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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-12
Auto Man Killed in Crash

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-John Phillips, q
years old, an automobile demonstration,
was instantly killed, and his two male
companions were seriously injured when
an automobile driven by Phillips crashed
into trolley pole on Jerome avenue
early today. The machine turned over,
crushing Phillips beneath. His compan-
ions were thrown clear out Of the car, but
sustained severe contusions and internal
injuries. Phillips was testing the car
prior to delivery TO a new owner.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-12
PLAYGROUND ATTENDANCE
This Years Attendance Slightly Be.
low That Of 1914

The report on the attendance at the
city Fairgrounds. made today by william
ID. Champlin, secretary OF the Board OF
Recreation, shows that the total attend
ance during the season was 1,730.s25. or
1884 less than last year.
The attendance was divided as follows:
June, 3sS,l4s; July. 6s0,s64; August, l5e, $50,
and September, 3f2,4
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-12
LIVE STOCK QUOTATIONS

CHICAGO. oct. I2-HoGs-Receipts. 13, 600
Market slow. &c. lower. Mixed and butchers
s75; pigs. S597. 40; bulk, ss.16as.66
CATTLE = Receipts, $500. Market slow.
Beeves. 50. 100000; COWS and helfers. sos 4O
Texans. $0.50Q7. 30; calves, t7.75a11.75.
Native and Western. s6bOQe Tbi lamb. S1ae
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-12
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS

The banks and trade exchanges were
closed today in observance OF Columbus
Day. and business transacted in a whole
sale way was Of small proportions Lack
ing fresh information on which to base
reliable reports our usual quotations are
omitted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-12
CITY BEAUTIFIERs MEET
Dayton's Mayor Welcomes Society
for Municipal Improvement

DAYTON Ohio, Oct. 12.-Mayor George
W. Shroyer welcomed the delegates 10
the convention Of the American Society
for Municipal improvements In a speech
at the Miami Hotel this morning. The
city is given over to entertaining sew
eral hundred prominent engineers and
other men interested in municipal i'm
provements.
Engineers of finance, general adminis-
tratlon, parks and Playground, water
works and streets are represented, be-
sides men interested In large asphalt
plants, new street-paving machines, brick
and cement companies and steel COM
panies.
In connection with this convention will
be convention of city managers. City
Manager Henry NJ. Waite, OF Dayton, Is
a member of the executive committee Of
both conventions.
The final sessions will be held Friday,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-12
Lansdale Child Dies of Diphtheria

L4ANSDALB, Pa. Oct. 12.-Although no
new cases OF diphtheria have been re-
ported here. another fatality is reported.
Ella May Gresham. aged years, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Harris Gresham,
9Th street, died yesterday. The child was
stricken more than two weeks ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-12
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA
Vessels Arriving Today

Str, Rugbeian CBr.). cette. via Hampton
Roads. ballast.
Str. sif (Nor.). Baltimore. ballast MunsOn
sd. River. Arsxes Br). oTan. merehandiss.
BE FERN CNorJ, Pernsmbuco ballast 1.
Vlaaaanbern "A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
ON TICKET
Colonel Nay Appear on Primary
Ballot in Minnesota.

Minneapolis. Dec. 23.-The name of
Theodore Roosevelt may appear on
the Republican presidential primary
ballot in Minnesota. A. ID. Rohn. per-
sonal friend of the colonel, said to-
Gay there is a strong likelihood. The
coloneFs friends have started a move
ment to annex his name following the
refusal Of Elihu Root to permit his
name being used. Root said in let
ter directed to Charles e. Elliott, for
mer member of the PHILIPPINE COM
mission:
Il am not candidate for the nom
nation in any sense said that por-
ton of Roots letter made public. -
am not willing to have my name used
as a candidate. l do not wish my
name to be put on the ballot and if
it is put there, L wish to decline and
insist upon its being withdrawn
Under the municipal law, the voter
must vote for delegates who have .eX-
pressed themselves for a candidate
whose name appears on a ballot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
BIRTHS REPORTED

