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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-14
The Sport Coat De Luxe

Sports Clothes are the seasons most
interesting offering to the Woman of
Fashion
In every daytime function at the smart
est resorts, the sports costume holds first
place.
And the silk sport skirt is the seasons
most distinctive garment.
We are showing exact duplicates. Of the
models shown at the smartest Fifth Avenue
shops and at greatly reduced prices
Skirts in Khaki-kool and Shantung, in
striped and plaid taffetas in rich simmer
ing Georgette satins, which come in wonder
full tones, in Tricotine and in Silk Jersey.
You cannot fail to be delighted with the
selection.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-14

Mort Lindsey and Joe Porto rolled
into thirteenth place in the doubles
yesterday afternoon. They chalked up
574 each for a total pinfall of 114S.
Porto knocked down 232 pins in the
second string, a ALTO split after a
five-time strike rohbing him of bet
ter score. This was the only team to
finish in the money.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-14

President Wilson, sent to the Sen.
ate the nomination Of Charles 4. Rat.
igan, of Auburn, N. Y, to be customs
collector at Rochester.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-14

Some Of the ball players who, en-
joyed a banner year in the Feds in
1915 are now carrying the banner.
toOaS CS ttywof
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-14

Gold to the amount of s8,000,000
was received from Canada and depos-
tied at the assay office for the ac-
count of J. P. Morgan & Co.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-14

The Boston & Albany railroad an
nOunced that 80, account of the
threatened strike of employees in train
service" it had instructed agents to
accept all freight subject to delay.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-14

Secretary &C state Lansing held a
conference with President Wilson over
the international situation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-14
Sporting Chatter

The only article that is cheaper
now than 1t was two years ago is
baseball ivory.
"Ten-cent baseball is thing of the
past" we read. A lot of 1t is likely
to. be played this year, even If the fans
do pay more.
iris Speakers weak spot has been
discovered at last. He's q golf bug.
With Bender seemingly through,
and Chief Meyers slipping, Poor 10.
the Indian, seems to be losing his grip
on the national pastime.
Even If Willard and Fulton fight the
best man won't win, because he won't
be in the ring, Sam Langford says
so.
With beefsteak selling for what it
does, and potatoes two for a nickel in
some of the big city markets, wed
hate to undertake the contract OF
filing jim Thorpe's inner void.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-14
11O8 MAIN ST.

ion was added that the orders were
contingent on refusal OF the rail-
road managers to grant the demands
Of the brotherhoods meantime.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-14

Baseball has been introduced among
the Moros, and they call the umpire
the "egxysoklorot. Sounds like a
pretty accurate description.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
REGISTRATION STILL ON
Two Hundred "Freshies'' Already En-
rolled Swell Washburn Classes.

Registration and enrolment at
Washburn continue today. Sea rcely
400 students have enrolled in the col
lege to date and fewer than SO men
have started their work in the law
school, according to figures reported
this morning. gS
The total enrolment in the college,
academy and, law school will amount
to nearly $50 students, as was orig
inally predicted, according 10 Miss
Jessie Dean, registrar Registration
has been slow but from all indications
heavy enrolment will continue the
rest OF the week.
Only ten men have been enrolled in
the senior class of the college. Ten
men from a class of fifty persons is
about the proportion expected to last
thru the year. The junior men, also,
are mighty scarce and proha bly, will
be all year.
Two hundred freshmen have enter
ed the college this fall and nearly half
that many sophomores. Junior and
senior classes total so far about so
each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
VOTE ON SUFFS
Senate To Ballot on Susan b.
Anthony Amendment.
Committee Agrees To Put 1t on
December Calendar.

Washington, Sept. 13.-The Susan
B. Anthony resolution for nationwide
woman suffrage by constitutional
amendment was favorably reported to-
day by the senate suffrage committee
and will take place on the calendar
for vote at the session beginning in
December
Whether the suffrage resolution can
command the necessary two-thirds
vote in the senate and later in the
house is a question. President Wilson
so far has refused to put the influence
of the administration b.hind it, altho
urged to adopt it as a war measure.
Suffrage supporters, however, regard
getting it out of committee with a
a favorable report as a forward step
and they welcome the opportunity to
get a record vote on it in the open.
Suffrage Vote in Hawaii, Too.
Without debate or objection the SEN
ate today passed Senator Shafroth's
bill authorizing the Hawaiian legisla-
ture to give women who have property
and other qualifications of men, the
right to vote in territorial elections. It
also authorizes the legislature to SUBJ
NIT to the territory the question of
giving women unrestricted Suffra Se
there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
IN A RELIGIOUS RIOT
Lecturer and His Followers Stone a
Catholic Convent.

