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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-07
KILLED IN AUTO CRASH.
Steering Gear Broke Near Ellis
Driver Escaped Uninjured.

Salina, Kan. Oct. John Bolig
was killed and George Wurth severely
injured when the car in which they
were riding became unmanagea BILE
and overturned at Ellis. The steering
gear broke, and the car struck a pile
of thing. Chris Armbruster, who was
driving the car, was unhurt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-07
IN LAST SO YEARS
$40 MUSICIANS
PLAYED IN BAND
Fascinating History of Mar
shaII's Organization Here.
Members Would Form 30
Ranks Marching 6 Abreast.
TRAVELLED ALL OVER COUNTRY
Band Is Well Known by All
Professional Leaders.
Praised by SOusa "Best March
ing Band in Country"
Band Is Well Known by All
Professional Leaders.
Praised by SOusa "Best March
ing Band in Country"

Imagine band of ninety ranks
marching six abreast and occupying
all the street space on Kansas avenue
between Sixth and Seventh streets,
and YOU will have an idea of how
MarshaH's band would appear if all. of
the $40 musicians who have been
members of the organization during
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13

Fire recently destroyed the Nor
row hotel and two other buildings at
.Drumright, Ok, and badly damaged
the Strand hotel Gould Wright, an
oil field worker, said to have come
from Kankakee, ILL.,, was burned to
death.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13
WON PRIZES AT BOTH FAIRS
Live Stock From Agricultural College
Makes Good Showing at Topeka
and Hutchinson.

The college live stock started the
Institutions new year by-winning at
both Hutchinson and Topeka.
Three first prizes, one second, two
thirds, and four fourths were won by
the college show cattle in the live
stock division of the free fair at To-
peka. In addition to these prizes,
King Dale, a 2-year-old shorthorn, was
placed champion of all steers at the
show.
Some Of the best herds in Kansas,
Missouri Nebraska, Iowa and other
central states were represented at the
show. The college stock won against
stiff competition.
Following are the winnings of the
college stock:
Twoyear-old class-First on King
Dale, shorthorn; fourth on Capper,
Hereford.
Yearlings-Third on Beau Hessler,
Hereford; fourth on Barnton Dale,
shorthorn.
Calves-First on Rose Gay Lad, An
gus; second on Barnton.
Herds-First on shorthorn, third on
Hereford, fourth on Angus.
King Dale, shorthorn, was awarded
championship.
The college made a creditable show.
ing likewise at the state fair at Hutch
inson. The winning were as follows:
Two-year-old steers, first.
Steer calves, first and second.
The animal awarded championship
was King Dale.
College men were in demand as
Judges at both fairs. At Topeka A.
M. Paterson judged the Galloway
cattle and the sheep; S. C. Salmon
farm products; ]. B. Fitch, Guernsey
cattle; Miss Frances L. Brown, home
economics products; and M. F.
Ahearn, fruits. At Hutchinson DR.
c. w. McCampbell judged the horses
and Albert Dickens the horticultural
products.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13
BURLESON'S THREE STRIKE"

"The Democratic party seems to
have enough capacity to run the Post
Office Department. Postmaster Cen
eral Burleson has deposited a check
for $5,200,000 with Secretary McAdoo,
being the profits of the fiscal year
of 1916"
20 Sounds like Democratic campaign
orator, doesn't It?
But it isn't; 1t is the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, a paper that is sup
porting Hughes, telling its host Of
readers about merely one of the deeds
of the Wilson Administration.
Continues the Ledger:
1.-THE Secretary of the Treasury re-.
plies that his department has expert
enced the sensation of receiving pos.
tai surplus only three times, and
those three times have been under
the Administration of President
Wilson and Mr. BurIeson. But we have
no hope that this will satisfy Mr..
Hughes. He will tell the next audi.
ence he gets hold of that the service
is not nearly so good as It used to be
when Postmaster Generals were Re.
publicans and there was deficit every
year, the amount being something over
s17,ooo,ooo."
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13
DONIREY DOIN,S

Mrs. ]. s. Miller returned from a
two weeks visit with her parents
near Oklahoma CITY,
Will Deathridge was called to his
home at Hubert, Oklahoma, on ac-
count of the serious illness of his
mother.
Geo. Keiser and family attended
the fair at Dalhart last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. U. w. Kent gave a
party Saturday night for the young
folks. A glorious good time is re-
ported.
r. e. Tepner and family ate Sun
day dinner with Mr.. and Mrs, j. s
West.
F. M. Carter returned from Iowa
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13

Saturday, where he attended the fun
eral of his mother.
U. w. Kent and family and Lee
Newell and wife spent Sunday at the
j. L. Duerson home.
A. E. Ross and children visited at
the r. H. Tepner home Sunday.
Miss Lille Gordon visited with
Miss Bertha Duerson from Friday till
Monday.
Mesdames M. e. Sullivan and Evan
Ogden visited with Mrs. L. w. Bishop
Monday.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13
FARMERS IGNORED
BY REPUBLICANS
But Democratic Administration
Quickly Gave Them Justice
in Rural Credits.

