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police force Of the town. The vote
follows:
Peoples Ticket.
For President of Council
n. w. d. Moore, 329
Member Of Council for two years
Peter c. Houseman, 32S votes
Wilson NJ. Vinyard. 334 votes
Member Of Council for one year
Benjamin F. Hudson. 1926 votes
Robert II. Pierce. 329 votes
For Collector and Treasurer
John II. Roach. 59l votes
Roach was on both tickets.
Regular Ticket.
For President of Town Council
William G. Draper. 284
Member of Council for two years
Augustus Holson. 287 votes
William Roach. 2S2 votes
Member Of Council for one year
John Horton. 2S6 votes
Vernon Benson. 2S4 votes
The vote was the heaviest ever
polled at a municipal election in Mill
ford, a total Of 6l6 votes being cast.
The next heaviest vote ever cast at
a town election in Milford was in
1881. when the question of purchas-
ing a fire engine for Milford was de-
cided, at which time 579 votes were
cast
The people of Milford were more
deeply interested in the choosing of
the men who will direct the affairs
of that town for 1916, than they have
been for many years. At the pri-
mary election held on Friday even
ing, December 31st. fully four hund.
red assembled in Armory Hall to hear
the Annual Report of the President
of Town Council, with his recommend .
ations for the ensuing year. as to the
management of public affairs. There
was general approval Of the finan-
cial affairs, but there was voiced ar
objection to the action of the counei
of 1915 in prohibiting the hitchinl
Of teams for a period longer thar
thirty minutes upon the main business
street. or the parking of autommo
biles on the street at anytime. Thel
. there was also a bitter opposition L
the police now employed. Thi
came principally from two or thre
sources and behind them the disorder
ly cement rallied in support. an
I made a strong contest for naming tn
, candidates. The results of the contes
= was as follows. viz: for President o
E Town Council. William G. Drape
and H. w. d. Moore, both busines
] men Of Milford, were placed in non
= ination, and the ballot showed Is
votes for Draper and 11S for Moore
f Then the members Of council an
: other places on the ticket were vote
s for and the result was as follows
Y Two year term in Council-AugustI
Holson received 1873; William RoacI
II 126; Peter Housman. 81; Wilson \
: Vinyard, 1O2. The two former viii
a ming the nomination ON the reguli
Is ticket.
y For the one year term in Count
in John Horton received 134 votes
ns Benjamin Husson's 81 for Nor
3; Milford. For South Milford Willis
Pierce received 126 and Robert
e. Pierce received 90 votes.
For Collector and Treasurer the
were four nominations made and
result was as follows. viz: John
< Roach received 179 votes; d. Bur
Masten, % votes; ID. Holzmuell
to Is votes. and ]. J. Foulk, II vot
Asbury Smith was not opposed
of reelection as member Of the Lii
re- and Water Commission.
,av This put the nominations on
snt official ballots.
NO On Monday the opposition pres
ntv ted their ticket. and the contest
itv on, and the result is told as above
her
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kee~eAEA 9>s1e

