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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
Railroad Co. Clears
Transportation Tangles

The New Haven railroad has issued
a. statement explaining the contro-
versy over the transportation Of
troops and the issuance of passes to
inspecting officers.of the units whose
members are on guard duty protect
ing railroad property. The statements
effect Is simply an announcement that
the war department expects to pay
for the movement of troops and as
to the passes, these are being issued
in accordance with the request of the
war department, through division
commanders and not directly to those
who will use them. Colonels Good
man and Isbell, according to the an
nouncement. will get such passes for
the month of July.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
Wheeler & Wilson
Concert Program

The following program will be
played by the Wheeler & Wilson,
Fourth Regiment, c. H. g. band, June
20, at o'clock. Seaside park:
Star Spangled Banner.
Marshall, America, Lamecnik.
Overture-Our Glorious Nation,
Berg.
Waltz de Concert, Mckee.
Concerts Solo. {Mr. AID Vermont. Sc
lected.
selection-My Home Town Girl
Hirsh.
Popular Medley Remicks. Lampe.
American Fantasia, Robinson.
America.
Louis F. Chermak, conductor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
J AN ARMY IN THE AIR

HE PROGRAM for army in the air will make dra
- matte appeal to the American mind. The flying ma
chine invention 1t has not been used to the
lent of its possibilities America make the implements
ording standardized methods by the thousands 1t ought
not to be Impossible to put into the air the armies of the
Powers hundred thousand machines which would be
sufficient The Allies would have full view of the
battlefield, throue air control.
Machines moving in large numbers ought to be effective
against Essen and against the German naval base ct the Ke
canal The project comparatively expensive and worth
irving Recruits will be easy to get This sort of fighting
peas to the imagination The young will flock to the
service N
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
HARTFORD,s GENEROSITY

ARTFORDS CONTRIBUTION to the Red Gross is far in
excess of the donations of any other Connecticut city,
Springfield beaten also Credit is hereby given Bridge
port sorry greater but Bridgeport is in
wealth. though rich industry, and may not draw its
the of absentee
ship waterbury contributions show the benefits de-
the presence of industry owned at home by
who live in the home town.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
NO CANNON SALUTES
IN ARMY CAMPS

washington, June 27-Suspension
during the war of all cannon salutes
to visiting dignit4ries in army posts,
fortifications or encampments was orr
dered yesterday by the war depart
ment.
Athletic contests except interclass
meets have, been suspended at West
Point for the calendar year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
LIMITING FOOD EXPORTS

N HE COUNTRY has decided to limit exports Of wheat and
other going to neutrals and to apporton
shipments to the Allies The first ought to
useful limiting supplies to neutras adjacent to Ger
many little may be will reach the Kaiser; als0 if
the limitation drastic by encouraging neurals to all
ships perhaps to enter the It conceivable that
may be willing become allies with those who alone
can furnish the necessaries of life.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
u. s. Cruiser Olympia
is Stranded In Shoal
Off Block Island Sound

Newport, R. T., June 27-The con-
dition of the United States cruiser
Olympia, which struck on shoa1 in
Block Island Sound yesterday, was not
revealed by naval authorities here
early today. Although the crew aban-
doned the warship and came to the
naval station here, reports to the
navy department last night SAL the
vessel was resting easy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
Germans Can Receive
Visitors Twice Weekly

Boston. June 27-Authority has been
received from Washington to grant
the German seamen detained on Gall
lop's Island In the harbor here, the
privilege of receiving visitors. Rela-
tives and friends will be permitted to
go to the detention camp on Tuesday
and Thursday of each week.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27

LANE TO COAL OPERATORS

~
mine anthracite and bunous COAL and this part Of
What he said
you
adjust
OF o
greater
me-
8 to m
for his country Is
These Americans brought face to face with duty were
ike the They appladed the speaker and began steps for
he control of the coal output and the reduction of it's price
those really do difficult things in spirit of
sut most willing to take task however disagree
lble if duty demands it..
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
ICE AND ELECTRICITY

- rEW YORK city is having its own struggles with price
regulation The electric light monopoly has just been
disciplined SO has cut to small consumers The
lice trust is now the grill Ice went so cents hundred
because as it appears the trust wanted dividends
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
Late Fads
in Women's Neckwear