Six boys to one girl is the ratio on
birth certificates filed with the city
clerk today. Tho births are recorded
as follows:
Herman E. Wege and wife, 431
Ohio avenue, December Is, a boy.
Nick Adkins and wife, Twenty fifth
and jefferson, December IS, a boy.
Elmo Wisegarver and wife, 1904
North Kansas avenue, December IS, a
boy:
West Sixth street, De cember IA, a boy.
George Beier and wife, 1872 Quincy
street. December IS, a boy.
Clay A Sanders and wife, r. D.
No. IS, December 10, a girl.
John Spillman and wife, Soldier
township, December G, a boy.
William A. Norris and wife, 366
Shawnee, December %, a girl.
George c. Cobbe and wife, Topeka,
December 21, a girl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
GETS QUICK RETURNS
Card Bearing an Insufficient
Amount of Postage.

Because the weather turned damp
the patrons of a Topeka business man
are paying excess posta ge on Christ
mas cards he mailed out TO them. He
is squaring himself as best he can but
it is a difficult process when it is con-
sidered that he mailed out five hun
dred Of the cards.
The business man received the cards
from a firm he represents ard that
firm had weighed them. Each card
weighed the maximum to be carried
by a given amount of postage. The
firm notified the business man that
this amount of postage would carry
the cards and he took the firms word
for it. But he had overlooked the
freaklsh nature of Kansas weather.
They we're mailed out on u damp day
and had absorbed enough moisture by
the time they reached the postoffce
to go over the limit. There was no
return" printed on the envelope so
the pOstoffice people had to charge
the extra postage up to the recipient
II wasn't more than an hour after the
first delivery before the business man
began to hear bout it and he has been
trying to square things by telephone
ever since.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
RAIL men ADJOURN
Shorter Hour Schedule Will Be
Demanded From Roads.
Chicago Conference in Session
Since 18th OF December.

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec 2S.-Their con-
sideration of demands to be made OF
all the railroads in the country for
shorter hours having been completed,
the representatives of the four great
railroad brotherhoods left here today
for their homes. The demands which
are to be presented to the railway
heads before the expiration of the
present contracts with the employees
next April mark the first time in the
history of the several organizations in
which they have acted as a unit in
their effort for fewer hours or higher
wa ges.
On the conference of labor chiefs
which began December Is. the heads
of the Brotherhood of locomotive en-
gineere, the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen and Enginemen, the
brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and
the Order of Railway Conductors took
part.
In substance the demand which is t.
be presented TO the railroad officials
is for the installation of a uniform
working day of eight hours through
out the railroad service in place of the
present ten-hour day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
FORM STATE BODY
Hospital Heads and Stats VIII
Meet in Topeka.
New Organization Announced
by IL. C. Bowman.

Hospital heads and members of hos
pital Stats are to have a state organi-
cation of their own. According to an
nouncement made today by H. c. Bow
man, of the state of board of control,
hospital officials will meet in Topeka
December so to perfect a permanent
organization.
The new organization is the result
of = plan originated by the state med
icaI society and invitations to attend
the meeting have been sent to repre-
sentatives of all of the hospitals in
Kansas. 1t is probable that nearly 100
men and women, representing about
80 public and private hospitals, will
attend the meeting in the offices of
the state board of control.
DIR. j. T. AXtell OF Newton, head of
the Axten hospital. is chairman of
the committee which plans the organ
izatiOn of a new state wide society.
Under the call which DR.. Axtell has
issued, the membership will include
superintendent, assistant superinten-
dents, superintendents of nurses,
members of hospital staffs, and chart
table associations, hospital physicians,
surgeons and pathologists.
A program for the meeting is now
being prepared and will be announced
in q few days. Some of the most prom
inent physicians in Kansas Will come
to Topeka for the meeting. it is assert
ed, and all of the big state hospitals,
as we'll as public and private institu
tions, viii be represented at the meet
inc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
IS QUIET
No Disturbances in Town Since
Carranza Rule Began.
Gen. Villa Reported on His Way
to New Orleans.

