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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-11
Rev. w, S. Sweet

Rev. w. s. Sweet, we'll known in
Spring Green and the western part OF
Sank county, died few days ago at
Richland Center. His last trip was to
Rochester.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-11
Fisher--st. Clair

Edward Fisher and EAama st. Clair,
both of Reedsburg, were married in
the office of Court Commissioner H. L.
Halsted this afternoon. The couple
was attended by Mr.. and Mrs. Wede-
kind of BarabOO.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-11
Mrs. Henry Strickerd

Mrs. Henry Strickerd died at her
home near Sandusky early Thursday
morning. She had been i'll for some
time. Her husband and one child sur
vive.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-11

to fodder, but when converted into
culent feed-F. D. King.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-11
CARD OF THANKS

We desire to express our thanks to
our relatives, friends, pallbearers and
minister who sympathized and helped
us in our late sorrow; also for the
many beautiful flowers.
- c. Schellenberger
and family.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-11
Ollapodrida
DEPARTMENT DEVOTED TO INTERESTS OF NEWS READERS:

II you have something timely topic question to
ask, please this department. Limit all
nunicatons 800 words less.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-11
The Thiemann School of Music

Piano, Violin, Vocal, Harmony
Complete musical education. Latest
teaching principles. Send for infor-
nation.
.s18 Broadway, cor. 9TH Ave-, Baraboo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
FLOCK TO THE COLORS
Organize 800 New Licutenants for
Army at TT. LeavenwOrth.

Leavenworth, Kan, Jan. 3.-Newly
commissioned second lieutenants many
from private life and others from the
ranks, were arriving here today in
large numbers and are reporting to
the commandant of the army service
schools at Fort Leavenworth for
course of instruction designed to fit
them for service in the army. The
school will be opened at once it was
announced by Col. J. S. McAndrew,
assistant commandant, who will be in
charge of the school.
1t was said that about 300 would
report here. The new officers will be
organized into companies much as are
the cadets at West Point Those who
have had no previous military service
will undergo for a time training SINH
lar to that given the "rooky" enlisted
man. Those reporting were appointed
under the new army increase plan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03

The Temple Builders will hold their
services until s further notice Thursday
building which they have recently pur-
chased on the corner of Fourth and Mon
roe streets.
The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Kelley who
died at the home of her sister, Mrs. E. B.
Jolley; Tuesday, evening at 5 o'clock will
be held Thursday afternoon at O'Clock
at the Third Christian church
Mrs. J. ]. Williams who has been ill
of toLsilitis the past week is recovering.
day afternoon at her home, East Crane
street, by number of friends who helped
her commemorate her seventy third birth
Tigren, Mrs. segerstrom. Mrs. Heslind,
Mrs. Axel Carlson, Mrs. Fred Carlson, Mrs.
Mrs. East Mrs. Vickland, Mrs. Olson, Mrs.
Lagerberg, Mrs Frank Johnson: Mrs.
Enugstrom; Miss Anna Anderson; Mrs; X;
Isaacson, Mrs. Wesley Johnson. Mrs. Carl
johnson, Miss Vivian Isaacson, Miss Flor
ence johnson and Miss Betty Louise John
son.
Mrs. Frank HES was hostess to the
Lotus club Tuesday ..r,,,ernoon at her home,
East Tenth avenue The honors Of the af =,
aa' sehuf Sss Mr n1 SG esrss
D. .villee, Mrs. S. H Spencer. Mrs. James
Brizendine, Mrs. A: S. Sieber and Mrs:
be Mrs Eldon Who Wi
tain the club in two weeks at her home.
1O2 North Clay street.
a. Il
day afternoon by Mrs. Sam Cremer at her
home, 215 Grattan street instead of Mrs.
Charles Weimer. formerly announced.
The Christmas exchange will be held at
this time
Mr. and Mrs James Mullin have return
ed from Barryville. Ark, where they spent
the holidays. They were accompanied
home by Mrs. Mullins mother, Mrs. Hester
Sprecher, who has been visiting in Barry
vile since Thanksgiving. Mrs. Specher.
who has been i'll of the grippe since her
return, is recovering.
went a surgical operation at Stormont hos
pital Wednesday morning.
The C. W. 3. NJ. of the Third Christian
church will meet Friday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Frank Newland, East Sixth
avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. George Nightingale have
returned to their home in Salina. after
spending last->week as guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Newland.
A ladies' Bible class of the East Side
L. B. church organized Tuesday even
ing at the home of Mrs. J. Stafford. The
The officers elected were: Mrs Ellen
Sheldon teacher: Mrs. Lula Harper. presi-
dent: Mrs. G. MetZger, treasurer: Mrs. f.
w. Mendenhall. secretary. Meetings will be
held the first and third Thursdays in the
month. The next meeting will be held
Roby.
Mr. and Mrs. George Cole entertained at
dinner Monday for the following guests :
Mr.. and Mrs. c. j. Cherry, Mr. and Mrs
c. H Taylor. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles f.
Cole, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Cole, Miss Har-
riet Cherry, Mrs. Harriet Checksfield, Miss
Mildred and Miss Harriet Taylor, Miss
Edith, Edna and Miss Jessie Cole Mr.
Bert Anderson, Mr.. Lowell Dyal, Mr.. Geo.
Cole and Master Donald Cole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
BREAKS TWO TREATIES
Turkey Declares Independence From
Guardship of Great Powers.

