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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23

Washington, sept. 17.--Peace be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain, France. spain and China was
guaranteed BY the signing Of peace
treaties with these four countries at
the state deparfm ent.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23
italian Envoy Goes Home.

Paris, Sept. 16.--The Rome CORE.
kpondent OF the Havas agency tele.
graphs that Count Calderari di PaIaz.
colo. Italian military attache at Ber
lin, has left his post and is returning
10 Italy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23
Frank Chance Quits.

New York. Sept 17-Frsnk Chance
quits as manager OF the New York
Yankees. Roger Peekinpaugh, short.
stop and captain. was named as TEN.
porary manager. Chance was given
the $4,000 salary he demanded.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23
Ansd Painter is Dead.

New Rochelle, Y. Y, Sept. 15.-Hor-
ace Stanton, landscape painter and
a member OF the Royal Academy of
Artists OF England, is dead at his
home here. He vas seventy-one years
old. A widow. two sons and three
daughters survive.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23
ammonia eLsaue a smxrna.

London. Sept l-.-Bubonic plague is
raging at Smyrna and other Turkish
stations. causia-- heavy mortality, &C.
eording 10 a CcestantInople dispatch
20 the Central News agency here
Thursday.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23
German Envov Ia in U. s.

New York, Sept. IA representa-
tive of the German foreign office. who
is expected to make answer at Wash
ington TO the Belgian accusations OF
brutality, arrived on the liner Pots.
dam.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23
vmportant 40 Mo,ner.

The English post office has 2.610, 65V
miles of single wire, made up OF 3d.
sos for telegraphs. 2,234.215 for tele.
phones and $1,000 for private and
leased wires.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23
Ask Rate case Rehearino.

Washington, sept. 1.-THE eastern
railways formally petitioned the inter
state commerce commission for a re-
hearing In the eastern advance rate
case and to permit them to put into
effect the FIVE per cent increase.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23
WILSON ORDERS TROOPS HOME.
President Tells United States Soldiers
to Evacuate Vera Cruz.

PRESIDENT letls united states Soldiers
to Evacuate Vera Cruz.
Washington, Sept 17.-President
Wilson ordered American soldiers
withdrawn from Vera Cruz. He is.
sued the following statement:
THE troops have been ordered with.
drawn from Vera Cruz. This action
is taken in view of the entire removal
OF the circumstances which we're
thought to justify the occupation, The
further presence OF the troops is
deemed unnecessary"
1t is understood that President VIII
son took this action on the unanimous
advice of the cabinet.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23

Woman can put on enough lothing
in winter TO keep her warm, and take
of enough in GUNNER to keep her cool.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23
sRlTAIN OUT stss, 100000.
War Has Cost England s3,s7o,ooo Per
Day.

London, Sept. II. Calculations
based on official returns show that the
cost to Britain of AZ days of war,
counting from August /, when dis
bursements began. has been about
$166.5Oo,0O0. or at the rate of $3.50
900 per day.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23

YOUR own DRUGGIST WILL. TELL YOTy
Try Murine Bye Remedy for Red Weak WsteTy
Eyes ana Grannlatsd Eyebds; No smarting-
just Eye Comfort Write for Book Of the I've
By mail Free Murine Eye Remed- Co CHICAGO
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23
Hope SPRINGS Eternal

When does Maud expect to get mar.
ried2"
"Oh, every season.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23

An ordinary piano contains about a
mile of wire. American genius will
yet benefit humanity my inventing
wireless piano for amateurs.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23

A girl may have beautiful eyes, but
she isn't so apt to succeed as the one
who has plenty of cheek.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23

The textile industry in Brazil EN-
ploys more than 100000 workers.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23

The man who blames it on a woman
is one kind of jellyfish
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1914-09-23
Lo and the Bison.

