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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
BIRTHS REPORTED

Following are the births reported to
the city clerk in the last week:
Elmer c. Conrad and wife, 1898
Redden ave, July II, boy-Francis
Virgil.
VIM. C. Davis and wife. 1910 Har-
rison St, July %, boy-Wendell B.
Everett E. Hose and wife, Ills N
Harrison street, July 26, girl-Theda
Mae.
Charles E. Howell and wife, 1884
West Seventeenth street, July 20, boy
Byron.
Robt. Lincoln and wife, I'll West
Fourth street. July 20, girl-Martha
Blondella.
Francis Marion Lynn and wife, 11O1
n. Jackson street, July %, boy-Har-
old Wendell.
Floyd T. Higdon and wife, 1929
West Sixteenth street, July Z, boy
George Morton.
Chas H. Mans and wife, Mission
township. July II, girl-Laurel Fern.
L. c. Noel and wife. 1905 Kansas
avenue, July %, boy-Norris J.
Gilbert Schwerdtfeger and wife, ABA
Scotland avenue, June IT, boy-Vir-
gil C.
Jas. Walter sumey and wife, To-
peka, July 21. girl-Minnie Lorraine.
w. B. Simmons and wife. 1923 Lime
street. July 2. girl-Marguerite Ellen.
Joe Amrein and wife, 424 Larch
street. July 81, girl.
Albert G. Allendorf and wife, $40 n.
Topeka avenue, July 20, girl.
G. L. Bybee and wife, 2O45 Lincoln
street, July %, boy.
Henry Claus Bratten and wife, SIC
West First street. July "a. boy.
F. r. Boil and wife. SIT East
Eighth avenue, July %. boy.
Geo. E. Coats and wife, 1926 Tyler
street. July %. girl-Helen Elizabeth
Geo. Clark Hereschell and wife, 40s
Green street, July 20, girl.
Warwick L. Hockaday and wife
1929 North Jefferson street. July &c
! girl.
r. NJ. Lemons and wife. Route No
g, July 20, boy.
Paul Lichtenstern and wife, so!
| Chandler street, July Is, boy
NJ. J. Sick and wife, 457 Reno ave
nue., July %, girl.
Jas w. Sheldon and wife. 143'
North Polk street. boy.
Morris P. Williams and wife ISL
East Crane street, July 27, girl--Eliz
] abeth Mary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
in SMILES ONLY
BatherS Shock People Along
Every Stream in County.
Some of Gentler Sex Said To Be
september Morns."

Should any casual wanderer happen
to come suddenly around a clump of
bushes along the Kaw river or any of
the scores of other streams in the
county he may, if he is quiet enough
witnesS-weIl, keep on readingi
Streams, providing they are deep
or large enough to furnish swimming
holes, are perhaps the most popular
and most thickly inhabited spots in
Shawnee county today. They have
been all week. Dog days and the eff
feet they have on water have no ter
rors compared with the sitting heat.
The water, even tho it be hot, pos
sessed a certain cooling effect.
Swimming parties by hundreds, in
an effort to alleviate the heat, are
becoming numerous. All along the
Kaw river the participants may be
found in twos and three and dozens
The swimming costumes do not need
much attention. They are not bulky
enough to necessitate a handbag for
transportation purposes.
Some Women, Too.
Neither are the parties totally mas
culine. There's a little bit of bad in
every good little girl and maybe
they're not to blame for this hot
weather. Clumps of bushes, thick
growths of weeds, and trees break
the wind and, if used to a good ad-
vantage, the view.
he POllCO, AlOHCN0l, nave dCSICCtt
that swimming in smiles is not - be
tolerated in the river within the city
limits. This morning, n carload of
policemen, including Sergeant Sturm
and Detective Frost, in answer to a
complaint, went to the south end of
the Santa Fe bridge where, had they
not been hardened policemen, they
might have had cause to blush. Sew
l-eral young men. sans even welcoming
smiles, were swimming in the stream
Too near the road, decreed the police,
and the boys were ordered out of the
water. Thirty minutes later they were
half mile down the river, outside the
city limits, and again were in the
river
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
CHURCH INTO COURT
Salina Congregation Fights to rect
New House of Worship.

