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The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-12-08
Appling-Hamlett

Mason, Tenn, Nov. 27.-W. L. APP
pling Jr. of Glendale, Tennessee, and
Miss Effie May Hamlet of Mason,
Tennessee, were quietly married Sum
day afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. G. B.
Baskerville officiating in the presence
Of friends and relatives at the Metho-
dist church near Mason. They left i'm
mediately for their future home near
where they will receive their
friends after December i.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
Will HELP FARMER
w. s. A. Smith Outlines Future
of Loan Bank.
Herbert Quick Predicts a New
Rural Future.

Farmers in this country nave
mostly been not farmers but land
Spectators" declared Captain W. >
A. Smith of the federal farm loan
board. in a talk before the COM
mercial club today at noon.
Agricultural colleges are doing
good work." says Captain Smith. but
the trouble is when the farmer says
Il realize that what you say Is
true, but where am I going to get the
money to do what you advise
Captain Smith believes the fam
loan bank is going to solve the prop
lem 1t will allow the farmer to take
full advantage of the opportunities
at hand, he thinks.
looking ahead and looking behind.
he reminded his hearers. Simply be-
cause a man has made a good thins
off forty acres of wheat this year Is no
reason why he should put in eignts
acres next year"
He foresaw a time when American
wheat would be put up against diff
ficdlt competition at the end OF the
war. Russian wheat by the millions
of bushels will be ready for shipment
to the allies who are eager to get it
Herbert Quick, introduced by 5. b
Cobb, presiding, as the official prom
iser," gave his audience to understand
| that after one has promised twelve
federal loan banks, 1t is but little ell
fort to promise more. He said that
he liked to think of the federal farm
loan bank not as something revolu-
tionary but as constructive force,
making for an improved farm life. Its
benefits. he AYERS. should not be
thought of as immediate but rather
as of the future. accruing thru the
years. He pictured the workings of
the bank as not dependent upon finan-
cial prosperity. but upon a country
life that can be looked up to. not
down.
What is it that sends people flock
| ing to the city from the farm he
asked. 1T is because the farmer be-
lieves the farm does not give him or
his children a chance"
| He predicted a new attractive condi-
ton of farming, in which the people
| should go back from the city 10 the
| farm.
| I'm tickled to death to be back
home and with friends" was the way
in which Judge c. E. Lobdell greeted
his audience.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
CALL OF The WIFE
Divorce Petition Does Not
Stand in Way of Husband.
William Rhods Ready to Aid
Woman Now in Jail.
SHE ACCUSED HIM OF CRUELTY
And She's in Jail Awaiting Con-
ditiOn of Dying Woman.
New Turn to Assault Case Com
ing From ROssville.
SHE ACCUSED HIM OF CRUELTY

Deserted by his wife, charged by
her with extreme cruelty and all the
other technical charges lawyers think
up when a woman applies for a di-
Vorce, William Rods forgot everything
and came to Topeka today to give
bond that wouldrelease Lucky Rhods
from the county Jail
She is charged with simple assault
and battery. But the real charge de-
pands upon the condition of Mrs. Will
liam Miller, of Rossville, who is all
legged TO have been assaulted by Mrs.
Rhods. When Mr.. Miller swore to the
complaint his wife was not believed
to be in a serious condition. Since
then she has grown worse and two
physicians have been at her bedside.
1t is said Shit has a bad fracture at the
base of the brain mad that she may
not recover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rhods lived on farm
near Rossville.
Review of Old Trouble.
The complaint filed by Mr.. Miller
grew out of trouble in the Miller yard
last week. He alleged that Mrs Miller
was out cutting flowers around her
| back steps when Mrs. Rhods slipped
up behind her with a hammer and
struck her over one eye, then caught
her by the hair and bumped her head
up and down on the steps. Mrs.
Rhods was arrested on. the assault
and battery charge and placed in the
county Jail The son came to Topeka
with her and was taken to the Provi-
dent association.
The bond fixed for Mrs Rhods is
$500. She has a divorce case against
Rhods pending in the district court.
He filed nanswer in which he stated
that she is subject to fits of temper
hQHOnPS in
lions.
Mr.. Rhods overlooked the pending
divorce suit, he overlooked the charges
made against him by his wife. To-
day he offered to go on his wife's bond
if county officials would accept him.
He was given blank bond to take
back to Rossville with him.
The hearing of the Rhods assault
case is set for tomorrow in the court
| of Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
FIRED OWN HOME?
Charge To Be Placed Against
ID. w. StrattOn by AtchisOn.
Three Separate Blazes Found in
His Residence.