FL Paso, Dec. 23.-Juarez passed its
first night under Carranza control
peacefully
There was less evidence of the GUS
tomary night life, gambling had
ceased and the disorderly resorts were
closed. Costitutionalist currency is
sued to the troops was accepted in
stores and its value established.
General Alvaro Obregon, command
ing all the Carranza forces which ar
rived late last night from NogaleS,
Sonora, to take charge of the surren-
dered Villa territory and troops. was
closeted this forenoon with Mexican
Consul Andrean Garcia, answering
kilograms. He will be unable to cross
the border until late this afternoon,
it was said.
Villa to New Orleans.
New Orleans La, Dec. 23-Mrs
co Villa, accompanied by General
Villas sister-in-law, Mrs. Hipolito VII
la. and ten other persons arrived here
last night from Juarez, Mexico.
Mrs. Villa said she expected to spend
Christmas holidays here with her hus-
band. 1t is understood here that Villa
will confer with United States army
officers next week.
Bank Decree Suspended.
Washington, Dec. 23.-In the face
of official foreign protests General
Carranza has temporarily suspended
his decree, requiring banks in Mexico
City to redeem their notes in gold, ac-
cOrding to adYiceS received today by
the department. Embassy officials
here recently urged Secretary Lansing
to request Carranza to modify the de-
probably would lead to international
COOlnliC lions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23

Rev j. H Crockett. The moving
picture machine to be used is the only
one of its kind in the city using pic
lures IL times smaller than the stand
ard size or ten to the inch.
The city commission today instruct
ed George P. Hayden to prepare an
amendment to the city plumbing ordl-
nance and the amendment was later
drafted in the rough. As it stands at
present it makes it possible for anyone
who viii put up a bond with the city
and take out license, to connect
vaults with the main sewer.
Morton Albaugh, clerk OF the United
States district court, has received the
printed trial docket for the Kansas
City term of court which Will begln
January 10. Most of the cases on the
criminal docket are due to sales OF
liquor without Il government incense
and none of them is calculated TO
make a particularly interesting ses-
sion.
Five teachers are out of the Topeka
high school. sick. The supply of sub
stitutes has run out and Principal A. j.
Stout has been employing visitors from
other schools to keep things running
Calling cards, engraved and printed,
are being ordered by Topeka high
school seniors tC send out with their
commencement invitations next Jan
uary.
The city license department, pre-
sided over by George Mattingly, is go
Ing 10 snow an increase Oh dDOut
600 over last years business. Perhaps
when all of DEFENDERS license money
is applied the total increase may eX-
coed that Mr. Mattingiy has lot oil
TAGS on hand for taNicab drivers and
transfer men and there is still S3c0 to
come in this month.
The Topeka postoffice viii remain
open until noon Christmas day and one
delivery CT the regular mail will be
made during the morning Parcel
deliveries he f,a o1
The department has kept ahead of
the rush since it began last Sunday
and is in excellent shape. Postofiice
officials do not believe there will be
q delay in the deliveries.
Relatives OF Henry CLAIR of 400
East Seventh street. who has been
seriously i'll for the past two weeks.
have been called to his bedside. Five
sons. Earl. Earl, Sam and Herman of
ReXford, Kan, and Arthur OF Phil
Iipsburg; and two daughters, Mrs.
Lola Cullison and Mrs. Mary Barcus
CLAIR of Council Bluffs, Ia, another
son is expected here today.
The Central Y. M. e. n. will hold a
Christmas tree party tonight at 6
o'clock. The children will assemble
at Redden Chapel at this evening
and will be returned to the chapel as
near 8 as possible in order that their
mothers will not worry. A bag of
cand, ball of popcorn and toy Will
be given to each child. The men nv-
ing in the "'Y'' dormitory are backing
the party.
Blinded by the glare of the sun
reflected by the mica curtains of Dr.
T. r. Hyatt's automobile, c. G. Carl
son drove his car into the doctors
machine DIR. Hyatt was attempting
to cross in front of the ching
automobile at the corner of Clay and
Third streets. IL his car We're Cath
crime Rossiter, Ella FftzgibDons and
Hedouina Hyatt. No one was injured.
The rear of DR.. Hyatt's car was struck,
bending both the front and rear axles
and knocking off a wheel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
MONEY FROM Home
Christmas Presents for Residents
Along Kansas Avenue South of
Eighteenth Street.

