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The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
FETERITA PRODUCTIVE.
Crawford County Farmer Lucky
Crop Nets Him $4,000.

Girard, Kan, Sept PA plant
that resisted the chinch bugs as well
as the drouth in Crawford county this
summer is to lift Martin H. Anderson,
a renter, out of the hole and place
him well on the road to prosperity.
The plant is feterita, the dry Land for
age crop of the Durra group, intro
duced by the United States Agricul-
tural department from the British
Soudan.
Mr.. Anderson already has har-
vested 1900 bushels of feterita
from a 80 acre field and he has been
offered $3.50 a bushe1 for his product,
to be retailed next year for seed. That
would bring him $4,000, but he ex
poets to market his crop for feeding,
and not seeding purposes, would be
about the same as kafir, which sells
on the market for $3.50 a hundred
pounds.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
Pinned Under Automobile.

Norton Kan. Sept. 24.-Hugh
Breeder, a farmer living southwest of
Norton, miraculous1y escaped death
with his wife and three children.
When on a dangerous sloping hill his
motor car turned over, pinning the en-
tire family under the car. The en-
gine continued to run. Breeder final
ly crawled out, stopped the engine,
helped his family out, and found none
were injured.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
FIND COAL AT NORWAY.
Four Foot Vein Found in Republic
County-14O Feet Deep.

Norway, Kan, Sept. PAD. A.
Haney, living on what is known as
the Chester Lewis farm, a few miles
east of Norway, has discovered a four
foot vein of coal on his place. The
discovery was made at a depth of a
lao foot well which Mr.. Haney was
having put down on his farm. The
vein is believed to be of a paying
quality and the only drawback in it's
development is the lack of capital,
which will probably be forthcoming
in the near future.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
Ottawa County Fair.

Minneapolis, Kan, Sept. 24.-The
Ottawa county fair opened here with
special automobile and motorcycle
races before a crowd of five thousand
people. Breed of Emporia finished
first in the automobile races. Brown
of Kansas City was second and Wood
ruff, third. In the third heat of this
race the right axle on the machine
driven by Woodruff broke and the
wheel was thrown into the crowd. E.
e. Mace of De1phos was seriously in
jured. Longren, the aviator, made a
good aeroplane flight.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
MISSING GIRL FOUND.
Cora French of Smith Center Is Mar
ried in New York.

Smith Center, Kan, Sept. 24.-The
whereabouts of 16 year old Cora
French, who mysteriously disappeared
from her home at Alton. a couple Of
months ago, and for whom a thorough
search was made in this county, has
at last been ascertained. Word was
received by her parents a few days
ago that she was living at Fairport,
n. Y, the wife of Fred Enrich. Mr..
Enrich first met her while on a visit
with relatives near Alton and together
they planned her flight from home.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
LET THEM SLEEP.
Sheriff of Clay County Makes Raid on
Croquet Game.

Clay Center, Neb., Sept. A.-The
croquet diamond on the court house
grounds was raided Tuesday by Sher-
iff Sanderson, who removed the wick
cts, balls and maIlets and stored them
with gambling outfits in the basement
of the county temple of justice. The
sheriff took this action because some
of the county off1ceholders complained
they were unable to work because of
the roofing of the fans The croquet
fans say the game spoiled the after
noon maps of the county'S employees.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
Work on Scandia Lights

Scandia, Kan, Sept 24.-Scandia's S
new electric light service is to be IN
operation by October 1. Workmen in
the employ of the Concordia Electric
Light and Power company, who are
to furnish the power, has a force of
men busy wiring the business houses
and residences, preparatory to INSTALL
ing the service.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
SOUTHWESTERN REUNION.
Veterans Begin Four Days Session a
Arkansas CITY,

Arkansas City, Kan, Sept. 24.-The
twenty eighth annual session of the
Southwestern Reunion association be-
gan here Tuesday for a four days
meeting with good attendance.
Henry Allen of Wichita will make an
address today. Ex-senator Charles
Curtis and J. D. Botkin, warden of the
penitentiary, will be here Thursday
and Al Jennings, the noted Oklahoma
attorney, will speak to old soldiers
Friday. More than one hundred Civil
war veterans registered.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
Destroy school Property

Atchison, Sept. PA gang of hoodlums
evidently has undertaken to wreck all of
week the school houses of districts Nos
4, Z and q and at Potter were entered
the vandals destroying and stealing prop
erty and writing obscene words and carv-
ing on the blackboar1s and walls. The
school board of each district is offering a
reward of SIS for information leading to
conviction.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
Time it! In five minutes your sick,
nauseatcd stomach feels fine
Ends Dyspepsia.