Rochester. N. Y, Sept. 13.-Fierce
religious riots broke out here Wednes-
day night when two hundred follow
ers of the Rev" J. j. Kennedy, an
anti-Catholic lecturer, stoned the Holy
Rosary, convent, driving the sisters in
terror from their beds. Automobile
loads of police reserves were sert to
the scene of the disturbance and the
tanks" and police motorcycles were
driven headlong into the crowds
Kennedy has a gospel tent" where
he breaches twice week. A mob
numbering 1000 stoned Kennedy
tent and while police were busy with
them, Kennedy's followers went by
back streets Ito the convent, a short
distance away. None of the sisters
was injured. So far police reports
show only one person, Miss Esther
Hahn, injured. She was struck by a
flying brick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
DIP GETS EMPTY PURSE
Neglect to Put Money in Pocketbook
Saves Topekan 81.

Pickpockets took an empty purse
away from A. F. Horner S32 Tyler
street. Wednesday evening. as Horner
was climbing on a street car at the
fair grounds. according to report re-
ceived today by Sheriff Hugh Larimer
Horner had one hand grasping the
rail of the car and the other held an
umbrella when he felt someone reach
into his trousers pocket
Unable to reach around and catch
the fellow Horner endeavored to
throw himself backward from the car
and fall on the pickpocket. Horner
struck nothing but Mother Earth. The
dip" had disappeared in the crowd.
So had .Horner's pocketbook
Horner had a SIS bill in his pocket
when he went to the fair. He made
dollar investment and received 81 in
change. He neglected to place his
change in his pocketbook, placing it
in another pocket
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
KEEP 1T FROM PUBLIC
Germany W:thhoIds Facts in Argen-
tine Plot From Newspapers.

London, Sept. 13.-The German peo-
pie have not yet been permitted by
their government to know that Count
tLuxburg called an Argentina foreign
office official notorious ass" nor
have they been given any details at all
Of the German charges plot mes
sa ges.
Ft Dispatches from Germany, received
via Holland, today Indicated the news
papers there had been permitted to
publish only general references to the
whole episode. Instead, the German
government apparently sought to twist
the matter into an attack on the
American government for stealing
diplomatic dispatches"
The Cologne Gazette's comment was
typical. 1t printed a Holland dispatch
Diminishing the LuXburg correspond
ence with the brief mention:
Three specimens of correspondence
contain confidential cor munications
regarding public feeling in Argentina,
a report on the negotiations growing
out of the sinking of Argentina ships
and suggestions for future treatment.
The remainder of the article is an
assault on the American state depart
rnent for it's theft"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
HUSBAND
+. GUARDS HOME WITH,
COWBELLS ON DOOR

( Portland, Ore. Sept. 13.--A cow
bell won a divorce for Mrs. Orville L.
Bond today.
She testified she did not object
when her husband hid himself in the
brush around their home that he
might learn if his wife had callers I'M
known to him. Neither did sh, OBJ
ject when he tied tin pans to the doors
so that he would be awakened if they
were opened, but, when he tied cow
bells to the doors, it was too much and
she brought a divorce suit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
FAIR SHEEP EXHIBIT
Wool Shortage Attaches Unusual In
terest to Kansas Crop"

With America facing a wool short
age while preparing the largest army
in it's history and with Kansas farm
ers rapidly grasping the opportunity
in sheep raising with wool at 81 cents
q pound, more than the usual interest
IS attached in the exhibit of sheep at
the Big Free fair. Sheep in Kansas
never played an important part in
country life.
In fact, they are playing a very
small part at present. But gradually
the fact that in sheep there is money
Is dawnIng on the Kansas farmers.
Hence, the big crowds of farmers
found daily at the sheep exhibit. The
animals don't care whether the pas
< ture on which they live is good or bad
they'll eat nearly anything and they
multiply quickly.
There are more sheep on exhibit in
pens this year than ever before in the
fairs history. The Hampshires and
Oxfords are in the majority. A big
exhibit comes from the Forest Hill
farm. Route %. Topeka. This farm
makes a speciality of Cotswold regis
tered sheep. There is a big exhibit
from the Kansas State Agricultural
college and from the farm of w. w.
Waltmire & Sons of Peculiar, Mo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
MRS. ROGERS BETTER
Woman Knocked Down by Motor Can
on Road to Recovery.

