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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-19
KANSAS CITY EDITOR
SUCCUMBS SUOOENl Y

KANSAS CITY, May i9.-Thomas
W. Johnston, for seventeen years, man
aging editor OF the Kansas City Star
and later associate editor, died suddenly
here late last nigh, following an attack
OF heart trouble.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-19
PARIS SEWING GIRL
STRIKERS GET ROUGH

PARIS, May l9--1he sewing girl
strikers became more aggressive this
afternoon and wrecked several es,ab-
llshmcntS The police arrested mum
her OF strikers Marching TO the princi.
pal department stores, the strikers in.
duced 1000 workers TO Join their ranks.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-19
Daniel Constock
Dies of Pneumonia

WASHINGTON, MAY lq-Reptcscnt-
atve Daniel W Comstock OF Indiana.
died here early today Of pneumonia He
was u years Of age and one OF the few
remaining veterans oi the Civil war
now serving in the house
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-19

The Saturday Evening Dancing club
dances this evening at the Donnelly-
Reid hall. S0S1, North Broadway. The
Flrman Jass orchestra will furnish the
music. ADV.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-19

"A EISS MILDRED ELLIOTT, the daughter of Mr. and
- IWIl Mrs. William Elliott of 1113 West Nineteenth
o'o street, whose engagement to Mr.. Frederick Elmer
Suits is announced today
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-19
Where to Register

Below is given list of city and
county registrars who will have charge
OF registration IN Oklahoma county and
Oklahoma City OF all male citizens who
are required to register under the
terms OF the new draft bill. Here is
the list.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-19
FAV0RlTE RECIPES.
Economical DoushnutS

NNNE cake of Fleischman', yeas,
II one and one-hali cups Of milk
scaldcd and cooled. four Guns
Of flour Sii,ed, one half cup oi sugar
three tablespooniuls oi butter. one.
fourth ,caSpooniul Of mace. one egg
one fourth tcaSpnoniul oi salt Dis.
solve yeast and one tablespoonful OF
sugar IN warm milk or water. cover
and Sc, aside in warm place 20 rise
for an hour Add butter and sugar
ereamed. then salt, mace. egg well
beaten and famainder oi flour Make
moderately soft dough Knead
lightly. place in creased bowl. cover
and e, rise When light roll to
one-third inch ihicknes, and ru, into
douphnu,s Drop in ho, iat with
side uppcrmost that was against the
bread board
MRS. A II. JOHANNES.
2lsb West Tenth street
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-19

Pettlts hand steal under my nostrils
again but | pushed it aside and sat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

City and county draft exemption
boards completed the third day of
their sittings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
Asphaltum Highway to P0pu-
lar Park i'm Few Weeks.
1t Reaches From West Sixth
Avenue to Entrance.
IS ASPHALT MACADAM
Different From Anything Laid
in Shawnee County.
Road at Different Stages of
Construction Now.

Two or three weeks more and To-
pekans will have an asphaltum paved
street from town to Gage park. West
Sixth avenue, for two years the worst
stretch of road in the county, will
have been completely repaved by the
county commissioners by that time
and will be thrown open to the pub
lie. When Topekans ride over West
Sixth, west of the city limits, they
will be riding over the same sort of
pavement to be put down on West
Tenth by the county next year.
The Sixth street paving differs from
any laid in Shawnee county to date.
1t is what is known as asphalt-ma-
cadam. The completed portion is just
as smooth as any of the paved streets
in the city. Stretching up over hill
it looks like a speedway.
The county commissioners are
building this stretch of permanent
road themselves in order to find out
just what such work costs Hereafter
such work will be done by contract
but the commissioners will not be
going it blindly when they let a con-
tract.
The total length of the paving from
the city limits to Gage park is about
$500 feet and its total cost will be
near $1,000. 1t would he considera-
bly, more than this if the county had
not already had the old base of the
macadam road. West Tenth street
will cost more per mile because the
road will have to be built from the
| bare ground up.
Tore Off Surface.
| In building the West Sixth road the
surface of the old road was torn off
| with graders and pulled out to the
| sides to be used as shoulders for the
road proper. On this was dumped two
inches of coarse crushed rock This
rock was fldttened ont with heavy roll
lers then covered with an asphalt solu-
ton sprayed on under pressure An
| other thin coat of finely crushed rock
| of flint-like hardness was then rolled
into the asphalt. Where the road has
| been completed thus far for several
days the asphalt has worked up thru
the fine rock and bound it into solid
wearing surface. The final touch will
be to spread the finest kind of rock on
| top of this and cover il all with a
small amount of asphalt-one-half
gallon to the square yard. When that
| is done the road will be as smooth
as city street, will be as hard as flint
and will be impervious to water.
In All Contraction Stages.
The road is at different stages OF
construction. At the west end there
is stretch that is completed, At 9th.
er places the base has merely beer
prepared. Again there are place:
where the first layer of stone is dowr
and rolled and on the east end al
that is lacking is the top coat of chat
and asphalt.
The work is under the direction OF
County Engineer Williams but mem
| DerS of the county commission visit
the job almost every day to keep in
touch with the work. They are proud
of the work done to date and believe
West Sixth will be a popular highway
when it is finally reopened.
4
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS

To have had emotion that bigger than you OF
your universe is to have had ife-Ellen Glasgow.
There people who do not know how to waste their time
alone and hence become the scourge of busy peope-De
Bonald
Tread all lfe's with awed, expectant feet;
Men jostle Heaven in every common street.
-Langbridge.
Intaking and outgving-gettng good and giving good
that is our main busness.-C G. Ames.
We not what think are,
But, what we think, Anon.
Where the anchors that faith has cast
Are dragging in the gale
l am quietly holding fast
To the things that cannot fail;
know that right is right
That it is not good to lie;
That love is better than spite
And neighbor than spy.
Washington GLADDEN..
Empty hours empty hands, empty companions, empty
words empty hearts draw evil spirits draws
in air.-William Arnot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
FORECAST.

Goldsmith, pastors. Morning sermon
! by Doctor Goldsmith, II Pray Thee
Have Me Excused" The Rev. Ralph
Ward will speak in the evening at the
union meeting at Central Park school
grounds.
Seabrook, Nineteenth and Highland.
Robert d. Bussey, pastor. Morning
sermon by the Rev. Aaron Breck. Eve
ming theme, Sin of Gossip and Scan
dal."
United Brethren.
First, Twelfth and Quincy. G. *,
Hartman, pastor Morning sermon by
the pastor. In the evening Doctor
Hartman speaks at the union meeting
at the state house.
Second, Fifth and Leland, NJ. L.
Robey, pastor. Preaching by the pas
tor in the morning; union service at
the Methodist church in the evening,
Baptist.
First Ninth and Jackson, Robert
Gordon, pastor. Morning sermon, 1.-THE
Parable of the Vineyard" Evening
union service on the state house steps.
First Swedish. Fourth and Fillmore.
sermon, Holiness Evening, THE
Second Coming of Christ"
Episcopal.
Grace cathedral. Eighth and Polk,
i, J. P. de B. Kaye, dean. Morning SER
mon by Canon GeiseL No vesper or
evening service.
Christ Hospital chapel West be-
tween Eighth and Tenth, G. NJ. Geisel,
chaplain Morning service Gas.
Miscellaneous.
Second United Presbyterian, Hun
toon and Fillmore, the Rev. Jackson,
pastor Morning sermon by r. T.
Campbell, president of Cooper college.
First English Lutheran, Fifth and
Harrison, c. w. Maggart, pastor
| Morning sermon, How to Use the
| Bride
Spiritualist Temple Builders Fourth
and Monroe. Evening lecture by ]. NJ.
| Galloway Theme, 1.-The Divine Trail
| New Thought society, Unity church
| 914 Topeka avenue. Lecture by Mrs.
| Sweeney at IL. Theme, Words
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

