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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-10
SAB Dozen White Handkerchief

C4O DUZVH w HICe T1dHuK0TCHIe1S
Manufacturers Cleanup Previous to Stock-takng. The
Goodnow Syndicate take the lot and about 200 dozen
come here Snow white, hemstitched mems, womens
and chdrens Sizes soft finished Sea Island cambria in
all of them Divided into four lots and marked at ONE
HALF PRICE and less.
LOT ONE-Very soft and sheer, neat inch hemstitched
hem size II IL, ladies', misses and chdren's size,
1c each
LOT TWO-Made from little heavier cambria Ii inch
hemstitched hem; size 16 Is, for men and boys,
&c each or for sc
LOT THREE-Made from fine soft mercerized muslin,
size Is X Is, for men, young and boys, sc each
LOT FOURMade from very bright, yet soft Japanette
fabric A-inch hem; size Is Is, for men and boys
TIE each
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-10
Sweeping Reduction of
Onyx Dyed Hosiery

Onyx dye means fast colors and the very
best obtainable. We offer three lots of La
dies black and tan hose at great reduc-
tions from the old prices as follows:
The soc Hosiery 29c
The sec Hosiery 1sc
The 2ec Hisiery 121. e
P. S. Only blacks in the 121ac and 19c.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-10

SYRACUSE NUCLEUS GONE.

442 AZ 4l6-1,27O
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-10
Telephone 26O

With lots added
tor good merchandise bargain with
and obbe having surplus large
incident in a seasons selling.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-10
$3.50, S1.75 and $500 Dress
Goods and ClOakings CSC yd.
'Oc, &c and 75c Dress Goods
Csc yard

Small lot of checks, novelty mixtures,
SO inches wide, nice all wool goods suit
able for children's wear; marked down
from SOC, &c and 75c to only 35c yard
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-10
S1.W Dress Serges 79c yard
Ladies S1.O0 Waists, 39c each

The material in any one Of these Waists
would cost you much more than we ask
for the finished garments. Plain white, col
in variety of styles; all sizes Marked
down from S1.0O to 39c each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
Good CROP WEEK
Weather Has Been Exception
ally Favorable for Harvest.
Corn Backward but Not Injured
by Dry Weather.

Showers were general over kansas
this week, but the amounts We're too
light to relieve the drouthy condltlohS
except in scattered areas aggregating
about a fifth of the state, mostly III
the western part, where there We're
heavy local rains that totalled from
an inch to an inch and half, ana IN
some cases two inches. Temperatures
generally ranged above normal, reach-
ing 100 degrees and higher several
DAYS in central and western counties.
The nights were comparatively pleas
ant This is according to the report
of the local office of the Unoted States
weather bureau today.
Corn is clean, well cultivated, and
in most places is standing the drouth
well, but is needing rain in all parts
except the few localities that received
moisture in sufficient quantities TINS
week. 1t is growing slowly ana is
generally from two to four weeks be-
hind the season. No reports of actual
damage by the drouth are received
except a few north central counties.
1t has not begun to tassel yet in the
southern counties.
The weather has been exceptionally
favorable for cutting wheat and the
second crop of alfalfa. Wheat harvest
is finished in the south central and
southeastern parts of the state and is
now general except in the extreme
western counties. Threshng is under
eastern and southcentral counties and
will soon begin in the northeastern
Oats are about all cut IN the south
east portion and their harvest has
become general in all parts except
| the western third, where It Is less than
a week distant.
The second cutting of alfalfa and
| prairie hay, the harvest of which also
| has begun, are rather light but are be-
ing put up in excellent condition.
! Grain sorghums, like corn, are late
and are needing rain, but not serious
| ". Broom corn is doing fairly well
/ in the southwest.
Gardens have suffered greatly from
| lack of sufficient moisture in all
parts and potatoes are generally re-
| ported to be damaged
r Home grown apples are coming on
/ the market in the Southcentral coun-
ties.
Report From Washington.
| Washington. July 1.-THE week $
weather was warm in the western and
cool in the central and eastern corn
states with irregularly distributed
showers.
Corn is backward, but has a good
color and made fairly good growth.
General showers benefited it in parts
of the southwest, altho hot winds
dried the, ground quickly. The crop
is generally well cultivated.
Winter wheat harvest has begun
north to central Ohio and Illinois.
Rain is needed in the spring wheat
area from central North Dakota west
ward. Early wheat is heading short
in North Dakota but the late is more
promising. The weather is more ia
| vorable in Minnesota and South Da-
] kota and the crop there has i'm
i proved. Oats, rye, barley and flax
are making satisfactory progress. ex-
tept where too dry in the northwest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
TO ENTERTAIN TROOPS
Topeka Rotarians Will Help Furnish
Fl. Riley Recreation.

