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Morris tribune., 1915-01-29
Old Egg Brings Letter
Oregon Woman Asks Willie
Markell to Explain About
Matters Six Years Ago

An egg packed in Morris almost
six years ago by Willie Markell, an
employe of the Benson Produce Co..
in this city, has just been eaten by
a woman at Portland. Oregon. The
egg was sold to her by a Portland
grocer who had no compunctions about
displaying sign in his egg depart
ment reading "Strictly fresh Oregon
ranch eggs 40 cents per Dozen" The
woman's name is Mrs. VIM. c. Lackas
and she wants to know something
about Willie and the egg he packed.
What thoughts were fitting through
Willie's mind in the gentle spring
time of 1909 he does not remember,
but as his deft fingers placed the eggs
into the paper filings in the egg cases
he stopped to write on one of the eggs.
Selecting fine, large, white speci-
men he wrote: "Willie Markell, en-
ployed by the Benson Produce Co.,
Morris, Mimi. April 7, 1909. Age
%" Now Mrs. Lackas who ate the
egg, on Jan. Is, this year, and found
it fresh and appetizing just five years,
nine months and eight days after
Markell dedicated it to fame, wants to
know whether Markell referred to his
own age or the age of the egg when
he attached the words: "aged 22."
Mrs. Lackas is unable to penetrate the
mists of Willie's metaphor. He will
take time to explain although he hates
to write to what appears to be a
married woman.
Markell is still employed with the
produce company where his brother,
Abner, also works. He is an attrac-
tive appearing young man with dark
eyes and hair. His friends describe
him as young man of exemplary
habits and quiet ways. Socially he is
popular but has never been known to
figure in any serious affairs of the
heart. 1t will therefore be a small
surprise to his friends to know that
he has been IN the habit of afixing
his name, address, occupation and age
to eggs whenever he finds specially
sound and we'll formed she'll. His
mail has grown to enormous proper.
Morris tribune., 1915-01-29
Would Contiscate Booze
Bill Before Legislature Aims to
Make State ''Dry" on
Jan. l Next Year

One of the most drastic prohibition
measures ever introduced in any state
legislature, was proposed in the Min
neesota state senate last Thursday by
Senator Lobeck, of Alexandria. The
bill is radical to large degree and
if passed will make Minnesota dry on
January 1. next year. 1t also pro.
vides that the wife or children of a
man who has been injured through in
toxication may sue the seller and re.
cover damages. The bill is said to
stand good chance to pass the SEN
ate but there is some doubts as to It's
future in the hands of the house.
Among other things in the bill. the
following are included:
Provides that no alcoholic liquor be
manufactured in the state.
Railroads are prohibited from max
ing shipments of alcohol.
Physicians are prohibited from pre-
scribing alcohol more than once, and
then only in half-pint measures.
= Prohibits liquor selling or giving
away of liquor in any form.
Aims to close all saloons and bars
where liquor is sol1. and authorizes
sheriffs to seize and destroy all
"booze' goods.
Senator Lobeck is one of the fore
most temperance workers in the state
and has an International reputation.
He has been a candidate for governor
of this state but was beaten by an
overwhelming ma jority. .
Morris tribune., 1915-01-29

himself for another crime. By the
sublime patience and truthfulness of
the old man he is brought to confess
his guilt but not in time to restore
the innocent man to home and friends.
Mrs. Spooner gave talk on ga
visit to Tolstoy''. Many people.
thousands it is said. have visited the
noted Russian, a man who has had
the ability to lift mis- life to the
level of his conscience. Miss Jane
Adams of Hull House visited his
home a few years ago TO learn of Toll
stoy's Efforts to put himself in right
relations with the poor. Tolstoy found
nearly all the peasants illiterate and
with marvellous patience wrote prim-
ers and children's tales and began to
Morris tribune., 1915-01-29

teach them to read and write. These
efforts stimulated the church ana
state to do the same thing. which
was great achievement. The novel
which gave him great reputation
was Gamma Karenina. This was
reviewed in paper written by Mrs.
Parker of Minneapolis, former mem.
ber of the club, and was read by Mrs.
Voss.
A trio of young ladies'. Misses
Tewksbury. SIawson and Leuty sang
Daffodils. accompanied on the
piano by Miss Kohler, after which
Mrs. Kruger served dainty lunch.
The meeting then adjourned to meet
with Mrs. S. j. Stebbins, Monday.
Feb. 9Th.
Morris tribune., 1915-01-29
We Save You Money on
Buildings