Sour, sick, upset stomach, indiges-
ton, heartburn, dyspepsia; when the
stubborn Jumps; your head aches and
you feel sick and miserable, that's
when you realize the magic in Pape's
Diapepsin. 1t makes stomach distress
go in five minutes. If your stomach
is in a revolt-if you can't get it regu-
lated, please, for your sake, try Pape's
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
HELD FOR CARELESS DRIVING.
Coroner's Jury Believes Him Respon-
sihIe for Friends Death.

Arkansas City, Kan, Sept. PA.
H. McElhinney, a produce man of this
city, was held by the coroner's jury
Tuesday as being responsible for the
death of Calvin c. Dohrer of this city,
who was killed a week ago when he
was thrown from a motor car which
was driven by McElhinney. The jury
said the car was driven carelessly and
feloniously by McElhinney.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24

the effects of a blow on the head by
a blackjack in the hands of E. W.
Trundel, an alleged jointkeeper. Trun-
del recently came to Leavenworth
from Hutchinson, Kan. He is held in
the county Jail.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
DETECTIVE SOLD LIQUOR.
Facts on Witness Stand in
Postoffice Robbery Case.

of a profitable retail liquor business in
Hutchinson was told to the federal
court here Tuesday by George E. Web
ber, formerly assistant chief of police
of that city, and later in the detec-
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
Harry Mcmillan Busy.

Tescott, Kan, Sept. 24.-Senator
Harry Mcmillan presented an oil
painting of the coliseum at Rome to
the school at the dedication of the
new $4,000 school house here. A
fine program was given. The Wom-
ans Relief Corps presented a flag.
The Masonic lodge laid the corner
stone.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-09-24
HELD FOR MURDER.

Hutchinson Mans Victim Dies From
Blow From Blackjack.
LeaVenworth, Kan, Sept. "a
Frank Mohan of near Springda1e died
last evening at ST. Johns hospital from
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-10
Tn1Hs RnPUBIIoAN, MARsIAILTowa1, IowA Ann 70

chase Of farm or farms by the state
for the purpose Of employing prison
labor was referred, TO specifically.
without ~. single exception the pro-
gram before the legislature was
endorsed by every man present.
TO keep men in idleness in the
Polk county jail for seven. nine or
eleven months and then release them
can not be defended on any possible
ground. They are worse Off for the
confinement, and 60 is the community.
II they happen to be young men they
have been given straight ticket 70
hell. To commit girl to. the FOLK
county jail is to be guilty of a graver
offense than the one for which she was
sentenced.
II is not enough that the legislature
should abandon contract prison labor.
That Is but half the problem. Wnen
the prisoner is taken off the deerauine
contract to which the state mas so'o
him he should be put to some othe,
employment. He should not DC neio
in idleness. That Is easily worse Tran
contract labor. With all the thlnss
that are crying to be done in Iowa, why
should any man be idle or be 1orceo ~
uncongenial work?
This legislature should not
iourn until start has oeen Hau.
towards the intelligent employ men.
of every man in detention. IN No
direction may the state ADVANTAGE "
self more than in this, and in nothlhs
4 can do will it combine in greater ae-
gree a wise elf-interest with a WISE
humanitarianism.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-10
WHILE WE ARE WAITING.

