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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-02
Country Correspondence
SLAB CITY

Mrs. Phoebe Kinds of this place
has returned home from wks visit
with Mrs Henry Pillsbury of Snake
Bend who used to live here. Mrs.
Phoebe says shes glad to git back at
home agin where she can git clean
bite being as Mrs. Pillsbury is the
s1ackest housekeeper and keerlessest
cook she ever seen.
Jaspar Tarbell had a stack of hay
to ketch on fire out in the middle of
his field back of the barn last Thurs
day night and burn to the ground
with a total loss and no insurance
Jasp thinks it was set on fire by
tramps who was prob1y s1eepin in
the hay stack and he says he would
Mt care if it burned the pants often
EN-.
Mr. and Mrs Arioch Gookins in
du1ged theirse1fs in a chicken dinner
last Sunday. 1t was an old rooster
who has been CROWN on and off all
night recent so they killed him and
ct him. Arioch and wife don't often
sp1urge in chicken dinner being as
they are very Economical.
It is roomerd in our midst that
Mrs Hester Jones our handsome wild
der who was widderd two yeres ago
is going to marry Jeff Holcomb who
lives two miles west. Well, Hester
might do worse-Jeff owns a farm
and has money in the bank and we
calllilate he'll keep it there too being
rs he is of very saving disposish-
ior-
Jabe Romans while stropping his
razzer last Sunday morning to shave
his Ease before he put on his best buds
to go to church had the razzer to slip
and cut his thumb until it bled like
everythink This made Jabe so out of
pashients that he give way to perfanity
and after that he wassent in spiritchoo1
condishion to go to church and he
diddent shave neither
VOX POPULT.
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HAPPY VALLEY

Hen Smithers was TUX turrible sick
to his stunlnick in the middle of the
night tother night with vilent pains and
his wife had to remain up waitin on
him hand and foot until morning when
he got better. Hen says its MYSTERY
what made him so sick and it couldn't
of been nothink he ct becuz all he
partuk of the evg before at the church
soshiable was four dishes of ice GREEN
and about pit or two of pickles.
BENZ Gibbs while chopping wood out
in his back yard tother day had the
head to come often the axe handle and
fly into the air and whilst Benz was
standing there wonderin where it had
flew to blamed if it diddent come down
sharp edge 1st right in front of Benj's
Ease and eyes and within intch of his
nosel This so unnervd Benz that he
diddent cut no more wood that day.
AS he says what if it had struck him
on top of. the head. Well if it had did
that it would probly of split him clean
in two at the most conservative est
mashion.
Miss Mary Ann Green apeard in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-02

