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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-13

SEALED PROPOSALS for the fol-
lowing supplies will be received
at the office of the Commissioners
of Light and Water, City Hall, City
OF Tacoma, Washington, between
the hours of Q A. M. and IL A. NJ.
on Friday, October 22nd, 1915.
Ten Thousand Dollars ts10.00O.00o
worth of incandescent lamps to be
delivered I. o. b. Tacoma, Washing
ton, to the City OF Tacoma, within
one year. and In such quantities as
may be ordered from time to time
by the Commissioner of Light and
Water of said City; said lamps to
be billed only as shipped, each ship
ment to be paid for within thirty
900 days from date said shipment
is received, according to specifica-
tions on file In the office of tho
Commissioner of Light and Water.
Amount of bond required, ST.
10000.
Proposals must be made on
printed form furnished by said
Commissioner and accompanied by
certified check for five per cent of
amount of proposal, made payable
to the order of the Commissioners
of Light and Water The Commis-
sioner reserves the right to reject
any and all of the bids.
JAMES G. DRAKE,
Commissioners of Light and Water.
Oct. S-9-11-12-1S, 1915.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-13
Larry Soon Will Be
Ready For Business

all the trouble. I'm certainly GO
ing to do my level best to make
good"
There is still nearly 800 in
the Sullivan fund to be used in
the purchase of stock and for the
first two months rent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-13
FUNERALS
, o o o o o @ o o o o o o %


Mrs. B. F. Ball, IS, Monday;
leaves widower, son, two daugh-
tiers and two brothers; funeral
Sunday at st. Paul's M. e. church
at 3 p. m. Rev. RAIDER.
j. r. Odds, Sc; yesterday at To-
cal hospital; l.. M. Gaffney in
charge.
Shida Hara; yesterday at her
home 760 Market street; funeral
tomorrow at 1 o'clock from Buck
ley-King's.
Marie s. Hoitt; in Portland,
Sept. 30; former resident of Ia
coma for nearly three years; sur
vived by widower, daughter and
infant son.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-13
SULTAN WILL
Be Good NOW?

ROME, Oct. 13.-Replying to
the pope's personal letter, the
sultan has promised to comply
with the request that the Armen-
ian massacres be stopped, a semi
official correspondent today sail.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-13

LOCAL Improvement District No.
264.-Notice is hereby given that
I'M pursuance of Ordinance No. pat
OF the City of Tacoma. a roll has
been placed in my hands for the
collection of the 9th annual in
stallment of tho assessment levied
for the Improvement of ID" Street
from south 9TH Street and the
Ave. to Jefferson Street and thar
part Of the Intersection of ST,
Helens Avenue and South eth
street, not paved, except that part
to be paved by thu Tacoma Rail-
way u Power Company under It's
franchise. Said Improvement con-
sists IN grading said ID" Street
and Intersection of st. Helens Ave.
nue. and South 9th Street, to the es-
tablished grade. with roadway
fifty feet in width, and I'm laying
down on said streets a permanent
pavement of Asphalt, Bituminous
Rock or Brick, with cutters on a
concrete base; except on street in
tersections, where the pavement
shall consist of Sandstone Blocks.
with brick cutters on n concrete
base. said Improvement shall al
SO consist In constructing concrete
ana granite curbs, and the ueces-
sary storrs water drainage, also en-
tending all walks to the curb. taxi
Ing up and relaying the same when
necessary
Said installment may be paid on
paid on or before said date added
interest, penalty and costs will at
tach.
city Treasurer.
Sept. 20, Oct. Ella, 1915.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-13

LOCAL Improvement District No.
572. Notice Is hereby given
that in pursuance of Ordinance No.
4737 of the City Of Tacoma, roll
has been placed in my hands for
the collection of the 4th annual in
stallment of the assessment levied
for laying a twelve inch wooden
water main on Park Avenue from
South 72nd Street to South 18th
Street, and six inch wooden wa
ter main on South 73rd Street,
South 74th Street and South 18th
Street from Park Avenue to 81"
Street and on ~" Street from South
72nd Street to South 18th Street
Said installment may be paid on
or before November 9Th, 1915, but IL
not paid on or before said date,
added interest, penalty and costs
will attach.
CHAS d. ATKINS.
City Treasurer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-13

DR.. Dinkey has been elected
president of the Midvale Steel
company.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-13

Rummage Sale, OF Pac. av.,
Oct 1915. adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-13

Rummage Sale, 52ff Union
av., So. Tacoma, Friday, Satur-
day. adv.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
Subscription Rate to Raise.

