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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

The Rev. J. S. Swogger will preach at
the Oakland Presbyterian church Sunday
morning and evening: The Tn Rev Mr. swog-
church the past five years and is a prob
able candidate for the pastorship at the
Mrs. Roscoe G. Hinkle en- route to PhiIa-
delphia, Pa, is guest at the home of her
cousin, Mrs. ]. 1. Bower, 44s Wabash ave-
Mr. and Mrs H J. Carper, 266 Oakland
avenue, have given the name Anna June, to
their daughter, born June is.
Mrs. Charles Ash assisted by her sister,
Mrs. E. A Sweet entertained the Pris-
a b Erdq Mer Tne
Shuler, Mrs n. =. Copeland, Mrs. Bert
Hummel, Mrs: L. Biscoe.. Mrs. James Hor-
Jordan, Mrs W. G. Shaw, Mrs Steen, Mrs.
VIII Williams, Mrs. Reese Van SAINT, Mrs.
M Nay Moore Mrs Mrs freeman he Be MISS
Clara johnson. Mrs. George Carothers, Mrs.
McDaniels Mrs. J. L. Heller, Louise Swear
ingen, Mitchell Mcdaniel and Gladys Swear
Mr.. and Mrs B. r. shaffer, ISL Ohio
avenue, have named their son, born June
The Nautilus club was entertained
Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Arthur Wick
land, 100 Brooks avenue. Her guests were ::
Mrs Paul Pease Mrs. J. G.. Welch, Mrs.
L. E. Lewis, Mrs. lillian Vickland, Mrs.
EDWARD yiekland and Miss Lorena Reed.
home, 407 AFTER avenue.
The Rev. Swogger. of Edgerton. is a
weekend guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Ash, AFTER avenue.
C. F. Ludington and little daughter,
Irene, have gone to Chicago to spend the
weekend.
The Rev A. E. Peterson. pastor of the
| Oakland Methodist church. is wearing a
Bonus grin" The Rev. Mr.. Peterson has
received $125.O0 from the publishers of the
| Epworth Herald, who offered that amount
as prize some time ago for the best essay
| on Christian Stewardship" The con-
i test was national affair.
| Thomas Prout. secretary at the Railroad
Y. M c. A. will talk Sunday morning at
the Oakland Methodist church on 1.-The Part
| the Y. NJ. G. A VIII Take In the War.
| In the evening Mr.. Peterson will preach an
| evangelistic sermon. A general class meet
| ing will be held in the evening at o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martin and two
/ daughters. Mildred and Bernice- III KEEL
| lam avenue, left Saturday afternoon to
| spend a vacation in Philadelphia and New
! York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
BILLIARD IN A RECORD
Topeka Aviator Drives in Auto TO Be-
lott in Hours So Minutes.

Phil Billiard. Topeka army aviator.
en- route to San Diego, Cal, drove
from Topeka to Beloit in five hours
and thirty-five minutes, according to
card received by Frank Southwick
here today This is distance CT III
miles and is undoubtedly the fastest
time ever made in a motor car be-
tween these two points.
Billiard broke another record when
he drove from Topeka to Manhattan,
a distance of sixty-three miles, in one
hour and fifteen minutes. This is
faster than the time made on any of
the railroads between these points.
Billiard, accompanied by Harry
Southwick, Mike, Trent and Charles
Ahlstrom, left Topeka yesterday
morning at 6:10. He arrived in Man
haitian at 1925 a. m. and Beloit at
I1:45 last night. He is driving to
take charge of army aviators at San
Diego, Cal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
BOOMING W. R. SMITH
Friends of State Printer Support Him
for Third Term.

Friends of w. R. Smith, state
printer. have started a move for his
election to a third term. Smith has
made a great record during the two
and half years he has been in the
state printing plant and it is probable
an organized effort will be made by
his friends to retain him in office dur
ing the next term. While Smith has
made no announcement of his plans
for next year, it is believed he will
make the race.
Smith is a regular printer. He
knows the printing business from sew
en- angles and for the first time since
the state installed it's own printing
plant, the establishment is on some
thing of a paying basis-if state in
dustrial properties really win returns
Smith went into the office when the
unfinished work was piled to the cell
ing. He completed school book runs
that had never been started by his
predecessor and yet were demanded
for public school work right on the
minute. Since Smith entered the Of
flee the work of the state plant has
increased nearly 100 per cent.
George w. Marble, publisher of the
Fort Scott Tribune. has led the move
ment for election of Smith to a third
term.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
BIG GRANGE MEETING
Head of National Organization Will
Address Topeka Audience.