To all parties, who wish to build or
replace their buildings the coming
season. will save money bv seeing US.
We expect to handle all kinds of
lumber and mill work, we will be
prepared to handle your contracts as
we will have good experienced men
for that work and will furnish blue
prints for contract work if desired.
Thanking you for past fsvors, we re-
main,
Yours truly,
advtf. Clark & Barringer.
Morris tribune., 1915-01-29

tions from people in all sections of
the country writing replies. and he
has several little romances in full
bloom. Girls at Lynn, Mass. Buffalo
and New York City, San Francisco
and Seattle, as we'll as in other large
cities where fresh eggs are appreci-
ated, have sent him their photographs
and testimonials, and inviting corre-
spondence. All the while Markell
keeps the fun to himself and the Tri-
bune has promised to say nothing
about it.
Morris tribune., 1915-01-29

horses and his wagon when the ice
broke The horses and wagon sank in
forty feet of water and were fished
out the next day. Cofield managed to
save his life.
Bakers all over the country are pre-
dieting smaller loaves at an advance
in price because of the soaring prices
on wheat.
An epidemic of small pox is raging
at Brooten. A mask bal! and meet
ing of the creamery board had to be
postponed because of the ban on public
gatherings. No fatalities have oc-
Cured.
Morris tribune., 1915-01-29
500 Carries Big Guns
Third Shipment for English
Government Goes Thru Glen
wood Monte Stays Dry.

The third shipment of cannon and
other war materials from the iron
works in Pennsylvania consigned to
the English government passed thru
Glenwood last week. The cannon
went to Vancouver supposedly to be
mounted there but in reality to be
sent aboard British ships.
At the annual city election at Mon
tevideo last Tuesday the "drys" car
ried the day with vote of 156 maj
ority. Last year Montevideo went
into the dry column for the first time
in many years and the majority at
that time was very small. Granite
Falls is another town on the Mil
waukee which remains dry. The maj
ority of the "drys' in Tuesday 8 cleo
tion was 81.
The commercial club at Sauk Centre
has taken up the matter of starting a
base ball team to represent the town
the coming season. 1t is proposed to
hire a number of players to assist
home talent
A young newspaper man at Mil.
bank has decided to start a sensa
tional magazine to rival jim Jam
Jems. A. F. Lockhart is his name
and he has been connected with the
defunct Grant County News. He is
a young man of exemplary habits and
strictly moral code. While he was
doing news work for the News he saw
much of the gambling halls and other
notorious places at Milbank, and was
surprised to find so many of the prom
inent social lights holding forth there.
The first issue of his magazine will be
issued this week. The title is "Chain
Lightning" and the author says it
will live up to its name. He has
promised to expose vice at Milbank
in the first number. Lockhart is a
forceful and unafraid writer.
Captain Edwin DaneIz, of Benson.
who is now serving in the British
army, came down to Benson last week
wearing full military dress. His
regiment is now at the front and he
will return to England next month
with a second Lewiston of Canadian
recruits. He says Canada will have
over 1OO,O0O men in the field by
spring. He did not venture predic-
tion how many of them will ever see
their fair country again.
$4,000 worth of postage stamps
were ruined at the Park Rapids post
Office last week when the postmaster
placed them in a vault undergoing
repairs. Moisture reached them
which caused the glue to run. The
stamps were returned to Washing
ton for cancellation.
Osakis will be without an opera
house after this week. One of the
merchants has decided he needs the
opera house floor space and will move
his stock into it after remodelling the
place.
The Lutheran church at Dawson
has been offered half the Gust of a
pipe organ by the Carnegie corpora
tion. The offer has been accepted and
the trustees are hustling for the other
half.
Appleton will have a new bank.
M any farmers are interested.
A. H. Rosenquist, pioneer live
stock dealer and hardware man at
Raymond, has disposed of his interests
and will move to Oregon wh ere he is
interested in fruit raising.
While driv ing across the ice on
Clearwater lake near Annandale few
days ago, L. Cofeld, an Annadale
business man lost a valuable team of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
MAY SUE PARENTS
Mayor COfran Warns TOpekans
of "Gun CraZed" Boys.
Too Many Youngsters Carrying
Firearms in City Limits.

