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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19
Looking Backward In State
Journal Society Column
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

A quiet wedding took place last night in
Father Haydens parlors Father Con-
nors performed the ceremony which united
in marriage Miss Marie McEernan and
Mr.. w NJ. Brooks. The attendants were
Mr.. Frank Heck and the grooms sister,
Mrs. Minnie Rain. The bride wore light
blue china silk with pearl trimming and
carried brides roses. Mrs. Rain wore pink
organdie with lace trimming and carried
pink roses Music was furnished by the
Zedena Mandolin club.
X X X
Mrs. W. Is. Gibson issued invitations yes
terday for the marriage of her daughter
Bessie Streeter, to Mr.. David Emery Pal
mer, Wednesday evening, June ?. at half
past eight o'clock. There will be re-
ception afterward at the brides home. The
at home cards read after August l at
415 Tenth Avenue, west.
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w. T. Bailey end daughter Charlotte. of
Topeka, were dinner guests Sunday of Mr..
and Mrs. J. Rains
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Dunlap spent We'd
nesday with their parents, DIR. and Mrs.
n. J. Taylor of Berryton.
Mrs. Lee Tulley of Topeka, was the
guest Friday of Mrs. G. W. Crawford
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Moseley of East To-
peka, were guests Sunday at the A Korn-
haus home
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. e. Cross spent Tuesday
with their son, A. L. Cross and family of
Maryland avenue.
Mr.. Chas. Pratt of New York, Ell route
from California, spent a few days last
week with his aunt, Mrs. Jane Pratt
Mrs. Bruce Mckee and daughter of Rich
land. We're guests TODAY of Mrs. o. Shaul
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EAST SIDE NOTES

Notes and personals from East Side,
by Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street.
Telephone between and 10 a. m. $3.50:
other hours. 4751 K-2.
A baseball game was played Friday
afternoon between the girls of the sixth
grade of Lafayette school and the sixth
grade girls of State street school The
girls of tho State street team are Myrtle
Cary, Helen Jagars, Myrtle Mooter, Thel-
ma Burgess, Marguerite Hows, Laura
Mitchell, Birdie Mooter, and Gertrude
Pierson. The score was 23-17 in favor
of the State street girls.
Miss Estelle Tobias, Quincy street. will
spend the week end with friends in Kan
sas City.
Charles Robbins has returned to his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

Mr.. and Mrs. John Sargent, jr., of
1912 College avenue. announce the
engagement of their daughter, Eloise,
to Mr.. H. w. Kingsley of Chicago, Ill.
The announcement is of much in
terest to Topeka people, as both the
Sargent and the Kingsley families are
we'll known in the business and social
life of the town. Miss Sargent is a
graduate of the Topeka high school
and was a student in Washburn col
lege for year. Later she went to
Chicago to be a student in the Art
institute. Both she and her brother,
Mr.. Churchill Sargent, are artistically
gifted.
Mr.. Kingsley is the son of Mr.. II. A.
Kingsley, manager of the Kaw Paw
ing company, and Mrs Kingsley. He
is graduate of Washburn college and
is now in business in Chicago. The
Kingsley and the Sargent families
were neighbors for years, and the ro-
nance which is to eliminate in the
marriage of the two young people
had it's beginning in a girl and boy
friendship.
No date for the wedding has been
set.
X X x
Miss Gladys West gave a bridge
party this afternoon in compliment to
her sister-in-law, Mrs Roland West,
and her cousin. Miss Mildred Woodle,
both of Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19
Stop Left Over Coughs

Dr. Bells Pine-Tar- Honey will stop that
hacking cough that fingers from January.
The soothing pine balsams loosen the
phlegm heals the irritated membrane, the
glycerine relieves the tender tissues, you
breathe easier and coughing ceases. Don't
neglect a lingering cough, 1t is dangerous
Dr. Bells Pine-Tar- Honey is antiseptic and
pleasant to take, benefits young and old,
get it at your druggist to-day. Formula
on the bottle. 25c.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