Don't forget Mr.. Farmer, that
through your Farmers National Con-
gress, National Grange, National
Farmers Union, American Society of
Equity, and similar organizations you
have for years demanded and have
importuned Republican administra-
tons for legislation you needed.
WHAT DID YOU GET7
Through all the years since 1854
the Republican Party was deaf and
blind to the farmers financial needs.
This In the face Of the fact that sue
cessful systems of Rural Credits were
in operation throughout Europe for a
century. When this great Democratic
measure was put to vote In the SEN
ate on May 4, 1916, only five Re-
pubIicans dared vote against IL! Three
of them were on the subcommittee
who wrote the Republican Platform
of 1916.
Was 1t because you were not Big
interests? You were, many of you,
mshy hhuhScu, anu nigh pluuuCc
held the mortgage-and to that extent
you belonged to High Finance. But
you paid big interest to associate with
Big Interests. A stack of wheat
wasn't as good collateral as a sheaf
of scraps of paper held by stock
gambler. Nor did the Political Bosses
Of the Republican Party care to
give you financial justice. They were
too busy protecting" themselves.
THE PROMISES OF THE DEMO-
CRATIC PLATFORM OF 1912 =
written in courage and honesty and
with sympathetic understanding OF
tne needs of every honest American
interest-HAVE BEEN KEPT.
The Republican Party refused to dc
these things, which the prosperity OF
the American Farmer required.
The Republican presidential candi
date, Charles e. Hughes, denounces
the Democratic party and President
Wilson for having done these things
Where Does Your Interest Lie7
(From Farmers Pamphlet issued by
the Democratic National Committee
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13

A cablegram protesting against a
reported attempt in the British House
of Commons to deport Russian and
Rumanian refugees from England I'M
less they join the British army has
been sent to Sir Herbert Samuels,
home secretary of England. The pro-
test was the result of a mass meeting
at New York called by the National
Workmen's Committee on Jewish
Rights.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13
ACCUSE FARMER OF MURDER
Fred N. Gllmer of Finney County and
Second Spouse Charged With
Using Strychnine.

August II, the wife of Fred M, Gil.
mer died at their home in the eastern.
part of F'inney county and four days
later he married again. 1t is said that
he gave dance in honor of the
event. Now Gilmer and his second
wife, Delta Gilmer, are in Jail, pend
ing an investigation of the death of
the first wife, Hannah Gilmer.
Informations were filed against the
Gilmers by William Harris, son of the
dead woman, who came here from
Missouri after he had been warned by
mall that his mothers death was I'M
natural, Suspicion was aroused by
the mysterious burial of Mrs. Gilmer
and ali examination, lager, of the dead
woman's stomach revealed traces OF
strychnine poisoning, 1t is said.
Gilmer is widely known about
Garden City. Neighbors are in town
ready to offer bail for him and his
wife. One report is that the dead
woman's children do not want Gil
mer to get her property. 1t is also
said that the dead woman took NOR
phine regularly.
The present Mrs. Gilmer had been
staying at the Gilmer home. She Is
young and attractive. Nothing can be
learned of her past or Of her former
place of residence. Gilmer is about
40 years old and his first wife was
about SO. The woman he married the
second time was much younger.
Neither would make any statement
of the case.
Ask New Waterworks.-Ata mass
meeting held at La Crosse, 1t was de-
cided to call an election to vote on a
new water works plant and 24-hour
electric light service.
X X X
Former Pop Leader Dead.-Taylor
Riddle, former Kansas live stock san
itary officer md the inspector for the
Wichita Live Stock company, Is dead
at his home in Marion. He was about
60 years old.
Fall on Fork Handle FataI.-Leo
Peterson, 81 years old, a farmer near
Homewood died recently from injur-
les received when he fell from load
of hay and his body was impaled on
q fork handle.
OIL Near Emporia.-Oil in a ligh.
flow was struck in well on the Pix
lee farm twenty miles south of EN-
poria the other day. OIL showed at
2,212 feet, and in fifty-five feet there
has been little change in the charac-
ter Of the sand. Oil promoters say
this is the first oil found at this depth
in Kansas, outside the limits Of the
Augusta Eldorado fields.
r X X
Couple Wed 81 Years.-The Rev. A.
B. Kirkland and Mrs. Kirkland cele-
brated the sixty-fourth anniversary Of
their marriage at Salina recently.
Both are "a years old.
r x *
WiehIta Doctor Dear.-Dr. q. q.
Hamilton, eye specialist Of Wich-
tia, was striker with heart di.
sease while at lunch In the Wayside
Inn, at Drury, east Of Caldwell, at
noon the other day. and died an hour
later, after being taken to Caldwell in
a motor car.
Train xined FootssiI Player
Ronald Goode, II years old. son
Of Mayor Goode Of Marion, was killed
at Rlewnce nwheh ne zeal 'unasrnsathi
a moving train. He was q member Of
the Marion High School fcotpaIl team.
4
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13
ok,nHo.1a M Il.i,mcn q Suicide.

