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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
SAVE 81 MILLION
That Is What Thrift Cards Are
Expected To Do.
Campaign Win Start in State
Next Monday.
SCHOOLS ARE URGED TO HELP
Every Pupil VIII BE Asked To
Help Win War.
War Savings Clubs Planned for
Every District.
SCHOOLS ARE URGED TO HELP

The little country schoolhouses,
their more pretenious neighbors. the
county high schools together with the
big city schGols> of Kansas, are to have
a mighty big part in the winning of
this war for democracy and those
great ideals which they have Graded
during the more than one-half CEN
fury Of the states history
According to plans laid by the Kan
sas organization of the national war
savings committee, of which p. W.
Goebel Of Kansas CITY, Kan. is the
state director, an intensive thrift cam
paign is TO be wage1 in the state be-
ginning Monday. December II. The
purpose is to induce the people to save
S3T 900. 900 and to lend the money to
their government This campaign is
to be in the nature of q popular move
ment in which every man. woman and
child is to have an opportunity to pur-
chase war savings certificates stamps
and thrift cards. Hence, it will be
necessary to carry the campaign into
every factory, office and business
house into every home. every school
house. society. club anG every organ
ization Of any kind.
Approximately there are $4,000
children of school age residing in
about 500 Kansas school districts
and taught by something like 900
scnool teachers. To awaken these fu-
ture citizens to a full realization of
the necessity of backing Uncle Sam
ana his army and navy to win is one
of the big tasks that has been assumed
b. this organization.
Cut Ont Luxuries.
Suppose all of these more than
one-half million of school children
and the thousands of little ones below
the school ge. should all at once come
to realization of what it would mean
to their country's cause were they TO
refrain from the purchase of unnec-
essarY things and confine themselves
TO the use of such things as are nee
essary for health and efficiency. What
q sum of money would thus be re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
Baptist.

FIRST. Ninth and jackson streets
Robert Gordon, pastor. Morning ser
mon on The Duty of Today" Eve
Mig sermon on Taking Jerusalem
FIRST SWEDISH. Fourth and Fill
more streets. c. A. Scgerstrom. pas
tor. Regular services.
Christian
CENTRAL PARK. sixteenth and
Central Park avenue, G. e. Rash. pas
tor. Morning sermoI on Preparation
for Year" Evening sermon on The
Obligation of a Christian."
FIRST. 622 Topeka avenue. Special
morning ermon by the Rev. w G.
service. special program with special
music
WEST SIDE. Underwood and
Duane streets, Mr. Clara Hazelrigg,
pastor Morning sermon on THE
Past, Present and Future of the c. w.
B. M" Evening service, missionary
Stories
Congregational.
FIRST, Seventh and Harrison
streets, Arthur S. Henderson, pastor.
Morning sermon on Eventually,
Why Not Now" No evening service.
CENTRAL, Huntcon and Buchanan
streets. Willis L. Goldsmith. pastor.
Morning sermon on First Things"
Evening service. IN illustrated lee
ture on The Development of Reli-
gious 1 liberty" Sacred concert.
SEABROOK, Nineteenth and High
land avenue. Aaron Breck, pastor.
Morning sermon on AT Jacobs Well"
Evening sermon on Ell listed for
Life
Episcopal
GRACE CATHEDRAL, Eighth and
Polk streets, J. P. Deb. Kaye: dean
Reeular morning service. Vespers at
o'clock.
CHRIST HOSPITAL CHAPEL. G.
NJ. Geisel, chaplain. Regular evening
service.
Lutheran
FIRST ENGLISH, Fifth ana Har-
ri on streets. c. w Maggart, pastor.
Morning sermon on signs of His
Coming and Our Duties" Evening
sermon on Abundant Life"
Methodist.
FIRST. Sixth and Harrison streets
Edmund James KuIp, pastor. Morn
ing sermon on The Church and the
Crusade for Democracy" Evening
| sermon on THE Religion of the In
articulate."
FIRST GERMAN. Fifth and Tyler
streets. A. j. Russ pastor. Morning
service at 1O:45 O'Clock. Regular eve
ming service.
Presbyterian.
FIRST, opposite west side of CAPT
toll grounds, S. s. Estey. pastor. Morn
| ing sermon on The Gentleness o.
I God" Evening sermon on "A De
cisive Question"
REDDEN CHAPEL, Second and
Monroe streets, J. w. Hart, pastor
Evening service only at 7:45 O'Clock.
THIRD. Fourth and Branner streets
s. B. Anderson, pastor. Morning ser
mon on THE Soldiers New Tesla
ment" Evening sermon on "Cranmel
on the English Reformation"
: POT'WIN. Fifth and West streets, H
/ L. Nelson rastor. Regular services.
! CALVARY. Thirteenth and Quinc.
streets. c. F. Mex. Miller. pastor
| Morning sermon on Tribute Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the columns Of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

