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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-20
in NORTH TOPEKA
Sunday Was a Good Day for
Auto Repairers.
GrOcers viii Close at 8 O'clock
Saturday Evenings.

Sunday was big day for the auto
repair men of the north side. Inc
phones were kept busy all day by
calls from some person who had ms
car ont for the first time since -ast
fall and whose tires had gone TO tne
bad during the winter. Inc s tIee.s
were crowded with motorists leaVlIS
and returning over the Lawrence anu
Silver Lake roads. The police were
kept busy at the Union Paclfic cross
ing in slowing down the fellows VINO
were giving the old bus tryouI
again. e..,,a,.
ravJ noIicv was adopted Saturday
Inv the leading grocers OF Norm -
peka Starting with last SATURDAY
evening the grocery stores wiz Cios
at o;clcck. This will be permanent
ana not lust during the summer
months. Several stores nave oee
closing early on Saturday evening pu'
opening Sunday morning nuI Co 80
plant has been made by the Pe'9 Ht.t,+
of the churches and It IS propIo ,l, Iii
the early closing saturday eVehlnS ~
he observed bv all of the stores on the
North side.
New Road to GrantVillc.
The county commissioners maze d
luclv strike when they purchaseu .ii
near the three bridges The new 10 ~
rims along the south SIDE OF ~
Union Pacific tracks, and the rallroa aa
mas had men working Tor apour ~ IA
months in building break"dteia - 81.
settles to protect their tracks Wiz
will also protect the ne" io'N
floods and washouts.
Notes and Personal.
The ladies of the G. o. y; clID 49, ~
hold a line party on next 81 Hi
afternoon at two o'clock at JnS III
theater. The members OF the - I,t1bI,
in
Misc Myrtle Davis Of Della, Kansas
=. ~ nest of Mrs +. /. Robinson
at S29 Jackson street , ., her.
NIiss GLADYS Pratt returned 10 neI
home last night after a "eeh -
to friends at the University IN Law
The subject of the Lenten deVotloIs
o+ +be Church of the Good ShepneIu
on next Wednesday evening WIN ~
"Our Lords Passion from the betrsSai
Of midas to the Crown of Thorns.
,Tbe ladies Aid society of the North
ToDeL,a BAPTIST church met this art
ernoou at the home of MRS. "A l.
Rowe, 1917 Jackson street frep@f "a "a
tions were made at this meeting TOT
inc Bazaar which the society plans 10
give during the Easter week -,
The secretary of f. A. L. NO. VIII
he at Rafr's book store, 936 Kansas
avenue the first three afternoons OF
each week.-Adv. -
Mis- Hazel Boast 9O9 North JACK
son street. will entertain the mem
bers of the TsuneO Taxa Hasha EN-
broidery club, tomorrow afternoon
Miss Bessie Jones, of 81! NortI
jackson street, will leave FRIDAY loi
an extended visit in Massachusetts.
The chapters of the Eastern Stal
Lodge from Hoyt, Silver Lake, Ross.
VILE and Berryton have been lnVlteo
to attend the initiation of new canui-
dates, tomorrow evening at the nail
81 Kansas avenue.
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WANTED-MALE HELP.

WANTED-15 farm and dairy hands, 5
married couples; man and wife, hotel;
young men for restaurants and hotels;
helper in blacksmith shop. Furman EN-
ployment Office, S11 Kansas Ave.
WANTED-Exp erienced FraternaI Insur-
ance men for the best contract to write
in Kansas. Address Charles Swisher, Sa-
lima, Kansas.
ANTED-Machinis for lathe and miller,
steady work give phone address. L. H
Tolwer Co, Abilene, Kan.
WANTED-A good honest bright boy to
distribute circulars for day or two
224 New England Bldg.
LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN. train brakemen,
$120 monthly. Experience unnecessary.
Railway Box, Journal.
WANTED-White man for janitor and to
attend balls. Topeka Automatic Base
ball court.
wANTED-Boy to learn plumbing trade.
Phone 141.
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SANTA FE NOTES
Items for this department may be
phoned to 3S15 or State journal ofdce.l

