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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27
TIE UP STEEL PLANT
$50 Switchmcn Quit Work Demand
ing 30 and 75 Cents an Hour.

Gary Ind. Sept. 27.-Operations of
the big United States steel corpora
tions mills at Gary, Ind. and South
Chicago, ILL.,, largely on war contracts
were curtailed today by an unheralded
strike of approximately $50 switch
men employed by the Elgin, Joliet and
eastern railroad.
According to a statement by F. n.
Rogers. vice president of the road
which is a belt line of great impor-
lance in the terminal facilities of Chi
cago and environs. the men met last
night and decided to strike.
"They approached our superinten-
dent at Gary with demand for more
wages He asked who was their
spokesman, but there was none. Eacn
man spoke for himself" explained Mr..
Rogers THE superintendent said he
had no authority to act. He wanted
time to communicate with his super
iors They paid no attention to this
and did not report for work this
morning"
Throw $4,000 Out of Work.
About $4,000 workers in the steel
mills in this city and South Chicago
will be thrown out of employment un-
less the strike is adjusted soon.
In the Gary yards there are % loco
motives, of which six were operated
today. At South Chicago there are
26. Four of these were working. The
day switchmen ask an increase from
80 cents, the present hourly scale. to
10 cents, and the night men, now
drawing 40 cents, ask for rs cents.
Railroad officials said they had not
had time to learn whether German
propaganda had anything to do with
the sudden revolt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27
The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway Company.

Notice is hereby given that the
TSventy-seco Annual Meeting OF the
Stockholders of The Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railway Company will
be held at the general office of the
Company in Topeka, Kansas, on
Thursday, October IS, 1917, at twelve
o'clock noon, for the election of In
deeendent Auditors to audit the books
and accounts of the Company at the
close of the fiscal year. Said meeting
has been called by the Board of
Directors and is to be held also for
the transaction of such other bust
ness as may come before the meeting,
including the acceptance OF the An
nuaI Report OF the Board of Directors
to the Stockholders for the year end
ing June 80, 1917, and for the follow
ing further purposes respectively,
to wit:
To approve, ratify and confirm the
following, to wit:
The ACQUISITION on behalf of the
Company of the Capital Stock and in
debtedness of the Usage County and
Santa Fe Railway Company:
The acquisition on behalf of the
debtedness of the North Texas and
Santa Fe Railway Company.
The acquisition on behalf of the
Company of the Capital Stock and
Indebtedness of The Barton County
and Santa Fe Railway Company. ,
Articles l and II of the Bylaws of
the Company, in order (a) to ch1nge
the Company's fiscal year so as to
correspond with the calendar year
which the Interstate Commerce Com
mission has recently adopted as the
twelve month period for which 1t re-
ouires annual reports; (b) to change
the date of the annual meetings of the
stockholders so that such meetings
shall be held in April instead Of in
(Cl TO ma he
successors to the four classes of
Directors now in office shall be
elected at the annual meetings in
1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921, respectively.
The Capital Stock transfer books
will be closed at the close of bust
ness on Thursday. September-20, 1917,
and will be reopened at the close of
said meeting.
BY order of the Board Of Directors.
L. c. DEFINING,
Assistant Secretary.
New York City, August I, 1917.
Advertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27
State Assembly Will Be in SEES.
sion Four Days.
More Than $500 Delegates EX-
pected To Attend.
BIG PROGRAM is ANNOUNCED
Grand Encampment Will Begin
Early Monday Morning.
Assembly Session Thursday
VIII End Big Meeting.