Once the Indian and the bison
roamed the plains"
YES" replied the man with the
nickel that looks as If it was home
made. But conditions have become
congested. Now they're both being
crowded into the slot machines"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
PUT THE BARS UP
Stringent Requirements Pro-
posed for Kansas Practitioners.
Special Commission Reports on
Bill To Be Offered to Legislator

A bill to require every applicant for
state certificate to practice medicine,
osteopathy, chiropractic or any of the
healing arts, to appear before state
board Of preliminary examination and
satisfy the body that he has passed
four years in study in a high school
and an additional four years in a pro-
fessional school, was today referred to
Governor Hodges by the so-called cos
mopolitan commission which was ap-
pointed to draft amendments to the
state laws. The proposed bill is drawn
on new lines and its chief characteristic
is to raise the requirements for pre-
liminary preparation on the part OF
individuals who desire to practice the
healing art for pay in Kansas.
The new state board of preliminary
examination was devised by DIR. J. A.
Milligan of Garnett; DR.. J. E. Saw
tell of Kansas City; Prof w. L. Bur-
dick of the Kansas university law de-
partment, and Fred Dumont Smith of
Hutchinson, prominent western
Kansas attorney and former legfsla-
tor. The commission was appointed
by the governor at the request of the
Kansas Medical society few months
ago. minor provision requires that
after 1920 every applicant for permit
to practice must show proof of two
years spent in high school study of
the Latin language.
The effect of the bin, if enacted into
law. will be to cut out all practitioners
of schools who have not passed at
least eight years in high school and
professional studies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
SIX ARE INJURED
BObSled Crashes Into Taxicab
at Lawrence This Morning.
Two X. u. Students and In.
= structor Are Seriously Hurt.

Lawrence. Kan. Dec. Three
persons were dangerously injured and
three others less seriously hurt early
today when a bobsled carrying a
coasting party from the University of
Kansas crashed into a taxicab on In
diana street. The injured:
Emery McIntire. freshman at uni
versity. legs. arm and several ribs
broken; may die.
Miss Gladys Henley, Lawrence, legs
and arm broken; dangerous.
Miss May Stevenson, instructor in
university extension department.; in
jured internally.
George Gilley, Leon Booker and
Miss Della Unruh of Larned severely
bruised.
The city commission had set aside
Indiana street for coasters. The course
is nearly a mile long and the bobsleds
had been making the distance in one
minute. On the last trip a taxicab
crossed the street as the sled neared
the bottom. The chauffeur attempted
to avert the collision, but 1t is be-
lieved McIntire, who was steering the
sled, became confused. and drove
headlong into the motor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
CUPID AID CROPS
1914 Was q Whale of q Year
for Weddings.
Kansas Young People Made
Unions Prosperous.

Good crops influence the aim of Dan
Cupid. When the crops are big and
the prices high Cupid shoots straight
er than he does when the dry weather
burns the crops and dries the streams
and wells. State Registrar of Vital
Statistics Deacon. bookkeeper for D.
Cupid & Co.. today produced the fig
ures to prove the above. And he
showed, too. that June has Lost Its
prestige as the wedding month.
The year 1918 was one of the dri-
est and the worst crop year the state
has ever known. In that year there
were 15,O78 weddings in Kansas. The
year 1914 was whale of a year on
wheat. oats and alfalfa, in fact every
thing but corn, and the prices paid
were big-so big that the total farm
products this year were So million dol
lars more than ever before. And there
have been 6.377 weddings in Kansas
this year, 1, ,299 more than a year ago.
And the increase in unions started as
soon as the wheat crop was assured.
June lost this year over the figures
of a year ago and the July figures
were the same on 1914 and 1913, but
August beat August a year ago by
nearly a hundred and the figures kept
climbing until November. when the
high record was reached with nearly
800 more weddings than a year ago.
December figures are not yet complet-
ed, so this month was figured the
same as a year ago. There were 1858
Christmas weddings in the state this
year and only 800 a year ago.
November Of this year beat any
June record on weddings in Kansas
1t was larger by ten than June, 1913,
which had held the record covering
many years. March is the poorest
month in the year for marriages. as
it is two hundred less than almost any
other month. Perhaps the March wind
is too sharp for the wearing ap-
parel of d. Cupid. January and Feb
ruary are about the average months
running practically the same as the
summer and fall months, except June
every year and November this year.
September. October and December al
ways run close together in weddings
and until this year November was
right along with those four months.
the fall months recording more than
any other season Of the year-the
harvest of the spring and summer
wOoing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
Will Be Secretary of Home Mu.
tual Life January IL.
Will Occupy Entire Floor Of
Crawford Building.
Three New Directors for Grow.
ing Topeka Concern.