The Pilgrims risked their lives to
cross the seas to America to worship
as they pleased. The board of trus-
tees of the African Methodist Epis-
copal church at Salina merely went to
the supreme court of Kansas TO OBJ
tain a like privilege.
In the supreme court today The
board of trustees filed a petition for
a writ of mandamus against the fire
marshal, mayor and city council of
Salina forcing them to permit the
members to build a chruch- In the
petition, the board recites the desire
of the brethren to worship but also
sets forth that there isn't sufficient
money available to build a church
such as the city ordinances of s5alina.
as translated by the mayor, fire mar
shall and city council, demand fer fire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
TO HOME FOLKS
Send Us Reading Matter, Is Re-
quest of Sammies.
Pershing Approves Plan, but
Wants Late Periodicals.
BY w. S. FORREST.

Paris, July 2S.-The Sammies in
France need all the good, wholesome
reading matter the folks at home can
send them, General Pershing declared
today.
The American boys at the perma-
nent training camp near the front
have expressed their hunger for fresh
newspapers and magazines from home.
The question was put up to the Amer
lean COMMUNICATIVE chief and he not
only approved plans that might be
made to furnish the Sammies with
good magazines and newspapers but
outlined a scheme under which he be-
lieves the work can be done effective
81 thoroly approve of the plan of
sending plenty of newspapers ano
magazines to the Sammies, Persh.
ing told the United Press Ihe ldea
is excellent.
.srThe hoys here need any amount OF
good. wholesome reading matter from
the folks at home
Don't Want Old Papers.
.But one thing must be understood:
The officers do not want ana the rneE
do not appreciate old papers-olo
must be current-that is new maya
zines and leading newspapers as
PATCHED as soon as possible after pub
LEGATION.
at is my idea that this matter
should be sent to central office IN
New York, where responsible persons
might sort it out and pack the reading
matter for direct shipment to Amerl-
can training camps in France
I'VE do not want a repetitiol here
, Of what occurred on the Mexicai bor-
aar last wear. when word was sent out
that our troops appreciated reading
matter. Well-meaning people opened
mn their garrets and dug up a lythtns
fhey could find in the line of rea ding
matter. This arrived on the border In
van loads
at was almost valueless- The
american soldiers, being intelligent
did not crave that sort of reading
What was wanted was something up
/ to-date.
ut is the same thing here in France
Moreover, tons of old papers canno
he allowed to impede matters wher
ocean tonnage is as invaluable as it i:
now"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
BUY COAL Direct
Topeka Industrial Council To
Cut Out Middlemen.
Will Save $1,000 on Fuel Bill
This Winter.

Coal men of Topeka will receive
severe setback in their business this
year, according to w. H. Kerle of the
Industrial Council of Topeka. Mem
bers of labor unions in the city, after
suffering at the hands of alleged ''un-
scrupulous'' dealers. have started to
fight back. They have organized and
will deal thru no local concern for
their winters supply of fuel.
This was agreed to Friday night
when members of the council voted
to purchase coal directly from the
mines by the carload lots. to be dis
tributed here by the association
The plan for cooperative buying
was started in Topeka some time ago
when the council ordered carload of
coal from Kansas mines. The actual
saving on the single load amounted
to 500. The deal was so successful
that the plan has become firmly es
lab1ished and now the whole supply
Of fuel for the organized bodies and
their members of Topeka will be
bought thru a central agency Of the
union.
The estimated saving on the winter
supply is $4,000 on coal alone. Topeka
union members consume approximate
SO carloads of coal each winter. The
price asked for the grades of coal that
are most popular is between Sc and
$6.25 per ton while the price, deliv-
cred by the union is 81 to $3.50 per
ton With single purchase of so
carloads, the saving would amount to
$1,000.
A representative of the council will
be sent to Pittsburg, Frontenac, and
the coal district of Kansas to contract
for the supply. He will visit the
mines next week and contract for the
fuel
The coal under this present plan
will be purchased directly from the
mines, loaded and shipped to Topeka.
Here the Industrial council will deliver
the individual orders from central
station. Payment for the shipment
will be deposited in a local bank and
the account will be transferred to the
mining company upon receipt of the
coal
The first shipment of coal will be
received here September Is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
WILL FORCE PAVING
Cfty to Begin Fight on Missouri Pa
cific Road Monday.

