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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29
MRS MARTHA SHOWALTER
is AGAIN HONORED.

Mrs Martha Showalter of this city,
received word from Washington Sun
day noon that she had been appointed
Assistant National Inspector Of the
Ladies G. A. r. This is high Office
in the order and considered to be one
of great honor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29
AUG. KOELLER'S AUCTION.

Attention is called to the fact that
the ad and bills of August Koeller's
auction should read "37 head of cat
tie" instead of "24 head of cattle
This auction will take place Tuesday,
Dec. IL, commencing at 10 o'clock a,
m.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29

Thirty-twO Deaths.
There were thirty-two deaths in the
county during the period and this
based upon population of 100000
would GIVE death 'ate per annum Of
&c. THIS rate is tic highest fol
some considerable time, but is less
than the state death rate for the pres
ent time and much lower than the ma
tiOnal death rate.
Female
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29

There are always two sides to
story, and the scandalmonger can gen
orally provide five or six more.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29

Elocution may be a good thing, but
it doesn't go far enough 1t merely
teaches us how to speak, not when.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29

pei Su!9q 4noql!M uo!lBldm9l olu!
leS OF 9Spuem u9m 10 I9qWnu emo
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29
Only Fifteen Marriages.

1'1e0HO UO0C10, 70, IOI1oIO U0oCHS, IT
unknown, 1. Average male age ST..
Average female age, 603.
Only Fifteen Marriages.
But fifteen marriages occurred in
Grant county during the past month
although many morz licenses vera "a
ken ut. Most of tpc marriages viii o.
car 3!Cund Thanfse. wing. The l"ca
lion al.G the age Of the contrac .ig
parties follow.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29
Eskimo DOGS.

An exceedingly hard lot is that of
the Eskimo dog. In the first place, he
has to earn his living by drawing
sledges. In the next place, food is 50
scarce that a dog is usually hungry.
often hungry enough TO eat his harness
or indeed any bits Of skin and leather
he can find. To prevent this the men
rub the leather cords with tar. But in
order to live at all an Eskimo dog has
to fight his way. Whenever there is a
pack of dogs together they fight. The
weak ones are driven away or killed.
The strongest and fiercest one, who
can thrash any or all of the others, is
known as the king dog. He has the
best place to lie and his choice of the
food.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29

will eat them even before social func-
lions.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-11-29
BITS OF WISDOM.

That new leaf we turn over comes
straight from the tree of knowledge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
TRIM THAT HEDGE.

Many a Kansas roadside is lined
with Usage orange hedges, says the
Kansas Industrialist Now the hedge
makes a good fence If kept properly
trimmed and cared for. Yet when
a hedge is allowed to grow as in
some localities, it becomes a nuisance.
Some hedges have grown until they
extend IS or 20 feet into the road.
This makes it difficult to grade the
roads or to cut the weeds on the
roadsides. Then, too, in the winter the
hedges catch the snow. thus fire.
quently causing snowdrifts; in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
PRETTY GIRLS SHOW
Orpheum- Warren NJ. Crosby Fashion
Feature Next Week.

Ten pretty Washburn girls of dra-
matte art ability will be gowned in the
most elaborate and attractive clothes
and will stage a fashion show in the
Orpheum theater Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week, Man
ager John Cooper announced this aft
ernoon. The show will be conducted
under the direction of the Warren NJ.
Crosby store and the Orpheum the
alter. A 10-piece orchestra will fur
nish the music.
In the program the girls will be rep
resented at an afternoon tea when the
appropriate clothes for an event of
that kind will be worn. Another
scene will give the evening effects of
the Warren NJ. Crosby gowns. Still
another setting will represent the girls
on the street IN the latest spring Gre
ations.
Miss Helen Griffin of Washburn will
direct the play
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
HOLD BACK
Surprise in Store for Red Team
at Y. nj. C. A.
"Shookograms" Carried t.
Members of One Squad.

