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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21
SUES sPEARyTLLE OFFICERS.
st. John Man Says Mayor and Con-
stable Took $25 From Him.

Dodge City, Kan, Sept. 21.-Suit for
damages has been filed in district
court here by A. c. Glasscock, of st.
John, against E. w. Moore, mayor of
Spearville, and A. J. Seltson, con-
stable. He seeks $1,000 damages.
Glasscock claims that he was driv-
ing with three other men in a car
from Spearville toward Dodge City
last week when the Spearville men
came up behind them in another car
and commanded them to stop. He
claims he was required to pay over to
the Spearville men s25, which he has
been unable to get back, and claims
he is ignorant of any cause for their
action. Glasscock says his pursuers
fired a shot just before his car stopped
and he suspected they were robbers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21

of the Wichita police force. Later
word was received of them in the
southern part of the state.
Acting on information as to their
whereabouts, Officer w. H. Stevens
left on Saturday for Bridgeport, Tex.
and Sunday morning, with the help of
the town marshal, soon arrested Nc
keenan, and later Walton was appre
hended.
Walton is from Arkansas City and
was sent up from Winfield for forgery
McKeeman is from Manhattan and
was sent from Topeka for the same
charge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21
PLAN LIBRARIANS MEETING.
Kansas and Oklahoma Organizations
to Arkansas City Next Month.

Emporia, Kan, Sept. 21.-Librar
ians of Kansas and Oklahoma met
here to plan a program for the meet
ing of the Kansas and Oklahoma
Library association which will con-
vene in Arkansas City, Kan, October
81. Men of countrywide reputation
will speak during the three-day ses-
sion.
Librarians here included: Miss
Hattie Osborne, of Baker university
president of the Kansas association;
Miss Anna LIE Crone, Alva Okla
president of the Oklahoma association,
and E Julius Lucht, Wichita, secre-
tary of the Kansas association.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21
RATTLEsNAKEs ~REED BOY.
Oakley Lad Rescued After Nine
Hours-Sixteen Reptiles Killed.

Oakley. Kan, Sept. 21.-Treed BY
rattlesnakes for Line hours, James
Corbin 8 year old son of a stockman
near here, was finally released when
cowboys killed sixteen rattlers in the
rocks under the tree where the boy
was perched.
The boy was returning from school
when he saw a big RATHER across the
path in front of him. Starting back
along the path he saw two more
snakes. Then he climbed a tree and
waited for aid. Cowboys say the
snakes were making for the rocky
bluff to hibernate for the winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21

Park Ewart, the young lumberman
while driving today ran into a Wagon
from the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21
BIG DEAL AT GRAINFTELD.
Eight Hundred Acre Farm in Cove
CMounty Sold for, $4,000.

Grainfield, Kan. Sept. 21.-The 500
acre farm one mile southwest of
Grainfield, consisting of all of section
/ 8 and the southeast quarter of IA
1929, owned by Townley Culbertson,
of Kansas City, Mo-, has been sold to
William T. Watson for $4,000. Mr..
Culbertson took in exchange 224 acres
in section 30-11-29 and the balance in
cash and first mortgages. Both par
ties in the deal were represented bv
J. E Smith
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21
KANSAS SINGER Is DEAD.
Vincent Graham. who Died in Pitts.
burg, Proves To BE William Morris.

Pittsburg. Kan, Sept. 21.-yinceot
Graham, \ music teacher and singer
for more than fifty years. died in Il
hospital here His death, according
TO documents found in his belongings,
revealed that he really was William
H. Morris member of an old family
of Plymouth, England
For many years he was a grand
opera singer and adopted the name Of
Graham. which he ever after used.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21
VETERANS AT GLEN ELDER.
Mitchell County Old Soldiers Will
Hold Reunion September IS.

