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Wedding
| Anniversary
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Dunlap enter.
tanned several Of their neighbors and
friends. Thursday evening, the occas-
ion being their wedding anniversary.
Those present we're: Mr.. and Mrs.
!. J. Watson, Mr.. and Mrs. w. N.
Butcher and sons. Fred and Robert,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Squires, Mrs. Oliver
Watson, Mrs. Earl Hayes, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. G. Hunter and Miss Lena
Hunter.
An elegant supper was served and
the evening delightfully."- spent.
Smith-WiIliamson
Wedding
Mr. Howard Smith and Miss Low.
ella Williamson were united in mar
riage Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock
by Rev. J. A. Long at his home on
East Vine street Mrs. Williamson,
the brides mother, attended the cou.
pie. They left shortly for Rittman,
Wayne county. where the bridegroom
is employed in paper mill.
sterrett-styers
Wedding
Rev. ]. A. Long, at his home on
East Vine street, performed the cere-
mony Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock
which welded Mr.. Scott ]. Sterrett
Of Howard and Miss Naomi Irene
Styers Of Butler township. The cou.
pie was attended by Miss Gardner
and Miss McKinstrey of Gambler.
They will live in Millersburg.
sharpe-6eek
Nuptials
Mr.. Harry r. Sharpe and Miss Jen.
ME r. Beck, both of this city, were
married Saturday afternoon at 4:3O
o'clock in the parsonage of the Bap-
tist church, Rev. G. Rector Dye offic-
iating. The couple was attended by
the mother of the bride. They will
reside in Mt. Vernon.
8ruic- Marshall
Wedding
MIR: Charles Bruic. a College town
ship farmer. and Miss Clara Belle
Marshall of F'redericktown were mar
ried Saturday AFTERNOON at o'clock
by Rev. J. A. Long at his home on
East Vine street. They will reside
on the bridegroom's farm.
GouId-Brown
Wedding
Mr.. Samuel J. Gould and Miss
Mary Elizabeth Brown. Centerburg
couple. were welded Saturday after
noon at o'clock by Rev. Z. f. Whit
taker. The bridegroom is stone
mason and the couple will reside in
Cent arhurg
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-12-21
UNCLAIMED MAIL

To avoid delay in delivery have
your mail addressed to street and
number, p. o. box or general delivery
The following letters remain un
claimed in the Mt Vernon post-of1cs:
Advertised Dec. 20. 1915.
Benton, George
BickneIl, VIM.
Boz, p. o.
Erow, Mrs. c. c.
Farquhar, Miss Edna
Gilmore, @. II.
Goff, Mr.
Haines. NJ. Il. (2) r. w.
Hitler, Granville Z
Mapes. Charles
Cary, John
I Patterson, McGugin & Blythe
Virgins, NJ.
Foreign
Patterson, Mrs. Peter
8. @. DOwDS, Postmaster.
Harry Haynes of o. 8. u, Colum
bus. came home Sunday evening TO
Christmas vacation.
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Supt and Mrs. Clarence Underwood
Of Painesville are guests OF relatives
here.
Miss Margaret c. DooIittie Of Miss
Kinks school, Bryn Mavr. Pa. In
spending the holidays here With Miss
Mary DooiittIe and Mr.. and Mrs. H.
X. Dcolittle.
Alfred Fish, Jr, who is attending
Michigan Agricultural college, Ian.
sing, Mich, II home for the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Parker and
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-12-21
BORROW MONEY

FROM THE BUCKEYE STATE
BUILDING AND LOAN CON-
PANY, RANKIN BUILDING, 22
WEST GAY STREET, coLUM-
BUS, OHIO.
1. We loan on homes and farms
2. To the extent of one-half of their
actual value.
3. First mortgage required.
4. Abstracts required.
5. Borrowers can pay back i'm whole
or in part at any time.
s. Time Of farm loans on or before
five years.
z. Assets s9,600,0OO. Call or write
for further information.
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8ruic-MarshaIi
Weddinq
Gould Brown
Wedding

Mr.. Samuel J. Gould and Miss
Mary Elizabeth Brown. Centerburg
couple. were welded Saturday after.
noon at o'clock by Rev. f. f. Whit.
taker. The bridegroom is stone
mason and the couple will reside in
Centerburg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
JayhaWker Jots