D. v. Stratton. now in the county
Jail for investigation. will be arrested
on warrant charging him with set
ting fire to his own residence, 255
Stephens street, Sunday evening. ac-
cording to w. +. Atchison.
The evidence turned over to me is
so strong L don't see how 1 could avoid
asking for a warrant" said Mr.. Atch-
ison today.
The fire at the Stratton home was
discovered just before six o'clock last
night. The alarm was turned in by
nelShbors. The firemen found one
blaze in the basement, one in d dresser
drawer and another in the same room
Stratton denied having had anything
to dow 18th the fires. He declared he
was upstairs asleep when the smoke
coming in thru the window alarmed
him. John and Charles Miller, neigh
borS who arrived on the scene early.
declared they found Str;-tton piling
hay under the back porch and decided
it was useless to try to put out the
fire.
While making an investigation af-
ter the fire had been extinguished,
Charles HiXon, deputy sheriff, found
a trunk in bunch of plum bushes
near the house. He stated today that
the trunk was buried in the ground
and covered with an oilcloth and
sticks. Stratton told HiXon at the iaiI
that he dragged the trunk out Of the
house to save it's contents after the
fire started. He denied having buried
1t. In the trunk was clothing, family
photographs and other keepsakes
There was 81 900 insurance on the
building and $500 upon its contents.
L. T. Hussey, state fire marshal, was
called Immediately after the fire was
discovered and he ordered the arrest
OF Stratton at once. About $500 dam
age was done to the house
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
VOTING MACHINE
PROSPECTS HERE
START up FLUE'
Purchase Cost and Maintenance
Stumbling Block.
Would Require IS Machines
Here, Says Porter.
PURCHASE PRICE S71,25O
Report of Supervisors Board Is
Held Up Today.
Assoc Building for Storage Is
Being Considered.
Would Require as Machines
Here, Says Porter.
PURCHASE PRICE S71,25O
Report of Supervisors Board Is
Held Up Today.

Prospects for immediate purchase
oftvoting machines for use in mu-
nieEpaI elections here didn't officially
"go up the flue" today but they took
a good start. That was when w. l..
Porter, commissioner of parks and
public improvements, raised the ques-
ton of where the city is going to get
the money to buy them.
The proposition of the city buying
the machines was referred some time
ago to a board of supervisors COM
prised of Commissioners WATSON. Por-
ter and Newland with instructions
that the board would report to the
commission this morning. Because
the investigation is still incomplete
in so far as the matters of insurance
and storage on the machines have not
been threshed out to the satisfaction
of the board. no report was made and
the board asked to be given until the
meeting Thursday. The request was
granted.
Figures gathered by Commissioner
Porter show that ninety-five ma chimes
would be necessary to take care of all
Topeka precincts. Several of the pre-
ciucts require four machines.
Many require as many as three and
more require two. Porter figures that
one machine will handle 25O votes in
chimes laid down at the factory would
be $71.250. Porter figures it would
cost $500 in freight to get them hero.
Further investigation of the cost of
storage and insurance of the machines
are the two details of the investigation
which is delaying the board of super
visors' report. Storage must be fire
proof. Not long ago it was talked of
storing the machines in school houses.
Members of the board don't think
much of the idea.
Would Need Building.
Commissioner Porter says a build
ing providing storage for the ninety
five machines will cost about $500.
The building would be about 3Ox45
feet and would provide for five tiers
OF the machines. Insurance will be
one of the costly items in connection
with the maintenance of the machines
Porter believes.
For the purchase of the machines
the law provides that the money may
be taken from the general revenue
fund. In an opinion to George Hay
den, city attorney, s. NJ. Brewster, at
torney general, says the purchase may
be made by the issuance of 15-year
warrants bearing not more than per
cent interest. Brewster also saws
that the certificates would undoubt-
edly have to be paid out of the general
revenue fund.
The general revenue fund it is
pointed out, must be kept within a
4-mill levy. Every year when the
preliminary budget is made up it has
to. be cut in order to do that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
DOOMED TO SOCIETY
Young Mistah Bean Took Dress Suit
to Go With Jewels, Is Charge.