Beginning with June 1, 1915, the sub
scription price of the Free Press will be
$3.50 per year. All subscriptions dur
ing the piano contest which ends April
22nd, and up to June LIST, will be receiv-
ed at $1.00 per year.
This increase in the price of subscrip-
ton has been contemplated for some
time, and is due to the fact that every
thing pertaining to the publishing of a
paper has gone up in price. Salaries
are higher than five years ago. Paper
costs more and all other expenses which
enter in the building of paper have
advanced.
Many weekly papers over the state
and country are raising their rates, and
daily papers are being compelled to
place the selling price of their publica-
lions at two cents per copy. It's simply
business proposition, and we feel that
our subscribers will so take it.
Remember that during the contest
and up to June 1, 1915, the paper can be
had for S1.OO per year-any number of
years, after which the subscription
price will be S1.5O. The publishers will
spare neither pains nor expense to make
the Free Press worth the money.
Respectfully,
A. L. Clark & Son.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
OBITUARY

The following was handed to the Free
Press with request to publish. Mr.. Gil
bert was formerly resident of Ellis
County and will perhaps be remember
ed by many of the old-timers.
A A. Gilbert was born in Lee Co.,
Va, Nov. 26, 1886 and died in Topeka,
Kansas, Feb. 10, 1915. He was married
to Sarah Elizabeth Grader, Sept. 16,
1862, in Calhoun Co., Ill. He came to
Kansas in 1873 and has lived in Topeka,
Kansas, for the last four years. His
death will bring sincere sorrow to a
wide circle of friends. His life has
been one of rare beauty, a life of use
fulness, of devotion of the wrong. He
leaves eleven children to mourn his loss,
Ada Gilbert, Carrie Hastings, Amanda
Sisco, Grover Gilbert, Roy Gilbert,
Lowe Gilbert, Alva Gilbert, all of
Topeka, Kansas; John Gilbert, Great
Bend, Kansas; Lenard Gilbert, Maple
Hill, Kansas; Arthur Gilbert, Denver,
Colo, and George Gilbert, San Diego,
Calf. His body was laid to rest by the
side of his wife, in Bloomfield cemetery
near Rock Creek, Kansas.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
Training for the Housewives.

The failure of former shop and fac
tory girls as wives and housekeepers
is often commented upon by American
social workers. In this connection it
is interesting to note the establish
ment in LeIpsic of a compulsory con
tinuation school for unmarried women
employed in industry.
According to the regulations pro-
vided for this purpose by the NUM-
cipal council all unmarried women
who have finished the public schools
and who live, or are employed in in
dustrial, mercantile or other estab-
Hshments in Leipsic are compelled to
attend this continuation school for
three years. Even unemployment is
not accepted as an excuse for failure
to attend the school Housekeeping is
the central subject taught, although
instruction is also to be given in in
dustrial and general subjects. The
number of hours of instruction ranges
from four to six each week. In addi-
ton to the compulsory features of the
school, provision is also made for vol
untary attendance on the part Of girls
living at home or in service.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
ONE OF LIES GREAT TASKS
Showing Boys and Girls Their Work
May Be Properly Described as
the Divine Profession.