Engineer Edw. Eylar, who has been
IN the company hospital here the past
few months was accompanied to his
home in Atchison last Friday by Mrs
Eylar who spent a few days here with
relatives. Engineer Eylar is improv-
ing nicely and has gone to his home
to recuperate.
The body of Mrs. Martha L. Camp
bell, mother of c. E. Campbell of the
bridge and building department, ar
rived here from Knoxville, Tenn, to-
day and interment in Topeka cemetery
was made this afternoon.
Engineer George Furman is run
ming on trains No. 107 and No. los
between Topeka and st. Joseph in the
place of Engineer Evan Thomas.
Conductor Harvey Jones, Mrs. Jones
and son William of Argentine spent
the weekend here with relatives.
w H. DeWalt has returned to his
home in Vermillion, Kan, after a short
visit with relatives and friends here.
The first anniversary ball of the
Royal Highlanders will be given
Thursday night in Fitzpatrick hall to
which the public is invited.
A. A Snyder, clerk in the ticket
auditors office, has returned from Il
short business trip to Kansas City.
Miss Gladys May, clerk in the tick
et1ng department. has returned from
weekend visit with relatives in Kan
sas City.
Conductor George Scott of Usage
City spent yesterday in Topeka with
friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Scott have
sold their home in Usage City and ex-
pect to leave in May for California,
where they will remain
Tom Clohessy of the Santa Fe pas
senger department at Wichita spent
the weekend here with relatives and
friends.
Engineer W. H. Jones has returned
to Usage City after a hort visit here
with relatives.
c. T. McClelland, superintendent OF
the eastern division has returned to
Emporia after a short business trip
here.
A. a. Graham has returned from 4
short visit with relatives in Ottawa
Engineer c. A BeeIer of Argentine
will spend a few days here this week
attending the Scottish Rite reunion
He will be accompanied by Mrs. Beele1
! ana son Ralph
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w A m T S
AND MISCELLANEOUS ADS

ADVERTISING RATES: The rate for
inserting Want Ads in The Topeka State
Journal is one cent word each insertion.
minimum 10 cents; by the week cents
word, minimum 30 cents.
COUNT THE WORDS of youl Ad In
GLIDING four words for State Journal ad-
dress when such address is used; count
each initial" letter and each number or
combination of figures one word.
OUT OF TOWN advertisements must be
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payment for the same. Note the forego-
ing instructions about counting the words
and the rates per word for The Topeka
State Journal.
classified properly must be in The State
Journal office before 12:20 O'Clock. Want
ads received after II 30 till 10 p. m viii
be inserted under the head: ITO Late to
Classify
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BY OWNER, G room house. modern except
furnace IL east front lots. 3-piece bath.
gas. electric lights. barn. fruit and shade
price if sold this week $2f2G. 1f1j Kansas
ave. Call or telephone 2sGI Black.
VACANT LOTS-Suitable for flats lots,
$50 fl. front by 80 IT. deep. on West St.
between 9th and 18th SITS. Price $500
Make terms. No trade.
THOS. G. SHILLINGLAW, 81 Kan. Ave.
FOR SALE-Five-ro cottage with ~
or lots water. sewer. gas and cleo
trio light in house Inquire of owner,
phone 1856 Red 1881 College ave.
FOR SALE.
Modern cottage home. College ave VIM.
Macferran. State Savings Bank.
FOR SALE-New, modern house. rooms.
east front, old shade, near Willow Park.
Might consider building site. Owner. care
Journal
FOR SALE lots. Lane St. south Of
Hampton. Clarence d. Vawter. Waka-
rusa.
FOR SALE or RENT-12 room fiat fur
nished. one block from transfer station.
Phone 1863
NEW. modern room house, enclosed
sleeping porch. Call 219G Blue.
FOR SALE-Two choice building lots on
Boswell ave. Elmhurst. Gail 31SO.
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At the THEATERS
Al the novelty.

The Original Act Beautiful, a nov
eltv posing act will be the feature on
the program at the Novelty today, to-
morrow and Wednesday, A white
Arabian horse, four white English set
ters. q man and woman compose the
act They offer a series of living
statues of famous hunting scenes.
Tom Davies and company will appear
in a one-act farce, "Checkmated.
Irving r Walton and Alice Vivian
have some new dialogue and catchy
songs that are said to be really funny.
Helene Hamilton and Jack Barnes in
Just Fun introduce songs and pat
ter of the vintage of 1916. Frank
Daniels will be seen in What Hap
pened to Father" by Mary Roberts
Rinehart. The ininitable comic
opera star is said to be a volcanic
eruption of fun in this new Nitag graph
comedy.
At the Hip.
Clouds and Sunshine" the piece
that the Mack-Moody Stock company
are putting on the first of this week
at the Hip, is one of the late type
comedy dramas and it tells very in
teresting story of everyday life, the
characters are drawn close to nature
and it is one of those plays that
seems to please all classes. The plot
is an original one, it contains plenty
of good comedy and the situations are
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