Vernon Bean, the young negro who
found a loose board in the fence
around the city il and used it as q
means of making his escape. is in for
more trouble if local officers capture
him. A warrant was secured from the
court of Topeka today charging him
with stealing a full-dress suit and
other articles of clothing valued at
S65 from William Vaughn.
A little thing like that will not
bother Bean The major charge
against him is that of robbing the A.
A. Hurd residence of 81 1000 worth of
jewelry. He was being held in the
city Jail on this charge when he made
his eScapP
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

tCon;lnned from rage One-i
a large part of their supply from dis
tricts where the quality is first class.
In connection with the milling wheat,
there is always an occasional car of
better wheat than the average, and it
is this better wheat that is saved and
recleaned for seed purposes. The
miller has not been compelled to pay
seed prices and therefore is in po-
siti On to make the exchange on very
reasonable basis. ...s,sias
Exchange mt Mill. +,
Farmers desiring better seed are
not only invited, but urged to bring
in a load of their wheat to the mill
and exchange it bushel for bushel on
a basis of value. In other words, if
farmer brings in a load of good
wheat about the only difference in
cost of exchange is that for cleaning
the seed wheat. This difference of
cost may run from 5 to 10 cents per
bushel, depending on grade of wheat
brought in by the farmer.
Thousands of bushels should be ex-
changed under this plan. Those de-
string seed should let their local miller
know at once the amount wanted.
THE bulk of the wheat now manu-
featured into flour by miliers of CEN
tral and southern Kansas is shipped in
count of the poor grade CT wheat
grown in local territory. Wheat that
is too poor to grind into flour is too
poor to sow.
""st Wheat for Kansas.
THE best wheat tor Kansas is the
hard winter variety to which class
Turkey Red belongs. Turkey Red
wheat is the best yielding and best
milling wheat now known in the state.
unfortunately all hard wheats de-
teriorate or run out unless conditions
are always favora BILE. Good seed is
therefore, sometimes hard to keep. The
unfavora BILE conditions of years past
in some sections. have caused the pro-
duction of an inferior grade Of wheat
Much of it tests low, is off color low
in vitality, and far below standard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses have been issued
from the office of the probate judge
to the following persons:
Fred Hess. Topeka, age %, and Ger
trude Fay MulvihIll, Topeka. age 10.
Clarence R. Dennis, Topeka, age 19,
and Martha Teel, Topeka, age II.
]. A. Lukens. Topeka, age SO, and
Minnie kroft, Topeka. age So.
G. w. McComas, Topeka, age 81,
and Sarah A. Smith, Chanute. age 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
FIRING SQUAD FOR 81
De Factos Line Up and Execute Can
tive ViIlistas After Battle.

FL Paso, Tex. Sept. 1S.-F;ightv-
seven Nillistas captured by Carran-
zistas after the bandit attack on Chi
huahua City Saturday were lined up
before firing squads Sunday morning
and executed Among the prisoners
was Col. Mariana Tames, who mutined
from Juarez with 100 men and Joined
the VilIista@
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

held at st. Joseph. From there the
board will go to Omaha
Sinre leaving Maine, the board has
held hearings in fully half a hundred
cities and according to stories told by
members Sunday they have heard ora
tory covering every point In American
history. Some cities use oratory,
other facts
The board was entertained at
luncheon at the Commercial club at
noon,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
NOT U-BOAT Bremen
Hopes Go Awry When Learned SUBJ
marine Is of L. S. Navy.

New London, Sept 1S.-The SUBJ
marine reported approaching New
London late last night, which was be-
lieveG to be the German undersea
merchantmen Bremen, was an Ameri-
can craft of the L type returning from
maneuvers. it developed today with
the return to port of the ocean going
tug Tascott. Jr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
BOUNTY ON WOLVES COSTS
COUNTY $4,000 A YEAR

Duluth. Sept. 1s.-St- Louis
county auditor, Odin Halden. has
completed certification to the state
of wolf bounties. About 1000
wolves were killed in st. Louis
county during the last fifteen
months and approximately $4,000
was paid out for bounties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