Large women who appreciate the
svelt lines and excellent style of this
newest of military fashions will be
delighted to hear that this is just
one pleasing example of what has
been accomplished by designers and
makers who specialize in svelt-line
styles for oversize" figures.
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SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Ease, the antiseptic powder to
be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in
the foot bath. 1t relieves painful, swollen,
smarting feet and takes the sting out OF
corns and bunions. Use it when you put on
rubbers or heavy stockings. Aliens Foot
Ease Is certain relief for sweating, cal.
everywhere 25c. Always it to Break
in new shoes Tria! package FREE: Adj
Dress Allen S. Olmsted. lie Roy, n. Y
Adv.
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roll call will be, What has helped me
most in the years study A paper
by Mrs. J. X Jones will be on the
subject, How to decorate a bedroom
on $25.''
A review of the papers will be
given, and officers will be elected for
next year.
The d. C. c. club was entertained
Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
r. l. Payne, 304 Taylor street The
guests were: Mrs. H. E. Eversole,
Mrs. H. l.. Grice, Mrs. J. o. Eyer, Mrs.
William Houser, Mrs. John Worstell,
Mrs c. L. Kirkpatrick Mrs. Gilbert
Stewart, Mrs t. H. Barnes, Mrs. o. D.
FOOSe and Mrs F. r SouderS
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wore a veil and carried a bouquet of
brides roses and lilies of the valley.
After the ceremony Miss Annette
Holcomb sang Bid Me to Love-" and
Miss Peterson sang "a Perfect Day."
Supper was served after the wedding.
The decorations were in pink and
white. The out of town guests were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Nordlund and their
daughter of Nebraska, the Misses Tu-
lien of ST. Marys, Miss Effie Nord-
strom of Lindsborg, Mr.. Elmer john
son of Kansas City and Mr.. and Mrs
HakanSon of Meriden. Miss Ruth Carl
son and Miss Margaret Newberg as
sisted in receiving the guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nordlund have gone
for a trip to California, and after their
return they will go to Kansas City to
make their home. Mr.. Nordlund has
a position with the Rock Island.
X x X
Mrs. C. F. Menninger's class of high
school and college girls, who have
finished the four years course in Bible
study, will have their commencement
Sunday evening at the First Presby
terrain church. A program has been
arranged which includes some Bible
exercises by the class, an organ and
piano duet by Mrs. Robert Carver and
Miss Ethelyn Harrison, a solo by Miss
Marguerite Gohlke, and singing by the
Sunday school quartet, the members of
which are Mr.. Horace Bowman, Mr..
Roy Naylor, Mr.. Arthur Taylor and
Mr.. Herbert Hughes DR.. S. S. Estey
will make the graduating address.
The girls of the class are:
Irene Smith Marian Dana
Ruth Gasche 4 Virginia Kitchell
Louise Arthur Mary McClements
Marguerite Gohlke Theo Cobb
Ruth Romig Lucille Mcguire
Esther Thomas Edith Switzer
Gertrude Ford Frances Ford
Maym Parsons Helen Rutledge
Ethel Harritt Marjorie Hill
Margaret Marshall Ruth James
X X X
The choir of the First Baptist
church will give Memberships can
tata Come, Let Us Sing" Sunday
evening at O'Clock. In addition to
the cantata a trio for violin, harp and
organ will be played by Miss Gladys
Cav, Mrs. F. A. Derby and Mrs. Clark.
X x X
Mrs. Nadyne Hedrick. who has been
studying voice under Professor Car
tella of New York, and for the past
six weeks has been living at the Meuh-
lebach hotel in Kansas City, is now in
Topeka visiting Miss Olive Ward of
1912 Kansas avenue.
x X
Miss Mildred Ramsey, who is grad
uating this spring from the Washburn
schol of fine arts, will give her di-
ploma recital in piano Monday eve
ming, May Il, 10 y CiOCh III lIle
college chapel.
X X
Miss Rebecca Adams, piano student
at Washburn, will give her Junior re-
cital Tuesday evening of next week
in the chapel.
X X X
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs Frank R. Millspaugh and her
daughter, Miss Mary Hambleton, left
Friday evening for Muskogee, Okla,
to visit Mrs. Millspaugh's son, Mr..
Clarkson MilIspaugh. They will be
gone two weeks.
Miss Bernice Fuller will return Sun
day from an extended trip east, where
she spent the past few months.
Miss Eva Dewey of Wichita left for
her home today, after a visit to Mrs.
Luther Burns.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ. Drake are
spending a few days in Kansas City.
Miss Mabel Coe. who is teaching in
the Paola high school. returned home
today to spend the summer with her
parents, MIR. and Mrs. d. o. Coe.
Miss Itasca Hilsman of the State
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN

Who has a gift for rhymlng, and has
put into a limerick what a number of
people were saying in plain prose
after one of the recent, charming
parties at which the ices were favored
to suit the taste of most of the guests
to T. She called this bloom of poesy
THE Branded Cherry Versus the Bone
Dry Law" and this is what she said.
AT a party of late
q most grieve to relate)
The eats were well fortified-very
Meath diminutive flags
Quite conducive to 1ags
Was found John Barleycorn berry"
:: X X
The members of the Music Study
club will have a picnic at the McAfee
farm Tuesday afternoon, with Mrs.
Leland McAfee as hostess. A truck
will be sent from the farm at in
the afternoon to meet the Gage park
car line, for the use of any guests
who have not their own conveyances.
II X X
Mendelssohn's music will receive
special attention at Grace Cathedral
on Sunday, both morning and after
noon. Selections have been made
from his greatest works. At the Yes
per service at 4 p. m. the following
program will be rendered:
Aria from st. Paul. 20 God Have Mercy
Angel Trio. from Elijah Lift Thine Eyes"
Miss Price, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs.
Shoemaker.
Duet and chorus from Hymn of Praise.
............. Il Waited for the Lord
Mrs. Price and Mrs. Shoemaker.
- . 80 ."But the Lord is Mindful
Mrs. Shoemaker.
Aria from Elijah NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Mr.. Glenwood Jones.
Chorus from st. Paul, ..............
.......'How Lonely Are the Messengers"
Soetarne from Midsummer e9 Nights Dream
Violin and organ, Miss Helen Phipps and
Mrs. J. A. Campbell.
X X X
The Red Cross buttons can be OBJ
tanned by those holding receipts for
the payment of dues, by calling at any
one of the following places: Pelle-
tiers glove counter, Crosby Brothers
toilet goods counter, or Warren M.
Crosby jewelry counter.
The Masons will have a meeting
next Thursday night, and Mrs. David
Palmer, Mr.. Glenwood Jones and Mrs.
Charles Brooks Thomas will be pres
ent to take over memberships thai
evening. Some soliciting for Red Cross
memberships has been done among
the Masonic members.
X X X
Little Eleanor Feltenstein, reputed
to be the most temperamental child
in Topeka, is known for her talent in
aesthetic and interpretative dancing
She has danced for nearly every wom-
ans club in town, and she has appear
ed repeatedly on programs of various
sorts. People who want to collect a
good sized company for a recital, adj
vertise little Eleanor as their trump
Garland the crowds usually come all
right. Now appears the child in a
new role-that of versifier. She is a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

represented in the procession. Miss
Edna Anton of the senior class was
the May queen and her throne was
situated at the east side of the large
lake. Her attendants were Miss
Gladys Pratt Miss Eleanor Eckert.
Miss Helen Wagner and Miss Gladys
Jones.
The girls did not serve any refresh
ments. as in fop4ner years. They had
previously voted to use the money for
the support of a French orphan.
X x y
The play, Midsummer Night
Dream for the benefit of the Red
Cross fund. will be given this evening
at 1880 o'clock, the weather permit
ting, at the home of Capt. and Mrs.
Clad Hamilton of Potwin Place. In
case of rain, the play will be post
poned. and announcement of the date
will be made later.
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Mrs. Roland West Mrs. Tom Lillard
Mrs. " =. Snyder penny
Mrs. Robert March Mrs. Walter CLANCY
Mrs c. G.. Moore Mrs. George Me-
Mrs J. S. West DermOtt
Mrs A Il. Billings Mrs. Forrest kutz
Mrs A. J. Carruth Mrs. James Nc
fr Farland
Mrs. A. X. Jones Miss Winifred Greene
Miss Daisy Neil Miss Corinne Ripley
Miss Alice Griffin Miss Anita Weiskirch
Miss Lucille fillmore Miss Day Monroe
Miss virginia Miss Lois Lindsay
Kitrheii Miss nellie McFar-
Miss Ruth Cowgirl Miss Ethel Ever
Miss Kfffn ingham
Miss Jennie Bliuu DR.. Lillian Malone
Miss Annetta Nicoll Miss Orah Money
Miss Lena Baxter penny
Mrs Margaret May Miss Ida Grosch
Mrs Fernicy Ginger Miss Gladys Parker
X y y
Mrs George Thatcher Guernsey, Of
Independence, newly elected president
general of the national Daughters of
the American Revolution, was the
guest of honor at a reception given
by women of Parsons Friday night. at
the home of DR.. and Mrs. G. W.
Masser. Topeka women who were
guests, going to Parsons from the state
federation meeting at Pittsburg, were
Mrs. H. o. Garvey, the newly elected
president of the Kansas Federation of
Women's clubs, Mrs. Noble Prentts.
Mrs. Charles f. Spencer and Mrs. John
PrentIs were in the receiving line.
X X X
Miss Clara Fritz will leave next
week for an extended western tour,
spending the early art of the sum-
rner in Alaska, going into the interior
and as far north as the Arctic circle,
where she will witness the midnight
sun at its greatest brilliancy about
June %. in the vicinity of Fort Yukon.
The rest of the summer will be spent
Tow sagsf ~
California, including trip to the Ha-
waiian Islands before her return in the
late autumn.
One of the resolutions put thru at
the annual convention of the Kansas
Federation of Women's Clubs. which
will be of wide interest to Kansas wo-
men especially those who mix bit in
politics, was one by which the govern
or of this state will be urged to ap-
point at least one woman on the new
state board of administration. OF
course the sop that has been handed
TO the women in the appointment of
an entire feminine board of moving
picture review might be expected to
silence them on the administration APP
pointments. but the resolution put thru
by the most powerful wOman's organi-
cation in the state. hardly looks like 1t.
Another resolution, touching educa-
tional subjects, was one by which the
women will ask for a regular tax levy
for the support of the state education
al institutions, which is considered bet
ter than the former method of going
before the legislature every two years
asking for an appropriation. The new
plan is for the regular levy, sufficient
TO cover the needs of the various insti-
tutions; the distribution of the funds
10 be in the hands of the board of adj
ADMINISTRATION.
X X x
The high school garden party at
Central Park Friday afternoon was
the fourth annual May party given for
the mothers of the girls. Nearly all
the girls of the school were included
in the pageant. There were songs
pantomimes and dances and costumed
pageant. All the eight classes of the
high school, the Junior high school
and the various school activities were
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HIGHLAND PARK