embassy, Mr.. Tamekichi Ohta, and
Nine. ohta will sever their pleasant
connection with Washington tDmor-
row, when they will leave the capital
for New York. preparatory to embark
ing for Mexico, the new diplomatic
assignment of the secretary. Like
other members of the embassy staff
Mr.. and Nine Ohta are favorites here
and will be missed.
The house party being entertained
early in the week by Nine. da Cana
and invited to meet the Vice President
and Mrs. Marshall at dinner Tuesday
night left Washington Thursday be-
fore the ambassador was seized with
the sudden illness which caused his
family and friends so much alarm. The
ambassador is much better and he and
Nine. da Cana may be able to go on
with their social program this week
Mr.. Morris Volck, son of Nine. da
Cana. will probably leave Washington
tomorrow for Old Point Comfort, where
he will take up the study of aviation
Mr.. Romulo S. Naon, the ambassador
of Argentina, who left Washington
early in November for visit to his
own country, is expected to return to
Washington Tuesday.
The British ambassador and Lady
tSpring-Rice have issued invitations for
dinner party at the embassy Wednes-
day evening in honor Of the Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs. Marshall. .,ssn
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After Easter dates are very few so
far. The charity appeal is heard more
frequently than any other, too. in what
10 being announced. OF course. there
are some weddings. the dates for which
will make interesting links for Easter
week, and the quota of this most re-
liable feature OF the spring season
may be greatly increased as the inter
venins weeks roll by. The unexpected
In this particular is a pretty good thing
to depend on hereabouts as well as
elsewhere. There has not been, how
ever any noticeable distribution of
wedding rings. such as previous war
nurries brought about in the hasten
ing OF marriages between engaged
couples. Still. with every days delay
Of officers at their old posts Cupid has
a chance TO get in some convincing
arguments with the girls they must
leave behind.
The experiences which several well
known young "army matrons had re-
Gently on the border bring the hard
ships q. the life very keenly to mind,
but that will have no effect on future
orange blossom plans, and il would be
q pity il they should. But IL will bring
tory, an evidence of which has been
seen in the hurried departure OF the
wives and families of officers from
towns and posts on the border.
So far there have not been any army
weddings scheduled for the Easter sea-
son here.
Lenten leisure 10 less apparent this
year than ever. Those who were
busiest the past winter in entertaining
or in being entertained are seemingly
as hard at it now then. Dinners
and luncheons are following each other
With the same regularity. the only DIFF
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ference being that the scene of the par
ties is more often at the clubs rather
doors in this vicinity should close. it
would create more excitement and
alarm than il hundred homes should
cease having dining room accommoda-
lions. There is question but that
the average host and hostess, whose
domestic machinery is not of tried-and-
true model, reduce their sociable pro-
pensities to the least possible wear and
tear by exercising them. occasionally at
least, away from home. More than
that, the public side of the club din
ner party is Its chief attraction to
many, no other argument is necessary.
The Chevy Chase Club Wednesday
night was quite gay with dinner COM
panies and at the dance afterward,
showing that the strong hold 1t has on
its members as the lure Of the country
strengthens each spring has resumed
it's Importance.
The list of dinner givers of the past
week included officials and diplomats.
as well residents, and brought many
of the notables together.
A skating carnival and costume dane
ing are features Of the benefit arranged
which number of persons identified with
social life are promoting, either as pa
tronesses or on committees.
The ball for the sick and wounded Rus
sian soldiers under the patronage Of
Nine. Bakhmeteff. which will be given
at Rauscher's Thursday night. is already
an assured success. The Russian head
dress. the kahoshnisk. will be generally
worn by. the ladies' There will probably be
comparatively only few of the real be-
jeweled article. such as the wife Of the
Russian ambassador and others in the
embassy circle own, but the copies which
have been made assure an adherence to
the idea which cannot fail to make n bril-
liant and unusual spectacle
Twp church weddings that will occur
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by large circles of acquaintance. That
of Miss Dorothy Gray Brooks and Lieut..
William Henry Holcombe. l.. S. A., will
be at ST Thomas at o'clock Wednes-
day, with the largest bridal party of
the year in attendance. The wedding re-
ception will follow at the Washington
Club. Two and three parties day have
been given for the bride-to-be during the
past week.
The marriage of Miss Margaretta Morse
to Mr.. Charles Gravenberg of New Or
leans will be at st. Matthews Church
Thursday next at 4:30. Mr. and Mrs
Alexander Porter Morse, parents of the
bride, will give reception afterward at
their home, Valley View farm.
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MISS DOROTHY PETTIBONE
OF Wisconsin.

place. 1t is not likely that the French
ambassador and Nine. Jusserand will
take up a permanent summer residence
anywhere outside of Washington unless
they are able TO make their annual trip
to France. 1t has been the custom of the
amba ssador to return to Paris every sum-
mer since his appointment in 1903 until
last summer when he refused to leave
the capital for more than few days at
time, so conscientious was he in carry
ing out his duties There are seventeen
names credited to the Russian embassy
on the official diplomatic list from the
State Department, the longest ever re-
corded there. and with all of these per-
sonages on the social register at Newport
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SNto7v
pper.
Cumberi andMd guest of OIlandFI
o and T.

