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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
AMONG FREE SCHOOLS
Lad of 1S Who Can Not Read or
Write Is Found.

Eighteen years old and unable to
read or write word is the predica-
ment in which a Shawnee county boy
finds himself. He is a clean, clear
eyed fellow, good looking and smart,
says Louis Floyd, secretary of the
Provident association, but has never
spent a day in a school house.
Investigation showed that his moth
er had always kept him busy doing
chores around the farm and in some
manner the truant officer-were there
any-had totally overlooked him. He
has been in Topeka several times and
stated that it was always chore to
get around in the city as nearly every
thing one did necessitated reading of
street signs, street numbers, and pub
lie annOunceme ntS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Dear Mrs. Thompson: 1 am a girl
nineteen years old. I have had sew
eral boy friends, but I have met them
all in peculiar circumstances and I
have never had a boy show an inter
est in me of his own accord. My girl
friends invite me over in the evening
when there are going to be a couple
of BOYS there and then I invite them
over to our house. After we have
done this the boy that / was invited
for takes me somewhere, and we are
friends. But it isn't like having boy
phone and say that he would like to
call on me. Why is it that other girls
have to get boys for me? I seem to be
liked after they know me, because
they take me places and call on me
almost always after we have spent an
evening or two together. Sometimes
a boy will ask especially that the girl
should get me. Is there anything /
can do to make boys like me without
the help of any one else
Perhaps you have a reserved man
ner that makes boys afraid to ask you.
If you have, keep it, because people
will have more respect for you than as
though you made friends with every
one. The very fact that boys like you
when you are acquainted ought to be
enough TO please you. 1t proves that
you are attractive.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Cd My lit
tie girl is fourteen years old and she
wants to have a party and invite boys
and girls from school on Saturday
night. Do you think it would be all
right to have both boys and girls. or
do you think she ought to have just
girls?
CD I have a son who is sixteen
years old and goes to high school.
Schoolmates of his come home from
school and play baseball and football
in our back yard. My daughter likes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
TO TALK GOOD ROADS
Meeting of the Topeka Automobile
Club Monday Night.

Many questions of local interest be-
sides the problem of statewide good
roads will be discussed at the meeting
of the Topeka Automobile club Mon
day night at the Commercial club.
President H. S. Putney says that there
will be reports from the SubcOmmit-
tees that have conferred with the
street railway company and the coun-
ty commissioners about bad crossing
and rough roads.
The meeting will be in the nature OF
a smoker and President Putney as
sures every member of the club that
there will be plenty of Topeka made
cigars for smoking purposes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
WHO IS R. MARKS?
Reported To Be Planning q Big
Store i'm Topeka.
Long Distance Call Fails to LO-
cate Him i'm DeS MOineS.

A contract for a deed to the prop
erty located on the southwest corner
of Eighth and Kansas avenues and
occupied by the Burghart cigar store.
and which transfers the property
from Freeman Sardou of Topeka to
r Marks, reported to be a wealthy
merchant of Des Moines, Iowa, has
been recorded with Ralph w. Squires.
register of deeds of Shawnee county.
The ground upon which the property
stands is lot 10 by 25 feet. The con-
sideration named in the contract is
$5O,0OO-or $4,000 a front foot.
According to an unconfirmed rumor,
Mr.. Marks is expected to erect a large
department store on the corner. 1t is
also understood that he is negotiat-
at sos and sos Kansas avenue-the
adjoining property.
The papers filed in the register of
deeds office show that the contract
was drawn in 1913 and stipulated the
payment of $1,000 at that time, with
payment of $4,000 three years later
and the payment of 200 when the
deed is transferred to Mr.. Marks.
According to attorneys who closed
the deal for Marks, the buyer of the
property is clothing merchant in
DeS MoineS. A long distance call to
Des Moines made by the State Journal
today resulted in a statement from
the long distance operator to the eff
feet that the operator at Des Moines
was unable to locate any such firm
or man.
Subject to Long Lease.
Mr.. Sardou, who also owns the two
properties at sos and sos Kansas ave-
nue., stated that no negotiations to-
ward their purchase had been made.
The two pieces of property are leased
by the J. K. Jones Paint company
and the Rosser Drug store
Both are leased for several years.
The lease on the Burghart property
does not expire until 1920. All tenants
of the buildings deny that they had
any knowledge of the transaction at
sol or the rumored transaction at sos
and sos Kansas avenue.
AS the Burghart property is only
IS feet by % feet, it is believed by
persons interested in the transaction
that an effort will be made to pur-
chase the adjoining two properties.
Freeman Sardou stated this morning
that he did not know anything about
the plans of Mr.. Marks. Marks's at
torneys also claim that they have no
knowledge of the use of the prop
erty.
]. Will Kelley, secretary of the Com
mercial club, stated today that he was
unaware of any plans to erect such
a building. Anyway" said Mr.. KEEL
ley, II cannot imagine anyone'S erect
ing department store on a lot rs by
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

