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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-29
PARENTS ARE YOUNG
Birth Certificates Filed With City
Clerk Tells the Story.

If Topeka statistics are borne out
the country over the hope of the
American people lies in the young
married folks-those between the ages
of twenty and thirty years.
Day after day the birth certificates
are filed with the city clerk, giving
the ages of tire fathers and mothers.
And day after day the certificates
show that the ages run from twenty
to thirty years. Very few certificates
show a father as cid as forty or a
mother more than thirty-five. OF
course there are exceptions but it was
the rule itself that attracted attention
More frequently than otherwise the
father and mother III Topeka are
around twenty-four or twenty-five
years of age
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-29
SUFFERED From BAGKaGHE and
KIDNEY TROUBLE FOR YEARS.

Dear Readers-I wish to tell you
that I suffered from backache and
kidney trouble for years. I heard of
Doctor Pierce's Anuric Tablets and
tried them. They cured my backache;
they do all that is required of them.
I hope people that are troubled with
backache will give them good trial.
] am sure they will not fail to benefit.
Yours sincerely,
MRS. GEO. DEM1Na,
Avoca, Iowa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-29
ROWLAND WILL STAY
Resignation of Santa Fe's Advertising
Agent Is Withdrawn

Harry Rowland, advertising agent
of the Santa Fe passenger department.
who was reported tc have sent in his
resignation effective January l, is go
ing to remain on the job. This an
nouncement was made today by J. NJ.
Council, general passenger agent.
Rowland has been in Topeka for
nearly a year, succeeding A. D. Nor
ford. He has built up n wide ac-
quaintance in Topeka newspaper and
railway circles For several years he
was on the editorial staff of the Kan
sas City Journal and on Denver pa
pers-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-29

The Weather Year Ago Today.
Colder. Temperature High IS. Low IS
remember Laxative Bromo Quinine cures a
cold in one day. There is only one "Bromo
Quinine." Look for signature F. w
GROVE. 25c.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-29
GOT 700 TELECRAMS
And They Continue to Arrive, Offer
ing Birthday Congratulations.

Hot Springs, Va, Dec. 29.-Belated
kilograms congratulating President
Wilson on his fifty-ninth birthday,
continued today to pour into Hot
Springs. More than 200 had been re-
ceived up to noon Approximately
500 came yesterday. Another long let
ter from Secretary Lansing presum-
ably reviewing the international situa-
ton was received today by the presi-
dent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-29
BEL.LL:=ANS
Absolutely Removes
indigestion. Onepackage
proves it. 25c at all druggists.
Coughs and Colds Are Dangerous.

Coughs and Colds Are Dangerous.
Few of us realize the danger of Coughs
and Colds. We consider them common
and harmless ailments. However Stats
tics tell us every third person dies of
lung ailment. Dangerous Bronchial and
Lung diseases follow a neglected cold.
AS your body struggles against cold
germs, no better aid can be had than DIR.
Kings New Discovery. Its merit has
been tested by old and young. In use over
40 years. Get a bottle today. Avoid the
Advertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-29
A Few Special Items

but most of our Advertised List is
always at every day prices.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10
The First Canal Builder.

General GOethals is the latest canal
builder to achieve fame, but he mas
had many predecessors, and the earnest
so far as is known was one Narah
Sin. who nearly 1000 years ago open
ed a canal from Nippur to the Eu'
pirates. This was discovered by d.
George A. Barton in deciphering some
Of the ancient Sumerian tablets at the
museum of the University of Pennsyl'
vania He found Il tablet dated "the
year when the divine Naram-Sin opened
the mouth of the canal Erin at Nip
Dur" This was not an Irish canal, Sc
far as is known, but 1t was a great
event In the history Of Nippur, which
gave it transportation facilities will
the rest of the world. Naram-Sin was
a king Of Babylonia, and he is respon
sible only for financing the canal, anC
slaves probably did the work.-Balti
more American.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10

