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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-03-07
wILL1STON.

Moderator, Charles D. Warren: clerk
w. NJ. Barber; treasurer. c. d. Warren
selectman. c. ID. Caswell. three years)
constable, NJ. +. James; collector. NJ. T.
James; listers, Amos Kockle Uhree years)
H. ]. Merrill Zone year)s road commits
sioner, Edward Burnett: town agent, c. s
Wright; auditor. F. d. Putnam. thre'
years.; overseer of the poor. c. D. Cas-
we'll; grand Juror. C. j. Wright; schoo
director, Mrs. Frank Talcott (three years)
library trustee, C. ID. Warren thre'
years.; trustee U. S. deposit money, Franl
Talcott; cemetery commissioners. Franl
Talcott five years). r. e. Brown. fou
years). S. l. Talcott (three years). c. F
johnson. two years.. B. c. johnson. (on'
year); tax. $1.75 on the dolla
of the grand list. The vote on license
yes. g.; no. 81; fifth class, yes. 48; no, g.
Voted $500 for permanent highway fund.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-03-07
CHARLOTTE.

Moderator, W. M. Dean: clerk, Mrs. NJ.
C. Higbee; treasurer, G. W. Prindle;
selectman for three years. Harry Palmer;
constable. H. H. Claxston; lister. Fred 8.
Cove; road commissioners. w. M. Root
and Albert Ball; town agent. D. o. Foote;
auditor, C. N. Johns: overseer Of the poor
and superintendent Of Thompsons Point
S. p. Smith; grand Jurors, J. p. Ramsay
and ]. r. Taggart. school director. Miss
Mary Quinlan; cemetery commissioner
w. H. Boardman; tax, $500 of the grand
list, vote on license.no 1874. yes s2
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-03-07
FAIRFAX.

Moderator, W. e. Hewitt; clerk and
treasurer. II. H. Lawton; selectman, F..
w. Shepardson. {three years.; constable
and collector, c. G.. Gillette; lister. Lyman
Leach; road commissioners. George Drink
wine, Bert Sweeney; town agent. H. O.
wilkins; auditors, ]. M. Hoskns. (three
years), w. ]. Trombley. 1.-TWO years). ]. l..
Butler Zone year); overseer of the poor.
c. c. Gillette; grand Jurors. ]. NJ. Hos
kins, T. NJ. Ryan; school director F. w.
Shepardson tfive years.: library trustee,
w. d. Stewart: tax. $50 on the dollar OF
the grand list. The vote on license, yes 6,
no, II; fifth class. yes. 8, no, 60.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
AFTER VESSELS
Government Seeks Tonnage for
. Java Sugar.
Negotiating for Dutch Vessels
Idle in Indies.

Washington. Aug. 6.-Negotiations
are under way to obtain Dutch YES
sells to carry more sugar from-Java,
it was learned today.
Forty vessels are now idle in east
India waters either thru fear of seiZ-
ure or the menace of submarines, and
other vessels are tied up in home
waters. Allied officials are strongly
representa-: to the Dutch government
that vessels will not be reQuisitioned
in allied ports.
There can be little Improvement in
the sugar situation in America until
the Cuban crop becomes available
about the first of the year, food Of
ficials say.
1t is desired to make available east
Indian supplies. wit hout disturbing
present tonnage arrangements.
Only by the most careful conserva-
ton will the present sugar supply
meet American needs and rigid obser-
walton of the ration of two pounds
a person per month is said by food
officials to be imperative.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
MAY GO FARTHER
Japan Ready for Large War
Action i'm Siberia:
Will Move on Large Scale If 1t
Becomes Necessary.
(By the Associated Press.)

