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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-27

said board % local improvements hsv-
isk sisd n the county court OF Rock
Isiand eouaty. IiiiaOis. on the zsth day
os April. n .. 1918. = certificate show
lag tha; TIE said improvement coz
forms Substantially 20 the require
meats % the original ordinance for
the eoussraetioa % the same. the cost
sksreos. the arzouni estimated by them
20 - required 20 say The HeeruinE IN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-27
QearYOurS Skin

pies scales and crusts are due TO
myriad deeply buried germs in the
skin To secure relief and cure these
germs must be destroyed and elimt-
mated.
The d. u. D. Prescription. a mild
compound in liquid form OF oil of
wintergreen, thymoi and other heal
ing elements, Will give instant reiief
in all cases Unlike safves. 1t pene-
trates TO the deeply buried germs.
kills and washes them out
Generous trial bottle 25c Also soc
and $500. Remember. the first 800
bottle is guaranteed to reach your
case or your money back promptly
Ask your druggist today for ID. d. D.
Also D. d. ID. Soap.
Or write for free trial bottle. d. %.
d. Laboratoriea. Chicago. Dept M,
ALL DRUGGISTS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-27
Removal Notice.

DR.. Silvis and Dr. Long. dentists.
have moved their Offices from the
Safety building 10 the fourth floor of
the Central Trust building-(Adv.).
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-27
COUNCIL PASSES
SEARS ORDINANCE
ass rI Last fsts ~ Ut4 Csmmissis d.
Hl &C taa@Satiau % Cssatg
E~eurfs.
eav4flrEEb GXfEDtGNT plan
rtrs- 1Frrs us1suFs and Declares
raaE wbIle Net Necessary n
cas- b. 10 Harm
.sv.DEaEb EXrGDtLyT plan

RI roc fbseIgf~lT go
essay ... aerr.T eEuedlsst 1ftgor 90
tsas prseaasiarsrz
ras.r. aH rf- arr~xfflan % sears
. 1889 ef BE a.rs az sxeca-
ess %. .- Goa. meeting 81 the otf
am F-tf .a tae ~ouseE as
s.ns ..an .fsr evening"
vre r-re. sfr5a BE- n~srse
v4 .TEE sst1u consistently
sassr srrF ere village sf sears
= r. Island rbr11Eh ere asoa-
rr III. r.- arfiFsse- the soaeHatiar
sfr- H"fE- Eel 1raaEst fuso fa~ zee
srfs .f ..r .aasrT Explained Mayor
f.a
I Gave ser~ an ordnance anaexiur
He fe- Hr s~ars. r G5ur thirE b.
t1se HH-.r Eress sarY s1t is caa 90 40
sarH r- statute is stfens o. fhs
as4r Hrf.TFse- after being accepted
sv HsFr board asf ea9Ee1 asG
ue e-Ha- ri both places.
rFr ae-Hr there ts uothtaE tr tEs
r-eeHIs .- Ea- county wsich Shows
nae TrtFa was aHneNrd svsryth4rE
bs.ss H rse records % tb@ city AMER
a.
f-.aF-f r1 GTsF che resoIgtioa 90
g. ss- Hsssrr es IRE eogrtY records
no asTTr read the resotatisa
wsrH Hsf-f ease since AT records
LAT been Fetrsfsrrr.f BY tas village %
Roofs f.fef tEar che village - ar
asr-r fef rsas fh~ city CLERK wffhia
tH ttTs after ts~ afspti9a % thts
sr5.e1r-- -tr with the courty re-
sarf.r aarie~ 90 That eject % b.
ssr-sf H1 ere records o. the coauty
rrrars-r ar deeds
Unanimously Adopted
o. vas Considered ou uottsa o. the
MAYER. s-eaet-t by C9mmfssigEsF
hegr taf unanimously passed us7r
BY Fa- eHa.ss .ss.1r
Yesterday sftrrueon an % sHr rec
srfs af .F- village were turned over
s1 fHr HaVar. who ln tGrr placed
asr FRI Fs- keeping of ere city et-rie
The m.Hs ordinance was reaG9pt-f
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-27