w. T. Hotchkiss of Berryton, mas
ter of the Shawnee county Pomona
grange, is in Topeka making arrange
ments for meeting to be held in
Memorial hall, at which time Worthy
Master Wilson, the highest officer in
the grange, will give an address on
the live topics of the day.
Mr.. Wilson is a forceful speaker,
representing the progressive element
of the national grange. His address
will interest alike the farmer and the
citizen, the members of the order, and
also those not affiliated with the or
ganization. The subordinate oranges
of the county are making arrange
ments to give him a real Kansas well
come
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

up and rewritten by the Western
Automobile Indemnity association of
Fort Scott. This announcement was
made this morning by Oscar Rice,
manager of the Fort Scott concern
An arrangement has been made
whereby the Western association takes
over the members of the Kansas asso-
citation after July II.
The Topeka Central Union w. C.
T. U. will meet at o'clock Monday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. w. T.
Oliver, S25 Huntoon street.
Under a new ruling of the depart
ment of the interior. soldiers will have
an unusual opportunity to obtain
homeSteadS on government land. The
ruling provides that all the time spent
in the army shall be deducted from
the three-year period during which a
homesteader is required to live upon
the claim taken up. There are still
250, 000, 900 acres of land in the west
waiting for homesteaders and should
the war last for three years each of
the soldiers would be entitled to from
$50 to $40 acres when he came out of
| the army. H c. Green, register of
the government land office, has just
received the new ruling.
Following a story of abuse told by
Mrs. Jack Slavin, her twenty-year-
son, Bill. was sentenced to the rock
| pile at the city prison for two weeks
| by George McDermott, police judge
pro tenn. Mrs. Slavin has four small
| children and two grown boys. She
| told the court that neither of the
| older boys helps her in supporting the
| family and that Bill frequently re-
| turns home when she is away and
| abuses the smaller children, that he
| quarrels with her and abuses her
| There was an old $50 fine standing
against Slavin in police court. Judge
| McDermott pulled that fine on him
| and added another $50 to it, then SEN
| fenced him to the rock pile. If a
Kansas City firm Slavin mentioned
| writes and offers him a job Slavin is
| to be released at the end of two weeks,
| otherwise he is to work out his fine
Jack Slavin, the father, was killed
when house toppled over on him in
North Topeka nearly two years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

bred Frost, Nettie Leuenberger. Florence
Marsh, Evelyn Powell, Esther Morehouse,
Alberta Rosen, Mrs c. Leger ana MIS-
Walter Chubb.
Mrs. C. Kelley of Redlands. Cal: who
formerly lived in this community, is the
guest of Mrs. W. H. Niccum.
The letter carriers with their families
held their annual picnic at the home OF
avenue.
Miss veva Vawter of wakarusa, Miss
Ethel Cromwell, Miss Gilmore McClements,
Miss Mary McClements Miss Mabel Crom-
WE'LL Miss Christine Fisher, Mrs. W. Il.
Jones and Mr.. Dave Bolick were dinner
guests Sunday at the w. H. Coultis home
The home of Mr. and Mrs. N. f. More
house was entirely DESTROYED by fire
Thursday afternoon. The family was away
at the time and the origin of the fire is
unknown. Neighbors saved most OF the
furniture on the first floor. The fire de-
partment arrived too late to save the
building.
Mr.. Frank Curry of Miami, Ariz., is Wis.
iting his mother, Mrs. Cornelia Curry OF
Twenty first street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
Miss Alice Hug

