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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-06
ASHLAND PARK NOTES

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Sunday evening prayer meeting at
the school house. Mr.. A. =. Dunlap
will lead the meeting.
CAROLYN Vance. who has been attend
ing school here, has returned 70 her
home near Berryton.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. d. Berridge have
returned home after = few daye visit
at their former home. Con. Kan.
The lower grades Of the Highland
Park school presented the cantata,
Little Boy Blue" Wednesday evening
to a large and appreciative audience
The entire cast did remarkably well.
Special mention Is due Harold McCord,
who took the part Of Boy Blue. and
Marguerite Berclanz and -Percita Wag-
goner. who sang.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Charles and Mrs.
Fern McCarter Of Plainville, Kan, were
guests Wednesday of Mrs. w. e. Nc
Carter.
Arthur McCarter came from Manhat-
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. w. e. Nc
Carter. before leaving for Colorado,
where he will spend the summer.
Mrs. w. L. Morris and son Lawrence
rave returned from Lecompton. where
they spent several days with Mr.. Nor
ris's people,
The high school entertained the
graduating class Thursday at q picnic
in Murphy's grove, Tecumseh. The
trip was made on q hay rack and a
jolly good time was enjoyed by all.
Mrs. Caps and Mrs. King were chap
erones.
Miss Kate Thompson, who expects to
spend the summer at the Emporia
Normal, was very pleasantly surprised
Monday evening by the X. X. KS. The
evening was pleasantly spent in music
and games and refreshments were serv-
ed to Misses Esther Roller, Helen Eber-
hart. Irma Ferguson, Ruby Edgar,
Florence Butts. Elsie Case, Pearl
Shawl. M. Long. Messrs. Richard
Ahlstrom. Jay Banta, Elmer Ahlstrom,
Orrin Berridge, Guy Butts. Leslie Eb-
erhart, Harry Ferguson, Paul Parrish.
Floyd Scrftchfield. Frank Stiles. Challen
Watson and Rolltn Krug.
Miss Lola Carter, who has made her
home for the past year with the e. E.
Marsh family and attended Wasfburn.
returned to her home in Russell, Kan.
Mrs. c. E. Bleakley and DAUGHTER
Marion went to Emporia Wednesday,
where they will enter the Normal
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Evans spent
Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs. John Nc
Carter.
There will be a meeting Of the
Patron-Teachers association at the
school house next Wednesday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-06
SCHOOL FOR SWEDISH
Rev. A. TAjensrcn Of Bethel Church
WIN Conduct Summer Glasses.

Beginning Tuesday. June .. the Swed-
fsh Bethel church will conduct summer
school In the Sumner school building.
Rev. A. Lljengren. pastor of the
church. will instruct the classes and
the school viii be free to an Swedish
children. The sessions will be held from
to IL O'Clock each day and fve days
each week The sessfon viii last about
six weeks.
The board Of education has granted
permission for the use Of the Sumner
school hnildfng. All Swedish childreu
are invited Ia take advantage Of thia
opportunity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-06
WEALTH IN HIS LEG.
Certificaacs OF Deposits Of 5000 h
Artificial Leg.

Denver, June Gan artificial leg con-
tanning $500 from property Of Henry
Wise, who died recently ut . local hos
pital. is today IN the possession Of the
public administrator awaiting an heir.
Wise. said to have been wealthy
Texas OIL man. was found Unconscious In
his room in q hotel An examination of
hie ARTIFICIAL leg after his death revealed
certificates OF deposits amounting to
g go concealed therein The certificate
were on hanks 1t Sherman. Tex.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-06
ERASED FROM d. !
Libel Suits Wiped Ont Because An
Parties Are Dead.

Washington, June 6.-Suits charging
libel instituted nearly forty years ago
against Whitelaw Reid and Charles A.
Dana. then correspondents for New York
papers have been erased from the GRIM
inai docket in the District Of Columbia.
The suits were initiated by Alexander
R. Shepherd. then governor OF the Dis
trict. for the publication Of certain
libelous articles" The federal prone-
cutor determined to dismiss the suits
which never had been brought to thai be-
cause all of the parties thereto have been
dead several yeafa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-06
STEVENSON IS Low.
Former vice President Is in = Critical
Condition.

