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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26
NEW RED CROSS DEPT
Women Furnished With Material and
Sell Fancy Work.

New York Sept 26.-WhiIe caring
for the sick and wounded American
soldiers at the front. the Red Cross
will also do its bit toward looking
out for their women folk who remain
at home.
Thru a branch of the Red Cross
here known as the Needlework shop,
SEQ women are already doing fancy
sewing at home The money for their
materials is supplied and the work
they turn out is sold, the proceeds
going to them The Needlework Shop
was in existence before the war but
it is being enlarged a war clearing
house for relatives of soldiers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26
Looking Backward In State
Journal Society Column
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

Judge and Mrs A H. Horton attended
the KOrn Karuival in Atchison-
Miss Florence Bond of Salina will spend
next week with Judge Garvers family IN
POtwin.
Mrs B. F. Payne will entertain the fol-
lowing people next week: Mrs 5. I.
Fulton and son. Darrah, and Mrs. VIII
liam Robinson of Kansas City, Miss Lucy
Fulton Of Atchison and Mr.. Is. w. Young
OF HOyt
Mrs T. E. Jones Of Usage City, is visit
ing Dr. S +. Martin and family.
Mr. A p Wilder is spending the day
in Kansas City.
Miss Helen and Grace Mckee of Car
bondale. will spend next week. with Miss
Mary Wilton.
The marriage of Miss Jesuita Marie
Proctor and Mr. Russell McCOrd white
Of Kansas City, will be sOlemnized Tues
day morning, September y, at Grace Ca
thedral The wedding will be quiet, owing
to the illness of the brides father, and
they will leave Immediately for Kansas
city where they will make their home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

other hours 475I K-2
The East Side w C. T. Z. will meet
Friday afternoon with Mrs. L. H. Mears,
5O2 Chandler street
The members of the L $. c. club were
TO have held a wienie roast Tuesday even
ing. but owing to the Indictment weather.
an indoor party was held at the home Of
Mr. and Mrs J. Z. Clements, Ohio street.
The guests of the evening included: Mr.
and Mrs Albert Cheeksfield, Mr. and Mrs.
II T Jorgenson. Mrs Paul O'Harra. Mrs
Pruett and sou Fred of Nebraska and
Miss Irene Wilson The members will be
entertained by Mrs. Paul O'Harra. Friday
afternoon with a line party at a local the
alter
The Ruth Circle of the Third Presbyter-
ian church will meet Friday evening for
an important business session at the home
of Mrs A. F. Weaver. 919 Jefferson street
Mrs z. E Karr vii be hostess to the
Novelty club Tuesday afternoon at her
home TO5 Branner street. Mrs. Karr $
two small children have been i'll of mumps
but are recovered now.
Ny home at 209 Branner for sale or trade
6 rooms city water. cement walks. cistern,
etc: lots, near shops Phone 2941 Black
ADV.
Mrs. Susan Brookshire Of St Joseph,
Mo. is visiting friends and relatives in
the city.
J Tie Bible class of the East Side Meth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26
PLAYMATE KILLED HIN?
Find Boy Dead in Own Home Shot
Thru Head.

Chicago, Sept 26.-The police to-
day were investigating the death of
Stanley Hotak, IS, whose body was
found on the kitchen floor of his home
last night. He had been shot thru
the head No Weapon was found.
Hotak's mother and sister are in
East St Louis, where his older brother
was reported to be dying
The theory is held that the boy was
shot accidentally by a PLAYMATE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26


The gymnasium schedule at the Railroad
~Y'' has been arranged and will be as fol-
lows: Junior classes, Mondays and We'd
nesdays at 10 and saturdays at 9-Ou;
young mems class Mondays and Wednes-
days at 80 o'clock; senior classes, Tues
days and Thursdays at Z 30; and special
class on Tuesdays and Thursdays from
10 until 10. This latter class will be
conducted for men who able to get off
early, or for men who are not working
for the company.
Miss Marie Evans has returAed to her
work in the freight auditors office, after
vacation spent in Vancouver, B. ca and
in the Canadian Rockies
L. c. Keys of the auditor of disburse-
ments office has accepted position with
the Santa Fe Express and Mail traffic
manager at Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Huffman will re-
turn Wednesday evening from Colorado
after spending their vacation of month
there. Mr.. Huffman is employed in the
freight auditors office.
Mrs. John Helm accompanied by her
brother Mr.. Joseph ROllheiser, have gone
to Manitou TO spend the coming week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