Evening service at 8. Miss Alice Hug
gins, under appointment to go to
China as a missionary will speak.
Church of the Good Shepard, Lau-
rent and Quincy. Holy communion at
s a. m. Morning prayer at H. No
evening service.
The Rev. W. A. Goodwin will preach
Sunday afternoon at at the North
Topeka Congregational church SUD
iect Unity" There will be an eve
ming service at s.
North Topeka Baptist. The Rev. c..
r Rash of the Central Park Christian
church will occupy the pulpit i'll the
evening.
Social and Personal.
Mrs. Fred Voiland is spending sew
eraI weeks in Denver, Col, visiting
friends.
The c. H. Dyal and Henry DIETRICH
families will return this evening from
a four days trip to Abilene
Deacon Smith of Granville was in
North Topeka this morning on bust
ness.
Aaron Sheetz, who has been i'll for
the last two months, is Improving rap
idly Mr.. Sheetz has been suffering
from a nervous breakdown.
Amity Lodge No. 231 *. p. will
meet Monday evening at 900 North
Kansas avenue.
A. NJ. Petro, the Druggist.-Adv.
Dr. A NJ Dawson has returned
from a business trip of several days
to Leavenworth.
Fred Stone of Kiro was in the city
today.
Frank Haynes and ]. c. Taylor of
Granville were in town today on
business.
The first green roasting ears" APP
peared on the market today.
Frank Johnston of 22S Holman
etr iS a "a a ic
Buick car.
Does the Bible Show the Outcome
of the War; Iris, Sunday, p. M
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
HOLDCORPSINRESERvE
Washburn Ambulance Company Will
Not Be Enlisted Now.

The Red Cross ambulance corps,
No. "A, recruited from students Of
Washburn, will be held in reserve and
not taken into federal service immed-
lately, according to official word re-
ceived, this morning, from Washing
ton. The Red Cross societies and or
CARNATIONS have already supplied the
war department with more companies
than are needed at the present time,
this letter states, and SO the Wash
burn company will be put on the re-
serve list.
Letters containing this information
were being sent out today from the
office of Dr. c. H. Lerrigo, captain of
the company, to all men enlisted in
the ambulance COMPANY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
North Side Ne1us

Captain Fuller of the North Topeka
postoffice has suggested that the
county clerk in Shawnee county
should keep a record of every man
VINO enlists in a military unit for the
present war. During the Civil War;
in many of the counties. and particu-
Larly IN Henderson county, Ill, where
captain Fuller enlisted, the county
clerk kept record of all enlistments
Nhen a man was promoted, or
POUNDED, or received any special
honor, the company clerk forwa rded
a record of the fact to the county
clerk, who recorded it. After the war
TINS list made an invaluable reference
DOCK by Which a man could prove
upon occasion his military service.
nonors, or disabilities.
AS was discovered in the Civil War
IN enlisting so large an army mis-
taxes. omissions. and lost records have
deprived many old soldiers of pen
slons to which they were entitled. If
county roll were kept, it is thought,
proof positive would be available of
soldiers service in the army.
AS mas been suggested, when so
vast an army of men is being recruited
py alt organization previously unpre-
pared to handle so complicated a bust
ness, mistakes are inevitable. The
civil War, as many veterans have
learned to their grief proved that err
rors in the keeping of the government
records are frequent.
The Rev w. A. Goodwin. who is
holding regular services at the old
congregational church in North To-
peka, is arousing general interest by
ms advanced views on the modern
church. Mr.. Godwin's services, his
ideas and his sermons are non-sec-
tarlan. He is advocating a unity of
churches, a Standardization of reli-
gious institutions
Mr.. Goodwin is preaching much the
same doctrine advocated by DR.
Charles NJ. Sheldon. the noted Topeka
author. lecturer and Congregational
minister. This Sunday Mr.. Goodwin
Will talk on Unity" theme in accord
with the tenor of his recent sermons.
Those who have not yet paid their
Red Cross subscription installments
can pay them at CampbelHS drug
store The executive committee will
welcome settlement of outstanding
payments.
Church Notices.
East Indianola Community church,
Frank D.. Jackson, pastor. Morning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

Washington, July 14.-Discovery in
the internal revenue division labora-
tory of a process for manufacturing
glycerine from sugar was announced
today by the treasury department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

Olof Ekberg, merchant tailor. for
merly located at 70s Kansas avenue.
will be found at his new location, 106
East Eighth St, Majestic theater bldg.
ADV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
OAKLAND NOTES

Notes and personals from Oakland.
By Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street,
Telephone between and 10 a. NJ, $3.50;
other hours. 4751 K-2.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

Does the Bible Show the Outcome
of the War;" Iris. Sunday, p. M
ADV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

Does the Bible Show the Outcome
of the WARP" Iris. Sunday. 3 p. M
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
Church Notices.