Persons living down on South Kan
sas avenue between Eighteenth and
IWenty-first streets have a Christmas
present coming to them but they must
not blame the mails if they do not re-
ceive it for a few days after Christ
mas.
The Topeka Street Railway COM
pany has paid into the city treasury
total of $2,0O6.66 to be refunded to
property owners in the locality men
toned. The payment is made because
of the extension of the street car line
from Eighteenth to Twenty-first. 1t
pays for the eight foot strip of street
the company will use as its right-of-
way and the money will be ready for
the distribution within Il few days.
The property owners must first take
their deeds or abstracts to the city
clerk to prove up their ownership. The
moment that is done the warrants on
the city treasury will be issued. The
amounts due to property owners in the
different blocks are as follows:
To property owners from Eighteenth
street to Nineteenth street $523.55; to
owners from Nineteenth to Twentieth
s5O9.2S: from Twentieth to Beacon,
$392-94; from Beacon to TWENTY first,
S64034
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
ELkS ARE PREPARED
Ready to Take Care of All the Poor
or Neglected Children That Apply
at the Club Christmas Morning. =

Between eleven and twelve hundred
children are expected by the Elks
Christmas morning when the curtain
is pulled away from the big Christmas
tree at the Elk club house. Each
child will receive a present and re-
freshments. There Will also be mu-
sic and something in the nature of
program but the children will not be
Wearied by anything long-drawn-o out.
7 The price of presents, has gone up
in the last year and the Elks have had
to dig down considerably in order to
provide for all the children they eX-
pect But they have done it and they
want every child in the city who isn't
provided for in some other way, to
visit the Christmas tree and get his
present Christmas morning. .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
PLAYED the MARKET
One of the Things Charged Against
Her Husband in Mrs. McCoun's
Petition for Divorce.

Amended petition for divorce was
filed this morning in the district court
by Cornelia " H. McCoun against
Richard McCoun of New York City.
Mrs McCoun for the past year has
been living in Topeka.
In her amended petition Mrs. Nc
Coun says that her husband speculat-
ed on the board of trade and didn't
properly support her. She says her
husband. in 1911. threatened her with
gun and choked her.
She asks a divorce restoration of
her maiden name and possession of
considerable property which she says
she owns in Oyster Bay. New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
SNAP SHOTS
At HOME NEWS.

New coin at State Savings bank for
| Christmas presents.-Adv.
The Rev NJ. L. Robey will speak in
the Santa Fe new mill Friday noon.
The finance committee of the Bob
johnson revival will meet this evening
az the Third Presbyterian church.
A gospel meeting was held in the
Santa Fe machine shops today. an ad-
dress being made by A. E. Peterson.
Notice has been received that the
advance man for the Bob johnson re
vival will arrive some time next week
to prepare for the evangelist's COM
pany.
The Little Swedish Church on the
HILL new book of short stories. Post
paid 35 cents. Benefit new church.
Address Bethel Building Fund, Lock
Box 46, Topeka.-Adv.
The senior class of the Topeka high
school will give Christmas tree party
this evening at the home of one of the
members at 1928 Polk street The
party will commence at O'Clock.
A union prayer meeting viii be held
this evening at the Third Presbyterian
church at 8 o'clock. The Rev. j.
Youngman. pastor of the East Side
Methodist church, viii be in charge.
"Lutfisk' will be on sale at the
Christmas food sale which will be con-
Quoted by the women of the Swedish
Bethel church Friday at the store of
c. o. johnson, 1923 West Sixth street
George H. Hoyes gave an old-fash-
Toned popcorn party for the men in
the dormitory last night. The guests
were transported from the "" in an
automobile belonging to Charles Vie
renga.
Clarence H. Ream arrived in Tc-
peka Wednesday for a few days visit
before going to Hiawatha, Kan, where
his parents now live. He is principal
of the Anthony high school at An
thony, Kan.
Bob Johnson will come from Red
Bank. n. J.. to ToI ,ka next week to
commence his revival services Dur
ing his four weeks stay in that city
he secured 1.0S0 conversions. accord
ing to the Red Bank Journal.
Frank Newland, commissioner of
light and water was authorized by
the city commission today to put in a
sprinkHng system al the pumping
plant west of the city. Mr. Newland
stated that the installation of the sys-
tenn would cost about $1,000.
A boy in the window winding toys
and keeping things going at the Mills
store has been keeping a fascinated
circle Of toddling youngsters about the
windows. The infantile envy of that
boys job is apparently as great as the
desire to work in a indy store
Morning services at $50 o'clock will
be held at the Swedish Bethel church
Christmas. Special music and SER
mon by the Rev. A. Liljengren will
compose the early morning worship.
The children's program will be given
in the evening under the direction of
the Sunday school.
Nick Chiles, publisher of the To-
peka Plaindealer, who suffered an at
tack of pneumonia last week, is i'm
proving slightly according TO DIR. O.
A. Taylor, his physician. Yellow jaun-
dice set in this week and has SER
iously threatened the patient but DR..
Taylor hopes for his recovery.
Moving pictures of THE Good Sa-
maritan" will be shown at the Railroad
Y NJ. c. "A. Sunday aftrnoon at
O clock illustrating a lecture by the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
CHRISTMAS At LANSING
Celebration With Special Break
fast, Dinner and Band Concert.