n n WILSON who has settled down to the
W !: : :: !:
IN ~ the White House.
ing 10 Civ leisure she have
| " Her like that
II another we'll known maid. Potomac Park
Il u nd and method the
ingto he starto walk
generally with the Presidents these
Only
think
good
smile. her walk uninterrupted
afternoons each week Sometimes her
red
the table, which
Wilson. Bnham presdes
Mrs Wilson's for flowers shown
plentiful the and blooming plants on the
mantel
regularity OF the weekly and the fact that
the MayhoWer
her
remembered her the activities
formerly filled her
President lately the theaters the afternoons
another matinee, and it
has, o many his practically
formerly through the
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Hoef5 FWHANK Prom

next season they will prove a great social
factor. Many of the diplomats attached
to the Russian embassy have spent the
winter in New York and have scarcely
been seen in Washington at all.
The ambassador of Japan and Wis
countess Chinda will entertain dinner
Tuesday evening, the guests for
which were asked to meet the Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs. Marshall. Saturday the
ambassador and viscountess will enter
tain a distinguished company to meet
the Secretary of State and Mrs. Lam
sing.
The third secretary OF the Japanese
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Notes of Interest.

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Elwood Foster
have returned from Florida and are at
their apartment at the Portland.
Miss Elizabeth Perry of Greenville. S.
c.. is the guest of Miss Georgia Belle
Earnshaw.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph L. Gait returned
yesterday from Atlantic City, where
they have been spending some time at
the Traymore.
The ladies of the Columbia Country
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aac~e4c~ R0.'3

Club will hold their semi monthly card
party at the clubhouse. Chevy Chase.
Md at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. A F. Moulden, who recently re-
turned from Louisville, KY, is staying
with her granddaughter, Mrs. 3. H.
Dolby, at the Nantucket, 141S W street.
The Congressional Club has sent out
cards for a dance Monday, March 81.
from $50 to IL o'clock.
Col. and Mrs. Frederick Marsh have
returned from trip TO Florida and are
at their residence, 1856 n. street.
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The Diplomatic Corps.

Newport will be the mecca for dlplo-
mats from the allied countries of Europe
during the coming summer, and already
the Russian and Spanish ambassadors
have chosen their summer homes at that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-15

Plan Women's Pin Tourney.
ST. Louis may stage a women's
bowling tourney open to the entire
country. 1t will be for singles, dou-
bles and teams of five women.
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TEST CIVIC SPIRIT
Commercial Education Campaign Be-
ginning Monday.

Topeka,s progressiveness and civic
spirit will be tested as it has never
been tested before, next week. Begin
ming Monday, November 20, COM
merciaI education campaign waged
by fifteen teams of business men who
will scour the city, day in and day out,
and interview every man in Topeka,
engaged in an industrial pursuit
A dinner at the Topeka Commercial
club tonight, when Henry Allen and
Lucius E Wilson, director of cam
paigns for the American City Bureau,
will speak, will be first step toward
the sweeping campaign of next week.
The moving of the organization into
quarters comparing favorably with
those of other mid-western cities, is
considered a suitable time to launch
such a campaign, to bring the entusi-
asm and cooperation of the local
organization up to that of organiza-
tions in this part of the country.
For weeks members of the club
have been talking a buster, more ef-
ficient and larger Commercial club in
Topeka Day after day they have been
planning the campaign of the next
week. Tonight they will hear from
Lucius Wilson some of the plans for
better and bigger club and sugges-
tions from an expert for the conduct
of more efficient organization in the
future
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AFRAID TO USE IT
Kansas Retailers Have "White
Elephant on Hands.
Complete State "Dead Beat"
List Is Dynamite"
SLANDEROUS If PUBLISHED
Threatened Prosecution Holds
Back Coveted Names.
Meanwhile Those Who Don't
Pay Bills Are Content.