The electric railway transfer station at
Eighth Ivenue and Jackson has been torn
down and is being erected at the south
west corner OF Eighth and Kansas ayene.
Sloan lodge of the Masons held its an
nual meeting last night and elected officers.
Charles J. Webb was the outgoing master
of the lodge. and most of the other officers
We're promoted in order as follows: Mas
ter, H f.. Morris: senior warden, William
Hodson; Junior warden, A o. Wellman;
treasurer, C, H. Lockwood; secretary. NJ.
V. Harris. Mr.. Morris, the newly elected
master, made the following appointments:
Dean ]. ". Colwell. chaplain; J. f. Shas-
teen, senior steward; Frank S. Crane.
ujnior steward; {. w. Webb, tyler; Frank
Bailey, organist.
A pleasant party was given by Mr.. and
Mrs. W. H. Tucker at 623 Monroe street,
last night. The guests were: Mr.. and
Mrs. w. S. Tucker. Mr.. and Mrs. G. W..
Kidney, Mr. and Mrs. J. w. McFadden,
Mrs. Bollom. Mrs. Nelson, Misses Anna
Hurst, Lille Hurst, Minnie johnson. Minnie
Erte, Ida Ertel, Mrs. Richister. Francis
Reed. Emma Drake. Minnie Miller, Mary
Wiseomb, Carrie Baker, Messrs Hugh
Tucker, Edgar Kidney, Jerry Dustin, John
Grubs, George Lane, John Reed, AL Coyne.
Ed Kidney George Richister and Arthur
Tucker.
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WIFE DID NOT WORK
Leavenworth Army Officer Accused of
Keeping Her on Pay Roll.

Leavenworth. Kan, Dec. ia
court martial of thirteen high ranking
officers with Col. Sedgwick Rice as
president and Maj. Arthur r. Black
as judge advocate, convened at Fort
Leavenworth, Friday afternoon, to try
Lieut.. Col. James H. Burroughs, cav
airy, recently on duty as a purchas-
ng quartermaster of horses and
mules for the army in Kansas City.
on the charge that he paid his wife
as a clerk under his division when
she performed no service. Some of
the government witnesses were not
present and an adjournment was
taken until tomorrow afternoon
The specifications allege that Colo
mel Burroughs carried his wife on
the rolls as a clerk at $40 a week and
travelling expenses in the months of
May and June, 1917 when she per-
formed no duty and that he commit
ted fraud in making out vouchers for
her pay; also that he appointed her
in violation of the civil service rules.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15

Caesar" Evening sermon on ''JesuF
at Sychar.''
WESTMINSTER, Huntoon and Col-t
Iege streets. Ralph II. Ward, pastor:
Morning sermon on "Ye Know Him.
evening sermon on THE Coin in the
Fish's Mouth
Miscellaneous
FIRST CHURCH OF THE EVAN
aELICAL ASSOCIATION, SeVenth
and Monroe streets, u. IL hoops, 20,
+or Regular services At morning
service the Red Cross work Will De
NEW THOUGHT SOCIETY, $40
Topeka avenue. Regular service DIS
cllssion by Mr.. Bradley
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
NEEDS GOOD LENSES
Government writing to all Camera
Fiends to Give Them Up

osborne, Kan. Dec l5--oh cie
sam is keeping a pretty close tap on
things these days. c. G. NeiswanseI
received word this week regarding =
lens he has on his fine camera A.
seems the government wants an -, - =
list OF the persons in the United States
owning them.
The letter was not exactly an order
to turn it in. but amounted 10 the
same thing, and Charlie VIII lose NJ
time about sending it where directed.
The government viii pay his price Tor
if. These lenses are all made in Ger
many, and of course, no more OF them
can be obtained. The KIND OF glass
from which they are made is not
manufactured in this country. 1t is
a fast lens and the cost was about
Sixty dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15