Toxic, Aug. 3, Saturday.-Premier
Count Terauchi in a statement con-
corning allied action in Siberia, said
the Japanese government would take
further military measures in case the
position of the Czecho-Slovaks de-
manded 1t. The premier also indi-
Gated that if the chaotic situation in
might find it necessary to adopt suita-
BILE military measures to combat the
Austro-German menace in the far
east.
Count Terauchi stated that the pres
ent step had been taken in perfect ac-
cord with all the allies. He hoped, he
said, that it would mark the beginning
of new era of peace and order in
Siberia. If it should be necessary for
the allies to dispatch additional troops
and arms, the country must be pre-
pared to meet the emergency. ~ss
Japan Was Ready.
AS far as japan is concerned, every
detail for putting the plan into 4xecu-
ton had already been arranged. A
Red Cross base hospital with full
equipment and complete staff has al
ready been organized at Vladivustok
and additional supplies. nurses and
doctors are leaving weekly.
1t is predicted in well informed cir
cles that the present concerted :;ction
by the allies in Siberia will act as a
sedative on the situation and possibly
result in Siberia finding itself at an
early date with a government sufff-
c1ently strong to control the situation
as far as the Ural mountains
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
name IS LEFT OFF
Douglas County Forgot To
Place Dryden on Ticket.
May Be Sufficient Grounds for
COntest-if He Loses.
"HOME" COUNTIES ARE ACTIVE
Candidates Friends and Neigh
bOrs Voting Loyalty.
From Other Parts of State 1t
Looks Like Light Vote.

Douglas county today furnished the
first opportunity for a primary con-
test in event there is a close race for
state superintendent OF insurance.
The printer failed to put the name of
w. ]. Dryden en- the state ticket and
Douglas county voters were today un-
able to register a vote for the present
actuary in the state insurance depart
ment.
AS soon as the error was discovered
piled for a number of precincts in
Lawrence. The early voters in many
wards and precincts had been unable
tho, to vote for Dryden and the error
in the preparation of the Douglas
county ballot might furnish sufficient
grounds for a contest.
Under the arrangement of names on
the ballot, Bryden's name would come
first on the list in Douglas county.
Records of previous statewide pri-
maries nave shown that on a number
of contests below governor the candi-
date whose name appears first holds
decided advantage in the particular
locality. For that reason Bryden's
friends considered he would be able
thru personal following and his posi-
ton on the ballot to carry Douglas
county by a large plurality. Dropping
of his name from the ballot. however,
deprived him of a large number of
votes in the county.
Home Candidates Arc Busy.
Early returns received at the state
house today indicated slow and light
voting in many sections of the state
Wyandotte was one of the few large
counties which indicated normal
vote.
Counties with home men in the race
cfo
to poll big votes during the day. S.
M Brewster, returns indicated, would
receive heavy vote in Doniphan, his
home county. Allen is considered an
easy second in the county. Sedgwick
county. Aliens home. is also polling
a large vote, altho the registration is
Hgnter than two years ago. Friends
of w. Y. Morgan are also making an
effort to give him a good vote in Reno
county.
Douglas county, with Stubs in the
senatorial race; and Allen county, with
Scott seeking the senatorial nominal
ton; are also polling good votes to-
day. One of the hottest senatorial and
soVernorship fights in the state has
been waged in Cherokee county. The
eounty's interest in the Republican
primaries is also stimulated by the
candidacy of Charles. S. Huffman for
lieutenant governor and W. r. Smith
for state printer. Both men are resi-
dents of Columbus, and Cherokee e
county is piling up a heavy vote. The
voting in Parsons. Cherokee county,
was also heavy during the morning
hours. Atchison and Leavenworth coun-
ty are also voting heavily, considering
the general absence of pre-primary
enthusiasm. Reports from the western
half of the state, as well as a num-
Der of the smaller counties in the
eastern portion of the state, gave evil
dence of light vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
TO RELAX RULES
Exemption Provisions VIII Be
More Liberal.
Applies Only to Those Beyond
Present Draft Age.

Washington, Aug. 6.-Broader pro-
visions for exemptions have been
written into the new man power bill,
now before congress, SO that the ma
TONS war industry fabric may not be
upset by unduly large Withdrawals of
men over 80 years of age for military
service.
Provost Marshal General Crowder,
appearing today before the senate
military committee, explained that he
had deemed it advisable to substitute
the words occupations and employ
ments'' for the word 'industries' used
in the existing law in the section af-
fecting industrial exemptions. This
would make possible a more liberal
Interpretation of the law and prevent
the induction into the army of many
men performing essential work at
home and yet not actually in industrial
occupations.
Senator Chamberlain said there had
been no developments as to the sug-
gestions made yesterday on the floor
that congress should reconvene earlier
than the recess program calls for in
order to consider the bill. He indi-
Gated that no step in this direction
would be taken for the present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
Principal High School Is Made
Superintendent of Schools.
School Board Ends in a Row
After the Election.
MRS. EVANS HAS RESIGNED
She Charges Rank Politics With
Topeka's School Control.
L. NJ. Jones Turned In His
Resignation Some Time Ago.