More than $500 members of the de-
partment council. the grand encamp
ment, the grand lodge and the Re-
bekah state assembly of the Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows will assem-
BILE in Topeka, october 8. 9. 10 and II
for the annual state convention of the
organization, it was announced today
by, Judge w. H. Kemper, past grand
master of the grand lodge. The pro-
gram, complete save for Wednesday
and Thursday nights open meetings,
was also announced by Judge Kemper.
The first public assembly will be
held Wednesday morning at $40
o'clock with f. o. Elliott acting as
chairman. The meeting will open with
the singing of America" and THE
Star Spangled Banner" giving the
convention keynote of patriotism.
After Introductory remarks by the
chairman, Governor Capper will de-
liver an address of welcome for the
state and Mayor House for the city.
These two talks will be followed by
an address of welcome on behalf of
subordinate lodges, encampment and
patriarchs militant by L. NJ. Penwell.
grand master elect. The address of
welcome on behalf of the Rebekahs
will be made by Sophia Lashbrook
past noble grand.
Responses will be made by William
Willis, grand master; A. G. Muir,
grand patriarch; Sadie V. Holmes,
president of the Rebekahs and Maj.
Gen. T. c. Frazier, department COM
mander.
Programs Are Different.
A song will precede adjournment
The programs for similar meetings
Tuesday and Wednesday nights will
be announced shortly. They will be
different from anything previously of
fered. Judge Kemper promises
Wednesday, October 10, grand pa
rade will be held on Kansas avenue
with all local and visiting members of
the four departments participating.
The uniform rank will be in line.
This feature of the lodge is always
imposing as the body of men are the
finest uniformed of any lodge, it is
cited
Headquarters for the different de-
partments while the delegates are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27
CALLED TO OWN FIRE
Joe Thompson Saw His Barn and
Automobile Go Up in Smoke.

Joe Thompson, fireman at No. fire
station, had the unique and unpleasant
experience of being called to a fire
at his own home Tuesday morning at
an early hour. when a barn on his
place and his automobile were totally
destroyed.
The fire is believed to have been of
incendiary origin and it is thought
that an attempt had previously been
made to steal the automobile as the
doors of the barn had been broken
open and the auto had been pushed
partly out of the building. The loss
was partly covered by insurance. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27
is READY To QUIT
Bulgaria Not Interested in kai-
ser's Mid-EurOpe Empire.
Preferred Allies, but Germany
Made Better Offer.
ATTAINED ALL She SOUGHT
To Regain DObrudja, Mace
dOnia and Part of Serbia.
Made Offer to Entente To
March on COnstantinOple.
BY \. Il. JOHNSON.

Washington, Sept. 27.-Bulgaria is
not interested in Kaiser Wilhelm's
dream of a mitteI Europa empire. In
an interview with the United Press to-
day. Stephan Panaretoff, bulgarian
minister to the United States, said his
country had attained the sole ends for
which it entered the war and is ready
to quit providing she can keep the
territory (which by language. nation
ality and historic right belongs to
her"
Bulgaria, he said, would have pre-
ferred to have fought on the side of
the allies, but Germany made a more
acceptable business proposition.
Had Ono Object in View.
Bulgaria entered the world war
with one object in view-regaininS
Dobrudia. Macedonia and parts of
Serbia which were unjustly taken
from her during the Balkan war and
in the treaty of 1870" said Panaretoff,
frankly.
'She had no particular love for the
central powers-in fact, few years
before had been at war with Turkey.
AS the price of entering the war she
asked restoration of former territory,
which. by President Wilson's own
statement of national boundaries
Hghtfully belongs TO her.
N"Bulgaria would have preferred to
join the allies. But they offered
restoration of her territory providing
Serbia would consent to take in ex-
change other territory-presuma
wrested from Austria Hungary or
Turkey. Our prime minister even
stated to the allies that within TWEEN
'ty-four hours of the acceptance of
Bulgaria's terms. our army would be
marched on Constantinople.
German Offer unqualified"
"Germany's offer was unqualified.
Dobrudja and Macedonia were to be
restored. We Joined the central pow
ers-not because we had to but be-
cause we deliberately chose to.
Now Bulgaria has attained those
ends for which she entered the war.
She is ready for peace-according to
no less authority than Prime Minister
Radoslavoff and wants nothing but
which by language. nationality and
historic right belongs to her She
has no interest in Germany's reported
dream of a Mittel Europa, nor in
elimination of the Hohenzollerns.
our armies have not participated
on any battle fropt except against
Serbia and Rumania. They are hold
ing what they have won. AS far as
! know. they will not fight with the
Teutous against France or England
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27
TO ENLIST PRINTERS
Government VIII Give Them Work in
War Print Shops.

