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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-10-24
The 0uInne That Does Not Aztec. the Heed

Because OF its tonic aiiicln ""- -
,,,ff VII HIr;,o = .ni laxative erect, LAXA.
~ ~; b..OMO QUININE is better than ordinary
! Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
| ringing in head. Remember the full name . I'd
| look for the signature Of l.. w. GROVE. 3oc.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-10-24

speech, invited the assembly to elect
its president, Mr.. Ayskentieff, chair
man-of the executive committee OF the
council Of presidents, was elected
president hy majority Of 2SS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
COPS BURGLARS
Army Captain Opens Fire, Sc
riOusly WOunding Intruders.
He Also Is Perhaps Fatally Shot
Defending Own Home.

FL Paso, Dec. 29-Capt wylie ].
White, of an artillery regiment, Lieu
tenant st. Clair, provost marshal, and
City Detective Howard Mebus, were
seriously wounded late last night in a
pistol fight at the home of Captain
White near Fort Bliss.
According to the report of the affair
given out at police headquarters, Lieu
tenant st. Clair, Detective Mebus and
a number of police soldiers of the
provost guard were hunting illegal
liquor sellers operating in the vicinity
of the army post Informed that sew
eral soldiers had been seen leaving the
White home and being ignorant of the
identity of its occupants, they knocked
at the front door Receiving no re-
ply, the officers sought to raise a bath
room window, when they were greeted
with voIley of 81 OTIS from a pistol in
the hands OF Captain White. Lieuten-
ant st. Clair was shot tt the hips
and right hand. He is. seriously
wounded. Detective Mebus received
a bullet thru the RICH. shoulder. Can
tain White was shot thru the right
lung. His condition is critical.
The White home was visited by
burglars on Christmas night and when
captain White heard the opening OF
the bathroom window he opened fire
At the base hospital where he was
taken, he lapsed into Inconsistencies
after making statement that he had
shot at gang of burglars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
1,7OO TO GET LEAVE
Many Funston Soldiers Are To Be
Given Ffve-Day Burroughs.

Camp FuIst IN. Kan, Dec. 29-
With Christmas barely gore, the men
at Camp Funston already are turning
their attention to the New Years
holiday. Five per cent of the com
mand will be granted furloughs. total
ing approximately 1.70 men.
Selections are being based on the
same stipulations as those stated for
Christmas, namely, that the man has
mad no former furlough, has a good
record on the drill fields and can show
the price of a round trip ticket.
Furloughs for New Years are for
five days, beginning today and ending
: tuesday. Special trains have been
arranged by the Union Pacific to car
~ the men to Kansas City this morn
in.5. one at noon and in the afternoon
The men who have been granted
neither Thanksgiving nor Christmas
Burroughs anG are not included in the
burroughs for-New Years day will be
gwen few days at home, if desired,
between now and the time the di
vision leaves here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
KEEP GOOD MEN
Fair Directors Rename L. NJ.
PenWeu and Phil Eastman.
Eastman's Efficiency Rewarded
by Increase in Salary.

At the Big Free Fair next year
there viii he the old familiar faces rfs-
ing above the little half door in the
secretary's room at the fair grounds
At the meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Free Fair association in the
Central National bank building Fri
day afternoon. President [. NJ. PEN
Wei and Secretary Phil Eastman were
re elected to head the 1918 fair. Fred
Anton was reelected vice president.
as was S. E. Cobb. who filled out the
term of Scott Hopkins as treasurer.
As mark of appreciation. Phil East
mans .aiary was raised from $500
TO $4,000 a year All of the actions
token Ey the board Friday were by
unanimous vote.
Never before in the history of the
Kansas State fair at Topeka has there
Teen n cent left in the Golfers of the
association, after the bills were paid.
and mOst often the bills We're mostly
UnTaid. But under the rule of Pen
Well and Eastman, the fair has for the
past two years. paid for itself. paid
hack part of the unVaid bills of pre-
Vious fairs, and in addition has paid
out a large sum for damages to per-
sons injured in the auto race accident
two years ago. In addition to all this
the treasury of the fair association has
nearly $500 in the hank to meet the
first expense of Orga nizing the 1913
Free Fair. From the record of the
association under their regime it may
safely be said that both Penwen and
Eastman rank among the most eff
cient fair managers in the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
again the fashion

