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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
FIRST SHOOT TONIGHT
Topeka Rifle Club Will Pick Its
National Tournament Team.
This Evening

The first indoor shoot of the Topeka
Rifle club will be held this evening in
the basement of the H. B. Howard
store on Kansas avenue to pick the
team that will compete in the first
official shoot of the national tourna-
ment which begins next week.
A team of 10 men will be picked
from the 118 members of the Topeka
club. The members of this team will
hold their places on the national
tournament team until some other
members make better scores and win
their places. This means that every
member of the club will have a chance
to participate in the national shoot,
even after the original team has been
picked, and it will tend to keep the
competition keen throughout. All
members of the club are urged to be
present at tonight's shoot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
WOMEN'S "DAY" CLUB
Kansas Female Patriots Plan Big Time
in Topeka Next Month.

An all day meeting will be held and
luncheon will be given by the Wom-
ems Kansas Day club at the First
Presbyterian church, January %.
Mrs. Eugene Ware of Kansas City
is president and has appointed the fol-
lowing chairnen to look after the
program: Mrs. Arthur Capper, social
committee, assisted by the women of
the social department of the Topeka
Federation of Women; Mrs. George
Parkhurst, music committee: Mrs.
A1brecht Marburg and Mrs Stephen
s. Estey publicity committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
GOES WITH FORD PARTY
Delegate to Represent Kansas
University in Europe.

Lawrence Kan, Dec. miss
Blanche Mullen of Hutchinson. Kan,
and a senior at the University of
Kansas. has been appointed by Henry
Ford as one of the passengers on his
peace ship. Miss Mullen is president
of the Women's Student Government
association Amos Pringle. another
University of Kansas student. left
Tuesday night to Join Ford's party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

Emporia, kan, Dec. 1.-The basket
ball season at the College of Emporia
has opened with a rush and a large
number of candidates for the team
have been out practicing this week.
Most Of the members of last years
team are out. Crib Altman, one of
the fastest floor men in the state last
year, will be in the game again. Wal
lace, Wilson, Todd, Davis and Bach
man. all members of last years team,
are out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
v. NJ. C. A. VOLLEY BALL.
Team Three Leads the League With a
Clean Record.

Team of the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
Volley Ball League gained the undis-
puted leadership of the league by de-
feating team 2 in straight games
Wednesday night. AS result of
Wednesday nights games, team 4 went
into second place, tied with team l.
The standing of the teams now is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

Philadelphia, Dec. George w.
Norris, of Nebraska. and George w.
Norris, of Pennsylvania, both are to
speak before the annual meeting of
the National Civil Service Reform
league here today. Civil service COM
country are expected to attend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02
TWO hundred Girls Make Homo.

Cleveland, Dec. 1.-Two hundred
girl pupils of the Shaw high school,
East Cleveland, are making a model
six-room practice homa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

And the play was to have been
around right end. Minnesota's back
field lunged off in this direction and
the two teams piled up on the end the
is, all piled up except Sprafka, who
was carrying the ball, and who
charged around the other end single
handed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

But, during the early part of the
game the B. H. hero did some bril-
liant playing, and finally when Mime
sofa had advanced the ball to Illinois
28-yard line, the quarterback called
out a signal that switched his team
for a play around right end
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

The longest forward pass recorded
in the United States during the past
season was the SIS yard aerial hurl by
spot" Geyer of Oklahoma.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

halfback position was what he learned
on the train that day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

Sprafka beat down or lodged every
tackler that attempted to stop him
and literally ran over several men in
his charge for the only touchdown
Minnesota made. Later Illinois made
one touchdown and the game ended
with the score a tie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

Few challenges are issued where
the challenger has not much to gain.
And few are accepted where every
thing is to be lost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

1t was only this week that the Min =
nesota coach gave out the true story
of the play and admitted that Sprafka
had mistaken the signals and that in
stead of following his interference
around right end, as he was supposed
to do. he went around left alone and
plowed his way across the goal line.
oh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