Washington, Jan. Turkey has
abrogated the treaty of Paris of 1855
and the treaty of Berlin of 1878 as not
binding upon the Ottoman empire.
In a note to the German and the
governments, copies
of which have reached here the sub
lime porte declared its independence
from the collective guardianship of
the great powers"
Turkey bases her action on the plea
that the other powers derived all the
benefit from the treaties and failed to
keep their pledges to Turkey. Ag-
gressions by England, France, Russia
and Italy, especially are mentioned,
and Turkey declares these sufficient to
make the treaties null and without
contra cturaI value"
The treaties were drawn up follow
ing the Crimean war and the Russo
Turkish war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Circulation.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

Believing that the answer OF the
Alli~s is a flat rejection of her peace
offer. Germany will not announce the
rms on which she will make peace,
but will confine her reply TO an effort
to fix the responsibility for the con-
tinuance of the war. Thus is opened
up the prospect for the same sort of
an interminable debate that the Allies
and the Central Powers INDUCED in as
to who was responsible for beginning
the war. 1t is important this time.
tho. that they will be haranSuing on 2
question, the basis of which is the
bringing about of peace, and some
thing may come of it. Once get the
minds of men turned in the direction
of any desirable goal and they are sure
to reach it the sooner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03

Man Who Attempted to Kill Larimer
Said To Be Convict.

Archie Lewis, in the county Jail
charged with attempting to kill Hugh
Larimer, undersheriff and sheriff
elect, is said to be wanted in Okla
homa to complete penitentiary sem
tence- Joseph Holman, deputy sher-
iff, made that discovery today.
Holman has said since Lewis was
arrested that he knew him. But he
couldn't place him. Today he was
going thru a list of pictures and de-
scriptions of men wanted and found
LewisS picture. He found his name
also. The description fits, altho
Lewis is now eight years older than at
the time it was made. The clincher
is the fact that the description says
the escaped man was minus the
thumb on the left hand.
The circular says Lewis was SEN
fenced to the Oklahoma penitentiary
at McAllister in June, 1908, for five
years on a grand larceny charge. He
escaped the following year and a re-
ward of $50 has been offered for his
arrest. Lewis is charged with at
tempting to shoot Larimer when the
latter attempted to arrest him for
burglary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
KEEP HANDS OFF
Brotherhoods Not to Monkey With
Rail Laws Before Congress.

Cleveland. o., Jan. 3.-Railroad and
railroad labor legislation now before
congress will not be aided or opposed
by the Railroad Brotherhoods, it has
developed.
w. G. Lee, president of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen who is
sued a statement charging the rail-
roads are trying to make the Adam1
son law appear to be impossible of
operation, has notified his legislative
agent in Washington not to take ac-
ton either for or against two measures
now before congress, one a bill pro-
viding for compulsory arbitration and
the other empowering the president
to take over the railroads of the ma
ton under certain conditions.
You represent us in Washington
merely to report on what is said and
what is done concerning legislation in
which we are interested" Lee in
formed his agent. In his statement
earlier in the day Lee declared that
labor organizations, among them the
railroad brotherhoods, are law-abiding
and not breaking bodies.
Recall if you can an instance
where labor organizations have at
tempted to enjoin the government
from enforcing a federal statute" he
said.
Remember, the railways are not
enjoining the brotherhoods, but are
enjoining the government"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03

Presumably the German editors
who are insisting that their country's
reply to the Allies answer to the Ger
man peace proposal should be made
by its armies and that Germany
should fight, if necessary, to the last
drop of her blood-presumably they
are about to lay down their pens, shut
up shop and take their places on the
battle lines. But maybe these German
editors are of the same type as the
lingo editors of this country, supreme
ly content if there are others to do the
fighting for their nation which they
are so keen to urge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
THE FAILURES OF 1916
6,49S Business Firms in L. S. Went
to Wall Last Year.