Mrs. A K. Rodgers, 1894 Topeka
avenue, who was knocked down and
run over by motor car Mon
day at the fair grounds, is improving
rapidly, it was reported today.
Mrs. Rodgers was thrown to the
ground by a motor car driven by
Samuel Weber of Tecumseh. The car
passed over her body and then the
driver, thinking that the car was rest
ing on her body, backed the car over
her. Her right arm and both limbs
were badly lacerated by the accident.
She was carried to the Battery A can
teen where she was given emergency
treatment and was later taken to Stor-
mont hospital. The driver was not
blamed for the accident, as Mrs.
Rodgers is said to have become be-
wildered and stepped backward in
front of the car
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
Cured His RUPTURE

l was badly ruptured while lifting a
trunk several years ago. Doctors said
my only hope of cure was an opera
ton Trusses did me no good. Finally
got hold of something that quickly
and completely cured me. Years have
passed and the rupture has never re-
turned. although 1 am doing hard
work as a carpenter. There was no
operation. no lost time, no trouble. l
have nothing to sell. but win give full
information about how you may find
a complete cure without operation. il
you write to me, Eugene NJ. Pullen,
Carpenter. 166D. Marcellus Avenue,
ManasQuan. n. ]. Better cut out this
notice and show it to any others who
are ruptured-you may save life or
at least stop the misery of rupture and
the worry and danger of.an operation.
Advertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
YEeGS RAID TOWN
Bandits Tie Up Policemen and
Shoot Up Village.
Blow Bank and POStOffice Safes
Escape in Auto.

ST. Louis, Sept. 13.-Four automo-
bile bandits drove into Sullivan, Mo,
SIS miles southwest of here at o'clock
this morning, bound the railroad tele-
graph operator and two night mar
shals and threw them into a box car,
rode thru the town firing guns to
make the citizens stay indoors, and
then blew the safe of the Peoples
bank.
After binding and gagging the night
telegraph operator of the St. Louis &
San Francisco railroad, the bandits
cut all telegraph and telephone wires
leading out of the town. They then
rounded up the two night marshals
and threw them with the telegraph
operator into the box car The amount
of mo@ey taken from the People
bank is not yet known.
At o'clock wire communication
into Sullivan had not been restored.
News of the bandit raid was tele-
phoned to St. Louis from Union, Mo-,
and from Newberg, nearby towns
The sheriff at Union. Mo. tele-
phoned here that the bandits also had
robbed the postoffice at Sui.ivan n
They escaped and are supposed to
have headed towards st. Louis.
In Rich Farm District.
Sullivan has a population o. one
thousand and is in rich farming
country The deposits of the bank
recently were $4,000
When the Chicago tourists reached
Sullivan they were told of the rob-
berry and said the description of :he
bandits correspondent to four men in
an automobile they met at Death Hol-
| low.
Pa.rolmen and detective were sta
toned at all roads entering St Louis
from the west and southwest to inter
the ba OdiitS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
VIOLATE PRICES!
Find Coal Dealers Evading
Governments Order.
Warned claw Is Full of Teeth
Provides Big Fine.

Washington. Sept. 13.-Coal opera
tors and dealers in two or three sec
TONS" are violating President Will
sons coal price orders. according to
reports to the fuel administration.
Violations in Ohio are declared
most serious Federal investigation
is under way. Home owners in hun
dreds of cities are unable today to lay
in their usual winter supply and face
great hardship as a result of develop
ments in the coal situation. The first
cold spell this week brought thou
sands of letters to state and federal
authorities-complai by consum-
ers and dealers that they could get no
coal.
Dealers Make Agreements.
The violations of the presidents
order are taking several forms. One
is refusal to sell at the government
scale of prices. Another is selling at
higher figures after secret gentle
mems agreements over the telephone.
A third is a claim that there is no
coal available not previously contract
ed for.
If these practices are not stopped
Immediately the full power of the
Pomerene coal amendment to the
food control law will be used Pun
ishment by $1,000 fine and two years
Imprisonment for each separate Of
Tense is provided.
Ex-Governor Fort New Jersey.
member of the federal trade commits
sion, today warned officers of the
series of attempts to violate the gov
ernment's coal order
ing" he said. THE law is full OF
teeth"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
"a TO "Y" WAR WORK
Many Kansans Will Help Look After
Soldiers at Cantonments.

