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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-09-13

An officer of the regular army, at Camp
Llano Grande made the following state
ment last week, for publications:
Everything points to keeping the
militia here until January l. The
government is spending money like
water in getting supplies here and
equipping the militia. After the way
the war department has been handled
in the past by the men who distribute
the money, the situation is most sur
prising to us regulars. 1t can mean
nothing else than a long stay for the
militiamen."
This is most unwelcome statement tc
read lust when Redwood Falls has hel
mind all made up that the Company l
boys might be home by October l.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-09-13

'He has ach eyed success who has lived
well, laughed often, and loved much; who
has gained the respect of intelligent men
and women and the love of children, who's
filing his niche and accomplished his task:
who has left the world better than he
found it; who has always looked for the
best in others and given the best he had I;
whose life was an inspiration, whose men,
ory is q benedicticn."- Exchange.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-09-13

"Where does God draw the line"
innuires "The Old Man Hereof" of
that breezy weekly newspaper the
Mesaba Ore. We venture the sug-
gestion that if God don't draw the
line he ought to, on the cuss who takes
his newspaper cut of the office and
reads it week after week and year
after year and never offers to pay for
it, but, when he sees the patient and
long suffering editor means business
and proposes to have his money or
know the reason why, marks his pa
per Refused" and sneakingly shoves
it back into the postoffice. Worth
ington Globe.
Drawing the line" isn't enough in sucl
j case. An editor is just naturally JUST
led in drawing a gun-even at the rlsi
If being called socialist, we say it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-09-13


next winter she may be able to afford to
serve her guests with potatoes. No one,
of course, aims to serve each person a
whole one-that would be hoping too
much. But perhaps by dreaming them,
and using quantities Of gravy, single
serving may be accomplished by her who
boasts large bank account-or extreme
ly good credit.
There are two things we are hoping for
the November election. One is that
Amendment No. l will be passed upon
favorably by whooping big vote, and the
other is that there will be sufficient num-
Der of intelligent lawmakers-or rather
a number of sufficiently intelligent ones
elected, to pass the appropriation for
Bigger Ramsey Park. There are few
other things we are bit wishful about,
but these are our two biggest hopes.
Some woman probably wrote this.
Sounds like Sister Wilson of Redwood
Falls:
"The wife of a club man has dis
covered that the expression, "stag par
ties is an ingenious allusion to that
line in SCOTS poems, where it says:
The stag at eve had drunk MS FILL p"
st. James Independent.
It may sound like us, but it amt US.
Even at that it's not a half adaptation
Of the immortal lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
H0L man IS NAMED CALI Ed TO topeka
Kansas Merchants and Employ.
ers Here to Testify.
State Welfare Commission on
9-HOur Day Investigation.

Kansas merchants and employers
will be called to Topeka October %
to testify before the state welfare
commission concerning nine-hour
day order for women workers. Per-
sons favoring and opposing the order
will be heard before the commission
adopts or rejects a recent recommen-
dalton by the mercantile board, an
auxiliary of the state commission.
If the state commission adopts the
recommendation of the mercantile
board, all women workers will be
limited to a nine-hour day. That isn't
all. The nine hours of service must
be performed in ten-hour period.
Further. Women must not work after
nine o'clock at night.
Since the recommendation by the
state board there has been compare
lively little complaint from Kansas
merchants. The order, tho. means an
earlier closing for rural stores and an
opportunity for clerks to go to their
families and rest. No action concern
ing a minimum wage is to be consid-
cred by the state commission in Oc-
tober The proposition will be con-
sidered by the mercantile board at a
later meeting. The state commission
prefers to meet one situation at a
time. If the ma ximum- rule is
established. the state board will then
make preparations for consideration
| of the minimum wage.
Post Hour List.
One of the requirements under the
new hour plan is the posting of a pub
| lie notice of working hours. This no.
! tice must be posted in a conspicuous
, place in rooms where girls work. The
notice shall state the number of hours
OF work required each day in the
week, as we'll as hours when work
shall begin and stop, and hours for
meals.
Notices of the meeting will be pub
| lished and sent to prominent mer-
chants in all sections of the state. It
| is proba BILE that several days will be
! required to hear testimony in the
ma ximum hour case. Members of the
state welfare commission are: Paul
J. Mcbride, state labor commissioner
and chairman of the commission;
John Craddock, Weir; Mrs. Genevieve
H Cha1S1ey. Lawrence. Miss Lima
E. Bresette is secretary of the COM
| mission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
ANOTHER STRIKE SMASH
Ten Riding to Work i'm Taxicab in n.
Y. Injured in Collision.