The "Paul Revere Collar is Of
white linen, rolling wide, and ternni-
mating in V-point. Very comfort
able 30 cts
Lace Stocks with full fluffy jabots
to protect the neck are very pretty,
so cts
A Black SILK Tab to wear with
stocks is prim, ministerial affair,
very striking when worn with lacey
frills, 30 cts
Net Guimpes have acquired lace
iabots which hutter bewitchingly ox-s-
side the coat. With silk coat suit it
obviates the necessity Of wearing d
blouse, $500 and $3.50
Main noor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27

katherine Sarah MacQuoid, British
novelist, is dead. aged SO.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
Germany Ignores Own
Part In Norwegian Plot

Copenhagen, June 27.-Gernan news
papers generally refrain from bother
ing their readers with embarrassing
details of the German bomb conspiracy
in Christiania- They eliminated yes
terday from a Norwegian news agency
dispatch all reference to German COM
plicity in the plot to sink ships, and
suppress entirely today dispatches i'm
plicating the German official courier
and the German legation.
Two Scandinavian ships were sunk
by the Germans, one was a Norwegian
and the other Swedish.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-06-27
Sets Of Standard Books

s at bargain prices
Kipling, 9 volumes Of his early
work, the best of all he has written,
$500
The Everyman Encyclopedias.
Twelve volumes, the size, as every
man knows, is. convenient for the top
of any writing desk or table, $1,000
James Whitcomb Riley. Six vol
umes, beautifully done in leather,
o. Henry, in red Russia leather in .
dividually or IN sets, at
$1.75 per volume
Lives of Eminent Men
James j. Hill. vols. $500
John Marshall, 2 vols. $500
John Hay, 2 vols. $500
Book Section. Main floor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
SHE APPEALS TO STATE
TopeIxa's Old Friend, Mabel Vernon,
Requests Flood of kilograms.

Topeka's old friend, Miss Mabel
Vernon, has appealed to Kansas wo-
men to swing into the national suf-
frage fight with 100 kilograms TO Pres
ident Wilson. OF course, Miss YER
non urged, the kilograms should be
distributed from over the state and
from representative leaders.
The telegram urging action by Kan
sas women was sent by Miss Vernon to
Miss Maude Mary Kline, 103 Western
avenue. The message was sent during
an idle hour which Miss Vernon was
enjoying in the Washington, d. c.,
workhouse. With other suffragettes
Miss Vernon worked in the picket line
in front of the White House. A num-
Der of the leaders were arrested on
various occasions and in the last cru
SADIE a kindly and gentle spirited po-
lice magistrate became better ac-
quainted with his regular patrons and
gave them sixty day. sentences in the
workhouse.
It was Miss Vernon who spent sew
eral months in Topeka for the con-
gressional union. In that time she
led blockading party to Governor Cap
per's home, where President Wilson
was a guest. The women's row which
followed the effort to put the presi-
dent in a hole was somewhat the
warmest smash-up the new Kansas
voters have encountered. In spite of
the big row, several Topeka women
have offered to send messages to the
president and pay the telegraph tolls
from their weekly allowances
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
DRAFT GRAFTERS BUSY
''SIickers'' Blk Foreigners With Ex-
emption Guarantees.

Chicago. July 1.-the Y. NJ. c. A.
and other organizations are formulat-
ing plans today to combat the efforts
of confidence men who are obtaining
considerable sums of money, it is said,
selling promises to get exemptions
from the draft. The imposters are
said to work principally ill sections of
the city which are populated by for
eigners who have little knowledge of
the English language.
They pick as their victims foreign
ers who have dependent families and
who hope to be exempted on that plea,
the confidence men assuring them that
with their help, they will be able to
avoid the draft but without it they
must serve in the army. They work
strictly on the cash in advance plan
and are said to have cheated a large
number of persons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
Ex-COngressman Taggart APP
pointed as the Attorney.
TO DETERMINE RESPONSIBILITY
Several Hearings Will Be Held
in Topeka Shortly.
Manipulation of Kaw Valley
Potato Prices Watched.