Twenty-four men of Kansas have
been appointed to Y. NJ. c. A secre
tary work in the military environments
of the country according to a message
received this morning by the state
executive committee from the war
work council at Chicago.
The men will serve in the military
posts and environments where the
United States soldiers and sailors are
encamped A few of the men have
been assigned to duty already. Off
cial orders will probably come within
the next week from the Y. M. c. A
war work council assigning the TWEEN
ty-four to their posts.
Roscoe Graves, WaShburn graduate,
of Topeka, has been appointed to serv-
ice at Fort Riley. He was formerly
engaged in military Y M. c. A. work
at the fair grounds when the ammuni-
ton train, Battery A and several other
companies were encamped there
Robert Brian Muirhead is the other
Topekan appointed.
: E. B. Collier, of Atchison, was ap-
pointed to war work in France ana
has already sailed for the French
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
DESCRIBES TRAGEDY
Henson Repeats Story. Stepson He
Killed, First Slew Mrs. Henson,

Wichita, Sept. 13.-B. w. Henson,
for the third time, is rehearsing be-
fore jury today his version of the
tragedy at his residence here two
years ago which resulted in the death
of his wife and stepson. Henson is
on trial for the murder of his wife and
a case alleging the murder of his
stepson is vet to be tried. Two pre-
vious trials for the murder of Mrs
Henson resulted in hung juries
The state concluded the introduce
ton OF its testimony early this morn
ing and the defendant was one of the
first witnesses called in his own be-
half The forenoon session of court
was consumed by Henson in telling
the jurors how he met and married
Mrs. Henson, who was his second
wife.
Henson's explanation of the death
or Mrs Henson and her crippled son
Is that the boy shot her and attacked
Henson. Henson claims that the
youth then threatened him and that
he killed the boy to save himself. 1t is
expected that Henson will be on the
witness stand until late Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
"SLACKER SHIP" BACK
Captured Off Mexican Coast by o. S
Warship; Draft Dodgers Aboard.

San Diego, Sept. 13.-Escorted by
the United States warship that cap
tured her off the lower California
coast last Sunday, the gasoline
schooner Anvil, with more than thirty
alleged draft evaders and enemy
aliens on board, arrived in San Diego
harbor this morning.
When the Anvil docked. police
lines were thrown out and no one was
allowed to approach. United States
secret service men took charge of
the schooner and would not even let
city detectives aboard.
1t was evident that the United
States agents feared some attempt to
-iberate the men Plans were made
to- remove them singly under heavy,
guard to the county jail. stIfI
Newspapermen were told th:it the
names of those on board would not
be made public until information had
been filed against them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
SEND next QUOTA
Forty Per Cent for National
Army From Kansas Soon.
Beginning Sept. 10, AllOtments
Will Be Chosen Here.

During the week beginning Septem-
Der 10, Kansas will send 40 per cent
= of the men under the presen: selective
d draft to the training camps at Fort
Riley. AHotments of men under the
call were made today in the adiutant
/. generals office. Fourteen -ounties
land towns will be exempted under
. the call next week.
Topeka was among the cities which
provided its quota of men in regular
. service and escaped the first selective
draft. Shawnee county, required to
furnish 119 men under the i.rsf call,
= will next week send 4S mer to The
training camp. Recently the county
. sent six men under the per 9ent call.
Exemptions are given the counties
, of Allen, Brown, Chase. Douglas Gray,
jackson, jefferson, Kearney, Mont
,gomery, Osborne, Woodson, Wyan-
,idotte and the cities of Topeka and
4 wichita.
= Under the orders sent from the ad-
. jutant generals office today. the men
q will be moved sometime during the
week beginning September 8. Not
all of the men will be moved during
any given period. except that all must
report at Fort Riley within the week.
Many of the organizations will move
by special train. Time and route of
movement are withheld from publi-
cation under announcement by the
war department that such publication
is military Information.
Members of the local exemption
boards will designate the men to re-
port next week. Announcement from
the war department is to the effect
that the men shall be selected from
the eligible list at the discretion OF
the local board and not necessarily
in the order in which numbers were
drawn.
Cherokee county will furnish the
largest number of men under the for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
THREE WANT DIVORCE
Two Topeka Wives Charge Abandon
ment, Other Cites Neglect of Duty.

