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Middletown transcript., 1914-05-09
For the Purchase Of Canal

Senator Salisbury has Offered an
amendment to the River and Harbor
Bill increasing the amount for the pur-
chase Of the Chesapeake ond Delaware
Canal by the Government to 50, 800, 600
with provision that Il the owners de-
cliEe to sell the waterway condemns
ton proceedings may be instituted ia
the 81 S District Court for Delaware.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-09
The HONOR ROLL
Pupils Who Deserve Special Com
mendation For April
MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The foIIowing pupils deserve speeial

The following pupils deserve speeia
/ commendation for the month of April:
HIGH SCHOOL
18th grade-Sarah Kates, Alice Boul-
den, Orah Spry, Alexander Berkman,
George Shaw, Charles Meyers, William
Price, Frank Tyson, Theodore Whitlock.
10th grade-Mildred Redgrave, Eliza
beth Alexander, Clarence Weber.
9th grade-Bessie Denny, Ruth Gil
lespie, Edna Carpenter, Frank Nc
Whorter.
9Th grade-Charles Kelley, Shelly
Meyers, Foster Johnson, Martha Pearce,
Odel Gallagher. Samuel Berkman, Mary
Culver, Allen Johnson, Frank Walker,
Mildred Vaughan.
7th grade-Millie Rosenburg, Mildred
Freeman, Alma Whitlock, Lydia Red
grave, Grace Carpenter, Grace Brady,
Margaret Pleasanton, Frances Cochran,
William Meyers.
9Th grade Claude Fouracre, Elva
Freeman, Katherine Alexander, Edna
Hufnal, Daniel Bingnear Alice Hall,
Ernest Tee, Mildred Shaw, Edwin Nc
Dowell, Mildred Hall, Bertha Reed, AL
bert Schuman, June McWhorter, Hattie
Cochran, Helen McWhorter, Frank
Jones, Gilbert Sinex, Margaret Evans,
9TH grade-Marion Armstrong, Ra-
mona Newman, Catherine Scott, How
ard Dickson, Gwewdolyn Gary, Fannie
Rosenberg, Esther Brynes, Mary West,
Rogers Fouracre, Laura Fogel, Clyde
Taylor, Harry Hufnal, Jacob Morgen-
STEIN
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT
4th Virginia Pesrce, June
johnson, Gertrude Palmer, Anna Bing-
near, Maxey Bland, Sarah Pearce,
Harry Roberts, Frances Armstrong,
Marshall Whitlock, Sidney Collins, Ed
win Custer, Emma Sweatman, Clayton
Draper, Frank Carpenter, Parker Schu-
man.
3rd Grade-A Division-Annie Boul-
den, Percy Donaghay, Gladys Colds
borough, Mary Goldsborough, Burton
Pearson, John Sweatman, Alice Shock
ley, Robert Wrigley, Burton Williams,
Elizabeth Schriver.
3rd grade-B Division Margaret
Harris, Caroline Fouracre, Harriet
Black, Walter Beaston, Cranston Bland,
Grace Nelson, Frank Brynes, Grace
Rosenburg, Charles Howell
I'd grade-Rachel Grove, Margaret
Bradley, Edwin Donaghay, Catherine
Reed, Virginia Hopkins, Preston Whit
lock, John Spicer, Elizabeth Brady,
Harris Mcdowell, William Hall, Mar
garet Brady.
1st grade-A Division-Anna Alfree,
Elizabeth Clayton, Helen Hates, Mary
Emory, Wallace Hufnal, Frank Steele,
Eugene Shockley, Camillus Shockley.
B Digision-Helen Crouch, Catherine
Hopkins, Mary Steele, Lucille Newman,
George Boulden, William Cannon, Fran
els Maloney, Harry Pearce, William
Harry Sinex, Leland Sinex.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-09
Mr.. COIdsbOrOugh Improving

Mr.. George Goldsborough who was
painfully injured several weeks ago
when be lost several fingers while oper-
ating wood saw, IS improving slowly
at the Delaware Hospital ii Whining
ton, where he was taken for treatment
the day Of the accident.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-09
Dissolved Partnership

W A. Boulden & J. F. Conner have
dissolved partnership in the threshing
business and each viii run their own
machine in the future
outstanding bills will be paid b
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-09
Total 1 8 "a 8
ODEssA ATHLETIC GLUE

Richardson Park, 100000 1O-1
Odessa A. G. 002 3'001 0x-6
Struck out, by Ward, 9; by Brinton, 5.
Two-base Hits-Weist, P. Wallace,
Heldymer; Umpires, Lee Pennington,
D. w. Stevens.
Middletown transcript., 1914-05-09
ST. ANNES' CHURCH NOTES