Eass svsriaz TIE week before o. had
bsea eorstGsred as3 adopted 90 order
Co Euarf asairst any obiseti9n as 60
Legality 81 afosss9s. t. Vas passed
aroa again ~ tks eo@@issioa. all
V1tsrE fa favor o. Be-
Clvfs walker Wss voted fz51 for
properly tist OF sss district aaasEsf
to Sears last faIi. Uhiea was pgreaas-
20 BY fss city Tas weekly payroll
% So. 60 vas ordered GraVE.
MAKE Aanaal Reports
Co@missl5ssr Aresss azEt read che
srcsaf reports q Joan 7 lorfs.
plaah5aE Inspector. asf q s'app.
ssstfieE Inspector TIE rsPort %
W. Jssrs ssoWsf ssas dartnE ths
fiscal year sudisE April IS. 1913. fts
s.sss wers approved ~ Eims az va
ter trsss we're asaEss go eHai tests
made stst sStgrrs Inspected 20
sewers Inspected. = master pigmbsrs'
certificates issued bFisEinE 500. 8
f5arrsyu~n csrtiErases issued and
fees % $50 collected - master
p,zasers csrtideatss received. net
slrE ffss sass o. snsPsesisu fees
collected and a total % sz.7ti tgrue1
over 60 tss eisy Treasurer.
BgEsiaE Inspector stapp's report.
which was Published 10 days ago.
slowed thaf hs collected st.tGB %
buii4lzE psrrait fees sSsfi7 electric
AZ permits. arf $500 % vatsr reaf.
making q total % t2ssoo3. he turned
over 90 ths city treasurer
uosh reports we're received and
placed % sis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
SERVANT IN The HOUSE
The Play VIII Be Presented at the
Auditorium Friday Night by
Local Union of the c. E.

The local union of the Christian
Endeavor society, has arranged with
the William Owen company to play
The Servant in the House" at the
city Auditorium next Friday night,
December 10. Tickets are on sale
now at Wolcott's store, S25 Kansas
avenue.
Charles Ram Kennedy, the author
of the play, has seen to it that each
member of the cast understands the
way his part should be played. Mr.
Kennedy has watched many COM
panies stage his favorite play, and
the neutrality-suspicious. he witnessed
prompted him to personally offer to
coach Mr.. Owens company, when
they prepared to open the season last
spring. After the first rendition Mr.
Kennedy said he felt that his play
had been interpreted the way it was
meant to be.
Mr.. Owen, as Robert in the play
appeared in Topeka several years ago.
He now heads a company of artists
selected by himself and Mr. Kennedy.
Gilbert Fenton, who arranged for
the appearance of the company in To-
peka, is certain that the people will
appreciate the opportunity of seeing
THE Servant in the House, and to
insure a full attendance has placed
the admission prices low enough so
that a greater number can take ad-
vantage of the play. The highest price
for the show is SO cents, and special
rates are being given to parties Of
twenty or more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
M0DOCS Will SING
Famous Topeka Organizations
in Concert December IL.
Club Goes to San Francisco
for Performance in January.

Topeka's own music club, the Mo-
docs, will appear Friday night, De-
cember IT. under the auspices of the
Court of Honor at Moose hall. The
program will consist of singing, black
face work and orchestral music. The
Modoc club is well known as a must
cal organization not only in Topeka
but over the state and in other parts
of the country. The entertainment,
by special action of the lodge, will be
open to the public.
Next month the Modoc club goes to
San Francisco to appear in a perform
ance, and the program which they
will present at their appearance on the
coast will be the same as that given
here. The club has appeared several
times in Topeka and has given per-
formances at many towns near To-
peka- The program for this event,
however, has never been presented be-.
fore A schedule of popular prices
has been arranged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
HELD GOLDEN JUBILEE
General and Mrs. Stone of Washington,
Formerly of Lawrence. Celebrate
E'iftieth Wedding Anniversary.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec, .4--Oien-
erals and Mrs. Israel W.-.Stone OF Law
renee, Kan, Friday celebrated the
ffftieth anniversary of their wedding
General Stone, who has been an EN-
plovee of the department OF aSrlcul-
ture since 1889, was presented with
basket of fifty American Beauty roses
nv associates in the bureau OF crop
eS+iroates Edward Crane. chief OF the
division of crop reports, maze the
presentation .1a
General Stone is prominent IN the
Grand Army OF the Republic, being a
mast commander of the Department
Sof The Potomac. His wife is acuVe III
the work of the Woman's Relief corps
Last night Phil Sheridan Post, NO: o.
a. A. R, presented General ana MIS-
stone with $50 in gold at a reception
given in their honor and in celebration
of their golden jubilee.
General Stone married Helen f.
Daniels November 19, 1865, at Keno
sba Wis After some years OF resi-,
derce in Lawrence, Kan, Genera
stone was appointed to the dlspuTslnS
Office of the department OF agrlcuItupS
nv Secretary Rusk, in 1889: In ieSI
h. was made disbursing offcer OF tle
weather bureau. For the past twenty
years General Stone has been with
the bureau of crop estimates, wh1cn
was the bureau of statistics when ne
bacarne connected with it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