Coach Merner of the Kansas AggieS
is planning an indoor track meet to
be held some time before the holi-
days More than 100 candidates have
appeared for the preliminary prac-
tees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

Some story. eh!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

Pittsburg's challenge to Cornell
will meet about the same reception
the Normal challenge met at Baker
university.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

lei. is the latest recr1it in the ranks
of Kansas Cities having golf courses
The first tournament, in which mir :
pei sons participated, was held sewers =
GAYS ago The lola course, while st. i
in the embryo. experts say, offers eX-
cellent natural hazards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

The incident happened in the Min
nesota- Illinois game, and Sprafka, a
hitherto unknown halfback, was the
hero of the bonehead that saved the
day for his team
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

According to the Chicago Pos
story, Bierman, the Gopher captain
was laid up with an injured side JUS
before the game and at the last min
ute Coach Williams decided to give
Sprafka a chance. 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

H Con Pollock, manager of Freddie
Welsh, declares Welsh is ready to sign
articles to meet Charley White for the
championship belt. Declarations of
this sort have been made repeatedly,
but somehow Freddie has avoided
placing his title in serious danger.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08

The first and most successful In
dian school conducted by the United
States government within the bounds
OF the present state of Iowa was the
school among the Winnebago Indians
in northeastern Iowa Mr.. Jacob Van
der Zee, in publication Of the State
Historical society of Iowa, makes the
following statement concerning the
work of this school for the years 1912
and 1913: John L. Seymour acted as
principal from 1912 to 1843. He recon-
mended that Knitting and spinning be
added to the subjects taught to the
girls and that press and printer be
furnished the school. One hundred
and seventy children in every stage
OF advancement attended the school in
constantly varying numbers, depend
ing upon the season Of the year. Some
fifteen pupils walked ten miles daily
to the agency. The school was taught
two hundred and thirty-six days, exclu-
sive Of Sundays, when the children as
sembled for religious instruction. The
girls furnished nearly seven hundred
articles Of clothing, such as boys
coats, trousers, shirts, dresses. short
gowns, skirts, aprons, towels, bags,
bedticks, and pillow cases."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08
peEvENrAeLE FIRES.

State fire marshals. the federal
authorities and Are prevention experts
generally have estimated the proper
ton Of fires due to preventable causes
at between 25 and so percent of the
total number Of fires. The Texas
state insurance board. an official body,
holds that practically 80 percent OF
the fires are preventable by the exer-
else of reasonable care and protec-
ton. individual and municipal.
These figures Of the Texas board
are the more interesting because they
cover every fire reported to 1t by the
local authorities under the provisions
OF the state law since December I.
1910. now totaling $4,000. This is the
largest mass OF official data available.
and furnished a sufficiently broad
basis of average to be conclusive,
while the fact That It is furnished and
tabulated by local and state officials
puts It II, a different class from stats
tics collected by the insurance COM
panies, which might be suspected of
drawing conclusions to suit their own
interests. In fact. the state authori-
ties go much further than the insur-
ance men in estimating the proportion
of fires that are preventable.
or 1898 dwelling fires. the Texas
board holds that S6.2 percent were
due to preventable causes, and of the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08
eft and the reatil price of commodi-
ties did not decline.

The temperance board Of the
Churches of Christ at Franklin, Ind,
in study of the comparative cost OF
crime in two Pennsylvania counties
Green and Elk-publish the following
figures from the auditors report for
1909: Green county Is "dry" and Elk
county Is wet" The total cost to
the taxpayers in Green county for
boarding prisoners, grand jurors, peni-
Tertiary and workhouse, reform
schools and commonwealth costs are
given at s2s,8s2. while the expense for
Elk county for the same items was
.$35.S71, showing that it cost about
81, 900 less to run the courts in a dry
than in wet county.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08
ELvAsToN, ILL.

Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Roasa enter.
tanned Mrs. Albert Stracke Of War
saw, over Sunday.
Harve Marshall, Paul Marshall and
Lynn Campbell are doing the Peoria
celebration this week.
The B. w. AS had splendid time
at their reunion and picnic at Rand
park last Saturday. They all took
their lunches and after good social
time, they lunched and shopped and
then visited some more and then had
supper and after taking number OF
pictures. returned home via the Wa
bash and Ford routes. Those present
were the Misses Roasa, Martin, Gar
vey, Rehner, Grauff, Elsie Hamilton
and Emily Hall, s.s
Thoda wallace, Orr Campbell, Will
Puntney and Earl Henderson, with
Earl Sollars as chauffeur, went to
Peoria Tuesday morning.
Mr.. Garvey's Sunday school class
gave their first class party Wednes-
day night at Clark Webster's. This
large class, with few invited guests,
made a house full and games were
played and a general good time was
had until late hour when large
plate Of ice cream and three pieces OF
cake was served to each guest. After
a number of important class matters
were attended to. the guests took
their departure. These parties we're
very popular last year and it is the
plan of the class to have a series OF
parties again this winter. Besides
the twenty-five members Of the class,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. s. Mack, Miss Maud
Groom, Mr.. A. w. Wilson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Whitcomb and the Ems
lows were invited
A few of Lester Thomas friends
surprised him Tuesday night. A splen.
did time was reported.
The Elvaston Household Science
club met with Mrs. VIII Poland We'd
nesday afternoon. After roll call, to
which all responded with "a hint on
serving" the lesson was read and
commented upon by several present.
The hostess treated the club to water
melon. AS it is not the custom for the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08
IN FIVE MINUTES
NO SICK STOMACH,
INDIGESTION, GAS
"PAPE,s DlAPEPsIN" is THE
QUICKEST AND SUREST
STOMACH RELIEF.

II what you Just ate is souring on
your stomach or lies like lump of
lead, refusing to digest, or you belch
gas and eructate sour, undigested food,
or have feeling OF dizziness, heart
burn fullness, nausea, bad taste in
mouth and stomach headache, you can
surely get relief in five minutes.
Ask your pharmacist to show you
the formula, plainly printed on these
fifty-cent cases Of Pape's Diapepsin,
then you will understand why dys-
peptic troubles of all kinds must go.
and why it relieves, sour, out-of-order
stomachs Or Indigestion in five min
utes. @Pape's Diapepsin" Is harmless !;
tastes like candy. though each dose
will digest and prepare for assimila-
ton into the blood all the food You
eat: besides, it makes you 20 to the
table with healthy appetite: but
what will please you most. is that you
will feel that your stomach and intes-
tines are clean and fresh, and you
will not need to resort to laxatives or
liver pills for biliousness or consti-
patton.
This city will have many "Pape's
Diapepsin" cranks, as some people
will call them, but you will be en-
thusiastic about this splendid stomach
preparation, too, If you ever take 1t
for Indigestion, gases, heartburn sour
ness, dyspepsia. or any stomach mis-
cry.
Get some now. this minute. and rid
yourself Of stomach misery and indi-
gestion in FIVE minutes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08
AEIER The MAR,

Edward F. insolvency, of Boston.
chairman Of the directors of the port,
presented a report at the convention
of port authorities which has just
been in session at Los Angeles, in
which he deals with some features Of
our export business which have hithe.-
Ito escaped attention. He regards Que
present export trade as proceeding
under an artificial stimulation; and
points out that of the present billion
dollar trade balance in our favor over
$500 100000 are exports solely for
war munitions ammunition, horses.
auto trucks. army shoes, foodstuffs.
etc trade which will cease the in
slant the war comes to close. Tals
leaves a balance Of only $300,000,0 G0
Of exports Of what might be termed
regular merchandise" an export
smaller than that of any year since
1909, and almost $20o,O00000 less
than in the year before the war.
"Comparinn the present year of ex-
ports from the United States with that
of the year before the war, we find
we have exported only 80 per cent as
much agricultural implements, SO per
cent as mitch sewing machines and 80
per cent as much steel rails. The
most lamentable fact in connection
with these figures is that we are los
ing as much, If not more, to the eoun-
tries which are not at war as to those
which have given up domestic pursuits
to take up armed conflict" says the
report.
The report continues to say that
last years figures show that our Sc"
ing machine export trade in 1915 was
only "a per cent of the 1914 figures,
to South America but 20 per cent and
to all of Africa, Asia and the Pa
cific islands It was but 35 per cent OF
the previous year.
Our exports Of the staple merchan-
disc which we hope to sell under
normal conditions after war are small
Ter by large percentage in practic-
ally everything except war orders
and we are losing our export trade
much faster to the neutral countries
than to the belligerent ones.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08
Try This If You
Have Dandruff

