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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
ELECTRICAL COOKING
II Is So Easy and Is Steadily Grow
ing Popular i'm Topeka.

The vogue of electrical cooking
utensils and other electrical appli-
ances in Topeka grows each week.
The following electric toaster
stoves were purchased from the
Edison Company the past week:
Mrs. A. Beronious, sos w. 9Th
street; Machinists Electric Co. 1Is
w. Sth; w. G. McDonough s.
Tyler; DR.. Floersch, 1905 Harrison;
Miss Maude Ward, 1912 w. 10th;
e. w. Cline, 1883 College; y. b.
Campbell, S31 Fillmore.
Ell Grilstovos cook breakfast by
electricity while you are waiting for
an old-fashioned heating cooker t.
warm up. And you don't have to
worry about fuel, fumes and ashes
and all those disagreeab1e things
that are so common to the kitchen.
in fact. you don't need any kitch
Ell IL you cook with electricity. IT
can all be done right on the din
ing-room table. Five FL GriIstoyos
were sold to the following: Miss
Bertha Jones. 1908 College; F. M
Washburn, 1877 Washburn. ID :
Atteberry. 2100 Topeka; ]. 10. Knox.
MulNane building: r. A. Richard
705 Underwood avenue.
1t is so easy to clean the house
and 1t can be done so completely
with electric vacuum cleaners. The
following bought them the mast
week: H $. Douglas. 1922 College.
j. v ltowles. 1853 Harrison II
Parr, Arlington Heights.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
STILL ELECTRIFYING
Fifty More Topeka Homes Brighten
Up With Electricity.

Electrical house-wiring continues
to keep the electrical contractors
busy in Topeka, and fifty additional
electrified homes were added to the
Topeka Edison Company's service
lines the last few days
The list OF houses electrified is as
follows:
In the western part of the city:
E. f. a. Reinisch, 513 w. 3rd st;
C. G. Blakely, S21 Huntoon; f. A.
Walgamott, 1913 West; Mrs. NJ. KEEL
logg, $40 w. 9Th; Thomas Roe, 32S
Ashland: Mary Ford, 1910 Brooks;
Bette M. Holmes. 1417 Polk; r. M.
Dunning, 49, Reno; George Christ
man, 707 Western: W. E. Heather
ly, 535 Topeka; Walter Clark, EOS
Holman; Roy C. Harding, 1641
Western; S. c. Thompson, 429 Pop
lar; E. 3. Wells, 1872 w. 9Th; Luz
ella Plumb, ia Harrison; Mrs. F.
E. Lee, 1856 West; Mrs. NJ. Wet
zold. (two houses) 80 w. 5th and
233 Buchanan; A. w. Senne, 119
Fillmore; Sarah Hargreaves, 1918
Harrison; Carrie Fyfe, S13 Topeka;
f L. Peacock, 615 Lincoln; H. o.
Abbott. 629 Western; n. B. Camp
bell, 507 Van Buren,; j. E. Thorn
ton, 1922 Fillmore, S. X. Gross, SIS
Buchanan; Henry Mcdowell, 1872
West; Anna Harrison. 1911 Lane:
D. C. Romine, 1919 Clay; Miss E
P Bell, 720 Fillmore; Edward
King, 2700 Michigan: Chas. Z.
Karr, 16S Norton; Anna L. Bell,
1925 Fillmore; S. w. Timmons,
1873 Washburn.
In the east part of Topeka: Jas
c. Jameson, 500 Lawrence; Peter
Simon. us Madison. Anna Spur
lock. 701 Madison; First United
Brethren church, 18th and Quincy:
W. Hale, 1900 Monroe; G. M.
Brown. ABS Locust; A. C. Tichnor,
400 Lafayette; A. c. k1ingaman,
lis E. 8th: B. W. Lawhun, S21
Chestnut: John Becker, 90 Oak:
Z. A Arnold. S31 Chestnut
North Topeka: George Knoll, S23
\. Madison: A. c. Allendorf. go
North oTpelza avenue: o. j. Wilson,
1921 n Quincy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
Rotary District Conference al
st. Joseph Feb. Is.
Robert Stone of Topeka Down
for an Address.