Prent Ransom. the man VINO mace
Owasa famous and made the roads OF
Owasa township models for dirt roads
all over Iowa comes forward with a
seasonable and sensible suggestion.
While we are waiting for the ieglsIa-
ture to help US along the route 20 per
manent highway. says Ransom, lets
keep on dragging now. Mr.. Ransom ad-
dresses his appeal to The Faithful
Squads Of Roaddraggers over Iowa"
and says:
Let US be kind TO the advocates Of
paved highways and get out with our
read arass this spring and smooth th-
mountainous hubs off into the yawnins
ruts and make it possible for the
brothers to get out trihe with their
autoes yet this spring.
Lei Us keep the candle burning 50
the city dweller can bring mis- family
out and show then the beauties Of the
country. and the hog-wagon can go
chuckling 10 town burdened with its
heavy load of porkers and then &C
tittering back home beneath the weight
of the check received for them.
Let us not lay down our muskets by
the wayside when going t. war think
ing that up the line We may be able to
pick up the most modern rifles OF the
age
Let it not be overlooked that the
man who is stamping a road drag in
the face with pair Of cowhide boots
is doing his country a greater service
than the man who paves IN ehighways
in the next generation.
But ye of the faithful, be il remem-
bered, that while we are doing our ut
most to maintain the earth roads We
still are wallowing thru the bottomless
pits where SO much money has been
buried all these centuries, and the
question Is, do we wish t. keep dump
ing our coin in the mudhoies until they
are paved with gold. or is 1t not about
time to pave them with something
cheaper?
so In the evening when the city
dweIler returns to his home, and the
man with the hog check is reading its
numerals by the light of the candle,
and tn emusket has been placed on the
pegs over the fireplace, and the trudser
with the road drag has ceased his days
labor. and the bottomless pits are still
So.:0s1sess, lei each take his pencil and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-10

awarded by Logan Waller Page. direc-
tor. office OF public roads. United
States department Of agriculture.
Washington, D. G. All compositions
must be submitted to Mr.. Page before
May Is. 1918. and the medal will DO
awarded as soon thereafter as the COM
positions can be graded. Any child be-
tween the ages mentioned, attending
a country school, may compete. Only
one side Of the paper must be written
on; each page should be numbered;
the name. age and address of the
writer. and the name and location of
the school which he or she is attend
ing must be plainly written at the top
of the first page. The announcement
of the competition has been sent to the
superintendent of schools in the rural
districts. No further information can
be obtained from the office of public
roads.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-10
The City Of Sleep.

Over the edge of the purple down,
Where the single lamplight CLEANS.
Know we the road to the merciful town
That is hard by the Sea of Dreams
Where the poor may lay their wrongs
away,
And the sick may forget to weep9
But we--pity US; pity us~
We wakeful, ah. pity US!
We must go back with Policeman Day
Back from the City of Sleep.
Weary they turn from the scholl and
crown.
Fetter and prayer and plow-
They tina, go up to the Merciful Town,
For her gates are closing now,
It is their right in the Baths of Night
Body and soul to steep,
But we-pity US. an. pity us.
We wakeful; oh. pity US!
We must go back with Policeman Day
Back from the City of Sleep.
Over the edge Of the purple down,
Ere the tender dreams tegin,
Look-we may look-at the Mercitul
town,
But We may not enter in.
Outcasts ali. from her guarded wall
Back to our watch we creep;
we-p!ty us. oh. pity u.s.
We wakeful; oh. pity US.
We that go back with Policeman Day
Back from the City of Sleep.
-Rudyard Kipling
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-10
GETTING READY FOR 1916.