Church Notices.
East Indianola Community church,
Frank d. Jackson, pastor. Morning
service at IL Sermon topic, caleb"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

Those who have not yet paid their
Red Cross subscription installments
can pay them at CampbelTs drug
store The executive committee will
welcome settlement of outstanding
payments
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
French League in u. S.
Is Incorporated Here
Society Formed to Cement
Lasting Relations Between
Two Democracies

The French League IN America was
Incorporated in the Supreme Court yes
tcrday. Among the corporators are
Myron T. Herrick, former Ambassador
70 France; Charles W. Eliot. president
emeritus Of Harvard University;
August Belmont, Paul d. Cravath, c.
II. Outland. George 7. Wilson and Ed
mund L. Baylies.
The purposes Of the league are "to
promote thorough comprehension by
the peoples of France and the United
States Of their respective civilizations;
10 strengthen the bond of intellectual
and moral sympathy based on their
historic traditions and present collsb
Grafton; N encourage between these
TWO great democracies free inter
change Of ideas. information anc
methods in solving their national and
international problems and in further
ing their national ideas; TO reveal the
practical and artistic genius of these
two nations TO each other; TO en-
courage the development of closer re
lations between France and the United
States and, in general, TO bring tho
United States and France TO full and
sympathetic understanding of each
other"
The corporation will publish peri.
odical review TO further these pur'
poses.
In approving the application for in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
German Children Go
To Holland for Food
Belgian Ship Officer Tells of
Packed Trainloads of Hum
Rry Little Ones

BALTIMORE, Aug. 3i.-Trainloads
of German children are now being sent
arcoss the border into Holland to be
fed, according 20 an officer Of Be gia1
steamship now in port here. This IS
considered in Europe 20 be evidence
that the embargo placed on foodstufs
by this country is already being keeniy
felt in Germany.
None of thesEuropean neutrals has
sufficient foodstufs TO spare any 70
Germany, but Holland is taking 1t upon
herself 10 feed the little non-comba-
tants, who are being shipped almost
like cattle into her cities.
The German childen now being cared
for are, as a rule, pale and emaciated,
and clearly show that they have not
had proper nourishment for some time
The Belgian said he knew OF one
ship engaged in relief work which WAS
torpedoed and two others which were
damaged by she'll fire from German
submarines within the last four
months. The freighter Euphrates, bound
for this country in ballast, was tor
pedoed and sunk, and of those on board
only one man was rescued. He was
found floating on piece OF wreckage
by a British patrol boat. The steam
ship Haon was sheled and seven men
aboard killed The freighter Tuni5
was also shelled, but no one was killed.
Both vessels were badly damaged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Pacihst Battalion
Returned to Front
Russians Had Decided to Wait
for Results of Stock
holm Meeting

One of the latest issues of the Mos
COW "Russkoye Slovo" to arrive in this
country tells Of a typical descrtion Of
an entire battalion on the Southwestern
front. The report from general head
quarters on the incident follows:
Zone of the battalions of the regl-
ment on the Southwestern front cate
goricaly refused to occupy the lighting
line until the time when the Stockholm
conference shall have received assur-
RANGES from the Allies that they do not
entertain any aims OF conquest in the
present war
THE battalion then decided 10 go TO
Minsk to await an answer TO its dec
laration from Stockholm. On the way,
however, it discovered that the attitude
of the military committee and Official
dom toward its action was by no means
favorable. and halted its march in a
small village, where 1t remained for
several days.
THE representatives of the military
committee who came 70 the village 70
persuade the soldiers to return to the
front met with no success. The COM
mander in chief on the Western front
then resorted to rigid measures. A
regiment was dispatched to discipline
the mutinous soldiers. They were sur
rounded, disarmed and declared desert
ers. AS such they were returned TO the
front and placed on the fighting line. y
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Rifles and Cartridges Also
Discovered in Vacant
Houses
One Man Is Arrested
Quebec Authorities Expect
Further Rioting by Anti.
Conscriptionists
/ Especial Correspondence

MONTREAL, Aug. 31.-Sixteen hun
dred rifles, thousands of cartridges and
several sticks Of dynamite were found
In vacant house in Chsteaubriand
Street to-day by the police and Secret
Service Agents detailed here to watch
for plots among opponents of the con-
scription law. One man was arrested.
Other small stocks of rifles of a
model discarded by Canadian forces
early in the war are said to have been
found by the authorities, with quaint
ties Of ammunition and dynamite.
Premier Borden will appeal to the
country soon for Endorsement of his
Cabinet, which he will first reconstruct
by the introduction of some Liberal
conscriptionist timber. Parliament
may be prorouged in two weeks. Con-
servatives and conscriptionist Liberals
will combine on fusion candidates.
Quebec. violently anti-conscription,
will give all its sixty-five Pariamen-
tary seats to Laurier, who is assured
Of about a hundred seats.
The fight will be close, but the ap-
peal to patriotism is expected 20 win
the day for Borden.
The ugly spirit created by .he pros
pect haI been inAamed by the arrest
of several anti-conscriptionist leaders
on the charge Of having conspired TO
murder Lord and Lady Athclstan and
their daughter in the Carteryillc dyna-
mite outrage, and the police expect
further trouble and perhaps some
bloodshed in the cities and towns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Disorders in Petrograd
Militia Suppressing Attempts
to Start New Revolt