Chicago, June 6-Adlai E. Stevenson
vice president of the United States under
President Cleveland. seriously Ill 1t the
Presbyterian hospital, was no better to-
day.
weakness incident to his eighty years
and the nervous breakdown he suffered
after the death of his wife. six months
ago. told against the veteran statesman.
A critical turn in his condition was ex-
pected by the physicians in charge within
"a hours. His son Louis and other men,
a1lRnsff@4he family were 1t his bedside to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-06
snap SHOTS
At HOAfN NEWS.

Local Strawberries are now poor and
scarce. The berries are selling al
fifteen cents q box.
A. A. Armstrong will have $4,000
residence erected at 704 Polk street, ac-
cording to The Construction News.
Park Commission Porter is directing
several arrests for destruction OF PARK
property and violations of the city SAM
tary ordinance.
O. L. Hankins has been awarded the
contract for building $4,000 school
building in the Avondale school dis
trict, south of Topeka.
An illustrated sermon on Where We
Get our Bible will be given Sunday
evening by the Rev. Robert Gordon at
the First Baptist church.
Taliaferro was awarded the job
of excavating for the addition to the
high school building; the Sargent Cut
stone company will supply the cut
stone.
shawnee county cherries are now SELL
ing at $1.75 CENTS crate. ana three
boxes for twenty-five cents. Canta-
loupes are being shipped In from the
Imperial Valley, California.
There has not ben a serious fire in
Topeka for a month For three weeks
the report book at the city fire station
has been practically clean. KNOCK
VIC 3D." directed Fire Chief Hanion.
An order Of the public utilities COM
mission makes a cut OF so per cent IN
the rate on Gull and wirdfall apples all
over Kansas effective June H.. A SINH
lar rate was made temporarily IN ias'
wears harvest season.
A stray pocketbook. found by Ben
Grandson, janitor at the courthouse, Ii
waiting for it's owner at the office OF
Oscar Swayxe, county clerk. Papers In
the purse indicate its ownership by DR.
N. Hays, q Missouri Pacific surgeon
Camp Tandy, under tie direction OF
Commissioner w. g. Tandy, is flying its
flag once again on the Tecumseh road
The Tandy and the T. s. Morrison
families, with Miss Lucille and Miss lila
Dooley have pitched camp in its tents
The newspapers in the towns visited
by tie Topekans on the Get AcQuaint-
ed, trip through north-central Kansas
have commented favorably and speak
of the enterprise of the Topeka bust
ness men in organizing such an expe-
!dition.
The social survey exhibit is still
drawing a large number OF persons
each day. Up to noon today over 49,
800 persons had seen the exhibit since
IL opened. Those who have not seen II
are invited to do so-there Is no ad-
mission fee.
The public utilities commission ha.
ordered the Missouri Pacific railroad t.
rebuild its Fredonia depot with brick
relay the track on the Roper branch
and to run its trains on that line OF
schedule. which the public may rel!
upon with reasonable certainty.
Have you come in with your last hal
taxes? Matt Weightman. county treas
urer, doesn't like to work nights and n
A. peering anxiously through the wick
cts of the treasurer's Office for the lat
corners. There will be crowd JUS
before June 20. when the penalty goe
on.
According to George E. Clark. sec
rotary Of the Kansas State Fair associ
alton, q dozen or more Kansas stock
men have written in to him this weel
to nay that they win be at the fab
next September with exhibits. Some Q
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30
.CHINCH BUG INVASION
Extension of Infested Territory
Noted This Season.
Much Has Been Learned OF History
and Habits of Destructive Pest,
Which 10 Invaluable Aid In
Destroying Them.