New York, Sept 22=Ten persons
were seriously injured today when a
taxicab in which they were being car
ried to work because of the street car
strike. collided with a coal truck on
Avenue "A" and Twentieth street and
was demolished. This accident grow
ing out of the labor troubles which
rapidly became more critical today,
increased the number of injured in
smashups resulting from the strike to
nearly 100. Four persons have been
killed and with plans for a general
sympathetic strike hanging in the bal
ance. an even greater toll is threat
ened.
The ten occupants of the taxicab
were packed into the machine owing
to a suspension of operation of surface
cars. The car was travelling at a high
rate of speed and three of the pas
sergers were hurled under the trpck
when the crash came. They are in a
critical condition.
Philip Colener the chauffeur. was
arrested charged with exceeding the
speed limit. Should any of the vic
Tins die, a charge of granddaughter
may he placed against him.
The New York Railways company
announced it will attempt to run full
service tonight despite the threats OF
a general strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
CHARGES mine SWINDLE
Theatre Owner PLANTED S1O.6O0.
Brings Suit for $4,000.

Kansas City, Sept. ga E. Elliott.
a theatre owner here. filed suit charg-
ing fraud and conspiracy and asking
damages totaling $4,000 against F. r.
Danielson. 8. NJ. Cummings and w. L.
Stevens, in connection with the finan-
cling of the Kansas City and Joplin
Mines company. The petition sets
forth that the company was organized
in May of 1915. with a capitalization
of $4,000 of which one-half was rep
resented as paid up. No property then
was owned by the company. it alleges.
but lease on ground near Joplin.
submitted for $4,000 was bought
after the Incorporation for $500.
1t further states that stockholders
were paid dividends from money re-
ceived from the sale of stock and that
the lease obtained by the company had
neither zinc nor lead on 1t. Nor were
there mills and concentrating plants.
as had been represented, the petition
alleges. Elliott declares he purchased
stock to the extent of $500 and later
loaned the company s3.100. The dam
ages asked are for actual and punitive
da ma geS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
FUNSTON EXPLAINS BAN
Objects TO Making Soldiers Targets
for Evangclists.

San Antonio, Sept. 22.-General
Funston today made a statement re-
garding an announcement given out
by DR.. ]. B. Gambrell, corresponding
secretary of the Baptist general con-
vention of Texas. at Dallas last night
In his announcement Doctor GambreIl
had quoted General Funston as order
ing that Baptist preachers might
preach to the soldiers on the Mexican
border, providing that they did not
tell them they were lost"
General Funston said he had no de-
sire to dictate to ministers what they
should preach to army men. but that
he objected to revivals being held in
the camps and found particularly OBJ
noxious any supposition that army
men needed to be special objects for
eVangelization
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
Elected President Senior Class
.Washburn College.
Three Student Divisions Elect
New Officers Today.

Three exciting class elections were
held at Washburn college today feat
ured by close contests in each instance.
Leon Holman. 116 Evelyn street, was
elected president of the senior class;
Albert Reed. president of the Junior
class, and Wendell Switzer, 333 To-
peka avenue. was chosen to head the
sophomore elias. In addition Miss
Sierra Beggs, 1434 Topeka avenue, was
elected associate editor on the 1917
Kaw. taking the place created by the
resignation of Miss Gracia Woods. No
freshman election was held.
The results are as follows:
Senior class: Leon Holman. presi-
dent: Miss Majel Langhart. vice presi-
dsnt; Jay McCosh. secretary; Bryant
Drake. treasurer, and George Barrett,
sergeant-at-arms.
Junior class: Albert Reed. president:
Miss Ruth Whitaker. vice president;
Clifford Handler. secretary and treas
urer.
Sophomores: Wendell Switzer, presi-
dent: Miss Christina Ward, vice presi-
dent; Miss Ruth Larimer. secretary:
Fred Worley, treasurer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
Annual Conference of Kansas
NJ. e. Church Is Coming.
This City viii Be Chosen as
Host to 1000 Ministers.
WILL PAY FOR OWN LODGING
New Plan Goes to Heart OF
Hotel Keepers Over State.
Possibility That Topeka May
Have 1t Permanently.

