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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19
Great-Grandson
of Rev. DR.. Plumer
to Preach Here

EeY. Allison Bryan. OF Chicago. will
preach 81 the First Presbyterian church
sunday morning at ii o'clock This
announcement is Of more than passing
interest. MI Allison is the great
grandson of the Rev. br. w. :. Plumer.
who for many years was a commanding
tgure in Richmond and the beloved
pastor Of the First church. Rev Ali
son Bryan is the son of Rev. w. =.
plan5ef- Bryan. of Chicago. and the
nephew Of George Bryan. Esq, Of this
cts Iin is q graduate OF the Princes
ton university and Of Mccormick sem
mary. Mr. Allison Bryan will leave
about September ! for mission work
in Bombay. India, Mr.. Bryan Ia Raas-
Ing \ visit to Richmond and other
points in the South lie is native OF
North Carolina. having been born in
Asheyflle while his father was pastor
of the church there
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19
Prominent Sugar Man Dead.

New Orleans. La. May 1s.--Charles
A, Farwell head of the firm of MILL
ken and Farwell and regarded as one
OF the wealthiest and most prominent
men in the sugar industry OF the
South. died at his. home here early
yesterday. after a months Illness. Mr.
F'arwell was born in Maine about
M y-seven years ago, but came tt
New Orleans when a young man He
was nephew Of the late Mrs De.
borah Milliken, a wealthy local phil
anthropist, and inherited the bulk OF
her estate several years ago. For
many years Mr., Farwell was the head
OF committee in Washington charged
with looking after the interests OF
Louisiana sugar planters and was
president of the Cane Growers asso-
citation for several years.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19

pies unions and mission study
classes. During the year the mission
study book, Baptist Missions in the
SOUTH" has been printed in It's sec
ond edition. and which Is almost al
ready exhausted. while the most pop
ular book which has been issued by
this department, Country Church in
the SOUTH has almost exhausted q
5000 edition in the Ave months It
has been before the public. This book
has received innumerable commenda-
tons among Baptists, and also that
of other country church and life ex-
perts.
Among the Indians the board Is
maintaining seven missionary work
ers and four churches for the Blanket
tribes, and also rendering service in
twelve government schools. Among
the five civilized tribes the board CO.
operates with the Oklahoma state
board In maintaining ten mission
aries and superintendent, who have
during the year baptized lS6 con-
verts and raised for all objects
$500.
The work among the negroes has
thirty~eight missionaries il
addition to the three negro evan
gelists already reported in the evan
geiistic department. Besides the IN
struct tons which have been given the
negroes in two educational institutions
and in the institutes and other meet
ings held, these missionaries reported
1927 baptisms and 4,S4S additions to
churches.
In the foreignc~ service. in port
and in inland cities, in schools and
in pastoral work. through both men
and women missionaries, the board
has during the year had thirty-fve
missionaries engaged who e
preached the gospel in French, Ger
man, Italian, Flemish, Swedish and
Spanish tongues. In addition. this
board has in its cooperative service
in Texas and Louisiana aided in MAIN
tanning more than twenty Mexican
missionaries and Il total of fourteen
workers among the foreigners in
Southern Louisiana
II has been great year and most
successful in the activities of this
mission agency of the Southern Bap-
fist people. II is always unsafe to
stress. as primary matter. economy
in its administrative expenditures
when an agency is engaged not in a
commercial operation, but in efforts to
simulate and enlarge human person
alities, to create spiritual values At
the same time the home mission
board is rejoicing that it has been
able to secure such significant spir-
itual results as outlined above, with
percentage of administrative cost
never less in its own history ana
hardly surpassed by any other evan
gelicai mission agency which operates
in the American home mission field.
Home mission rooms. Atlanta, Ga.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19
Beautiful Buckroe
Beach
Opens For
-
the Season :
Monday, May *2lst

Buckroe Beach, more beautiful
than ever. will open for the Season
or 1917 on next Monday. May n.
Orchestra OF Fifteen Pieces will fur
nish music for Dancing Every Might.
the Hotel has been enlarged with Z
beautiful sun-parlor and dininK.room
overlooking the ocean. European
plan. Rates, 800 per day and up.
Many new and attractive amusements
have been added. Buckroe Is recog-
nized as the home OF Richmond ex-
cursionists. Over forty churches ana
organizations have been booked for
tnis season. Safest Bathing. Finest
Fishing on the Atlantic Coast Spend
day, = week, month At Buckroc.
where the balmy breezcs blow. Hotel
and resort will be under managemenI
OF Frank, w. Moore. who viii be
pleased to give information a. to -
cursion data hotel rates. sta
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19
BANQUET IN HONOR OF
v. ROSS SOUTHWARK