lime to the ridick1us as we might say
it would suit us better
Deacon Butterworth who allus
pears to have all the time in the world
for everything says he reckons he
has been the bizziest man in Bing-
vile for the past wk or so. The Dea-
cons blood is outen order and as a
result he is broke out all over with
hives which itch him turrible. Be
twixt the farm chores and scratchin
his hives the Deacons time is fld up
night and day. He says he cant lug
a pail of worter without setting it
down every few # to scratch.
Anse Wilkins of Sorrow Hollow
swept horses one day last wk with
Jim Whittacre of here. The horse
Anse got has heaves and the horse
Jim got has ringbone and it don't look
to US if neither Anse nor Jim got the
better of each other. 50
We learn from a perfeckly reliable
source that Mrs. Jerushy Perkins re-
Gently put up 81 pts of ounce Jelly.
Last fall we recall very clearly that
Jerushy presented us and our wife
with a cupp1e of sample pts of her
ounce jelly and we can truthfully
place our hand on our heart and say
we never tasted none better. So far
we haven't heerd from Jerushy this yr
on the ounce jelly questshion. A
hint to the generous ort to be suf-
fishent.
Miss Amelia Tucker our raining
sossiety queen wore pr of white
1ether shoes to church last Sunday
morning and Miss Ame1ias feet was
the cynosure of all eyes. Miss Anne
liza is turrib1e choice of her white
shoes and is purity keerfu1 where she
steps lest she git EN- soi1ed.
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At last Bingville has a LIST class
hotel and Erastus Simpson & wife,
one of the most respeckted citizens
& citizenesses, is the proprietors.
This hotel which has started in
Bingville ort to fill long felt want
in our midst and also in the midsts
of strangers who arrives in town
hungry for a good meel of vittles.
Not only that but hotel in Bing-
vile will add mulch to the dignity
of the town and will help to adver-
tise us to the outside world as we
might say. For several yrs Hard
scrabble has had a hotel and has
Dragged good cal about it, but
now Bingville wont haft to take a
back seat in this respeckt for Hard
scrabble or any other town.
For some time Ras Simpson has
felt that there ort to be a hotel in
Bingville and being as nobuddy
else had the gumpshion and sprawl
to start one he thort he would do
so. Ras and his wife live in a big
house of II rooms right on Main
st. in the central porshion of the
town and being as their children is
all crowd up and married off and
they have more room than they
know what to do with, which is
going to waste, they talkd it over
and desided to convert their house
into 1st class hotel.
Ras got Lem Brown our expert
carpenter (who is also a good
hand with paint brush) to paint
him a big sign with the follernng
on it:
CENTRAL HOTEL 6 KATE.
Chicken Dinners a Speshialty.
Ras hung this sign out in front
of his house and set down and
waited for bizness. That was
about wk. ago when the hotel
was opend. Mrs. Simpson was to
do the cooking while Ras was to
rake in the money and make his
self agreeable to gests & look after
their comforts like a reglar hotel
prop.
The LIST gests which Ras got
come ruther onexpeckted last Tues
day about 1 p. M. Ras was tilted
back in a chair on the front PLAYER
and had jest dozed off again when
a big ottymobeel driv up in front
of the hotel and stopd with seven
passengers in inclooding men &
WInrnen.
They all piled out and made
themselves comfortable on the piaz-
ger while one of the men told Ras
they would like a chicken dinner
for seven, so Ras he said alright
and run in the house and out the
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back door after his wife Melissy,
who was spending the afternoon
sewing over with Mrs. Anne Hill
yer, and Melissy tore home all
outen breth and existed and got a
fire going in the stove while Ras
went OUT to the hen yard and nearly
got stroke of appleplexy afore
he run down three hens, which he
chopd the heads often and dresd
and Melissy put on the parbile, but
they was ole hens and tuffern
and after waiting around until 8
P. NJ. and the chicken dinner was
sent ready then, the ottymobeel
party got tired waitin and told Ras
they gesd they'd move on to the
CO. seat and git sometf1ink to etc
afore they starved to deth.
Ras was turrble mad and told
EN- to go and be dingd to EN- and
never to paternize his hotel agin
becuz he diddent cater to stitch GUS
toners. Then they rode away laf-
fin. When Melissy found that
they had went and left her with
the table all set and three chickens
stewing on the stove she. lit into
Ras and give him a dressin down.
Sinst then Melissy and Ras has
been Twin on chicken dinners brek-
fusts & suppers and the three chik-
kens amt ct up yet. Ras says rum
min a 1st class hotel amt what its
cracked tip to be and he calkilates
them three chickens will etc up the
profits of the hotel bizness for
quite a spell to come.
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WARMING!

If you have read the Bugle faithful
in the past you have notised that when
we have reminded you dead beet sub
scribers that you ort to step into the
Bugle offs and pay us something on
acct even if it was only doller or so.
we have a11us did so in a curtus and
gentleman1y manner.
Although we needed the mummy tur-
rible bad to pay Our honnest detts we
never forgot we was a gentleman when
we sujjested in a polite way that you
ort to settle up
Well. we have found that po1iteness
and curtsy and gent1emanlyness amt
worth boot as far as bringin in the
cash is concernd In other words our
pashients as well as our po1iteness is
all wore out and now we have made
I'D our mind to try harsher means and
see how that'1l work
Unless some folks we know who owe
us ennywheres from $40 to SIS on back
subscripshion calls at this offs and pays
UP either whole or part of same by
next wk we will not only publish their
names in big tipe in the Bugle but we
will also endeavor to publish along
with their names some turrib1e skanda1
of their past which they wouldn't want
revived. How would you like that,
hey? Well. then guvvern yourself &C
cording and pay up.
If it should happen that we cant
find emmy skanda1 conneckted with the
past of ennybuddy who owes us then
we will place the matter in the hands
of Anne Hillyer our talented 1oryer &
legal light for col1eckshion How
would you like to be bounded day and
night or in a crowd and Inundated by
havin Anne Hi1lyer ask you for what
you owe us? Unless you desire your
past exposed or to have us sic Anne
on you, pay up and do it nowi
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Why break
your Back?