ly in demand in Europe and is expect
ing to hear any day from the New
York City Y. NJ. c. A. which has
charge of the work. He will leave
the university at once if called
Crawford will be commissioned sec
ond lieutenant if he obtains his work,
as the entertainment course is in
charge of the army. He is a member
of the Sigma M fraternity and was
a student in the department of jour
nalism last year.
Mr.. Crawford has just returned
from a fifteen weeks engagement
with the Redpath-Horner Bureau on
a tour which took him over eight
states.-Daily Kansan, Lawrence
THERE'S A GIRL IN OUR TOWN
Whose marriage to an army officer
takes her away from Topeka to live
She expects to be able to find at the
post nothing better than a house of
two rooms. But, bride-hke. she has
invited all her friends and relatives
to come to visit her In counting up
the guests she had asked, she found
there were ten relatives. to say moth
ing of people outside the family whom
she had urged to come. She began 10
get panic stricken for fear her invi-
tations were to be accepted by every
one at onces so she hastily canvaSsed
her list and notified them all that II
they came they must De sure To DTlh-
a blanket and curtain-the blanket
for the sake of warmth. the curtain
| for privacy.
\ X x
A social evening will be given Sat
urday at the Clyde Miller home III
| Buchanan street, by the executive
board of the Y. W. C. A, for which
4 ESQ invitations are issued. Mrs Johr
Meigs, Miss Harriet Taylor and Miss
| Elizabeth French. who are members
| of the National War Work council
are travelling thru the west, and will
| be in Topeka the last of the week
| They will be guests of honor at tht
party and will explain to the guests
the work of the council among WON
| en- and girls in war work and NUM-
tons factories in the United State:
and abroad.
| X \
The Art club held a meeting Tues
| day afternoon, and decided to give
up its regular programs for this sea
| son and give the time to Red eros:
work. The club will meet next Tues
day at the Red Cross rooms to sew
and will meet there every two week!
following.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26
OAKLAND NOTES

Notes and personals from East Side
by Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street.
Telephone between s and 10 a. M, $3.50;
other hours. 47l1 K-2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26
SANTA FEE NOTES

Notes and personals from Santa Fs
by Frances Jones. 211 Gratsan street,
Telephone between and 10 a. m. $3.50:
other hours 4751 k-2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

Ladies' Home Journal
Spend | 5 Gents on II
The Biggest Number
Ever Printed
I54 Pages
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26
EAST SIDE NOTES

Notes and personals from Oakland.
bv Frances Jones. I'll Grattan street.
Telephone between and 10 u NJ, 35;O:
other hours 1851 k-2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26
THERE'S A MAN IN OUR TOWN