That the Blue team is holding back
several hundred points a surprise
for the Red team in the Biggest
Membership contest of the Central Y.
NJ. now being waged, is the belief of
S. J. Shook, captain of the Crimson
army. Spies from the Red camp car
ried the news that while the Red team
is breathing easy in its supposed lead
SO far the Blues are chucl1ling as they
think of the several hundred points
being held in reserve for a surprise
attack.
This afternoon Western Union tele-
graph messengers carried hundreds of
"Shookograms'' to all the members of
the Red team and their prospects in
an effort to head off the Blue raid.
The kilograms were address to Will L.
Boost and read as follows:
Battle raging. General Funston
not in command. Trenches being
evacuated by the Blues. Reds expect
to win without the use of hot air or
deadly gases. Your enlistment in this
cause imperative. Report at once for
duty at official headquarters.
IS. j. SHOOK, Captain"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
CLEVER LATIN-AMERICANs.

American tax-gatherers are pretty
crafty at their trade. whether they be
in the service of the state, the nation
or the municipality. Some of the lat
ter are unusually ingenious in figuring
out special fees and taxes for this and
that thing in order to swell the mu-
nicipal funds to the largest possible
proportions. They work diligently
along the theory that every little bit
helps, and they overlook few chances.
But, at that, they have something to
learn from their prototypes in Latin
American countries, and especially in
| Uruguay which is coming to the
front rapidly these days in many up
to-date particulars. An ordinance re-
Gently went into effect in the city and
| department of Montevideo providing
for a municipal tax on all advertise
ments posted or distributed within its
! confines. The tax applies to CONNER
cial advertisements and professional
notices of all kinds posted on walls,
| buildings, billboards, interiors, rail-
way coaches, street cars, carts and
other vehicles. Advertising by means
Of electric flashers, street banners,
awnings and the distribution of hand
bills is also subject to municipal tax
and regulation. And not only is this
a field that has been overlooked gen
orally by American municipalities but
the municipal authorities of Monte
video also show their astuteness in the
tax-gathering line by taking steps to
encourage this sort of advertising.
They have decided to distribute annual
prizes amounting to more than $1,000
for the most artistic designs in poster
advertisements. A neat scheme, in
need, and one that surpasces for clev-
erness any of the efforts Of American
municipalities to feather their finan
cial nests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
COONEYS FALL OUT
Mrs. c. Petitions the Court for Divorce
and Other Things.

Effie c. Cooney wants divorce
from Patrick Cooney. She also wants
the custody of two children, alimony
and a restraining order prohibiting
Cooney from disposing of any of his
personal property. Later she wants a
division of that property
Mrs. Cooney states that they were
married July 10, 1903. in Topeka and
that her life has been made misera BILE
by Cooney's blows and curses when
he is intoxicated. She states that they
own considerable personal property.
The restraining order she asks for
would cover also the Shawnee State
bank and the German American State
bank, where she believes Cooney has
funds.
The petition for a divorce was filed
in the district court of Shawnee coun-
ty TODAY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
OUR NATURAL RESOURCES.

In view of our unparalleled natural
resources, there is no reason why the
United States should not, in case of ne
cessity, be economically independent
from the outside world provided these
resources have been properly develop
ed. With the exception of one or two
minor minerals, writes Franklin
X. Lane, Secretary o. the
Interior, in the Industrial Num-
Der of Scientific American for
March 4. 1916. the United States
produces every mineral needed in in
dustry. We produce Sc per cent of the
worlds output of petroleum, so per
cent of its copper, 40 per cent of its
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30

coal and iron, and 80 per cent of its
lead and zinc. Tin in small quantities
is produced in Alaska and platinum
in Oregon, Nevada and California,
manganese in Virginia, Georgia, Ar
kansas and California;: but of these
latter minerals, as of nickel and some
others of less Importance, our supply
is altogether inadequate for our con-
sumption. We can build a battleship,
or an automobile excepting the tires)
a railroad or a factory, entirely from
the products of American mines and
forests. To replenish the soil we have
phosphorus in abundance; potash is
known to exist in the deposits of
Searles Lake, Cal, which, however,
is not yet, commercially available; and
in alunite, where it is combined with
aluminium and deposits of which
are found in several states; and nitro
gen can be extracted from the air by
cheap hydro-electric power as is now
done in Germany, Norway and else
where. So that we can feed the earth
and keep it sustained. Our soil and
climate are so varied that we can pro-
duce all the grains, fruits, vegetables
and fibers known to the temperate
zone, and some found in the semi
tropics And to crown all these, we
have water power that can be made
to generate perhaps as much as Co.
100000 horsepower. Our resources
are not alone physical. Our ingenuity
and ability to design the machine to
meet the need have been proven a
thousand times never more convinc-
ingly than in a compilation of the
most necessary inventions and discov-
cries which the world uses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
ARE VOCATION Finders
Educators Will Discuss Many Phases
of Modern School Methods.