WE PAY highest cash price for 2nd hand
clothing, shoes, hats and overcoats-
Drop a card call 1645. T. Scrinopski d
Son, 40S Kansas ave.
GENTLEMAN and two daughters. age Z
and IL years, want room and board. u
V. care The Topeka State Journal.
GOOD milk cows. fat cattle and veal calves.
w. c. A. Leitzow. Tel. 257
CARPET and rug weaving. 1880 Garfield.
Phone 1858 Blue.
WEAVING carpets, rugs, pillows; rugs for
sale. 221 Lake. 229S White.
WANTED-Your overaIls at the Overall
Laundry. Phone 4S1.
WANTED-Carpet and rug weaving. H.
Z 4th. Mrs. A. Black.
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WANTED-FEMALE HELP.


WANTED-11 dining room and lunch coun-
ter girls for railroad eating houses and
other hotels and restaurants: women
cooks chambermaid SIS week, board and
room: experienced house girls. Furman
Employment Office. 81 Kansas ave.
WOMEN WANTED as government clerks.
so month. Topeka examinations coming.
Sample questions free. Franklin Institute
Dept. 625 n, Rochester. n. Y.
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BUSINESS CHANCES.


DON'T write to us unless you can give
good business or bank references. We
want one or two responsible represen ia
tives in each community outside of To-
peka who want to make extra money dur
ing spare time. You do not have to can
Vass, you do not have to invest Il cent nor
risk a penny in any way. Our represen Ia
tives all over the world are making good
money and all boosters. Some make as
high as $50 week extra money. Write
today for further particulars before this
place is taken. Address S +. W. Company,
S21 Kansas ave. Topeka, Kansas, mention
this paper Give three references when
writing
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question in a spirit of neighborliness
or agreed to name an arbitration COM
mission composed of citizens of each
government or of another friendly ma
ton
"Reiterating distinguished consider
alton
(Signed) Jesus Acuna- Minister of
the Interior"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-20

State of Kansas
Executive Department.
Governors Offices
EDUCATIONAL DAY PROCLAMATION.
The second Friday in April having been
for holding the annual school meetings in
all rural districts and in cities of the third
class:
And since whatever may have been done
to improve these schools for the coming
year should be determined upon and au-
meetings. to be held on April IA
And inasmuch as the complete organiza-
ton of the school system of this commons
sional thought and in harmony with the
democratic principles underlying state ed
and be determined by the development Of
the rural and town schools in which near
ly three -fourths of the children of Kansas
are at this time enrolled:
Therefore: !: Arthur Capper. Governor Of
the state Of Kansas do hereby designate
in i Kansas. and would urge eo ali Citizens
OF this state, and especially those who are
residents OF the school districts holding
the coming school year may be made 90
of the state
would especially request the state
press TO cooperate with the school Off
Gals in order that the widest publicity
may be given the occasion. And l would
also urge the churches of Kansas. of ali
denominations, the higher educational in
situations, the patriotic organizations the
fraternities Of labor and the associations
Of capital, the parent teachers organiza-
ton, together with all others who desire
the enrichment OF community life through
and by the schools, to unite in observing
Educational Day.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have here
unto subscribed my name
and caused to be affixed the
Great Seal of the State of
Seall Kansas. Done at Topeka
this 18th day of March, A. u.
1916.
ARTHUR CAPPER, Governor.
BY the Governor:
J. T. BOTKIN, Secretary of State
BY e. A CORNELL, Asst. Seey. of State.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
held Monday, April 3, 1916. mt I 30 D. m. nt
the office of S. A. Beam,f 100 Vest sth st.
E. NJ KIMBALI.. President
J. NJ. WALLACE, Secretary.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

c. K Elliott and wife to L. F. Gar
linghouse. lots 1918 Wilmington
Court Pinehurst .-..........-S
E. NJ Stahl to T. NJ Stahl, NV Il 81
1914 ..-...-.....----.- ]
A. Woody to o. Miller, lots $50 n. u
50 Taylor Observation-Disclosures. 2,OOC
]. Brasher to S. f. Alexander, n int.
in lot 160 Taylor St .....-.....-..
s. Z. Alexander to j. S. Brasher, 15
int. in lot 162 Taylor St. ...........
c. D. Dolman and wife TO c. ii. Gun
nerson, tract $50 Taylor St. Higgin-
botham, add n. Topeka ........---
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LOST AND FOUND.


LOST-Pink and white large cameo set
with pearls and onyx. Think it was
lost on 18th and Van Buren,. Call 4412
Black. Reward.
LOST-wednesday evening diamond ring
at Potwin church. Phone 1491. Reward.
1858 Harrison.
LOST-Black music bag containing har-
mony copying book. Reward. Phone
1855 Black.
SILVER FRIENDSHIP link bracelet. Call
800 T.
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FOR RENT-FARMS.