to play with them and they like to
have her. Do you think this is I'M
1adylike?
(3) My son thinks that he is hope
lessly in love with silly little blond
girl at high school She comes from
a good family and is nice enough
girl in some ways. but all she thinks
of is dress end my son. l disapprove
of this very much, but I don't know
what to do. My husband and I have
talked to him great many times and
told him that we do not like his
choice and that we think he is too
young to have a girl, but it does no
good and he gets very angry and Sc
cretive about his affairs. What would
you advise us to do?
A MOTHER.
CD 1 think 1t would be all right to
have boys and girls.
CD l think it is wholesome play
for your daughter. A girl who has
a chance to play with boys is not near
ly so apt to get sentimental as the girl
who is kept away from them.
CD Approve of his choice. Nothing
will come of the affair anyway If
you make him think that you SYM
pathize with everything he does you
will win his confidence, something you
ought to have at any cost
Dear Mrs Thompson: I am a man
and married. My wife has a very
Jealous disposition and she worries
herself and me continually by her
foolish jealousy. l still love my wife,
but I get pretty disguised when she
keeps nagging about the stenographer
in my office, the boss's wife and every
other woman chance to meet. It is
flattering, of course, to have some
woman think you are SO irresistible
that every other woman will fall in
love with you What can I do to give
my wife confidence in me and cure
her of nagging because of jealousy?
She is absolutely the only woman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
BIRTHS REPORTED

The following births were reported
at the office of the city clerk today:
Charles Edward Thompson and wife,
lit East Thirteenth street, November
2, boy; George Thompson Oldham and
wife, R. R. No. Z, October 26, boy;
Harry c. Wright and wife, R. r. No. T.
October 27. boy; Bernard Sheridan
and WIFE, 1925 Jackson street, Novem-
Der 4, boy; Isaac De Moss and wife,
r. r. No. 8, October 4, girl; George
N. Reichman and wife, R. R. No. 3.
October 1, girl Clements Frank and
wife, 301 North Lake street, October
girl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
LOCAL LABOR BUREAU
w. L. Porter, City Commissioner, Has
Opened an Employment Exchange.

A municipal labor exchange bureau
has been established by w. L. Porter,
change will be a branch of the state
free employment bureau, and was
established after a conference with
Paul Mcbride, state commissioner of
labor, and Charles Danner, who is in
charge of the state employment
bureau located in the state house.
A card index system of keeping
records of persons wanting employ
ment and of those having positions for
which men are wanted will be main
tanned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
PLANE OFF MOVING SHIP
Air Craft, Shot Out From Catapult,
Successfully Launched.

Pensacola, Fla, Nov. 6.-An aero
plane was successfully launched from
a moving warship in Pensacola bay
yesterday, when Capt. H. c. Muslin,
in an aeroplane, was shot out with a
catapault operated by compressed air
from the cruiser North Carolina, which
was moving at five knots an hour, ac-
cording to announcement at the navy
aviation station here today.
This was said to be the first time
the feat has been accomplished in the
American navy.
Rear Admiral Benson witnessed
the demonstration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
THREE ARRESTS MADE
Four Persons Now Charged With Com
plicity in Gay Case.