May 10th The Fourth Sunday after
Easter.
Morning Prayer and Sermon at 1870
A. M.
Sunday School Session at 11.45.
Evening Prayer and Address at 7.30
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26


In having one superdreadnought cdr
tor in every single community.
But. underneath. We are near
enough to Kansas to rejoice at the
things at which she re5oices. We think
good deal of our wheat crop. even
II We do run pretty strongly to corn.
And We think even more of the fun
damental Americanism for which Lin
coin. the great Ilhnoisan. stood. and
for which we all mean to- stand today,
no matter whether we're Progressive.
Republican or Democrat.
That's the real bond that ties Us to
Kansas. The east thinks Kansas Il
always hammering in crankiness and
ignorance. But Illinois knows that she
II really hammering away for freedom
and progress. The best that Is being
offered to her in her year Of plenty il
none too good for her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
Old SONG Made New.
Jayhawker Jots

Excellent edmonton from the Grid
ley Light: The man who lets his work
slide should remember that things al
ways slide down hill.
An item in the Linn Digest. sugHes-
tive OF an old fashioned Fourth Of
July celebration, reads: Palmer is
preparing to pull few feathers from
the tail Of the national bird. July 4.
According to the Troy Chief. a man
Of its acquaintance offers to bet that
Sheffield Ingalls,. the Bull Moose can
didate for congress in the First dis
trict. won't get fifty votes in Doniphan
county. ~
saysthis t1sehe credfesof out,colleee
boys who have gone from theft classes
to the harvest fields and are not afraid
of hard work, urges the Douglass
Tribune. 1t is such examples that give
to labor its proper rank.
A Russell lawyer made q very SEN
sfble remark in court recently, notes
the Osborne County Farmer, to. the eff
feet that people do not appreciate the
value of "a lawyers service when he
keeps them out of a lawsuit. They do
not like to pay fees to be kept out of
trouble. Hence In effect they are there
by offering the lawyer q temptation to
get them into litigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
FIGHT ON DOCTORS
Board Of Health. Warns Physl.
clans IN Kansas.


Kansas physicians must either re-
port births and deaths or expect pros-
ecutton under the state law, accord
ing to an ultimatum from the state
board OF health. The order has not
only been issued, but the board has
begun an active campaign against the
Kansas doctors who dodge their
duties under the law. At Concordia
four physicians were prosecuted this
week and each OF the defendants paid
fines for failure to observe the provi-
stons OF the state statutes. &.
For some time the board Of health
had enc0untered dincu1ty in securing
prompt and accurate birth reports
from Cloud county. The trouble was
found to exist in Concordia and this
week four complaints were issued
against the alleged offending doctors.
Each OF the physicians paid fines
when hailed into court and the board
Of health expects prompt reports from
the county In the future.
I'VE want 1t understood that prose-
cutions will be brought wherever
there are failures to report births and
deaths promptly" said J. v. D. Dea-
con. registrar OF vital statistics for tho
board of health. "Our action in
bringing prosecutions in Concortlia
will be followed by similar action in
other counties, If necessary"
Most OF tho physicians OF the state
already mako prompt reports to the
board and the Concordia cases are the
first serious complaints in several
months f-F
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
The Evening Story
S1adge Of the Chorus.
(By Dorothy Douglas

FARMER Wentworth's habituslIv gem
iai race was swept by a mighty thun-
oerciouo- His son Warren stood
quietly by and there was a smile. half
sorrowful. but wholly determined. nm
his countenance
1 am going to marry her in INV
case father" the boy said. II love
Maose and nothing you or any one
else says or may do win prevent me-"
Inen You will not get one cent Of
my money to squander on you. chorus
elri wife! Numbered old WeItworth.
Iney are all alike. every one of them.
nno the more decent the young cub
his eyes"
had hoped to bring Madge here
. 10 the farm with me-" Warren said:
put since you refuse even to meet
the girl am going to marry will
leave ana seek employment in the
My dear son." the farmer laughed
ironically. "a chorus girl would tit in
to farm life about as wen az = cocL
IN Broadway flat. doubt If she can
i uIn 1ocf or sweep floor" he fin
In any case I shall marry Madxe
one week from today" warren told
ms rather. If I have found any Kind
OF employment by that time
wentworth laughed, but there vaS
Q great lack of mirth in his lau1hter.
You win regret as all men do who Sc
!ect q helpmate from the chorus.
Keep me posted" He turned and left
the room before Warren could speak
another word. Later in the day the
boy left the farm and Weneworth sank
INTO . loneliness 30 profound that even
the thought Of Warren's wife rs : vfs-
itOr was balm.
In the city young Wentworth. looked
everywhere for work and in the end
was given . small salary In an auto
mobile house. He had tried to GER
suade Aadge that marriage on so
lneager weekly wage. was out OF tho
question. but the girl, true to her In
fttnct. would not hear OF IT.
II you viii not marry me now and
let me share all your trials and
poverty-I win not marIy you af an. .
The girls soft ar1n9Ueut ABOUT War
ren's. neck and shosWhN&poed sron-
derful things into hi1eeAH& IN me Ind
he claspe0 her tightly 1T NJ aRm6 and
roa111ed that one WomAn'D lows. wea'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
CAMP MEETING BEGINS