Kansas IS to have a food probe.
Acting under directions from the
federal government, Joseph Taygart of
Kansas City, former congressman
from the Second district. will look
into the high cost of living in this
state. Taggart was recently appointed
special attorney for the fe1eral trades
commission. Under directions from
the commission, he will begin a series
of Investigations of food and fuel
prices.
Enormous increases in prices of
food products will be basis for the fed
eral probe. While Taggarl has made
no definite statement of his plans or
the exact extent of his inquiry, he has
poses to determine the responsibility
for abnormal prices and extravagant
profits. Prosecution by lie federal
government is the course to be pur-
sued following the Investigations
Several hearings may be held IN
Topeka, according to reports of a
semi-official character. Taggart,
however, will probably make his first
inquiry into market prices ard condi-
lions in Kansas City. He will then
towns in Kansas. Topeka, Wichita,
| Hutchinson and other distributing
centers may be visited.
i Watching the Kav Valley.
Just now, it is reported, the trades
commission is watching the manipu-
lation of prices in handling the Kaw
valley potato crop. Last year the
Kaw valley farmers sold their pota-
toes at slightly more than production
cost prices. A few weeks later they
were sold to Kansas consumers by
food SPECTATORS who received two and
three times the original price to the
producer.
Not only will the probe extend to
the speculations in grains and food
products of all characters, but it will
reach to the so-called food hogs who
have held their crops or bought and
stored necessities in an effort to in
flate market prices. 1t is reported
that a number of men familiar with
market conditions and all questions
of supply and demand in this terri
tory, have volunteered to testify be-
fore the special investigator. Other
men, with memories of speculations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
A DAGGER
in THE BACK

That's the woman's dread when she gets
up in the morning to start the days work.
"Oh how my back aches" GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil Capsules taken today eases the
backache of tomorrow-taken every day
ends the backache for all time. Don't de-
lay. What's the use of suffering? Begin
taking GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Cap
sules today and be relieved tomorrow. Take
three or four every day and be permanent
ly free from wrenching, distressing back
pain. But be sure to get GOLD MEDAL.
Since 1896 GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil has
been the National Remedy of Holland, the
Government of the Netherlands having
granted a special charter authorizing its
preparation and sale. The housewife of
Holland would almost as soon be without
bread as she would without her Real
Dutch Drops she quantity calls GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules. This is
the one reason why you will find the wom-
en- and children of Holland so sturdy and
robust.
GOLD MEDAL are the pure. original
HARLEM Oil Capsules imported direct from
the laboratories in Haarlem, Holland. But
be sure to get GOLD MEDAL. Look for
the name on every box Sold by reliable
druggists in sealed packages. three sizes
Money refunded if they do not help you.
Accept only the GOLD MEDAL. All others
are Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
TO GUST SHERIFF
PottawatOmie Citizens Are Bit
ter Against C. d. Ladner.
They Ask He Be Removed
From Exemption Board.