Chicago, March 30.-Educators
from all over the country. especially
from middle western states, came to
Chicago today in the interest of voca-
tionaI education. The annual conven-
ton of the Vocational Education asso-
citation of the middle west began a
three days meeting.
Every phase of vocational learning
will be discussed. Art will receive an
unusual share of attention and the
Gary school system will be discussed
as a vocational system. Tomorrow
morning, the delegates will visit the
Chicago schools.
Among the speakers are: Professor
Christie, Purdue university; Lucinda
w. Prince, director School OF Sales
manship, Boston; Messrs. Wulfing and
Swartz, Gary, Ind: superintendent
Hughes, Syracuse; Principal Grady of
the New York City schools who repre-
sents the Etunger system; Charles A.
Prosser. director of Dunwoody insti-
tute. Minneapolis and secretary of the
National society for the promotion of
industrial education, and Superinteu-
dent John D. Shoop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
READY TO START
Detention Home Will Become n
Sanitarium Next Week.
Nursing Association Accepts
Plan of Commissioner Porter.
PATIENTS ON WAITING LIST
Topeka First City in Kansas to
Adopt This System.
DIR. Mills Will Call Meeting OF
Managing Committee.
PATIENTS ON WAITING LIST

The Public Health Nursing associa-
ton formally announced today noon
at a meeting of the Commercial club
that it would take hold of the PROPOSE
ton to convert the city detention hos
pital into tubercular sanitarium DR..
A. NJ. Mills, chairman of a committee
appointed to manage the new hospital,
will call meeting of his committee
tomorrow when definite arrangements
for occupying the new tubercular sani-
tarium will be made. 1t is considered
probable that the nursing association
will begin moving tubercular patients
out there next week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
]. D. COPLEN IN TOPEKA
Well Known Copper Company Man
ager Guest of w. A. Neiswanger.

To meet J. D. Coplen, organizer and
in it's early history manager of the
Inspiration Copper company of Gloae,
Ariz., a number of local investors and
shareholders in the mining company
were guests this noon at a luncheon
served in the Commercial club rooms
Mr.. Coplen was introduced to To-
PekanS, following short talk by w.
A. Neiswanger, who has been iden-
titled with the company since its stock
was first sold in Topeka at IL cents
Mr.. Neiswanger briefly traced the
rapid development Of the company.
How Inspiration developed until the
shares that originally were quoted at
II cents are now bringing S48 to $50
was told by Mr.. Cop1en. Mr.. Coplen
also described the equipment that is
now on the company's holdings in
Arizona.
Mr. Coplen, besides his interest in
the Inspiration company, is president
and with Edward Wilder, Jr, one Of
the largest stockholders in the Barney
group of claims which adjoin the In
spiration mines on the west.
Guests at the luncheon this noon
included besides Mr. Coplen and w
]. Miller of Globe, Ariz.: W. A Neis-
wanger. c. J. Price, p. I. Bonebrake.
T. A. McNeaI, Charles z. Gault, E. C.
Arnold. S. S. OFT. L. S. Ferry, j. A
Troutman, c. r. TErapp. Charles f.
Elliott, j. N Dolley, ]. E. Griest. Stan
ley Mediicott. John Dean, Fred Bone
Frank p. MacLennan, Charles L.
Mitchell, c. p Bolmar, John F. Swift
er. s. e. Cobb. A. A. Scott, Paul Adams
and Tom Doran.
w. A. Neiswanger was host at to-
days luncheon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
TABLE TALK
At THE ElE