Glen Elder, Kan. Sept 21.-The
semi-annual reunion of the old SOL
diers of Mitchell county is scheduled
for Glen Elder Thursday, September
Is, and arrangements are being made
to royalty entertain the 'old boys
A cordial invitation is given to every
one in Mitchell and adjoining counties
to attend this reunion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21
Store of Cash Values!
Never Before in Our History
Have We Opened Our Store
With Such Genuine Values

stocks of Fall and Winter merchandise. You
of the scarcity of first class goods The market
the rise should and convince of the
pOrunties this offers you of buying your Fall and
Winter clothing without the advance of prices added
Anticipating the raise of prices, which knew
to bought Fall and Winter stocks months
in advance of the high prices The
and investigate the opportunity this large
cash store offers the quicker will make you regular,
satisfied customer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21

Guthrie, o. 1.-THE land is a yours"
That is what every timepiece on the Dor
ders of lands opened to settlement pro-
claimed today. There is room for about
5000 settlers and there were fully 5000
ready before hour of noon. Horses were
hitched, saddle ,girths cinched and every
thing made ready by 10 o'clock. At Lang
ston the negroes had been gathered by
colonization societies to the number of
1,5O0 and they were preparing to move en-
masse into the Cimmaron Valley. Five
hundred whites, mostly cowboys, had their
eyes on the same place and each party
made all kinds of threats of taking the
land by force.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21
rs YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the columns Of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL



the members of the West End Tennis club
for the state tennis tournament to be held
on their courts on Thursday and Friday,
October and 9. A large number of dele
gates from all the principal cities of the
state will be contestants The prizes will
be either memorial cups or medals to cost
not less than 500 each. There will be
three: a singles winners cup and two cor
each of the members of the winning dou-
BILE team. In addition there will be the
usual prizes offered by the merchants for
excellence in various directions.
There is weeping, wailing, and crashing
of teeth among the young men who blow
ed themselves on the races last week The
world is all an empty show; likewise their
pockets. The man who won anything on
the races is scarce the American
bison; those who lost are numerous
the autumn leaves. One man who lost
$50 said: Every race was jockeyed."
The crowd ought to have gone into the
pool tent and torn 1t down. A prominent
Topeka doctor is reported to have lost
nearly $1,000 There was considerable de-
nunciation among others of the way. the
Jockeys kept running back and forth TO
the pool room to see how the pools were
running. 1t is evident that the pool sellers
carried thousands of dollars away from
Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-21

Senator Plumb of Kansas is one of the
most enthusiastic athletes. His specially
is bowling and when at work the
alleys he looks like veritable Titan.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

down the road was a motor repair
shop, which she felt would play into
their hands, as sometimes the owners
Of cars had many tedious moments to
pass.
The first afternoon she told herself
they really must not expect any one;
but her heart beat high with expecta-
ton Just the same, as she and Flor
ence, in white muslin dresses and
dainty aprons, waited in the cottage.
Each table had a bunch of flowers In
a glass tumbler. and there was a
great bunch of buttercups and daisies
in a jar on the piazza.
A man and woman driving through
the country in a buggy were their
first guests. A motorcyclist and one
large automobile party made up the
list for the day, and they thought it
very encouraging, even II father did
snif a bit when told. Fred Emerson
dropped in around six o'clock, just to
cheer them up, he said. But 1t was
noticeable that the cheering process
lasted all through the prosperous sea-
son which followed.
The tea-house was a great success,
on the whole, and when the time
came to close 1t and Lucy counted up
the exact profit, she was highly elat-
ed, and began at once to plan for the
next year.
Her surprise was very great when
her father told her that the cottage
was no longer his to dispose Of. It
had been sold. and she must apply to
the new owner for a lease, that own
er being Fred Emerson.
For some reason. which she didn't
quite comprehend herself, Lucy felt
shy about going to him. But one day
when she was alone at the cottage,
putting away the last things for that
season. Fred appeared. Lucy began
at once.
Father told me you had bought
the place, Fred. I want to know II
I can have 1t again next year, and
what the fent will be-"
1t isn't necessary for us to know in
Just what words Fred told her that
the house was hers on one condition,
and that he had been determined to
own It and install her as Its mistress
ever since the first day he watched
her moving about in 1t, looking so
sweet and dainty, serving tea to her
guests. She must have accepted the
condition, for the next summer saw
the little cottage transformed into a
comfortable, livable home, and there
were biscuits and tea; but the order
was for two. 81
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had tucked away. They c1eaned out
the little cottage themselves. It was
in pretty good order already and was
furnished. There were three rooms
on the ground floor. They turned
the %parlor, which was the largest,
into the tea-room proper, and made
a sort of serving room of the dining
room. The small piazza, they decid-
ed, would hold three tables. Tables
and chairs! Those were the difficult
things to arrange! Finally, Lucy had
a bright idea. She would go to the
Woman's Club and ask to hire those
which the club kept for its garden
parties, etc. Mother loaned her best
white and gold eggshell china, which
seldom saw the light Of day, and
agreed to supply the first little bis
cults. She was a dabster at making
delicate, tiny ones that fairly melted
in one month. There was plenty of
homemade jam. to which Lucy felt
she had some right, having made it.
Two or three days before they were
ready, Lucy put a sign out on the
lawn near the street, announcing the
opening of the tea-house. Half a mile
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19
HEALTH HINTS