Topeka has broken all presidents.
The Topeka school board at called
meeting Monday night elected a man
to the position of superintendent OF
schools who has not the two letters
of a college degree to write after his
name.
For twenty years connected with
the city schools, for the last eight
years principal of the Topeka high
school is the record of A. J. Stout
who was elected Monday night to the
office of superintendent of the To
peka public schools to fill the vacancy
left by the resignation of H. B. Wilson
Mr.. Stout is studying in Columbia
university, New York city, this sum-
rper. 1t is reported that he has been
notified of his election altho no for
NAL acceptance of the position which
he will doubtless accept, has been re-
ceived.
OF the many applicants for the posi-
ton, Mr.. Stout has never asserted
himself as a candidate and the posi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
In THIS HOT WEATHER!
Row in Court Over just Where a
Fence Should Be Built,

Preliminary testimony in the case of
the state OF Kansas against Mr.. and
Mrs. Hezekiah Brown, colored,
charged with Interfering with the
work of the county surveyors, was
taken this morning in the court Of To-
peka before Judge Rad Lee. Accord
ing to the story told by the survey
ors, they were halted in their work
of establishing a line between the
property owned by the Browns and
Fred Pears in the vicinity of Eigh
teenth and Monroe streets on July 80,
by the appearance of Mrs. Brown
armed with revolver and a stern re-
solve to maintain what she apparently
believed to be her rights"
The original survey was made about
week previous to this, at which time
Mrs. Brown made no protest 1t was
the intention of Fred Pears, however
to build a fence on the line. This line
Mrs. Brown believed, was just a little
too far inside the old line, which, she
admitted, had merely been stepped
off, and which was then marked with
gas pipe. In spite of the fact that
she told the surveyors that the gas
pipe marked the line, those gantle-
men proceeded to measure from a Civ
measurement, would make the old
| line infringe somewhat on the prom
| erty of Fred Pears
But when Pears started to build the
renee, ne discovered that the stakes
marking the new line had all been
| pulled up, so on the morning of JULY
81 the surveyors went out to survey
| again. It was then that Mrs Brown
/ appeared According to the testimony
of the surveyors, she flourished a re-
Volver and otherwise indicated that
she was not to he trifled with. Mrs.
Brown admitted that she had a revol-
yer, but says she kept it in her pocket
and intended to use it only in case of
| emergency. She also denied that she
| ordered the surveyors off the place,
| insisting that she directed her remarks
to Fred Pears.
She also testified that County Sur
| veyor Campbell, who was on the
| ground at the time, remarked that "if
| it was him he would go ahead and run
| that fence thru Thereupon, Mrs.
Brown said, she told him that 'if he
| did he would never build another one
| and that she wouldn't be the first per-
| son to lose her life over a line fence Is
| Then the question arose before the
court as to whether the surveyors
were acting legally in going upon her
! place and surveying without first
serving a written notice upon her a
notice had been served fifteen months
| ago, it was revealed, but the survey
| postponed. SO that. in the opinion OF
the court, another should have been
served before the recent survey was
| attempted. Mrs. Brown contends that
she did not mean to prevent the sur
vey, but to keep Pears from building
| the fence.
The case will be resumed Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
THEY'RE TOO ANXIOUS
Usage County Draft Board Sends Dis
qualified Men to Camp.

Actions of the Usage county draft
board in placing men in army service
who are physically disqualified. is
causing all manner of trouble, and
may result in an order from the dis
trict board. New trouble appeared to-
day when the district board received
notice that Leslie J. Foster, of Carbon
dale, released from an army camp,
had been placed in class 1 and sent to
Camp Funston without a hearing.
Foster entered volunteer service in
1917. He was sent to Camp Funston
and later assigned to Camp Kearney,
California. He was discharged be-
cause of physical disability August
2, the Usage county board placed Fos-
ter in class 1 and two days later sent
him to Camp Funston to fill current
draft quota Foster was indicted
without allowing the formal five days
for appeal. Because of the record in
his case, he will be returned from
Camp Funston at government expense.
A number of similar cases have been
reported from Usage county and much
trouble has arisen as a result of ac-
lions of the county board in handling
cases under the selective service act.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
HE'S With HENRY ALLEN
George Hoyes of Topeka and New
Governor Near Fighting Lines.