New York. Sept ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
paper. 3 per cent Sterling 60 day bills
Francs. demand. 5.S51s cables. 5S5. Marks
demand: 1ols: cables. I0i4. KroneI de-
mand. IL 1-16: cables L. SIG. Guilders.
demand. i0% cables. 401k Lires demand.
6.45: cables, S6.44. Rubles, demand 32h
cables 32ss- Bar silver. 6Sa.e: Mexican
dollars SIC Geyirnment bonds. steHdv
railroad bonds. firm Time loans. firm
GO days. 3lsa3A; 90 days, 31s@3z; &
months. az al
Call money steady: high. 3 low. 2H
ruling rate. 3: last loan. 2A closing bid
2b: offered at ga
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
LOCAL MENTION

John Coyne. veteran sanitary in
spector for the city. is confined to his
home today after an accident Sunday
night in which he sustained two brok-
en- ribs. Coyne is II years old and is
well known here. He got out of bed
Sunday night and becoming bewilder-
ed in the dark fell against the corner
of a dresser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
JAY WALKERS ARRESTED
VioIators of Topeka Traffic Ordinance
Caught BY Police.

-Four arrests were made Saturday
night and Sunday for violations of the
new traffic ordinance
r. l.. Foote was arrested for '.jay
driving" Oliver Ellis was arrested for
LAY walking" H. L. Oldfield and H
Bennett were arrested for cutting
coruers'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
Tie UP. Cop; ESCAPE
Holdup Men Handle Tulsa Policeman
With Ncatness and Dispatch.

Tulsa, Sept. 1S.-Two unknown
men, one of them masked, held up i
restaurant in West Tulsa early today,
robbed the cash drawed. tied w. A.
Lowman, a city policeman, to a near
by tree and made their escape without
causing an alarm The men have not
been apprehended.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

The hubs of this machine are twelve fed
eral land banks to be established in twelve
districts not yet selected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
FARM LOAN FACTS.

The federaI farm loan act recently
passed by congress and signed by Presi.
dent Wilson is a simple piece of financial
machinery by which the government as
sembles capital and lends it to farmers
from five to forty years at low rates of
interest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

DUANE j. HOWE died Saturday
evening at his nome, 404 Madison
street. The funeral was held this aft
ernoon in the Auburn Presbyterian
church. Interment in Prairie Center
Cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

The annual meeting of the Kansas
Society of Mechano-Therapy will be
held September 81 at 800 a. m. in the
Knights of Pythias hall, Sixth and
uincy streets. DR.. H. S. Curtis will
deliver lecture on Diet and Sugges-
tice Therapeutics There will be a
free clinic at p. m
A motor wreck resulted from a
head-on collision Sunday when w.
NJ. Gillans car crashed into the car of
z. NJ Aldrich, who has just come to
Topeka from Burr Oak to make his
home. Mr.. and Mrs Aldrich and Mr..
and Mrs. F. NJ. Drake We're returning
from a motor trip to Kansas City
when they were struck by the Gillian
car. The accident occurred a few
miles from Lawrence. Both cars were
for few bruises and scratches. Mr..
A1drich had Just received his car. a
Viele, from Kansas City a few days
before. and was using it on its first
long trip.
The Ideal Bakery baseball team
Topeka's amateur championship or
ganization. defeated tie ST. Marys U.
p. league leaders Sunday by the score
of to 0. Brown, the Ideal pitcher.
held the ST. Marys team to hits.
Edward Raymond. the new general
superintendent of the eastern district
of the Santa Fe eastern lines, is in
Topeka today and at his desk in the
Santa Fe general office building Fred
c. Fox, the new general manager, has
not arrived
For :he first time in several days
w. H. WATSON. finance commissioner,
was at his desk in the city hall today.
Mr.. WATSON has been confined to his
home with serious attack of hay
fever
Mrs. Fannie Seymour under whose
direction the cuisine of the Country
club has become famous over the
state. has resigned her position as
caterer at the Country club. Her
resignation was proffered a year ago.
but at the request of the directors of
the club. she consented to stay another
year. She has opened a cafe at 113
West Fifth street, and will remodel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

New York stock Market.
tCIosiug prices for the leading stocks on
The New York Stock Exchange as re-
ban Bldg.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

MRS, RACHEL DONALD, s. years
old. died Saturday in her home, 1892
Washington avenue. Funeral was
held this afternoon at o'clock from
James Tatly's chapel Interment in
Mount Auburn cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