Efforts to encourage enlistment of
printers in the army are being made
bv the International Typographical
union thru the office of the president
in Indianapolis, according to circu
lars received today by the Topeka
Typographical union.
The circulars which will be taken
I'D and called to the attention of
members at the next Topeka meeting,
contain information as to how print
ers may enlist and still follow their
trade during service. A base printing
plant. according to the circulars, has
been esta blished in France in connec-
ton with the American forces abroad.
Men who wish to enlist for service in
this branch should write to Capt w.
w. Kirby, WarDepartment Washing
ton, d. c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27
EXPECT ANSWER SOON
Both Northcliffe and Roosevelt Invit-
ed To Come to Topeka.

No response has been received con-
corning the visits of Lord Northcliffe
and Theodore Roosevelt, who have
both been invited to Topeka late in
October. A message was sent to Lord
Northcliffe late Wednesday afternoon,
in care of the English War Mission
at Washington. message was sent
to Kansas City this morning to Col
onel Roosevelt.
The MESA ges were sent thru the
governor and We're signed by Mayor
Jay E. House, Charles Mitchell. ]
Will Kelley and Gov Arthur Capper
Senator Curtis was asked this morning
to second the invitation to the Eng
liSh War mission
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27
NAME NEWTON MAN
Food Administrator Appoints Men t.
Enlist Business Mems Support.

Washington. Sept. 27.-Five more
merchant representatives who will as
sist the food administration in organ
izing business men in their states for
the support of food conservation work
were announced today as follows:
kansas, T. T. McManus, Newton
Oregon, J. H. Dundors, Portland.
New Hampshire, David Murphy,
Concord.
Arkansas, B. F. Kidd, Little Rock.
Maine, Fred E. Eastman, Portland.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27
ILLINOIS PROTESTS TOO
Governor Objects to Breaking Up
State Military Units by War Dept.

Springfield, Ill, Sept. 27-In
telegram to President Wilson made
public today, Governor Lowden pro-
tests against the proposed breaking
up by the war department of Illinois
National Guard units, declaring such
action on the part of the federal gov
eminent would impair the morale of
the troops and would be a "grievous
errorv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27
Timely Rain checks Flames.

Spooner, Mimi, Sept. 27.-Rain
yesterday helped check the forest
fires which have been menacing
Spooner and Baudette for the last
week. All danger now seems over
Much property damage was done, in
GLIDING the destruction of a large
sawmill and outlying houses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27

and will engage in no offensive except
to maintain territory which is now
occupied.
Bulgaria has not regretted join
ing the central powers. She has at
tanned what she sought-territory
which is now and always has been
Bulgarian"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27

Connecticut recently repealed her old
blue sky laws and for the first time in
500 years milkmen, druggists. ice cream
stores and similar mercantile establish
ments did a flourishing business on Sun
day
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27

REBEKAH STATE ASSEMBLY.
All meetings in Memorial building.
Tuesday, Oct. o.
p. m.-Assembly Degree
8 30 y. m.-Adjourn to attend dance and
entertainment at Auditorium.
Wednesday. Oct. 10.
ga. m.-opening of Assembly.
9;3o a. m-Reeess to- attend the pubic
See program on page ).
Regular session after program.
D. m.-AH Rebekahs meet around Mem
parade at 1 80. Rehekahs will have II
short ride after parade.
p. m.-Assembly Session
80 p m.-Rebekah degree exemplified
by staff from Queen City Lodge No. 521,
This will be followed by the exempIfi-
cation by staff from Naomi, No. 80, To-
. p. m'.Decorntion of Chivalry in Audi
torium by Maj. Gen. T. C. Frazier aud
staff. All Rebekahs invited.
Thursday, Oct. IL.
ga. m.-Assembly Session.
The following officers of the four de-
partments will attend the convention:
Mai Gen. I. {. Frazier, Coffeyyille. de-
partment commander patriarchs' militant.
A. q. Muir. grand patriarch. Stockton.
w w Slower, grand high priest Cald-
C. NJ Snyder, grand senior warden, Hutch
l. W. Taylor, grand junior warden, Ga
lena.
~. VI. hdin' SraHu scribe. LeaNenWorth.
Fred j. Cossit grand treasurer, Wichita.
Grand Lodge.
William Willis, grand master, Wichita.
L. M Penwell, deputy grand master, To-
peka = Z
Roy Foster. grand warden, lola
VIII j Russell, grand secretary, Topeka.
H. T. stevens, grand treasurer. Topeka.
Rebekah State Assembly.
Sadie V. Holmes. president, Oswego.
Cora Taylor, vice president Yates Center
Grace Rich, warden, Wichita.
katle A. Horne, secretary, Manhattan.
Madge Virgins, treasurer, Lawrence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27
Don't Poison Baby.

FORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child have
PAREGOG audanum to make sleep These drugs will produce
Sleep and FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP FROM WHICH
THERE rs NO WAKING Many the children who been killed
whose health has been ruined for life by pO launum and morphine each
Of which is narcotic product opium Druggists prohibited from selling
either the narcotics named children anybody without labelling
them poison" The definition Of
and produces ee but 1b conD1
and deo Thetaste smell ofmedn containing opium disguised
and sold under the Of Drops Cordia" Soothing syru" You
should not permit medicine to be given your children without
physician know Of what it composed CAsTORA DOES NOT CON-
TAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature of Chas E. Fletcher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27

mere have been announced as follows:
q Department council, Hamilton hall;
grand encampment, Hotel Throop;
and the grand lodge and the Rebekah
assembly at the National.
Following are the programs as an
nounced for the different depart
ments:
GRAND ENGAGEMENT.
Monday, Octoberss.
p. m.-Encampment degree at 1. o. o.
f. hall, III West Sixth street.
Tuesday, October o.
a. m.-Grand encampment session in
the city auditorium.
p. m.-Eneampment degrees by Shaw
nee encampment No. 3 OF Topeka.
DEPARTMENT COUNCIL
Regular meetings in 1. o. o. +. hall, III
West Sixth avenue. Barracks at Hamilton
hall, 52S Quincy. y.
Monday, Oct. 3.
p. m.-Militant degree at Hamilton hall
by Canton Topeka No. J.
Tuesday. Oct. 0.
80 n. m.-Meet at barracks for escort
p m-Meet at barracks to appear in
full dress at auditorium at 0.
Wednesday, Oct. 10.
Z 30 a. m.-Meet at barracks for escort
duty.
a. m.-Department council.
p. m-Meet at barracks for parade at
q p m--Department- council.
p. m.-Meet at barracks to prepare to
give Decoration of Chivalry at 0.
Thursday, Oct. IL.
a. m.-Department Council.
> 80 p. m--Department Council
GRAND LODGE.
All meetings at auditorium
Tuesday, Oct o.
s p. m.-Grand Lodge Degree.
8 p. m.-Entertainment at auditorium.
Wednesday, Oct. 10.
Q a. m.-Grand lodge session.
80 a. m.-Grand lodge recess for pro-
gram found on page >.
10 80 Al. m.-Grand lodge session.
1 p. m.-Meet at auditorium for parade
at 80. You are an important part OF
this.
p. m.-Grand lodge session.
u 80 p m.-Winfield degree team viii
put on the first degree at the auditorium
Don't miss it.
0 p. m.-Opening meeting at which Maj.
Gen. T. C. Frazier and staff will confer
the Decoration of Chivalry.
Music, entertainment and fancy drill by
Capitola Rebekah lodge No. 219 will follow
this decoration.
Thursday. Oct. IL.
A. m-Grand Lodge session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27

We say Money saving" because every
dollar you put into diamonds is saved. '
Then you actually buy the gems from
10 to 30 per cent lower priced here
than in the usual roundabout way.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-04-12
TAKE OVER VESSELS
United States Authorities Seize
German Ships.
DEPUTY MARSHALS IN CHARGE
Action Follows Almost Immediately
After Passage by Congress of Res
olution Declaring That a
State of War Exists.