Following in the wake Of the circus
an old fashioned Methodist camp
Agricultural building on the state fair
grounds. 1t began last eve1ing ana n
being conducted by Rev. Andrew
johnson. an evangelist Of the n. =.
church, south. from Wflmore. KY, ana
Rev. Ernest B. Cole, the conferences
evangelist Of the Oklahoma confer
ence OF the n. e. church.
There will be three services con-
Quoted each day at 10 q M, 2:aO ..
m. and p. M, resp&ctively. An
of pleasing shade cool
drinks. fine singing ana stroHe SER
mons are among the many attractions
offered.
Tents are being erected ON the
grounds and . number OF dele9afaa
and cities are expected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
MRS. HENDRICKS DEAD
Woman Prominent I'm w. II. @. Dies It
Independence Hospital.

Independence, June 1s.-Ars. Lillian
Hendricks Of Coffeyville died this
morning at O'Clock at an Independ-
dence hospital Mrs. Hendricks was
well known in the Kansas Women's
Relief Corps circles. She was president
OF the Kansas department. w. re-, in
1912.
She was the only woman ever given
q permit to attend the meetings Of the
Grand Army Of tho Republic. She was
presented with q silver loving cup by
the G. A. r. recently for organizing q
G. A. r. post at Havana, Kan. Mrs.
Hendricks was also 4 past matron Of
the Eastern Star lodge and was well
known IN Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
The CITY. IS ANGRY.
Ofnd161s HEhve WGated Lon9 Enough
for Removal Of w. U. Poles.

The peace agreement between the
city and the Western Union telegraph
company may come to an end. The
poles which the city ortered tori down
two years ago are still standing on
East Fourth street. Today the city
clerk was ordered to --ddress q COM
munlcation to w. C. Titley, division
plant superintendent. Denver. asking
what progress has been made toward
tho removal Of the poles.
Tho city's patience il exhausted.
I'VE have been too ienient." said May
or Cofran. The poles should have
been removed and the wires placed un-
derground at the completion Of the
Fourth street white way
The company was ordered to have its
poles out Of the way by June 1. Moth
ing was done. The company petitioned
q third extension Of times Tho COM
mission gave until the first Of August.
According to the finance commits
sioner nothing has been done. II the
poles are still standing by the end Of
next month the commissioners will de-
stroy them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
SUE The ROCK ISLAND
New York HroAers Set Up Claim for
HI -, 600 900.

New York. June 26.-An action
against the Chicago, Rock Island 4 Pa
ciffc company and the Keokuk 4 De-
Moines Railway company to recover
claims aggreBating more than 5000. 900
was filed in the supreme court today.
on behalf Of Henry /. Clark & Conn
pany, and sartorius 4 Einstein, two
New York stock brokerage firms, which
claim to own or represent more than
one-fourth Of the Keokuk & Des
Moines.
The action calls for an accounting Of
rentals due. under Z lease made in 1873.
by the Keokuk 4 Dies Moines. Of its
entire system. . line extending 1S1
miles from Keokuk to Des Moines. The
plaintiffs contend that the Keoluk 4
Des Moines stockholders havc been de-
prived Of about 100000 because Of
mismanagement Of the leased line by
the Chicago. Rock Island a Pacific
company. 1t 10 also alleged that the
latter company has diverted traffic
from the leased line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
By the Way
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS

Butte. Mont. offers something new
In the strike riot line, the killees an
we'll as the killers being members in
good standing of the union.
Ono should not be too finicky about
the thinness of skirts this hot weather.
"A mere man may wear trousereens SO
thin that the passerby can count the
notche1 on the Yale ONCE key in his
pocket. and yet suffer with the heat.
The outdoor cupless drinking foun-
tain Il q great institution, and has
added to the list of outdoor sports
The latest fs game played exclusive
~ by newsboys, and consists of tax
Ing In. a goodly snort Of aqua-more-
or-less-pura-and then expectoratinR
same into the eye Of a fellow paper
merchant.
The fling of Bull Moose nomination
papers CRATES on the nerves of Re-
publican candidates like the fling of
a handsaw.
If they knew laundry prices, and
that they would be expected to wear a
would be easier to keep boys on the
farm.
The nursemaid who takes good care
OF the baby for year is not without
hopes OF promotion. In time she NAV
be permitted to care for the poodle.
Sometimes the right thing IN done
under the wrong excuse. TyCobb did
not swat the Detroit butcher because
his meat was tough.
Caylor thinks that a man with long
gray whiskers has no business chew
Ing tobacco. Mr.. Caylor is hereby in
formed that, az a rule, chewing to-
oacco does not come under the head
OF business" By some it IL even con-.
sidered q pleasure.
From my personal observations of
Lion tamers." says Filling Fuller. .my
surprise IL not that the lions Womb
Kill one, but that they would eat him. ;,
The congressional idea of selling
two old battleships and spendinr.tl,e
dough for one new one, would init
cate that the battleship does not de-
teriorate In style and appearances so;
iast as the automobile. It would take
the price OF about a dozen 1913 autos
to purchase the extra self-cocI.inr ar
fangements on one 1915 machine.
Kink Pete of Servia hath tumred
ms JoD. And he Is quite right. It is
SAFER to be jack in most decks than
a kink in Servia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
GAGE PARK SERVICE;
Cars OperaAed ON New Extension Sum.
day Morning.

Car1 will be operated on The new
Gage park street car line Sunday, ac-
cording to a statement made by How
ard Patten. superintendent Of the To-
pelka street railway company.
The bridge on West Eighth street has
been completed and the line IL nearly
ready for use. Regular service will be
maintained OH the Gage line .9uday.
The only thing that remains to be
done before the line 10 completed Is the
ballasting Of part Of the track. Service
will be suspended for q few days after
next Sunday until this 10 completed. It
il expected that the limo will be in fine
condition In about ten days. Sunday.
Topeka people will DO able to visit the
park without the long walk now neces-
eary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
ROLL INTO THE river.


MERGED, Cal, June 26.-One passen-
ger was crushed to death and one en-
ployee undoubtedly was washed away
in the MERGED river, when two car of
q Yosemite valley passenger train left
the rails and rolled down an embank-
ment into the river. Nine other pas
sengers were more or less seriously
injured The dead man 10 Stonewall
Jackson Harris, county surveyor
Mariposa county.
A C. Mahoney, conductor Of the
train, Is missing.
Surveyor Harris was crushed be-
tween two cars when he attempted to
leap to safety. Conductor Mahoney IL
thought 20 have fallen through the
door Of the baggage car when the car
fell into the river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
STARTS 4 FIeHTi CALL From H0llE
Has Paid el,DOo to strfke
Agents Of Unions.

Chicago. June 3e.-At the frst stem
IN his announced intention Of sending
some "blaclkmailing union business
agents to JAIL" John McL.auRhlin.
contractor and politician, held coflfer.
ence with James H. Wilkerson, United
States district attorney. here today.
Mclaughlin said he had paid 81, 900
blackmatl under threat Of having
strikes called ON him. He declared
that George Hammond, bueineas
agent Of the Excavators' union. who
was killed yesterday by Patrick Dig
nan. contract, was one Of the guilty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
ILLINOIS TO KANSAS.

whats the matter with Kansas"
asked William Allen White at time
when about everything visible to the
eastern eye was, in fact, the matter
with it, says the Chicago Post. and it
continues:
THE Lord is mighty good to Kan
sas," is the opening sentence Of an edi-
torial of Sunday from the Kansas City
Star, which we reprint elsewhere on
this page.
The Star editorial seems overflow
ing with milk and honey. The earth
and the fullness thereof has been
opened out to Kansas in the gracious
year 1914, and 1t no longer bothers
over what is the matter with 1t. 1t
knows that nothing is.
The Illinoisan doesn't get mad
when he reads about the prosperity
Of Kansas. We are not Wall street
or New England. to which Kansas
means only bad manners and rough
radicalism.
We like Kansas, In this state, be-
cause We can come . large sight near
er to understanding her. She Il. TAX
ing 1t by and large, our own kind of
folks. II you ever sat down and fig-
ured the way the waves Of immisra-
ton battered and broke and died away
across Illinois, you would understand
that it's pretty reckless to try to APP
ply any general term to this Sucker
population. Nevertheless II can be
done.
There is sufficient homogeneity in
our people to enable the observer to
stack them up beside Kansas and see
how much the two are alike. especial
" II he takes the northern counties
OF Illinois only and leaves out Chicago.
They match up pretty WELL
Illinois IL not 90 expressive: that's
all We are not % vocal. Our COM
munities downstate do not maintain
the 100 per cent average Of Kansas
- T.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
THE PASSING OF THE PrCNr