There Is one sure way that never fails
to. remove dandruff completely and that
is to dissolve it. This destroys it en-
tirely. To do this, just get about four
ounces of plain, ordinary liquid arvon !;
apply it at night when retiring; use
enough to noisten the scalp and rub it
in gently with t.. finger tips.
By morning, most if not all, of your
dandruff will be gone, and three or four
more applications will completely dis
solve and entirely destroy every single
sign and trace of it, no matter how much
dandruf you may have.
You will find, too, that all itching and
digging of the scalp will stop instantly,
and your hair will be fluffy, 1ustrous,
glossy, silky and soft, and look and feel
q hundred times better
You can get liquid arvon at any drug
store It is inexpensive, and four
ounces is all you will need. This simple
remedy has never been known to fail.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08
The LOVE oF HEALTH.

IF any one doubts that this is an era
of health propaganda he must, indeed,
be oblivious of what is going on about
him. Municipal. state and national
agencies are using forces and funds
at their disposal to further, the inter.
ests Of public hygiene. Educational
influences are directing their energies
to the spread Of the lessons Of procur-
able health in public print and in doc
uments of both official and unofficial
character. Novels and short stories
the literature of biography and travel.
the platform and even the pulpit are
proclaiming the gossip of health far
and wide. The medical profession,
more enthusiastic IL not more vitality
interested than any other group in the
promotion and outcome Of the modern
hygienic movement, may well stop
from time to time to inquire about the
sanity of the methods of the propa-
ganda. The religious doctrine Of past
ages involved the threat Of harm; It
inculcated a fear Of the destruction or
danger that was sure to follow the vio-
1ation of the law This dismal atti-
tude has long since been replaced by
anticipation. In the health propa-
B2Hud, llhe" ist, LhuSh vi Iho Pcooi
mistic attitude, unconscious1y per-
hans, has been introduced In the past.
The fear of disease has been held
over the heads of the people. Rarely
have we seen the more appropriate
spirit of the modern better health"
movement better expressed than in a
recent pamphlet Of the Life Extension
Institute. iTt is not fear of Illness
or of death that we should encourage,
but a love OF health. a sense OF re-
sponsibility for the care of our bodies,
q desire for bodily endurance and eff
cheney and full achievement. II the
mind is fixed on these ideals, and the
already known means Of approaching
them are utilized. the needless mis-
cries that embitter the lives Of so
many may be left to take care of
thems elves 1t Is not so much neces-
sarv to fight disease as to cultivate
health for the happiness, contentment
and moral gain that it brings There
is something unusually optimistic and
buoyant in such words SAYS the Jour
nal of the American Medical associa-
ton. They embody the psychologist
cue to comfort and happiness for
many patient. without implying that
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08