German trench, the best landing place
for a few we'll directed hand grenades
would be in the midst of a bunch of
blathering idiots holding a dog we'd
ding. He thinks that for pure, I'M
adulterated. double-distilled. triple
plated tommyrot, a dog wedding has
all other forms of nonsense backed
entirely off the boards. To him, it
appears that at time when the world
and the nation are crying for conser-
walton and men, women and children
are dying of starvation, pearl neck
laces and diamond collars for dogs
and fine engraved invitations and cost
ly suppers for ours is nothing short of
criminal.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Miss Madge BuIlene. of Lawrence.
is spending a few days in Topeka with
her sister. Mrs. Chester Woodward.
Mrs Dick Alden and her children
have returned from Long Beach, Cal.
where they spent the summer
Mrs Fred Cole, who spent a few
weeks in Colorado with her mother,
Mrs. c. D. Knowles. and her sister
Mrs Thatcher of Waterbury, Kan,
who spent the summer at mountain
| cottage.
Mrs. F. B. Crocker and her daugh-
| ter, Gleda, have returned from visit
to relatives in Springfield, Ill, and
other eastern cities.
Miss Mary Poindexter, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs E. W. Poindexter, OF
Kansas City, formerly of Topeka, is
a student in K q. this year. She has
been pledged to the Pi Phi sorority =
Mr.. Frank Smith, Of the good roads
commission, has left for a business
trip to Great Bend. Mr.. Smith and
his family have lately moved to To-
! peka and have taken the Short resi-
! dence. where they are now living.
! Miss Phronsie Cain, of Bisbee, Ariz.
was in Topeka Tuesday. She stopped
| to visit friends on her way to St. Louis
| Mo, where she will enter Loretta
! academy Miss Cain is the daughter
| of Mr.. and Mrs. Cullen Cain, formerly
| of Topeka.
| Mrs. Fred Stewart and her children
/ Patricia and whitney, have gone Il
Coffeyville to VISIT frien6s a few days
Mrs. Terrence Ewart and her chill
/ dren, Sara and Jane. have returned
| from a trip to Chicago
Mr.. Glen Pratt and Mr. A E Var
Petten have gone TO Wisconsin Il
/ spend two weeks fishing.
Mr.. and Mrs George Godfrey Moore
have left for a trip south. They will
visit New Orleans, and will stop il
| Jackson, Tenn, to visit DR.. and Mrs
T. ]. Kimbrough-
Mr.. Holmes Meade is spending 1
week in Salina.
Miss Jessie McCarter has gone tt
| Baldwin to attend a sorority party.
l. MRS. H. E. Ray and her daughters
| Margaret and Katherine. have return
| ed from a trip of few weeks to Cali
fornia They went west immediatel.
after their return from the Atlantic
| coast and the south
Mr. Floyd Abbott of the Third Mis-
souri, infantry, is visiting Mr.. -Sanfor,
FARRELL. Mr.. FARRELL is making a shor
visit to his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. F
FARRELL.
4 Mrs. A z. Gates of Genoa. Neb.,
| visiting her cousins. Miss Gertrud
! Barnes and Miss Maud Barnes.
Miss Helen Rooney has returned L
Harper. Kan, after visiting Miss Ell
vira Craig.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

The girls Of the Sigma Alpha IOta
sorority had an informal afternoon
party Tuesday. with Mrs Alfred Spfz-
" of Abilene. who is visiting her
mother. Mrs. H. Z. Seeds. Plans were
made for a series of musicales which
the sorority. active and alumnae MEM
bers. will give this season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

The L and I club held its first regu
lar meeting Of the fall Tuesday after
noon The club will arrange for the
annual card party which it gives in
the autumn for the benefit of the
charity work of the organization. The
proceeds will be used for the Public
HEALTH Nursing association. Mrs.
Silas Porter is president of the club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

The Tuesday Bridge club met yes
terday afternoon with Mrs. Charles
Wolff. jr.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

Mr.. and Mrs. George Wharton an
nounce the marriage of their daughter.
Eva NJ, to Mr.. Edward H. Price, OF
1892 Polk street The wedding took
place Wednesday, September 10, in
Manhattan, Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Price
will live at Fort Riley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

The Topeka chapter of the D. A. R.
viii have a short business meeting
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at
the nome of Mrs. Pope Allen, S14
Douthitt avenue, to discuss the work
of assisting the library war council
in providing its share of a fund to
supply all the soldiers with books.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

The Minerva club ill have its first
meeting of the year Monday, October
I. at the home of Mrs. E G. Foster,
8ll West Sixth avenue. Mrs. Charles
Curtis, Of Washington. D. C, who is
in Topeka for a few weeks. will be
Fassistant hostess. The meeting place
is changed from the place designated
in the year book
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

Lieut. Kent Lewis left with his
company Tuesday for Fort Sill, Okla
homa. He will take a house, anC
Mrs. Lewis will leave next week tt
join him. Mrs. Lewis, who was for.
merly Miss Marjorie Rodgers, is Ieav.
ing her position in the state library
to go to Fort Sill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

Thomas Crawford. class '19. of To-
peka, may soon be in France doing
Y. NJ &C. A. work under the direction
of the United States army. He has
applied for work as a pianist with
platform entertainers which are great
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

DR.. and Mrs. Henry J. Waters of
Manhattan, announce the engagement
of their niece. Miss Judith Briggs and
Mr.. r. B. Craig, both Of Kansas City;
the wedding to take place early in
October. DIR. Waters is president of
the Kansas State Agricultural college
and is also at the head of the food
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-26