Wamego, Kan, July 19.-Petitions
are in circulation turnout Pottawat-
omie county today asking Governor
Capper and President Wilson to re-
move Sheriff C. D. Ladner of this
county from the draft exemption
board. Petitions also have been
started seeking the removal of the
sheriff. Other petitions are to be cir
culated asking the county commits
sioners to deduct from the pay of the
sheriff by the county a proportionate
amount of his salary for the days he
spent in the registration service for
which the sheriff has claimed a fee
from the government
The people of the county are talk
ing of calling a recall election TO GUST
him. He has done nothing that would
warrant an custer suit, but his claim
that he does not owe the country a
cent and that he will not give. his ser
vices on the registration or exemp-
ton boards free is regarded by clti-
zens generally as an outrage on the
good name of Pottawatomle county
and the state of Kansas.
A delegation of Pottawatomie coun-
ty citizens has made an engagement
for Governor Capper for Friday to
ask that Ladner be removed from the
exemption board. They will bring
with them the petitions circulated
among the people of the county ask
ing that Ladner be removed from the
exemption board.
Governor Capper is ready to act. He
said, when informed of the attitude
of the people of the county, that he
would be glad to receive their petit
lions and that action would follow
promptly in the removal of Ladner.
The governor expressed the view that
he should not act until these petitions
are filed, unless the draft call comes
so quickly that it would be practically
impossible to wait until the petitions
came in before the governor removed
thu sheriff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
BOOZE AT RILEY
Fred Robertson To Investigate
Shipments Thru Kansas.
BOOtleggers Are Using Many
Ingenious Devices.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 19.-An in
vestigation by federal authorities into
alleged shipments of liquor thru Kan
sas to Fort Riley, is to be started soon,
according to Fred Robertson, United
States district attorney, in Kansas
City, Kan. Intoxicants are being re-
ceived at the army post according to
Mr.. Robertson in such ways as to
render detection almost impossible. A
thoro campaign under capable fed
era1 jurisdiction will eradicate the al
legged evil, the attorney declared.
Human ingenuity has been exerted
to the limit by bootleggers in their
efforts to get whisky into Junction
City.
Attempted shipments into Junction
City show an entire disregard for ex-
pense, time or trouble, proving the de-
termination of bootleggers to break
thru the lines into what they believe
would be a rich field.
A carload of crockery had an inno-
cent appearance, but inside of the lot
were one hundred gallons of whisky.
Use Gas Meters.
A shipment of gas meters lacked
the inner mechanism of meters; they
were filled with whisky.
Two barrels labeled cylinder oil had
false tops and bottoms. The inner
compartments contained whisky.
~ IO-SdllOu CdH VI WHISKY was
buried in a barrel of pitch.
A copper tank, inside a head of
cheese, contained whisky. The tank
had corrugated sides so the cheese
would adhere.
Two barrels of cocoanuts were
whisky containers. One "eye" had
been cut out of each cocoanut, the nut
filed with whisky, a cork ground and
tinted until even on close inspection
its detection was not easy.
Occasionally a shipment of whisky
from a long distance gets as far as the
freight or express depot in Junction
City. One such shipment was in a
steamer trunk. The owners scented
trouble and did not claim the trunk
officers opened it, finding quart bottles
of whisky and a curling iron and a
pair of gloves.
Get st. Joseph Woman.
| The gloves bore a st. Joseph, Mo-,
retail store label On the curling iron
were peculiar markings which tests
| showed were caused by peroxide. A
! blond-haired woman who recently had
arrived from St. Joseph was arrested,
confessed and is in the penitentiary
at Lansing.
Authorities of Junction City, of
| Geary county, of the state and of the
| government are cooperating with
army officers at Fort Riley. At the
present rate of discouragement off,
Gals believe the industry will not
survive long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19

and abnormal profits and questiona-
BILE manipulations, will be called to
testify thru subpoenas placed in the
hands of the United States marshal
or special deputies.
Coal conditions in the Kansas dis
tributing points and in the southeast
ern Kansas field will also be investi-
gated. Recent claims by men in the
mining district are to the effect that
wage increases in the district have
amounted to but IS per cent. Work
ing conditions, daily outputs, shipping
facilities, freight rates and profits of
jobbers and retailers will be investi-
gated by Taggart.
Whether special assistants will be
named to aid Taggart in his work in
Kansas is not known. The former
Second district congressman was re-
Gently appointed as an investigator for
the federal trades commission at a
salary of $1,000 a year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
Rush in U. S. Farm Loans.

Washington, July 19.-Five per cent
loans to farmers under the federal
farm loan system are beirg approved
by the federal board here at the rate
Of 100000 a day, the board an
nounced today. With more than
100000 900 affected by applications
for loans that are still awaiting is
suance of charters to the organiza-
tons of which the borrowers will be
the members, the board up to the
close of business July IS, had char
tered 432 farm loan associations whose
loans aggregate $20,69o,337. These
associations have an average member
ship of eighteen farmers each, the
average loan to the individual farmer
being $2.250.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
HOME FOOD COURSE
State University to Teach What to Eat
and Why.