Ike s. Lewis. superintendent Of insur-
ance, has been elected secretary OF the
Home Mutual Life Insurance company
of Topeka and will identify himself with
that company when he retires from
Office January II. With the election
of Lewis to the secretaryship Of the
company. ]. p. Slaughter and w. A.
Smith of Topeka, and ]. w. r. Clardy
of Council Grove, were named as new
directors.
The election of Lewis as secretary of
the Home Mutual is generally regarded
as a boost for the well known Topeka
company which in 1918 ranked second
among all insurance companies in Kan
sas in point OF business produced. While
the record for the present year has not
been completed. Lewis today declared
that the local company would stand
well at the top. There are 81 foreign
and three Kansas life insurance COM
panies doing business in the state.
With the change in the personnel OF
f(s0mtin.,Nd nm PaUA I>Wo.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
Constant and Serious Interfer.
ence on the High Seas.
NAVAL FORCES TOOK 4 HAND
Steamship Manchuria Was
Held Up for 4S Hours.
United States May File Com
plaint Against Briton Ally.

Washington. Dec. S1.-Constant and
serious interference with American
commerce on the Pacific was charged
today against Japan-Great Britain's
ally. A prominent member Of the Pa
cific coast delegation of the house WaS
authority for the statement that ia
pan has been holding up United States
vessels on the high seas in q manner
similar to that which brought sharp
protest against Great Britain.
r. p. Schwerin Of the Pacific Man
Steamship company, operating . feet
OF merchant and passenger vessels
from San Francisco to Oriental wa
ters. is the complainant against Ja-
pan. He has filed with congress .
preliminary statement of the case.
He claims that not only was the
steamship Manchuria held up and de-
tanned for 48 hours. but that also
practically every other vessel of the
line had been subjected to interferenco
from the naval forces OF Japan.
The representative in question was
asked for more detailed information
from Schwerin and, If 1t Is furnished.
the subject will be called publicly to
the attention Of the house. Moreover,
unless protests have already been
lodged with the state department.
complaints will undoubtedly be filed
there against Japan, 1t was declared,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
German Offensive in Poland
Broken, Petrograd Says.
LOSE HALF THEIR NUMBER
The Turks Are Dispersed in a
Sangufnary Battle.
Servia Is Planning an Invasion
of Hungary.

London. Dec. 31.-From the frag-
mentary and conflicting Official reports
Of the war today two main tendencies
are observed. In the west along the
entire front from Alsace to the North
sea the allies are exerting steady
pressure and according to their claims,
some of which have not been disputed
by Germany. they have made a slow
progress almost everywhere. In the
east the defeat Of the Austrians in Ga
licia is not denied and the German
forces In Poland appear to have found
1t extremely difficult to continue their
advance toward Warsaw. Berlin states
that further progress is being made, but
Petrograd believes the German often
siye has broken down.
An official communication from Pet
rograd indicates that one of the most
sanguinary battles of the war in pro-
portion to the number involved has TAX
en- place in the Transcaucsus. The
Russians state that a Turkish column
was dispersed by artillery, and that the
Turks lost half of their number.
The japanese foreign Office announces
that no nation has requested that a
Japanese army be sent to Europe. 1t is
said in Toxic that Russia and France
favor the project, but that Great Brit
ain hesitates on account of economic
and political difhculties.''
The Servian minister to France is
quoted as saying that Servia is PLAN
ming an invasion of Hungary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
CASE Goes over
Kansas Scent Fare Hearing
Postponed Until April 6.
Railways Show That Witnesses
Are Needed Elsewhere.