Never in the social history of Amer
lea has one heard so much of the wo-
man in business and the woman of
affairs.
Possibly. when all the stories of the
war have been written, when history
has taken the peace conference as a
basis for settling the colossal argu-
ments that have arisen during this
struggle between the belligerents
there will come a serene time when
the historian OF human nature can paw
attention to something else besides
nationalism, socialism, autocracy and
the Last Argument of Kings
Today, the merest tyro in the study
of the worlds affairs, feels conscious
that tremendous movements far be-
yond our ken are taking place. We
know that the gigantic battle is but
symptom of world unrest. that it is
only the scabbard of the sword, the
mantle of mans intentions.
The woman who is wise today is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
Francis Benedici'Roper

Francis Benedict Roper, aged 20,
and Mary Hartman Roper, aged 81, re-
enacted their wedding ceremony of
fifty years ago on the day before
Christmas 1t was the occasion of
their golden wedding anniversary and
also in celebration of thirty-five years
spent in the same house. They live
at 300 East Fifth street today. the
same house they moved into in 1882.
An old fashioned wedding march
played by an orchestra was heard in
the Roper home at noon. Monday.
The aged couple marched proudly to
a mock altar and again became united
as man and wife. Surrounding them
were not the guests of fifty years ago
but their own flesh and blood. sons,
grandsOns and great grandsons.
AT the dinner given in honor of the
anniversary the table was decorated in
yellow while the room was trimmed in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

had a glimmering of it, but she w4s
not quite aware of the strength of
the movement. She still believes that
America is the land of birds of para
disc. She only thinks of us in terms
of Aladdin-like wealth and wearing
the clothes of old Bagdad.
However, when the new clothes ar
rive from Paris and the women of this
country digest them, they will be put
thru the sieve of public opinion, and
what comes out will be trustworthy.
There is much that women should
regard in clothes as a means to an
excellent end. They are going to be
too busy this entire winter to spend
hours of their time in shops, and they
will not be able to indulge in that
foolish fancy of sending up clothes on
approval and returning them the next
day. The shops, public opinion and
the indignation of intelligent women
are going to be directed against this
custom.
Therefore. it behooves every woman
to think well over what she wants to
buy for her outfit, and when she buys
it. to stick TO it. We ara a wasteful
nation in clothes as in food. Everyone
buys too many garments. Few of US
have striking individuality of thought
in clothes. Much of this condition is
due to the overwhelming display of
ready-to-wear costumes offered at a
reasonable price to every woman who
passes a window.
This situation may continue il. the
shops, but it must now meet a highly
trained mind. The woman who earns
money is apt to spend it more foolish
ly for clothes than the other kind of
woman. which is a truth that seems
to escape the majority of those who
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

eading the newspaper stories of pres
ent affairs alongside the histories of
other battles and other centuries. The
librarians say that never before have
women and men asked for so many
books on history They seem to APP
preciate the fact that nothing is new
and that all mans actions are based
on his fight for freedom.
These readers of history easily know
that the present struggle is but an
other evidence of huma n forces burst
ing from their swaddling clothes. 1t is
another echo of the cry that has been
made thru the centuries, but was
epitomized in Lincoln's government
of the people, by the people and for
the people,"
And in all this turmoil. those who
hold this electric torch before their
eyes. feeling sure of the final victory,
passionately believing that it is but
the bursting of democracy into full
bloom, viii see less of the present
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
MalyHatma7RoPer