The time has came when it is time to
think about cuttin and sawin up your
winter supply of wood. Evrybuddy
knows what turrible job this is es-
peshially where the winters is so bitter
cold as they are in Bingville & vicin-
itty so that you need a woodpile as big
as house to keep you from freezin
until spring arrives.
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church last Sunday with a new fall
hat which is the 1st new fall hat we
have saw hereabouts so far. 1t was
very becoming to Mary Ann.
Luke Sharp is groaning with felon
on his finger Well we don't know as
we blame hinl-a felon on a persons
finger is enuff to make ennybuddy
groan. EXCELSIOR.
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Personal Breefs

Thank goodness the wether is COO
Ter as we go to press. Bingville in
summertime is hottern hades and in
winter its freezin cold. If we could
only strike a comfortable average of
wether instid of going from the sub
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What is The use Dustin Yourself

cuttin your own wood. Let me do it
for you. Its ridicklus for you to bend
over a bucksaw until your back axes
like a tooth or swing a axe all day long
until you've got biisters on your hands
and you're SO tired you can skeercely
spit over your chin when I will cut
YOUR wood for YOU in a
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WorkmanIike manner and at a
reasonable Price.

In other words I have went and pur-
chased a gassylean enjine and a buzz
saw which it runs at goodness how
menny revolooshions per minnit. AS a
result I can cut more wood in a hour
than you can cut in week and with
less SWEET. All I haft to do is to start
the enjine, then the saw begins to biz
and saw UP the wood in whatever ZENITH
bredth & thickness you desire.
I expeck to do big bizness cuttin
winter wood for folks hereabouts be-
ginning immejit so gimme your
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-26
WHITMAN WON'T
PUT HUGHES UP
Middle West Delegate to
Place Justice in NOmi-
nation, Is Plan.

Justice Charles f. Hughes will BIZ
placed in nomination at the Republican
National Convention at Chicago by
GONE representative OF the Middle West
and not by Governor Whitman, as had
been forecast. This became known
yesterday following a conference be
tween the Governor and Frank n.
Hitchcock. former chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee, who is
generally credited with being the UNI
derneath- the-surface manager OF the
Hughes campaign. Mr.. Hitchcock de-
clined TO discuss his conference with
the Governor, but the latter was
trife more communicative.
IF Mr.. Hitchcock does not feel free
to talk of the conference, certainly
do not" he said. Zone thing we were
thoroughly agreed upon, however, and
that is that nothing but an accident OF
some kind can now stop the nomination
Of Justice Hughes. Mr.. Hitchcock and
both think he is the one man who
not only should be named but who
could defeat the Democratic nominee.
Frederick {. Tanner, chairman Of the
Republican State Committee, also had
a conference with the Governor, after
which IL was whispered that a drive
would soon be made by the Hughes
men against Colonel Roosevelt, with
the object OF endeavoring TO check the
growing sentiment FOR the Colonel. II
is not unlikely that Mr. Tanner will
issue a statement bearing on the situa
tion before the end OF the week.
Governor Whitman made il plain
that under no circumstances would h
accept the nomination for Nice-Presi-
dent II it were rendered TO him. While
he refused TO be quoted. he insisted
that his ambition was 10 remain as
Governor Of this state. He pointed out
that he could not be named as run
ming mate for Hughes. Roosevelt o.
Root, because they came from this
state. The Governor declared that the
other candidates know OF his deter
mlnation in respect 20 the Vice-Presl-
Dental nomination.
Republican politicians heard yester-
day that Herbert Parsons would be the
choice of the Hughes delegates for ma
NlOiaA AUlilh NAfFilldN W ouNNttu " lAl-
lam Barnes As at present lined up
the delegates from this state are said
10 be forty-fye for Hughes and forty
for Root. with two doubtful. II Is be-
lieved, however. that after the first
ballot about twenty Of the Root dele.
gates will 90 10 Hughes. The sup
porters Of the Supreme Court Justice
are counting on Francis Hendricks and
Willard Rill. the two Syracuse dele
gates, despite the recent reports tina.
they would be for Colonel Roosevelt.
Mr. Parsons was one of the strong
est supporters Of Justice Hughes when
he WAS Governor Of this state. and has
prominent part in the quiet cam
paign that is being conducted for the
Justices nomination a. Chicago. Sene-
tor Ogden l.. Mills. who has been
classed as a Hughes delegate, but who
may vote for Mr. Root. is also q can.
didste for national committeeman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-26
FATHER ILL, FAMILY IN NEED
Baby's Clothes Made from Old Trous-
crs-An Appeal for Charity.