There are no men nor women alive,
of too deep visioning, nor of too lus-
trous humanity, for the task of show
ing boys and girls their work. No other
art answers so beautifully This is the
intense cultivation of the human spirit.
This is world-parenthood, the divine
profession.
Il would have my country call upon
every man who shows vision and fine
or two each day, among the schools
of his neighborhood, telling the chill
dren the mysteries of his daily task
and watching for his own among
them"
There was an old priest who served
men in Siberia. Around him, in that
bleak winter land, were the best and
worst of the Russian empire. He tend
ed the sick, and prayed with them;
brought food, cut wood, procured
medicines, watched with the dying,
prepared the dead. A certain young
Red came out to the colony and OBJ
served the priests manner of life.
Father he said, finally, should
think you would lose your soul in the
midst of such misery and evil and
darkness-as our life here is made Of
THE old man leaned back and
looked ct the ceiling, shutting his eyes.
Well, now, that's queer he said,
presently. I had almost forgotten that
I had a soul Will Lexington Com
fort.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
Who Go to Church,

The facts about church member
ship are contained in United States
census bulletin No. 1913, and the per-
centage of church membership in the
total population is given for the year
1906, 26 years after Kansas has be-
come a prohibition state. According
20 this tabulation, which is the latest
obtainable, the lowest percentage of
church membership was in Oklahoma,
including Indian Territory, the rate
being 1872. The rate in New York was
43.7; in Pennsylvania, 43; in Illinois,
3S.3; in Nebraska, 1924; in Maine, 29.S;
and in Kansas, 2S.4. Forty-three
states had a larger percentage Of
membership than had Kansas.
Since this tabulatIon was made up,
two of the four states that had a low
er rate of church membership than
had Kansas, namely Oklahoma and
West Virginia, have joined the ranks
Of the prohibition states. OF the six
states, therefore, having the lowest
rate of church membership in the
United States, four are prohibition
states.-Royal E. CabelI in Leslie's.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
Benefit IN WAGGING EARS
Exercise Is Declared by Physicians to
Have an Excellent Effect of
the Hearing.

You will rarely find that man who
can wag his ears suffers from deaf
ness. The reason for this is very SIM
pie. Wagging ones ears exercises
them just as much as walking exer-
cises the muscles of the legs. A great
deal of deafness is caused by the mus
cles of the ears becoming stiff and
refusing to respond quickly to the
sound waves.
Quite large proportion of children
can move their ears, just as they can
move the skin on their forehead up
and down, but as they grow up they
lose their power through want of prac-
tice. 1t is mistake to let a child lose
this power, for it may mean the diff
ference between good and bad hearing
in after years.
DR.. NJ. Fernet, the famous Paris doc
tor, has even gone so far as to suggest
that people should be trained to wag
their ears just as they are trained to
exercise any other muscles of the
Dody.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
Miss Florence Starr Wins $1,000
Miss Jessie GOsser Very Close Second.

Miss Jessie GOsser Very Close Second.
The second count in the Free Press
Piano Contest was held Friday evening,
March 18th, and resulted as follows:
Miss Florence Starr made the greatest
gain with q $50 votes to her credit and
was awarded the Special Prize of $1,000
in Gold. Miss Jessie Gosser was second
with "a, 700 votes and Miss Vida Howie
third with 19, 275 votes. Miss Freshour
and Miss Campbell were also active but
did not do quite so well. Look out for
them at the Final Count, April 22nd at
Bpm. Be sure and have all your votes
in by 3 o. m. as no votes will be accept
ed. after that hour. The contest Is on
in earnest now and several of the con-
testants have almost an equal chance to
win the piano. Miss Starr has done ex-
ceptionally good work this month and
although her total of votes to date is
over 10, 600 votes behind the leader, she
is close contender for the grand prize.
One ten year subscription would put
her in the lead. Some of the contest
ants are not getting the merchant cou-
pons they should. Are you calling your
frinds' attention TO this? See that they
ask for them. This count shows all Of
you just how hard you need to work to
win and you are surely in the race to
win otherwise you would not be working
at all Remember the following mer-
chants are issuing 25 vote coupons on
A-lr f0r-
them.
The following is the total of votes for
each active contestant to date:
Miss Vida Howie, Al, 800.
Miss Jessie Gosser, sc, 400.
Miss Florence Starr, 30,975.
Miss Thelda Campbell, 20,625,
! Miss Esther Freshour, SITS.
Miss Flora Troth, 4,075.
Miss Katie Sargent, 1725.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
Hair PuIIina 4 Disease.