house / got der shootin gun und vent
hunting der Wild cat. shocked around
on mein knees und hands, chumping
from behind vun tree to der next vun
chust like in dersmofing picture shows,
und finally saw something creeping in
der bushes. L silently took aim, shut
both eyes und pulled der trigger push
ness. Heine, I guess maybe 1 don't
know mooch apoudt dot shooting gun,
for insteadt off der bullet going puv
der bushes in und chasing der Wild ca
oudt. idt vent der order way right ofer
mein shoulder, thru a window in der
cottage, past mammals left ear, gebust-
ed lamp chimney und hit der fam
lily bible laying on der table und stop
ped adj der thirteenth chapter of St
Matthew. Anyway, Heine, der noise
did as mooch damage, fer idt wasn't
der Wild cat vat l saw, idt vas a gem
uine skunk Und say, nopody would
associate nit me until hadt changed
mine clothes vich 1 did in der We cd
shed puy meinseliuf. Und pellet me
efen I'm didn't haff no love for
meinselluf vile L vas doing idt either
Dot amt all, Heine. Last night der
lake hadt a big storm. My goodness,
idt tried ter oopset itselluf und chump-
ed right oop und down. 1 thought idt
vas going to gedt oop und walk away
der wafes vas so high und vent oridt
und tried ter push idt back we're idt
belonged und godt mein feet all vet
und mamma made me GONE puy der
house in und behafe. Idt vos some
storm und sure vas frightful.
Hoping you are der same,
Your fader.
LOUIE SCHNITz.
Excoose:-P. S. Heine l can almost
swim, but der water ISIS so deep, each
. time 1 sink, odervise 1 vouldt be a eoot
swimmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
kANSAN GAINS Is LBS.
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
HealthfuI for Men.

Great Lakes, Ill. Aug. IA record
of the condition of the 10000 b;ue-
Jackets at the Great Lakes naval train
ing station to determine the effect of
months training was completed here
YESTERDAY 1t shows some remarkabl
statistics.
For general health the 10000 men
there were pronounced excellent by
the naval examining physicians. II
was learned that the gain in weight
avera ged fifteen pounds to the man.
This is only the average Some gained
few pounds more and others gained
only ounces.
Many explanations were advanced
for this showing. The most impart-
| ant was the site of the station, Great
I Lakes station is in a bluff overlook
| ing Lake Michigan. Fresh breezes
sweep the station all thru the day and
night. Other reasons given We're
Food; nothing but the most whole
some of foods is served to the jaekies-
| 1t is cooked by experts and serN ed
i under sanitary conditions
Cleanliness; daily bath is as I'M
| portant in the curriculum as mas err
| ing the regulations.
Exercise; drilling under the sun for
| hours every day is bound to harden
! the muscles and whets the appetite, it
was explained.
| Regular hours: the men sleep at
least eight hours a night. They are
| far removed from the teptations of
a civilian and have not inclination or
opportunity to dissipate.
! Capt. w. A. Moffett, commandant of
| the station, received a letter from The
/ Kansas father of one of the future
/ man o'warsmen, stating his son rad
gained fifteen pounds during the
! month of July. Fhe fond parent ex-
pressed his surprise. He said he ex-
pected the boy to lose instead of gai,.
weight. This is only one of hundreds
of letters from parents. praising off
Gals of the station for the care of
| their kin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

The Topekan's name is Charles l..
Davis. His mother IS Mrs. Ella Davis
and she lives at 613 Chandler street.
A brother, Clark Davis, lives at 900
East Eighth street. Before enlisting
Davis was a machinist at the Santa
Pc shops for twelve years. The fam
lily came to Topeka from the east in
1902.
Davis enlisted as machinist and
was assigned to submarine service.
He is now supposed to be stationed
at Pearl Harbor, where an F-4, u.
$. submarine. failed to rise several
years ago, causing several deaths.
The XII, on which Davis is doing
service. was sent to Honolulu from
the Pacific coast during the Panama.
Pacific exposition. Several of that
type of boats were sent to relieve the
F4's which were taken out of service
after the sinking of one of them.
The boat in which Davis went from
the coast to Honolulu was the only
one of the bunch that went under its
own power.
Davis has sent back numerous pho
tographs of that trip, of other trips
and of details of the submarine in
Guiding the appliances for shooting
the torpedoes. However. none has
been sent since war was declared. He
was known to many Santa Fe shop
men before he enlisted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

Local labor organizations of ChiIlicothe
o.. have adopted resolutions discounten-
ancing the action of labor leaders from
Cleveland Detroit, Toledo and other cities.
in endeavoring to force government con-
tractors building the Ohio eantonmenf
camps to employ union labor only
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
PAVING TO CAGE WORK FOR GIRLS
Asphatum Highway Popu- Comptometer Careers Open
lar Park in Weeks. Bright Future to Them.
Reaches Sixth Operators Mathematical
Avenue to Entrance. Machines To Get.
lit IS ASPHALT -MACADAM SANTA FE OPENS SCHOOL
Different From Anything Laid Six Weeks Training Is All
in Shawnee County. That Required
Different Stages of Machines Add Subtract Multi
Construction Now ply and Divide.
ComptOmeter Careers Open
Bright Future to Them.
Operators for Mathematical
Machines Hard To Get.
SANTA FE OPENS SCHOOL
Six Weeks Training Is All
That Is Required.
Machines Add, Subtract, Multi
ply and Divide.

