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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-03
EAST SIDE NOTES
Items for this department may be
phoned to 1915 or State Journal office

Capitol temple No. 2, Pythian Sis
tiers, will have a special meeting Tues
day in the K. P. hall, corner Sixth and
Quincy streets.
Mrs Mary Mitchell will entertain
the members of the Lotus club at their
regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at
her hame in East Ninth street.
A special meeting of the Mizpah So
ciety of the Third Presbyterian church
will be held in the church parlors
Wednesday afternoon to plan the
work for thee coming var.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Smith enter
tanned at o'clock dinner Saturday
evening at their home in East Sixth
street: Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Glenn
of Lecompton. Mr. and Mrs F. G. Cor
bin, Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Covey, Mr. and
Mrs. F. GresSinger, Miss Mabel Cole
of Lecompton, Mr.. Harold Cronin, Mr..
Claude Glenn, Mr.. James Cornin and
Mr.. Starr Glenn.
Miss Lucille Vetter. Miss Levina Vet
ter and Mr.. Gerald Vetter have re-
turned from short visit with rela-
tives in Nortonville. Kan.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Heidi of High
land Park are the parents of a son.
Mrs. Heidi was before her marriage
Miss Ethel James.
Twenty-Five ladies attended the
quarterly birthday reception given by
the mem bers of the Ladies' Aid society
of the East Side NJ. Z. church WedneS-
day afternoon at Miles Stevens's home
in East Sixth street. The hostesses
for the afternoon were: Mrs. Stevens,
Mrs. John Hicks. Mrs. Sam Cunning
ham, Mrs. Clement Seeley Mrs. E.
Slusher, Mrs. Marie Thomas, Mrs. F.
L. Stevens. Mrs. S. H. Martin, Mrs
Matthew earle, Mrs. ]. B. Prince, Mrs.
Jennie Robertson, Mrs. Russell Harris.
Mrs. Ward Rhodes is reported ill
at her home in Lawrence street, suf-
fering with an attack of the grip.
Miss Hazel McGirk of Kansas City,
Kan, is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. J..
C. Gentry in Chandler street.
Mrs. E. D. Clifford will entertain the
members of the H. d. club Wednesday
afternoon at her home in Lake street.
Miss Mary Cunningham will return
Tuesday to her school work at Baldwin
after a holiday visit here with rela-
tives.
Mrs. Ernest Rhodes is reported i'll
at her home in Lime street, suffering
from the grip.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Magnuson of
East Eighth street are visiting rela-
tives in Clay Center, Kan.
Mrs. Philip Meinhardt of 900 Madi-
son street is suffering from bruises
/ and internal injuries received Sunday
from a fall from an automobile.
The first rehearsal for choruses at
the Bob Johnson revival meetings will
/ be held at the tabernacle tonight.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Lindamood and
daughter Naomi of North Topeka were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-03
DRINK HOT WATER
IF YOU DESIRE A
ROSY COMuPLEXI0N
Says we can't help but look
better and feel better
after an inside bath.

To look ones best and fell ones best
is to enjoy an inside bath each MORN
ing to flush from the system the pre-
vious days waste, sour lamentations
and poisonous toxins before il is alb
sorbed into the blooG. Just as coal,
when it burns. leaves behind a certain
amount of incombustible material in
the form of ashes. so the food and
drink taken each day leave in the all
mentary organs a certain amount of
indigestible material, which if not
eliminated, form toxins and poisons
which are then sucked into the blood
through the very ducts which are in-
tended to suck in only nourishment to
sustain the body.
If you want to see the glow of
healthy bloom in your checks. to see
your skin get clearer and clearer, YOU
are told to drink every morning upon
arising. a glass of hot water with q
teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in
it, which is a harmless means of wash
ing the waste material and toxins
from the stomach. liver. kidneys and
bowels, thus cleansing, sweetening and
purifying the entire alimentary tract,
before putting more food into the
stomach.
Men and women with sallow skins,
liver spots, pimples or pallid COM
plexion. also those who wake up with
coated tongue, bad taste nasty
breath. others who are bothered with
headaches. bilious spells, acid stomach
or constipation should begin this phos-
phated hot water drinking and are
assured of very pronounced results In
one or two weeks.
quarter pound o. limestone phos-
phate costs very little at the drug store
but Is sufficient to demonstrate that
just as soap and hot water cleanses.
purifies and freshens the skin on the
outside. so hot water and limestone
phophate act on the inside organs We
must always consider that internal
sanitation is vastly more innortant
than outside cleanliness. because the
skin pores do not absorb Impurities
into the blood. while the bowel pores
do.-Advertisement.
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RAILROAD
CONDUCTOR Is
MADE HAPPY
Now Feels Like New Man Aft
er Many Years of Troubles
Which We're a Daily
Burden.
DELIGHTED WITH CHANGE
Says He Enjoys Best of Health
Since Taking Two Bottles
of Master Tanlac.