Hair pulling isn't confined to mari
tai disputes. There is a curious af-
Fiction, more of nerves than Of the
skin, called triehotillomania, which
causes people to pull out their own
hair. In the last number of the Jour
nal Of the American Medical Associa-
ton a Kansas City specialist describes
two cases which he treated. A young
woman of twenty-seVen was in the
habit of pulling out her eyebrows; a
schoolboy Of fourteen tweaked the
hairs out of the left side Of his head.
The hair pulling was Involuntary; ir-
resistable impulses, coming suddenly,
caused them to do it. Rest, freedom
from worry and tonic containing
arsenic produced noticeable improve
ment in both cases.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
Visit Native City After Many Years.

Messrs. John E. and Thomas B. Far
rel, the former of Hays, Kansas, and
the latter of Salida, Colorado, VINO have
been in the west for many years, are
visiting their sisters, Mrs Farrell and
the Misses Farrell Of 706 Fourteenth
street, and Mrs. Mary ]. Orr of 1910
Ninth street, they having come east to
attend the funeral of their brother,
Nelson Farrell, who died few days
ago at his home in New Castle.
Both men were born and raised near
what is now East Altoona and resided
here during their bOyhood, but left
many years ago for the west MANY of
their boyhood friends still resi- ie here
and they are being extensively enter
tanned during their visit.
The Farrell brothers own farms in
Ellis county, Kansas, and are among
the thousands of Kansas farmers who
benefited by the past years bumper
wheat crop. They also predict a fair
crop for this year, though it viii not
likely reach last years record.
While both have been in the west
many years, John Farrell, who makes
his headquarters in Ellis county, vas
east on a visit four years ago. Thomas
has not been eas5 for thirty-six years.
He notices many changes Ii Altoona.
He finds the Logan House, few of the
shops and some of the older business
places and homes the same as they
were, but he still calls Eleventh avenue
Virginia street and. sees little resemb-
lance between the Altoona of today and
that of forty years ago. 1t is forty
years since he left the city and in that
time he has travelled extensively over
the entire country and in Alaska, with
out ever visiting his old home. -Altoona
Mirror, Altoona, Pennsylvania.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.
NOTICE OF CONTEST NO. 2s1.
United States Land Office, Topeka, Kan
sas, Feb. is, 1915.

United States Land Office, Topeka, Kan
sas, Feb. is, 1915.
To John L. Dreher of Liebenthal, Kan
sas, Contestee:
You are hereby notified that Nick
Dreher who gives Schoenchen, Kansas,
as his post-office address, did on Jan.
q, 1915, file in this Office his duly cor
roborated application to contest and Sc
cure the cancellation of your homestead
Entry No. O341, Serial No. O341 made
Sept. 8, 1908, for NE4 NEM Section
26, Township Is South, Range 19 West,
9Th prin. meridian, and as grounds for
his contest he alleges that John L.
Dreher has fully abandoned said tract,
removed his house therefrom and re-
moved to the State of Idaho, and that
he has left the State of Kansas and
totally abandoned said land for more
than one year.
You are, therefore, further notified
that the said allegations will be taken
as confessed, and your said entry viii
be Cancelled without further right to be
heard, either before this Office or on ap-
peal, If you fail to file in this Office
within twenty days after the fourth
publication of this notice, as shown be-
low, your answer, under oath, specific
ally responding to these allegations of
contest, together with due proof that
you have served copy of your answer
on the said contestant either In person
or by registered mail.
You should state in your answer the
name of the post-office to which you de-
sire future notices to be sent to you.
A. P. Tone Wilson Jr., Register.
John E. Barrett, Receiver.
Date of first publication, Feb. q, 1915
g 80 second 90 March s, 1915.
- " third Z" March-13, 1915.
- /" fourth g March 20, 1915.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
The Order of Merit.