Girls, why not a comptometer
career?
No, it is not a new musical instru-
ment. a new language or a new form
of dancing. A comptemeter is the
latest fool proof machine in the big
business offices. 1t adds. multplles,
subtracts and divides II only taxes
six weeks to learn to operate it.
Furthermore, comptometer opera
tors are as scarce as black stockings
on Kansas avenue in the summer
time. The Santa Fe is shy on comp
tometer operators and has been oelig-
ed to import four Kansas City girls to
Topeka to work the machines The
company will pay a comptometer
operator as much as a stenographer.
The Santa Fe wants operators SO
badly that a school for comptomster
operators has been opened in the
Santa Fe offices. Instruction is free
Local business colleges are consider
ing opening comptometer departments
in their institutions.
Not a Novelty Here.
The cemptometer isn't exactly .
new machine in Topeka. Wolff's
Packing company has been using it
for a year, or more, il is in use ar
the telephone office and there are
about fifty of them clicking eight
hours a day at the Santa Fee office
building
1t was not until the Santa Fe moved
its wheel report department from Chi
cago to Topeka that the need OF
comptometer operators became imper-
alive. Ccmptometer operators are es-
sential to the wheel reports and the
| operators in the Santa Fe offices at
Chicago evidently didn't think much
! of Kansas laws, or the Kansas wealth
/ er.
Anyway when the vince; report de-
| partment moved TO Topeka, the oper-
ators of comptometers remained
! faithful to the windy city's white
! lights. Consequently comptometer
| operators and hens teeth occupy the
same position in Topeka.
Well. what is the burned thing.
| anyway?
| Inasmuch as it takes six weeks to
| learn to operate it and "a rePayt eT
! only spent an hour interviewing an
| operator of the fair sex and only
about ten minutes of that hour was
| devoted to any serious consideration
of the comptometer, on tie reporters
part anyway, a detailed explanation
| is difficult. It's not very big. it works
easy. it adds, subtracts. multiplies and
divides and if a mistake has been
made, the machine won't work. Any
other information about the compto-
meter may be obtained In the car ac-
countant's office of the Santa f'e,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

Wrist watches have improved their favor
by reason of the general military trend
of fashion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
CHURCH NOTICES

(These notices must be in the State
Journal office by g o'clock on Friday af-
ternoon. Unless otherwise noted in this
column services will be held at IL o'clock
in the morning and 1850 o'clock in the
eyeningD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

Christian.
Third, Lake and Third, H w. Wal
lace, pastor. Morning subject, God
Is" Evening theme, The Right of
Jesus to Reign.
Central Park. Sixteenth and Central
Park. C. E. Rash. pastor. Morning,
Communion and preaching. Evening,
union services at the Central Park
school grounds at o'clock.
Mrs. Clara II. Hazelrigg, pastor.
Morning theme, 1.-THE Good Confess
sion" A community patriotic service
will be given at s o'clock. Governor
Capper will speak.
First, 622 Topeka, o. L. Cook, pas
Christian Be- Union service at the
state house in the evening.
Christian Science.
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
Huntoon and Polk streets. Services
Sunday IL a. m. Subject of lesson
sermon, Spirit Children's Sunday
school at $50 a. m. Wednesday eve
ming meetings. including testimonies
of Christian Science healing, at p. m.
Methodist.
Oakland, Sardou and Chester, A. E.
Peterson. pastor. Morning sermon,
Christian Living Evening. 1.-The
Parable of the Vineyard.
First German, Tyler and Fifth, A. j.
Ross. pastor. Morning sermon at
10:45, theme, '"True Friendship" Eve
ming, What to Remember"
Methodist, Walnut Grove, 10th and
Harrison, Rev. T. Buckner, pastor.
Morning sermon by Rev T. ]. Ream.
Evening by Rev. H. E. Wolfe,
Presbyterian.
First, Eighth and Harrison, S. s.
Estey, pastor. Morning sermon by
the Rev. J. H. Fazel, associate pastor,
theme, THE Midnight Friend" Nc
evening service.
Redden chapel, Second and Monroe
John H. Fazel, pastor Sunday school
at. p. ms The Rev. Fazel will give
short address at 1880 p. m.
Westminster, College and Huntoon
Ralph Ward, pastor. Morning theme
"A Mans Trust" Evening, open all
service at Central Park school. Sol
diers encamped in the city are espe-
cially invited.
Congregational.
Central, Huntoon and Buchanan
Charles NJ. Sheldon, and Willis L.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11
ON U. S. U-BOAT
TOpekan Has Been in Subma-
rine Service Since 1914.
He Is Expert in Underwater
Navigation Tactics.
MADE TRIP TO HONOLULU
Charles l.. Davis Once Worked
in Santa Fe Shops.
He Is Now Stationed at Pearl
HarbOr Post.