New York. Jan. 3.-Bradstreet's
Journal in it's issue of January 6 will
say:
There were 16,49S failures report
ed to Bradstreet's Journal for the cal
endar year of 1916, a decrease of 1873
per cent from the previous year and
of 1.6 per cent from 1914, but an in
crease of 1873 per cent over 1918 and
of rs per cent over 1906.
Liabilities for the year aggregated
S170,752,172, a decrease of 40 per cent
from 1915 and of Al per cent from
1913, while they were less than half
that amount for the year 1914. Every
group of states but the northwest,
where the spring wheat crop failed,
showed decrease in number from a
year ago and liabilities fell off in
every group"
A similar report issued by r. G.
Dun & Co. today placed the number
of failures for the year at 1699S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
U.S.DANGEROUS ENEMY
Carranza's Rejection of Border Con-
ference Used to Incite People.

Queretaro, Mex, Jan. 3.-Felix M.
Paiavacini, former secretary of public
instruction, who often has spoken for
General Carranza declared before the
constitutional assembly late last night
that the international situation was
grave. General Carranza the speaker
said, had refused to resume confer
ences with the United States repre-
sentatives until the American troops
were Withdrawn from Mexico uncon-
ditionally and he declared that the as
sembly must rush the work on the
constitution and proclaim the rights
of the people, while General Carranza
and the constitutional forces were
battling against a dangerous enemy to
save the national honor and integrity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
ONLY ONE MISSING
And He'll be Back Soon Says Warden
OF Convicts Given Vacation.

Leavenworth, Kan, Jan. 3.-The
editorial and mechanical forces of The
Squared Deal, the publication of the
state penitentiary are anxiously await
ing today the homecoming of Tex
Shafter, editor Of the periodical and
one of the honor parole convicts re-
leased for a ten-day Christmas holi-
day. Shafter should have been home
yesterday according to his parole, and
to get out his paper Friday. The
other honor prisoners have returned.
Warden J. K. Codding believes Shafter
will return, too.
Don't worry, the warden said.
tShafter telegraphed me his train was
late. He's been too active in installing
the honor system here to break it,
Sha fter spent his holiday at Calves
ton. Texas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03

Samuel Clark has returned t. his home
in Hutchinson after visiting his mother
Mrs. George Clark and the Rev. Mr.. Clark
of AFTER avenue. Mrs. Clark has been ill the
past month of rheumatism.
The Oakland w. c. It. L. held a meeting
Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs
g. H. Ensign. The roll call was answered
by peace sentiment Miss Augusta Waite
read paper on Military Training in Our
Schools. Mrs. II. w. Mohler gave u read
ing Aunt Rachels Advice" and MES J.
Legit read a paper on United States's
Part in the Peace Movement of the Foreign
Nations" The members present were: Mrs.
Bell Shehi. Mrs. Esther Campbell, Mrs
Maude Eastman, Mrs. Bell Leery. Mrs
Thomas Cottle. Mrs. Nellie Wright, Mrs
Mary Huey, Mrs. J. l.. Heller. Mrs. John
Stamm, Mrs. Il. w Mohler, Mrs. Jennie
Liggett, Mrs. Mary Vendik, Mrs. Anna Har-
ris Miss Augusta Waite and Mrs. Maud
Lindsey of Culwin, Kan
Mrs. j. Wilson and her little daughter
Royene, AFTER avenue. have just returned
from Kansas City where they spent the
holidays with Mrs Wilson's son, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Wilson.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Oakland
Presbyterian church will hold an all day
quilting Thursday at the home of Mrs.
James Doyle. Forest avenue.
Mrs; L. Biscoe. AFTER avenue, who has
been i'll several days. is recovering. Mr..
Biseoe has returned from his annual hunt
ing trip in Granite Springs. Va, having
been at that point the past three months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
WHEAT FOR FARMERS
Millers and Santa Fe Will Distribute
Seed This Year.