FARM FOR RENT.
Seven room house. large barn, about 10
acres in orchard, about 30 acres cultiva-
ton. balance meadow and pasture. Price
s4OO. 5000 cash, bankable note for $500
without interest. due January 1, 1917.
Farm 10 miles from Topeka.
w NJ. FORBES & CO. 107 West Seventh.
st. Phone 4490 White.
FOR RENT-160 acres. 10 miles from To-
peka. 30 acres cultivated. 5 acres of
alfalfa 10 acres of hay land. balance
pasture L. S. Levitt & Son. So Kansas
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SITUATION wANTED-FFMALE

- -1->--->------~-~-~>~-~-
REFINED southern lady desires place as
housekeeper on western farm or ranch
None but best people need reply Mrs. L.
f. D., race The Topeka State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-20
LEGAL.
State of Kansas.

Published in The Topeka State oJurna1,
March 20, 1861
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FOR RENT-SUBURBAN.

FOR RENT-SCBURBAN
FOR RFNT-Two ten acre tracts Of Hor-
ton land. the best in Soldier Creek bot
tom: no overflow: near Lyman school
house. Come quick to get it. =. II. Coney,
guardian and administrator, 316 Kansas
ave. city Phone 575-
OR 10 acres. room house, barn. Phone
4144 Black.
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FOR ItXCHANGE
WANTED to trade for vacant lots 1913 40
H p. Oakland automobile, driven less
than s 1000 miles. IN fine condition Address
Lots, care Journal.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

YARDS dressed with rotted stable refuse
also tree trimming and general yard
work; cement work. Phone 1877. Brooks
CISTERNS cleaned and repaired. Phone
3067 Black. o. E. Headlee.
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FIREPRooF SAFES.
VICTOR

for. house farm. lodge, $50. ss5, $40, for
office, store. mill, etc. $50. 500 $50 500.
Lock Boz S. ToDeka. Kansas.
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SUBURBAN
$4,000

rooms, bath, cemented cellar, on pave
ment and car line, city water. gas in splen-
did condition Price $1,000, 800 cash, bal
ance terms
SHAWNEE INVEST MENT CO,
534 Kansas Ave. Phone 1850.
The Benson signal., 1916-10-28
SPORT.

Mabel Trask won the Georgia Rail
way and Power cup for 2:O8 trotters
at the Grand Circuit meeting at At
lanta.
The University of Wyoming won
their first conference game of the
year at Logan, Utah, defeating the
Utah Aggies, % to 10.
Roam Hal, the 2:O3A PAGER, took in
straight heats the $1,000 2:00-class
pacing race, the feature at Atlanta,
Ca, at the close of the Grand Circuit
meeting, from Hal Boy.
The individual pistol match, the
concluding event on the National AS
sOciatiOn's program, was won at Jack
sonville, Fla, by George E. Cook of
Washington, D. c., who scored 3S5 out
of possible 420 points.
A sensational forty-five-yard forward
pass from Mahony to Preston gave
Denver University a touchdown
against Colorado at Boulder in the last
thirty-five seconds of play. Milton
kicked goal making the total score
Z to for the Ministers. Five thousand
people witnessed the game.
Howard Berry, the pentathlon cham
pion, just back from the Mexican bor-
der where he spent three months in
the National Guard, played sensation
al football on Franklin field at Phila-
delphia and carried the University of
Pennsylvania to a 15-to-0 victory over
the strong eleven from Pennsylvania
State College.
The Benson signal., 1916-10-28
WASHINGTON.

Army aviation officers are prepar-
ing to carry their campaign for the
development of the air service into the
field of balloons and other lighter
than-air craft
It was announced that Senator War
ren of Wyoming has been placed on the
special roll of honor that entities him
to a special pension "for heroism per-
formed in actual conflict with the en-
envy beyond the call of duty" The
pension is $40 a month.
Enthusiastic cooperation in the de-
velopment by the department of labor,
of a national employment system for
the benefit of women and girls, has
been promised by twenty-one women's
organizations, having a membership of
100000, it was announced by An
thony Caminetti, commissioner of i'm
migration.
Panama canal authorities have just
completed and opened to public use a
vast dry-dock at Balboa, on the Pacific
end of the waterway, which is expect
ed to be of the greatest value as a
naval asset
The Benson signal., 1916-10-28
FOREIGN.