Those banks will be capitalized at $780,
900 each and If the public does not buy
the, stock. the government will do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

New York Cotton Market.
New York. Sept. 1S=COTTON-Spot,
steady; middling uplands, 1856. No sales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

To utilize the s. stem, it is necessary for
the borrowers to orgnize themselves into
local farm loan associations. consisting of
ten or more farmers in each association
Those associations then petition the fed
eral land bank of their district and indi-
cate the amount of the loans desired The
federal land bank then nds appraisers
to value the land. If the loans desired do
not exceed 80 per cent Of the value of the
land the. federal land bank advances the
money thru the local Farm Loan asoscia-
ton. and the local associat on forwards to
the federal land bank the first mortgages
on the lands i'll question security.
TIE rate of interest to be charged is not
yet determined. but it cannot, under the
law. be more than q per cent. and it may
be less.
years at the option of the borrowers and
both interest and principal may be paid
off in annual or seIni-annual installments
or at the option Of the borrower.
No one farmer may borrow more than
| $4,000 nor less than S100
The borrower must specify to what use
reouires that it be spent eitHer for the aw
chase of land for farm use: for the pur-
chase of equipment, fertilizer live stock
necessary to operate the farm: to provide
buildings or improvements for the mort
gagged land. or to pay off debt already
on the land
Only those may borrow who are actually
going to live on the land and farm it. The
law is drawn to give the benefits to the
working farmer and not to the land specu-
| lator.
After any one of the twelve federal land
banks has loaned S50.000-it holds $4,000
worth Of first farm mortgages as security.
1t may then make an issue of $4,000 Of
bonGs Which sh6 hoo may be sold to provide
repeated until the amount loaned equals
twenty times the amount of the capital
/ power Of the twelve banks is therefore
( S1sO.OO0 600. in addition to the capital
stock.
] To make these bonds attractive to the
/ investor they are exempted from all forms
of taxation
This whole machinery is directed by a
| federal farm loan board of five men named
by the president. including the secretary
of the treasury. as chairman. Each of the
/ twelve deral land banks is governed by
! loan board Each farm loan association
of ten or more farmers. that borrows from
the federal land bank, has its own Officers
/ who answerable to the federal land
I bank of that district
So here is he machine compIete-the
/ federal farm loan board in Washington
the twelve federal land banks scattered
over the country and the hundreds of
Z local farm loan associa tons Of farmers
I that borrow from the federal land banks
: an orderly constructed piece of co-opera-
I tive finance TO lOWer interest rates TO the
farmer: to emancipate him from the short
loan and the commission: to enable those
/ to buy land who hunger for the great
outdoors: to give the borrower the beenfit
of installment payments of principal and
interest. and by means of the bonds offer
ed for sale. o provide safe and sure in
vestment for the accumulations of The
I thrifty
That's Uncle Sans new farm credit Law
which Secretary McAdoo hopes to have in
l actual operation by January L.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

EDWARD BOYLE, aged Sc years,
died Sunday morning in a local hos
pital. The funeral will be held at the
home of his father. Daniel Monroe,
$40 st. John street, tomorrow after
noon at o'clock. Interment in
Rochester cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

Miss Estella Laidner, modiste, oil
Buffalo, n. Y, is now located at 200
Clay street. Latest fall styles Phone
$3.50 Blue.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

Any farmer who owns land or who
wants to buy land may borrow from
these bahks up to 80 per cent of the value
of the permanent improvements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
BANK STATEMENTS.
I Published in The Topeka State Journal
September 49, 1916
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
of the
JERCuaNTS NSTIoNAI.

MERCHANTS NATIONAL BANK
at Topeka in the State of Kansas. at the
close of business September L., 1916:
RESOURCES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

NELS JOHNSON died Monday
morning in his residence, 1882 Clay
street, from peritonitis. He is sur
vived by his wife and four daughters:
Mrs. E. S. Walker Mrs P A Maggie,
Mrs. j. W. Kempton and Miss Dera
johnson. Funeral will be in the resi-
dence at 1880 o'clock, Wednesday
morning The body will be taken to
Lindsborg for burial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18

BUI4A HILL, the infant daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Burton Hill, S19
East Sixth avenue, died last Thursday
night. A private funeral was held
Friday morning and the burial was IN
Topeka cemetery.