Warrants charging George Moore,
Fannie Brown and Phil Brown, all
colored, and Grace Ewing, a white
woman, with being implicated in the
murder of Ira Gay, a negro, at the
Brown home last Monday morning,
have been issued from the office of
w. E. Atchison, county attorney.
Since the murder, the county Off
Gals have been "all at sea" in an at
tempt to place the blame. All the
aforementioned defendants told differ
ent stories of the killing. Fannie
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

Mrs Ida Smith, age SIS, died at To-
cal hospital. The body was taken to
Agra, Kan, today for interment
The funeral of Ira Richard Melvin
Gay, age SO, will be held at o'clock
Sunday afternoon from Primitive
Baptist church. Interment in Mount
Auburn cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
Rheumatism and Allied Pains
They Must Col

The congestion of the blood in it's flow
causes pain. Sloans Liniment penetrates
to the congestion and starts the blood to
flow freely The body's warmth is re-
woman who has rheumatism, neuralgia or
other pain and fails to keep Sloan's Lint
man refusing a rope" Why suffer. Get
bottle of Sloan's Csc and SOC S1OO
bottle holds six times as much as 25c. size.
ADV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

As between dry cleaning at home
with gasoline and fighting in the Eu-
ropean trenches there isn't much
choice, so far as safety is concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
DEAD MEN REACH NACO
Americans, Declared by Villa to Have
Been Killed, Reappear.

Naco, Ariz., Nov. 6.-H. R. Thig-
pen and Charles Miller, American doc
tors, and two chauffeurs, A. L. Wilson
and J. d. Pylant, who were reported
by General Villa to have been shot,
arrived here today from Villa Verde,
tWentY-tWo miles south in Sonora.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

FOR RENT-Two housekeeping rooms.
$500 month 91S E. 4th.
TWO thoroughbred white Angora kittens
Price $40 each. Phone 1915 Blue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Not only is cleanliness next to god
illness, but the penalty of uncleanness
is fire-both here and hereafter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Sixteen hundred homes burn in this
country every week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

A street beggar named Hoyt decided
that life at the county poor farm was
too slow and returned to Topeka this
morning. When the Provident asso-
citation picked him up, he was on a
corner on Kansas avenue cranking his
little hand organ. He said that the
excitement of begging was too fasci-
mating.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Vesper service will be held at the
Y. w. c. A. Sunday, November Z.
Mrs. Clara H. Hazelrigg will talk on
THE True Ideal of Christian Char
acter." Miss Elsie Bacon will sing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Dry cleaning in the kitchen
With stuff and gasoline
Doth fill the stuff mans pockets,
Also the graveyard green.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Miss Oda He1bert entertained a few
friends at a tacky party at her home
on West Sixteenth street Friday even
ing. The invited guests were: Ber-
niece Harris, Ted Stephens, Anne Nc
Grath, Pearl Helbert, Maud Allen,
Corrina Harris, Jessie Helbert, Sara
Hill, Clara Martinson, Lillian Roger,
Lula Young and Mary Jane McGrath
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Have your suit or overcoat made
to order, $500, at Olof Ekberg, 70S
Kansas ave. second floor.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Since November 1, more than -
hunting licenses have been ISSUED
from the office of the county clerk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
Extracts From State Fire
Marshal Bulletin for
October.
SPARKS

SPARKS.
A house on the ground is worth two
up in smoke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Old Glory three days only $3.50
Spohn the Coal Man. Phone 31S8-
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Ike Gilberg is arranging to hold al
anti-militarism meeting in the cit,
Auditorium Sunday, one week from to
morrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

f. A. Rooster, D. D. s., no Mills
Bldg. Special attention wen to pyor-
rhea and oral prophylaxi = Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Beware of the man who wants to
sell you something to use with gaSo-
line so you can do your dry cleaning
at home and save SIS. Remember that
you can't get much of a casI1et for So,
to say nothing of paying the preacher
and buying a headstone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
LOCAL MENTION.