In the whole of the Almanach de
Gotha there is no decoration so ex-
elusive as the Order Of Merit which
has just been personally conferred on
Sir John French by King George The
commander in chief of the British
army in the field shares this distinc-
ton with only one other British sol
dier-Lord Kitchener-and three ad-
miraIs, Lord Fisher, Sir Edward Ho-
bart Seymour and Sir A K Wilson.
Marshal Oyama, Admiral Toga and
Marshal Yamagata are the only for
eign members of the order. Instituted
in 1902 by King Edward for those pre-
eminent in the fighting services, in
literature. art and science. the order
is essentially democratic and confers
no special title or personal prece-
dence on the holder.-London Chron-
icle
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
First published March 6, 1850

First published March 6, 1850
Notice of Appointment Administrator
State of Kansas
Ellis County 30
In the matter of the estate of John Ter
fas, Jr., late of Ellis County, de-
ceased.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.
Notice is hereby given that on the
3rd day of March A. D. 1915, the under
signed was, by the Probate Court of
Ellis County, Kansas, duly appointed
and qualified as Administrator of the
Estate of John Zerfas, late of Ellis
County, deceased. All parties interest
ed in said estate will take notice and
govern themselves accordingly.
Jacob Zerfas,
Attest: F. E. McLain, Administrator.
Probate Judge.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
Secret Closely Kept.

Cologne's toilet water industry,
which is being so seriously affected
by the war, was established in the
beginning Of the seventeenth cen
tury. The inventors of toilet water
(eau-de-Cologne) were Paul Feminis
and Maria C1ementine, a Catholic
nun. They began on small scale,
with few persons employed, whom they
did not initiate into the secrets Of the
whole process, the last and most i'm
portant mixture being made by the
inventors themselves. Paul Femfnis
left the secret with the Farina fam
lily, while the nun bequeathed the Sc
cret to one Peter Schaeben, who had
been her assistant for many years.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
Mrs PenfieId,s Decoration.

Mrs. Frederick c. Pendeld, wife of
the American ambassador at Vienna,
has been awarded the grand cross of
the order Of St Elizabeth by Emperor
Francis Joseph for her kindness to the
soldiers This is the first time that
the order has been conferred on
lady not connected with the imperial
family. Mrs. Penfield was the widow
Of a wealthy Philadelphia before she
became the wife Of Mr. Penfeld, and
has always been noted for her charity.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
Ancient kim Terror.

~ mentioned nowadays, but in the
year 80 B. c. he was the terror Of the
world. He killed his own family,
slaughtered seven different kings and
their courts, marched through Asia
and left everywhere trails Of dead. He
invaded Greece and there slaughtered
nearly half a million human beings,
then he marched against Rome with
awful carnage. In his own army he
lost only $4,000 men, but he is thought
to have killed at least twenty times
that number of his enemies.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
THE CHURCHES.
Baptist Church Notes.


1000 q. m. Bible School
1I:00 a. m. Preaching.
Gas p. m. 3. Y. P. U.
7:30 p. m. Preaching.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
at 7:30.
Choir practice Thursday evening from
Z to 8.
The Upper Solomon Valley Baptist S.
S. and B. Y. P. U. convention will meet
with the Hays Baptist church, at 1O-a.
m. Monday, March %, and close Tues
day night. Rev. J. M. Powell of Salina
will speak Monday night. A general
invitation is extended everybody to at
tend these services.
G. T. Mckee, Pastor.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27

We have some extra good, young
mares for sale.-Azel Cochran.
For q good milk cow or fat hog, call
phone GIT, or inquire of Ed Kraus.
If you need a milk COW, see me at
once.-Azel Cochran.
Mares, horses and mules for sale.
viii sell on time, with approved Sc
curity. John OLoughlin.
20tf.
We have an extraordinary bunch
of high class milk cows.-Azel COch-
ran.
Watkins Remedies sold on a guaran-
tee. Eighty-five different articles.
Stock and poultry remedies, extracts
and spices, toilet articles, teas, soaps
and liniments.
L. E. Miller, Salesman.
m14w4 Phone No. 293, Hays, Kans.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-27
Trinity Lutheran Notes.

1000 a. m. Sunday School.
HOO a. m. Palm Sunday Sermon.
Subject: 1.-TWO Triumphal Entries. !"
Miss Johnson will play violin solo,
Faure's ''The Palms.
$50 p. m. Christian Endeavor Prayer
Meeting.
7:3O p. m. Public worship. Subject:
''Christ, the King"
Prof. Obert's playing of the Moon
light Sonata at the morning service
last Sunday, was very much enjoyed.
The Holy Communion will be observed
on Thursday evening, April l, at 7:30
o'clock.
Everybody is cordially invited to
these services.