the other. A short program will pre-
cede the debate. The officers Of the
new society are: Leota McGaw, presi-
dent; Floyd Stumpf, vice president:
Alma Martin, secretary and Leonard
Ewing, treasurer.
Earl Kerr has purchased the Clark
Webster restaurant and cream bust
ness and will take possession early
next week.
The Wetzel property will be sold
at sheriff's sale next Tuesday at the
postoffice corner, as announced
Wesley Ewing is at Hot Springs,
Ark, for his health. Mr.. Ewing Is
suffering with erysipelAs and is hope
full OF being benefited by the baths
there. His eye sight is about gone.
Clifford Baxter recently purchased
q tractor and he says for all his
friends to bring him their fall plow-
ing.
We received our first serious visit
from Jack Frost Monday night. He
returned Tuesday night and did faith
full work on both trips. Light frosts
took place in August, but the results
were not damaging. This time he did
deadlier work.
A Halloween box supper will be
given in the school house basement
Saturday evening, the proceeds to go
to the library fund. The high
school pupils are the sponsors.
Herman Bachmab and wife are
Peoria visitors this week.
Mrs. Mills of Ia Harpe came down
and Grandma Kinkade and she are
attending the Bowen Korn Karnival
this week.
Clifford Baxter has a force Of TWEEN
ty-eight men working on his silo fill
ing work this week. Mrs. Baxter Is
serving dinner and supper to the
crew, doing all the work unassisted,
preferably so.
Waldo Balloon, Grace Marshall,
Floyd Stunlpf and Alma Martin
viewed the surrounding country via
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08

hostesses to serve, the refreshments
came as a pleasant surprise.
The report for September in our
school shows Lucille Ewing. Gene
Lewis, Greta Dowdall. leila Caldwell
Charles Dowdall, Glen Price. Don
Lewis. Leota McGaw, Nellie Horney
and Leonard Ewing as having been
neither absent nor tardy from high
school. In the lower rooms, Esther
Hanson, Miriam Miller, Lorene Ger
ard, Marie Dowdall, Marie Duncan
Lois Ewing, Hazel Martin, Grace Nc
Cav, Velma Sollars, Leslie Kerr, Ray
mond Dowdall, Robert Martin and
Ernest Thompson, with Lester Nc
Ginnis, Florine Brenning. John Ger
ard, Roy Caldwell, Gladys Miller
Dorothy Poland and Iva Thompson OF
the primary room, enjoy the same
honor.
Grandma Balloon was able to be
out Thursday by using clutches.
Aunt Mary MCGEE is in the Keokuk
hospital for an operation on her
eyes, late reports say she is progress.
ing marvelously, being able to see
across the room now.
A literary. athletic and musical So
ciety has been organized In the high
school, and public programs will be
given once month in the literary
and musical work. Friday evening
the first program will be given. 1t
will consist Of a debate, the question
for discussion being relative to the
abolition Of capital punishment. Pro.
lessor Lenbaugh and Don Lewis will
take one side Of the issue and Rev
Todd WI help Floyd Stumpf argue
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08

Before an Insurance Company will
take a risk on your life the examining
physician will test the urine and re-
port whether you are good risk.
When your kidneys get sluggish and
clog. you suffer from backache, sick
headache. dizzy spells, or the twingas
and pains of lumbago rheumatism and
govt. The urine is often cloudy, full
of sediment; channels often get sore
and sleep is disturbed two or three
times a night. This is the time you
should consult some physician OF wide
eyperience-such as DR.. Pierce, OF the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Buffalo, n. Y. Send him 10 cents for
sample package Of his new discovery
-'.An-urtc" Write him your synp-
toms and send a sample of urine for
test. Experience has taught DR.. Pierce
that "An-uric' is the most powerful
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-08

22.602 fires in all other classes except
cotton gins and automobiles, which
are excluded because they burn from
inherent causes, the board holds that
|744S percent We're preventable. Com
menting on these figures the Texas
board says:
at will be noted in the data herein
presented that more than IS percent
of all fires charged to the dwelling
class alone, from known causes. are
the result Of defective fiues. The I'M
safe installation of stoves and other
heating devices in that class of risks
is responsible for II percent of losses
while sparks on roof produced more
than percent of dwelling fires. The
ever-present menace of the shingle
roof is in evidence on every hand
carrying heavy percentage of losses.
It will be noted that gasoline and
other volative fires are entered with
a loss ratio in all classes entirely out
Of keeping with conditions as they
should be, due almost entirely to i'm
proper. storage and careless handling
of those products"