Notes and personals from Highland
Eark, by Mrs. o. Shaul. Telephone
1920 Nj.
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SANTA FE NOTES

Notes and personals from Santa Fe
by Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street.
Telephone between s and 10 a. m. $3.50;
other hours. 1I51 K-2.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

The w. T. K. club will meet Tues
day afternoon with Mrs. F. c. Bowen,
200 West Tenth avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

The Aramanth club will meet Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. William Traut-
man, 1901 West Tenth street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-19

The Golden Rule club will hold its
asst meeting of the season Friday, May
IS, at the home Of Mrs. ]. c. Holland,
sos West Fifteenth street, with Mrs.
R. B. Cunningham, the assisting
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The Ceramic Art club~will meet Fri
day, May 25, with Mrs. Charles Ham
mond, Canary and Ohio streets. Mrs.
Clark Berry and Mrs. J. S. Ensminger
will be assistant hostesses- Answer tn
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-13
Onaha's Labor Strike
Force AS a Strike Weapon

by Labor hmrngwe ned
Toenuee edemdsf uos Idho wmph
RESTRICT of ud kg Some for WI
Thshkev nundato to oompeAe Aeempoye t demands
ktndNs the fth to pd wei
Intimidation Mdenc cd o prpey he
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-13

self in the river, like they did in Chicago" Threats
of bodily injury were made good in the case of
man at work, who was hit on the head by brick
thrown at him.
Tools of workmen who stayed by the job-tools
of electrical workmen being vauable-were stolen
in the night.
Court Enjoins Lawlessness
So serious was the situation that electrical con-
tractors were compelled to ask for an injunction
from the district court to prevent the further destruc
tion of property and to stop the campaign to FORCE
men from the jobs at which they wished to continue
by acts of violence and intimidation.
Immediately upon the issuance Of the njunc-
ton the violence ceased.
Teamsters Beaten Up,
When the teamsters of the G. W. Hull Co. struck
May 18th there ensued another period of violence
and intimidation, designed apparently to force men
to join the union and to prevent deliveries Of lum-
ber, coal and building material ->
The day after the strike began the company
tried to make some deliveries One of its tearsters,
who had refused to quit work at the Union order,
was assaulted and beaten about the head by one of
group of pickets just as he was about to leave the
company's yard.
Two other drivers, who had stopped their teams
to get lunch at noon at Sixteenth and Cass streets,
were met by gang of union drivers as they came
out of the restaurant One was beaten and kicked
about the head the others face was beaten cut and
bruised.
Deliveries Forced to Stop
These assaults had the desired effect of So
frightening drivers who wished to continue their
work that the Hull company had to suspend business
completely.
This done, the picketing turned to other
panies on which no strike had yet been declared in
an effort to force all team drivers into the union and
to stop deliveries. There followed long list of acts
of intimidation of which the following are typical
instances:
Six drivers unloading car at Fifteenth and
Pierce streets were told to "on the union ton~ht
get off the streets tomorrow"
Police Protection Needed
The Plattner Lumber Co. started wagon out Of
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-13
intimidation, Destruction