paying the aHmOny.
LOCAL MENTION.
Vesper service will be held at the
Y. w. C. A. Sunday, November Z.
Mrs. Clara H. Hazelrigg will talk on
1.-The True Ideal of Christian Char
acter.'' Miss Elsie Bacon will sing.
A street beggar named Hoyt decided
that life at the county poor farm was
too slow and returned to Topeka this
morning. When the Provident asso-
citation picked him up, he was on a
corner on Kansas avenue cranking his
little hand organ. He said that the
excitement of begging was too fasci-
mating.
Have your suit or overcoat made
to order, $500. at Olof Ekberg. 70S
Kansas ave. second floor.-Adv.
Since November 1, more than 125
hunting licenses have been issued
from the office of the county clerk
Old Glory three days only $3.50
Spohn the Coal Man. Phone 1885,
Adv.
Miss Oda Helbert entertained a few
friends at a tacky party at her home
on West Sixteenth street Friday even
ing. The invited guests were: Ber-
niece Harris, Ted Stephens, Anne Nc
Grath, Pearl Helbert, Maud Allen,
Corrina Harris, Jessie Helbert, Sara
Hill, Clara Martinson, Lillian Roger,
Lula Young and Mary Jane McGrath.
Ike Gilberg is arranging to hold an
anti-militarism meeting in the city
Auditorium Sunday, one week from to-
morrow.
F. A Rooster, D. D. s.. no Mills
Bldg. Special attention wen to pyor-
rhea and oral prophylaxi = Adv.
A reception for Myrtle w. Suit,
grand matron of the Kansas Order of
the Eastern Star will be given by
Beaulah chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star of Topeka, this afternoon at
o'clock. A dinner will be served at
6 o'clock A meeting of the chapter
will be held this evening at 1880
o'clock.
Johnson's Box Candy at Flad's 6O7
Kansas avenue.-Adv.
On a charge of shooting with intent
to kill Clearance Floyd, a colored man,
Rosa Hall, a white woman, is being
held at the police station. According
to the police the shooting took place
in North Topeka about o'clock this
Floyd was painfully but not
fatally injured.
A Reformation address will be
given at the First Swedish Lutheran
Fourth and Tyler streets, Sun
day by the Rev. George N. Anderson.
The First Swedish Lutheran church
has resumed serving lunch at o'clock
every Sunday evening at the church,
Fourth and Tyler streets. The meal
is served upon the cafeteria plan I'M
der the direction of Miss Eva Ekstrom,
$40 Western avenue.
One of the members of the con-
firmation class of the First Swedish
Lutheran church makes a special trip
from Alma, Kan, every time that the
class meets. The sessions are held
every Saturday.
Suits ,ary cleaned 75c Topeka
Laundry Co. Pho 3653.-A@v.
The regular board meeting and
quarterly conference of the First
Methodist church., Sixth and Harrison
streets, will be held Monday evening
at 1880 o'clock. DR.. H. E. Wolfe, the
district superintendent, will be present
Safety razor blades sharpened better than
new. 25c-35c dog. Brunt Drug Co.-Adv
Miss Helen Estey will entertain this
afternoon at her home at SO Harrison
street for the Pi chapter of the
alumnae of Kappa Alpha Theta. Thir-
ty alumnae members of the sorority
are in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

grand matron of the Kansas Order of
the Eastern Star will be given by
Beaulah chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star of Topeka, this afternoon at 4
o'clock. A dinner will be served at
6 o'clock. A meeting of the chapter
will be held this evening at 1880
n'eIOclx
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06
Heart and Beauty Problems
Written for the State Journal

BY Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Johnson's Box Candy at Flad's COZ
Kansas avsnue.-Adv.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-26

means of wealth production" imbed-
ded in their brains unless they be i'm,
beetles.
When Larkin had finished speaking
in the San Francisco Dreamland Rink
three weeks ago the audience arose
in mass and thanked him for his won
derfully inspiring address. You must
hear Larkin yourself and you must get
others to hear him for knowledge is
power, and no opportunity should be
missed that will give us and others
the knowledge and fighting spirit to
get up and do things that will some
day place in our hands the keys to
the mills, mines and factories of the
world.
Tickets on sale at Headquarters OF
Hills Book Store
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-26
LARKIN TO SPEAK HERE TUESDAY!