Parents of boys who are going
through the "gun craze" age are liza
BILE TO face heavy suits for damages,
and also may face prosecutions on
state charges for permitting their
minor sons the use of firearms, ac-
cording to r. L. Cofran, mayor.
"A state law provides a heavy pen
atty for parents who permit their
children under the age of sixteen
years to have firearms said the
mayor. Several parents have been
notified by city policemen that their
children are using small caliber rifles
and airguns, which are also prohibit
ed, but parents have ignored these
warnings. 1 have issued orders for
complaints to be sworn to in all cases
where there is evidence sufficient for
a conviction. The boys will be taken
to the juvenile court, and the parents
will be prosecuted by the county at
torney.
Il Croxcon, the deaf mute, living at
1915 Harrison street, who was shot
several weeks ago by a stray bullet is
still in a dangerous condition. Should
he recover, it is quite likely he will
sue the parents of the boy who shot
him. He has written a description of
the boy who did the shooting and says
he knows him, should he see him
again. We know pretty we'll who the
boy is, but he will not be taken before
CroXcon for identification until Crox-
con is out of danger"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
MRS. BURNETT DEAD.
Mother of Many Sons of Railway Sue
cess in This Country.

Mrs. Anna Mary Burnett died at
the home of her son, w. w. Burnett
at Lawrence, Kan, Sunday. The flu
neral will be held Tuesday morning
at 1870 o'clock from the residence,
900 Missouri street, Lawrence.
Mrs. Burnett was born in Water
Vile, Vt, March 10. 1882. She moved
to Kansas from Vermont with her
husband. the late Judge ]. c. Bur
nett, in 1856. She is survived by six
sons, E. F. Burnett, general agent of
the Western Passenger association in
New York city; w. c. Burnett, an edi-
tor of Santa Rosa, n. NJ; o. H. Bur-
nett, a ranchman of Chase county;
w. w. Burnett, Santa Fe agent at
Lawrence; ]. c. Burnett of Topeka,
assistant general freight agent,
freight department of the Santa Fe.
A daughter, Mrs. S. E. Whitney of
Chase county, died recently. She Ii
also survived by two brothers-Joel
Fisk of Bakersfield, Cal, and H. G.
Fisk of MOrriSVille. VT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
D. N. Heller WAS HERE
Former Mayor Colorado Springs
Tells of Summer Resort Plans.

D. n. Heller, former mayor of Col
oradO Springs, and a prominent bank
err of that city, has been in Topeka
visiting old friends. Mr.. Heller is
president of the Cascade Town COM
pany, one of the prominent Colorado
summer resorts. up Ute Pass. five
miles from Manitou. Many Topeka
and Kansas people own summer
homes at Cascade.
Surveyors are now at work" says
Mr.. Heller. stalking out the ground
from Cascade to the top of Pixies
Peak, to be used as an automobile
road. This road will be twenty feet
wide the entire distance-17 miles
giving a double track system to the
top of the peak. A great deal of the
work is already done. as the old stage
road to the summit of the peak will be
on the right of way. The plans are
to have the work completed by July
/, and this road will be the highest
auto drive in the world.
Colorado looks for big business
this summer says Mr.. Heller. THE
effects of the war and the California
eXpositions naturally draw the people
westward"
Mr.. Heller formerly lived at Great
Bend during the early days. He is OH
his way home from Pennsylvania,
where he has been spending the win
ter visiting relatives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
SENATE WOULD GIVE $1,000
IN CORN GROWING PRIZES
rcont,nued from page One.I

