There's
nothing in horse lot to shoot, is
there %
..Tve1J 1.-av 4l,e y.e.,,l.- Of +l,es ,a,ot,
man, its only six miles square, but
think You'll find game in it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21

The feathers are bleached, dyed, shred
ed and worked over until they can be
worked into articles which will make
any woman proud to wear them: but
the woman does not realize the sys-
, tenn of manufacture.
This Topeka company consists
of Mr.. and Hrs. r. r. Bear.
and six or eight employees. Mr..
Bear is manager of the Topeka
Packing Company. Mrs. Bear is the
person who is responsible for the pro-
duction of such attractive articles for
decorating hats and for keeping the
neck and hands of the gentler sex
warm in cold weather.
Mrs. Bear began by experimenting
and was soon successful in producing
fuzzy feathers, which when made iTtb
articles, are most attractive to. the eye
With muff and scarf included. these ar
ticles are made by this company which
as SIS per set. Hat trimmings which
consists of bands. pompoms aigrettes
stickups and various other articles for
decorating hats, sell from twenty-five
cents to $3.50
The company began business about a
year ago. Feathers of turkeys are
used most extensively but tie feathers
of chickens, ducks, geese, herron
guineas and other fowls are used in
large numbers. All of the work is
done by hand as they have been unable
to find machinery that will answer the
purpose.
The work will be taken up on a large
scale during the coming year and it
promises to be one of the most flour
ishing industries in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21
CLUB NOTES.

[
The Nineteenth Century club viii
| meet January with Mrs. D. ]. Hath
away. The program will be as fol
! lows:
! Inter-Oceanfc Canal Projects ano
| Treaties, 15S1-1900-Mrs. D. P. Paxton
Religion Introduced by the Spaniards
Mrs. Edwin Locke.
! Resources of Central America-Mrs
Henry Bennett.
Western Sorosis will meet January
4, at the home of Miss Efie Graham
and Miss Lola Graham. The meeting
| is postponed from the last Saturday
in December. Mrs. c. F. Spencer will
read a paper entitled Problems in
Proportion, and the discussion will
be led by Mrs. w. A. McCarter, Mrs.
F. w. Watson and Mrs. W. r. Stubbs.
The Monday tourist club will meet
December 80. at the home of Mrs c.
1. Martin, 1902 Tyler street. Brazil will
be the subject of study, and papers
will be read, as follows: Resources of
Brazil, Mrs. Hugh Fisher; Rio de
Janeiro and its Environs. Mrs. c. B.
Van Horn; In and Around Para, Mrs.
George Beach.
The D. A. R. had a meeting today
at the Y. w. c. A. The entertainment
committee for the afternoon comprised
the following members: Miss Ethel
Aldrich, Mrs. J. p. Raster. Mrs. A K.
Rodgers. Mrs R. E. Skinner, Mrs ].
NJ. Brunt, Mrs. w. E Fiske, Mrs. NJ.
Gragg, Mrs. ]. F. Kaho and Mrs. Kath-
crime Freeman.
The Helianthus Literary club will
meet December y with Mrs A. L.
Wiseman, 81 West Sixth street.
TT,, 4r~-,x
out under the direction of the extern
sion course of the Kansas university.
which will be in Topeka in February,
will be shown in Wichita under the
auspices of one of the local clubs. The
exhibit is brought to Topeka by the
Topeka Federation of Women.
Mrs. John Threadgin, treasurer of
the General Federation, has resigned
on account of illness in her family
Her place will be filed by Mrs Will
liam B. Williams of Lapeer, Mich.
The club women all over the coun-
try are drifting away from the old
cut and dried subjects of study, taken
up by Women'S clubs in the days
when they first began to organize and
were commencing only to feel their
way into the domain of thought out
side the family circle. Now they are
venturing into the world of action,
and are bringing back to the house
hold the experience and knowledge
of the outside life. their excursions
have gained for them. The clubs ev-
erywhere are taking up the considera
ton of household economies, and Miss
Helen Louise Johnson of WATERFOWL,
n. Y, has been appointed head of that
de partment of the General Fedora
ton She is now on the editorial staff
of Harper's Bazaar, and she is writ
ing the stories of the problems pre-
scented to her by the women who lis
tened to her when she was making
lectures through the country, and her
suggestions in the solution of those |
problems are answering the questions
of hundreds of others who read them. |
The department of household econom- |
les of the Federation has two special |
plans for the year: To urge the study /
of textiles, and the establishment of (
the cultural value of home economics. I
This will include the study of tariff 4
on wool, etc. The study of food. cook |
ing. and sanitation will be continued. |
and the subject of clothing will be |
added.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21