According. to the Winfield Courier,
the fishing parties seem to put cork
screw into their outfit before they get
any bait.
Speaking of Przemysl, q family out
in Riley county answers to the name
of Pfuetze, that is, if anybody is able
to call them by it.
According to the Norton Champion,
hypnotism is defined as a psychology
cal charlatanry on the vaudeville
stage performed by confederates, gulls
and chumps.
Ruth Alexander People of the Erie
Record is on the hunt for the old
fashioned woman who used to invite
company home with her after
church for Sunday dinner.
As the Harrington Sun figures it out:
With a foreign war-anarchy in Mex
ica-low tariff-American war tax
industrial unrest-no election for an
other year-this year should afford a
splendid opportunity to grow profit
from a kitchen garden.
A Missourian, who lives over near
Sugar lake, says there are a lot of
crows that roost in the trees near his
house, tells the Atchison Globe. He
says they left for the fields early last
Sunday morning, but that during the
afternoon the wind blew so terrifically
the crows had to walk home.
One of the stories going the rounds
of the Kansas papers: A young man
in the country had a tender passion
and took his girl some flowers. 'tHow
kind of you,'' said the girl, Ito bring
me these lovely flowers. 1 think there
is some dew on them yet Yes" said
the youth in visible embarrassment,
there is, but 1 am going to pay it off
tomorrow
The Erie Record is authority for
the statement that a wOman's idea of
a good time is to ''black BALI neigh
Dor who is trying to get into her club.
Messenger: A word of appreciation is
worth a chapter of advice. Those
who do their work well never have to
worry about their salary To the
average person a sunset is far more
beautiful than q sunrise. Now for
the season when the fisherman begins
his ''watchful waiting. The man
who first said there is nothing new
under the sun, did not live in the age
of the Easter bonnet.
Observations by Mrs. Tom Thomp
son in the Howard Courant: Much ly
ing is INDUCED in for the purpose of
backing up original statements.
The homeliest girl in town is boast
ing that when she was little she was
so pretty the neighbors borrowed her.
80. AT a certain stage in mans
life there is nothing too great for Him
to promise Her-and then forget.
Women may not be any too smart,
but men are oftimes afraid of the
things they know. Some queS-
tions are asked of the newspaper that
could be found out nearer at hand, a
practice which should be discouraged
as it tends to make the newspapers
"biggoty.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17

solicitous about the package"
laughed Mr.. Dorm. .I see it all now.
But how Hilda got this treasure-and
then lost it don't see," he said,
looking again at the bit of yellowed
lace.
Borden heard voices in the adjoin-
ing office. He heard the girls voice
the girl he had heard in the tele-
too. He rose to go into his partners
room. Just a minute. please. hear
Miss Doolittle now"
And in a moment Borden found him
self face to face with the girl he had
been seeking. She had come to her
fathers office in great distress to urge
him to leave no stone unturned in his
effort to find the borrowed bit of
lace.
81 borrowed it to exhibit at the
Made in the U. s. exposition-for that
veil was made in this country by
Mr.. Dorn's grandmother herself, 100
years ago. Oh, I've been so worried!
hope you won't tell Mrs. Dorm
please DON'T she implored of her
den-you have been too good to take
such care of it," she told Borden. Il
did see you in the booth next to me"
she added flushing.
Mr.. Doolittle, feeling that something
momentous in his life was taking
place, looked Borden up and down, po-
litely but decidedly. 1T was most
thoughtful of you, Mr.. Borden" he
SAID, most CnOuSnIlul. MANY WOulQ
have left the package at the desk in
the drug store in case anyone called
for it think. Eth, Hilda?" he asked
his daughter, laughingly.
I'm sure most men would never
have gone to so much trouble, as this
she said, simply and not looking at
Borden.
Suppose we all go to lunch together
to celebrate-Shall we, Dorm? T'ut the
precious veil in your bag this time,
daughter"
After lunch Borden was permitted
to travel home with Miss Doolittle and
during that time the two made plan to
meet again.
And it did not take many meetings
to show the family of the girl that
the wedding veil which had played SO
important a part in the meeting of
two young people might have a chance
to play a still more important role in
their 1ives.-(Copyrigh 1915, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17