Mrs. George Ioyes has just received
word from her husband, who is doing
Y NJ. C. A. work abroad, that he has
left the transport service, in which he
has been engaged for some months.
and is now working with Henry Allen
in France. Mr.. Hoyes's work has kept
him on the seas most of the time since
he entered the Y. M. c. A. war service.
But it happened that the last time he
was in Paris, he unexpectedly met
Henry Allen on the street They talk
ed together of their work, and Allen
said he would like to have Hoyes in
his departm~ Mt. The following day
Hoyes received notice of his transfer
from transport service to service in
France. He is greatly pleased with
the change, for it means that he will
now be occupied right up behind the
fighting lines. He is stationed some
where in the Vosges mountains.
Mrs. Hoyes received eight letters
from her husband in one day, after a
wait of three months without a word
from him. In one of his letters he
told of young Belgian boy. some
twelve years of age, who was with the
troops with whom he worked. The
lad, he says, is the darling of the regi-
ment and is much made of by the
American and French soldiers. The
tragedy of the little boys fate makes
a strong appeal to the soldiers. His
family lived in the path of the inva>-
ers on their first entrance into Bel
GUM. All the family, parents, broth
ers and sisters, were made away with
bX the Germans, and only the boy,
tHen eight years old, was left. The
soldiers cut his tongue nearly off
thinking they had taken it all, and
then stood him against a hot stove
His back still bears the scars of the
burning. He was left for dead, but
the Red Cross found him in time to
save his life. Some stitches were
taken in his tongue, and his back wa-
healed. Since that time he has been
almost constantly about the camps
Hoyes was one of the first Topeka
men to enter the Y. NJ. G. A. when
the call came for help in the foreign
service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
PLAYS Wise GAME
FOch Would Be Foolish To At
tack Vesle Line.
Germans Will Have To Retreat
to Aisne Anyway.
BY ]. w. t. MASON.

New York, August General
Foch's high quality of patience is
again controlling the allies strategy
south of the Aisne. Won Hindenburg's
enticements to the allies to oyerrun
themselves and fall into carefully pre-
pared German pitfalls. are having no
more success now than at any time
since the retreat from the Marine be-
gan.
Why Allies Do Not Gross Vesic. =;
The Germans are in strong defensive
positions north of the Vesle They are
holding their line desperately for the
work of moving their guns across the
Aisne is SLOW and laborious process
To drive the Germans bacl, by frontal
attacks along the Vesle would exact a
heavy death toll from the allies. much
in excess of what the Germans them
selves would suffer.
General Foch has repeatedly shown
he will not engage in these short
sighted tactics.
Artillery commandments or threats
to encircle the are the rightly
favored methods of attack under pre-
sent conditions. 1t is not worth the
heavy cost of direct assaults on the
| German positions to drive,von Hinden-
burg beyond the Aisne more. rapidly
than he must go eventually
This Is Not Major Offensive.
The time for the allies major or
1enSlye has not yet come and the
! fewer casualties the allies suffer in
the meantime. the more certain will
the final result of the offensive be.
1t doesn't mater to General Foch
whether Won Hindenburg is compelled
to shorten his line now or later The
inevitable must happen. Won linden
burg, however, strongly desires Gem
eral Foch to try to force the inevita bl a
before It's time If Won Hindenburg
| can inveigle General Foch into en-
| Saging in destructive minor offensiyes
! before Americas millions are fully
prepared, .lere remains a chance that
| in the end the allies will hive Whitfield
away their new resources
| 80 Won Hfndenburg turns at bay and
invites the foremost units of General
Foch's troop to engage in pitched bat
ties. But the trap is without avail.
General Foch Is familiar with all the
tricks of the old fox. Inexorable as
fate. the American troops are filing
j into France. Time. therefore waits
at Foch's command and the pause at
the Vesle is an integral part of the al
| lies strategy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
THEY VIOLATE LAW
Women Pass Cards in Front of North
Topeka Polling Place.