there might be more satisfactory re-
suits if a special division of the contest
were made for the upland farmer and
he said he thought the acreage should
be increased from to 25. AS the
board of agriculture will be authorized
to make claSsificationS in the interest
of fairness the resolution was left I'M
changed.
Senators Harry Mcmillan of Ottawa
and Jonathan Davis of Bourbon also
supported the resolution the former
calling attention to a corn contest OF
the past year in which the prize was
won by a South Carolina farmer who
got PAT bushels an acre on land that
had never been recognized as particu-
larry good corn land.
Secretary Mohler will give out the
information about the terms of the
corn contest. He will lay down the
conditions subject to the general pro-
vision that the competition will be
open to any man or woman, boy or
girl who desires to enter. The first
prize of $500 will go to the person
producing the most bushels of kiln
dried corn from five acres of land
and the three smaller premiums will
be paid for the next three record pro-
auctions.
1t will be a few weeks yet before
Secretary Mohler will have any in
formation to give for the approval of
the house of representatives must yet
be obtained for the Nighswonger reso-
II1tiOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
ANTHONY TO RESCUE.
Kansas Congressman Fights Railroad
Bridge Tolls Before I. G. c.

Washington, D. c., March S.-Re-
Gently the railroads operating in Kan
sas filed with the interstate commerce
commission new tariffs under which
they proposed to raise the rates on
interstate -raffic on March 1. People
living in northeastern Kansas, across
the Missouri river from st. Joseph,
who when they go to ST. Joseph on
the Grand Island railroad are obliged
to pay a toll of 25 cents in addition
to the regular fare for crossing the
bridge at st. Joseph, rose up in arms
against the proposed increase and APP
pealed to Congressman Anthony for
assistance in the matter. Mr.. Anthony
at once laid the matter before the
interstate commerce commission and
has been advised by the commission
that a hearing has been set for May
II at Chicago.
Briefly, the contention of the peo-
pie living on the Grand Island west
of St Joseph. is that it is unfair for
the railroad company to charge them
a bridge toll of % cents in addition
to abe regular railroad fare, when a
person who walks across the bridge
to St. Joseph is charged but 5 cents,
and this also raises the question as
to whether the same contention would
not apply to the bridge toll question
at both AtchisOn and Leavenworth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
Big FORTUNES WRONG
Those Who Give BountifuIIy to Poor
First Rob Them, Says Walsh.

Chicago, March S.-A minimum
wage of $3.50 day for unskilled la
Dor was advocated by Frank P.
Walsh of Kansas City, chairman of
the United States commission on in
dustrial relations, in an address here
last night, before the Forum of Grac"
Protestant Episcopal church. Mr.
Walsh said the government should
retake all land procured by fraud.
withhold all benefits Ct the tariff
from every employer who exploits
children and women and prevents Ia
Dor from organizing for it's own good.
Every great fortune" Mr.. Walsh
said. lis fundamental wrong. He
who first gives bOuntifully to the poor
must have first robbed them a-plenty.
Every man with a fortune must at
some time have crossed the line OF
ethics and of criminal law. The root
of poverty comes because the workers
do not receive the full produce of their
toll -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
SENATE PASSES
STATE GRAIN BILL

fContinued from Page One.J
which had a hand in the production
of the bill as it now goes to the gov
ornor were Pomeroy of Jackson,
chairman; Chittenden of Ellis, Lonn-
berg of Hodgeman, Hawkinson of
Pottawa tonne, Gilman of Leaven-
worth, Hart of Jewell, Milton of
Stafford, Ross of Rice, Tromble Of
Mitchell, and Gibbons of Kingman.
Accept Q. S. Grades.
Grades of grain as esta blished by
the United States department of ag-
riculture will be held as the stand
ards for the judging of grain by Kan
sas inspectors. The new bill abolishes
the grain grading commission and
specifically adopts the government
grades which have practically been
the standard approved by the state
commission in the past.
BY defining as public warehouses"
all elevators whether owned or leased,
the new law clears up dispute which
has furnished an avenue of escape
from state inspection in times past.
Every such place where grain is
stored in bulk and doing business for
the public for a compensation is so
included and thrown open to access
to the inspectors. This feature of the
new bill was one of the objects of at
tack by Senators Price of Clark,
Nighswonger of Sedgwick, and Carey
of Reno, who opposed the measure in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
FIRE AT EDIS0N'S
The Inventor First to Discover 1t and
Sound the Alarm.