Warm, dry weather is favorable to
chinch bug increase, and the weather
conditions of the past few seasons
seems to have been especially suitable
to an increase of these destructive
pests. The present year has seen an
extension Of the infested territory and
the damage in the aggregate has
amounted to large sum. The fight
against these insects has been hard
one. During the past few years much
has been learned of the history and
habits of tie chinch bug which is an
Invaluable aid in destroying them. Mr..
II. A. Gossard, writing of the work
in Ohio of the endeavor to save the
crops from the attacks of the chinch
bug, says:
Each female is capable of laying
500 or more eggs. The period of egg
laying for the individual lasts from
ten days to three weeks, and for the
brood from FIVE to six weeks. The
eggs hatch in from twelve to twenty
two days, ald the young require forty
days OF more to become adults after
issuing from the eggs. 1t thus re-
quires two months, or few days less,
to pass from the newly-laid egg to the
adult condition.
The eggs are laid on the roots of
the plants Oh which the bugs are feed
Ing, at or just below the surface of
the ground; or they may be laid on
the surface about the bases of the
plants, or in the leaf-sheaths Of
grasses; in short, in almost any place
where the surroundings are cool and
damp.
The newly Matched larve feed on
the roots of their host plants, largely
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30
INJURY BY THE FEAR NUDGE
Small Two-Winged Fly Lays It's Eggs
in Cluster at 5lossomIng Time
No Cure Known.

by w BRITToNO
The adult pear nudge, which is so
destructive to young pears in many
sections, Is small two-winged fly
which lays its eggs in the cluster at
poisoning time. Larvae are some.
times found at the base OF the calyx
at the time the petals fall, and they
soon work their way into the young
fruit. The infested pears can nearly
always be- detected on account OF
their more globular, and later lop-
sided shape. while the normaLshaped
fruits are free from maggots. The
infested pears usually crack open
after rain before the pears drop.
When fully grown the maggots are
about one-eighth of an inch in length.
They grow into the ground and form
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30

underground and out of sight. If very
numerous they may congregate about
The bases of the plants above ground,
When the wheat plants are killed at
harvest, the young migrate at once
In search of other sustenance and,
when thus collected together in great
numbers, they may bIacken the entire
surface OF large plants, such as corn
nearly grown. So insidious is their
work in wheat that their presence is
often unrecognized until after the har-
vest, when the vast hordes of insects
marching into cornfields attract the
farmers notice for the first time.
Timothy meadows may be well-nigh
killed without the owner suspecting
when they are dying. A very careful
examination of the roots of timothy
Is needed to detect the presence of
the insects, even where they are very
plentiful. The second brood of bugs
rarely gain attention. because they are
developing underground on the roots
Of corn, foxtail, millet and other
plants.
Either the cleanest kind of culture
SHOULD prevail over the farm in early
autumn, all grassy and weedy borders
around fields and along fence rows
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30
7U6EAIERAL
5EKRM15N0FBS

Apples will keep better wrapped In
paper and stored In a cool cellar.
Put a little sand over carrots, beets
or other roots to prevent drying out.
Sheep require plenty of salt. 1t
should be available for them at all
times.
1t does not pay to forget to oil the
windmill. II it is squeaking look
after 1t.
Prune the grape vines as soon as the
leaves fall. They will then be ready
TO cover with earth.
Cockerels should be caponized when
about three months old. 1t pays to OPP
crate only on the layer breeds.
Never handle duck or goose by the
wings or legs. Always grasp 1t by the
neck when Obliged to pick 1t up.
A young three-pound rooster ought
to feel pretty proud of himself when
he can bring so cents on the market.
Pick up and burn all twigs and
branches that have dropped from the
trees. since they may contain injurious
insects.
Prepare to lay the grapes and berry
bushes down and cover them with dirt
They are more likely to winter well Il
this Is done.
Where only a few cabbages are tc
be stored it is a good plan to wrar
the heads in newspapers and put them
on shelves in a cool cellar.
Pumpkins and squash should be
stored in cool, dry place. If stored In
hot place, they will lose weight
quickly. Keep them from frost
The greatest profits come from egg
production, where the poultry keeper
has worked up private trade and d.
j liyers two or three times weekly.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30
SECURE GOOD ALFALFA CROP
Use Commercial Fertilizers in Expert.
mental Way Until Local condl-
tons Are Determined.