Upon the application of the rail-
roads of the state. the 3-cent fare case
was continued over until April s.
through an order of the state board
of public utilities commission today.
The railroads made a showing 70
the commission that their auditors
statisticians and other witnesses would
be engaged most of the time for the
next six weeks or longer giving testi-
mony in cases pending before the
courts and commissions of Missouri,
Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona; that
those cases were set for hearing prior
to the time Kansas commission fixed
the date for consideration of the three
cent application, and that no prejudice
could arise to the state of Kansas by
reason of granting the continuance.
inasmuch as no increase in rates can
be made without the consent and or
der Of the commission.
The railways operating in Kansas
applied to the utilities commission a
month ago asking that the passenger
fares be increased from two to three
cents a mile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
B0MBARD DUNKIRk
German Airmen Drop Bombs in
French Coast City.
Fifteen Persons Killed and 30
Wounded by Shrapnel.

London, Dec. 31.-Four German aero
planes Flew several times over the city
of Dunkirk. Wednesday, dropping
bombs as they went, according to the
Dunkirk correspondent of the Daily
Mail Soldiers in the streets fired on
the machines and -one taube seemed
to be hit. but all got safely away. The
official returns of the casualties show
that fifteen persons were killed and
thirty-two wounded. The bombs were
filled with shrapnel.
For half an hour the whole city
cracked with rifle shots and bombs.
which threw up dense clouds Of black
smoke No sooner did one aeroplane
seem to uepart than another arrived.
Buildings in all parts of the city were
wrecked
The first bomb fell on the fortifica-
tions, two more near the railway sta
ton and many others in different
parts of the town and in the suburb
Of Rosendaell and the districts of
Coudekerque and Furnes. One child
had an arm blown off and an old
woman was killed outright.
The fifth aeroplane remained as
sentry outside of town. ready to at
tack any of the allies aeroplanes that
might seek to repel the air assailants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
One-FOurth rs Many Divorces
as Marriages in Courts.
NEARLY $50 LICENSES ISSUED
More Than ESQ Divorces
Brought Before Proctor.
General Cases Filed Before All
Courts i'm Last Year.

According to records in the Shawnee
county district court and the probate
court. more than Is per cent Of the
boats launched in the sea of matrimony
in the year 1914 were offset by other
boats wrecked on the rocks of divorce.
The number Of marriage licenses is-
sued in the last year total S47. This
was in the probate court. In the Shaw
nee district court 254 petitions for di-
vorce and alimony were filed.
Records of the probate court office
show an increase in the number OF
marriage licenses issued in 1914 over
the preceding year. Only S17 licenses
were issued in 1913.
There were more June brides this year
than in 1913, and a similar increase is
shown for Thanksgiving weddings.
However, there Is a marked decrease
this year. In 1913 more than 19 Christ
man licenses were issued. This year
only seven were issued.
There were also a large number OF
New Years weddings in 1918. At a late
hour this afternoon not a single license
hae been applied for. The fact that
both Christmas and New Years come
on Friday this year may be a possible
explanation, or perhaps D. Cupid is dis;
couraged after making SO many blum
ders in the last 365 days.
Cases Of All Character.
According to the dockets in the clerk
of the Shawnee district court office the
number of cases filed in the district
court during the year of 1914 is less
than the number filed in 1913. In 1914
the total number of criminal cases was
1872 and in 1914 only 349 were filed.
However civil cases are shown to be
on the increase Civil suits for 1914
total 678 while the number for 1913 was
only 658.
In the court Of Topeka 1853 civil and
criminal cases were filed in 1914. The
number for 1913 was 1449. This makes
an increase Of IA cases for 1914 over
1913 The civil cases filed in 1914 total
1913 and in 1913 the number was 1922
Criminal cases for 1913 totaled 81 while
the number for 1914 was AL, an increase
of 20 cases for this year.
In the probate court 202 estates were
opened before Judge Hugh MacFar-
land during 1914 while the number for
1913 was 215.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
Total paid into general state
new Year REVElS.
1t Looks Like a Big Night Tonight In
Chicago.