OH'Gho'71 M !i,i2ncn Suicide.
c~r po-ito. T~vos -Thrrlow Sulli.
~ NJ t,idco1, Okla, of Company f,
liuskogee. shot and killed himself
with 2 rife in his tent in the troop
camp here. lie had been accused Of
,rsring worthless checks and had been
tod that he must make them good.
Sullivan lived two hours after firing
'hc got e2d .n"isted that the. bank
bid made mistake. The body was
-aken to Brownsville. Sullivan is sur
vived. by divorced wife and two
nNild-nr.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13

Train xlnsd Footsan pssysr.--.
Ronald Goode, II years old. son
Of Mayor Goode of Marion, was killed
at aRlsrencs w'hsh ne tell unasrnsath
a moving train. He was member Of
the Marion High school footpail team.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13

War Department statistics show
there are about 100000 militiamen
now on the border. The 5000 just
ordered South will relieve SINH.
lar force, which will be returned to
home stations for muster out Of the
federal service.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13

For SALE-Auburn five passenger
car, purchased new last April, bar
gain. Will give terms to right party.
"A. P. Sanford.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13
Southwest

The Rev. William ]. Williamson, Of
st. Louis, who won and then lost his
battle against John Barleycorn. has
again mysteriously disappeared. News
Of his disappearance became public
few hours before the preacher was
to open services in the Peoples
Tabernacle.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13
Foreign.

The story circulated abroad that
the American ambassador, James A..
Gerard, is the bearer of an appeal
from the German emperor for peace
intervention by the United States is
declared authoritatively in Berlin to
be without foundation.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-25
RuseIA COMPLETES LONG BRIDGE

PETROGRAD, Russia,-The longest
bridge in the Russian empire has just
been pushed to completion by Russian
railway engineers in far Southeastern
Siberia. 1t S. ans the Amur river and
is over a mile and half long. BY it
Russia now has through railway con-
nection with vlddiyostok entirely on
her own territory, in addition to the
line ! .neing by more direct route
tire gl Nanch lria.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-25
FACES POTATO FAMINE
by Associated Pressl

DUBLIN, Ireland.-Ireland is faced
with partial failure of its all-important
potato crop. The official estimates
indicate a yield of at least third.
and probably a half. less than last
year. The loss to farmers through the
damage to asotaioea Is figured at
SIS, 000, a09.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-25

The Yokohama
by order Of the Japane Government tie White
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

The people of the United States
celebrate thanksgiving day with more
and more accord every year. Indeed,
one might say they have more and
more reason.
The fathers of New England, hem
med in between a wilderness and the
sea, watched their doubtful crops IN
anxious memories of other years of
famine. When they found that once
more there was fish enough and pork
enough and corn and beans and pump
kins and squashes and turnips enough
to carry them through the winter they
met to thank God, knowing full well
how many hazards they had passed
through for those days as compared
with today we're days of pinching pow
rty, The New England historian,
DR., Palfrey says, with a certain dry
ness, which shows probably some per
sonal preferences, Baked beans point
70 the time when it was desirable to
make the most of the commonest veg
etable by havoring it with the flesh
Of the commonest animal"
All this is happily changed. For
the world, indeed, the old peril of
famine is well nigh forgotten. And
why? The American of today gives
thanks that famine is we'll nigh i'm
possible
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01
HIS FRIEND HURT:
he HELPED HIM
Injured Man Laughed When Simple
Treatment Was Suggested, But
He Thanked His Com
rade Later.