! In honor Of Moss Southwark who
was elected grand master of the lnde-
pendent order of odd Fellows In Nir-
ginia al the recent annual gathering
in Bristol, banquet will be given
this evening at $50 O'Clock in the Rich
iuond hotel by members Of this order
In Richmond. Mr.. Southwark, who il
assistant postmaster OF Richmond. Is
one of the most prominent odd Fell
lows in the state. and has done much
for the order in this city,
Present At the banquet tonight will
be a numb OF tho state officials and
prominent odd Fellows IN Virginia.
Brief talks viii be made by all Of
them.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19

New York. May ls--Mrs. William
Clark. wife Of Professor W NJ. Clark
Of the College Of Physicians and Sur
Reons. committed suicide in the Hotel
Manhattan here yesterday afternoon
BY shooting herself through the TEN Pile
with revolver. She LEI card
identifying herself and also note
saying that her highly nervous state"
had driven her TO elfdestructioi..
To make sure OF death Mrs Clark
had also fastened q rope about her
neck. attaching one end to the cham
sdelier In the room. Upon shootin e
herself her body was left suspended
from the hxtur~-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19
BOSTON LADY AT
UNION STATION

Mrs Emma Rowland, the distln-
raiished white TibboneTs' champion on
Boston, Mass will deliver an address
at Union station Methodist church
Sunday evening at Sis O'Clock. Mrs
Howland has been speaking IN Rich
mond nightly during the week and has
! been heard BY deeply interested audi
ences She is Ii woman OF fine attain
ments and presents the organized
mother love- cause very beautifully.
At $40 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon
the DISTINGUISHED visitor will speak at
Highland Springs Methodist church,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19
KANSAS is TABOO.
EMPLOYEES OF Missouri brewers Or.
llGrGd Nof IixG There.


The brewers of Kansas City have
a novel way of increasing the wet vor-
ers of Missouri In view of the coming
statewide prohibition vote to be taken
in Missouri next year.
BY order of the brewers brewery
employees cannot live in bone-dry
Kansas. They have been ordered TO
come across the line and the order
has been sanctioned by the Interna-
tioal Brewers mad Matters union
There are now fifty workers in local
breweries living on the Kansas sidel
They demurred a month ago when
they were told they must move to
Missouri. A protest to the local
union was appealed to the interna-
tional union, where it was decided in
favor OF the breweries. The purpose
of the brewers is two-fold, an en-
ploye affected said today. The brew
ers want TO hit Kansas for hanishing
booze and, what is more important,
they want every wet vote in Missouri
that can be mustered
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19

Two slight fires yesterday were de-
tecteG and prevented from doing dam
age 81 any consequence, one on the
Scaboard Air Line Yards at Washing.
ton street. when a car of excelsior took
are. and another nj the plant of the
Dixie Mattress company. on West MAR
street Neither resulted In seriou.
damage
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19
CASE CONTINUED BECAUSE
or ABSENCE or COUNSEL.

The case Of Justin Percival. Wash
ington oil stock salesman. was called
In. hustings court yesterday, but con-
tinued until June %. because counsel
for the defense. Stanley Clarke has
been ordered to Fort Myer for training
in the officers camp and Gilbert roll
lock, to whom the case was Transferred
has not had time 10 work II up Per-
cval is charged with obtaining money
under false pretenscs.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19

When Mike Wimbu colored. 1912
PoEd street, was acquitted In police
court yesterday Of charge OF assault
ing and threatening to kin Mary Greer.
also cnlored-- he created scene IN thu
courtroom by attentpting TO shake Ins-
tee Cruichtelds hand. sobbiug Justify
the while. The Judge didn't seemed
disposed 10 return the anectionlte cut
burst however. and the released man
went on his way
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19
Missing ROY Retnrns HnmH

Roy Baldock. ten years old, missing
from the home of his grandmother
Mrs. V A. Spain. 220o NJ Street since
Wednesday, returned to his home yes
tsrdav. the police were notified Tho
boy said he had spent the tire with
his relatives
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19
In Bankruptcy.