Why do we harbor poison-bearing
insects in our bosoms, even to our own
undoing, when we know better?
A serpent we would run from. 1t
| is repulsive, it is a tangible instru-
ment of harm, but all the snakes in
Florida and in the United States OF
America have never done one-hun-
dredth nor one-thousandth of the
harm to mankind that flies have
wrought. =,
Flies, mosquitoes and other small
vermin useG to be regarded mainly
as nuisances but the scientists have
shown and proved to US ahat they
come bringing diseases and death. In
spite of this warning, we do little to
discourage these pests, and what we
undertake is their suppression instead
of attacking them at home, in the
places where they breed, and by an
initiation, end them, or lessen their
numbers.
The common housefy, besides which
the buzzard is a model of cleanliness,
docs not scatter disease through its
bite, but it carries typhoid germs and
leaves them on the food we eat. 1t
revels in the filthiest of filth and
brings its poisons, not to our doors,
but into our kitchens and to the din
ing table, and we permit this inva-
sion of our rights without murmur.
The stable fly, although he looks to
our unframed eyes, very much like his
dirty cousin, is altogether another
proposition. He, or rather she-for
the female of the species ISIS more
deadly than the male-and causes the
real troubles blamed by the doc
tors for carrying another set of
troubles. She has a beak that pen
etrates the thick hides of horses,
mules, cows, sheep and swine. She
sucks their blood and, in large num-
bers. causes their disabling and even
their death from exhaustion of the
vital fluid, less frequently she is
charged with the crime Of infant par
alysis and perhaps some other troub-
| les.
! The specialists of the United States
Department OF Agriculture and other
scientific men have spent a good deal
/ of study on this insect, and the De
! DdllllcIlI Has puDllolleu NlulIC lSNSII-
ly THE STABLE FLY, Document
$40. and two monographs on the des-
truction of fly larvae, Documents lis
and 245. Ask your Congressman tc
send them. They are interesting to
those who would be really intelligent
on the subject.
( The most effective method of rid
ding ourselves of this particular pest
seems to be to prevent his existence
by attacking him in the breeding
stages and by destroying the condi
tions that favor such breeding.
Wet and rotting straw, in which the
heat caused by decay, favors tht
Matching of the larvae, is the source OF
these flies in the great grain-growinp
sections of the West and Southwest
But in every section and in every
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10

temperature above about forty de-
grees, Fahrenheit, stable manure
heaps are the favorite breeding
places. The fluids of manure, par
ticularly of horses and mules, ming
ling with stable bedding increase the
danger from this source. The pos
sible peril from this cause is no less
in Florida than in Texas, and the
mild climate of this state makes the
danger an all-year-round one.
Screening the manure pile is the
safest and surest protection. But
the regulation of stables is munich
pal problem. 1t is not within the
jurisdiction of the state. If one asks
for concrete example of this propO
sition and of its possibilities, there is
one ready at hand. The progressive
city Of Miami, three hundred miles
and more south of Jacksonville, has
one-thousandth or less of the number
of stable flies that affiict her north
en neighbors. Miami has had the
sense to accept and act on good ad-
vice by regulating her livery and
other stables, and she is reaping the
reward, while reckless neighbors 10
the north of her and of larger popu-
lation, refuse to meet the situation
and are getting what is coming to
them, and there are plenty of other
Florida cities in the same class.
Love of the almighty dollar has
been the sentence to perdition of
many a soul, which otherwise might
have had some hope of heaven. But
the man who sends his neighbor to
.urGimely death by refusing to clean
and keep clean his premises, because
it costs real lnoney-what fate should
be prepared or invented for him ?
And the city that backs him in his
selfshness and greed is hardly less 10
bame.-State Board of Health Bulle-
fin
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10
y X X X X X X * X X X X * X X X
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4 THOSE DELUDED MEXICANS. y
Pittsburg Gazette-Times.