Christmas colors. At the plates Of
the ''newlyweds'ss were placed envel-
opes. which to their surprise con-
tanned several gold pieces.
Mr.. Roper installed the first arc
light system in Topeka which was
known as the Brush Electric Light
plant. He is now employed at the
Santa Fe power house
His four living sons were present.
They are: w. 1. Roper, of Lawrence;
F. f. Roper and r. J. Roper, of Chi
cago, and Howard B. Roper of To-
peka- Mr.. and Mrs C. l. Hartman
of San Bernardino. Calf. were other
relatives present at the anniversary
celebration.
Mr. Roper was born March 21,
1S47, at Nelson, Ohio. Mrs Roper
was born February %. 1850, at Cham
pion, Ohio They were married at
Hiram, Ohio, December "a, 1867.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
rs SILVER DOLLARS
That Was Wedding Anniversary Pres
ent Given TO Gins. L. Sessions.

Charles H Sessions, secretary to
Governor Capper and veteran Topeka
newspaper man. was on the receiving
end OF a wedding anniversart surprise
party at the state house late Friday
afternoon. The party was staged by
state officials and employees in honor
OF Sessions twenty-fifth wedding an
niversary.
Just when Sessions was trying to
clean up the days mail and gather
the news final for his papers. the state
house family insisted on stopping the
work Sessions also wanted to rush
nome and celebrate the evening with
his family. So he didn't extend en-
enlargement to his visitors. Just
when Sessions was willing to admit
his evaporation, w A. Johnston
chief justice of the supreme court,
walked into the governors office and
complimented the governors priva tie
secretary on reaching his twenty-fifth
matrimonial mile post. He then
handed Sessions a bag containing %
silver dollars, an offering from the
state house crew.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

I preach.
This truth has struck home among
the English and French who say that
there has never been such extravagant
purchasing of clothes in those coun-
tries by the middle class women who
have gone to work for the first time.
The women in the munition plants
simply pour out their wages on finery
in the London shops, and the women
of the bourgeosie in Frence who are
making money in munitions, are going
to the great dressmaking houses in
Paris for the first time in their lives
and paying prices that heretofore were
only paid by the South American mil
lionaires.
The Business Woman's Clothes.
The condition that exists in Great
Britain and rance may be repeated
! in this country, but not in the same
way, because our great middle class
has possessed the millions. There will
certainly be a great curtailment in the
purchasing of extravagant and frivo-
lous clothes. High prices will be paid
for gowns as for coal and food, but
that's a part of the present scheme
of things-a vicious circle which not
even the government seems to be able
to break thru.
That thousands of girls and young
women who have taken the positions
of men in this country Will lavish their
wages on clothes, there is no more
doubt than there is that these women
viii always continue to work instead
of loaf. And so the appeal for con-
servation of clothes and for good taste
in selection must GO out to them even
more than to the woman who is work.
ing for nothing.
RightfuI Economy.
There should be strong series of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
USES KAN. IN TALKS
T7ngIisI' WAIT Prohibition Like sun
flower State sheldon Says.

Rev. Charles NJ Sheldon. who is as
Sisting in a prohibition campaign in
England, has encountered real enthu-
asm in the reception accorded anti
toOZe greetings from Kansas. In a
letter to Governor Camper. Rev. Shell
don states that the references to pro-
hibit'on successes in Kansas never
fail to bring a response.
Not only Kansas. but America, has
been praised and cheered by the Eng
l'sh people, the Topeka minister
Ithor declared. Have addressed
40 600 people in less than four weeks. -
said Rev. Sheldon in his letter. "Ev-
cry mention of America is greeted
with cheers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
RELATION OF WOMENS WAR WORK AND CLOTHES

Great Britain and France report that the unusual cond
ton of so many making high salaries, has pro-
duced reckless buying of clothes never before
equalled in those countries-As the thing will
probably be repeated here it is best for to learn
to buy wisely and well-France eliminates all waste
material in her clothes-The slim silhouette is
again the fashion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
Yep DOWN IN FLAMES
Was Seen to FAN into North Sea on
Coast of JutIand