"You think it is better to have foreign
waiters?" Yes" replied the thick-skin-
ned man. 'I realized it this evening.
When 1 gave the faiter a lead half dol
lar he thanked me in English, and later
expressed his opinion in language which
fortunately, I could not understand. -
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21

WifeABe sure to advertise for Fido in
the morning newspaper, Next day the
wife read as follows in the newspapers ::
Lost NANCY lapdog, with one eye and
no tail Too fat to walk Answers to
the name of Fido.- If returned stuffed 2
pounds reward. ''-Tit-Bits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21

Mrs. John Threadgill, treasurer of
the General Federation, has resigned
on account of illness in her family
Her place will be filled by Mrs. Will
liam B. Williams of Lapeer, Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21

The travelling art exhibit, being sent
out under the direction of the extern
sion course of the Kansas university,
which will be in Topeka in February,
will be shown in Wichita under the
auspices of one of the local clubs. The
exhibit is brought to Topeka by the
Topeka Federation of Women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21

what will the woman of tomorrow be?"
sighed the pensive person. "Oh, year
or two younger than she is today" re-
piled the one who had reasoned such
things outeSan Francisco Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21

The Helianthus Literary club will
meet December y with Mrs A L.
Wiseman, ST. West Sixth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21
Two Specials Monday and Tuesday

Plain Solid Gold Cuff Links, regular
price So. 90, Special $3.50, engraved free.
Solid Gold Cuff Links with nice cut
diamond center, regular price $40. 90
special Monday and Tuesday $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-21

Waiter Ito happy-looking customer
Well sir, what is it, Happy-Lookirs
r-(spontaneously) - Boy eight
pounder-finest in the land. Looks like
me, too!-Puck.
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-05-10

tes will the Superintendent or other officers in charge or N person
be permitted to prepare any bids. or assist any prospective bidder in
a. W. LEIGH, Superintendent and Special Discussing Agent
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-05-10

that could be done. A very pleasant
recep ton was given at the church in
their honor Monday evening.
We shall carry away many p leasant
memories of the meetins and of our
stay iE Wagner and shall look forward
to meeting again at the next annual
meeting to be held in Parker in Nav.
1918. May God bless you all.
A DELEGATE.
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-05-10

t~wenty-six acres to potatoa-just fsr
table use.
Mrs. Charles Dahlenburg has been
keeping house for her son Georges The
past few weeks.
Captain Rolla Gale, from Fort Scott
Kansas. is here visiting his sistsr,
Mrs. Victor Svsnson. He may remain
here some time.
Hans Jesperson las quite . good
supply of good 1910 yellow corn.
He 10 selling the same for seed. II
will test around 50 per cent.
e. W. Hurst has planted fine groves
of ash, elm and maple ON several Of
his farms in this vicinity. Mr.. Hurst
owns q large amount Of land around
Wagner.
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-05-10
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION

The Southern Dakota Baptist Assoc
citation held its annual meeting with
the Baptist church of Wagner this
yesr. The churches of the association
were represented by delegates in per-
son or by written messages. Reports
and letters show that the work is in
excellent condition. Several have had
a change of pastors since the annual
meeting a year ago. In every case
progress and improvement has been
shown and the interests of the King
dem have bright prospects in this part
of the state, both in material and in
sp ritual matters.
The pastors present were: Rev.
WIN. H. Dickens, of Armour; Rev. C.
A. Wilson, of CenterviIle; Rev. v. l..
Stonnell, of Parker; Rev. Craig s.
Tho.ns, Phi. D., of vermillion; Rev.
George Hoover, of Wagner. In addi-
IT, d to these the re were other delegates
representing churches of which they
are members.
As state workers there were present
Dr.. S. p. Shaw, General Missi onary
and Secretary Of the Baptist State Con-
vention; Dr. e. r. Jordan, Presid ent
of the Sioux Falls College; Rev. +. Fl.
Hagen. State Superintend snt of Sum-
day Sc hooIs; Mrs. Wilson Rathbun,
State Secretary of the Woman's Bap-
fist Foreign Missionary Society.
A spirit of sarnestness and enthusi-
asm was manifest throughout the meet
ings. By interchange Of ideas help
and encouragement have been given
and received by all present. Those
VINO yer there will take away with
them an inspiration which will mani
fest itself in their future work.
OF the many fine addresses made it
would be difficult to mention n above
the other. Each speaker was espec-
tally prepared on his line of thought.
Even this brief account would be in
complete without mention Of the kind
ness and cordiality Of the people OF
Wagner. Everything for the co mfort
ana convenience Of visitors was done
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-05-10
ELECTION NOTICE

For the election in CommissioDer
District Number One to elsct one
member Of the county board Of educa-
ton.
Notice is hereby given to the sch0ol
officers in Commissioner District
Number One, consisting Of Highland.
Wahehe. Rec. Lawrence, Bryan. Kan
nedy. Chotsau Cresk, Lons Tres and
Rouse to~nships. that N election win
be held in the Commereial Club Room
in Wagner Ut two o'clsck IN tie aftse-
noon. On Tuesday. Msy IA. 1919. fos
the purpose Of electing ons nemkbes
Of the County Board If EdueakisnI
The County Board Of Edncatioa will
meet in Platte on ths second Tuedsar
Of June 10 adopt schssI tsxt besks IT,
oil the schoo b q ~ esssty ~ :
period q Eve yearsI
By authority q Sseiisn IA. sekasl
Laws IL Ssuth DalEotk
Nv. MmpAE
Co Snpk - SEkssk
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-05-10
ASSOCIATE N Fl
RANGES

Herewith is gwen the financial
standing of the Cemetery Association,
May 1st, 1912:
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-05-10
SPECIAL TowsH1P MEETING

The citizens of the township Of
Lawrence in the county of Charles MIX
and stste of South Dakota who {
qualified to vote at general elections,
are hereby notified that . special low
nship meeting win be held ut the Sad
Ter school house in said township On
Tuesday, the 18th day Of May. ct 4
o'clock p. m for the follow ing pur-
poses: To give the electors Of said to-
wnship an opportunity to vote Tor or
against the purchase of one road
machine. The superv isors Of the
township having filed with me . state
ment that such meeting m necessary
and to the interests of the township.
Given und er my hand this 9th day
of April, 1912. ]. r. Morgan. tswn-
ship clerk.
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-05-10
BRYAN TOWNSHIP

hasenger's entertained company
last Sunday.
A Mr.. Tompson from Platte was
visiting on Route / last week.
Frank Picking is planting FIVE nun
dred scres to corn this season.
Fish are reporte d to be quite pIenti-
ful in places on Upper Choteau Crssk.
All Of the schools around here witch
r still running will close this coming
Friday.
Ed BRADLEY 10 pstting ont . crop q
The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-05-10
ants, For Sale
Lost s Found

A SNAP.
And . fortune for the man who
takes ii in. Two quarters Of Chey-
n % Valley land. mostly irrigabls.
Same class Of land adjoining has psid
8 per cent on 500 per acre fer last
five years. Price for quick sale.
So, 500 per quarter. Cell in and let ~
tell you about it.
&C. B. Bowling.
Estrayed about April 10th, one
brown mare, brand with circle on left
nip and n sucking colt, and hay
horse about IL years old. Liberss
reward for any information.
Benson & Buggs. Wagner, p. o. box
279.
If you have anything you umt to
dispose Of e Downing. =
Girl wanted for general work II ths
Majestic.
For Sale-Large quantity Of 1910
seed corn, Yellow Dent. very good quail
ity. Purchasers may test this corn
before planting and il results ars not
satisfactory return the corn and tie
money will be refunded. Also kavs
seed fax. VIC. Donaoue. #