leased for the support of the army in
the field or the navy on the seas!
The good that such saving brings to
a nation may be judged by results in
the European countries now in the
throes of war. In France, prior to
the entrance of the United States into
the war, the people turned into their
nations war fund $19, 900, 100000 of
money they had saved. Great Britain
also furnishes a fine example of war
thrift. In the last twenty months
1000 war savings aSsocis lions have
been organized and people who had
never saved before are now piling up
on an average $S0,000,000 annually of
savings deposits
If these nations, whose people are
within the sound of the guns, the
smoke of battle and the whirr of the
aeroplane, and who are face to face
with all of the horrors of war and
devastation can do such great things,
what should we expect of the people
of the United States, upon whose ter
ritory no enemy gun is heard?
Need Thrift Habits.
The value of the war savings plan
adopted by the United States treasury
department is not to be computed.
however, by the amount of money
which is saved and lent to the gov
eminent on war savingc stamps and
thrift cards. The time has come when
the people OF THIS nation must learn
to save and to form habits of thrift.
The United States is accorded first
place among the nations of the earth
in wealth ard productivity. But the
people should not be content to rest
on such laurels. How much more
would it mean for the future economy
if the American people should be-
come a nation of savers instead of
spenders? And how much more
valiantly would the American boys
fight if they are assured the folks
back home-every man, woman and
child-are doing their full share to
help them win a glorious victory
denying themselves those things that
are needless, and some of the COM
forts they have hitherto enjoyed?
Form Savings Clubs.
With the cooperation of State Su-
perintendent W. d. Ross, the boards
of education and the teaching forces
of the state, this organization is urg-
ing the formation of war savings clubs
or associations in every one of these
500 school districts, that the THRIFT
which has been taught in the schools
of Kansas is to be given its first real
and practical test, and that the chill
dren may form a mighty army of
savers.
War savings societies also ore to be
organized among the paTent-teacher
associations, mothers clubs, culture
clubs IN the same way. In fact, no
community in Kansas is to be without
such q thrift society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
VILLA CAPTURES CITY
Jimincz, Mining Center, Falls Into
Bandits Hands.

Ell Paso, Tex, Dec. 15.-Francisco
Villa has captured Jiminez, one of the
largest mining centers in the state of
Chihua hua. according to an Ameri-
can arriving here from the Mexican
interior today. The report was un-
confirmed.
The food situation in Chihuahua
City. which Villa has declared he will
attack by Christmas, is reported in
cre9singly desperate. Foreigners are
leaving the city and coming to the
border and the civilian Mexican popu-
lation is facing starvation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
THRIVING DESPITE WAR
Pittsburg Normal School Has Increas-
ed Enrolment This Year.

Pittsburg. Kan, Dec. 15-Altho
other educational institutions have
suffered decreased enroIlments this
year, the State Manual Training Nor
NAL has an increased enrolment.
President w. A. Brandenburg an
nounces a total enrolment thus far
this year of 2,762, an increase of sew
enteen over the enrolment for all Of
last year.
The war has made inroads upon the
Normals students. Scores OF the old
students have gone to the colors. But
young women have filled up the gaps
left by the soldiers and in addition
have maintained the record of the in
stitution by continuing its growth.
Opportunity courses, offered in CO.
operation with the government, to
lit persons for work with the govern
ment, have added materially to the en-
rollment. However with the oppor-
tunity students eliminated the total en-
rollment for the year will go consider
ably ahead of the total last year.
Churches Unite to Save Coal.
Emporia, Kan, Dec. 15.-At a meet
ing of the Emporia Ministerial asso-
citation it was decided to hold union
Sunday evening services for the next
three Sundays to conserve coal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15