X * X X * X * ~ X X X X X X X X
Pittsburg Gazette Times.
1t cannot be said that the propa-
ganda conducted by score of MeXi-
can agitators,. most of whom are now
under arrest, at San Antonia, Tex,
is without significance" Their at
tempt to arouse the Mexican popula-
ton of that city to deeds of violence
is declared to be a part of the wild
Ii ytd scheme to recapture Texas for
Mexico and the very fact that they
Ic1gage in such a crazy enterprise is
significant of the credulity and sus-
Iceptibility to suggestion of the aver
age citizen of Mexico. For these
soap box orators who have been hold
ing forth at San Antonio street cor
ners and their more militant compa-
triots who have had to be dealt with
by our troops scarcely entered upon
the project of anneXing Texas of their
own initiative. They and the men,
bers of the miniature "army of lib
Grafton" that crossed the border re-
Gently from Mexico are merely the
victims of trouble-makers in high
places, who have sent them forth to
work their will.
Only those who have lived in Mexi-
co and become familiar with the peo-
pie can realize the dense ignorance
that prevails with regard to the Unit
ed States and all things American.
They have only to be told that our
government is trembling at the pros
pect of invasion of CARRANZA or
VILLA or that our population along
the border is disaffected and would
eagerly welcome an army of liberia
ton and they believe it more readily
than the gospel preached by our mis-
sionaries. Dazzled by stories Of rich
rewards awaiting the conquerors, they
gladly take up arms to help along the
cause of shrewd leaders whose motive
may be the early forcing Of armed
action by our government. Arrange
ments are making at Laredo, Tex, to
bar from the mails copies of Mexican
newspapers containing infammatory
articles. One journal declared that
Gen. SCOTT, chief of staff of the
United States army, had advised
VILLA to attack Nuevo Laredo and
force intervention by our nation.
Owing to the low standard of litera-
cy the part played by newspapers in
infaming the minds of the Mexican
populace must be negligible, but the
kind of matter they are publishing in
dicates the sinister forces that are
constantly at work in that turbulent
county to make trouble for the Unit
,l ,,,l e II 81,
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10
ORDER FoR PUBLICATION.


In the
Circuit Putnam County, Florida.
IN CHANCERY.
Fred V. Owen, as Exec
utor of the Last VIII
and Testament of Emma
j, Peer, deceased,
Complainant,
VS.. Foreclosure
r. w Near, and his wife of
Grace p. Near. Lottie Mortgage
Lawrence, and her hus-
band, Johns Lawrence,
Florence Middleton, and
her husband C. w. Mid
dleton, A. L. Dickinson
and Josephine F. Dick
inSOn,
Defendants.
1t appearing by affidavit appended TO
the bill filed in the above stated cause
that r. w. Near and his wife, Grace +.
Near, Lottie Lawrence and her huS-
band, Johns Lawrence, Florence Mid
dleton and her husband, C. w. Middle
ton. A. L. Dickinson and Josephine f.
Dickinson. the defendants therein nam
ed are non-residents of the state OF
Florida. and r. w. Near, Grace p. Near,
renee Middleton and c. w. Middleton,
are residents of the City of st. Joseph
state of Missouri, and A. L. Dickinson
and Josephine f. Dickinson are resi-
State of Texas; that each of said de-
PENDANTS are over the age of Twenty
one years and that there is no person
in the State of Florida upon whom the
service of subpoena would bind sucl
defendants; it is therefore ordered that
said nonresident defendants be and
are hereby required to appear to the
Fill of Complaint filed in said cause on
or before
MONDAY
The 4th DAY of OCTOBER, A. D. 1919
otherwise the allegations of said bill
will be taken as confessed by said de-
fCndants.
1t is further ordered that this order
be- published once n week for four con-
seCutive weeks in the Palatka News
and Advertiser a newspaper published
Ia said County and state.
Witness my hand and official Seal
this the 25th dav Of August, l9l5.
(SeaN HENRY HUTCHINSON
Clerk Circuit Court
BY Henry Hutchinson lr,
Deputy Clerk
F. T.. Haskell.
Solicitor for Complainant.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10
BATTLE SCARED JUNE.
Summers First Month Notable For
Many Historic Conflicts.