Copenhagen, Dec 29-Destruction
of a German Zeppelin by fire off the
coast of Jutland. was reported here
today. The dirigibIe, in flames, fell
into the North sea.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-29
WHEAT HITS HIGHEST
PRICE IN MANY YEARS
May Reaches $1.9S18 on Sensa-
tional Reports of Crop DAM
age-Buying Is Heavy

CHICAGO. March 29.--Heavy profit TAX
ing sent July and September wheat off to-
day after the entire list of futures had
broken all records for great many years
on a fresh avalanche of sensational crop
damage news May, however, finished near
the top.
Among the important purchasers was a
house that has an expert travelling in Kan
sas and its takingS We're based on a mes
sage from Lacrosse to the effect that from
that point west the crop was virtually gone.
The dispatch added that a large acreage
in the big belt of that State was total
failure.
May here was carried far above the level
at Winnipeg for the same future. which
is unnatural in view of the relative differ
encc in the quality of the two crops. Bulls
talked of more than So for May here.
The previous high mark for that position
was made on November Is last, when it
sold at Sl.95a. Premiums the cash
article were big.
The high on May was S1.9SB the low
$1.9i$ and the close S1.9Sk to Sl.97N.
against S1.94A at the close yesterday; the
hest on July was Sl6s24, the low $l.66$i
and the close $166a to Sl.665s, against
S1.66ia at the end yesterday the top on
September was $1.55 Y, the bottom S1.53 a
and the final $1.54 to s1.53N, compared with
S153%, yesterdays last price.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-29
COTTON IS STEADY,
BUT TRADING SMALL
Wall Street, Room Traders and
Liverpool are Moderate Buy
ers-Southerners Sell

NEW YORK. March 29-Business was
much smaller at the opening of the cotton
market, but the tone was steady to firm
and advances of 8 to IL points were re-
corded. Wall street, room traders and
Liverpool were moderate buyers while COM
mission houses and southern interests sold.
The early advance carried the active
months about TO II points net higher,
with May relatively firm. Enough realiz-
ing was encountered around this level to
cause reactions of or points from the
hest hut trading was quiet during the
middle of the morning with the undertone
steady.
persistent spot house demand for the
near months and its extension into the new
crop months led to fairly active short
covering movement on when May advanced
20 1o17c and october to 1S.22c Wall Street
and western longs we're free sellers on the
advance and by midafterno'n the list had
reacted about 10 points.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-29
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, March 20.-For reasons so
far unaccounted for the foreign exchange
market this morning furnished great sur
prise in that absolutely no quotations were
obtainable either for German or Austrian
exchange Sterling and francs, guilders,
rubles and Scandinavian exchange showed
steadiness
Quotations We're:
Demand sterling AS "a, cables 4.76 "a,
siXty-day bills nominaly 4.72, ninety-day
bills 40
Franc cables 5S3iB, checks 5.S4Fs.
Swiss cables 503h, checks 5.04A
Guilder cables 40ia, checks 4Oi6
Ruble cables .2S.42, checks 2S,32.
Stockholm cables 2975, checks 1865.
Christiana cables $3.50, checks 29,40.
Copenhagen cables $3.50, checks $3.50.
Pesetas rose to the highest figures on this
Immediate movement, 21.6O for cables and
21.50 for checks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-29
ELISHA LEE IS NAMED
p. II. r. GENERAL MANAGER
Succeeds Simon Cameron Long, Who
Died on Sunday-Takes
Office April

Elisha Lee. assistant general manager of
the Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburgh.
has been appointed to succeed Simon Cam
eron Long, who died suddenly last Sunday,
as general manager of the Pennsylvania
Rallroad. Announcement of Mr.. Lees ap-
pointment, which is to take effect April 1,
was made today at the general offices of the
railroad in Broad Street Station.
MIR. Lee entered the service of the Penn
sylvania in 1892 as rodman in a surveying
party attached to the Tyrone division.
Since then he has been continuously with
the railroad except for two years, when he
was on leave of absence He has been
chairman of the conference committee of
managers of eastern railroads during nego-
tiations with railroad labor organizations.
He has been assistant general manager
since May 1, 1916
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-29
MONEY.LENDING RATES