New York. April 6.-Seizure of Ger
man merchant vessels that took refuge
in Atlantic ports at the beginning of
the war began almost Immediately af-
ter congress passed the resolution de-
claring a state of war between the
United States and Germany.
The collector Of the port at Boston
was the first to act. The federal Of
ficials at New London, Conn.,, Balti-
more, New York and Philadelphia, fol-
lowed quickly. In a few hours United
States deputy marshals were in charge
of German vessels at these ports, rang
ing in size from the majestic Water
land Of 81, 2S2 gross tons, to small sail
ing vessels.
The port officers acted on orders is
sued by the secretary of the treasury.
It was understood that the move did
not involve cOnfiScatiOn and that the
vessels are held as a measure of
as to whether the government should
take over the ships for it's use and pay
for them after the war.
German vessels now in American
ports number 81 with a gross tonnage
of about 100000
Since the president delivered his war
message to congress these ships had
been under a heavy guard stationed
by the collector of the port.
Their officers have said that, lying
at their docks since the beginning of
the war, these vessels have become so
fouled and their slips so chOked with
mud that it would have been virtually
impossible for them to get away unless
they were eXtricated by dredgeS.
At various times there had been re-
ports that the machinery and boilers
had been wrecked by their German
crews, but of this there was no official
confirmation.
Chancellor McGOvern, after board
ing the North German Lloyd steamer
Whitehead at New London, said that it's
engines were apparently IN good condi-
ton.
The ships taken over, ports in which
they were seized, and their tonnage
and value, are as follows:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-04-12
SYRUP OF FIGS FOR
A CH|LD'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh phySic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
II your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing. give only deli
cious California Syrup Of Figs" It's
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle
OF california Syrup Of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv. ~
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-04-12

he has been accustomed to from lands
at $4,000 an acre. He wants this
land where social conditions will be
attractive to himself and his family,
and where he can look forward with
confidence to being in few years in
dependent and well started on the
road to financial success.
All these conditions he will find in
Western Canada, and nowhere else.
The provinces of Alberta, Saskatche-
wan and Manitoba, commonly called
Western Canada" provide the one
and only answer to the land-hungry.
The land is here; it is the kind OF
land he wants: the conditions are as
nearly ideal as is possible, and the
prices and terms are such that the
man of moderate capital has an OPP
portunity not available to him else
where.-AdvertiSem
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-04-12

which brought me out of it all right, so
/ am now well and do all my housework,
besides working in my garden. Several
of my neighbors have got well by TAX
ing Lydia E. Pinkham' Vegetable Com
pound. p Mrs. VIOLA FRICAL, Wagon
or, Okla.
Such warning symptoms as sense Of
suffocation, hotflashes, headaches, back
aches, dread of impending evil, timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu-
larities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and dizziness should be needed
by middle-aged women. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has carried
many women safely through the crisis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-04-12
WOMEN SUFFERERS
NEED SWAMP-ROO1

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney and bladder trouble and
never suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result Of kidney or bladder disease.
IF the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer a great deal with pain
in the back, headache, loss of ambition,
nervousness and may be respondent and
irritable.
Don't delay starting treatment: DR..
Kilmer's Swamp Root, a physicians pre-
scription, obtained at any drug store, re-
stores health to the kidneys and is just
the remedy needed to overcome such con-
ditions.
Get a fifty cent or one dollar bottle
Immediately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DIR.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure
and mention this paper.
If a man tells woman she has q
musical laugh, she will fall for any old
joke he may get off.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1917-04-12
BILIOUS, HEADACHY,
SICK ''CASCARETS"
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get a 1O-cent box.


Sick headache, biliousness, dizzi.
ness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food in the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in
testines, instead of being cast out
OF the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con-
gestion and that dull, throbbing, SICK
ening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 10cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear. stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.