The annual convention of the KAN
sas conference of the Methodist Epis-
copaI church, bringing more than l.
oOG ministers and lay delegates to the
CITY. will be held in Topeka next
March, according to advices received
by Dr. Benjamin Young, pastor OF the
First NJ. E. church here. 1t is under
stood that Topeka's bid for the con-
vention has had no serious competition
and will be ratified at the annual con-
ference of the bishops rext month.
The last conference was held at In
dependence. Kan.
The new plan upon which the con-
ference IS to be run next spring is one
that will go right to the heart of every
hotel or lodging house keeper in the
city. The conference will be self
entertaining conference" every one of
the 400 preachers and 400 delegates
and the several hundred visitors pay
ing for his own board and lodging.
There is a possibility that Topeka
may have the conference permanently.
the increasing attendance making it
imperative that it should be held in a
large town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
That Is Plan Drafted by Topeka
Merchants Today.
October 8, 10 and IL Set Aside
as Suburban Week."
BUYERS FROM 1OO-MI. RADIUS
Topeka as Shopping Center to
Draw Mammoth Crowds.
Flood This City's Territory
With Advertising Is Plan.

Plans for Suburban Week. to
attract d mammoth crowd of buyers
from a radius of 100 miles, were
drafted this noon in the Commercial
club at a meeting of the prominent
merchants and business men of the
city.
October 9, 10 and IL were set aside
as golden days of opportunity for the
out of town buyer, and Topeka mer-
chants pledged to furnish the suburb
an shopper a row of bargains that
will long remain in his memory.
A committee on publicity was ap-
pointed which will spread the gospel
of Topeka a shopping center thru
GU every town within a radius of one
hundred miles.
Topeka will put on her holiday
clothes in honor of MIR. Out of Town
Shopper and Kansas avenue will be
decorated with special designs emblem
attic of suburban week. A trade
mark probably picture of a train
and labeled Topeka Suburban Week,
will be advertised in every town in
Topeka trade territory.
Suburban Week" is expected to be
a regular feature in Topeka business
life and will probably be run at least
twice year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22

Isn't a perfect sizzlea of Kansas
summer we'll worth going thru with
for the kind of falls that usually fol-
low in its wake? AS a matter of fact,
the late springs and early summers
and the falls of Kansas generally pro-
Alde weather of the superior varieties.
And the average run of the winters
might be much worse. too. III wealth
er matters tho, the trouble with the
people in Kansas, and the same thing
is the case with people everywhere, is
that they let disagreeable spell of
weather of short or longer duration,
worry them almost to the point of
distraction. and that they accept all
kinds of good and delightful weather
merely as a matter of course. The
latter kind of weather seldom attracts
the attention of any one, and it is
quickly forgotten, even if it is of pre-
ponderant proportion the whole year
thru
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22

Current news from Chicago tens
thai the high cost of living j. TINS
country Is to go still anc considerably
higher i'm the immediate future, and
espeeially in the canned goods arena
where the prospects are that prices
Ayil ircreaso no less .han 20 per cent
ana because of the shortages in the
vegetable and fruit crops. But the
Vef7etabIe and the fruit fields are no.
the only ones in which the prices nave
gone up and are yet To go higher
Cot. 4 goods have advanced materially
in price. So have woolens. And
shoes-wen in some lines prices have
doubled and the end is not yet. Last
= presumably least. as he can get
along so easily without them come
Fathers cigars. which have also joined
the price ballooning brigade. And
surely all this is news that can scarcely
be labeled as welcome, even if high
l,rfces. as the economists insist, are
The handmaidens of prosperity. The
trouble is that the prosperity seems
10 have a faculty for missing a multi
-tude of good folk that the high prices
which come in its wake never over
look
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22