Evers Before His Ambulance Somewhere
in France"
service When the American expedi-
tionary force landed on French soil
Evers was one of the first to enlist
under the stars and stripes. He was
recommended for commission by Gen
eral Pershing and is now lieutenant
in the forces of the line of the Amer
lean eXpeditionary force. One of the
boys in Evers Red Cross Section So,
T. Armory Lee, son of the late r. 1.
Lee of Topeka, writes, BILLY Evers
has been made a first lieutenant in
the q. S. army. according to the Paris
New York Herald. Only few of the
fellows here have been promoted,
which speaks mighty well for Billy"
Work of Huns.
In letter written from France on
August % BILLY" Evers, as he was
known III Topeka, says:
We've got eight cars on duty now.
day and night-expect to have few
days hard work soon and then an
other move forward. This is merely
a guess on my part. The boches are
burning a town ahead of US every day
and will undoubtedly make a shambles
of it by the time they leave. They
will also use the wells as toilets, chop
down the trees, and steal all valuable
paintings silverware and good furni
ture.
paintings and furniture, etc, and use
them in trench dugOuts, where they
are soon destroyed. These things are
not the exception but the rule. Every
town is destroyed in the same method
ical way The atrocities committed
against the prisoner civilians depend
largely on the individual officers. The
destruction of the towns is certainly
the result of a policy adopted by the
kaiser and his staff
He Saw Allen and White
In another letter written about Aug
ust %. Evers says: We had guests
for dinner today. They were William
chief of the American Red Cross in
France, and Henry Allen, the next
governor of Kansas, and Richard
Norton and a Lieutenant Fife" In
cidentally he remarks that It's as
cold as the devil and asks that the
family push those socks along for me
or the Maison d. Evers is insolvent"
Regarding the chronic grumb lers
about the food. Billy declares:
Two or three of the new men are
to think they are at a church social
They food is really very good and also
nourishing. l thing they miss the
napkins and finger bowls
Only Cents a Day.
From the time BILLY" Evers enter
ed the Red Cross ambulance service
until the time he enlisted in the
American expeditionary force he re-
ceived practically no pay from either
the Red Cross or the French govern
ment- His daily wage for this period
was 5 cents in american money hard
ly enough to keep him in tobacco.
Aid his work was not play either.
In one big battle, probably VERDI
EVers ran his ambulance between tne
Postes Secours or dressing stations
and tn field hospitals for a period
of sixty-three hours and this without
stopping for sleep and eating on the
run. At another time he was sent
to the front. When night came on a
big battle was in progress and he and
his helper We're forced to dig
trench for the ambulance and the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
POWER TO MAKE PEACE
If Armistice Is Signed, Russians Can
Go Ahead and Make Peace Treaty.

London. Dec 15.-Leon Trotsky the
Bolsheviki foreign minister, accord ng
to a Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd,
announces that if an armistice for the
eastern front is signed at Brest-
Litovsk, the Russian delegates are
empowered to enter into peace nego-
tiationS.
Amsterdam, Dec. 14.-Official Ger
man and Austrian statements say that
the Russian delegates arrived at
Brest- Bitovsk, Wednesday, and the
yesterday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15

drivers and camouflage it with a COW
ering of branches and leaves.
Life as an ambulance driver for the
Red Cross in France is not all a bed
of roses and America has good reason
to be proud of those sons who have
borne the brunt of battle for the
cause of democracy even before con-
gress saw fit to declare this country
a. war. The best traditions of the
American Red Cross had been firmly
lodged in the French mind long before
the first American trooper set foot on
French soil-as a belligerent
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Mrs. Thomas s. Lyon of 1880 College
avenue. has furnished the State Jour-
nal with some of the letters written
from the front by her grandson, Will
liam Lyons Evers. William L. Evers
was born in Topeka some % years
ago. He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. F. Evers of Chicago, Ill. Young
Evers attended Euclid Park grade
school while living with his grand
parents in Topeka, acquired a high
school education at Hammond, In
dian, and returned to Topeka, attend
ing Washburn college for one year.
He was a member of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity. At this time he car
ried the State Journal. He went to
England in January of 1917 expecting
to engage in the advertising business,
but the call to arms was too strong
and during the first week in February
he enlisted in the American Red
Cross ambulance service in France.
At the end of six months he was pro-
NOTED to the rank of chef-adjoint or
chief of section corresponding to the
rank of first lieutenant in the Ameri-
can army. EverS was the first man
ever promoted to this rank in the
present war after only six months of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
WORSE THAN BULLETS
Large Majority of Deaths in Army
From Observation-Disclosures subsidies

Washington, Dec. 15.-The measles
epidemic in the amps of he Thirtieth,
Thirty-firs Thirty eighth and Thirty
ninth divisions of the national guard
troops no longer constitute menace,
according to a report for the week
ending December Z, made public today
by Surgeon General Gorgas.
The report shows 100 deaths during
the week in the national guard, of
which III were from pneumonia, "a
deaths in the national army. of which
Al were from pneumon a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
.TOPEKABOY IN R. C.
w. L. EVers, Washburn Grad,
Writes of Red Cross Work.
He Has Been Thru Many Big
Battles in France.
ATE WITH WHITE AND ALLEN
Declares He Broke Bread With
"Next Governor of Kansas"
Dastardly Tricks OF Huns
Shown in French Retreat.

The work of the Red Cross in rush
ing food supplies and medical aid to
the scenes OF sudden disaster such as
at Halifax is matter of popular
knowledge; but the work of the
French Red Cross and its operation
at the scene of battle is an epic of
which all too little is known in Amer
lea. OF course the people here know
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
CHURCH NOTICES

(These notices must be in the State
journal office by o'clock on Friday af-
ternoor Unless otherwise noted In this
column services will be held at II o'clock
In the mornlng and 1880 o'clock In the
eveEfngA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
Take the step that will
cure you.