Iowa is 20 have the presidential
preference Law. The only news in the
announcement is that the house passed
the bill II was well understood that
Iowa was to have the Law When the
senate agrees with the change made by
the house. which instructs delegates
from the state instead of from districts
the presidential preference law will De
fact
Suppose that Iowa sends delegates
under the new law 70 a republican con-
vention, would these delegates be en-
titled to seats in that body or would
they be a the mercy Of a national com
mittee? Will any party ever see again
a convention where a framed up ma
tional committee can defeat the pur-
pose and the will of two-thirds of vot-
ing membership of the party?
When the next republican national
convention shall be gathered viii Mis-
sissippis scanty handful Of alleged re-
publicanss stand shoulder high with 100
times their number of republican vot-
ers of the big republican states in rep
resentation? viii it DE possible for
southern office holders to come out OF
states where republicanism is an oc-
cupation TO nullify the wishes and pur-
poses of the real party:
Calamity should teach lesson. The
refusal of a presidential primary in
some states. the arbitrary arrogance
and studied disregard OF popular viii
displayed by the so-called national
committee. the abandoned use Of the
southern delegate brought disaster IN
1912. If it brought the lesson Of ca!am-
i,v 20 those who are ready TO learn 1916
NAV tell a different story; but there
will be no story Of victory for the re-
publican party which does not include
the prosressivesness in which Iowa led
from the beginning and does not eX-
c!ude the methods and the leadership
which digusted and temporarily alien
ated rwo-1hirds Of the republican states
from their allegiance 10 rebuke those
who usurped authority and played az
lack straws with delegates instructed
by preferential votes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-10
MEN And WAGES.


No man with family in these days
can buy land on wages of SIS, $50 or
even $40 month and his board. Ii
ne mas no family, he can support him
self to his satisfaction in the city. Or
perl;a ps. if ne is a very young man ne
hopes for better opportunities in the
city than in the country. What is
more. If ne is a man with purpose.
he can find them.
1t requires no particular virtue for
an Immigrant to work out his saliva
ton in the soil at farm hands wages
What is simple existence to the city
man is luxury for him. What is toll
cradle to him is impossible for the city
man. The peasant has muscles Of
steel that do not flag with fifteen
hours work a day. II he has wife
she can also do a mans work. His
children begin to earn their board at
5 and can do a mans or woman's
work at ~. Imagine city mans
family serving him in this way.
It is not so difficult for any editorial
writer to PROFOUND a question punsent-
Iy inferring lack Of character on the
part of a very large and respectable
class Of American citizens. But un-
doubtedly he hurts his challenge with
no suspicion that its demands will eve:
be turned upon himself.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-10

subtract . little from his city holdings,
and the hog check, the possibility Of
the modern rife, and the lessened trips
with the road drag. and the redemp-
ton Of the bottomless pit. and place 1t
all In bunch and ask the legislature
t oaid US in spending it in putting
hard surface on the highways"
Prent Ransom is right. Let's keep on
dragging while we are waiting. The
road drag and a good dirt road can not
be separated. Drag the roads this
spring. Drag every road that ought to
be dragged. drag il as often as it needs
il. Make the best of what we have
got and while doing so keep on trying
for something better-permanent roads
for the heaviest traffic.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-10
A CLOUD LIKE A MANS HAND.

The blow has fallen. The militant
woman suffragist has arrived in Iowa.
One of the prominent suffragists who
! is also prominent in other feminine
! organizations within the state and by
reason of her husbands candidacy last
fall for governor on the bull moose
ticket has, according to dispatches, an
| uounced herself as militant and
i heartily commencing the suffragists
for window smashing. mail destroying
tactics
The lady argues her case thus:
| With window smashing, mail de-
! stroying and other destruction which
the English suffragettes have caused.
| let us remember at no time has human
life been departed or human blood
shed" she said. The shopkeepers did
I not lose when their windows We're
broken. for the glass was insured in
! large insurance companies who had
| Influence with the government. The
government is responsible for the
mail"
| Now if the vernacular may be use
| fully admissible that's going some
| for an Iowa suffragette. Is it equiVa-
ilent 10 Mr.. Wrinkles removal Of his
coat and announcement that he was
going TO begin" on memorable &C.
casion tsee Pickwick Papers)? Is it
TO be assumed that the plate glass OF
Iowa stands in peril of legislative fail
ure 10 come across on the suffrage
question? That mails are TO be IN
cIuded as males and suffer the conse-
Quences? Is a blacksmith chorus OF
tinkling hammers to begin at Boone
and the crash of windows and the
wreck OF mail boxes drown the cries
for mercy until the last armed foe eN-
pires?
Suppose the militant madam. arriv-
ing home from a hard day with
hammer were to find that little Henry
had made a bonfire in the front YARD
of the contents of the family mail box
| because he wanted something he
couldn't have. butter on his pie? Sup
! pose that having spent glorious Gay
afield with sulphuric, returning in
triumph ike a she Achilles TO her tent
she discovered thru information con-
veyed to ner by the other children that
{ little Mary had used the tack hammer
on the pier glass and the china closet
because she couldn't go along with her
mother? Guess in one guess what
would happen TO tiny Henry and little
Mary? Get it? And if grown folks
are but children of a larger growth
why wouldn't the same process car
RED out vigorously and applied SINH
larry TO the person of the militant suf-
fragette work to a reformatory fare
/ you-weu? Any way let's keep the idea
up our sleeve and try it on in Iowa if
necessity forces itself.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-10
Topics of the Times