In the second precinct of the First
ward, according to reports early this
afternoon, the judges were allowing a
corps of electioneers to work directly
in front of the polling place at 905
North Kansas avenue. According to a
state ent by City Attorney Hayden
today, this is in direct disregard of
the law which requires that no cleo
pioneering or soliciting of votes be al
lowed within 100 feet of the polling
places. One woman reported that she
was stopped in the very door of the
l olling place by a woman electioneer
working in the interests of Troutman
f. governor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
LOCAL MENTION

The following people motor-d to
Manhattan Sunday to spend the day
with Mr.. and Mrs. John H Holiday
and Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Howard:
Louisa Holiday. Sudie Maze. Edith
Macdonald. Mae Steward, Nil Pat
terson, Ellen Knoll. Mrs. Elizabeth
Holiday. Mrs. Davis, Arthur Osee.
Edwin Steward. Francis Macdonald
George Knoll, David Holiday, J. w.
Holiday. The party held a picnic din
ner at the college grounds and ate
their supper at the City park
Safety razor bfades sharpened bet
ter than new. Csc s5c doz. Brunt- Mar
tin.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
FIRE DESTROYS FOOD
Elevator and Warehouse Burned at
Observation-Disclosures Is Suspected.

Tulsa, Okla. Aug. 6.-Fire of un-
known origin, but which Is believed
by officials of the company to have
been incendiary destroyed the elevator
and warehouse of the Rea Read Mill
ing & Elevator company here this
morning. The fire started about five
O'Clock. Approximately $4,000
worth of grain was burned. including
$4,000 bushels of wheat, 1000 bushels
of corn and 4.500 bushels of oats
The warehouse contained about 1900
barrels Of flour, all of which was
destroyed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
Oil Kings Wife a Suicide.

Kansas City. Mo-, Aug. 6.-Identi-
fication of the woman who is said by
police to have committed suicide by
drinking poison in North Kansas City
last night. was established today as
Mrs. Mary Bennett, wife of W. H
Bennett, rich oil man of Fort Worth.
Texas. A cousin of the woman identi-
fled the body. Bennett has been noti-
fled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06

Discharged from the army after en-
listment, then called into the national
army at Camp Funston, and finally ar
irving safely overseas is the unique
military history of Corp. David W.
Main, of the 342 Field Artillery band,
Eighty-ninth division. Corporal Main
enlisted May %, 1917. as assistant
band leader with the Headquarters
company, First Kansas Field artillery:
was honorably discharged for physical
reasons August 1, 1911; April rs. 1918.
he was called to Camp Funston and
accepted for overseas duty, and left
Camp Funston on June 8. Before en-
tering the army he was connected with
the ticket auditing department of the
Stanta Fe for eleven years and during
the interim between the periods OF
military service with the agency OF
the Mutual Life of New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
AMBASSADOR BACK
British Minister to q. S. Has Arrived
in England for Conference.

New York, Aug. 6.-The Earl of
Reading, British ambassador and
high commissioner to the United
States, has arrived in London, it was
announced here by the British bureau
of information His mission is to con-
fer with the British war cabinet. it
was stated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
HOOVER AT THE FRONT
Visits BclIcau Wood and Pays Tributs
to Fallen Americans.

Paris, Aug. 6.-Herbert c. Hooy er.
American food administrator, has raid
a visit to the battle front. where he
rendered homage to the American SOL
dfers who have ia Hen on the field of
honor. Among the places he visited
was Belleau wood. He went over the
ground where the american army
made such heroic stand against the
Gerrna MS e..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06
Negro Held in Murder Case.

Kansas City, Mo, Aug, 6.-Samuel
holland, negro, was held here today
for Investigation in connection with
the alleged murder of John A.
Wright. s., real estate man, whose
body was found in cellar of house
last Saturday holland. according to
police is known to have occupied the
ance of Wright over a month ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06

pared for his new position. The fact
that a man has been in one place
twenty years is not always recon-
mendation. In that length of time he
might have been doing a much bigger
work elsewhere, if experimenting city
schools was his forte. All, well, good
lodge backing is a great help on the
present board. It is not even required
of a member of the school board that
he be able to speak correct English.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-06

New York. Aug. 6.-MONEY-Mercantile
paper. months: g. months. 6, Sterling.
S Bills Say ON BAN banks, ~; commercial. GO day
bills. 4.71A demand, 4.T545; cables. 4.7645
Francs, demand. 5.T05s cables, 5.69i5. Bar
silver, 995sc; Mexican dollars. nc. Govern
ment bonds. steady; railroad bonds, steady.
Time loans, strong; 60 days, 30 days and
months, 6 bid
Call money strong; high. 6; low, 51a !:
ruling rate, g.; closing bid 512; offered at
G; last loan, G.