Il wish l had started to take Tanlac
a long time ago, for l believe it would
have saved me a lot of suffering" said
Jack Hollis, Rock Island conductor.
who lives at Herington, Kan.
Il was passing Dockum's Drug
Store in Wichita" he added, land
saw the big display of Tanlac bottles
/ had heard about it, and l stopped to
look and think it over.
Il had been a sufferer for many
years from stomach and indigestion
troubles. and my appetite was getting
so poor 1 hardly ever had any desire
for food. Gas seemed to always form
in my stomach after eating. and the
lightest meal would cause me to feel
-bloated and very uncomfortable. I
SD dieted myself time and time again,
ut this did not give me much relief.
Now after taking two bottles of
Tanlac, / can truthfully say that my
condition has improved in every way.
My appetite is something fine. and l
want to eat all the time. I have not
suffered with my stomach since short
ly after l started taking Tanlac. and
1 never saw anything that gave such
quick relief"
The above statement may sound
rather broad to many. but it is only
-one OF the many that is being given
daily, by men and women who haze
tried out the premier preparation, and
fornd il most beneficial in cases o.
stomach, kidney, liver and catarrhal
ailments.
Tanlac is now on sale in Topeka al
the Tully- Mcfarland Drug store for
S1.0O a bottle, three for $2.75 or six
bottles for Observation-Disclosures.
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CITY WILL FIGHT
VIII Use Luten Patents if Attorney
General Will Help Fight Case.

Providing Topeka can get a favor
able opinion from the attorney gen
erals office, and after that, get as
Surances that the attorney general :
office gill defend it in any action that
may come out of it, Topeka is going
to proceed with the building of two
concrete bridges of the Luten design
without paying the Luton royalties.
There will be nothing doing without
these assurances on the part of the
attorney generals office.
All over the state, city and county
officials are baking on paying the
royalties required by Daniel Luten,
who holds patents on the designs o
all the most desirable concret
bridges. However, the baking so fal
has gone no farther than talk. Coun
ties and cities go right ahead paying
the royalties. either in the contrac'
price of the bridge or directly to Lu
ten. in addition to the contract price
The matter is scheduled to com
before the city commission at Mon
days meeting. 1t Will come VI
through the department of w. G
TandV
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SANTA FE NOTES
Items for this department may be
phoned to 1915 or State Journal office.l