Three Topeka wives today filed Pc
titions for divorce. Ansa Wendell,
1011 East Eighth street, asks for a
divorce from Claude Wendell, charging
abandonment. They were married at
Oskaloosa, October %, 1914.
May Symmes, 934 Monroe street,
wants a divorce from Burton Symmes.
She charges abandonment. She asks
for the custody of three minor chill
dren. They were married in Topeka
November Is, 1905.
Mrs. Retta Delay. 302 East Eighth
street. asks for a divorce from Law
renee Delay charging gross neglect of
duty. She asks to have her maiden
name of Retta Zook restored to her
They were married in Cuba, Kan, De-
cember "a, 1904
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
SNAP SAOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Our "City Fathers lives are full of woe,
In days like these,
For they're asked to quell the ROSTERS
And bell the honey bees!
-Cir-Cingle.
spectacle at the Free Fair Friday aft
ernoon.
DIR. D. E. Esterly has moved his
office to rooms 1914 Mis- Bldg
Adv.
The Mission township teachers will
meet Saturday afternoon with Miss
Hazel Nash. 633 Lincoln street.
The city food inspection department
has new quarters. The office has been
moved to the third floor of the city
building.
Grover c. Rhule. top sergeant of
the headquarters department, Kansas
field artillery, was married Wednes-
day to Josie B. Davis of Topeka.
The Shawnee County Horticultural
society will not hold it's regular
monthly meeting on account of the
Free Fair. The next meeting will be
held Thursday. October IL.
Because of the Free Fair with its
evening attractions. 1t was decided TO
suspend the drills of the Topeka Home
Guard company for this week. The
regular drills will be held on Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week. as usual.
T. P. BREWSTER of the Santa Fe
was exempted Wednesday by local
board in Los Angeles, Cal. He claimed
exemption on account of dependent
mother, after he had passed his physi-
cal examination in Topeka.
Harold d. Clayberg of the Univer-
sity of Chicago will accept the posi-
ton as professor of botany in Wash
| burn college to take the place of S
V. Eaton, who has been granted a
leave of absence for one year. He
was formerly Instructor in the de-
partment at Chicago.
Henderson S. Martin, former vice.
governor of the Philippines now liv-
ing at Lawrence, is delivering chau-
tauqua lectures and has this summer
appeared before SIS audiences. He
says one of the. most popular express
sions he has made, judging from the
applause and sympathies of his aud
fences, is his slogan, mo peace with
| out disarmament"
One hundred Topekans will appear
| as witnesses before the federal grand
| jury at Leavenworth in October. Thai
| many praecipes for subpoenas were
issued today by Morton Albaugh. CLERK
| of the United States district court, al
the direction of Fred Robertson
| United States district attorney. Sub
| poepas will be served by the United
| states. marshal in the next few days
The cases in which these witnesses are
| called are not permitted to be made
| public. Neither are the names of the
| witnesses looked upon as public prop
erty. Most of the cases at Leaven.
worth involve investigations of slack.
er charges and anti-draft meetings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
"WAR TO Hit" PARTY
Disciples of "Frightfulness' Lead It
RuctiOn in Central Powers.
BY JOHN II. HEARLEY.

Rome, Sept. ia war to the
hilt" party is forming in Germany, the
Won Tirpitz advocates of "frfghtful-
ness combining with leaders in Neck
lenberg for stern repression of all
peace talk according to word reach
ing the vatican today. A sharp poIit-
ical struggle was reported now in
progress.
Pope Benedict was disturbed over
this latest obstacle to peace, but was
said nevertheless to be hopeful that
the German liberal elements would
prevail.
Other vatican reports today indi-
Gated differences between Germany
and her allies resultant from demands
by Vienna, Sofia and Constantinople
that those three capitals should have
the right to approve or disapprove
the central powers reply to Pope
Benedict before it is dispatched from
Berlin to Rome.