Rotarians will leave on a special
train for ST. Joseph, Mo, February D
to attend the Eleventh district center-
ence. The special will pull out of To-
peka at o'clock with the probability
of having the cars of the Wichita and
Hutchinson Rotarians hooked on be-
hind.
On arrival at st. Joseph the men
will be the guests of the club of that
city and entertained until that even
ing when they will return on their
special at II o'clock.
1t has been arranged with the street
railway company to have q car at the
Santa F'e station to meet the returning
pilgrims. George Godfrey Moore is
chairman of the committee on ar
engagements and states that prospects
for a big crowd of Topeka Rotarians
going look as fine silk.
Following is the program for the
day in St. Joseph. with official head
quarters in Hotel Rooidoux:
Tuesday, February 15-Scottish Rite
Cathedral, Sixth and Robidoux streets.
At . o'clock the conference will be
called to order by T. w. Dodd, presi-
dent, St. Joseph Rotary club.
Invocation. the Rev. Robt. Porter.
st. Joseph; Address of Welcome, C. D.
Morris St. Joseph; Response. Wichita
Rotary club; Addresses and Discus
sions, Governor A. E. Hutchings, pre-
siding.
During the day various visiting club
presidents will be called upon to take
the chair.
to-Convention, Russell f. Grein-
er, Kansas City; Value of Frequent
Attendance at Meetings, W. A. Lipp-
man. st. Louis; Problem of Getting
Members to Talk at Meetings. w. A.
Weston, Kansas City, Kan.
IL to l As o'clock, Rotary luncheon
al Hotel Robidoux, admission by con-
ference ticket.
Conferences at Scottish Rite Cathe-
dral at 2 o'clock. Do We Favor the
Esta blishment of Community Clubs in
Cities which Are Considered Too Small
for Rotary Clubs, and If So, Should
They Be Under the Control and Guild
ance of the Nearest Regular Club ?
James n. Russell. Kansas City; Ro-
tary's Relation to Civic Life, Robert
Stone, Topeka.
The banquet will be served at Hotel
RobidouX at Z o'clock. Allen P. AL
bert president Information Association
of Rotary Clubs, will be the speaker OF
. the evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
new SCHOOL HERE
Lincoln Structure To Be One
of Finest in West.
Children There Now Whose
GrandadS Went in III.

When the Lincoln school building
was finished in 1871 Topeka residents
remarked what a fine building it was
The buildings formed a landmark for
the neighborhood.
Nearly fifty years have passed and
the little boys and girls who first
climbed the steep stairs are grand
parents now. Most of the first teachers
sleep in little green tents. Five de-
cades of youngsters have trotted about
the rooms, had their pleasure and
pain and gone into a world to forget
their first school.
Lincoln school will be torn down
next summer to make way for the
new. The last classes are now climb
ing the steep narrow stairways into
the dismal, ill-lighted rooms and
murky halls
The school house to modern build
ers appears to be the acme of bungl;ng
work for an architect. 1t is a misfit
and teachers have been renarking
about the fact for the past 30 years.
Costing $4,000 the new building
will occupy the same site as the old
and is designed by t. w. Williamson.
Mr.. Williamson is a school house ex-
pert and has been devoting his at
tention to the designing of these
buildings for the past several years.
Lincoln school will have the latest
in everything and contains many
ideas of Superintendent H. b. Wilson,
who is a school house expert. There
will be eight grades, domestic science,
manual training and gymnasium
rooms, and the assembly hall is to be
on the first floor. Teachers are to
possess a rest room and the prin-
cipal will have his office on the first
floor.
Work will start in May and the pu-
pills will return to new school house
next fall.
Teachers in the building are: W. G.
Magaw, principal; Mrs. Laura D. Nc
ltee, Z; Myra NJ. Corning, 6: Grace
Detlor, 5; Mrs. Kate S. Glessner, 4;
Jessie V. Bartlett, 4; Isadora Kirk,
3; Helen McNeely, 2; Laura Barthol-
o1new, 2; DOl1ie Martin, / N. Florence
FitzgeraId. / F. NJ. Greer is ianitor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
ON ICHABOD PAPER
Topeka Men and Women Have
Edited Washburn Sheet.
Edwin Menninger Complies
List of Former Heads.

