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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
PRESS CLUB ELECTS
Cecil Howes. X C. Star Correspondent.
Is Chosen President.

Further commemoration of Topeka
newspaper men in the army reduction
of dues and election of officers were
activities at Friday nights meeting of
the Topeka Press club at the Chamber
of Commerce.
Cecil Howes. local CORRESPONDENT for
the Kansas City Star, was elected pres
ident All other officers were re-
elected, including A. l. ShultZ. vice
president; p C Powell, secretary and
Earl Akers. treasurer. The directors
elected are: Frank p. MacLennan, ].
E Griest, A j. Carruth, jr., and Walter
A. Johnston. William Kercher Is Ii
brian for the second time. Marco
Morrow was placed at the head of the
entertainment committee.
Dues were reduced on account O.
the high cost of living making the old
tax heavy on many members II was
voted to purchase service nag IN
memory of Topeka newspa Rermen IN
the army. this flag to he disnlayed at
all Press club functions during the
progress of the war. Also it was voted
to gather pictures of all soldier-neWs-
papermen, frame them and place them
in the new Press club quarters IN the
Chamber of Commerce.
Plans were discussed for the big
dinner to be given by the Press cluh
when Theodore Roosevelt viii be the
clubs guest He is expected in topeka
SOME time during the winter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
Food for Fans
BY GEO. Z. PHAIR.
;Copyright)

The High Cost of Athletes.
Why don't YOU buy
The peerless Tyr"
They asked ii a pi9g ti tt,
l can't afford
4 luxury like hiatt
why DOESN'T the government confiscate
Ty cobb and sell him for billion dollars?
Connie Mack probably figured that it
couldn't possibly be any worse than it was
last year.
A SERIES just now. between the Athletics
aud Phillies would be a tremendous sue
cess
Posing in New York refuses to believe
TO win the decision on a foul
A lad named Mason claims to be the
worlds flyweight champion. We have al
ways wondered who is the worlds flea
weight champion.
Italian Joe Cans has right to assume
whatever fighting anne he pleases. But
why not a Portuguese Peter Jackson or an
Arabian John l.. Sullivan?
a six-day bike rider has Joined the
navy, showing that there is hope even for
a sfx-day bike rider
Tho baseball fans of Philly
Have long been calm and chilly
Two recent blows
Upon the nose
Have simply knocked them silly.
The Brooklyn club can afford to sell
Zach Wheat. 1t has the largest Wheat
crop ever gathered by ball team.
Connie Mack beat Yale and Harvard to
It. His team has been playing informal
baseball for the last two years. Next year
it will be still more informal.
Up to a late hour last night, Mack had
not sold Ping Bodie. There is not much
activity in the ivory market.
Soldiers in France watched a ball game
while shells were Flying overhead. Now
they know how an umpire feeels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
BROADEN ATHLETICS
War and Navy Secretaries Want More
Students to Get Training.

New York, Dec. 29.-Encourage-
ment of college athletics on lines to
benefit physically all students instead
of merely a few specialists, so as to in
crease the vigor of young American
manhood for war service was endorsed
by both Secretary of War Baker and
Secretary of the Navy Daniels in let
tiers received by the National Collegi-
ate Athletic association in session
here
Secretary . Baker announced that
the war department would ask con-
gress to authorize the use of reserve
officers and other qualified military
men for the establishment of reserve
officers training corps and that the
hoped shortly ito be able
to supply suitable instructors and
arms to all colleges willing to estab
lish military training
The primary purpose of college ath-
letics, the secretary declared, is "a
large number of sound bodies rather
than small number of athletic spec
ialties"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
INTEREST is KEEN
Big Ten Ready for 1918 Basket
ball Title Race.
viii Meet All Com
ference Elves.

Chicago, Ill, DEG 29.-Athough the
war will undoubtedly affect the play
ing strength of some of the teams the
big Ten Championship basketball
season will get under way on January
with every indication of producing
as interesting a race as the 1917 foot
ball season.
The return of the University of
Michigan to the western conference
has added new interest to the winter
sport. The wolverines will clash with
practically an of the conference fives.
The Northwestern wisconsin game to
be played at Evanston will be the
opening contest of the season. From
then until March IS, when Wisconsin
meets Purdue at Lafayette, the race
for the championship will be in full
swing.
Enlistments and graduations have
wrecked the Championship teams of
Illinois and Minnesota, which tied for
the title last season. Nearly every
coach in the conference, in fact, faces
the task of building new machine.
Purdue. however, appears to have
been the most fortunate of all big
Ten" schools. Practically every mem
Der of last seasons team will be in
the lineup and critics believe the
Boilermakers have the edge on the
championship.
Northwestern Is Strong.
Northwestern has a strong team of
veterans that is expected to put up a
strong fight similar to the one it
staged two years ago when it tied
Illinois for second place. Underhill, a
snappy forward, will pilot the team
for the second times -
Wisconsin's showing will be watched
with inte- It, as the Badgers have al
ways been regarded as a power in the
winter game. The team, however, will
be without the services of DR.. Mean
ingwell, long a prominent figure in
western conference basketball, who
has left Wisconsin in order to become
athletic director at the University of
Missouri. Coach Lawman. who
directed the Indiana team last season,
will have charge OF this years
Badgers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
CHURCH NOTICES