NEy, yORK-Call money opened Lending
"a raneving 2L per cent, high 2h per
anu , Low 9M per cent. last 2A per cent.
c1s, C,nse az per cent to az per cent Ruling
ra,y T,,,,e money was quoted at sh @S% per
=. in,i, sl, .,xtv and ninety days on good mixed
eya S,nc,, Exchange collateral There was
trading in four months loans at * per
cent. while for five ana SIX ,, ,noh'hs w.
w, pr,,ne hank acceptance were quoted at
az nav per cent for eligibles an ~ @sx
per cent for ineligibles, a,,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-29
VEGETABLES

Demand was only moderate and the market
showed little change Quota tions; White Pc pc;
2.75 New York choice. 81. 50Nr 50; Maine,
choice, s2.75; western choice. $225m250; white
potatoes. Eastern shore, per bbl;-No. l. $50 "a
800; No. >. Sl.5Om3; sweet potatoes, Delaware
and Maryland. per hampsr---No /, sl,75@2;
No. ., s1.23GD 80; ,culls, 81; sweet potatoes
bo@65c: onions, per lO0-lb. bag. No. yellow
75 ,cabbage. Florida, per hamper, sag
Norfolk, per bbl. 81. % @2.5G; do, Texas, per
OF. 80; caulfower. Norfolk. per crate, $l.5O@
3 Lettuce Florida; fancy per basket $33@gSS:
celery, Fla, per 1O-inch crate, SO @3.5 30; beans
Florida. per basiet-Grccn, S5M1; Wax, SOC I;
Florida per boz sG@7.73; SQUASH, Florida, per
box. Sl.7J602.25; peas. Florida, per basket. 81
asparagus, southern per dozen buncnes-Fancy
N50Q6; choice, Gp4 mushrooms. per Alb
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-29
PHILADELPHIA
MARKETS
GRAIN AND FLOUR

wHEAT-Reccipts. sa,lGs bushels Spccula-
son in the West was bullish and with light
ssWerings and fair demand prices advanced Sc.
opuotations. Car lots. IN export cicvator--NO =
"a spot, S2.OI liz; No. . southern red,
NJ o5 az lO Steamer No. red. S2U3M 2OS;
No q red. s203m2.O OS; rejected A. $500 2Oi;
re}eoGIRsN }reoGIRsN1Reccipts. .o.Gi2 bush. Prices ad-
.orced &c under light offerings and strong
western adyicGs Quota Ions Car lots for local
Trade as to loCation-Wcstcrn, No. yellow.
ssi Si q 32 do, No. ! yellow, Si2gI 80; do,
No. yellow, 81 LIS; southern, No. vel
tov; 81. 30dpl.31.
i0TA ToAfs%kcceipts, 2o,ti3 bush. The market
.,as duet but urn, with liEht offerings. Quota.
ions: No white .75m7jla G; standard white,
T@74h c; No, 3 white, i3M ,3isc; NO. wmte,
.sJri2D2c q; sample oats. go :. IOc.
! FIoUR-lteceipts, 49, b,.s. and 700, 73o lbs.
IN sacks. The market was quiet with transac.
lions mostly in secondhand stocks, which were
AVAILABLE below mill limits. Quotations per
ieg lbs in wood tCotton or iutc sacks about 20
iess) Winter straignt $S.75m1;2@i Kansas.
clear, SgGtp.2J: do, straight, $3.50 n 30; do,
natent, 81. 70m 10j spring. first clear. $S. 81 a.
kIO; do. patent, So 5Om 10; do, favorito brands.
Sio 80 q 1920; city mills. choice and fancy pat
snt $40 500 tO.9O.
RYE FLOUR was firm and higher. We quote
AsMs 80 per bbl,, as to quality.