If you come to my office and I
treat you and you fail to recover
completely, sound and we'll again,
your money will be refunded.
am located right here in Tope-
ka. II is my purpose to stay in
Topeka. l am going to cure people
of rectal diseases who viii extend
the good word to others. l am go
Ing to make myself of benefit to
those who suffer in Topeka and
Kansas if they will DO THE
THING THEY OUGHT TO.
My office is on the second floor
at 500 Kansas Avenue You will
find me there all the time and busy,
but I'll see YOU.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
Cut Ont Luxuries.
PARABLE OF
TWO MEN

One did. the other did not do that
which he 1ould.
No, tins is not a sermon, neither
is this article a fable. 1t is the plain
facts as told to the writer on a
street car in the city of Topeka dur
lng the past week.
Yes, 1 have suffered from
PILES said the man. And I went
right away to a specialist and had
the difficulty corrected. I am as
sound as a dollar today and you
can see how l work"
The other man has suffered from
PILES for years and years and
years. Yes, he works, too. part of
the time and is laid up a por-
+ ton of the time. He has many all
ments, almost too many to name
and some of them will prove fatal
to him.
The last man has depended upon
first one makeshift and then anoth-
er to offer him some relief but
nothing permanent.
The last man has spent more
money, has lost more money be-
cause of his disorder ten times over,
than the first man who went direct
to the specialist and had his case
treated as he should.
Saying nothing of what the fu-
ture holds in store for the two men,
the past is sufficient to drive home
the parable.
Don't wait, don't waste your
time, your health, your money in
experimenting. Don't wait until
dozen seeming disorders pounce
upon you. When you realize you
are suffering from rectal disorders,
get busy right then.
Listen to all the stories told you
of how this fellow and that has
cured himself with this remedy and
that but after YOu have listened do
n little independent acting on your
own part.
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4. The meal offering stands for holy
living.
5. The burnt offering means: Full
conservation to God. Rom. 1921.
All were met in Jesus Christ. A
Living Sacrifice. A Perfect Man. A
Peace Maker.-A Sinbearer. 4 Recon
ciliatOr
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1917-10-19
CHATHAM

The Domestic Science class will hold
Halloween social at Academy hall
Friday evening, Oct. 10. There will
be amusements all evening and price
of admission will be from 5 to 20 cents
The proceeds will be for the benefit
of the Domestic Science class.
Dyer Clapp's have new Chevrolet
car.
Mrs. G. A. Hart was laid at rest ii
Chatham cemetery Tuesday morning.
She passed away at her home at Dr..
Hills early Monday morning. Funer-
al services were held at the house.
The ladies Of the Methodist church
will serve dinner at the church next
Thursday, the 25th; charges, 15c.
Orwell Eaken's threshing rig is laid
up for a few days on account Of daIn<
ages to the engine, caused by a coll
lision with a large stone near the drive
way at Geo. Monell's.
Rev. Whey surprised our people last
week by bringing back with him a wife
the new bride as well as the groom
having our best wishes.
Mrs. Fay Rumbaugh entertained the
Young Peoples class Of Congregation
Il church at her home last Friday ev-|
,ning.
Mrs. Ella Chapman Of Michigan has
,een visiting her sister, Mrs. Gene
Whitman.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1917-10-19
NIGHTS OF UNREsT

No Sleep. No Rest, No Peace With 4
Lame or Aching Back.
Weary the lot Of many a kidney
sufferer.
Pain and distress from morn to
night.
Get up with a lame back,
Twinges Of backache bother you all
day,
Dull aching breaks your rest at
night,
If you have kidney trouble.
Reach the cause.-the kidneys.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for the kid
neys only
Have made an enviable reputation
in Medina.
Mrs. g. Barfoot, 4ss s. Huntington
street, Medina, says: my back ached
almost constantly from hard work.
After doing days work, / felt mis-
cradle. When bent over, sharp pains
caught me and / could hardly straigh-
ten. could not sleep at night. be-
cause Of the misery in my back and
mornings felt all tired out. was In
a bad shape and my kidneys showed
signs Of weakness. / used Doanis Kid
ney Pills and they surely relieved the
trouble. / take them now as needed.
Price 6Oc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Barfoot had. Foster Milburn Co.
props, Buffalo, N. Y.-adv.