Petition in bankruptcy was filed in
the United States court yesterday by
Jack Opocensky. who places his La
biiities at s7S6.1l. and says he has
no assets
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19
WOODMILN TO JNNEIL
MONUMENTS SUNDAY

Hickory camp, No, is, Woodmen Of
the world Will unvel the monuments
of the late Sovereisns Crane, Kelly and
Beadles in lakewood cemetery Sunday,
May 20. 1917. at 4 f. NJ. Members
sre requested To meet al the camp
hall at 3 p. VI and proceed to the
cemetery Ia a body Mr.. George +.
Wise Will deliver the unveilinR ad-
dress. Members OF other camps are
requested TO Join with Hickory camp
IT the hall.
Jonc~--Davie
Lynchburg Va, May 1s-An-
neunremeHt- hzE bFsa made 0f me
marriage in Washington last Satnrs
day Of MISS Elva Elizabeth Davies,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. J J. Davies,
70 Joseph j Jones. EynEton. The
bride for severa! years taught school.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones will live in Ewing
ton,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-19
so WORKERS OUT
They Canvass Business District
for the Liberty Loan.
$4,000 Subscribed in One Block
of Kansas Avenue.

More than fifty business men of the
city. working under the direction of
the Shawnee county liberty loan COM
mittee, canvassed each business bor-
dering on Kansas avenue this morning
No report was made to ]. T. Nor
risey, chairman, but among the work
ers who met at the noon luncheon at
the Chamber of Commerce the work
was reported very successful.
The campaign carried on by the
committees of business men opened
fire on the business houses this morn
ing. The territory included in the
canvass runs from the KaW river south
to Twelfth street on both sides of
Kansas avenue. The only complete re-
port made this morning showed that
5000 had been collected in the block
between Second and Third streets on
Kansas avenue. Five men reported
this morning to canvass North Topeka
Provided that the personal cam
paign among the business houses has
been successful, the campaign will
close as far as the firms of Topeka
are concerned. If subscriptions Were
slow this morning the canvass will he
continued tomorrow and possibly next
week, according to J. T. Morrisey-
Reports of the work will be made
Monday night to the county commit
tee Whether the work has been a
success or not will be decided by the
fifty workers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-19
Approach of Germans Makes
Move Necessary Soon.
Port of Reval at Head of Fin
land Gulf, Captured.
CAN RUSSIAN FLEET ESCAPE?
PetrOgrad Believes BOttled-Up
Fleet Has Chance.
Powerful Naval Offensive Thru
Finland Under Way.

Petrograd, Oct. 19.-The govern
ment has definitely determined to
move to Moscow in the very near fu-
ture
The newspapers publish an official
announcement that the occupation of
the fortified port of Reval on the Bal
tic at the entrance to the Gulf of Fin
land has begun.
The schools at Reval have been
closed. The inhabitants of the city ara
being sent to the interior of Russia.
Announcement that the government
will move to Moscow was made today
by NJ RishlSin, minister of public
welfare.
After the capture of Riga by the
Germans preparations for removal of
the government to Moscow were be-
gun. The failure of the Germans TO
develop their offensive after taking
Riga as we'll as the approach of win
ter weather. making open campaign
ing impracticable, relieved the fears
for the safety of Petrograd for the
near future.
RevaI City of 65, 200 Population.
Last week announcement was made
that the preparations for transferring
the seat of government had been
stopped, as there was no prospect that
such action would be necessary, at
sive opened by the Germans resulting
in the capture of Oesel and Moon
| islands. and the threat of an invasion
| of Esthonia again changed the situa-
ton, however. and may be responsible
for the decision TO remove the gov
ernment to Moscow. the ancient capi-
| tai
/ The turbulent political conditions in
! Petrograd and the presence there of
| large numbers of extremists and ash
/ faf oil Len hrsx INF aad
cabinet.
Reval, a town of about 65. 900. two
| hundred miles southwest of Petro-
| grad, is a naval station on the north
ern coast of the Gulf of Finland. and
with Helsingfors and Hango, guards
the approaches to the gulf. The land
| ing of German forces on the Esthonian
coast would menace this town from
| the rear.
20 Ships in Besieged Russ Fleet.
| London, Oct ia great fleet of
| Germanys latest type war vessels.
whose guns outrange both those of the
Russian battle fleet and shore bat
teries, appeared today to have trapped
a score or more Russian fighting ves-
| sells in the waters just adjacent to the
Gulf of Riga. Berlin claimed to have
| bottled up these vessels completely.
| Petrograd indicated a belief in the
marine department that there might
| yet be some escape.
| Not only do the Germans now con-
| troll Oesel and Dago island but they
| have apparently seized also the Island
| of Moon, thus occupying all of the
Barrier islands at the mouth of the
Gulf of Riga. From these as bases 1t
was believed here today Germany
| bottle up the entire Russian fleet in
the Gulf of Finland, or. further than
that. a power naval offensive against
tContinuec OF Page 'rwoI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-19
CUT FOOD PRICES!
Hoover Promises Decided Re-
ductiOn by January 1.
Plentiful Crops Will Force
Meat Lower, Is Prediction.