There are doubtless many condi-
tons under which commercial fer
tilizers judiciously applied, may prof
itably be used to stimulate a more
vigorous growth of alfalfa both in new
and old seedlings but the idea that is
more or less prevalent that CONNER
cial fertilizers may be used to immedi-
ately make any soil productive is q
fallacy. Commercial fertilizers should
be applied In an experimental way
until the farmer has learned what may
best be used under local conditions.
On many soils lime does not seem to
be needed for alfalfa. but on others
it is absolutely essential to the sue
cessful growing of this crop. 1t is well
to apply lime on a portion of the field
when seeding alfalfa for the first time,
especially II diffieulty has been exper.
fenced in growing clover, or If there
is any other indication Of an acid
soil.
Much care should be exercised in
the purchase of seed to avoid the in
PRODUCTION of noxious weed seeds on
the farm. II dodder is introduced it
should be thoroughly eradicated be-
fore it goes to seed, even at the ex-
pense of destroying the stand Of al
falfa.
Do not seed large acreage of al
falfa at the first attempt. A small
acreage should be seeded under as
favorable conditions as possible and
this increased after some experience
has been gained in growing this crop.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30

women volunteered for service, was
that of Transforming the entire coun-
try of Switzerland into a great hos
pital to which the wounded of all
could be conveyed. This
would be fitting in the extreme, mas
much as Switzerland was the country
in which the Red Cross had it's birth,
in 1864. 1t was Swiss, Henri Dunant,
who wrote the famous pamphlet, "A
Souvenir of Solferino." setting forth
the horrible side of war as he had
witnessed it during the fighting be-
tween the French and the Austrians,
in northern ltalv ia 1859, and 1t was
this pamphlet that led directly to the
formation of the Red Cross society,
founded under treaty in which rs
sovereign states we're invited to join
for the sake of insuring absolute neu-
trality to the wounded, in case of
war.
The most important elements in the
foundation of the society were the
Geneva Society of Public Utility, the
American sanitary commission and
the Order of st. John of Jerusalem,
of which Prince Frederick Charles Of
Prussia was grand master, and which
had descended directly without a
break from the old military nursing
order that came into existenc. at the
time of the crusades.
With the exception of the basic
principles of neutrality and human.
ity, the societies in the various coun-
tries have little in common. Each
nation has worked out its Red Cross
according to its own ideas and needs
In France there are three sections, the
Societe de Secours aux Blesses Mill
taires, the Union des Femmes de
France and the Association des Danes
Franchises. These three societies
maintain more than ten thousand beds,
in addition to the auxiliary field hos.
pitfalls which can be established be-
tween the fighting army and its base
of supplies, and they have established
emergency hospital service in the
waiting room of railway stations. The
one serious defect in the French sys-
tenn is the training of the nurses. In
which particular it is not to be COM
pared with the American.
The German Red Cross is direct
branch of the military service, and 1t
is organized for efficiency to the last
degree. It's strongest points are the
excellent training of its nurses and
its unlimited supply # hospital
stores.
The Red Cross society of Germany
comprises more than 100000 members,
and in addition to its regular military
hospitals, it maintains 1876 auxiliary
hospital, 900 railway medical rooms
and sci conyalescent homes. There
are thousands of trained male nurses,
ambulance corps and stretcher bear
ers. and there is one section of the
female nurses to which special train
ing is given, so that they may act as
assistants to professional nurses in
emergency work.
The Austrian system is similar to
the German, although less extensive,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30

being kept closely moved to prevent
the development of. suitable hiberna-
ting quarters, or else these should be
allowed to grow vigorously SO as to
entice, in late fall, as many Of the
insects beneath the shelter as possible
In early winter. after the insects are
nicely settled. or else In early spring.
before they have wakened into ac-
tivity, burn over all such retreats. If
It is impossible or undesirable to burn
other woodland retreats, the leaves
and trash on the ground may be col
lected and burned if the prospective
damage by the insects exceeds the
value of the humus that would be de-
stroyed by burning.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30

crippled in the hip. besides receiving
other injuries, l sent him to the dog
hospital for a week and he had the
attention Of two veterinaries. They
got him all right except the hip, and
that kept him lame until last week
and seemed to get no better<
Two weeks ago / took him up the
state with me-he loves an auto even
if one did nearly kill him-and one
morning Jim showed up with two
holes gnawed in his ham, one about
six inches lower than the other, over
the affected spot and so situated as
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30
First AID TO Matrlmony,