The Topeka Rotary club this noon
started an entertainment program for
the soldiers to be stationed at the new
cantonment at Fort Riley. They will
furnish a Topeka man to the enter
tainment committee of the, camp
which will provide or arrange pro-
grams for the soldiers.
1t was voted at a noon meeting of
the directors of the club to mail re-
quests to every Rotary club of the
state to select a representative to CO.
operate with the government, the Y.
NJ. c. A. and the army officers in pro-
viding amusement for the encamped
men. These requests will probably be
mailed out this week.
The directors also decided to bring
to Topeka the two reel special feature
of the Atlanta International Rotary
convention which was held last month.
The film will probably be shown early
in the fall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
NO COST FOR DRAFT
Colonel Norton Says $4,000 Claims
Have Not Been Paid.

Funds claimed by registration
boards for services June s, have not
been paid, according to statement
today by Col. j. d. Norton, disburslng
officer While claims aggregating
practically $4,000 have been filed,
Colonel Merton believes the claims
will be waived in a patriotic stand by
board members.
A number of claims were filed Tor
service on the registration boards.
Several owners of buildings also asked
rentals. 1t was denied, however. that
the money has been paid and Colonel
Norton is confident that the display
of patriotism by board members Will
be such that neither the state nor fed
eral government will be required to
meet expense in registration work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
POLITICS NOT WAR
Internal Situation in Germany Doesn't
Yet Affect Military Strength.

Washington, July 11.-Official
warning was given here today that the
American public must not regard the
German situation offering any great
hope at the present time.
Press reports and official informa-
ton show that there is practically no
criticism of Germany's military effort.
And. officials say, Germany can sac
rifice Zimmerman, Helfferich and
even Bethmann-Hollweg without
swaying the actual conduct of the war,
so long as there is no complaint
against the war lords, Hindenburg and
Ludendorf.
Authorities here say the situation is
one strictly of internal politics which
for the moment does not project any
real upheaval. They do believe, how
ever, that the leaven of democracy is
working in Germany and that sooner
or later there will be a popular up-
rising against Hohenzollern.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
ASKS A DIVORCE
DIR. EIvinOr Ernest Brings Suit
Against DIR. f. J. Ernest.
Separate Maintenance Trial
Was a Sensational One.

DR.. Elvinor Ernest filed suit for di-
vorce in the district court today
against DR.. F. ]. Ernest. Che charges
abandonment.
Two or more years ago Mrs. Ernest
startled Topekans with a petition she
filed in the district cour. asking for
separate maintenance and a lump
sum settlement from her husband, DIR.
Ernest In that petition She made
sensational charges against her hus-
band and named a nurse with whom
she declared her husband was infat-
uated.
DR.. Ernest filed a cross petition in
which he also made sensational
charges. He alleged that she threat
ened his life and attempted to carry
her threats into execution. The case
was tried in the district court before
a large and interested court audience.
Mrs. Ernest was granted separate
maintenance and a sum of money was
also settled upon her.
In the petition for divorce, filed to-
day, Mrs. Ernest does not ask for
alimony. She simply asks fer a di-
vorce. The petition was filed for Mrs
Ernest by w. A. S. Bird, attorney.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
PRICE FIXING.