Names of many men who live in To-
peka appeared in a list of former ed
itors of Washburn publications which
was compiled this week by Edwin
Menninger, editor of the Washburn
Review.
the only source of information was
through The files of the asnburn
catalogs and the student papers,
which are filed away in both
the State Historical library and the
Washburn Carnegie library although
either place, but supplement each
other.
Washburn students have published
their periodical under several differ
ent names, the first paper appearing
in 1885. twenty years after the found
Washburn when the first paper was
! issued was 23S.
! Not many who are now in school are
familiar with the Argo, the Mid-Con-
and they are listed as a matter OF
interest as well as history.
I Editors of the Argo have been:
Ellsworth ingalls,, Edward G. Buck
/ land, Howard d. Tucker, Arthur W.
/ Brewster, John E Erickson, Albert
Reporter survived for approximately
The same time with Ed Mckeever, Boil
Stone. A. w. Myers. j. F. Lawson, w
S McClintock and F. S. Ditto father
ing its appearances. On the Mid
! Continent were c. W. Boughton. NJ. w
AXtell, Ward w. Silver, F. P. Strong
and j. E. Hyett.
| The ''Washburn Weekly Review
began in 1897 as consolidation OF
the spirits of the Reporter and the
Mid-Continent. Editors since time are:
w. G. McGaw, 1897; L. A. HaIbert
t1S971SeS; Susie May Guild, 1898
Clara r. Day, 1S9S-1S99; w. P Ar
thur, 1893; H. L. Finley, 1897 800;
! Sherman A. Willard. 1900-1901; r. C
Dougherty, 19O1-19o2; H. A. Steele
1902-1903; Frank NJ. Mohler, 1903
1904; Philip Ray Coldren, 1904; JOIN
V. VanDeMark, 19O4-1905: Albert C
Ramsey, 19o5-1so6; Irene Mehl
l19o6-1907; Arthur ]. Carruth, 1907
1908; Karl Bowman, 190S-1909; PHILIP
Whitcomb, 1909-1910: Herbert f
Chandler. 1910-1911: Mazda Gardner
1911; Lester F. Filson, 1912; Henry r
| O'Brien. 1912; Ray Yarnell. 1912
1913: LaErens Whittemore, 1913-1914
| Margaret Tillotson. 1914-1915; Edwin
| Menninger. 1915-1916.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
OLDEST IN AMERICA
Mutual Life's First Policy Was Issued
in February, 1913.

The Mutual Life Insurance company
of New York issued its first policies on
the first day of February, 1S43. AT
that date no other existing life insur-
begun the issue of legal reserve poll
cies. The Mutual Life, therefore,
justly claims to be the oldest life in
surance company in America. From
the beginning it has been a purely
mutual legal reserve company, writing
only standard business on satisfactory
medical examination. Always con-
sentative in its investments it's i'm
pregnable strength no one pretends
to question or MS ever questioned.
The company's achievements, past
and present, in the matter of benefits
to policyhalders, have long attracted
public attention. In 1915 it paid
lpClicyholders a total of SCI, 1918. 329.32.
1t is noteworthy that this great sum
exceeded the amount received directly
from policyholders in the way of pre-
rniums by $S,723,0 36.35. Such results
are of course possible by reason of
| interest earned on the companys in
| vestments, the total income from this
/ source in 1915 having been $28,
132.O1. The balance sheet for 1915
shows a contingency reserve on the
31st of December of S14,625, $40. 16.
This was an increase over the previous
year of $1,977,963.97. while in that
/ year also there had been an increase
| in this item of $3.50, 10S.97, making
total increase in the two years of S3,-
6 S,O72.94.
| The new insurance paid for in 1915,
including dividend additions was
14S,176,711 Many policyholders ap-
| ply their dividends each year to in
creasing their insurance in force.
which explains the term dividend
additions. The insurance obtained
1 in this way amounted in 1915 to
/ $4,424,433- Policies already in force
We're increased during the year to the
amount of S7,9S9,4S0. In addition to
this, policies previously terminated
were revived to the amount OF
/ $4.715,954. This makes the total of
new insurance placed upon the books
during the year s160.SS2,145.
1t will be noted in the balance
sheet that the cash on hand al the
close of the year was s11,507. 1876.
1t is the company's purpose to keep
its funds closely invested, and this
balance is much. larger than usual
The increase is due to the fact that
just at the close of the year mort
gage of 100000 was paid off in
cash. Otherwise the balance on hand
1 would have been a little over four and
a half million dollars, a sum consid-
erably less than three weeks income
The real estate holdings of the COM
pany at the close of 1915 amounted
to s21,57e.165, which was only 8 4 per
/ cent of the comDany's net assets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
WIRELESS AEROPLANES
Chicago Man Claims to Have Invented
Greatest of All War Machines.