Once upon a time there was a tiny
fairy who lived on !hc top of a tele-
graph pole.
you say? The ideal Did you ever
climb up to see?
This fairy had lived there a long
time-so long that he never remem-
bered quite how he got there or where
there and that his job was to help
the messages get around the poles.
"A job,'' you ask?
OF course he had job-everybody
in the world, even a fairy, has work
to do and the folks who tend to their
jobs are the happy people!
Now this particular fairy worked
very faithfully and tended to the mes
sages and everything just as he should.
But one fine day he suddenly felt
very tired and wished he could take
vacation-you know the feeling your
self. The trouble was he couldn't take
a vacation upon the telegraph pole
that was his regular place, not a vaca-
ton: and he didn't know how to get
down. If he could only remember
how he got there maybe that would
tell him how to get down. He took
an hour off from work and thought
diligently about it, but in vain-he
simply couldn't remember anything
Just as he was feeling almost dis
couraged about it, he noticed some
boys down in a vacant-lot near the tel
cSrapn pore WDdl Coulu tndI strange
object they had be? 1t was apparent
ly made of bits of wood and string and
white paper and it had a long tail of
cloth. The fairy couldn't ina CINE what
it was, so he listened carefully. A
Kite the boys called it, but what was
a kite?
Just then one boy ran across the lot
and the strange looking kite darted
from the ground and began sailing
like a bird through the air. The fairy
watched it with delight. Closer and
closer towards the telegraph pole it
sailed-so close that it almost seemed
as If it would catch in the wires. But
it didn't! 1t sailed over safely, the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
Evening Chat
How to Help Without Money.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

How to Help Without Money.
One of the most pitiful things to me
about the submerged tenth is their
heIplessness even to be helped. Many
of those who most painfully need the
assistance of the charitable organiZa-
lions meant especially for them can
not take advantage of this assistance
because they lack the education and
familiarity with affairs to find out
about them and use them.
For instance, I once lived in a city
where there was a free dental clinic
for children.
My washerwoman was widow who
was trying to keep her family of three
small children together by transform
ing a thousand dirty garments or so a
week into clean ones. Pennies come
slowly and painfully out of the wash
tub; dollars are milestones. One
morning my washerwoman who is
usually as cheerful as if she weren't
trying to drive away a very vicious
wolf with no better weapon than a
wooden washboard, appeared looking
rather downhearted.
asked her the reason. MY littlest
girl got dreadful toothache. I take
her to the dentist but 1 can't get
what I shall do
But Olga, there's a place in town
where you can get your little girls
teeth fixed for nothing"
then went out.
81 hear something about that she
said DULY, but I don't know where it
is and 1 don't know how to get there.
1 can't read the signs on the cars and
I'm afraid to go to the city. The den-
fist, he wants me to pay him a dollar
and a alf for Gretchen's teeth and I
amt got it,
You can imagine how delighted I
was with the privilege of seeing that
Olga and her little girl found the free
clinic and if you have ever had the
pleasure of helping anyone as genuine
as my heroine of the washtubs you
can imagine how touchlngiy sincere
her gratitude was.
that she had helped poor woman
whose husband was in Jail to get help
from the city. She had a right to this
relief but she did not know enough
of customs to apply for it and she had
been struggling along by herself on
the verge of starvation for two months.
1t seems to me that this is one of
our duties yours and mine-to ac-
quaint ourselves with all the agencies
that help people and, when an oppor-
tunity comes, to go out of our way to
bring the need and the supply to-
gether.
We may not be in a position to give
cident of birth or circumstance have
given lives of unspeakable toll and
deprivation, but we can help justify
our own comfortable lives by giving
them all the benefit of our greater
knowledge.
If there is no get-together bureau in
your town q am so disappointed that
no one has taken that suggestion of
mine and written me about it, we can
constitute ourselves one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
From Other Pens
LEARNING.

A northern Ohio man just back
from spending the winter in a south
ern city has been observing one of the
by-results of the failure of the cotton
market. 1t set men and women to
thinking of the Importance of DIVERSE
flying their crops; incidentally, it has
encouraged backyard gardening in the
cities. II was talking with a seeds
man." the Ohioan says, about the
number of we'll dressed people calling
at his store for the commoner garden
seeds. He told me he was astonished
at the interest shown in small garden
ing by natives who had spent years
in that particular city, and given
scarcely a thought before to the mat
ter of raising some of their own table
products right by the back door" In
one instance a northern agriculturiSt
was sought for the. management of a
thousand acre farm and his chief task
would be to install an intelligent
scheme Of diversificationY Those par
ticular acres had been raising little
but cotton, but their owners now
wanted wheat, corn and oats-and the
locality furnished no one competent
to inaugurate the new order of things.
1t has been remarked before and often
that if southern land owners would
read in the cotton market situation the
Importance of raising more diversified
crops the lesson would be worth while.
Here is an observation as to how it
works.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
Globe Sights
BY THE ATcKIsoN GLOBE.