"The English military uniform"
said General Holland in Canton. lis
the best looking and 1t is also the
best to fight In. Take the photo
graphs of the wounded and dead Eng.
fish officers viscount Hawarden, the
Hon. W. A. Cecil, Lieut.. the Hon. R.
Keppel Did you ever see such a
handsome lot of uniforms2
''No wonder all the English soldiers
marry we'll" General Holland conclud-
ed. Handsome is that handsome does
and the English uniform certainly
does havoc amongst the English heir
esses."
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30

a white sleeveband, the symbol OF
comfort to those who had been denied
the kindly boon of sudden death.
those who had been left wounded and
suffering on the battlefield.
1t is now half century since the
work, begun by Florence Nightingale
during the Crimean war, was incor-
porated and made of international i'm
portance, and the accumulated expert
ence of so years will be none too
great to meet the strain imposed on
the brave women who have gone out
to do more than soldiers duty The
nursing of the wounded is the one
great service which woman can per.
form, in times of war, and from all
over the world come the announce
ments of women of rank and wealth
who are eager to learn something of
the hardship imposed by international
strife In the main, these earnest
pleas for chance to do something
practical and useful are gently but
firmly rejected. since the woman who
makes them would be a hindrance
rather than help.
The requirements for membership
in the Red Cross ranks are excep-
tionally severe. The candidate must
not only be a graduate of reputable
training school and registered nurse
in the state in which she is practic-
ing her profession, but she must give
satisfactory evidence that she is
strong, both mentally and physically.
One of the royal leaders who was
accepted for real work was the sec
ond daughter-in-law of the kaiser,
Princess Sophie who has not only
taken actual training as a nurse, but
who has devoted all her leisure time,
since her marriage, to philanthropic,
and especially hospital work. All the
other princesses have offered their
services; but the best they could do
was that of organizing sewing so
cieties for the making of bandages, to
be sterilized and sent to the war zone.
In Paris, our American novelist, Edith
Wharton, has established an institu-
tion in which the poor women whose
husbands have gone to The war can
earn enough money to keep body and
soul together. Their work is that of
making garments for the soldiers, and
they are paid from funds received by
popular subscription.
One of the first suggestions, coming
even before Mrs W. X. Vanderbilt and
a score of other expatriated American
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30

minute oval cells in which they
pupate. and from which the adults
emerge the following spring. There is
one brood each.
No remedy treatment is positively
known other than gathering and de-
stroying the infested pears before the
maggots leave them. This is compare
lively simple becaused the infested
pears are so easily distinguished from
the healthy fruit
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30
Where FINLAND L.eads.

England is ahead of the United
States in the development Of the au-
tomato telephone service, and con-
tracts for automatic exchanges OF the
total value OF nearly five hundred
thousand dollars have been placed.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30
KNEW MORE THAN THE VETS
Dog Acted as His Own Surgeon After
the Doctors Had Failed 20
Effect a Cure.

Medical degrees are not conferred
upon canines," remarked H. T. Gal
pin, owner of the life-saving Great
Dane, Jim, but If they were my dog
Jim ought to have one, summas cum
1aude.
When Jim was struck by big
automobile some months ago and
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30
Lat Mold Ia valuahle

Save all the leaves that have been
raked off the lawn and pile them up in
some out-of-the-way place to decay.
Leaf mold is a valuable asset to green
house or window-gardening
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30
BETTING Punishment.

Edith-The wretch! So he actually
proposed to both Of us! oh, wish we
could think of some way to punish
him.
Madge-We can; you marry him,
dear.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30

ar. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny gTanules. Easy to take
as candy. ADV.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-10-30
One Fellows Wish.

Crawford hear he thinks OF mar
rying again Does he hope to get a
wife like his first?
Crabshaw-No; different.