Chicago, Feb. 5.-An aeroplane con-
troIed solely by wireless. the most dis
astrous war machine yet conceived,
has been perfected by a Chicago
aviator, according to his declaration
today.
The machine is the mysterious
aerial apparition" whose nocturnal
flights recently, bearing a strange
star-like light, has frightened hun
dreds of suburban residents. It's in
venter is William Hensel. who won
recognition as an inventor from the
government last summer when he per-
fected an aeroplane sta bilizer for use
in the aeronautic corps.
According to the aviator, he is able
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
GETS ITS MONEY BACK
Santa Fe Receivers S1,7O4.91 Taxes
Paid Into ACT of God" Fund.

Topeka's Act of God Fund" was
depleted today to the extent of 81
704.91, when the city commission APP
proved the payment of a judgment
awarded to the Santa Fe railway com
pany, by the district court of Shaw
nee county.
That amount was the Santa Fe's
contribution to the fund created in 1911
under an act of the legislature. That
was the Santa Fe's share of the taxes
necessary to create a $25,000 fund TO
be used in case of a great calamity in
Topeka.
The Santa Fe had the funds with
which to carry the case to the supreme
court where it won in its contention
that the state law was defective. The
ordinary individual doesn't have the
funds with which to fight case
through the courts so he will have to
stand his share in the Act of God"
fund.
Remembering the 1903 flood in To-
peka and recalling general calamities
in other cities where immediate funds
were needed, the legislature provided.
when it passed the city commission
law, for the creation of a permanent
fund of $4,000 in cities of the first
class to be raised by taxation. 1t pro-
vided that when the fund was drawn
upon a tax sufficient to make up the
deficit could be levied the following
year.
Operating under this law Topeka
collected the $4,000 fund in 1911.
The Santa Fe paid under protest.
Others protested also, but the Santa
Fe carried its protest into the courts.
1t carried the case to the supreme
court where the state law was held to
be imperative. incidentally it secured
Judgment against the city of Topeka
for the amount it paid in and that is
/ the amount the commission authorized
today to be paid into the hands of the
clerk of the district court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
BREAKS A COLD
IN A FEW HOURS

stops nasty discharge or nose running,
relieves sick headache, dullness- fever
ishness. sore throat. sneeZing. soreness
and stiffness
Don't stay stuffed-upi Quit blowing
and snufflingl Ease your throbbing
head! Nothing else in the world gives
such prompt relief as "Pape's Cold
Compound" which costs only Is cents
at any drug store. 1t acts without as
sistance. tastes nice. causes no incon-
venience. Be sure you get the gem
uine. Don't accept something else
Just as good insist on getting
"Pape's Cold Compound" if you want
to stop your cold quickly.-Adyertise-
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
Underwriters dine
Members of the Metropolitan Life
Staff Meet at the Throop.

Dinner was served at the Throop
hotel this afternoon at 1 O'Clock for
employees of the Metropolitan Insur-
ance company. Twenty eight persons
from the eastern section of the state
attended.
The occasion was the return of Su-
perintendent ]. G. Carlin from the
central office in New York city. His
speech was the principal one of the
afternoon outlining the policies and
changes made by the heads of the
Metropolitan company.
Those present were: From Topeka
DR.. E. L. Loveland, DIR. A E. Billings,
]. H. Colvin, H. K. Stewart, l. E
Sheetz, O. w. Reese. H. c. Bailey. w.
E. Petty, L. Coblentz. w. P. Ford. A.
Williams, ]. S. Gilbert, H. o. Sender
gard, c. B. Palmer, Deputy C. w. Ra-
mey, Deputy W. d. Hedrieh; from
Lawrence, Mrs. F. B. Faust, W. A.
Brown, c. D. Day, r. L. Godfrey, Dr.
Ralph Z. Barnes and H H. Barrett
from Ottawa, ]. J. McKenna. r. Cur
tbs, r. O. Hardin; from Osawatomie,
W. e. Mathely; from Emporia, J. o.
Erwin and J. A. Young.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05

Shreve, 1912 w. 18th: c. Holzmist.
SEQ Chandler; c. Hudspeth, 1909
Throop: Mr.. Renwarz. 1920 Polk:
Mrs. Shaffer. 116 E. 9Th; j. NJ. Car
rity, 527 Western; Adolph John
son, S34 Underwood; w. f. Shea
han. 1896 Polk: w. c. Boggs. 1s~3
McVicar: w. S. Gray, 412 Para
more: Miss Julia Cotton, Industrial
school.
Is there an electric iron in your
home? If not, buy one. 1t is an
electrical convenience that is n ne
cessity. No woman should be with
out one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05

the time to have it wired. You can
arrange to pay for it in weekly or
monthly installments, if you wish.
Telephone 1850 and the Edison
Company will send an Illumination
Engineer to you free of cost. and
give you a plan and estimate for
wiring your house. 1t will also ex-
tend its service lines free into your
house and charge you nothing Tor
connections.
1t is the best opportunity you
ever had to wire your house at the
least possible expense.
And electricity is cheaper now
than it ever was before in Topeka
- cents, with 40 cents minimum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
1000 ELECTRIC IRONS At
SAME OLD PRICE