The dinner to be given by the
Co-Ops to their wives and sweetheartS
will be held Tuesday evening at Pei
letters instead OF Tuesday noon.
More than 1900 names have L sen
obtained on the petitions for the fire
proof auditorium and new city jail
projects. There appears to be no
doubt that a sufficient number of
names will be obtained.
J. D. Hickman, formerly instructor
in the school of printing at the ag-
ricultural college at Manhattan, now
assistant to w. r. Smith, state print
er, was a guest at luncheon today.
Funny how weather affects a per-
son. Not a man could be found at the
Commercial club today who didn
possess some sort of a crouch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30

The cost of living is higher in this
country than it has been in a long
time and the indications are that it is
going still higher and higher And
vet not nearly SO much complaining
is going on about it as was the case
two or three years or so ago. All of
which would seem to indicate that the
people are getting so used to being
gouged that they are accepting it as a
matter of course. Then, too. they
have long since learned that it doesn't
do any good to kick about it. So the
best they can do is to grin and bear
1t and figure a little more closely on
the problem of making both ends
meet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30

What rage there must be among
certain interests that have big and
questionable stakes IN Mexico that Sc
rious trouble has nol arisen below the
Rio Grande on account of the Ameri-
can expedition after Villa, and that
the prospects that this was only a
stepping stone to real Intervention in
Mexico by Uncle Sam are growing
DINNER and DINNER every day. Evil
IDENTIFY the MeXicans, not OF the bandit
class, are wise enough to know on
which side their bread is buttered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
CONGRESSIONAL ADJOURNMENT.

CONGRESSIONAL ADJOURNMENT.
Considerable talk is going the
rounds in Washington about the pros
poets for a reasonably early adjourn
| ment of congress. Some of the admin
istration leaders express confidence
that the national lawmakers will be
ready to quit the capital by the last
of June. But this is an opinion that
is probably fathered by the wish to
have congress out of the way and the
political decks cleared for the action
of the presidential campaign. It GER
tainly doesn't appear to be based on
the actual situation in congress. If
an adjournment should come by June
congress will have to work harder and
faster than it ever has before and this
means that it will have to work harder
and faster than it knows how Only
one appropriation bill has been passed
thus far and the necessary revenue
legislation has not yet been worked
out in detail. Mr.. McAdoo, the secre-
tary of the treasury, who will natural
ly handle the Administrations end of
the revenue legislation battle is off on
a trip to South America and is not
expected back in Washington until
about the middle of May. 1t isn't at
all likely that congress will take up
such revenue bills as may be worked
out until after Mr.. McAdoo's return.
And it is apparent that the most
vigorous contests of the session will
turn upon the questions of what tax
measures shall be enacted to bolster
up the revenues of the government
and provide for the additional and
extraordinary expenses that will at
tend the adoption of the prepared
ness program. If nothing is done on
the tax bills until the middle of May,
how long will it take to dispose of
them under the ordinary methods of
procedure which prevail in congress 3?
Those who think congress will ad-
journ in June must be classed among
the dreamers. Experienced congress
sional observers are looking for the
session to continue until October.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30

DIR. Waite, the expert poison dis
penser, is evidently laying the founda-
ton for an insanity plea when he
comes to trial for the murder of his
father-in-law He is blaming the
crime on the evil part of the dual per-
sonality that he insists he possesses.
He refers to this demon who as con-
trolled his actions as "he" and him
The doctor doesn't know who his
other "he" was except that he" told
him he came from Egypt. All of
which, among other things, is an ex-
ceedingly original line of nutty talk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
Here IT IS, At LAST
Scientists Can Make Real Diamonds,
Geneva Laboratory Reports.

Geneva, March 3O.-The synthetic
diamond, long sought for by science,
has at last been discovered, says the
Geneva Tribune today.
Research work is being carried out
at the Geneva laboratory of inorganic
chemistry" adds the newspaper, ION
the separation of carbonic anhydrides
in the form of Snowby chlorophylous
pyridine in solution and other nitrous
organic liquids. In the residue, be-
sides free carbons of varying weight
have been found very hard and very
heavy white tetrahedraI and octo-
hedral crystals, which burned without
leaving ashes and were insoluble in
aqua regia. possessing as far as the
analysis made up to the present show,
all the properties of the diamond
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
LOCAL MENTION.