ling message that q mad dog is run
ming down Quincy street. Motorcop
Richards is sent to shoot the animal.
Ii it happens to be mad cat, Motor
station likes to kill'a cat or dog and
much against their will. Richards and
WEIGH have had the respective jobs
wished onto them.
A man with the appearance of one
who is just beginning the morning af-
ter and in an I-don't-know-where -I-
am going but-Tm -on anyway attitude
wanders into the lobby and wants to
talks to PARCELS. Well, down on
Crane street, early in the morning, he
had been frisked for $40. No, he
didn't want to give his name. The
newspapers might get hold of it and
he didn't care about its being known
that he was down there.
Endless Chain of Gloom.
Until o'clock in the evening the
endless chain of gloom pours over the
telephone and through the wires of
the desk cage into Parcells's ears. AT
s o'clock Woodruff goes on duty for
the night.
The evening shift generally starts
off with a call from a woman who re-
fuses to give her name, but is sure that
there is something crooked" at the
house across the street. She has seen
automo biles leaving there at 8 o'clock
in the morning. After pouring her
tale of suspicion into Woodruff's ears
for ten minutes she slams up the re-
ceiver- with the opinion that the po-
lice don't want to enforce the law but
still refuses to tell who she is.
The matter is dropped and Wood
ruff takes down the receiver of anoth-
er telephone to listen to the complaint
of irate father Daughters beau
is causing the father grief this time.
Hes a worthless scamp says the
irate father, land I don't want him
hanging around. But that doesn't DO
any good. I want the police to notify
him to keep away. Woodruff didn't
know what the police could do about
it, but he would see.
By this time it is growing late and
mother out on West Tenth is growing
anxious about her daughter who, it is
feared, is in bad company. Anyway,
she has not come home and has been
gone all evening. Wouldn't the police
please find her and send her home.
No, she was not to be arrested. Just
think of the disgracei
Along about midnight someone dis
covers another petty burglary. At
o'clock in the morning Woodruff turns
the desk over to Parcel1s-but the
chain of grief is endless.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
find BONES OF INDIANS
Discovery of Three skeletons in WASH
ington County Causes Belief in
Indian Burial Ground.

Washington, Kan, Dec. 4.-Much
speculation has arisen in Washington
county as a result of the recent dis
covery of three human skeletons near
Haddam, the general belief being that
the bones are those of Indians, buried
about sixty years ago.
The skeletons were discovered by
Joseph Tattman, a farmer, while he
was digging a cave. Color is lent to
the belief by the fact that this vicinity
in days before the Civil war was the
camping place of a number of Indian
tribes and that beads were found be-
side the bones
Some of the older settlers in the
county have a hazy recollection OF
having heard that there was an Indian
burial ground near the present site of
Haddam.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
HAS ANNUAL HOG AUCTION.
Poland Chinas Bring More
Than $1,000 at BeIoit.

Beloit. Kan, Dec. 4.-One of the
largest and most successful hog raisers
and breeders in north central Kansas
is w. A. Prewett. of Mitchell county.
who raises the Poland China variety.
His annual sale has just closed at his
beautiful Sunnyrdige farm, Mr.. Prev
EFT has spared no pains or expense to
build up herd second to none. Many
breeders were present from this sec
ton of the state. Only sixty-five head
were sold, which aggregated S1,340.50.
The highest price paid was $50. Col.
H S Duncan. of Clearfie1d Iowa.
noted auctioneer, was present, as was
also ]. c. Holderman, of the Poland
China Journal of Kansas City. AS
regards prices these men claimed that
the Prewett prices are so far the sec
ond best in the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
TALES OF WOE
TOLD TO COPS
The Life of q Policeman Is Not
a Happy One.
Desk Man Kept Busy From
Morning Until Night.
STORIES CHANGE AFTER DARK
Complaints Come From Every
Quarter of the City.
Persons in Every Walk of Life
Are Heard From.