Miss Hazel Leavitt, of the ticket
ing department, has returned from a
short business trip to Kansas City.
Miss Leavitt played in the orchestra
at the r. R. Y. NJ. c. A. in Argentine
Saturday.
Miss Faye Cooke returned to her
home in Kansas City, Sunday after a
weeks visit with Switchman J. O.
Feldner and family here.
Miss Hazel McGirk, daughter of Ma
chinist VIM. McGirk, of Argentine, is
visiting friends here a few days
c. L. Brit, of the store department,
and Mrs. Brit are spending few days
with friends in Manhattan, Kan.
w. w. Hutton, general chairman of
the Order of Railway Conductors, has
returned from a short business trip to
LaJunta, Colo.
Travelling Freight Auditor H. F.
Brcngle and Mrs. Brengle, of Hutchin-
son, Fireman p. G.. Baird and Mrs.
Baird spent the weekend the guests
of Engineer ard Mrs. Roy Hoover.
Mrs. E. B. Jolley will return today
from Matoon, Ill, where she attended
Jolley and Miss Florence LeCla Yorke
which was solemnized Sunday eve
ming.
The Bob Johnson revival meetings
will start next Wednesday evening and
continue for six weeks. Religious
meetings at the r. r. Y. NJ. c. A. and
the east side churches will be dis
continued during this time
Mrs. Covert, wife of Machinist Joe
Covert, is reported seriously i'll at he1
nome in Madison street.
Members of the general committee
of adjustment of the B. of l. e. and
the Joint Protective board of the b
of L. F. and E. arrived here yesterday
to attend the business sessions which
are being held this week.
! or xxrh 1
/ moved his family here from Argen-
tine, has been assigned regular work
on night switch engines in the Topeka
/ yards.
Mrs Mitchell, wife of D. F. Mitchell
nachinist, is reported seriously i'll a
! her home.
/ Thelma Wood, daughter of Mr.. and
/ Mrs George Wood, who was takes
seriously ill last week while visiting
relatives in Kansas City remain:
/ about the same. She is at the home o.
| her uncle and aunt, Engineer and Mrs
! Sherman Helms in Argentine.
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their home, 1915 North Jackson street,
returned Sunday afternoon to Law
renee, Van, where he is attending
Kansas university.
Bob Anderson, of st. Louis, Mo, has
been spending the holidays at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Anderson of North Madison
street.
Mrs. Carl Robinson of the Austin
Snediker Merchantile company is con-
fined to her home, 40 East Laurent
street, on account of illness.
The Progressive class of the Second
Presbyterian Sunday school will hold
a business meeting and social at the
home of Miss Bessie Campbell of 1915
North Jackson street, Friday night.
The Christian Endeavor society of
the Second Presbyterian church will
meet Friday night at the home of Mrs.
J. J. King of 1926 North Jackson
street. Chairmen of the various COM
mittees Will announce their associates
at the meeting.
Mrs. ]. II. Anderson and her poung
daughter. Airline, returned this morn
ing to their home in Baldwin, Kan,
after spending more than a week at
the home of Mrs. Anderson's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. P. G.. Marlatt of 1906
North Quincy street. Mr.. Anderson,
who was a guest at the Marlatt home,
left Saturday.
Mrs William Young of Kansas City,
Mo, who spent the holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Marlatt
returned to her home Sunday after
noon. Mr.. Young spent several days
at the Marlatt home last week.
The Women's Missionary society of
the Central Avenue Christian church
will meet at . o'clock Tuesday after
noon with Mrs. William Whitehead of
1414 North Quincy street.
Members of the ladies' union of the
Central Avenue Christian church will
in, ha oh NVadnpGdaU a ffar-
noon to elect officers.
Prof. George Henderson of Meriden
spent Saturday and Sunday in North
Topeka with relatives.
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YOU GOT ONE, TOO, Ell?
Topeka Merchants just Couldn't Wait
TO Send Out Bills.

The awful realization that Christ
mas had come and gone was brought
forcibly home tc thousands of To-
pekans last Saturday. Kansas avenue
merchants, who know no romance and
who have no poetry IN their souls
cared not that Saturday was a holiday.
the first of the new year, and a time
when people want to feel happy No
they did not care and the postIren of
the local mail distributing station
were kept busy all day delivering the
dreadful reminders that Mr. Jones.
Mr.. Smith-and all the rest of the
human category of credit buyers
owed money.
Of all the days in the year January
first IS She time when men, women
and children stretch their arms and
lock into the face of 354 new days to
come. Some look with optimism in
their eyes, others have the pessimis-
ties sour sQuint. and still others open
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-03
CHILDREN HATE
PILLS, CALOMEL
AND CASTOR OIL
Give Fruit Laxative when cross,
bilious, feverish or
cOnstipated.
california Syrup of Figs" can't
harm tender stomach,
liver, bowels.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil. calomeL. cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is we'll
founded. Their tender little "insides"
are injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing. give only dell
cious California Syrup Of Figs Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
IF mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy: they know children
love to take it that it never fails 20
clean the liver and bowels and sweeten
the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask your druggist for I 5O-cent bot
tie OF California Syrup of Figs"
which has full directions for babies.
children of all ages and for grown-ups
plainly on each bottle Beware Of
counterfeits sold here. See that it is
made by California Fig Syrup Com
pany." Refuse any other kind with
Observation-Disclosures
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AT The THEATERS
At the Grand Tonight.