First steps in the city's fight to
force the Missouri Pacific to pave its
right of-w way on Adams street be-
tween Second and Fourth streets will
he made Monday ct the regular .Leet-
ing of the city commissioners, ac-
cording to announcement made today
by George p. Hayden, city attorney
AT that time a resolution will be pre-
sented and undoubtedly adopted ask
ing the railroad to pave between the
rails and six feet in addition on both
sides of rails.
The railroad company's franchise
sets out that the company shall pave
beSween the rails and six feet on both
SIDES at any time the city asks for
the Improvement" said Hayden. IF
the company fails to comply with our
request wen bring mandamus pro-
ceedings against it."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28

ARRANGEMENTS have been made by
the producers to show the pictures not
only in every state in this country,
hut foreign rights have been sold and
ali the world will see the Mason verse
in the movies. The contract which
Mason has made with the producers is
something of a stunning task. But
Mason is a tireless worker That isn't
the only thing, though. There is
pay check attached to the Mason con-
tract which would make almost any
ambitious man put his heart and soul
and best effort in the work.
A Years Contract.
s'Just now Mason has a years con-
tract with the Film-craft Corporation
of New York. Probably Mason's con-
tract for this year isn't as large as thai
of Charlie Chaplin or Mary Pickford.
None the less it is considerable of
pay check-especially in the financial
terms which newspaper men are IA
Iniliar. Besides, Mason doesn't VIC TX
in front of the camera. His work is
in the sweat shop local room of Will
liam Allen Whites Emporia Gazette
or in the den of his own palatial
Emporia home. The producers do the
rest.
Under his contract Mason will turn
out six eight-line verses-or maybe
it is eight six-line verses-one each
week
I'm Moo Yawk, the film makers will
set the lines to action and the world
will look and hold its sides ans laugh.
The Adams newspaper syndicate will
work in connection with the film pro-
duction and the attention of the ten
million Mason fans will be directed to
the new screen productions.
known All Over Country.
lstThe first work on the movie verse
was turned out several weeks ago.
There is an earnest intel est among
Mason's many friends and admirers
as to results. Mason is known per-
sonally by practically every large pub
Usher and prominent newspaper man
in America and the new venture is
causing considerable comment.
Signing the big contract with the
movie people will not alter Mason's
daily program in the least. With his
faithful and battered old typewriter
Mason will continue to grind out his
daily prose verse for newspaper
syndicate. That syndicate contract
carries a weekly figure that looks
like all summer vacation money to the
average newspaper pilgrim. Then
there are the magazine articles the
work on the Gazette and tire odds and
ends which occupy Mason's time and
attention Being a glutton for work
Mason doesn't discriminate between
the summer and winter months. Re
Gently he went to Estes Park for a
1aunt. But the pilgrimage to the
mountains didn't make much differ
ence. For n few days Mason grum.
bled and growled about the ham an6
eggs and the cantalOupe in the hotels
Then he spotted an eating place where
they cooked and served things JUS
like mother used to do. Since tina
time Mason has been SCI enc, happ,
and contented. And every day HI
adds a few simoleons to the pay checl
that comes regularly from his new
fad the movie producers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28

Topeka consumers, who in the past,
have been insisting on the use of nat
ural gas for heating purposes were
with other fuel for this purpose this
winter L. G. Treleaven, receiver for
the Topeka gas company, and T. F.
Doran, attorney, today, thru the State
journal, made public a statement
wherein they set forth the fact that
the local company will not, at any
price, be able to furnish gas for heat
ing.
I'VE are asking the consumer" said
Doran, Ito help US conserve what gas
is obtainable, for cooking and heating.
The Kansas Natural Gas company
is, this summer, delivering only 3d.
100000 cubic feet of natural gas a
day to all the cities which it serves.
This amount will not be incI eased,
past experiences prove, this winter.
The supply will have to be divided up
between Topeka and forty-six other
cities and towns.
The natural gas consumption of
Topeka. on a cold winter day when
there was plenty of gas, is about
100000 feet. That includes heat
ing.
Supply Here in June.
"In June this year, Topeka received
! 1886. 800 cubic feet. This Is ap-
! proximately 100000 feet a day. It
/ adequa for cooE an -htin>
From Topeka State Journal. sstur-
day evening, July 21st.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
rh1.kE CEN IS
ARTIFICIAL GAS
/ IN Topeka THISl
Vt WINTER, OUTLOOK
.fer Not Enough Natural Gas for
Cooking and Lighting.
ate 1t Must Be Supplemented Gas,
Officers Assert.
LAY NOT A FOOT FOR HEATING
le- Former Convenience Is Out of
the Question Now.
In Price To Be Based on COmbina.
ton of the Costs.
LAY NOT A FOOT FOR HEATING