The following dispatch was received
yesterday by the Jewish Daily For
ward from its Petrograd correspon-
dent:
The militia Of Pctrograd we're busy
ne whole day supprcssing anti-govern
nent counter-revolutionary activities.
rosters calling the population to an
armed uprising against the government
we're torn down, and attempts at street
demonstrations were vigorously quelled.
The main reason for the strength
shea anti-government propaganda is
,'' shortage Of food, which is felt very
1Ieehly all over the country. Tchernigoff
Tvs were searched and maltreate6 on
sne pretext that they were concealing
1000 provisions.
twenty persons are dead and many
@ oying IN Moscow as a result of ex-
S seslVe drinking. The liquor was stolen
IRON railroad station"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
French Delegate
Tells How Labor
Council Voted
Discussions Showed Senti-
ment Favored Principle
of Internationaiism
By Jean Longuet

French Delegate to the Socialist
Conference af Stockholm
LONDON, Aug. 81, While the Allied
Labor Conference, held here, cannot he
regarded as a complete success, owing
10 the unfortunate inability TO obtain
a unanimous decision, il has shown
the world that the Allied Socialists are
overwhelmingly in favor Of interna-
tionaism and Of its practice a the
proposed Stockholm Conference.
We should like to have had unsn-
ir1ous decision. IL would haze been
better for influencing the governments
to see that the people are now deter
mined that the Stockholm meeting is
necessary; but, on the whole, the re-
suits are good and will have an effect.
Two questions only were discussed
by the conference and reported on by
two committees. The first was the
question Of Stockholm Macdonald. as
chairman of the committee, presented
the report in two parts first, that the
Allied Socialists accept joyouslY the
invitation to Stockholm, and, second,
that they protest vigorously against
the governments Withholding pass
ports.
Two amendments were offered The
first, by Deboukere. who proposed to
refer the matter back because II was
impossible TO secure unanimity, was
defeated. SO to p. The second, by
Hvndman, who bitterly opposed the
Stockholm idea because Of the occupa
tior OF Belgium. was defeated, 80 to 4.
The first part Of MacDonald's resolu-
ton was then carried, As 70 y. and the
second part ny 81 to 2.
The second question before the con-
ference was the discussion Of the re.
lated Allied war aims. II was proposed
TO form an inter-Allied permanent
committee TO keep the Allied aims IN
view at Stockholm. This was defeated
80 to 40. The inference must not be
drawn from the latter defeat that there
is any great division in the Socialists
ranks, for the feeling is growing
stronger and stronger in France AM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01

other Allied countries in favor OF the
proposed negotiations.
There is a difficulty to be overcome
in this connection, however. Many OF
those Socialists holding the same views
We do regarding internatlonalIsm have
been swept away by feeling Of pa
triotism. and have been carried of
their feet by the sufferings Of their
country and therefore put somewhat IN
the background their original ideas.
Opposed to these, though holding the
same intense feelings as far as love Of
country is concerned. are those who
have remained stanch and true to the
views they always held. Undoubtedly
the governments opposition and re
fusal TO grant passports have strength
ened the latter's stand
Whatever happens, whatever obstscl es
the government throws in the way, the
Stockholm idea is growing, and because
il is a good one il will succeed where
force. Of arms cannot.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01

OF the commission, they say, will re-
main in Petrograd indefinitely.
Both Mr.. Gibbs and Mr.. Greiner said
to-day that the responsible leaders IN
Russia were gradually getting control
that conditions were improving and
that they were hopeful of an improve
nlent in transportation, as Premier
Kerensky was directing the adoption Of
more scientific practices.
The American railroad men travelled
over the trans Siberian railway in a
special car one day behind the tram
which was taking former Emperor
Nicholas and h is family to Tobolsk.
They say that soldiers committees az
Krasnoyarsk and several other Siberian
towns, having heard reports of the
movements of Nicholas, suspected that
he was with them.