tThese notices must be in the State
Journal office by o,eloclS on Friday af-
rolumn services will be held at IL o'clock
in the morning and 1880 o'clock in the
eveEing.)
= Christian.
WEST SIDE. Underwood and
Duane streets, Mrs. Clara H. Hazel
rigg, pastor. Regular services with
sermons by the Rev. George E. Lyon,
state superintendent of Kansas Chris
IT, missions.
FIRST, 622 Topek4 avenue, regular
services. Sermons morning and eve
ming by the Rev. Harry C. Knowles, of
Bethany. Neb.
CENTRAL PARK, Sixteenth and
Central Park avenues, c. E. Rash, pas
tor Morning sermon, Appreciation on
Looking Backward Evening ser
mon, 'Watchman, What of the
Night ?"
Congregational.
FIRST, Seventh and Harrison
streets, Arthur S. Henderson, pastor.
Morning sermon, THAT Is to Be" Spe-
cial music. Evening sermon, "A Talk
on the Book of Revelation
CANTRAL, Huntoon and Buchanan
, streets, Willis L. Goldsmith acting
pastor. Morning sermon, THE Need
of Patience" Evening sermon at 7:45
O'Clock, THE Known and the Tn
known
| Episcopal.
GRACE CATHEDRAL, Eighth and
Polk streets, ]. P. Deb. Kaye, dean.
Irregular morning service. Evening
/ Vesper service at 4 o'clock.
/ CHRIST HOSPITAL CHAPEL. West
street between Eighth and Tenth
Evening servic only.
Lutheran.
FIRST ENGLISH. Fifth and Har-
rison streets, c. W. Maggart, pastor.
Morning Sermon, "A Backward and a
Forward Look" Evening service, a
cantata, THE Story of Bethlehem, -
and a short sermon, How to Insure
Greater Spiritual Growth in 1918"
SWEDISH BETHEL MISSION.
sixth and Harrison streets, Adolph
Lii snsren, pastor. Regular services.
song service in the evening.
Methodist.
FIRST, Sixth and Harrison streets
| Edmund James KuIp, pastor Morning
sermon, The Religious Uses of Mem
OF the Inarticulate'
MT. OLIVE, Twelfth and Buchan-
an streets, ]. D. Rice, pastor Morn
ing sermon, 'Lying-Its Evil and
Cure" Evening cantata, 1.-The Light
Eternal" and short talk ~ the Rev
OAKLAND, Sardou and Chester
avenues, A. E. Peterson, pastor Morn
ing sermon, Growing the Year
| Evening sermon, Religion a Personal
Experience
FIRST GERMAN, Fifth and Tyler
streets, A. ]. Ross, pastor. Morning
sermon at 1915 o'clock Regular
evening sermon.
/ Presbyterian.
FIRST, opposite west side of CAPT.
tol grounds, S. S. Estey, pastor Morn
ling sermon. Entering the New year
! Without Fear" Evening sermon
THE Past and the Future
REDEEM CHAPEL. Second and
Monroe streets. J. w. Hart, pastor
Evening sermon at 7:45 O'Clock, "AI
Untrodden Road"
I THIRD, Fourth and Branner streets
s. B. Anderson, pastor. Morning ser
mon, The Soldiers Sacrifice" Even.
ing service with talk by Mrs. Geo
H. Whitcomb.
| POTWIN, Fifth and West streets
H. L Nelson, pastor. Regular services
CALVARY, Thirteenth and Quinc!
streets. NICK Miller, pastor. Morn
ing sermon. Onward Looking" Even
ing sermon, Many Mansions"
WESTMINSTER, Huntoon and Col
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