The Kansas Retailers association
has white elephant that it would
like some one to tell them what to do
began the job of compiling a Kansas
Dead Beat list. 1t asked that the
various local associations compile list
of persons who did not pay or were
slow in paying their bills in their
counties and then send the list to the
association, which would compile a
complete list and furnish it to every
local association.
Then when a new family moved into
a town from some other Kansas point
and asked for credit the local mer-
chant could look at his state list of
dead beats and see if the new GUS
toner belonged to that class.
The work was done. The list is
now practically complete, and it is
about ready to send out to the local
associations. But here comes the rub /;
some folks seem to be proud of the
fact that they can beat their bills and
get away with it. They have served
notice on the merchants that if such a
list is published that it will be SANDER
Gus, and that prosecutions for SANDER
will begin at once. The furnishing of
such a list is held to be more or less
public and the officers of the state
association are being threatened with
criminal prosecutions and with civil
suits if the list goes out.
The association has a list of several
thousand persons who do not pay
their debts or who are very slow in
doing so and with the threats of the
numerous suits brought against them
the association does not know what to
do about it.
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NO MORE BORDER
When the Troops Go Again,
Says Major Sharp.
They VIII Take the Boundary
Line With Them.

Irrespective of any danger whatever
from Mexican invasion, the entire
state of Kansas has been benefited by
the trip of the state troops to the Mex
lean border during the summer, ac-
cording to Major Alex A. Sharp of the
First battalion of the Second regiment,
who returned to Topeka Monday.
The profit to the state is to come
thru the spreading of the doctrine of
health and sanitation which has been
forced on the troops during their stay
on the border.
IF our men carry home with them
nothing but the memory of their camp
experience and in civil life use the
same care and precautions which they
have been taught in the past six
months they will add years to the lives
of the inhabitants of their respective
communities" said Major Sharp.
Major Sharp mentioned the splendid
health of the men in camp, as a re-
suit of the work of the medical corps,
and the absolutely hygienic conditions
under which the camp was held.
Amy refuse which would attract
fly was promptly burned or buried"
he said, land as result our kitchens
and mess halls had fewer flies than
the cleanest homes in Topeka This
was not accomplished without cease
less watching and inspection. Too
much credit cannot be given to our
medical co-workers, who were untiring
and sleepless in their vigilance and
watchfulness.
Typhoid fever, which has always
been the conqueror of armies, has
been absolutely eliminated by the So
called vaccination, and our returning
soldiers should spread the doctrine
broadcast"
That the situation on the Mexican
border is bad, and that the Kansas
ma r-nc nd co1x
on an indeterminate furlough, is taken
| for granted by Major Sharp. Condi-
tons there during the stay of the Kan
sas guardsmen were worse than the
press reports indicated, according to
Major Sharp and other officers who
have returned. Major Sharp said the
town of Eagle Pass, where the Kan
! sas troops were encamped, was in
danger when the troops arrived there,
and that only the presence of the sol
diers saved it.
People who had lived there for
years were afraid to allow their fami-
| lies to go on the streets after shutdown
and with reason. The Mexicans owned
the town and the sidewalks and they
| expected and received a clear right OF
way. When we left, life and property
were safe. The Mexicans would give
an American al least half the side
walk" said the major.
That the national guardsmen will be
| called on to return to the border, and
that when they do there will be some
thing doing, is Major Sharps firm
opinion.
! mo one can tell when the summons
will come again, but it will come as
surely as tomorrow's sun will rise, and
we will cross the border-no, not cross
it. AS one negro soldier expressed it
we will pick up the border and take
| it with u.s." the returning guardsmar
| believes
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four years he has staged a bitter fight
against the Catholics of that section
and has put into it all the venom of
his Vitriolic pen. He has ESQ picked
out one of the county commissioners
and succeeded in calling grand jury
investigation into his graft charges
About a week ago Colonel Hurtz,
who Bloom claims was an emissary
from the Catholics, called at the Of
flee and demanded that Bloom lie
down in his fight and also smooth
over the things that he had already
said. Bloom did not do this, so Tues
day morning Colonel Hurtz appeared
in the front door, drew a big .3S Colts
and told Bloom that he must prepare
to die Bloom laughed at him and
told him that he didn't have the
nerve to shoot a man who was I'M
armed. The colonel told him he had
better carry a gun for he was near
deaths door. He left the office and
was arrested for carrying concealed
weapons.
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Look at the tongue, mother. If
coated, it is a sure sign that your little
ones stomach, liver and bowels need a
gentle, thorough cleansing at once
When peevish, cross. listless. pale,
doesn't sleep. doesn't eat or act natu-
rally, or is feverish, stomach sour.
breath bad; has stomach-ache, sore
throat, diarrhoea, full of cold, give a
teaspoonful of California Syrup of
Figs and in a few hours all the foul
constipated waste, undigested food and
sour bile gently moves out of it's little
bowels without gripping, and you have
a well, playful child again.
You needn't coax sick children to
take this harmless fruit laxative;"
they love its delicious taste. and it al
ways makes them feel splendid
Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bot
tie of California Syrup of Figs
which has directions for babies, chill
dren of all ages and for grown-ups
plainly on the bottle. Beware of coun-
terfeits sold here. To BE sure you get
the genuine, ask to see that it is made
by California Fig Syrup Company"
Refuse any other kind with contempt
advertisement.
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STOOD $500 VOLTS
Pat Sullivan, Emp1oye of Edison Com
pany, Nearly Killed.