Switzerland is taking a census OF
motor vehicles suitable for use by the
army.
General Won Ludendorf has joined
his chief, Field Marshal Won Hinden-
burg, in opposing a more ruthless
prosecution of submarine warfare.
A square mile of territory adjoining
the French concession at Tien Tsin
has been forcibly seized by the French
consul with the assistance of troops.
Count Carl Stuergkh, Austrian pre-
mier, was shot and killed Saturday
while at dinner in Berlin by the edi-
tor of Vienna newspaper, Ludwig
Adler.
A court-martial at Marseilles unani.
mously condemned to death for spying
Nine. Gomeno Sanches, who before
her marriage was Maria Liberdall OF
Dusseldorf
Governmental candidates were over
whelmingly victorious at elections
held throughout the Mexican republic
for deputies to the ratification con
gress called by Carranza in Quereta
70 for December.
American troops and Mexicans
clashed near San Jose in the Big Bend
country, according to report received
by General Funston Friday from Col
Joseph CASTOR, commander of the dis.
trict. The fight lasted forty-five min
utes. No losses were suffered by the
Americans.
A Central News dispatch from Am
sterdam says: Emperor William, in
speech to the troops on the western
front after commemorating the dead
said: But we who are living will
fight further until nobody will ever
dare again to assail the honor and lib
erty of the German people," The EN-
peror, adds the dispatch, said he hoped
God would be with the Germans in
the fighting.
The Benson signal., 1916-10-28
GENERAL.

Federal mediators have interviewed
in an effort to settle the strike of mo-
tormen and conductors who were en-
ployed on New York's transit lines.
st. Paul and Minneapolis were
chosen for the 1917 convention of the
American Fisheries society at the ses-
sion of the convention at New Or
leans.
Superintendent L. M. Jones OF the
mine rescue car from Pittsburg was
asphyxiated while trying to reach the
entombed men at Jamison No. mine
at Barrackville, w. Va.
After an all-night search through
the woods of the estate of John D.
Rockefeller, during which one of the
six convicts who escaped from Sing
Sing was shot and wounded, all the
prisoners were rounded up and cap
tured.
During the Presidents ride about
Pittsburg man carrying black sat-
chel made determined efforts to jump
on the running board of the Presi-
dents car. He was finally overpow
cred and hustled off to a police sta
ton.
Coupled with information that New
Mexico had intervened in the Colorado
Fair Rates Association suit came the
announcement that the case will be
set for final hearing almost any time
and that a speedy decision will prob
ably be forthcoming. The state cor
poration counsel of New Mexico, cor
ties commission of Colorado, filed for
NAL intention with the interstate COM
merce commission of intervening in
the Colorado action, which has for it's
purpose the readjustment of all
freight rates in the intermountain re-
gion.
Dallas police arrested a man who
gave the name of James Walton and
his address as st. Louis Mo-, who the
police said confessed to the $4,000
robbery of paycar of an Adding Ma
chine company in Detroit several
weeks ago.
Another $5,O00,OOO consignment of
British gold via Canada was deposited
at the assay office in New York, max
ing $1O,000,O0O in week.
The highest price ever recorded for
a membership on the New York Cof-
fee and Sugar Exchange was paid
when a seat was sold for $4,000.
The Benson signal., 1916-10-28
WESTERN

Strikers at Bayonne, N. J., have re-
turned to work.
Former President Roosevelt spoke
at Phoenix, Ariz., on Saturday.
Reports at Mobile, Ala, from hurri-
cane-swept districts of southern Ala
bama increased the death toll to four
and the property damage to 100000.
Walter Switzer, conductor, was
shot and killed by a bandit who at
tempted to hold up an interurban car
on the Southwest Missouri railroad be-
tween Webb City and Carthage.
Leo G. Pratt, an 1S-year-old clerk in
the Canadian Bank of Commerce at
Seattle, Wash, was shot and killed in
the bank by Mrs. Edwin G. Hobel,
aged 80, who then shot and killed her.
self.
Gov. Frank M. Byrne of South Da-
kota was elected president of the In
ternational7 Dry Farming Congress
at Ell Paso, Tex. Frank M Forbes of
Arizona was elected first vice presi-
dent.
A federal government tax running
into millions of dollars will be levied
upon the estate Of Henry Miller, cat
tie king, who died leaving an estate
variously estimated at from $20,000,-
900 to $4O,000,000, it became known at
San Francisco.
AS punishment for his wife's faith
lessness, F. P. Cahill, wealthy automo-
bile dealer of Wichita, Kan, proposes
to force his bride Of month to marry
the man he charges she plotted with
to mulct him out of his money and
then dispose of him.