lege avenues, Ralph R. Ward, pastor.
Morning sermon, The Force of
Love- Evening service, a talk by
Capt. c. II. Lerrigo of thu Washburn
Ambulance company.
SECOND UNITED, Huntoon and
Fillmore streets; w. NJ. Jackson, pas
tor. Morning sermon, The Second
Gospef'' Evening sermon. The
Eternal Past"
Miscellaneous.
FIRST UNITED BRETHREN.
Twelfth and Quincy streets; E. H.
Given, pastor. Morning service, com
munion. Evening sermon, The Great
Trust"
FIRST CHURCH OF THE EVAN
GELICAL ASSOCIATION, Seventh
and Monroe streets; B. H. Hobbs, pas
tor. Regular services.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SCIENTIST, HuntoOn and Polk
streets. Morning sermon, Christian
Science" Evening service at s
NEW THOUGHT SOCIETY, 912
Topeka avenue. Lecture at IL o'clock
by Judge Arnold.
SPIRITUALIST TEMPLE BUILD
ERS, Fourth and Monroe streets Ly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
MUST GIVE SERVICE
Telephone Companies. Can't REFUSE
Connections to Their Rivals.

Herington, Kan. Dec. 29.-Commls-
sioners Kinke1 and Foley, of the state
board of public utilities, in special
hearing Friday, held that long-d1s-
tance telephone company may not
DENY access to its long distance service
to patrons of a mutual telephone sys-
tenn, even where the patron has
long-distance telephone in his place
of business.
7 r, Shields, proprietor of the Her
|ington COOPERATIVE Telephone ex-
change, and A T. Rogers. Beloit,
president of the United Telephone
company, represented their companies
at the hearing, as did Vice President
Swallow, Wichita, and Secretary Rice,
Delphos. of the Kansas State Mutual
rganiZation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS

1t better than out-Bshop Cumber-
land.
Simplicity is medium between little and
nuch-Sr Joshua Reynolds.
Lifes but unto end: that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things-God.
Philip J. Bailey.
Under the magnetism of friendship the becomes
bold shy, confident the lazy, active mpeuous
prudent and peacefuI-Thackefay.
Wisdom the principal thing; therefore wisdom and
with all thy getting get understanding Proverbs AT.
Upwards He leads US, tho steps are slow
Tho oft faint and falter O the way,
Tho storms and darkness oft obscure the day:
Yet when the clouds are gone
leads S on
Every do his growing, matter how his
grandfather vast. K. Beecher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
WAS WISE DEAL /?
PhiIIies Got All Alexander Was
Worth, VeiOck Says.
Star Can't Earn Purchase Price
in Three Years.
BY JACK VEIoCK.

New York, Dec. 29.-President Will
liam F. Baker, of the Phillies. startled
the baseball world in general and
philadelphia in particular when he
sold Grover Cleveland Alexander and
Bill Killifer to the Cubs.
No one had dreamed that any rival
club had enough money in these war
times to purchase the star battery of
the iPhils. And no one had guessed
that Baker would consent to part with
his greatest star.
But it is often the unexpected that
happens. and baseball has seen good
many things occur that came as big
surprises. The effect of the sale of
Alexander on Philadelphia would have
been argument enough against it be-
fore it was announced. The average
baseball expert would have opined
that Baker would never see his way
clear to take a chance of getting in
bad with the baseball public of
Quakertown.
Good PhiIIy Deal?
Yet the Alexander sale, despite the
attitude Philly fans may take regard
ing il for a time, was probably a bet
ter deal for Baker than it was for the
Chicago club.
Alexander is thirty-one years of
age. He is at the crest of his career
and he will never be a better pitcher
than he has been for the past three
or four years. If he has three years
of brilliant pitching left in him the
Cubs will get their moneys worth,
and whether or not he can win as
consistently for the Cubs as he did for
the Phillies depends on what kind of
ball club Fred Mitchell can put in
the field behind him.
On the other hand, Baker got an
enormous sum of money for his Pitch
ing ace. The cash consideration for
Alexander alone was 100000 or bet
ter, and the sale of Killifer with him
gave the Philly owner "a chance to get
more for his red-headed catcher than
had he sold them separately.
The outlook for baseball while
taken Optimistically by most mag
mates, is nevertheless uncertain, and
for this reason the Great Alex might
not have brought half as much money
a year from now as ne brought to
Baker.
Alex will be a great attraction in
Chicago. He will undoubtedly be a
great asset to the Cubs and he may
help Weeghman capture a National
league pennant. But he will pitch
perhaps three or four times in PhiIa-
delphia next season, pitted against his
erstwhile team mates, and he will in
this way be drawing card at the gate
for the Philly owner.
Say what you like, think what you
may, the sale of Alex the Great was
not the bone play that it looked to
be at first sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