Natural gas, at any price, will not be
available in Topeka for heating pur-
poses this winter.
Topeka consumers are advised by L.
G. Treleaven, receiver for the local gas
company, and T. f. Doran, attorney,
that they must figure on other fuel for
heating.
The supply of natural gas will not be
adequate for cooking and lighting pur-
poses
To supplement the natural gas sup
ply, officials of the Topeka company
Accommodating the feasibility of re-
opening the artificial plant at First and
Quincy streets.
With the aid of the artificial plant.
more than 500, 600 feet day could be
added to the natural gas supply. This,
attorneys and officials assert, will give
Topeka adequate supply for cooking
and lighting only.
The price charged the consumer
would be a combination one. based on
the price set by the court for natural
gas and the cost of manufacturing
artificial gas.
Consumers are advised by officials
of the gas company that the combined
natural and artificial product will be
too costly for heating, but will be more
economical than any other commodity
obtainable for cooking and lighting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
MASON IN MOVIES
EmpOria Poet Is Writing for
the Screen Comics Now.
Verse Plays VIII Be Ready for
Public in Few Days.
ALL WORLD TO LAUGH At 'EM
Foreign Rights Have Been Sold
for the Pictures.
Still Using His Old Faithful
Battered Typewriter.

AL the world.-from the Kansas
wheat belt to the war zone of France
and the seat of internal disturb' noes
in Pekin-will soon see the wait
Mason prose verse set to action on the
movie screen. The first of the verse
plays by the famous Kansan will be
offered to the public in few avs
Already a preliminary offering has
been made in New York and Broad
way is now laughing and talking about
the Walt Mason inimitable comicc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
ASKS FOR EQUIPMENT
Martin Sends in Requisition for $500
Kansas Soldiers Today.

acquisitions for personal equipment
for all military units ordered into. fed
eral service August were sent to
Washington today by the adjutant
general 1t is probable the equipment
will be sent to the home stations. -
There are $500 men in the Kansas
military units. Partial personal equip
ment has been received by two reet-
ments of infantry and one battery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
SEND OUT DRAFT LISTS
Local Boards of Kansas Can Start
Work at Once.

The adjutant general TODAY mailed
the master key draft lists to all local
exemption boards and the work of
hearing applications for exemption
will begin Immediately upon the re-
ceipt of the lists by the local boards.
The appeal board of the first diyi-
sion will hold its first meeting in To-
peka, July 81 The second division
will hold its first meeting at Wichita
on the same date
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
FIND TETANUS GERMS
Analysis by Washington Chemists De-
tects Disease or Court Plaster.

Washington, July 2S-Te nus
germs have been detected in the sam
pies of court plasters declared depart
ment of justice experts. Coincident-
ally, a supplementary warning went
out today from the department against
the purchase of sticking plaster and
court plaster from street peddlers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
CLOSE RUSS FRONTIER
Decree Effective Until August is
Add to Kerensky's Power.

Petrograd July 28.-An Russian
frontiers are closed. A government
decree issued today. which became eff
fective at midnight last night closed
the frontiers until August Is.
London, July 2S.-The provisional
government of Russia has virtually
invested Premier Kerensky with the
unlimited power which the work
mems, soldiers and peasants congress
recently voted to the ministry, accord
ing to a Central News dispatch from
Petrograd today.
Nearly all the ministers, it was said.
have placed their portfolios at
Kerensky's disposal"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28

We wish TO thank the many friends
neighbors. and members Of the Press
club for their kindness and deep SYM
pathy shown in our recent bereave-
ment for our loved one.
MRS JAKE LEWIS AND SON,
MRS. F. c. LEWIS AND FAMILY.
advertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
FOR SEED, $50, 900
One Subscription Alone for $4,000
Sent ia Today.