Lying in a dingy tenement room the
little c. baby, dressed in garments
made out Of an old pair Of worn out
trousers Of its fathers, greeted Wis
itor from the Charity Organization So
ciety. The father, a carpet cleaner, Is
i'll in the hospital, slowly recovering
from a second severe oueration. He
vii be unable TO do anything to sup
port his family for months and will
probably never be strong enough to
return to his old trade.
Before she was taken iii the mother
and children were comfortable and
happy in the unpretentious rooms
which meant home" to them, but grad
ually an illness destroyed the fathers
strength. comforts and then necessities
vanished, until things reached a
pathetic condition. The coarse,
scratchy little clothes made with in
finite patience and care are mute testi-
mony Of the mothers love and pitiful
thrift in her struggle TO keep the chill
dren from suffering.
She is now learning to do laundry
work and is trying hard 20 make ends
meet, but the children need most OF
her time To supply the much needed
food and rent and 20 relieve the
mans anxiety about his family, the
society is trying to raise $3.50, which
will accomplish this for six months.
Gifts for the G. family should be sent
10 the Office, l05 East Tventy-second
street. and will be promptly acknowl-
edged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-26
Admirers Praise Speech to
Meyer-Think Justice as
Objectionable as Root.
800 REPUBLICANS
TO PROMISE SUPPORT
Delegation Goes to Oyster Bay
Saturday-Colone Still Stands
on Americanism.
Iron a stan Correspondent Of III. rribun.

Iron a star Correspondent o. IN, rribun.l
Oyster Bay, May 25.-Colonel Roose-
welt put in busy day to-day preparing
his 81. Louis speech and clearing up the
mass OF correspondence which has
doubled since his address TO the Meyer
committee on Monday. II there had
been any doubt about the wisdom Of
that address this mail removed Il. Al
most without exception the writers APP
plaud what some of them term a bulls
eye on the Hughes target.
Some of the Colone's correspondents
suggest that he should have gone
further and made it clear that Justice
Hughes as a candidate would be almost
as Objectionable TO large proportion
OF the progressive Republicans as Elhu
Root. The more conservative think the
address punctured the Hughes boom.
Stands on Americanism.
These men say the issue at Chicago
must be between the Colonel and the
bosses, with his followers insisting
that there be no "pussyfooting," either
in selecting the candidate or in framing
a platform, or any attempt to make the
party carry water on both shoulders.
Some suggest that the personal note
should be sounded much more than has
been the case thus far. To these Mr..
Roosevelt has replied that whatever
his opponents may say, the issue is not
him personally, but Americsnism and
preparedness, and that no red herring
dragged across the trail will divert his
attention from the work to which he
has devoted his time since the out
break of the war in Europe.
$500 to See Colonel SATURDAY..
Colonel Roosevelt's visitors to-day
included Mrs Mary Roberts Rinehart,
fresh from the trenches OF Belgium,
and Mr. and Mrs. Z. II. Sothern. Leav-
ing the Hilltop, Mrs. Rinehart said she
"was more than impressed with the
cyclonic and dynamic personality Of the
Colonel" The women OF America, she
went on 10 say, were not as mass in
terested in politics, but she did think
they were all interested in prepared
ness.
81 did not" said she, raise my son
to be a soldier. but just the same am
proud of the fact that he is member
of the Harvard regiment preparing to
do his part if the time ever comes that
he may be called on"
Oyster Bay has begun to take more
interest in the Colonel's candidacy.
The reason is the coming visit Of 1900
or more Republicans Saturday 10 voice
their approval Of the demand that he be
nominated. That is a big crowd for
Oyster Bay. and the town is wondering
how to handle it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-26
PICKING WILD FLOWERS,
FIND A WILD NAN
Mrs. Coykendall and Companion
Flee Ardsley Woods.