Be kind, but make no promises.
Idle curiosity isn't as idle as one
might infer.
Don't serve on the committee I'M
less you can be chairman.
Most of the denials are emphatic,
you may have observed.
Some people believe in placing the
blame where it will do the most good.
There are a number of mysteries in
this world, including vegetable soup.
A boy hears one shouldn't work ION
a full stomach and wants to eat all
the time.
Most babies are named with the
view of getting nice presents from
rich kin.
Wasting your hard-earned kale is
no way to prove you are a thorough
bred.
In springtime, ira la, some men
prefer sassafras, and others prefer
green grass.
There is some objection because a
certain young farmer smokes ten cent
cigars while he plows.
Fashion note: No girl should dress
to show through when goose pimples
make up most of the background.
A man finds some relief from the
strenuous day by smoking; a woman
seekes similar sOlace by removing her
corset
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
ECONOMY,s THE THING.

Ex-President Taft scored again and
heavily with his observation before
the members of the Pennsylvania Leg
islature that the growing danger in
this country is the waste of the peo-
pies money" And he is the only
man, since the time of Grover Cleve-
land, who, while president, ever dis
played anything like an emphatic in
terest in an economical conduct of the
nations affairs. All presidential can
didates preach economy on the stump.
1t is given prominent place in each
of the national party platforms But
it is soon Forgotten when the sue
cessful candidates and their admins
tration get into office. Not so with
Mr.. Taft. He not only preached
economy after he attained the presi-
dental office, but he practiced it,
Furthermore, he developed elaborate
plans that could only have resulted in
an enormous reduction in the cost of
operating the federal government had
they been pressed to a conclusion. But
they were nipped in the bud by the
advent in Washington of the Demo-
Gratis, than whom there are no strong
er theorists and stumpers FOR econ
omy- One of their first acts was to
abolish the Taft economy and effici-
ency commission by denying it the
necessary appropriations to carry on
its work of such great possibilities.
Before long, the tariff, the trusts, pro-
hibition and other questions that are
now paramount, will be subordinated
in the realm of national political is
sues to the one of an economical man
agement of the nations business. The
people will awake to its importance
sooner or later. The ever-increasing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17

burdens brought on by annual waste
of government funds to the time of two
or three hundred millions of dollars
will become intolerable. But why
wait until the crisis arrives. The pres
ent situation is sufficiently alarming
and inexcusable. Why wouldn't it be
a good plan, then, for the people to
insist on government economy from
the next president and the rest of the
administration that may be put in
power with him. And who would be
better man to undertake this i'm
portant and mammoth task than Will
liam Howard Taft? There would be
no guesswork as to what he would
strive to do in the premises.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
PEACE PROSPECTS.

Many and divers rumors of peace
moves are flying around Europe these
days. Not only are Austria and Tur-
key reported to be willing to sue for
separate peace terms, if there be no
other way out for them, but sugges-
tionS are also made that Germany is
in mood to discuss the POSSIBILITY of
peace on the lines of the status quo
ante bellum. To bring about such a
peace, though, would make the war
even a more terrible horror and a
greater burden than it has been. It
would have been entirely in vain and
not even the faintest step in the direc-
ton of a permanent European peace.
An attempt to set Europe's house in
order on the basis that maintained be-
fore the war began would seem to be
a most futile outcome for such a gil
gantic struggle. The problems, made
up of the ambitions of the several par
ticipating nations and their lusts for
larger power and advantages, that
were the Inducements which brought
on the war, would be as live as they
ever were. Europe would continue to
be an armed camp, with each of its
divisions bending every possible en-
ergy to prepare for a next great war
that would be inevitable. The trc-
mendous burdens that the present war
has already heaped upon the shoulders
of Europes people would be made
heavier by the military preparations
they would be forced to make to pre-
serve their integrity. Thus the war
would have been futile in every par
ticu1ar. On the other hand, so ex-
tensive are the battle lines and so
enormous are the forces of men in
volved on both sides, and SO illimit-
able seem to be their resources in
men and means, that it doesn't ap-
pear to be possible that either side
can beat the other to its knees
through a military victory, through
starvation or in any other way. So
the dilemma that confronts the war
ring nations of Europe today looks
more serious and complicated than it
ever did. Getting into the war was
easy for them, compared to what get
ting out of it is going to be in any
thing like a satisfactory manner to
any of them or to the world at large.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
THE BREAKING-PLoW,