Chicago. Dec. H.-Chicagoans will spend
quarter Of a million dollars for food
and drink while welcoming in the new
year tonight. according to estimates Of
lading cafe and hotel owners.
In the largest hotels and cafes plates
will be served at IS each without wine
Record breaking reservations for tables
have been made, 1t was reported. Cafes
must close their doors At q. m but MayOr
Harrison has ruled that patrons may re-
main as long they wish ana that liquor
may be served II ordered before O'Clock
Police have been Instructed, however. to
prohibit dancing on pavements, disorderIy
crowds and horn blowing. Four munich
pal New Years eve dancing parties will
be given As q counter attraction to the
revel in the cafes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
ONE DRY C0NGRES ESSMAN
The First Party Prohibltaonist Ever
Elected to the House.

Los Angeles. Dec 31--Charles H.
Randall. congressman elect from the
Ninth California district, set at rest
today speculation as to whether he is
q Democrat or Prohibitionist by is
suing a statement declaring himself a
Prohibitionist-the first Of. that party
to take a seat in the National house of
representatives. He said one Of his
first acts<would be to introduce = dras-
tic prohibition bill, making it unlaw-
full for liquor to be imported. manu-
factured. sold or given away in the
United States. At the election in Mo-
vember Mr.. RandaI's name was on
both the Prohibition and Democratic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
AS BAD AS BELGIUM.
Monterey, Mex, Is Short of Food for
It's Inhabitants.

Laredo, Texas, Dec. 31.-Monterey,
Mexico. and adjacent territory has an
apparent food supply for less than ten
days and the situation in that region
in some respects is as bad as in Eu-
rope, according to unofficial reports
today from American Consul General
Phil. c. Hanna Of Monterey. Relief
is furnished twice weekly through dis
tribution of food to poor families,
which include once prosperous fam
lilies which revolutions have made des-
titute. Flour. shelled corn, beans and
rice are the foodstuffs most needed.
There is also need for bed clothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
German Commerce Has Been
Expelled From High Seas.
SERWA HAS REH SET FREE
Russia Has Gained q Firm Hold
on Eastern Galicia.
The Germans Are . Long Way
From Being Whipped.
(Bx ]. ". T. Mason.l

New York, Dec 31.-The end of the
year, and with it, the conclusion of
five months fighting. finds only three
positive results accomplished, which
to a practical certainty will continue
as prominent factors in the CAM
German commerce from the seas the
freeing of Servia, and Russia's occu-
patton of Eastern Galicia. Everything
else that has happened in the war
west. indecision dominates the situa-
ton, for, while Germany has been
beaten in her main objective. Ger
many's defeat has not been accom-
plished.
The August prediction that the Ger
man empire was to be disintegrated
and the house of Hohenzollern exiled
by European congress after the war,
have vanished with most of the other
early prophecies of the war. A de-
cisive overthrow of Germany is no
longer among the probabilities. The
end of the year sees Germany being
forced slowly back but the effort is
almost superhuman. Berlin's capture
would produce more exhaustion
Disappointment has dominated all
the war developments and all the bel
Hgerents; it would be but logically in
keeping if the ultimate peace were
SlIIlIldIly OlS6 6ppOlnClNK.
Belgium Saved Paris.
Belgium's participation in the war
with furious patriotism struck the
keynote of indecisfon by interposing
unexpected obstacles in the path Of
the German advance on Paris Liege
and the Belgian army held the Ger
mans safely for the English expedi-
tionary corps to arrive and it was the
English who in turn checked General
Won Kluck and saved the French
army during the retreat through
northern France. The German army
was thrown out of its stride by these
interludes and Paris was saved
But there followed Immediately an
indecisive result f9r the allies The
preservation Of Paris and though Gen.
eral Joffre won a ffctory which will
take rank among the decisive conflicts
of history, the success was not fol-
lowed up. While the allied nations
were exulting at the flight of the Ger
mans, the latter halted at the Aisne
on September Il and have stuck there
ever since.
Why the allied armies allowed the
Germans to stop at the Aisne is one
OF the mysteries of the 1914 fighting
Field Marshal French reported at the
time it was believed only a rearguard
had been left at the Aisne This NAV
be the true answer to the riddle. The
allies mtstOOk the strength of the Ger
mans when the battle Of the Aisne be-
gan and by failing to throw sufficient
men into the battle line gave the enc
my time to recover from the exhaus-
ton of the Marne retreat.