The first of the year electrical
manufa cturers sent out notices that
on February LIST the price of electric
irons would advance. The Topeka
Edison Company Immediately placed
an order for LOCO irons, in order to
protect their customers and be able
to sell them at the old price. These
Tonnan ml!s s D ioiu ba az Tue raso1
S2.50. They are the same General
Electric Standard size No. iron.
which has been selling elsewhere for
$3.50 The Edison Company will con-
inue to sell them at $3.50 until the
supply is exhausted. Then the price
will advance.
If you haven't an Electric Iron in
your home, buy one now at the old
price. Every woman who has cleo
tricity in her home should have an
electric iron.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05

nit his results to army experts 'or
tests within a short time
IN their search for mere deadly war
machines the hostile powers OF
Europe have tried for months to per
feet the wireless saeroplane. us
powers for destruction of life ana war
ships would be practically unllmlteo-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
IRON SALES GOOD
Women Still Buy This Great Elcc-
tricaI Home Convenience.

Another good sale of electric
irons is reported for the past week.
Although the price of electric irons
is going up the Edison Company is
still selling its standard Glib. iron
for $3.50. The following sales
have been made:
Mrs Marshall, 141T HARRISON:
Amos Beeler. s23 Madison; G. E.
Abbott. 1872 Harrison; NJ H.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
So : -
Humphreys Seventy-seven
For Colds. Influenza,
q I2RI

The cumulative effect of advertis-
ing a good thing in the Sunday and
Daily Papers for many years. created
such q large sales for "Seventy-seven''
during the Grip epidemic that we
could not meet the demands and were
obliged to stop advertising for a time
to catch up with the orders.
To get the best results. take
''Seventy-seycn'' at the first feeling of
the Grip or a Cold.
If you wait until you begin to
cough and sneeze. have sore throat
and influenza, it may take longer.
sc. and 800. at all druggists or mailed.
Humphreys Homeo. Medicine Co. 15G
William Street. New York.-Advertisemen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05

to send an aeroplane into the air with
out a pilot, control it for a radius OF
five miles and bring it back to its
starting point by means of wireless
electrical waves An apparatus for
dropping bombs by means of the same
control, he claims also. to have per-
fected. Hensel declared he would sub
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
tPape's Cold Compound is the
Surest, Quickest Relief
Known-It's Fine!
Relief comes instantly.

7 Relief comes instantly.
A dose taken every two hours until
three doses are taken will end grippe
misery and break up severe cold.
either in the head. chest. body or
limbs
8 1t promptly opens clogged-up nos
trils and air passages in the head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
Mother IA Bcrtillon Expert.

Iimmie-"What are you doing?"
Tommy-.Washing the jelly off my
hands Mas finger-print expert
you know-'-Woman's Home Com
panion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05

Does your wife play bridge?''
Il don't know. She tried to show
me how it is played, and if bridge is
the game she tried to teach me, no.
body can play it."-Washington Star.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-29
THE PRICE TOO GREAT

~ HERE is food for thought
W. in news of the passage
by congress of an army
deficiency appropriation of
eight and a half millions to
cover military expenses on the
border and in Mexico.
If to police the border and
send a small force after one
gang of cutthroats costs so
much what would be the ex-
pense of a general conquest of
Mexico, such as our iingoes de-
sire though they seldom open
ly admit the fact.
Necessarily the financial
cost would be something stag
gering, not to mention the loss
in good American lives. In a
general war against Mexico
money would disappear like
water on a thirsty desert. At
the finish we would have a
country we do not want, a land
where the climate is not suit
able for Anglo-Saxons. We
have such a country now in the
Philippines and are devising
method of dropping the bur-
den.
A general war with Mexico
would be a tremendous price
to pay for the qualification Of
a few wealthy concerns having
interests in that ill-fated land.
No such sacrifice should be
asked of this nation. If this
country needed Mexico we
should have taken it in 1845
when we had those people in
subiection. 1t was not good
policy to take their country
then and it would not be good
policy now.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-03-29

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