James Larkin who is to speak in
the Peoples Theatre, Tuesday even
ing, Aug. 81, has been a red card mem
Der of the Socialist Party for twenty
seven years. He has looked out over
the world and seen no lines between
him and his brother workers. Color
and race he does not recognize in the
great class STRUGGLED is class and
class he sees opposed on the firing
line of life.
Jim Larkin speaks out from the
shoulder He is an orator, not the
kind of orator that tries to cover up
the iniquities of the present system
but whose blood boils when he speaks
OF these things and the words come
out of his mouth red hot and sting
ing, for he sees the poverty and mis-
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-26
Day Labor Plan Super
ior to Contract System

! Although this job cost $114.21 more
than the engineers estimate, it still
furnishes striking proof of the super
iority of the day labor over the con-
tract system of public work construc-
ton.
In making comparison it must be
borne in mind that, when the job was
first submitted to bid, no bids were
forthcoming. The second time reg
ular contractor, Mr.. Synder bid ST.
1865, or $437 more than the estimate
Another bid of s940 was submitted by
la group of men who expected to do
the work in cooperation.
This piece of work has been pro-
nounced by some of the oldest sewer
men as one of the most difficult ever
CONSTRUCTED in Everett. The fact that
65 hours, or over 81s days, were re-
quired to sharpen picks proves this
contention.
Had the job been awarded to Tom
Constantine and his associates, they
would have received $1.85 per day for
their work.
Every man within the district who
applied for work was hired. That
with the fact that the city paid from
4Oc to Coo more per day than regular
contractors reflects to the credit of
the day labor plan.
The experience and data secured is
of great value to the public works de-
partment in estimating on other work
that may be undertaken by the city.
Respectfully,
j. M. SALTER,
Commissioner of Public Works.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-26

cry on the one hand and the riches
and unearned ease on the other. he
is a revivalist, for he makes you want
to get up and do something to end
this damnable system that breeds
liars, thieves, prostitutes, lunacy, leg
allied murder, child slavery and ny.
pocrisy. He is revivalist, for he
wakes the sleeping brain of the Henry
Dubb and makes of him fighting
unit of the greatest movement the
world has ever known. No man OF
woman can listen to Jim" without
coming to the conclusion that the new
system of society that is advocated by
the Socialists is workable and desir
able. No man or woman can heal
him without going away with tht
words collective Ownership of tn,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-08-26
A Suspicious Interest
In Socialism
(By Frank MacDonald)

Not long ago any news Of the Euro
pean Socialist movement went onto
the floor of certain big newspapers
and not into it's news columns. So
cialists might win victories, increase
in party membership, produce notable
books, and the fact was ignored with
constant regularity. 1t is changed
now in a certain measure, and some
news is joyfully and extensively pub
lished. For example, it is quite nat
ural that there should be differences
of opinion in the German Social De-
mocracy as to war policy. That as
the war drags along and suffering is
more acute it is inevitable that these
differences should be sharper and
keener.
So it happens that the two parties
to the controversy, the majority and
the minority, the conservative and
radical wings, have come to be called
the governmental" Socialists and the
Revolutionary" Socialists by the capt.
talist press, and this press, for the
time being, is lin favor of revolution.
! In news stories and editorial articles
\ it has pictured a tremendous split in
the German movement, with, what
sseems to be the minority led by Com
rades Leibknecht and Bernstein, stand
ing for Socialism and the majority
fighting for governmentalism and war
The capitalist press is indignant that
the majority has not gone with the
minority. 1t is amazed that the Unit
plated a revolution withiiniiiiiiiiiiifiii
ed Social Democracy has not pre-
cipitated a revolution within Germany
and thereby speedily brought the coun
try to terms and placed it at the mercy
of it's opponents.
It would seem that for once the CAPT
talist press of America, through thu
articles it receives by way of London
Berne, Amsterdam, and elsewhere, wa
firmly in favor of revolutionary Sc
cialism and deplored any tendenc.
that would tend to cause a split in tn
forces working for Socialism. But
closer reading of the articles bring
into sharp relief the fact that thes
stories are part of the campaign