Summers First Month Notable For
Many Historic Conflicts.
The battle of Bunker Hill was fought
Oh June Il. l777J, one of many memoir
able battles fought in the month of
June.
Waterloo, the declaration of war be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States in 1872. the Shannon Chesa.
peake fight in that war, the battle of
Naseby. the sturming of the MamelOn
rcdoubts by the French in the Crimean
struggle, Marcngo. FriedIand, Raab.
KoIin. plasSey, the battle of Mon.
mouth and the fight at Fort MOultrie
all were in June.
Many of the most famous struggles
of the war between the states took
place in June The Kearsarge sank
the Alabama on June H. 1864: Mem.
phis fell on June &. 1862; the seven
days before Richmond began on June
2G, 1862. the battle of Cold uarbor
was fought from June l to 3, 1861;
Winchester was fought on June 1915,
1863; Lynchburg on June Ills, 1864;
Mechanicsville on June 26, 1862;
Gaines Mill on the following day, and
the siege of Petersburg lasted from
June II to 80.
The massacre of CuSt," and his men
by the Indians on the Little Big Horn.
the greatest disaster that has befallen
United States cavalry in decades, also
took place in Iune-June -. 1876, a
date that always will be kept as a day
of mourning by the Seventh cavalry
New York Herald.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION

f f. Haskell,
Solicitor for Complainant.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
< WOMAN'S ALLOWANCE.
X by Frederic j. Haskin.
!; X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X

A Chicago judge has just rendered
an important decision. A man had
brought suit against his wife upon
the ground of desertion. The evil
dence showed that the woman, who
had been a well-paid stenographer be-
fore her marriage, had returned to
her work because her pride was hurt
by having to ask her husband for
money continually and by having to
account for every penny expended.
The Judge dismissed the case and
ordered the man, who was in prosper
Gus circumstances, to make his wife
a regular monthly allowance for her
own personal use.
"The evidence shows that the wife
was a capable woman accustomed to
the handling of money" said this
wise Judge. at is not the judgment
of the court that married woman
should stand in the position of an un-
paid servant or slave to her husband,
Her labor in the administration of the
home entities her to reasonable COM
pensation which is her just due. 1t
should be regarded as an honorable
wage for service rendered and she
should be accountable to no one for
its expenditure"
How much the woman suffrage in
fuence in Illinois is responsible for
this decision cannot be ascertained,
but, with the increasing political
rights of women, their economic in
dependence is regarded as having been
strengthened. 1t is held by its ad-
vocates that the definite allowance for
married women is the best if not the
only means by which their independ-
ence may be secured. A California
women's club has this year been
studying the allowance question as the
chief subject of its department of &C.
onomics.
The study was based upon the prop
osition that each married woman
should receive not less than 10 per
cent of the family income as her own
personal allowance, irrespective of
the provision for running the house.
Papers were prepared showing the
feasibility Of such an allowance with
incomes of various amounts. 1t was
pretty clearly demonstrated that even
the laboring man, with a wage of
So a day. could afford to make this
provision for the woman who prepar-
ed his meals and cared for his chill
dren. The small allowance of $50 or
$50 a year would enable the wife to
provide herself with respectable
though plain clothing and relieve her
from the humiliation of begging her
husband to buy her a new pair of
shoes when she needed them.
One-Tenth for Wives.
The man with an income of $4,000
a year can well afford to allow his
wife 1000 a year This sum is not
too much to provide her with the
clothes suitable to his means and the
contributions to charities. club dues
extra entertainments and other Incl,
dental expenses falling to a woman
occupying such a financial position.
Such an allowance, it is argued will
prevent her from resorting to such
feminine subterfuges as carfare from
her servants or securing cash from
her grocer which he charges upon her
monthly bill under the head of "sun.
dries" Both of these resources arc
said to frequently have been used by
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10

rich mems wives who have no allow
anCe.
The 10 per cent allowance is being
discussed by women in number of
states and In Colorado it may be soon
brought before the state Legislature
A bill is being prepared which, if
adopted, would make the 10 per cent
allowance available to every married
woman. Its passage is doubtful and
if enacted it's enforcement would be
difficult if not impossible in many
cases, but it would at least operate as
a eorceful suggestion to husbands.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10

=, l. Henis Petermann. Supervisor Of
t'SiStration, Putnam County, Florida.
hereby certify the above and forego-
inE is true and correct list Of regis
tgred voters to the best Of my knowi-
edge and belief. who are free holders
residing in the proposed Special Road
ana Bridge District as described I'm
retltion presented to and filed by Board
OF county Commissioners OF Putnam
county Florida, July 9Oth. 1915.
HENTS PETERMANN
supervisor OF Registration, Putnam
County, Florida.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10
Entirely Unnecessary.