The newly organized baseball league
may find fault with the weather but
VIII have 10 wait it out" just the
same The weather man will get one
over after a while.
MIR. Bruce's celebrated spider never
had anything on Sir Thomas Upton.
Representative Doran, Of Boone, OPP
posed the Whitney bill providing for
cleanliness in manufacture. If YOU
don't like the way your butcher keeps
his meat 60 70 another shop" said
Doran. according to the reporters. And
Il you don't find a clean one butcher
Your own steak for dinner
A smallpox pest house at Des Moines
wants a school teacher to sight the
Young IDEAS Of q dozen children con-
fined there. Teacher will not be ex-
pected TO beard round
\ bin introduced by the pharmacy
commission provides $50 fine for the
arst offence. ard $500 og d year of IL:
prisonment for the second Why not
make the first offence the second and
get the cocaine peddler on the chain
gang from the first jump? The mar
who Will peddle coke once VIII peddle
it again Might as well begin at the
beginning. Moreover why should the
possession Of $50 or $500 offer one coke
peddler liberty while one not more
guilty goes to Jail?
The way YOU feel now if your income
could be boosted past the $1,000 mark
would you kick on an income tax?
This country is reminded OF its youth
every now and then by the death Of
one Of those who helped make it. The
last survivor OF the Alamo has died
again.
Automobile crsra tories to follow an
army in battle TO dispose of the dead
are suggested by German military
surgeon. Why wouldn't that be an ex-
cellent attachment to the auto of the
common or garden variety OF scorcher?
Then he could stop, remove all traces
Of his victim and go merrily on to the
next.
A switchman is mayor of Ottamwa.
But who Is yardmaster?
| A gold medal to the school boy or
/ writes the best composition. not to ex-
coed 500 words. on the repair and
! N maintenance es earth reads, is 20 BE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-10
FOR EVERYBODYS TOWN.
INIrScatina Journal

The truth often hurts. blu, it is bene-
fetal. The truth in this instance is that
much of the down town section OF
Muscatine has a dingy aspect that calls
insistently for paint. Let's brighten up.
II your store front Is dingy with
CRIME this call is addressed to you. Let
every owner OF down town property.
whose interests were unquestionabiy
enhanced by the action of the voters
yesterday, repay the obligation thus in
CURED by improving the appearance OF
his property if it is need Of i'm prove
rent, and in all earnestness most Of it
is.
Let's brighten up and have a fit and
proper setting for the new municipal
building when it is constructed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-10

spectacle names. In Omaha 1t 70 the
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso-
citation" In Des Moines IL II something
like the Law ana Order League and
In Chicago they cali themselves sMan-
ufacturers' and Dealers Association
Their organ IL Current Thought The
first issue is stamped Marked Copy,
On the first page blue mark sur,
rounds an article which they are afraid
will be overlooked. The article Is a LETT
ter written by E. +. Bush, president OF
the association. to the Chicago Associ-
alton Of Commerce enclosing check
for $3.50 for flood sufferers
1t is pleasure to commend this gen
erous act and aid in giving IT publicity.
We know that. in spite Of the ostenta-
tious way that it Is given. 1t Will do
both the donor and the food sufferers
good.
But why all this publicity? Is iteuch
strange thing that liquor dealers
association should do something to aid
those in distress that the fact must be
blazoned from end of the country to
the other! If men of equal wealth IN
other lines gave ten times that amount
nothing would be thought OF It.