In springing the excessively Short
skirt on the fair sex, Dame Fashion
also landed heavily on Fathers pock-
ctbook irasnuch as she Ias now
placed the ban on it and decreed that
the skirts shall be ankle length again.
None OF said short skirts can lie made
uver into longer ones, even where
there might be an occasional DISPOSE
ton so 10 do. It's a rare good thin
for the family money-drawer that the
changes in the styles of mems clothes
are not so pronounced as to make the
bulk of the men sensitive unless they
could appear in each succeeding
spring, summer. autumn ard winter
cut tina. might be put out by the
clothiers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
ALL BUT ONE ON BAIL
kidnapers of BlackmaiI Witness viii
Be Tried in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia. Sept. 22.-The four al
legged members of the "Blackmail
Trust" accused of being implicated in
the kidnapping of Mrs. Regina KIipper.
important government witness. will be
tried in Philadelphia. Special Agent
Garberino of the department of Justice
announced today on mis- return from
the Washington conference.
Frank Croker. Geo. Irwin. VIM.
Butler and Geo. Butler are accused OF
obstructing justice in connection with
the case. All of these men are out on
bail with the exception of William
Butler, who is in Camden, n. j., fail.
under bail of $4,000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
VIII SON IN HIS
FIRST APPEAL
FOR ELECTION
Gates of Shadow Lawn Open to
Public Tomorrow.
Will Reply to Hughes Broad
sides on S-HOur Law.
IHE PASSES UP STATE FAIR
Invited to Sneak Day Before
HE PASSES UP STATE FAIR
Invited to Speak Day Before
Hughes Date.
Saturday Speech First Plunge
Into Active Campaign.

Long Branch. \. j.. Sept. 22.-Pres-
ident Wilson will MAKE his first per-
sonal appeal for reelection tomorrow
when he speaks from the Veranda of
his summer home here to several hum
bred representatives of the business
men of Trenton.
The gates of Shadow Lawn will he
thrown open to the public thirty min
utes before the president appears and
several thousand persons in addition to
the Trenton business men are expect
ed to be on hand to hear him.
tremendous interest among the
speech. 1t will be the first plunge of
the president into a discussion of the
issues Charles E Hughes has been
raising in his tour of the west. The
eisht-hour law. what the administra-
ton holds out to the country and
what 1t has done towards laying a
foundation for meeting the competi-
ton to face American trade after the
close of the great war, are expected TO
feature the first of the presidents
! porch campaign" addresses
! Several Shadow Lawn Speeches.
More will follow during the next
| few weeks. On Thursday, September
\ 2S, he is expected to greet band of
BOY scouts at Shadow Lawn and prob
ably VIII speak briefly to them. The
L'iiOW lHS saturday ne meets. and adj
dresses representatives of the Young
Mems League of Democratic clubs who
VIII come to Shadow Lawn Numer-
Gus other meetings with DELEGATIONS
are on the calendar awaiting the pres
idents approval. The dates for these
| VIII depend entirely on his western
trips TO fill speaking engagements now
under consideration
| me president, il is stated will NOT
accept the invitation of the Trenton
state Fair association to speak there
wednesday, September 2I-the dav
pe1oro Hughes plans to headline H..
Ialr program M. The president is said
70 feel that with his summer home j..
New Jersey he will be able to speal
and see his fellow Jerseyites at All
times. and it is not necessary for him
! to make the special trip to Trenton
IN addition, he has heretofore yeto,,,
all invitations to speak at state ia irs
The president plans to confer Will
Ambassador Walter H. Page AT
SHADOW Lawn tonight. 1t is under
stood the blacklist question and mali
interference will be discussed. This
afternoon the president will discuss
the Michigan political situation with
Assistant Secretary Sweet, of the com
merce department. now a candidate
for governor of Michigan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