Two Topeka girls at the Kansas
Agricultural college, Manhattan have
been honored by election to class Of
fices. Miss Sarella Herrick was schos-
en- chairman of the social committee
of the junior class and Miss Ernestine
Biby was elected secretary of the
sophomore class. Both young WON en-
are members of the Pi Beta Phi
sorority.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-04

quality being exceptionally good The
Early Ohio Is coming In on the market
and will be followed by white varis-
ties. The conditions In general point
to a very good crop turnout tho north
west.
The best canning peach or the mar
ket--the Alberta peach, has at last
found its way here. The largest part
of the peach crop has been purchased
by canneries and the result Is that no
low price Is expected on peaches this
summer. The fruit is selling for $3.50
per bushel or $3.50 per box.
This week Ii the midweek season be-
tween the Arizona and the late Cah-
tornia cantaloupe. The breakfast fruit.
which Is at present selling at two per
quarter Is expected to drop In week.
when the northern product will come
In. California pears are as low today
as they will be any other time this
year--the present price being So per
box. The housewife that had planned
on preserving pears had better do 50
at once. I
California plums are gradually draw :
ing to a close---the best canning va
rieties arriving daily. Plums are SELL
ing for $2.25 to $3.50 per crate. Berries
have practically seen their last days
on the Sioux City market. The last
car of red raspberries from Washing
ton will arrive in Sioux City Tuesday.
A light crop of Oklahoma water
melons is reported this year, due to the
heavy drouths, but the quality Is said
To be very good. The home grown
product will be introduced the latter
part of this month. Three cents per
pound Is the price asked for the "col-
ored mans fruit
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-04
RECENT RAINS GIVE SUFFICIENT
MOISTURE TO CARRY FIELDS
THRU SEASON.
MAKING RAPID STRIDES
TO BEAT JACK FROST
Liberal Showers in Many Counties
Decline in Potato Prices to 81 Per
6ushsI Predicted as Soon as Grain
Harvest Is compIeted-other State
News.

Sioux City, Aug. 4.---Reports received
from numerous correspondents In
northwestern Iowa confirm earlier re-
ports of the value Of this weeks rains
and cool weather to growing crops
The corn crop is now virtually assured
sufficient moisture to carry it thru &c
maturity.
With at least a month and probably
six weeks until frost. the corn crop has
excellent prospects Of fully maturing
The menace of soft corn" Is not
greatly feared.
Liberal showers have fallen at Ode.
bolt, Onawa, Sac City, Cherokee, Deni.
son, Lake View, Remsen, LeMars, Ha.
warden, Akron. Primghar. Rock Rap.
ids, Sibley. Sheldon, Spirit Lake, Hull
doom, Sutherland and other points.
Some damage from wind and hail Is
reported from. Onawa and two point:
in Sac county, but the amount of dam.
age is not serious.
All reports indicate the showers anC
cool weather have offset any damage
that corn might have suffered from
the intense heat and drouth of LAS
week.
The harvesting of wheat, oats, barrie!
and other small grain crops and hay
will be virtually completed within 6
week. Reports of the condition of these
crops are universally promising. The
wheat yield will make up in quality
for what it may lack in quantity. The
oats average will be in the neighbor.
hood of fifty to sixty bushels per acre
and barley about forty bushels pei
acre.
Potatoes and garden truck have beer
revived by the timely rams and 1
bumper yield of late potatoes is now
anticipated.
Corn Crop Is Safe.
Following The completion of the
threshing and harvesting, the farmers
in the vicinity of Sioux City will mar.
ket their potatoes, according to G. l.
Palmer, of the Palmer Fruit Company
1.-THE prospects for very large potato
crop are very promising, asserted Mr.
palmer, and the prices will fall as low
as 81 per bushel-providing the farm
ers don't hold back.
The present price Of potatoes Is $1.S'
per bushel by the wagon load-th'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-04
GERMAN TONGUE BARRED.
All Conversation in Iowden Must b
Spoken in English.

All Conversation in Iowden Must Be
Spoken in English.
Cedar, Rapids. Aug. flour men ar
rested at Lowden by a United States
marshal on charges Of treason, were
released on $4,000 bonds each after
waving preliminary bearings They
were bound overato the October grand
jury
The men said they had meant nc
disloyalty to the United States, but
had believed the preachings Of the
Rev John Reichert Of Lowden, that
American papers printed only lies
about Germanys part in the world
war. They said they were sorry they
had said anything that was offensive.
The warning Of E. r. Moore, federal
marshal, against crowds congregating
on the streets to discuss the war has
had its effect at Lowden. as it was
said there were few people on the
street last night. Also the marshals
warning not to speak the German
tongue in public gatherings also has
had its effect, it is said Lowden is
quiet today and no further trouble is
anticipated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-04