Down at the police station in their
little cage at the west end of the
lobby. two men, Ed Woodruff and
Frank PARCELS take turns of turning
their ears into receptacles of gloom.
Stories of murders. robberies, stolen
cats, lost dogs, fights, .sidetracked love
affairs-all are poured into the patient
ears of the desk sergeants.
At 6 o'clock in the morning Frank
PARCELS goes on duty. 1t is about that
hour when any man is liable to wake
up and find his house or place of bust
ness robbed. The telephone jingles.
PARCELS answers. A house out on To-
peka avenue has been robbed. Par
cells takes as much of the story over
the phone as possible and then turns
the case over to the detectives Five
avenue bellows over the wires that
several pennies were stolen from the
cash drawer in his store, some time
during the night.
Then the gloom begins in earnest.
A woman out on East Sixth street calls
up and says the woman next door is
letting her chickens scratch up the
front yard The chickens are of the
Plymouth Rock variety. There is one
rooster in the flock. Her dog had
chased it once and pulled a part of
its tail feathers out. The woman next
door had threatened a lawsuit Would
the police please come to the speakers
rescue. The police would.
Call for the Patrol.
There is hurried call for the
patrol auto. Fifteen minutes later the
car returns with a negro who had
stolen some brass from the Santa Fe.
The desk sergeant books him, listens
to his story entitled, Il didn't do it,"
and throws him in the bull pen.
Again the telephone jingles. From
a fashionable residence out on Topeka
avenue a bull terrier has strayed dur
ing the night. Would the police find
him? The police would do their best.
From North Topeka comes the start
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
WAR IN MUSIC RANKS
Plan of State Association to Issue
Teachers Certificates Is Denounced
by Mrs. p. HI. Adams.

The row over the system of accred-
it1ng teachers by means of an examin-
alton conducted by the Kansas State
Music Teachers association, is not
new thing. Dean Butler of the Music
school of the State university, arose in
meeting at Hutchinson and denounced
the plan. The same protest was made
some months ago by a Topeka teacher
of voice, Mrs. P. H. Adams, and a let
ter of protest against the giving of
credits in the high school to pupils
who are endorsed by the association,
has found an opponent. it is said, in
a teacher of piano, who has issued
letter to his pupils regarding it,
The state and federal authorities
were interviewed on the subject some
months ago. and the method of issuing
certificates to teachers was declared
by those authorities to be beyond the
legal right of an association which has
no charter and no state authority.
Mrs Adams says that she obtained
copy of the examination questions
gave them to pupil who had studied
but few weeks. and that pupil ans
wered every question, except those re-
ferring TO time of study and teaching
experience.
Mrs. Adams said today. 81 believe
that there are competent teachers in
this state who would leave Kansas be-
fore they would consider applying for
a certificate on system that could
flood the state with fakirs and graf
ters. Anyone in favor with the exam
liners of the association with dollar
to pay for the certificate. could pass
that examination without the slightest
difficulty. The certificate is not worth
the paper it Is written on. and the
scheme seems to foster the idea that
teachers holding the certificate have
in their possession a document of state
authority
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
KANSAS A SHEEP STATE.
UnrcaIized Opportunity says Pater-
son. Tells How to Raise Them


son: Tells How to Raise Ihem;
Manhattan. Kan, Dec 4.-SheIter'
nroper feed, and good management
are the requisites in bringing sheep
erccessfulIy through the winter sea-
son. in the judgment of A M Pater-
son assistant in animal husbandrY III
the Kansas State Agricultural collese:
while some shelter is necessary,
cows Mr. Paterson, --close housing is
NOT advisa BILE. especially with the ewes
in lamb Large. dry yards in which
the sheep have plenty of room for ex-
ercise are the first requirement Seven
or eight square feet of floor space is
necessary in sheds for the average
sized sheep. The fleece affords sur
ficient warmth in dry weather and, for
+bis reason the main need for shed
or sheep barn is protection from
storms On most dry nights the sheep
prefer to be out of doors and Will win
Ter better if allowed to do so.
1t is usually more convenient, says
this authOritv to have the feed racks
inside INT some of the roughage
should always be fed out of doors.
with breeding ewes, toward lambing
time there is danger of injury in
crowdinE through narrow gates 1t Is
a good plan to provide a pasture on
which they can run during the day,
especially in dry weather.
In wintering sheep to the best ad-
vantage, they should be sorted by age,
sex. and condition into various lots, or
otherwise some are almost sure to get
more-or less-feed than they need
Kansas offers excellent OppOr-
tunities in sheep raising not fully real
lied by the average farmer of the
state. say the experts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
CAFETERIA Is SUCCESS.
New Eating Place Feeds 400 X. S. A.
G. Students Every Day.