Indianapolis. Ind. Dec. 29.-Andy
Smith, head coach of the University
Of California, formerly football coach
at Purdue university. has been making
overtures for a football game with
Natre Dame to be played in California
i'm 1918. according to word received
here. He would like to schedule
return game for 1919 with the South
Bend eleven to be played in Chicago,
IL is said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
Sport Wheezes
by CLUG-


The Annual Folly.
The day draws nigh
When with sigh
Bad habits must be quit.
So get all set
To fret and sweat
And throw your New Years tit
For customs sake
You have to make
New Year resolutions,
Give up your vice
Poker and dice
Even mild pOlutiORs.
So kid yourself
That your Pet Elf
Shall injure you no more,
And by some chance
You may enhance
The willpOwer in your core.
Making a New Years resolution is a
great deal like making money. The
big task is to keep it.
Hutchinson may be a good sport
town, but little noise it has made over
the state checker tournament there
does not indicate such.
1t is reported around town that
Frank Isben has offered Spencer Ar
thur Abbott a franchise in the West
ern league if Alb will put club here
Isbell does not happen to be the Santa
Claus who gives away W. l.. fran
ohises, but he has been trying to get
Abbott to do something to get Topeka
back in the fold, it is understood.
The best way to get Topeka back
into the Western league is to make
the league an attractive business
proposition or get some very rich and
very red-blooded local capitalist to
finance a club just to have little fun
and do something for his home town.
Fred Fulton must have been hun
cry Christmas day when he let foul
prevent him from winning his Little
Rock bout.
And if this foul keeps him from get
ting a match with Willard, as it may,
it will probably make him go hungry
a good many more days.
Willard does not seem to be max
ing much progress with his no deci-
sion, no title Red Cross fight plans.
Either the public does not want to see
him fight or somebody thinks he is
camouflaging, it appears.
Wizards patriotism might be favor
ably compared with Ban Johnson's.
johnson offered his services to the
government and then asked that ball
players be exempt from the draft.
Willard offered to go to France to
fight, but insisted on fighting a French
hero. Then he tried to bunco the Red
Cross.
Dick Kaufman, former Topeka
Western league pitcher, spent Christ
mas in Topeka and assured all his
friends that he is thru with baseball
for all time.+ He is now serving his
country by helping the Frisco keep its
shops at Springfield in operation.
Dick does not see very much to en-
courage minor league performers next
season, he says. He believes that even
the Western league will have a hard
time getting by and gives it as his
opinion that bush circuits will be as
scarce as hen teeth before the Fourth
of July.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

Des Moines. Ia. Dec. 29.-John L.
Griffith, director of athletics at Camp
Dodge, announces that plans are pro-
crossing for building several ice Kinks
at the cantonment AS soon as the
Kinks are ready hockey teams will be
formed for a series of league games.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

Two baseball stars who have en-
listed NOT as yeomen in the navy
but as real fighters in the army are
Harold Janvrin, the Red Sox' fast
kid utility infelder, and Sherrod
Smith, pitcher with the Brooklyn
Dodgers. Smith is now at Camp
Gordon, Georgia, and Janvrin is with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
ORGANIZE AT ABILENE
Non-Partisan League Worker Is Bus.
in Dickinson Co.

Abilene, Kan, Dec. "a Nom
partisan league organizer from Texas
has been holding school house meet
ings in this county seeking members.
He has had but small success.
He claim to have 100 to $50 mem
bers each in Saline, Morris and Ma
rion counties and declares that at least
twenty organizers from Dakota will
be or are working in the state during
the winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
- Up to the Minute
~ SPORTING NEWS
~ FROM EVERYWHERE.
sY-cLUo-
EDDIE COLLINS COST THE
WHITE SOX JUST S14O, 900

The most expensive player ever
purchased?
No, not Grover Cleveland Alex
ander. Iris Speaker? Mkt
The award goes to Eddie Collins.
who can run faster than Heinie
Zim.
Ban johnson recently announced
that Charley Comiskey paid $780,
600 for F. Trowbridge, gave him a
$4,000 bonus, and then signed him
to a contract calling for five years
at SIS, 600 per. That totaled $140,-
600
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
SPORTS AT Pike.
Every Kind of Game Played at
Arkansas Camp.
Director Merner To Have Base
ball League in Spring.
BY II. c. HAMILTON.