If you would keep in health build
your house to keep out heat.
The man who wants to keep we'll
now gives as much attention to THIS
problem as he does to keeping out the
cold in winter time.
For a number of years the question
OF insulating dwellings against heat
has been studied by German sanitar-
ians and scientists, with the result
that houses are now being built and
SO constructed as to afford material
immunity from excessive heat. Think
what this will mean TO the crowded
city dweller.
A study of pneumonia death rates
shows that there are comparatively
few deaths caused by cold. 1t would
seem then more important to protect
dwellers from heat than cold.
The ramshackle building Of course
Is no protection against either. There
can be no question but people should
be properly housed. This means pro.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

along, and the two stood there to-
gether. Fred was q hustling young
chap. with quite a bank account al
ready. He had for some time been
casting longing glances in Lucy's d.
rection. but being somewhat bashful,
he had not progressed very far In his
wooing.
Now, as they viewed together the
snug bit Of land and the house, with
the For Sale" sign against the stone
wall, a thought Of himself and Lucy
In such a home rushed into his mnid,
and he wanted to give expression to
1t; but all he found himself saying
was that 1t made him think of the lit
tie tea-house some women had open
ed the summer before In Riverside.
An idea flashed through Lucy's
mind. AS soon as Fred went on, she
rushed back to the farmhouse and
found her mother.
Mother. what's father going to do
with the Clapp house?"
why. nothing this year that I
know of. OF course, he wants to sell
it."
would he let me use the cottage,
do you think, mother?"
use the cottage! For the lands
sake. child. what for?"
We'll, I've got an idea. You re-
member when I visited Aunt Carrie
last summer in Riverside? Some wo-
men set up a tea-house not half so
pretty as the Clapp place and sold tea
and things to motorists over there,
and Aunt Carrie said they made a lot
Of money. / could make more here,
because it's or the State road"
Eyes, l heard about them," an
swered her mother. but those wo-
men had a tea-room in the city and
know all about running one. You
couldn't do It,"
But, mother, I wouldn't try to do
as much MS they did. We could Just
have tea and little biscuits and jam,
and perhaps cake. Do you think
father would let me try?"
Il don't. know, Lucy, I'm sure"
"You help persuade him, mother,
won't you? l won't neglect the house.
1t will only be afternoons when we
once get started"
IL LOOK considerable persuasion to
make Farmer Cutler give his consent.
But with mother on Lucy's side and
Florence all eagerness, he finally
gave in reluctantly.
ITS fool business. anyhow" was
his concluding remark on the subject.
You'll be wanting to spend money
on the shebang, and then it'll all
peter out"
The girls worked with a will all
the next week, and, contrary to pro-
phecy, they didn't ask father for a
cent. What little they had to have,
Lucy spent out Of a small sum she
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19
THE DAILY
SHORT STORY
II TEA-HoUSE.
BY FANNY GRAY.
copyright. 1916, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)