driver an old employe, was stopped by crowd of
union teamsters and told not to try to make the trip
He was forced to turn back. A police officer saw him
through the crowd but then left The gang of pickets
followed him, shouting threats of physical violence
until police protection was secured and the mob dis
persed, it being necessary for police officer to
company the team the rest of the trip.
Two other drivers of this company, attempting
to make delivery at 10 o'clock at night pelted
with bricks which hit both the men and the horses
Coal Deliveries Stopped
Deliveries of coal were interrupted by union
eamsters at the time. Drivers for A. L. Havens
coal dealer were so frightened by threats of violence
that Mr., Havens had to mount a truck himself to
make necessary deliveries.
When wagons of the Central Coal & Coke Co.
started to leave the yard fifteen men climbed on the
first outfit and told the driver that he was being
warned for the last time; that he could make this one
delivery, but no more unless he join the union.
The Coal Hill Coal Co. and other companies
found it necessary to call police protection deliver
coal absolutely necessary to the continued operation
of downtown buildings, such as the Fontenee hotel,
the Omaha National Bank building and The Bee
building To protect the drivers on these wagons
from violence pOlicemen' had to ride alongside the
load
The drivers thus threatened were not imported
strikebreakers but regular employees, whose only sin
was that they desired to remain at work.
Men Assaulted
Wagons crossing the Missouri river bridge from
Council Bluffs, bringing building material to Omaha,
were met by gangs of pckets and the drivers were
unable to proceed until police protection had been
secured to make it safe for them TO drive up Douglas
street to Sixteenth street.
Meanwhile, a boiler-maker, who was at work in
a shop whose owner would not give in to union de-
mands, was mysteriousy beaten up at night. Two
other boilermakers were assaulted by striking union
boiermakers just they were boarding street
to 60 home.
A system of picketing boiler shops material and
coal yards and planning mills was and is maintained
with groups of strikers shouting threats and surs at
men who keep on at work.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-13
\ Threats in Union Hall

A workman on residence job, persisting at
work in spite of the union order, was pulled off,
under threats forced to 60 with the threatening pick
cts to the union hall and there menaced by many
union members, who warned him that he would be
"xed so you can't work. if he did not leave his job
Threats were made to men who were at work
to get out while your health is good" and that if
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-13


first to strike To manage the strike, the union i'm
ported from Chicago one Raymond Cleary, ma
tiona organizer of the Electrical Workers Union and
a professional at the game, who took up his tempo
rary abode in Omaha at the Fontenelle.
The use of force developed early in this strike.
The new residence of Frank T. Ransom was entered
at night lath was carefully removed every electric
switch wire was cut and the lah then carefully re-
placed with the apparent hope that the walls would
be plastered and the home finished before the dam
age would be discovered. This was an electrical wr
ing job being done by contractor who had refused
to concede the union demands.
At the Blackstone hotel, where another con-
tractor not under union control at work, conduit
pipes were uncoupled brick and wooden plugs were
driven in and the pipes then coupled up again so as to
prevent the running Of electrical wires through the
conduits, compelling the uncoupng of many pipes in
the search for the plugs.
A building at 1415 Farnam street was broken
into at night and practically all of the electrical wiz
ing placed by contractor who had refused to obey
union commands, was torn out and destroyed.
Men Forced to Leave Jobs.
During this same period, electricians who de-
sired to continue at work in disregard of the COM
mand of the union were interrupted at work or stop
ped on their way to and from home to be forced to
listen to threats Of bodily harm. Against their own
desire to remain at work to their living, they
were forced, in many instances, to quit.
Affidavits of number" of such instances of in
timidation are on file in the district court.
One non-union workman was pursued from his
work at night by gang of pickets who got on the
street car with him and whom he evaded only after
he had jumped from the moving car and sought
police protection. Another workman, similarly fol-
lowed was forced to into restaurant and dodge
out the back door to escape.