West Orange, n. J., March S.
Thomas Edison, at work in his lab
Oratory after midnight today, discOv-
cred fire in one of the buildings If
his great plant here and summoned
the firemen in time to prevent what
might have been a serious loss. The
fire practically destroyed a building
where the most valuable monograph
records were stored. but most of the
records, which were in a concrete
vault, were saved.
When he saw the flames, Mr.. Edi-
son dashed out of the laboratory in
his shirt sleeves and stood outside di-
recting the firemen for some time be-
fore his wife and son, who arrived
from the Edison residence, nearby
could persuade him to put on an over
coat. The inventor was soaked to the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
ROADS STILL BAD.
Seventeenth Street Gravel Highway
Worse Than Usual.

The Seventeenth street road be-
tween Topeka and the Bradford Mil
Ter farm, on which the county recent
ly expended $4,000, is practically i'm
passa BILE, accord 'ng to A C. Read,
who lives on the road.
Since the beginning of the bad
weather several vehicles have been
stuck on the strip of highway. In
many places the gravel recently
placed on the road by the county is
cut with huge ruts and bitches.
Roads in all parts of tt e county are
still in a bad condition. The Silver
Lake road which is regarded as one
of the best in the county is in places
impossible. a light buggy was pulled
through Silver Lake Sunday after
noon by a three horse team.
Rural mail carriers are having their
troubles. On several routes mail is
being carried on horses. Motorcycles
on which carriers have been covering
their routes for many months are out
of the question.
Farmers living in the vicinity of
Topeka and in small towns near the
city are coming to Topeka via rail-
roads instead of in vehicles as is the
usual custom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
SHOOTS WOMAN; KILLS SELF.
EX-Soldier Goes on War Path In juno
ton City Sunday

Junction City. Kan, March s.
Mrs. Maud Jennings. wife of William
Jennings, NJ. X. & T. hostler was
called from her home shortly before
noon Sunday and shot in the head by
James Reynolds, an ex-soldier AS
she fell Reynolds shot himself
through the head, dying instantly.
AS Reynolds fired the first shot, Mrs.
Jennings raised her hand to her head
and the bullet went through one fin
ger Her condition is very serious.
Reynolds was released Wednesday
from the county Jail, where he has
been serving a sentence for bootleg
ging. In his pocket was a note say
ing that he contemplated the deed,
and asking that his effects be given
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
SCOTT WILL SPEAK.
Ex-Congressman Will Tell Topeka of
Conditions in Belgium.

Ex-Congressman Charles F. Scott.
of lola, who represented Kansas in
the distribution of the flour from this
state that was transported by the
Hannah, will tell of the handling of
the foodstuffs and the actual exist
ing conditions in Belgium in an ad-
dress at the Auditorium Wednesday
evening at o'clock. There will be
no admission fee, and no subscrip-
lions will be taken at the meeting.
The address will be given under
the auspices of the Kansas Belgian
Relief Fund. w. r. Stubs, former
governor, and chairman of the relief
organization, will preside. Arthur
Capper, governor of Kansas, will be
present as a guest of honor. All per
sons who contributed towards Bel
gian relief are urged to be present
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-08
CUP SHOOT MARCH IS.
Topeka Gun Club Sets Date for 100
Bird Handicap Shoot.

The date for the holding of the 100
offered by the Du Pont Powder COM
pany has been set by the officers Of
the Topeka Gun club for Tuesday,
March 6. The cup has already been
received. and it is expected that every
member of the club will be at the
traps with a determination to win it,
This cup is given in honor of Fred
Gilbert (nOt Bills as was previously
stately and commentaries his TWEEN
tieth anniversary as a shooter of ma
one given the Topeka club have been
sent to every prominent club in the
United States and will be shot for in
100 bird handicap tournaments dur
ing the month.
Gilbert has been one of the most
prominent professional trap shooters
in the country since 1895, and is IA
miharly known as ''the Wizard of
Spirit Lake" Spirit Lake, Iowa, being
his home.
For six years he carried off the
winning high average for the year,
and his record for the 20 years he
has been facing the traps has never
been equaled. Last year he shot at
$500 targets and broke 3,517, making
a per cent of 92.55. His highest av-
erage was made in 1912 when he shot
at 1900 targets and broke 4,413,
king a per cent of $3.50.
On the Thursday following the han
dicap shoot here, several members of
the Topeka club, including Messrs.
Springer, Wray and Stewart. will go
to Chapman to participate in a big
registered shoot that will be held by
the Chapman Gun club.