iuCY CUTLER was helping her
mother finish the Saturday
- cleaning and baking and was
rebelling in her soul. Not that she
so particularly disliked the work it.
sell, but the though that she had
to do that kind of thing day after
day, with not even a maid SER
wants wage, stirred her to anger. Her
father, a prosperous farmer. could
well afford to pay for 1t, as she knew,
yet he seemed to think 1t was the
natural and proper thing for herself
and her younger sister, Florence, to
scrub along, week after week, salts
lied with an occasional small sum
With which to buy necessities.
She had been out of high school
two years, and during that time had
urged upon her father to let her
learn some trade or take some kind
OF position; or IL not willing for that,
ut least to pay her regular wages for
work in the house. But father was
not modern in his Ideas, and couldn't
see why Lucy shouldn't be contented
as she was.
Today she was feeling q bit more
unhappy than usual over the situa-
ton, as a school friend, who had be-
come a stenographer, had passed the
house, bound on some Saturday af-
'5frnoon pleasure. her new suit and
ynoaish hat proclaiming her an indie
sssndent Garner and spender.
When Lucy finished her work, she
started to walk rather aimlessly
down the road to rest and cool off.
Her father had just acquired,
through a foreclosure, a piece Of
property of about two acres adjoining
his.land. on which was n picturesque
littlelcottage. As she reached a place
In the road opposite the new property
she stopped to admire the tiny house
and the old-fashioned flowers border
Ing the walk, as we'll as the climbing
roses over the porch.
Just then Fred Emerson came
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19
=: CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE ::

And 80 here I am not yet sitting up
In bed, but writing a few words at a
time in you. dear little new book.
"a new life. I am not worrying any
more about the past. My heart seems
TO have been swept clean Of Its trou.
bles.
The first week I wal horribly III
with ether nausea and gas pains, but
now / am all right except that 7 am
very weak. | have not yet had one
degree Of fever.
MY nurse said on the 14th day, "You
can have anything to eat. You are
not sick. All you need now Is to be
built up and you will be all right.
am well, little book! I am well!
And I'm never going 20 be unhappy
againl
Today I found I could work my toes.
oh. little book, when I had Alice take
on the covers 80 that I could see my
feet, It seemed to me I had never OK.
pertenced such joy in my life as when
/ saw my toes wiggle.
lam going to get we'll! I am going
to waikiki I am going to dance and con.
sequentiy l am never going to be un.
happy any more!
Someone has said that there is the
closeN connection between the soul
and the liver and I have come to be.
lieve all n needs to be happy is to
be healthy. And, little book, I'm going
TO be healthy. The doctor says Il will
take some time and I will probably
get discouraged at times. but inside a
yearihe promises me I will be as other
women are.
As soon as I am well enough I am
going away with Eliene for q long Wis.
II 7 tthe seashore. I have always Low.
ed the sea, and I think one OF my hard.
est burdens to bear during the last
year has been my absence from the
ocean.
Poor old Dick seems to have taken
on Q anew lease Of life since the yer.
dict has been passed that / shall get
well i am afraid something is worry.
ing him. He is working hard but when
] ask him about It he says:
Everything is all right, dear heart.
don't you think about any thing but
getting WE'LL
4iasRoudeEtalses see how Mrs. Sci;
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

lection from the weather be they what
they may.
Properly insulating the walls and
foundations OF dwellings, so as to al.
ford material protection from exces.
sive heat. would also mean protection
against cold in the winter, and reduc.
tion In fuel bills.
In tropical countries where the uni.
ted States public health service is In
charge, It insists upon rat.proor owen
ings as a protection against Bubonis
plague.
1t is quite within the possibilities
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

win depends upon Dick, and how per.
fectly sweet he is to her. I am quito
sure he loves her more than he does
his own mother.
l have not been allowed yet to see
anyone but Dick and Mollie but / am
lying In a bower of flowers and this
morning little book, l received a great
box OF scarlet saliva. There was no
name attached-there was no need of
a name. No one would send me- A hoy
Of those perishable posIes except Mai.
colin Stuart.
This mornings paper says he Is 60
ing to name his new boat Saliva.
When Alice read that to ma I felt
myself blushing. It seemed to me that
everyone must know he called me
Saliva, and then I remembered no one
n all the world knew but Malcolm
Stuart, you, little book, and me.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