Once upon a time word came to
Henry A. Voehl, of Plainfeld, N. j.,
that a close, friend had been injured,
and full of anxiety he visited the af-
flicted man, who was suffering from
a sprained ankle.
ut was so bad that the leg had
turned black" said Mr.. Voehl in relat-
ing the story. 81 told him l would
have him out in a week and he laugh
ed at me. But took him a bottle of
Sloan's Liniment, that night he put
some on and noticed the ankle felt
better. l told him to use it every
day, and in three days his ankle was
practically well. In four days he was
working. He gladly admits that
Sloan's Liniment "put him on his
feet"
Sloan's Liniment can be obtained
at all drug stores, 25c., SOC, and $1.00.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

time to speak as if such simple busi-
ness as daily food came to US as a
matter Of course. There is, indeed, a
careless habit in which Americans
often speak, as if, because they are
Americans, they have everything
without so much as asking for it.
Fourth of July orators and street cor
ner braggarts alike talk of the natur-
al products Of this country almost in
the tone Of the emigrants who expect
to pick up a doubloon upon the side
walk. One is tempted to ask such
braggarts why the country did not
produce such wealth 100 years ago
or 200 years ago. Why was Dakota
then a desert? Why were the hills
of Alabama only a hiding place for a
few thousand Greek Indians? Why
did they not forge the iron under their
feet? Why did not the Iroquois in
western New York pick from their
trees the peaches and the pears such
as have been growing there this au-
tumn?
The answer is this. All the wealth
of America comes to her from the
work of her men and women. The
victory which yields it is their vic
tory. 1t is the victory Of spirit con-
ouering matter. 1t comes in the dai-
" miracle of daily life, where chill
dren Of God, led by God, taught by
God, alive in his life and fellow work
men with him, carry out his designs
and subdue the earth. 1t is neither
sensible nor grateful to speak of
teemng granaries, of increasing trade
Of new mines, of oil, of iron or OF
GAS as if these things were wealth
in themselves. They are only wealth
when man strikes the rock and is
waters flow. And this man must be
rot the savage man who cares oH}l
for his own personal appetite. II
must be man, the child Of God, seek
inc a future better than today, deter
mined to bring in a nobler age thar
that which he lives in.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01
A THANKSGIVING =.
:. :. OF LONG AGO

"The fondest memory l cherish is
of my boyhood Thanksgiving" said
Chauncey NJ. Depew, "and, although
Thanksgivings may be now just the
same as they were then, they do not
seem the same TO me-Aot by long
shot.
when | was lad | lived at Peeks-
XII upon farm, our country estate
and the same which now belongs to
me. We awoke on Thanksgiving day
at early dawn and were up dancing
and singing with glee. There were TO
be no gifts, Of course, but the house
was full of company, who were with
us to spend the day, and that fact,
together with the presence of about
dozen little cousins, made the DepeW
boys and girls very early riSers and
merry from the minute the sun aWoke.
MY father and mother were very
strict. They did not think Thanks
giving q day for play or merrimcnt
of any sort until one had been to
church and given thanks. So my
mother always got up early to keep
US "hushed up" and my father also
arose to be sure that we did not do
any 'augling. We always had good
breakfast.
Then came church time! And in
/ to a great sleigh we all bundled. 1t
! seems to me now that we had snow
earlier in those days, for / can re-
member being slowed away under the
robes like a little animated mummy
not expected to see light until un-
veicld at the end of the journey.
There always was very long church
service, and poor mother employed
all her time comforting or frowning
upon US as the occasion seemed to
demand. After a time church was
out. Then came the dinner and the
fun. For in the old time Thanks
giving celebrations the whole charac-
ter of the day changed after church,
and what had before been the strict
est Sunday conduct became as riotous
as the revelers could make it.
"Oh, what dinner We lad. |
think now we must have been very
rich folk to afford so much. In those
DAYS no one had course dinners. And
the table was set when the family
filed into the room. and the center of
the feast was turkey-nothing but
turkey.
after dinner came the dessert.
This always consisted of thirteen diff
ferent kinds of pie. | used to eat
all thirteen, and my father was proud
of me for it. If anything happened
so that I could not get beyond the
twelfth kind of pie father rallied me
upon growing weak and mother look
ed anxious for my health. I can see
those triangles of pie now. There
was mince, of course. Then came
pumpkin apple, custard, cocoanut
lemon, prune, blackberry (cannedl
dried peach and several others, wind
ing up with cranberry. 1t was 6
great treat for US boys, who never al
any other time in the year really haC
all the pie we could eat. After din
ner we sat down quietly in the parlol
and my grandmother told us stories
. We were, Ourselves, quite too full fo'
. utterance. Surely too full for play
"But the sequal to Thanksgiving
day was most interesting of all. l
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

CLOTHES AND UNDER
CLOTHES.