Washington, Oct 1e.-The public
will get lowe- food prices by the New
Year.
That is the latest food administers
ton pledge, with the single If the.
matter of whether farmers and reA
tailers cooperate with the govern
ment to check soaring rates.
Retail grocers have already pledged
Food Administrator Hoover that they
will work harmoniously toward price
reductions. Neither the retail market
man nor the grower is absolutely un-
der government control.
Despite the fact that the many
cities are on sugar rations, due TO a
temporarily short supply, this COM
modify and others show signs of go
ing down before the new year. A
large reduction from August prices is
shown in flour.
THE corner has now been turned IN
high prices" says Hoover. 1.-The bean
harvest is plentiful; corn promises a
forty per cent drop on the big new
crop; beef. pork and poultry feed will
be cheaper and hence meat should be
lower; cold storage in meat lines is in
process of regulation; beef prices show
a tendency toward reduction in whole
sale, but this has no reaction yet IN
the retail price; lower potato prices
will be warranted this fall, and inn
portation of certain oils should reduce
soap prices"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-19
Broadsides of "Mudslinging" in
MayOralty Contest.
$4,000 Suffrage Workers Are
Shouting for Victory.
MILLION SUFFS SIGN PETITION
National War, Food and High
Prices Issues Used.
HyIan Branded as Tammany
Candidate by Mitchell.

New York, Oct 1s.-New York's
mayoraIty fight entered the home
stretch today with all the mud sling
ing of the old days. Mayor Mitchell.
fusion candidate, hammered away
principally at his Democratic and
Tlmmany opponent, Judge John F.
Hylan. He was scheduled for half
dozen speeches today in all of which
he expected to assail Hylan's alleged
record of close association with Tam
many and branded the candidate as
mot having the personal or moral
courage" to meet him in debate.
Hylan retorted by charging that
Mitchell favored the packers and per-
mitted sale in New York of rotten
meat"
Socialist Stirs East Side.
+ Morris Hilquit, Socialist aspirant for
mayoralty honors, aroused tremend-
Gus enthusiasm on the East side in
his attacks on both Mitchell and Tam
many for responsibility for present
high food prices.
Observers predict the largest So
cialist vote in history on November 6.
Charges that Tammany politicians
children against the Gary system of
education here were made by Walter
H. Gilpatrick of the board of educa-
ton today.
Suffs Wage Strenuous Campaign.
Washington, Oct. 19.-New York
has the biggest sort of a war for de-
mocracy'' going on right in its midst
today, the issue in woman's suffrage
The war for democracy slogan is the
principal one on which $4,000 woman
| franchise workers are shouting to
achieve victory November 6.
| AS suffrage leaders saw it today, the
east never has seen such a compre-
hensive campaign for the vote. First
off. the women workers had to combat
| their opponents argument that New
| York women weren't interested in the
| ballot-whereupon they collected the
signatures of 1913 .40S would-be fem
mime voters in the empire state.
| with more than a million women
asking for the ballot we cannot lose,
| declared Mrs. Norman de r. White
| house, chairman of the state commit
tee, today.
City Plastered With Posters.
The city and state are plastered
with scores of striking posters urging
| suffrage. One of the most telling OF
| these appeals shows a woman with
| her arms about soldier and a sailor
and below the legend-"We work fol
| you; we give our sons to you; we give
| our lives if need be-won't you give u:
/ the vote?'
The whole campaign has beer
waged along war Ines-the womer
/ not neglecting to aid the Red Cros.
| and other war work in their fight fol
the ballot. A carefully organized
| press bureau has been bombardine
newspapers with suffrage copy while
thousands OF women stump speaker.
| are giving men politicians an idea o.
the strenuous life in politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-19
LOOK HERE. CITIZENS!
Drafted Men at Camp Funston Sub
scribe Over Million to Loan.