Since December. 1914. Topeka has
had a man in the submarine service
and during that time he has seen
about all there is to see in that
branch. He rode the only submarine
that ever went from San Francisco to
Honolulu under it's own power. He's
been as far under the surface of the
sea as it is possible at present for
u. s. submarine to go.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

Ohio has adopted a Service flag TO he
displayed by families whose relatives are
in active war service, The design is a
center field OF white surrounded by a
border OF red. A blue star is placed on
the white field for each member of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-11

The New York Medical Journal states
that it would take 1000 doctors ten hours
a day for two months to make<a hysical
examination of 1,0OO000 recruits.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
WHITE HOUSE DIS
TURBANcES RtA[ARSED

Washington, July 23-Every mill
tant suffrage disturbance in Wash
ington is planned, rehearsed and
staged by the National woman's par
ty like the big scene in a movie mel
odrama. Then it is put across" on
schedule time, when the suffragist
captains are sure the newspaper cor
respondents and camera men are out
in force, when advance notices have
drawn a crowd to the spot and when
the vote hunters are sure they will
get their moneys worth in world
wide publicity.
Miss Alice Paul and Miss Lucy
Burns are the stage managers. They
write the scenarios. Mrs. Abby Scott
Baker, queen of press agentesses,
commands the army of fair scribes
which spreads the startling details
and makes sure all newspapers and
press associations are kept informed.
When a riot is planned the hour
is usually set for 1890 p. m. or
4:3O p. M, when the necessary spec
tators and participants will be sup
piled by crowds of clerks coming
from the state, war and navy build
ings. The militants' "show" is
planned at their headquarters near
the white house. Volunteers crowd
around the leaders, anxious to be
cast in prominent roles. Mrs. Bak-
er's brigade get busy. Telephones
tinkle in all newspaper offices. The
event is announced. The rehearsal
completed, out sally the women, do
their stunts, get arrested, get re-
leased and return to headquarters.
Then ring the clatter and clash OF
typewriters. They batter forth sar-
castle descriptions Of the scene.
And when the dust settles, the pa
troll wagons cease their clangor and
the angry cries Of the mobs die away,
staring headlines in the newspapers
mark the end of the militants' per-
feet day.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
Plenty to Eat.

Washington, July 23-Uncle Sans
soldier in France won't be Obliged to
subsist on the ordinary "beef and
beans" popularity supposed to be the
only edibles.
Food stuffs placed by the govern
ment show the American fighters
will have four kinds of tea, coffee
and plenty of granulated sugar, pick
les, all sorts of peppers and spices,
potatoes, onions, flour for biscuits,
hard bread, cane syrup, vanilla and
lemon flavorings, lard, butter, can
ned and dried fish. vegetables, ap-
pies and peaches.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-07-24
A FREE PRESS.

Charles M. Cook in the Union Ad-
vocate: A free press is dream so
long as most readers feel inclined
to punish the editor for his opinion
if it happens to clash with theirs. If
we appreciate the value of free
press and want to see it prosper, we
must be tolerant enough to see it
express thoughts and ideals which
We do not share. A press that ex-
presses all the opinions of its read
ers all the time is an impossibility.
All of us have perfect right to ask
Of paper claiming our active sup
port that it shall represent the ma
terial and ideal interests of our class,
and do it honestly. fearlessly and
skillfully. But we must not lose our