Manhattan, Kan, Dec. 4.-The
cafeteria at the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college, which has been in sue
cessful operation since the opening of
school this fall, feeds between 500 and
400 people daily. Miss Nola Treat is
in charge.
A large number of the young women
students OF the college will take adj
vantage of the cafeteria next term and
will get practical training in that kind
of work This will fit them to take
capable charge of cafeterias, the food
departments of hospitals and other
institutions. etc.
There are nine regular employees
of the Aggie cafeteria and nine or ten
students who work there part time.
1t is located in Kedzie hall, on a prom
inent part of the campus. Cleanliness
and quality, as well as quantity, go
toward making the cafeteria popular
with hundreds of students.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
NO PLACE FOR Her
Young Parsons Woman Is
About to Become a Mother.
She Is Sentenced to Seven
Years in State Prison.
FIRST INSIDE WALLS OF PRISON
But Governor Capper Says Law
Must Take Its Course.
Next Legislature May Be Asked
to Provide New Method.

Governor Capper was today urged
to investigate the case of Mollie Hess,
a Parsons girl, sentenced to seven
years in the state penitentiary at Lans-
ing. Mollie Hess is a negress. She is
soon to become mother.
In the governors mail today was a
letter from a Parsons. lawyer asking
that the executive inquire into the
case. There is no legal provision for
the care of the girl and there is no
manner of setting aside the court de-
cree to take the young woman to the
penitentiary, except through the gov
ernor'S action.
According to the story from Par
sons, the prisoner stole $1S.75. She
was convicted in the Labette county
district court and sentenced to a term
of not to exceed seven years in state
prison. A motion for a rehearing was
denied. The girl has no money with
which to fight her case in the supreme
court although it was urged today
that reversible error might be shown
in the records.
Although the state has provided
that boys between the ages of 16 and
81 years may be sent to the reforma-
tory, there is no place to send a girl
over 6 years old except to the peni-
Tertiary. So the trial judge sent MolIie
Hess to the penitentiary. Unless some
state department interferes, the young
woman must bear the shame and dis
grace of becoming a mother inside the
prison walls. Never in the history of
the state, so far as Governor Capper
and other state officials know, has a
child been born in the penitentiary of
this state
No Relief Says Capper.
1T is a shame that no relief can be
afforded in this case" said the gov
ernor. yet there is apparently moth
ing to do except to permit the law to
take it's course. Some provision for
cases similar to this should be made
by the legislature. 1t can only be
hoped that the legislature will provide
a remedy for this apparent wrong"
That the next legislature may be
asked to provide for the care of cases
such as reported from Parsons is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
BATTLE NEAR IN MEXICO
CarranZa Forces and villa Men Ready
for Test of Strength IN
Sonora Field.

Douglas, Ariz.. Dec 4.-Indications
point to the development of a general
battle today between the Carranza and
Villa forces in Sonora. It is believed
the battle front will extend twelve
miles along the trackage of the Ma
cozari railroad, which connects with
Aqua Prieta, the Mexican fortified
town opposite here.
The railway is being guarded by
CarranZa troops, who are under in
structions to prevent any attempt the
forces of Gen. Jose Rodriguez, the Villa
commander. might make to penetrate
their lines in an endeavor to move
eastward toward Chihuahua
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
NEW PosTMAsTERs NAMED.
Change in Heads of Kansas Offices:
Five New Routes Established.

Washington, d. c.. Dec. Post
master General Burleson has an
nounced the appointment of six Kan
<eas postmasters, as follows:
Elmer B. Bowson, postmaster at
shaw; Ernest E. Clue, Sherwin juno
ton: John NJ. Barton, Berwick: Mag
gle Dowell, Gaylord; Nellie Jenkin
SON. Mertilla; Mrs. Maude B. Cornett.
Rosalia-
The postoffice department has or
dered the establishment of five addi-
tional rural mail routes in Kansas as
follows:
Two routes out of Plains, one to
serve so families, and the other Il
families: one out of Hugoton to serve
az families; one out of St Francis to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
SAVED BOOKS FROM STORM.
Water Soaked History of Mathematics
Sent Back to Emporia Normal

Emporfa, Kan, Dec. 1.-Two water
soaked volumes of History of Mathe-
mates came by parcel post to the
Kansas Normal library at Emporia.
One was torn and its leaves were
stained with red. The other had lost
it's cover. A letter addressed to SUI
perintendent Senter of Great Bend
was found between the leaves of one
of the books.
You know we lost our home'' the
letter said. ''I am in no condition now
to study on my thesis. But 1 am COM
ing back to school soon and write it
anyhow. I saved the books and that
was about all. Sincerely, Blanche e.
Worden.'
WELL" said Librarian Kerr, when
he saw the books, 1T will take more
than tornadoes to stop education in
Kansas"