More than $4,000 has been sub
scribed so far to the 2-milIion dollar
seed wheat fund of the Kansas Coun-
ell of Defense Donations of 500,
$500 and $500 have been numerous.
The John Deere Plow company do
mated $4,000 today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

MYRTLE CARLSON, age II, died Friday
az Kansas City. The funeral will be held
from the North Topeka Baptist church
sunday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock. Burial
"a Rochester cemetery.
MRS. FLORA FLOX GURTON, died Fri
my at her home. S14 East Center street.
Funeral arrangements have not been COM
pieted.
Lords Flowers, satisfy Tel. s27.-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
LOCAL MENTION

Bell Telephone Directory goes to
press August Call number 35-Ady.
Safety razor blades sharpened bet
ter than new. 25c-35c doz. Brunt.
Martin Drug Co.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28
MARRIAGE LICENSES

The following marriage licenses were is
sued today from the office of Ralph Cav,
hofa i1ldp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28

Eigin, Ill, July 2s-BTTTER-Butte
3sc 80 tubs offered No sales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-28

tFurnIshed by the Topeka Board Of Trade 4
! New York July 2s
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-11
BIG EATERS GET
KIDNEY TROUBLE
Take Salts at first sign of Bladder
irritation or Back
ache.

The American men and women
must guard constantly against Kidney
trouble, because we eat too much and
all our food is rich. Our blood IS
filled with uric acid which the kid
neys strive to filter out, they weaken
from overwork, become sluggish: the
eliminative tissues clog and the re-
suit is kidney trouble, bladder weak
ness and a general decline in health.
When your kidneys feel like lumps
of lead; your back hurts or the urine
is cloudy, full of sediment or you are
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night; if you suffer
with sick headache or dizzy, nervous
spells. acid stomach, or you have
rheumatism when the weather is bad.
get from your pharmacist about four
ounces of Jad Salts; take a table,
spoonful in a glass of water before
breakfast for a few days and YOUR
kidneys will then act fine. This
famous salts is made from the acid
of grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia,r and has been used for
generations to flush and stimulate
clogged kidneys; to neutralizo the
acids in the urine so it no longer is a
source of irritation, thus ending blad-
der disorders
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
lure, makes a delightful effervescent
llthia-water beverage, and belongs in
every home, because nobody can make
mistake by having good kidney
flushing any time
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-11
Teacher Holds a Quiz
at c. A. o. Society Meeting

The regular weekly meeting of the
c. A. O. Society of Central high school
met at the home of Miss Helen Wall,
Tuesday evening, January 10. The
president Miss Catherine Simonetti,
presided at the business meeting. Miss
Getha High and Miss Louise Johnson
sang. The embers of the club who
attend the physics classes of Prof.
Zorger and Prof. Henchen conducted
an interesting quiz and discussed
thoroughly the subject Magnetism" "
1t was proposed that q quiz" be held
at every regular meeting.
Refreshments were served to Miss
Catherine Simonetti, Miss Mary Alma
Allin. Miss Gertrude Weston, Miss
Margaret Bacon, Miss Carolyn Hahn,
Miss Margaret Landis. Miss Helen Wall,
Miss Alice Schwab, Miss Evelyn
Speakman, Miss Getha High, Miss
Louise Johnson, Miss Sabra Clark,
Miss Margaret Wingeard and Miss
Helen Ferguson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-11
Farewell Social Held
by Sunday School Class

a farewell party was held last eve
ming at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John
B. Blosser, 535 Violet street, for their
son, Harry Blosser, who is leaving for
Grand Rapids, Mich, to take a posi-
ton with the Pere Marquette Rail-
road Company.
The event was arranged by men,
bers of Charles S. Shambaugh's Sun
day school class in the Green Street
Church of God, of which Harry
Blosser is a member. A pleasant eve
ming closed with q delicious supper
served to John Byrnes, Charles
Becker, James Doyle, Charles Reed,
Clarence Shambaugh, Earl Sham
baugh, Robert Reed, James Haver-
stick, Harold QuenZler, Chester Young,
George Miles, Elmer McClain, Maurice
Lambert, Dewitt Wohlfarth, William
Shambaugh, Raymond Shambaugh.
Albert Shambaugk. Harry Blosser,
Mr.. and Mrs. Heckert, Mr.. and Mrs.
Blosser, Mr.. and Mrs. Shambaugh,
Mrs. Ella Heckert and the Rev. Mr..
and Mrs. Hershey.