1t is probably true that Satan never
takes a vacation, but there's no good
reason why he should be always work
Ing Washington Post.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10

| A lazy man is always anxious to
get busy when there is nothing to do
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10

Fortune never disappoints the man
who knows he will fail.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-09-10
HENRY HUTCHINSON, CIcrk.

Certified list of duly registered vo-
ters who are free holders residing in
the proposed Special Road and Bridge
district Putnam County Florida,
which is fully described in the notice
of Special Election in said proposed
district published in same paper as
Sns lis[ ana entitied lee ,i TO vote in said
posed district on September 14th, 1915.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-23
TREASON TO MAKE MUNITIONS FOR USE
 OF THE ALLIES"
Announcement of Imperial Declaration Rouses
 Interest Here


 An official declaration published yesterday in Berlin and transmitted to America through the Sayvflle wire less station to the effect that Germans working in factories in the United States where war supplies for the al- lies are being manufactured, will be held for treason if discovered now and later arrested in, Germany, has caused much discussion in this city.
 It is known that many persons of German extraction either bearing di- rect allegiance to the Kaiser or hay ing become naturalized United States citizens are working in factories where ammunition and arms are be- ing manufactured.
 The text of the Berlin ruling fol- lows:
 Germans working in factories in neutral countries. particularly in tho United States, producing war supplies for the enemy render themselves 1ia- ble to prosecution for treason under Paragrap ph S9 of the Penal Code, pen alfzing such assistance to an enemy with a maximum of ten years innpris- onment."
 Another paragraph of the Penal Code authorizes prosecution in the case of such offenses, even when com nitted abroad. and it is understood that the German courts will proceed against offenders.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-23
Organizer Not Satisfied With Conditions Orders
 ar Out of Club Room
Finances of Organization Involved and Demand for
 Accounting Threatened

An effort to dfsband the local of the Bartenders' union of this city will be made at a apeetal meeting called for Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the union rooms in r Bank street. Notices for this meeting have been sent to every member of the union by Recording Secretary T. F. Lavery. The ma sority of the bartenders in Bridgeport are members of the union but the ma Jority of the members are behine. In their dues There is no money in the treasury and although the bylaws of the local provide a death benefit Of s504beca11se the union has no funds no death benetts have been paid rela- lives of four members of the union who have died within the last three months
 On Monday, Jof1n J Carroll of New York, Business agent of the New York local and vice president of the Restaurant and Hotel Employees In- Lernationa1 Alliance and the Bar fendeTs' International Association of Aunerica which is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, came to Bridgeport to look over the situa- ton He found. the Bridgeport local donlicf1ed on the top floor at ST Bank street and he also found a fully equipped bar which is not permitted by the bylaws Of the national bar tenders union
 
 establish this bar2, MT. Carroll asked
 Secretary Lavery could not reply As a matter of fact there has been no bar in thes union rooms for three months past There was bar there which was operated on Sundays and on holidays Some members Of the union claim that the members who worked at the bar there took more money than was placed in the cash register to pay the pills- Every club bar in town either makes a profit or pays expenses The bar in the Bar tenders union roonas did neither, so the officers ordered it discontinued some time ago. It Is claimed by some members Of the union that a certain clique took advantage of the situation when the bar was in operation and ran things in the Bank street rooms f1 s1it themselves At the last meet nas Of the local it was voted that
 President David Miller should have charge of placing men in employment ir barroons where the union cards are displayed and that positions for new or extra men should be filled only with his consent.
 Mir Carroll of New Fork felt such action would relieve the situation here but when he found there was no money in the treasury and that the majority of the nleTnbers were very much in arrears for dues he left for New York Immediately. Before going, however Mr. Carroll intimated that unless the meeting on Sunday devel- oped an attendance of represe ntative ing the charter Of the local, he would
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