Business is more or less perpleXed,
says Henry Clews in his Financial Re
view, by the intrusion of innumerable
new government activities. Govern
ment regulation has come with rush
in all directions; in the office, IN the
shop and i'm the home. There is
scarcely any sphere, public or private,
into which the long arm of the gov
eminent does not go, or shortly VIII
go; and this movement has far ex-
ceeded the expectations of its most
enthusiastic devotees.
Much of this new legislation is ac-
cepted as a necessary patriotic sacri-
flee. Little thought is given as to its
I ermanence after the war. Some of
It will undoubtedly be repealed, while
considerable will remain. For some
time past industry has been modified
for war purposes, and two very i'm
portant measures are about to pass
the war tax bill and the food bill.
Capital and labor alike are feeling
the pressure from this new legislation,
and in the vast majority of cases both
periodically submit without question.
IN all INDUSTRIAL IHODlil-
zation is approaching completion. Sew
eral of the principal mineral indus
tries have been placed under govern
ment control; agriculture is rapidly
being drawn under the same 'nflu-
ences, food. wool, rubber, ETC., having
already been placed under control.
and now the bringing of cotton into
IL, fol
a long period it was expected that this
staple would escape owing to the large
free market in which it is conducted.
Thus far government control has
worked with relatively little friction,
thanks to our profiting by the expert
ence of other nations, tho the ques-
ton of prices appears to be the most
difficult one with which to deal In
the minds of some individuals! the
law of supply and demand has COM
pletely broken down under the stress
of war; hence the call for artificial
regulation comes with increasing
force, naturally. from those who feel
present excessive prices most keenly
Initiation and high prices always
follow war, being the inevitable Sc
quence of waste and destruction. The
government may be able to control
illegitimate speculation. and possibly
establish maximum prices with some
success; but thus far all efforts to
control or actually fix prices have
been unsuccessful. even in Great Brit
ain, where the attempt has beer
made upon reasonable lines and un.
der favorable conditions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11

The American embargo on exports
of food stuffs does not become effect
i've until next Sunday, but already
there is hunger wall coming from
Holland. When a hot fight is in
progress the combatants can give lit
tie thought to the innocent bystander
The Netherlands is unfortunate in its
proximity to Germany. 1t must take
the consequences. The Teutons have
been supplying themselves with 1eces-
saries produced in this country. thru
Neutral countries since the war began
The United States having entered the
war on the side of the entente cannot
permit this 10 continue. 1t must stop
regardless of who suffers. The way to
win a war is to win it. In order to do
this no means of weakening the
enemy may be neglected. Nothing
is better calculated to bring him to
terms than stopping his supply of
food Uncle Sans course may be
hard on the Dutch and the Scandi-
navians but in time of war neutrals
must take their chances. In this case
they have their remedy. They can
Join the allies and help to remove the
cause OF their troubles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11

Do we ever pause to consider that
The burden of high prices has its COM
pensations? inquiries the Los Angeles
Times and then proceeds to make tho
following comparison: The copper
companies pay the miners $3.50 per
day, where they formerly paid $3.50.
but then they get 20 cents per round
for copper where they formerly OBJ
tanned only II cents. and the miner
pays so per cent more for flour and
bacon. but he gets SO per cent more
wages The farmer pays double
prices for groceries and receives dou-
BILE prices for his farm products. The
cotton grower pays SLIT for potatoes
against ~ gents three years ago. but
he gets 81 cents per pound for cotton
against 16 cents in July. 1914. The
manufacturer of wooden socks gets
twice as much for them and pays
twice as much for the wool from
which they are made, and twice as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
SEE DRAFT LOTTERY
Members of House and Senate Mill
tary Committees, Referees.

Washington, July 11.-Members of
the house and senate military commit
tees will witness the drawing to Sc
lect men for the national war army
Secretary Baker said today that he or
some other official of the war depart
ment and not President Wilson, as
had been suggested, would make the
drawings.
The secretary lunched at the White
House today and is understood to have
discussed arrangements for the draft
with the president. No date will be
announced until all exemption boards
have been organized. Officials hope
this may be by the end of the week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11

The Louisville Courier Journal drops
the following hint to the news censOrs
in Washington: THE press is a buzz
saw unsafe to project with, and. I'M
less the monkey business stops in the
departments, the final word will be
woe to the Bureaucrat that is caught
in the act" In addition to the sound
advice in the foregoing, there may
be noted the use of the word prof.
ect." This use of the word is peculiar
to the South and is rarely if ever
heard in the North. A Northerner
would say fool or monkey with,
instead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
TO FORCE ACTION
President and Hoover IncenSed
Over Congress Delay.
Food Bill May Emerge From
Chaos Without "Dry" Clause.