Camp Funston. Kan, Oct. 19.-Sub-
scriptions to the second liberty loan
by men at thea national army canton
uent here reached the $1.094. $50
mark today il was announced by Maj.
Levi G. Brown. in charge of the cam
paign-
Subscriptions to the loan amounted
to S225. 400 during the last "a hours,
Major Brown stated. the heaviest sub
scripsion for a 24-hour period since
the CO mpaign was launched. Major
Brown said he was confident that the
national army men would subscribe
S2,OOO.O 600 to the loan before the cam
paign closed. October ~. -Four com
panies now average more than $50 a
man in subscriptions.
Ma ior Brown announced details of
a military liberty loan demonstration
10 be held on the parade grounds at
Camp Funston. October "a. All mill
tary units will take part
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-19
COVERED HIS 0. D.
Soldier From Ft. Riley Caught
in Civilian TOgs.
He Tries To Burn Them While
in Jail.

This morning at the Union Pacific
station, Police Officers Godfrey and
Wonderly noticed a young man wear
ing shoes that resembled army foot
wear. They began talking to him and
one of the policemen pulled back a
white shirt he was wearing. Under
it was an army shirt. Under pair
of overalls was a pair of army pants.
The youth was accused of being
deserter. He denied the allegation
and then one of the policemen found
a letter in his pocket 1t was ad-
dressed to Miss Margaret Smith,
Tenth and Polk street. The youth
was taken to the girls home. She
said he had been to her house Thurs
day night Then the boy confessed.
He said he belonged to the Twentieth
cavalry, stationed at Fort Riley, and
said his name is Allen Bennett.
He was taken to jail and placed in
the bull pen. The station force about
1880 O'Clock this afternoon began to
smell burning clothes. Bennett had
remembered that there is a strict mill
itary law against covering a uniform
with other clothing and had stuffed
his civilian clothes in the stove. He's
still in the bull pen but his uniform is
his only apparel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-19
BUYS U. S. CORN
Mexico Deposits Fund To Pur-
chase 3 Million Bushels.
Promise of Cut Price in Mexico
City, Blow to Spectators.

Mexico City, Oct. 19.-The Mexican
government has deposited 100000
pesos in a New York bank to cover
the purchase of 100000 bushels of
American corn to be used in relieving
the food situation in Mexico. The
corn will be delivered at Laredo at the
rate of 100000 bushels every twenty
days. A so per cent discount in the
present freight rate on corn has been
orederd by President Carranza as
means to reducing the price in Mexico.
Some merchants here are believed
to have been boarding large quanti-
ties of corn and the arrival of Ameri-
can corn probably will cause them to
sell at a reduced price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-19
Scott and Logan May Operate
Famous "Jitney" Line.
Judge Pollock Provides OppOr-
tunity To Save Railway.
OTHERWISE IT MAY Be JUNKED
Commonwealth Trust Company
Holds the Bonds.
One of Most Novel Court Orders
Ever Issued.

Two Kansas counties-Scott and
Logan-wiII undertake the novel and
ingenious responsibility of owning and
operating a railroad. Under an un-
usual court order, Judge John c. Pol
lock of the United States court for the
district of Kansas has provided that
townships in these counties may buy
the well known "jitney" railroad and
operate the fifty mile line between
Scott City and Winona.
Judge Pollock's novel court decree
was issued this week in the receiver
Oklahoma railway. The order was en-
tered that the road might be saved to
the people of the two sparsely settled
western counties. Bonds of road were
owned by the Commonwealth Trust
company of st. Louis. The trust com
pany threatened to junk the entire
railway system, dispose of the limited
rolling stock and tear up the ties and
rails. Following protests by the peo-
pie in Scott and Logan counties, Judge
Pollock provided that the counties
might vote bonds to buy the line and
management and direction.
Townships in the two counties must
vote bonds in the amount of $250.0O
or $4,000 a mile-in order to gain
possession of the road. They must call
elections and vote the bonds in ninety
days in order to avail themselves of
the opportunity afforded them under
Judge Pollocks decision. In the
meantime the road will be operated
under conjunctive receivership and
the two counties will provide a 100000
bond to secure the st. Louis Trust
company against operating losses in
event the counties ultimately fail to
take over the road.
The Pollock decision is one of the
most novel court orders ever issued.
II was the federal judges response to
a demand from the people of western
Kansas for transportation salvation
and protection against the trust COM
pany's threat to junk the physical
property.
Stone of Topeka Saved 1t.
Robert Stone, a Topeka lawyer was
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