The campaign of distributing seed
wheat among the farm' RS of south
western Kansas by the Santa Fe in
dustrfal department and the millers of
the state is to be repeated next year
Some $4,000 bushels of seed, in
tended to raise the grade of grain
grown in the state was distributed
thru the agencies of the road and the
millers, in time for planting the next
crop.
III. NJ. Banner, agricultural and in
dustrlal agent of the Santa Fe, is al
ready making arrangements to meet
the millerS of the southern and west
ern sections some time in April and
discuss plans for distributing more
wheat next year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
INDIAN GETS REPRIEvE
Washington State Petitioners Urge
Life Sentence Instead of Death.

Spokane, Wash, Jan. 3.-Edward
Mayberry. a half breed Indian SEN
fenced in federal court here TO be
hanged January II for the murder of
Alice Vivian, an Indian girl, on the
Co1v1lle reservation, was granted
sixty-day reprieve by President Will
son according to a telegram received
yesterday from Washington.
Capital punishment has been abol-
1shed in this. state and petitions were
sent to Washington asking the pres
ident to commute Mayberry's SEN
tence to life imprisonment so his
punishment by the federal govern
ment would correspond with that he
would receive under the state law
me reprleve was granted, the pres
ldent telegram said, so that he might
examine the arguments of the petit
TONERS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
WILSON KNOWS TERMS
If Entente Wants Them, Address
Z. S, President.

London, Jan. 3.-Dec1aration that
President Wilson knows the peace
terms of the central powers was made
in New Years speech at Budapest
by Count Andrassy, according to a
Central News dispatch from Amster-
dam this afternoon.
The Central News quoted Andrassy
as saying that IF the entente desires
to learn our terms they can do so
from that source" in referring to
America.
Entente'S Note Delivered.
Berlin. Jan. (via Sayville Wire
less) The Swiss minister at Berlin
today delivered to Germany the en-
tenteS reply to Germany's peace note
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
MOBILES KILLED MONK
More Evidence Procured to Show
Cars Evil Genius Was Murdered.

London, Jan. 3.-More circumstan-
tial details supporting the reported as
sassination of Gregory Rasputin, the
Siberian monk reputed to be Car
Nicholas's evil genius, We're received
here today, indicating that he was
murdered by one or more men of NO
BILE rank
According to this version, several
mobiles took the monk into an automo-
bile on prominent street, driving to
the palace of the young Prince Yus-
supoff
grounds of the palace. but when po-
lice entered, and found blood spots
they were assured the blood was from.
a dog, whose body was shown
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
TROUTMAN is NAMED
Topeka Lawyer on State Bar Examin-
ing Board.

The supreme court today announced
the reappointment of Senator James
A. Troutman, Topeka, and Represen-
tative A. M. Keene, Fort Scott, as
members of. the state bar examining
board. Appointments are for three
year terms.
Senator Troutman was appointed by
the court to fill the uneXpired term
of J. d. Mcfarland, Topeka, resigned.
Keene has been a member of the
board for several years. Their terms
expire this month, but under the ac-
ton of the court both men are reap
pointed for three-year terms. Judge
D. M. Dale of Wichita, is the third
member. Troutman and Keene are
Republicans, while Judge Dale is
Democrat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03

Dear Ethel:
Your sincere little note demands an
answer.
Your mamma is right is just as
bad to think wrongly as to do wrong
ly.
This is a funny world, Ethel. The
things that people say and do are not
SO restricted as they should be. Every
day you may read in the newspapers
or hear at school things that make
you husband wonder.
The only way to avoid such incl
dents is to fill this big land of ours
with more such little girls as you.
The Bringing Up Father" pictures
are drawn by a man in New York.
He sends the pictures to many news
papers all over the United States. The
cartoons come to us, Ethel, in such
manner that it would be impossible
you must have your mamma explain
to you the reason that Father" says
by Golly." 1t is a typical Irish
phrase that fits an Irish character of
this type. You must read those things
in the spirit they are written, Ethel.
Don't take them seriously.
Nevertheless your little letter is ap-
preciated and contains a just critic
ism. 1t is too bad that the newspa-
pers have to print things that deal
with a part of life unknown to inno-
cent girls and boys. But if the news
papers didn't print the bad as we'll as
the good the world would not know
just how much there is to be done to
carry out Christ's teachings.
Always be careful what you read
and write and say. Ethel, and you
will have done your part in making
this a better. brighter, happier uni
verse. THE EDITOR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL


Ex- Congressman Bishop w. Perkins of
Oswego was commissioned Friday by Gov
ernor Humphrey to succeed the Hon. L. IL.
Plumb United States senator.
Many Topeka people maintained open
house, New Years afternoon. Among
them We're: The Misses Simpson, Miss
Helen Scott S24 jackson street: Messrs. Ed
Walker. Philip Eastman, Carl Latham and
]. r. Sargent: 104 Woodlawn; Messrs
Frank Crane, Charles Dick and Charles
McCabe, Sl3 Harrison street.
Despite unfavorable weather there We're
10 empty seats at the Grand for the closing
meeting of the State Temperance associa
ton. Edwin Il. Kreser of Kansas City,
rendered two instrumental solos. Prof. II.
L. Cummock, of Northwestern university,
rendered Il series of readings. Miss Lillian
Kreiser followed with song, Spring
time" She made many friends upon her
first appearance in Topeka.
A large number of friends of Charles
Eagle assembled at the cigar establishment
Of that gentleman and presented him with
a fine diamond stud. Frank Quinton made
the presentation speech.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
9 BILLION In CROPS
Texas First, Illinois Second, Kansas
Fifth in Showing VI

Washington, Jan. almost nine
ollilon dollars was the aggregate value
of all crops of the country last wear
In an estimate announced today by the
department of agriculture the value
was set at $S,934, $4,000 That was
an increase of $2,165, 9S9,00O over the
value of 1915 crops and $2,S67, 2O6,OOO
over the average of the years 1910 to
1914.
Texas held its lead as first state in
value of its crops but Illinois as Sec
ond state in 1915 was displaced bv
Iowa last year. The other states Of
the leading ten in order of value of
their crops were:
Nebraska, Georgia, Kansas, Pennsyl-
vania, New York, Indiana and Ohio.
Except North Dakota every state
state showed increase in the value of
its crops last year over 1915 Ala
bama increase was very slight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
We ARE TAGGING
America Is Far Behind the
Countries Of Europe.
PrOSSer Tells ROtarianS the
Schools Are at Fault.

Charles A. Prosser, head of the Dun
woodie Institute of Minneapolis, plead
ed before the Topeka Rotary club, at
Pelletier's tea room today, for a sys-
tenn of education adaptable to Ameri-
can youths that will place them on a
par with the children of France and
Germany in the economic world. He
pointed to the waste in American in
dustrial life arising from Americas in
efficiency in an industrial way, COM
pared to Germany and France.
He described the American habit of
selling raw materials to foreign coun-
purchasing them at prices twenty and
thirty times their original value. This
is because the economic education of
America is inferior to that of other
countries he declared, and America at
present is not capable of turning out
the finished products to compete with
those abroad.
Germany, the speaker told Rotar-
ians, had adopted a system of educa-
ton adaptable to her people a hum
dred years ago. Today, he declared,
Germany surpasses the world in art,
in music, in literature and in eff
cheney.
All of this need of Americas grow
ing generations lies in the camp of
the American schoolmaster, he told
the Rotarians. In fact, upon the
teachings of the youths in schools de-
ponds the peace of tomorrow, more
than in the training of an army or
navy or in the building of battleships
and submarines Mr.. Prosser was in
troduced by H. B. Wilson, superin-
tendent of schools
w. c. F. Reichenbach, retiring pay
master of the Santa Fe, and John c.
Fink, the new paymaster, were guests
of the club and introduced to Rotar-
ianS by President Fred Voiland.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-03
BUYS DISCARDED GUNS
Carranza Agents in Japan to Purchase
Munitions and Steamer

Toxic, Jan. st is reported that
Colonel Carpio and two other repre-
sentatives of General Carranza are
now in Japan with the object of pur-
chasing ammunition. rifles, artillery
and steamship. They are said to
have been negotiating for the 5000
ton vessel Kotchira Maru, which re-
Gently was chartered by the newly
formed Kwatsuda Shipping company.
The Kotchira Maru cleared from
Yokohama yesterday with Salina Cruz,
Mexico, as her destination. The mani
rest lists her cargo as general mer-
chandise ard machinery. An uncon-
flrmed report is current that the
steamer carries $500 rifles purchased
from various japanese brokers from
stock discarded as unsuitable by rep
reSentat1Ves of the entente powers