Willard Mack, the author of kick
In," to be presented at the Grand to-
night. has crowded more realism into
the four acts of the play than any pro-
duction of former years. Mr.. Mack
has used a fearless pen in his writing.
water mark of fidelity to human
types The story concerns that of a
reformed criminal and his wife. whose
brave struggle to go straight against
the peculiar chain of circumstances
which follow them because of their
past, affords unlimited opportunity for
an intense plot, of which full advan-
of delightful comedy. which gives ii
fine balance and relief, while the live
interest between Chick" and "Mollie"
is most ennobling. The company pre-
senting kick In is the only company
now on tour.
Uncle Toms Cabin.
The escape of Eliza strikes our SYM
pathy as no ordinary meiodrama ever
can, and the fortunes of Uncle Tom
keep us alert and excited. The pro-
duction which VIM. H. Kibble will
bring to our city. at the Grand Tues
day matinee and night, January 4, will
be the same that has been so favorably
received in New York. Philadelphia,
Boston, Chicago, Pittsburg and large
cities.
Henpcckcd Henry.
Outlines showmen, in describing the
great laughing success of some play in
a certain city, will use the slang
phrase, knocked 'em off their seats
referring to the hilarity of the audi
enCe. To "Henpecked Henry" the ia
nous musical comedy which will be
seen here at the Grand Wednesday
matinee and night, January 5, belongs
the honor of really accomplishing
this feat.
Twin Beds.
Il write clean farce because I'm a
good business woman, and 1 like big
audiences and long runs, and 1 know
that 1 cannot have them if 1 write off
color plays" says Margaret Mayo. CO.
author with Salisbury Field of Twin
Beds" the laugh festival to which
New York gave the honor of a fifty
two weeks run on Broadway, and
which Selwyn and Company will pre-
sent at the Grand on Thursday, Janu-
airy G, with an exceptionally able COM
| pany of comedians.
White Slave Play.
Honest in its appeal and far reach.
/ ing in its moral is Little Lost Sister,
/ the illuminating white slave play
which comes to the Grand Saturday
matinee and night, January 8. Miss
Virginia Brooks, the Joan of Arc OF
! West Hammond, Ill. who made the
town fit to live in, is responsible fol
the book.
At the Hip.
Tonight the Oliver Players are GO
ing to give the Topeka theater goer.
their first glimpse of "Today"-thi.
is the play that created such furort
throughout the east and Chicago
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dinner guests Sunday at the John
Feldner home, 929 East Eighth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Donnelly are
both reported ill at their home in East
Sixth street.
A watch party and taffy pull was
given Friday evening at the home of
Miss Ada Owen, 421 Poplar street, in
honor of Miss Winona LaGraSely of
Emporia. Those present were: Miss
Fern Burbank, Miss Josephine
Schmidt, Miss Regina Schmidt, Miss
Hazel Neal. Miss Ruth Roger, Miss
Gladys Rymer, Miss Vivian Haun, Miss
Ada owen, Mr.. Sylvester Clark, Mr..
Charles Pomeroy, Mr.. Thomas Owen,
Master owen Roger, Master Thurman
Rymer, Master Ebert Rymer. Mr.. and
Mrs. W. D. Haun, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
L. Rymer. Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. Owen,
Mrs. S. F. Davis. Mrs. Wesley Wilson,
Mrs. Ray Roger. A very enjoyable
evening was spent in playing games
and pulling taffy.
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at a questionable place-sees his wife'5
photograph there-the lady tells him
that he can meet the original of the
photo as she had made a habit CT that
he meets his wife there and finally
kills her. Nothing like this scene has
ever been attempted on any stage be-
fore. 1t made To-day the most
talked of play that has been seen in
New York for years. To-day" will
run the first half of this week. Pop
ular price matinee Wednesday after
noon. The Rosary will be produced
the last half, starting Thursday night.
AT the Iris.
There have appeared on the stage
within the last few years several big
dramas in which a sensational trial
scene in the court room was one of
the big punches" But in these VGri-
Gus plays, the wit and the repartee of
the lawyers and persons on the stand
tivenesS of the scene. When Henry
Arthur Jones, the celebrated play
wright, wrote his big drama, Lydia
Gilmore" he devised one of the most
gripping scenes imaginable. the
power of which lay in the situation,
and not in the dialogue.
For that reason the Famous Play
ers Film company has chosen Lydia
Gilmore as a starring vehicle for
Pauline Frederick, who has been so
apIly called -FIeQeTlck the Dy
one of the screen reviewers. This Par
amount picture, which is the attrac-
ton at the Iris today and tonight,
lends itself admirably to screen adap-
tation.
At the Orpheum.
AS a lawyer fallen to a derelict and
then raised TO an idyllic life among
flower adorned and musical south sea
islanders. Willard Mack stars in the
new Triangle play, aloha De-" to-
day, tomorrow and Wednesday at the
Orpheum theater. With Mack is as
ISOLATED Enid Markey. who makes a
beautiful daughter of the chieftain of
the tribe.
At the Novelty.
Music of high order seems to have
the best of it on the Novelty bill for
the first half OF this week starting to-
day. Mabel and LIE Roy HART are
vocalists of the better class and have
repertoire of songs that please
everybody. The Santucci Trio are
three men who play the harp, violin
and accordion, using selections both
classical and popular Carson and
Willard have a novel skit called
Around the Bulletin Boards" which
is intended for comedy purposes only.
| King Saul does spectacular oil
painting act that is out of the ordi-
nary and his billing emphasizes the
fact that he is not a cartoonist. The
Orpington Trio offer sensational hand
balancing and the Paramount Trav-
elogue will finish the west coast Of
South America.
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in NORTH Topeka
The Rev. Joseph P. Hicks An
nOunces Committees.
The Union Pacific VIII Lay a
Walk to the Junction.