Surviving a shock of 1900 volts of
electricity thru his body, Pat" Sulli-
van, an employe of the Topeka Edi-
son company, was feeling pretty we'll
this morning." and with the exception
of deep burns in the palms of both
hands and stiffened muscles in his
arms, seems to have suffered no seri-
Gus effects.
Sullivan, who is 81 years old and
lives at 406 Swygart avenue, was
working at the top of a pole at the
point where Fifteenth street crosses
the Highland Park car line Tuesday
afternoon, when he received the
shock. Neither he nor the men with
whom he was working know exactly
how it happened. but it is believed
that he took hold of the high tension
primary cable, which carries a volt
age of 1880, and from which the cur
rent is reduced in the transformers to
a voltage of 116, before it enters the
houses of consumers.
He wore two pairs of heavy gloves,
but they and the insulation afforded
by the wooden pole failed to save him.
1t is believed that the pole was either
wet or green, and consequently an
electrical conductor, permitting the
grounding of the current thru Sulli-
vans body.
Sullivan was knocked unconscious,
but his luck and the life belt held, and
his body was kept in place till the
other men in the gang could reach
him and hand him to the ground.
He was still unconscious when he
was taken down and rushed to the Of
flee of DR.. o. o. Moore in the Or
pheum block, where he was given
hypodermic injections of stimulants to
counteract the shock.
Later he was taken to his home.
The attending physicians say that he
will recover if there is no infection
from the deep burns in the palms OF
his hands
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-15

There were about so persons present at
the regular melting of the Unity club last
night The club is making study of
George Eliot's works, and ut present is
taking up 1.-The Mill on the Floss" Mrs.
Todd read paper on the "Dodson Family
and Mrs Roby one on Maggie Toll
liver" Frank H. Foster discussed
"Wakem."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-15

Jack owing of the railroad commits
! sioner's office has the reputation of being,
| the best story teller about the state house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-15

A misunderstanding that led to the death
of one of the fire departments most valued
Taylor street. Departments Nos. 2 and
responded At the corner of Ninth and
Polk streets the horse cart from the
Clay street station crashed into No. 2. The
shaft of the cart passed thru the horse
on No. known as SANDY" Today
black.
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LOSES $1,000 ON
BRIDE-TO-BE'S TIP;
ENGAGEMENTS OFF

Chickasha, Ok, Nov. 15.-A. L. Lu-
fornia, believed Hughes would carry
California and, on the advice of his
bride-to-be, in California, who told
him the women of California were
for Hughes, bet one thousand on the
Republican nominee. Lucadoo lost his
thousand and today he wired his fl
ancee that the engagement was off. for
he would marry no woman who lived
in California.
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rs YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the columns Of
THE Topeka STATE JOURNAL
November 15- 1891,

Bill Hackney of Guthrie, Okla, was
visitor at the state house today.
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Head-off That AI-winter Cough.

At the first sign of sore throat, tight
chest or stuffedup head take a dose of
DIR. Bells Pine-Tar- Honey. The healing
pine-tar, soothing honey and glycerine
quickly relieve the -ongestion, loosen the
phlegm and break up your cold. Dr. Bells
Pine Tar Honey has all the benefits of
the healing aroma from pine forest 1t is
pleasant to take and an antiseptic The
formula on the bottle tells why 1t relieves
colds and coughs At your druggist, 25c.
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