Elegant Wall Papers. J. K. Jones
Paint CO.-Adv.
The best of Paper Hanging work
]. K. Jones Paint Co.-Adv.
See our high class Wall Papers. J.
K, Jones Paint Co.-Adv.
Dancing school 6 till 9)-social
dance GO till 11:3e). tonight at KeIIani
hall.-Adv.
Safety razor blades sharpened better than
new. 25c-35c doz. Brunt Drug Co.-Adv.
F. A Rooster. d D. s.. TO Mills
Bldg. Special attention given 20 pyor-
rhea and oral prophylaxis.-Adv.
Glass. Glazing and Paint. Miller &
Gillespie. s33 K A Phone 955--Adv
Economy Express Co. Phone 1860.
ADV.
Framing and silvering. Coe, S2S
Kansas Ave.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30

summer the hedges shade the roads so
that after a heavy rain it takes much
longer for the road to dry. Contrast
the road lined on either side with
large. untrimmed hedges and a road
FREQ from such a nuisance. Hedges
extending almost to the middle of the
road should not be tolerated. Kansas
has law which makes it obligatory
for the land owner to cut OF trim his
hedges. Every land owner should see
that hedges on his place conform to
the law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
GO To HUTCHINSON
Kansas Christian Institute Decides on
Next Meeting.

The Kansas Christian Ministerial
Institute will hold it's next annual
meeting at Hutchinson, according to
result of a vote taken this morning.
Officers for next years institute were
elected. They are: Sam 1. Smith of
Pittsburg, president; Ray Lessig of
Burlington, secretary treasurer; o. L.
Cook and George E. Lyon of Topeka,
executive committee.
The proposition of the enlargement
of the Bible chair at X. u. was post
pOned until the state Christian confer
ence which meets at Independence
next fall.
The institute comes to a close with
tonight's meeting at which DIR. Carey
A. Morgan, of Nashville, Tenn, will
make his final address,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
s-HoUR DAY AND 1o-HoUR PAY.
Chairman of Adjustment Committee Of
Engincmen Presents Demand.

st. Louis. March 30.-Demands ~
locomotive engineers, firemen. train.
men, yardmen and roundhouse en-
ployeos for an eight-nour day at the
wage now paid for ten hours or more.
We're presented by union officials to-
DAY TO the general officers of the rail-
ways that have their Headquarters in
81. Louis. The demand was present.
cd TO the Missouri Pacific-Iron Noun.
tain system by J. E. Moran, chairman
OF general adjustment committee OF
the brotherhood of Locomotive En-
s1neers- He said. that during the dav
similar demands would be presented
to the general officers of the wabash
the st. Louis and San Francisco ana
other roads having headquarters here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30

Kaiser Wilhelm has honored the
sultan of Turkey by comforting a field
marshars baton on him. But there is
no danger that the titular head of Tur
key will ever have occasion to use it
actively. Every sultan of Turkey is
a personal safety first" enthusiast of
a most pronounced type.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30

Considering the size of our army
and the fact that a hundred million
dollars a year has been spent on it
during the past decade, it was Woe
fully unprepared in many essential de-
tails for the expedition after Villa. IS
the money that's to be devoted to our
larger army in prospect going to be
used to better advantage? Here's
hoping, but it is a faint hope at best.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30

Daily reports from Mexico are to
the effect that Villa is "only fifty
miles ahead of his American pur-
suers. And if the bandit and his gang
can continue to maintain a lead of
"only fifty miles" the chase after
them is going to be of considera BILE
duratiOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
Journal Entries

A woman may have a fine carriage
without necessarily keeping horses.
+ = ;
An exceptionally good card player
is not likely to be popular with other
card players.
= + =
Spanish proverb points out that
the best throw with the dice is to
throw them away.
+ J. +
He's a wise man who sends a girl
twenty-five roses for her birthday
when he should have sent thirty-five.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30

Jean Crones, the chef who was so
free at mixing poison with his soups.
is also another man who would have
shone with distinction had chance
placed him in a different role. His
facility in the writing of notes indi-
Gates that he would have been the
handiest kind of a helper in the state
department at Washington.