Members of the seventeen commit
tees that will look after the interests
of the Second Presbyterian church
during the year were announced this
morning by the Rev. Joseph p. Hicks,
pastor. They were appointed at the
last regular 1915 meeting of the board
of elders.
Members of the various committees
are:
Pulpit SUPPLY H. skinner. ]. D.
Pratt. p. NJ. Riach.
Benevolence-Tho Page and j.
b. Skinner.
Charity cases-Ralph Campbell.
Sick and Distress L. Probasco-
Ways and means-Fred o. Morns.
Employment-J. r. johnson, c. Z.
Suit and T. J. Woolman.
Business men-Fred o. Morns,
Ralps Campbell and T. d. Joseph
Boys'-T. ]. Woolman, Fred O.
Morns ]. ID. Pratt, J. L. Probasco,
Dram Layton.
Mrs. John d. Pratt and Mrs. Ralph
Campbell.
Pages Members of F. O. Morns's
Sunday school class.
- Flowers - Miss Jessie Riach, Miss
Wilma Bergundthal and ]. H. Skin
ner.
Audttors-C +. Suit. John r. John
son and Ralph Campbell.
Temperance-J. w. Priddy and Mrs.
r. F. Conwell.
Lodges-P. w. Riach, Robert Rob
son and Mrs c. e. Suit.
j. Young Peoples Christian Endeayor
societies-T. j. Woolman, Stanley
Halves and ]. L. Probasco.
Ushers-J. L. Probasco and j. \.
Stewart.
Pratt.
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GIBBS GETS Big STOCI
Clement Clothing Co. Stock of Atchi-
son To Be Brought TO Topeka.

The largest branch store of the
Gibbs Clothing company, known as the
Clement Clothing company OF Atchi-
son has been closed and the stock OF
mems clothing. furnishing goods and
shoes amounting to about $4,000 Il
now being shipped to the Topeka store
OF the Gibbs Clothing company
Mr. Gibbs states that owing to the
increased volume of business in the
topeka store he has decided to devote
his entire time to this establishments
The Atchison stock which consists
entirely of winter merchandise will bt
closed out Immediately, details of The
sale will be published in this paper
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CAME To KANSAS IN '54
Mrs. Susan NJ. Gardiner, of Valley
Falls, Dies at Age of 81. -.

Mrs. Susan NJ. Gardiner, n resident
of jefferson county for siXty-nine
years died last week 1T the home Of
her daughter, in Valley Falls. She
was ST years old. The funeral was
held at Valley Falls and the body was
taken to Winchester, Kan, for in
terment.
Mrs. Gardiner is survived by eight
children, two of whom live in Topeka.
They are John w. Gardiner, 1924
Grand lveruc, and James j. Gar6i-
ner, of 1900 Western avenue. John
w. Gardiner was formerly chief of
police in Topeka Sixteen grandchil-
dren and twelve great grandchildren
also survive.
Mrs. Gardiner was born in LeXinE-
ton. Ky, in 1928. The ia mily moved
to Winchester in 1854. A few years
later they went to Valley Falls, where
Mrs. Gardiner has since made her
home. Short services were held in
the Winchester church of which Mrs
Gardiner was charter member
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Flagstaff. AriZ., Jan. 3.-Observa-
tions of Mars in progress at the Lowell
observatory here have developed. 1t
was announced today. striking corrob-
Grafton of the theory of seasonal de-
pendence of the planets canals upon
the melting of the polar cap The
northern canals are now very dark.
indicating increased activity with ad-
vancing spring, while the southern ca
mails are faint in their autumnal de-
clines. The season in the northern
hemisphere of Mars is now late April
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Big "OIe" Factory Burns.

London, Jan. 3.-The destruction by
fire on Sunday al Aarhuus, Denmark,
of the oleomargarine and oil factory,
one of the countrys largest industrial
establishments, is reported by the Co
penhageu correspondent of the eX
change telegraph company. He adds
this will temporarily put an end to
scandinavian entire manufacture Of
oleomargarine, since this factory was
the only one of its kind in Scandi-
navia. The establishment is said to
have been insured for 1000, 600
pounds sterling with British COM
parry.
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Chinese Celebrate New Years.

Picking, China. Jan. 3.-Yuan Shi
Kai celebrated the New Year today
with a reception to all the members
of the diplomatic corps. Yuan Shi
Kai, announced as president. sat and
talked Informally with the ministers
avC iding mention of the monarchy.