they laid the insult to q banker who
had ridden In the machine.
This banker disclaims any knowledge
OF flag being on the car and claims
he did not know 1t until tho next day.
when he had run of angry German
depositors, who withdrew their money
from his bank.
The state of affairs became known to
the department of justice. and Marshal
Moore and Deputy Marshal Leary
were sent from Cedar Rapids to arrest
Reichardt for reasonable utterances.
The officers were old acquaintance Of
Daniel d. McGillivray, who had been
district attorney here for two terms.
McGillivray was absent from town
when the officers came, but they used
his Office as the place in which to ques-
ton Reichardt,
MeGillivray Attacked.
Their questioning convinced them
that Reichardt should be held further
and he was taken to Cedar Rapids for
further examination. Yesterday NC
Gillivray was accused by several citi-
zens of being the instigator of plot
to ruin Reichardt. Angry words were
passed between him and the others.
His son took his fathers part, and
advised him to run. The father stood
his ground and the son slapped one of
his fathers accusers and ran away
Two persons who claim to be enemies
of McGillivray, witnessed the proceed
ings, and, realizing that if any one were
injured a more serious encounter would
result and that much blood would be
shed, put national duty before personal
luminosity and came to McGillivray's
rescue.
Once more federal aid was called and
five wealthy old German sympathizers
were arrested and taken to Cedar
Rapids.
The mayor was told to keep better
order and "a threat made to put the
town under martial law if conditions
are not improved Immediately.
Lies, Says Pastor.
Reichardt stigmatizes all charges
against him as lies, and said words he
never uttered were put in his mouth
by his enemies. He declares that every
utterance of his is distorted and that
no more loyal American than he lives
in this community.
He says that, while he is against
war on SeueTdi pIluClplSS, iC WOuAu oo
ashamed to look his neighbors in the
face were his little boy of army age
and not in the service.
Reichardt says he holds the Ameri-
can flag as thing holy and sacred,
and as far as refusing to preach in
place where the flag was displayed.
that hereafter he shall have one above
his pulpit. From his story one gathers
that all this friction is the result of
petty church squabble.
AS to the German press in the middle
west the loyal citizens are unanimous
in declaring that it should be sup
pressed and that it's news and editorials
are Reichardt's inspiration and the
cause of all the disturbances.
On the other hand the Germans
claim that the most seditious articles.
in the German papers are nothing but
TRANSACTIONS from American news
papers.
One fact is evident-the situation in
Lowden is intolerable in any American
community, and if one can believe what
he hears more serious outbreak is
a nf fo he the result of it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-04
Traer News Notes.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special " L lAnCSe4SSPA1AASasAs
Traer, Aug. 4.-Will Cherveny OF
Clutter, suffered fractured skull and
Joe Mason broke bone in a foot
when thrown from their horses on a
Clutter street Wednesday night. The
men were racing each other when their
horses became blinded by the lights CT
an automobile, both men being thrown
off. Chervenys injury is serious.
Miss Ella Clark is visiting her sister,
Mrs. John Mitchell, at Leroy, MINI.
Mrs. James Patten, Of Wellsburg, is
visiting at the Ira Gates and Frank
McNeal homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Boettcher, of
Chicago, are here for a two weeks
visit with Mr.. Boettcher's mother and
brothers.
Andrew Stuart and family, Of Eagle
Grove, have been spending . vacation
with home folks fsTraer. Mr.. Stuart
is now passenger conductor on the
C. & NV. between Ames and Des
Moines. ~ -
Miss Julia Kennedy. Of Chicago,
came this week to visit her brother,
NJ. J. Kennedy.
Ralph Green and Leo Cohrt left
Thursday night for Nisswa, Mimi, to
spend couple of weeks fishing.
Mrs. Martha Foote is visiting rela-
tives at Randolph, Neb.
A. H. Pinkerton, Of Waterloo, is Wis
iting his brother, ]. A. Pinkerton.
Misses Janet and Myrtle McEwen
and Miss Ruth Stark wen. to Clear
Lake Wednesday to join some college
friends for a weeks outing.
Mrs. Ella White and daughter Grace
left for Ashland, Ore, to make their
future home, where Miss Grace has a
position IN the public schools.