In the woods near Ardsley is wild
man, who, clad in Robinson Crusoe-like
attire, has convinced women who have
seen him that he has gone back to ma
ture so earnestly that he has reached
the cave man stage. He has been seen
but once, but that once was sufficient to
start the police Of Dobbs Ferry and
lrvington on a search for him.
Mrs. Lydia c. French and Mrs. X. S.
Coykendall, who lives at 103 East Sew
enty-ffth Street. Manhattan, discov-
cred the woods dweller last Sunday
morning while they were gathering wild
flowers. Mrs. Coykendall's skirt was
caught. Turning TO extricate il, as she
supposed, from a thorn, she saw a
strange, half-clad man clinging to II.
She screamed and ran, and the wild
man pursued for short distance and
then disappeared in the bushes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-26
rig 6" Officers Reelected.

Members of the Big Six Typo
graphical Union have reelected an
their officers by a big majority. Al
though the count is incomplete, II is
certain that the result already has as
sured the election OF the admlnlstra-
ton ticket, as follows: President,
Leon II. Rouse, OF "The World; vice.
president, Charles j. Marquart, "The
Brooklyn Citizen; secretary-treas-
urer, John S. O'Connell, Of "The
Globe; delegates to the national con-
vention at Baltimore, John +. Dalton,
Of "The Herald; James A. l.. Hughes.
Of The Tribune; George W. Sachs, OF
the American Lithograph Company, and
William A. Young, of II. Rogowski's.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-26
MOOSE TO DEFER PLATFORM
Will Name Ticket First-G. o. ?. In
SusDensc.

The executive committee Of the Pro-
gressiye party has decided not 10
adopt the party's platform before
nominating candidates at the Progress
sive Convention in Chicago. 1t is ex-
pected that nominations viii be made
on Friday, June 9. but no decision has
been reached as 10 whether the con-
vention viii wait until the Republi-
cans nominate their candidates. This
will be decided at the meeting Of the
executive committee in Chicago, on
June 8.
George W. Perkins. William Hamlin
Childs and other prominent Progress
sives will leave for Chicago next week.
! he special train carrying the delegates
will leave this city on June L
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-26
CORNELL VOTES FOR T. R.
Agricultural Students, However, Give
Vote 10 Wilson.

Ithaca, n. Y, May 25.-The Cornell
faculty elected Theodore Roosevelt
President in a straw vote to-day, with
AZ votes. against "a for Hughes and 80
for Wilson.
Undergraduates voted as follows:
Wilson. GAP; Roosevelt, ga; Hughes,
333. The total vote was: Wilson, GA;
Roosevelt. Gle: Hughes, 367; Root, 80;
Burton, 25; Debs, Ford, Taft and
Bryan. each O. The total ballots cast
were 1859.
At the main poll, where 1.179 votes
were cast, Roosevelt beat Wilson, lead
ing in both the faculty and Undergrad
uate votes. but at the other poll, where
the agricultural college balloted, there
Yves a large plurality for Wilson in the
vote, although the fac
ulty gave Hughes the election. with
Roosevelt second. The undergraduate
vote at this poll was: Wilson, 229;
Roosevelt, 1855; Hughes, 1l5.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-26
Angels Dream" Costs Him $50.

Two men dropped into the saloon at
$50 Tenth Avenue early yesterday
morning and asked Andrew Connor for
an angels dream Connor looked
puzzled, then turned to consult his re-
cipe book. 81,
"Never mind I'll show YOU" said
one of the visitors. Common turned
end looked into the barrel OF a re
volver. His hands automatically shot
into the air while the second man ran
sacked the cash register The new
receipe cost the saloon 500.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-26
Eleven Wisconsin Delegates
Decide TO Vote for Hughes

Milwaukee, May 25.- Eleven Repub-
lican delegates to the national conven-
tion at Chicago. representing the fac
ton Of the party controlled by Gov
ernor E. l.. Philip. met here late to-
day, and Governor Philip announced
later that their first ballot would be
cast for Justice Hughes, providing the
latter's policy on national issues met
with their approval. The Governor
said that while a second choice candi-
date was discussed, no conclusion was
reached.
Senator Robert NJ La Toilette con-
trolls fifteen. or a majority, Of the Wis
consin delegation.