=
Nels, Old Boy:
Not a word hat we heard
of that joy
Vat you write efrey night
In de JOynai:
c. A. "ZelSe" Forter. SUPERINTENDENT
of the city crematory, Is taking two
weeks vacation
The Rev. r. e Wolfe will give the
Sunday morning sermon in the First
NJ. E. church.
DR.. Benjamin F. Young left today
for Thayer, Kan. where he will dedi-
cate the new $4,000 Methodist church
Sunday morning.
Paul Young, son of DR.. Benjamin F.
Young, pastor of the First Methodist
Episcopal church, left today for Mid
dletown, Conn, where he will enter
Wesleyan college.
Rock Island train No. 35. due here
at 9:S5 o'clock this morning from
this morning owing to the locomotive
blowing out a cylinder head near
Bonner Springs.
A marriage license was issued from
the office of the probate judge today
to Ben F. Stull, Topeka, age %, and
Stella M. Hoffsummer. Topeka, age 81
j. r. Cuthbert. stone contractor is
| in Ottawa today on business.
The huge Santa Fe exhibit at the
state fair in Topeka, constructe ed in
the Topeka shops of tre railway, has
been shipped to Hutchinson where it
| is shown at the Reno fair. 1t will be
shown later at the fair in Wichita.
To try out new magnetic, Capt.
Phil Billiard made a fifteen-minute
flight from his aviation grounds near
| Highland Park last night just before
dark. The trial flight was without
| incident, the aviator keeping on a low
course.
NJ. f. Cooper, a young man just out
| OF local hospital. has filed suit in
the court of Topeka against Lorenzo
and Ina Harrison for So and costs, al
leging that after he rented a room at
1903 Kansas avenue and paid for ii
they rerented it to another person.
Reports of the Hutchinson fair as
published in the Wichita papers, where
it is unnecessary to deceive, state that
yesterday broke all records with 25.00(
! persons on the grounds. On the So m.
| day a dispatch to the Topeka paper.
from Hutchinson claimed $4,000 per
sons.
Dwight Thacher Harris was ar
rested by Officer Gallup on Eight
and Kansas avenue Thursday evenin,
and booked at the police station 70
Jay walking and resisting an officer.
The charge is that he violated the ney
traffic ordinance by cutting across tn
corner instead of following the side
VAIN lAlSs anu tildt ne argued Will
the officer about it afterwards.
George H. White. for several year
a reporter on the State journal, nov
with the San Diego Tribune Sal
Diego, Cal. is in the city today. H
will join Mrs. White, who is in Con
cordia where their 2-year-old boy
! George Henry. jr., is seriously i'll
Mr.. ard Mrs White expect to return t
Topeka next week. White was grad
mated from Washburi. in 1908 and wa
the fleeing halfback on the famou
'06 and '07 Ichabod football teams
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
THERE Is NO NEW FRANCE.

We in America are apt % regard
the courageous France at war as
NEW France which has emerged like
"A sort of pious phoenix from the ashes
.if a sceptical and frivolous past. Eliza
beth Shepley Sergeant. writing in The
New Republic declares that What is
taking France thru these terrible years
Is no new set of qualities but very
ancient and familiar French virtue
which may be called the love of the
job. This love of work for work 5
sake. this zeal for technical perfection
was common to all classes and both
seNes in France before the war; from
the farmer with his single field or
Vineyard. TO the scrupulous literary
artist; from the humble concierge
who for twenty years had made one
variety of artificial rosebud to the
great dressmaker of the Rue de la
Paix. they all drew on it. as a deep
spring of vitality. Even the sweated
lingerie maker. even the militant in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
SPEAK AT BIG CITIES
Roosevelt VIII Make Only Limited
Number of Campaign Talks.

New York, Sept. 22.-Following the
former Presidents Taft and Roosevelt.
at which a reconciliation will be
brought about at the Union League
club. October 8. the colonel was to
confer with Republican National
Chairman Wilcox as to speaking
dates in his Forthcoming plunge in the
Hughes campaign.
The colonels first speech will be
at Battle Creek, Mich, September 80.
Even should trip to the Pacific coast
be finally decided on, however. the
present plan is for Roosevelt to make
only limited number of speeches
He will therefore stop in the large
cities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
ROCK ISLAND WRECK
Freight Train Derailed Today West
of Herington.

Fourteen cars in a Rock Island
freight train were derailed today near
Tampa, a small town about ten miles
west of Herington- No Rock Island
eastbound passenger train, was re-
ported four hours late this afternoon
a a result of the derailment-
Local Rock Island offices did not
know. or would not say, the number
of the freight train wrecked. whether
1t was an east or west bound train
nor whether anyone was killed or IN
jured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22

There seems TO be plenty Il visible
evidence all over these United States
to support the contention of MIR. Davis,
vice president of the St. Louis Union
Trust company. that Americans lank
last in the matter of thrift among the
The world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-22
HEAR MORE CITY PETITION
Additional Bids for $1,000. 600 Fed.
eral Plant Made TO Board.

Washington. Sept. 22.-Hearings on
the location of a site for the 81 900 :
600 government arnlbr plate factory
We're reopened today by Secretary
Daniels, to give delegations from
Knoxville, Tenn, Jersey City and
Perth Amhoy, y. J.. and several other