Just like a flower pot standing on
Its head" you'll say.
"But II a flower pot is becoming.
why not stand 1t on its head on your
head I" retorts Nine. Milliner.
This flower pot" is almost brim.
less. The towering crown is black sat.
In, trimmed with a band of grosgrain
ribbon and two uncurled ostrich tips,
held at the back with a tailored bow
Of ribbon.
The sleeveless fur coat with its Lou.
is 18th collar Is one Of the many fan.
tastic little wraps" with which Dame
Fashion will enfold her favorites next
winter. It's seal, brocaded with green
and blue beads-velvet would look Just
as well-and such a difference in the
price.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

Marriage, sex hygiene and eugen.
les are taught by Horne to evening
classes of men at the Evansville, Ind.
Y N. C. A.
Horne uses the language Of men,
citing instances where similar Ian.
guage was used by men of the Bible.
In his first class Of forty, nine were
married in a year, and one, finding
himself wrongly matched, broke his
engagement and found a more likely
mate.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

Florenz Ziegfeld, whose business
Is to pick beautiful women for his
shows, says Hazel Lewis who has been
with the Follies for five years, is the
perfect chorus girl.
Miss Lewis has never whitfield a Gig.
arctic nor slipped a cocktail, he says.
She has brains and common sense
and Is not afraid to use both.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

The modern improvement in pills
Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They
help, Nature, instead Of fighting with
her. Sick and nervous headache, bill
business, costiveness, and all derange-
ments OF the liver, stomach and bowels
are prevented, relieved, cured.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19
THE HEART
How Il Acts In Every Dav Liza

The human heart, in q healthy man
weighs but eleven ounces. 1t beats
from long before birth until death, In
an average lifetime, about seven mil
lion times, allowing seventy beats to
the minute. Every twenty-four hours
this slight organ performs labor equiv
alent to lifting a ton Of material
eighty feet into the air. If the blood
becomes poor, and filed with poisons
from diseased kidneys, the heart Is not
only starved, but poisoned as well. It
soon becomes exhausted and unable
to meet any extraordinary demand
which may be made upon 1t. Supply
pure blood; get the kidneys to work
ing; tone up tho feeble stomach! DIR.
Pierceis Golden Medical Discovery
purifes the blood, relieves the kid
neys and tones up the %alimentary
canal. Give the heart the food It
needs and 1t will continue to work
till the natural end of life.
Bumpass, Va.-"Before I commenced
taking DR.. Plerce's medicines 1 suffered
with pain In my shoulders, head and
back, and had palpitation Of the heart.
I could hardly get up. Was In bed
nearly all the time. I took DR.. Pierce's
Medical Discovery and Favorite Pre-
scriptlon. I soon began to feel much
better and could visit around in the
neighborhood. I owe 1t all to DR..
Pterce's remedies. Would advise any
n thus afflicted to use Golden Medi-
cal Discovery and 'Favorite Prescrip-
tion.' I also took the Pleasant Pei
lets with good results.
Il thank DR.. Pierce for his medicines
and kind advice and am glad to hear
from him."-MRs. sEsE 3. SIMS, R. q.
D. 2, Bumpass, Va.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19
BY BETTY BROWN.

The dragon fly has fluttered into
fall millinery.
You will find his blue and green
wings il~uttering on the brim Of a sail,
or hat, on the peak OF one OF those
saucy little Jockey caps fashion smiles
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

that within the near future in large
cities sanitation legislation VIII pro
vide laws for the proper protection %
city jewellers from the dangers and
discomforts of torrid summer whom
adults suffer and babies die BY the
thousands.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

Mrs. Albert Hemick of Maryland av.
enue Is spending a few days at Little
Falls.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

"The cocktail.drinking, cigarette.
smoking chorus girl makes no hit with
me. ! pay Miss Lewis more than any
other chorus girl in my companies. I
wish I could find more like her"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19

upon just now, or he will perch on the
edge of a matinee hat you will see in
this picture.
The blue and gold OF the beaded
wings give a bold touch of color to
the velvet hat OF elephant gray. The
drared band is satin in dragon fly
blue.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-08-19
HEALTH QUESTIONS ANswsRsu,

j. o. B;G"How can / prevent hsss
rash on my baby?"
Dust her with talcum powder twa.
or three times a day.