Lawrence, Kan, July ia saving
knowledge of food is to be impaired
in a new fOur-weekS' course that VIII
be given, beginning today, in the de-
partment of home economics IN the
University of Kansas and as part
of the national campaign for food con-
servation. There will be twenty les
sons of two hours each on how to
maintain an adequate diet and save
food at the same time.
Herbert c. Hoover, governmental
food administrator, asked the univer-
sity to give a two-weeks' course in
food economy and the department of
home economics at once, complied by
announcing a more complete course,
which will be substituted for a course
previously announced. The 800 school
teachers now attending the university
are being urged to take the new
course that they may take a more ac-
tive part in the food economy cam
paign that will be conducted in the
public schools next fall and winter.
The new course has been modified to
include the topics suggested by Mr..
Hoover. Among them will be: Elm
nation of waste, conservation of fats
and sugars, canning, drying, funda-
mentals of adequate diet, war breads
and wheat conservation, use of per-
:shables, use of local foodstuffs, con-
servation of meat. and methods of or
ganizing for food conservation
The course will be open to any one
capable of taking the work No spe-
cific requirements are made for sum-
mer session students and the summer
University classes are designed for
every one, regardless of previous
schooling.
Mothers and daughters who are in
vited to take this course at the uni
VerSity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
SICK, NOT DESERTER
Physicians Certificate Fails To Reach
Commander-Win Remove Charge.

Paris, July 19.-French army Off
Gals announced. today they would re-
move the technical charge of deser-
ton against Corporal Edward Foote
Hinkle of the Lafayette escadriAe.
Hinkle overstayed his leave and failed
to send any word. Hinkle, a resident
of Cincinnati, o., did not return to
his company until under doctors
order.
A certificate from his physician
necessary to allow extension of Hin
kle's leave in some way was lost en-
route to the Lafayette commander.
When Hink1e did not appear at ex-
piration of his leave, his commander
was forced to list him as a deserter
Hinkle is ill with pleurisy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
Not a Corn or
CaIIus on Feet
Apply few drops, then lift
them off without pain.

A noted Cincinnati au-
thority discovered a new
ether compound and called
it freezone and it now can
be had in little bottles for
a few cents from any drug
store.
You simply apply a few
drops of freezone upon a
tender corn or painful cal
lus and instantly the sore
ness disappears, then
shortly you will find the
corn or callus SO loose
that you can lift it off with
fingers.
No pain. not a bit of
soreness, either when ap-
plying freezone or after
wards, and it doesn't even
irritate the skin.
Hard corns, soft corns
or corns between the toes,
also toughened calluses,
Just shrivel up and lift off
so easy. 1t is wonderful
4 works like a charm.
Try it,
Women should keep
reezone on their dressers
nd never let a corn ache
observation-disclosures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
Is YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From the columns Of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL


July 10, 1892.
c. P. Bolmar of Topeka, is in charge of
the Pennsylvania reunion next month and
Pennsylvanians who want information
should address him.
A nickel-in-th e-slot poker playing ma
chine is one of the new things at the
Throop. 1t belongs to Lee Jones.
John Waters, who has been taking a law
course at Ann Arbor, has been admitted
to practice in Judge Guthrie's court
Mrs. C. X. Holiday will go to Colorado
Thursday to spend the rest of the season.
H s. Martin of Marion, the Democrat
lawyer who wanted to be a candidate for
congress from this district, but was turned
down for DR.. Wharton, is in the city.
Tom King has been appointed assistant
to Warren Cowles in the Rock Island
ticket office.
David Overmyer in long open letter
says that he will support the People s
Party ticket.
The Labor day parade will have four
bands. VOLTS packing house will have
sixty men in the procession
The Church of God held its quarterly
meeting yesterday. In the evening the cere-
mony of footwashing was observed. A
large crowd witnessed the baptism of elev-
Ell new members in the natatorium.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
BIG VACCINATION DAY
S2S Innoculated With Typhoid Serum
at Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield, Kan, July 19.-Winfield
recently established what is believed
to be a record for vaccinations. In
two days S28 persons were innoculated
with anti-typhoid germs by county
health officers.
I'm ninety-nine cases out of a hun
dred the women were to blame for
the spread of the contagion," accord
ing to DR.. ]. J. Sippy, state epidem-
iologist.
it's usually his mother who diesn't
want it reported. On the other hand
women should be the most interested
in preventing the spread of disease"