Convicts at the state penitentiary,
Lansing, will be given a special Christ
mas breakfast and dinner and enter
tanned at a band concert. according
to announcement made today by War
den J. 4 Codd1ng, Roast pig viii
meat order on the prison dinner menu
this year.
Plans have been made for a real
Christmas celebration at the peniten-
tiary this year and work in all depart
ments will be suspended for the day.
In the afternoon, a band concert will
be given in the prison chapel and all
of the convlcts and prison officials will
attend. 1t will be a real high class
band concert, too. Selections from
The Chocolate Soldier THE Spring
Maid" and The Yankee Consul and
bits of Remick's hits are some of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
BlJLGARS' Side OF 1T
Russian Attack Reported on Black
Sea Coast Is Net Confirmed
From Sofia.

Berlin. Dec. 23.-What is apparent
" the bulgarian version of the recent
naval encounter on the Black sea coast
which was followed by reports that
the Russians were landing troops
there is contained in a Sofia dispatch
given out by the Overseas News
agency as follows:
-Four Russian torpedo boat destroy
ers approached a Bulgarian torpedo
boat and attacked her. The torpedo
boat answered the Russian fire and
Bulgarian coast batteries also took
part in the engagement. The destroy
ers shortly withdrew. The torpedo
boat was not damaged"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
WON'T NAME OFFICERS
Under Secretary for War Refuses to
Reveal Identity of Commanders
Removed at GallipOli.

London, Dec. 23.-In the house of
commons this afternoon Harold J.
Tenant, parliamentary undersecre-
tary for war, declined publicly to give
the names of the officers relieved
from commands in connection with
the landing OF British troops at Suvla
bay on the Gallipoli peninsula.
1t was suggested that the names
We're public property. Mr.. Tenant
replied that if this were son an an
nouncement would be more punitive
than informative. He denied a report
that one officer had been cashiered-
Plated Ware at Fcrbes.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23

choice selections on the musical pro-
gram.
There will be plenty to eat at both
the Christmas breakfast and dinner.
Rolled oats, hot biscuits, bread, but
.er, syrup. coffee, cream and sugar
are on the breakfast bill. For dinner,
the menu includes: Oyster soup.
crackers. celery, sour pickles, roast
pig and oyster dressing, cranberry
sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy,
Dreamed corn, cocoanut layer cake,
jelly, apple pie. cheese, lemon cookies,
oranges. bananas. milk. coffee sugar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-23
SEIZED MAIL SACKS
British Take IS From Berlin, If From
COnstantinople and 10 From
sofia for Censorship.

New York, Dec. 23.-The steamer
Rotterdam, arriving at New York to-
day. from Rotterdam and Falmouth,
reported that while detained at Fall
mouth for two days the British au-
thorities took 8 - sacks of mail ashore,
Is sacks from Berlin, II from Con-
stantinople and l 0 from Sofia.
Captain Baron in vain protested that
the seizure was illegal and was obliged
to accept a receipt for the mail. He
was assured, however, that after the
mail had been censored, it would be
sent by another steamer.