New York. Dec. 29.-Camp Pike, at
Little Rock. Ark, is going thru more
athletics than Little Rock ever saw
before. Everything in the category is
being served to the coming soldiers
bv g J. Merner, director of the camps
athletics.
As in other camps, Camp Pike has
shawn itself to have a wholesome
leaning toward the games of kid days
They include three-deep. straddle ball
relays. potato races. obstacle races,
foN-in-the-h hold-the-fort, black
,nd-white, slap-tag, and all the hi
larioIs. careless sports that ran ram
pant thru their days when they were
tramping back and forth to school.
To supplement these enervating
contests the camp director has ar
ranged a regular basketball schedule,
and the teams already have been
started on the winter schedule Next
spring so Director Merner stated, he
is going to organize a baseball league
The paraphernalia for this is already
present a donation thru the Clark
Griffith bat and ball fund
All Kinds of Games.
Tennis. voIleyball, baseball, boxing,
baseball. football, soccer, indoor base
ball. haudball and other recreational
games are constantly in progress at
this camp. interspersed with the regu-
lar setting-up exercises thru which the
men are sent every day
As in other camps, boxing is i'm
mensely popular at Camp Pike, and
f .tball gained a firm grip on the
national army men now IN camp
there. Regimental football teams
played n complete season thru the fall
weather.
Many sets of boxing gloves are now
in camp and are practically in con-
slant use. This sort of exercise has
found great favor in the eyes of Of
90 ,rf Director Merner declares this
type o athletics lis most popular with
the military authorities, because they
develop the coordination of eye and
muscle.
"All sorts of games are popular with
the men as a means of killing time,
he declared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

ceum at $3.50 O'Clock Evening lee
ture by Mrs. Eta Claybrook on Man /
Mesa geS''
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

U. $. LAND OFFICE at HALEY. Idaho.
NOTICE is hereby given that Theo-
dor ID. Dormier. OF owinza. Idaho. who
on oct. IN. 1917. made Homestead En-
try. Serial No. o2s51s. for sen. Eh
swh. Sec. 20. T. 6 s.. H. 20: Lots o..
10. and II. Section 80. Township 6
South. Range 81 East. Boise. Meridian.
has filed notice of intention to make
final three-yesr proof. TO establish
claim to the land above described. be-
fore Frank T. Disney. u. s. Commits
sioner at shoshone. Idaho on the 9Th
day OF Feb. 1918
Claimant names as witnesses:
Jain Maisch. william Fetehner and
Fred Lehman. all DIETRICH. Idaho. ana
Jacob Knopp. Jr. of owinza. Idaho.
ZEN r. GRAY.
dla-J4 Register
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28
d14-J4
NOTICE OF DIsSOLUTlON
OF PARTNERSHIP

Notice is hereby given that the firm
heretofore existing under the name OF
and style of Schneider and Snodgrass
conducting a general Drug business in
Shoshone. Lincoln County. Idaho. is by
mutual consent of the undersigned.
this dav dissolved, and the said bust
less win be hereafter conducted in the
name of the Schneider Drug Company.
All persons who are indebted to the
undersigned are respectfully requested
to make payment to the Schneider
Drug Company.
Signed this 9Th day of December,
1917.
THEO. SCHNEIDER.
II. b. SNODGRASS.
DIES
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28
STATE FEDERATION or
FARMERS ORGANIZATION
Announces Annual Convention at Lew
iston, Jan. 20, % and "a.

The board % directors Of the Idaho
state Federation OF Agriculture. which
bas been 10 session at Boise during
the past week. announces that The an.
nuai convention q the federation this
wintef win D. held az Lewiston on the
ssnd zsrd ana 2tth ~ January
THO Slate Federation ~ Agriculture
~ 80 nnme implies IS federation Of
the farmers organizations ihroucout
TIE state - Idaho. rs memhership
consisting principally 81 local oranges.
farmers unions ana cqaiiy socictios.
The federation convention goes 20
northern Iqaho for the hrsl time this
winter. an previous sessions always
having b.sn held Ia The southern part
- me state
The conventions can which IS being
mailed ,his week 10 al amllated FAR.
ners organizations. includes The foi
lowing statement
Enthusiasm proceeding the meeting
such - newer before manifested. com.
ins from at sections of the state. gives
PROMISE The laferst meeting u
farmers ever held IN idahe An ex-
cepfionaiiy strong program Is being ar
ranged. Including a number Of speak
srs % national prominence. vital
questions of deep concern 10 every |
farmer n the state will be considered
a. this meeting. Every organization
q actual farmers IN Idaho Is urged 90
send ssFge delegation 10 this eonven-
slan-