THE PASSING OF THE PICNIC.
Do Sunday school picnics still give
the same fine. careless rapture az Of
old, one wonders, or are town children
nowadays too familiar with rural Joys
There was the delicious early-morning
start in crowded. dirty. hot train.
Then the boating, the bathing, the
open-air gorge at midday; in the af-
ternoon the adventurous exploration
of wild woods and dangerous dells al
ready perfectly well known from last
years picnic. and at last the exhaust
ing return in a hotter, dirtier train.
What now seems incredible discom-
window upon woodland and lake and
river. but then the child forgave every
thing for the sake Of the green view
disclosed. Thus writes Harrison
Rhodes in Harper's Magazine for July.
and he goes on:
The picnic is not only one of the
greatest, but one of. the most Ameri-
can of our instituttons-there might
be a whole literature on its various
forms, from Sunday school to knights
Of Pythias and Liederkranz or Schultz
enfest. At this moment, however, the
writer's impulse IL to set down a para
graph or two about the Pioneer Pic
mic, once a regular summer event
through the Middle West-now, alas!
probably gone like the pioneers them
selves. 1t makes astonishingly vivid
the country's youth to realize how
short a time back the first settlers
themselves were still alive, the men
and women who had subdued the will
derness Of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
and now in a green old age could sit
upon a platform and listen to q later
generations oratory in their praise.
Even Is years ago, every one west of
the Alleghanies was still in amazing
contact with the very beginnings of
history-that he was once driven to a
pioneer picnic behind oxen (the OK
span and a patriarcha1 and authentic
early-settler grandfather both inten-
tionally reminiscent of days gone by)
seems to the writer now an episode in
credibly romantic and remote. worth
the attention of serious historians.
Picnics are doubtless passing. along
with other simpler last-century pleas
ures. but In groves and by absurd
small lakes the pleasant memory of
them still fingers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
Journal Entries

II you must be proud don't exhibit
1t too assiduously.
A man pays heavy interest on q
mortgage on his health.
Swatting flies il also more exciting
than many other indoor sports.
,
Establishing q good reputation II
much easier than maintaining 1t. "a
-
T. What has become Of the old-fash-s
toned man who insisted he was able
to sleep standing up?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
EREE aI.AssEs no PuPms.

It often happens that school children
are in great need Of glasses and yet
have not the money to buy them Per-
haps the eyes have been examined in
the early fall, by The teacher. accord
ing to the printed instruction. and some
defect has been found. Maybe the
be the teacher finds that although the
child can see well at distance. he
frequently complains Of headache and
eyeache. after getting his lessons.
Maybe the eyes are red. or maybe the
child Is cross-eyed. At all events the
teacher discovers that something ID
wrong. SO she sends a printed card to the
parent, which notifies him that his
child's eyes are not right. and advises
him to seek competent advice. The
mother or the school nurse. therefore,
takes the child to the oculist who dis
covers that glasses are urgently need
ed, to enable the child properly to re-
ceive offered school instruction. With
out glasses this cannot be- done, and
the child is seriously hampered in the
requirement Of an education.
II the parents cannot. under these
to be done? asks the Journal Of the
American Medical Association. and it
continues: This II a serious question
and one which will have to be an.
swered. There should be fund in the
hands OF the school board OF every city.
to meet this emergency. This fund
may be raised by contributions, II nec-
essary, but the best way is to have
1t come from the city treasury. The
amount required would not be large.
Suitable arrangements could be made
with some wholesale optical houses, to
furnish these glasses at almost cost.
In Cleveland, where school examina-
tons are performed quite thoroughly.
less than 400 pairs of glasses are given
away to poor children annually. This
probably does not cost Cleveland 500
a year and think of the enormous BEN
fits that are produced. School books,
lunches, ETC.. are given away In many.
cities. why not then free glasses?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-26
BOTH HANDS CRUSHED
Proprietor Of Dainty Company Loses
One Finger, Possibly Anoelses.

c.. n. Tilford. proprietor Of the To-
pekA Dainty company, had both hands
crushed in an ice crusher this eek At
the plant. The little Anger. s6f the left
fears Mr.. T1lford may looe the Xecoo1
and third nnGers uuIesa moro favoSG6So
conditions develop.
Miss Dollie Tilford who has taken
charge Of the plant, stated that her a :
ther suffered seriously from nervous
operation and - II . oeefos1~ comb.