Washington. July 11.-President
Wilson probably will quickly put the
screws" on a dallying congress.
With fresh delays resulting from
substitution of q milder food bill in
the senate and an agreement to vote
thereon July p. the president today
was confronted with Herbert Hoover's
direct warning that delay now is per-
ilous.
Radical revision of the food bill.
now before the senate agriculture
committee. will strip the measure OF
it's present prohibition status. It will
be left with a provision to forbid dis
tjllation of spirits. without providing
for seizure of present hard liquor
stocks, while prohibition of beer and
wine will be left up 10 the president.
Will Have Export Surplus.
Hoover's warning against delays
charges that there has been ram
pant speculation and eXtortionate
profits this year among those who
barter with Americas food supplies.
Stability is needed, he says, as much
to prevent every link in the food chain
taking a wide profit as protection
against abnormal fluctuations.
Hoover pointed out his nation will
100000 bushels of grain this yeal
with 1S0,00O.000 thru conservation
The situation at present, with nc
checks upon it, works ill to the farmer
and consumer alike. The farmer, he
says, gets only s1.51 for wheat which
commands 1925 in Chicago.
Hoover suggests the possibility OF
internal troubles if prices continue tC
! soar and urges that speedy enactment
i of food legislation should be under
taken.
With the date for vote set at Jul,
| 21, five weeks will have elapsed sine,
the measure first went to congress
while the food survey bill has beei
mulled over since Tune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11

. Agents and employees of the gov
ernment at Washington continue to
tell the people what to eat and now tc
prepare it. But it is noted that they
do not tell those same people how to
obtain the food at price within their
reach. Eat more of the perishable
foods, says one. Let any one go into
the market to- buy fruit and vege-
tables ard unless he have a fat pock-
ctbook he must return home with
practically an empty basket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
WANT HIGHER WAGES
Contractors Take Up Demand of
Topeka Electrical Workers.

The Topeka Contractors associa-
ton met this noon at the Chamber of
Commerce for a second consultation
on the wage increase asked by the 10
cal electrical workers union. The
workers wage contract with the con-
tractors expires August l and a new
scale has been proposed for the next
three years.
The contractors have been working
on a compromise offer to the union
and it will probably be completed
within the next week. This COM
promise offer will then be offered to
the electrical workers for their ap-
prevail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
QUICK HOSPITAL CARE
Sammies to Have Ready Medical At
tcntiOn on French Front.

Paris, July 11.-American army
headquarters today announced adop-
ton of the British front medical serv-
ice plan to care for Pershing's Sam
mics when they go into battle. The
scheme combines relief pockets" or
small stations near the rear of the
front trenches. and field hospitals
just to the rear of these. Quick am
bulance service will permit of i'm
mediate operations where required.
The American medical service, il
was announced, will use DIR. George
W. Crile's anesthetic in place of ether
or chloroform. DIR. Grille, second in
command of a regular army unit re-
cruited at Cleveland, O., is Cleveland
surgeon who has seen considerabl e
front service during the war
Modern Helmets.
Major Pershing's headquarters said
today the American trench helmets
steel 'fcaps," to shield the Sammies
from shrapnel and bits of shell-had
been found to combine the best points
of the French and British headgear.
The American helmets, it was stated.
are now being tested.
Capt A. c. Baker, United States
Navy, was today named an aide on
General Pershing's staff and placed
in charge of overseas transports He
will have the military rank of colonel
Captain Baker was formerly of At
lantic City, N. ].
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11