You would be distressed if your
doctor told you that you didn't know
how to dress but the chances are that
he would be confining himself strictly
to the truth if he said it.
Most women and some men do not
garb themselves as they SHOULD, and
that means, as they should for health
conservation of course, it has no ref
ercnce to initiating Voguc's fashion or
following the modiste's latest dreams.
In northern climates the coming of
cold weather means that Ma gets out
Pas red fannels and Ike's mother,
down on the lower East Side, "sews
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

followed on Thanksgiving night, just
like a Nemesis. And its program
was this: When it came time for all
to go to bed my mother would call us
children in the pantry, and then came
the little dose which was to counter
act all bad effects of the overstuffng
process. My dose was always castor
oil. And well | remember how it
was prepared. First into the cup
went great deal of molasses. Then
came a spoonful of the oil. Then
more molasses. This | had to drink.
Since then have spent many Thanks
giving days, but l never enjoyed any
as well as those-eXcept the castor
oil afterward."
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01
A GLAD THANKSGIVING.
i i T. i. ! l. 1. + + 4 j. /. !. 1. !.

+ Wisely and we'll in earlier times =
j. This happy day was chosen j.
+ That, though the earth grow stiff j.
+ and bare, i
i Our hearts might not be frozen; {
+ That fall by fall and year by year !
+ Kind words know no declining; !
:. The wilder storm, the warmer !
i cheer /
+ Where light of love is shining. !
I. j
+ Oh, let us hold unruffed still !
+ The pure peace of believing; i
+ The clear, rich anthem of our /
+ praise i
4 Be free from notes of griev- i
4 ing! !
+ In sweet, serene and thankful i
+ hearts !
+ Lies all the joy of living. /
+ Lift pure and strong your choral ]
+ song !
i And make glad Thanksgiving. i
3. 8. L = L .. =. Z L 2. 3. 3. q
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01
Made a Gale.

Made Gale,
THAT new man is salesman. ali
right
What did he do|
He had lady in tow just now who
looked at rcfrigcratorS, desks, porta-
ble bungalows, bathing suits, porch
furniture, imported rugs, fireless cook
ers and grand pianos. Nothing suited
her Some fellows would have let her
get away"
"And he?"
He sold her spool of thread
Louisville Courier-I Journal.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01
Nervous Women.

When the nervousness is caused by
constipation, as is often the case, you
will get quick relief by taking Cham
berlain's Tablets. These tablets also
improve the digestion. Obtainable
everywhere.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01
j. j. 4 i. + i. + i. + + + + + I. + +
+ CAUSE FOR THANKSGIVING

* j. 4 j. + T. l. + j. + + + 4 + \ + +
a +
= OF course you who talk of good +
j. old times" do not believe this. i
j. You point to the tables of prosper :
i GUS farmers which "groaned" with :
j. good things. Well, the tables did :
j. proan on high feasts and holidays, =
]. hut the rest of the year was Of =
l. ten lean living.
i This, then, gives US our first =
j. reason for thankfulness-that we +
j. are well fed on common days as =
j. well as on holidays and that we +
i. do not know actual want. =
+ As for clothes, when did wom- +
+ an ever 90 in such fine array? | =
i. mean the average women. Your =
j. orandmother's best black silk =
!. needed many turnings before 1t =
!. could be discarded, and every day =
+ she wore unbecoming prints, while +
+ YOU in your white blouses or your =
j. one piece frock, may be as charm =
j. ing in morning dress as when You =
j. are more formally attired. =
\ And comfort? Do you ever :
i know what it is to be cold? And :
+ did your grandmother ever know =
J. what it was to be really warm? +
! The fireplace in the living room +
j. seemed to make even colder the :
= bedrooms which were beyond the =
+ radius of heat. And there was :
J. ice to break in the pitcher o =
! mornings and the necessity for a :
:. warming pan between the shivery :.
+ sheets at night.-Temple bailey :
!. in Philadelphia Press. :
L
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

"For delicious hot Biscuits use Juba
Self Rising Flour-at all Grocers."
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-12-01

"Use Juba Self Rising Flour for
delicious hot Biscuits-at all Gro
GERS" 9-15-f.