THE BREAKING-PLOw.
L am the plow that turns the sod
That has lain for a thousand years;
Where the prairie's wind-tossed flowers
nod
And the wolf her wild cub rears.
come, and in my wake, like rain,
Is scattered the golden seed;
change the leagues Of lonely plain
To fruitful gardens and fields of grain
l greet the earth in its rosy morn,
l am first to stir in the soil
L bring the glory of wheat and corn
For the browning of those who toll;
L am CIVILIZATIONS seal and sign,
Yea, am the mighty pen
That writes the sod with a pledge divine,
A promise to pay with bread and wine
For the sweat of honest men.
am the end of things that were,
And the birth of things to be:
Ny coming makes the earth a stir
with new and strange decree.
AFTER its slumbers deep and long,
L waken the drowsy sod,
And sow my furrow with lifts of song
To glad the heart of the mighty throng
Slow feeling the way to God.
A thousand summers the prairies rose
Has gladdened the hermit bee.
A thousand winters the drifting SHOWS
Have wh1tened the grassy sea.
Before me curls the wavering smoke
OF the Indians smouldering fire;
Behind me rise-was 1T God who spoke P
At the Oil-enchanted hammers stroke,
The town and the glit-ering spire-
For the JOY of him and his;
rouse the slumbering world that was
To the diligent world that is.
Oh, seer, with vision that looks away
thousand years from now,
The marvellous nation your eyes survey
Was born of the purpose that here, today,
Is guiding the break-plow.
Nixon Waterman, in National Magazine
for March.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
Kansas Comment
THE GRoUNDHoG.

Yes, the grounding came out and
saw his shadow-and gave the coun-
try six weeks of winter as a result.
The people of this country should or
ganize revolt against the ground
hog; he is an undesirable citizen ana
should be suppressed, Ostracized, Gre
mated, or something like that. He
should be legiSlated out OF office by
the legislature, committed to jail 1or
contempt of court, or court martialed,
and ordered shot. We're against the
grounChog now and forever-wOrld
without end. See what he has done to
the good roads movement; to the early
sowing of wheat, to say nothing about
the wear and tear on thte conscience
and good temper of the people. Yes,
we want it understood that we are
strictly against the grounding, with
out any reservation of mental evasion
whatsoever. We might some time
come out for the gopher or the chip
munk-not sure about that-but at
the present writing we want 1t dis
tinctly understood where We stand on
the grounding question. And when
we take this position we take it with
a full knowledge of responsibility that
is carried with it.-Belleville Tele-
| scope.
WHY NOT CONSULT GOVERNOR?
The constitution of the state of Kan
sas differs in one respect from most OF
the other states. Like the others its
political system is divided into three
departments, executive, legislative and
judicial; but in one respect the COVER
nor of Kansas is practically made a
member of the legislative department
The constitution expressly provides
that the governor may veto any item
in an appropriation bill while APPROX
ing the rest of the bill. While he has
the right of veto on all legislation this
is the only kind of a bill of which he
can veto a part and approve the re-
mainder. Consequently, as to appro-
| Hot Iao coil to
have legislative authority. although
not a member. BY virtue of this pro-
vision it would seem to be proper for
the governor to be called in and con-
suited by the appropriation commit
tees of each house. AS he is the final
authority the separate items it
would seem to be the part of wisdom
to consult him in advance so that the
bill might be modified to meet the
views of the umpire.-Clay Center
| Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
Journal Entries

Many of the successes are not
worth the struggles that were made
for them.
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To the great credit of the advertise
ments in the magazines, none is writ
ten in dialect.
Another difficult task is to make
even a friend realize that you know
more than he does.
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Surely the only men who can have
more money than they know what to
do with are bachelors.
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A man can occasionally have the
last word with a woman if he will
agree that what she says is so.