New lork. July 11.-MoNEY-M Mercantile
paper, 1906.
Sterling. 60 ddy bills. a.72: commercial
60 days bills on banks 471A commercial
60 day bills, AIN demand, 4.155s cables.
Francs, demand. 5.741b; cables. 5.73ls.
Guflders. demand. Al : cables 413s
Lires, demand, 7.21: cables 30
Rubles, demand, 23.55; cables 2375
Bar silver. So
Mexican dollars, G9h
Government bonds steady
Railroad bonds firm
Time loans easier: sixty dnvs 3M 74.
80 days 4G4A six months, 415M4Y
Call money steady: high. az low 2H :.
ruling rate, 2l@ last loan. 5M closing
bid, pig; offered at %.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11

A novel means of stimulating re-
cruiting for national guard regi-
nent of artillery has been employed
with great success in Maine. The va
rious batteries &C the regiment were
named after distinguished men identi-
fled with the history Of the state, and
their admirers made haste to enroll
themselves in these units. Blaine,
Reed, Hale, Burleigh, Dingley,
.--lliken and Dow were the first
names selected, and their quotas were
speedily obtained. 1t seems entirely
proper to name the batteries for the
states big guns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
WOMEN AND The WAR
Tue TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
INFORMATION BUREAU
By Frederic j. Haskin. Director
Washington. d. O.
V-Society,s Share.

Washington, D. c., July 9.-Wash-
ington is hot with an intense mid
summer heat that scorches, and soft
ems the asphalt on the streets. Elec-
trio fans and an occasional thunder
storm are about all that keep the pop
ulation going. And still those owners
of elaborate limOuSineS and Pekinese
dogs, our so-called American society,
do not leave.
Never has there been such a sum-
mer social season in Washington. In
the first place, there are the various
missions from foreign countries to
keep people here. Just as everybody
is making preparations to go to New
port or Bar Harbor or the Catskills. a
fresh mission from some other coun-
try arrives; Immediately numerous
social events are planned, and no
one likes to miss them. Neither,
as one society woman puts it, do the
ladies like to desert Mrs. Lansing in
her hour of need. AS the wife of the
secretary of state, she is naturally eX-
pected to take charge of the enter
tainment of the nations foreign guests.
a task to which she is well fitted by
her personal tact and charm but in
which she is somewhat handicapped
| by the heat. 1t is hard to arouse So
ciety to any great degree of energy in
weather like this, and just as people
| learn to pronounce the names of one
| course, is extremely fatiguing.
But it is not often that Washington
| society is able to entertain anything
SO interesting as a mission, and so the
big homes on Massachusetts avenue
! and Sixteenth street. which by JULY
are usually tightly boarded up and
packed away in camphor, remain
| open, with Il large assortment of flags
| fluttering from the upstairs windows
The continuance of congress, too
has kept large number of senators
and oongressnnen's families here. The
country clubs, with their golf courses
serve to keep the nations legislator,
supplied with plenty of exercise anC
mild diversion. For the women the
season would be exceedingly dull if i
were not for new and absorbing in
terest-war work.
Many Responsibilities.
On the women of leisure, thruou
the United States the war has placed
many responsibilities. The workinl
woman will give all she can whel
she gives her services to the govern
ment Very few will be able to Civ,
money. If woman works in a fac
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11
SEND |. w. WIS BACK
Deported From Arizona, Armed Men
at Needles Return Them.

kingman, AriZ., July 11.-Sixty-
three men deported from Jerome yes
terday as Industrial Workers of the
World, active in the strike there, ar
rived here today from Needles, where
armed citizens had met the car in
which they were held prisoners and
caused its return to Arizona on the
next eaStbOund train.
Twenty of the men escaped after
they had arrived. here. The others
were taken to the court house, where
thew demandd food
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11

Wall st. New York, July 11.-STOCKs-
Buying for both accounts. based upop
favorable technical industrial conditions.
resulted in extreme gains of one to six
points during today'c broader dealings
Sales approximated 10000 shares
Shfppfngs were the foremost features of
the final hour, increasing their gains while
other leaders averaged fractional recessions
from highest quotations. The closing was
strong Liberty bonds ranged from par tn
90 90 JOths, an odd lot selling at 90 1910.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-11

much for the wages of the operatives.
and the operatives pay twice as much
for beans, and beefsteaks and sugar
American flags cost three times as
much as July 4. 1914. and the indigo
used in dyeing the bunting blue costs
So per pound as against 15 cents per
pound three years ago.