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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
TO TRAIN AT X. u.
National Army Men Will Be Given
Special Technical Instruction.

Lawrence, Kan, May 20.-That
the United States government has
definitely decided to send $50 men OF
the national army to the University
of Kansas June Is for special training
in technical branches is the announce
ment made here by Dean G. C. Shadd,
of the school of engineering.
Previous plans had been made for
training 160 men, the work to start
about June 1. The larger part of the
work of the soldiers will be done in
the Fowler shops, which were partial
ly destroyed by fire May 9. Workmen
are now hurrying the construction of
a wooden roof on the building so that
the shops will be ready in time for
their classes of men clad in khaki.
Practically all of the instruction for
the military men will be given by the
regular teaching force of the school of
engineering. The men will be under
the command of regular army officers
and will be fed and quartered in the
Robinson gymnasium, which is now
being put in shape for their reception.
The plans include the instruction of
100 chauffsurs, 60 radio men, 40 te1eg-
raphers, Is carpenters and IL concrete
workers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
SIXTY AGGIES TO CAMP
Kansas College Sends Many to the Of
ficers' Training Camp.

Manhattan, KAN, May 2o.-The
names of sixty students of the Kansas
State Agricultural college, who have
been selected to attend the summer re-
serve officers training corps camps at
Camp Sheridan, beginning June 8,
have been announced by Capt w. P.
J. O'Neill, commandant.
Juniors in the advanced section OF
the corps signed contract to attend
the camp the beginning Of the semes-
ter. The remainder of the names on
the list were selected from list of
applications
The names of the men chosen fol-
low:
J. " Stewart, Bruce B. Brewer, Homer
Cross, Frank Collins, William Giles, j. B.
Angle, James Sparks, Donald G. Thayer, A.
j. c. Gulledge, n. w. MeClelland R. D.
M P. Schlagel, w. D. Scully, Fred Griffee,
Clarence Freeto, c. H. Stinson, E. J. Price,
l.. G. Van Zile, w. D. Gardner, c. Kimport,
R. e. kellogg, j. L. MacNair, J. W. Andrews,
c. NJ. Freeland, E. C. Gilbreath, H 4.
Shideler, I. c. Crow, A. c. Ramsey, w. E.
Burnette, F. D. Howard, II. W. Moore, r.
D. billiard, NJ. w. Watt, w. S. Ferguson,
P. H Pierratt, A. W. Wilcox, r. 8: Hargin,
v. S. Crippen, H. R. Facklam. R. s. Breese,
H W. Alexander, w. II. logger, F. g.
Prathmore, H. o. Spencer, p. w. Barber,
D. T. Deniston T. r. Baumgartner, o. +.
Nelson, n. E. Mather, F. Martin, R. Plyley,
Rex Bushong, R. K. Elliott, 7. Barger and
c. E. Hutton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
REGISTER 10000 HERE
Many Kansans Come in Under New
Draft 21-Rule.

It is probable that practically 49,
900 Kansans will be registered under
the selective draft act when men who
have attained their majority since
June 5, last year, are called before 10
cal registration boards. All men who
have become 21 years old since June
S, last year, will be registered June 5.
this year, and classified for selective
army service.
When~Kansans registered last year.
the states registration reached a total
151.340. This registration included all
men between the ages of FL and 81
years. 1t is believed that a total of
5000 men will be called for registra-
ton next month. Many young men,
however, have entered volunteer serv-
ice as soon as they became 81 years
old. Because of the heavy volunteer
enlistments among young men, the to-
tai registration may fall below esti-
mates. Under the plan for the cur
rent registration. the work will be
handled by local boards. In counties
with but one board, all young men
subject to call under the new draft
law will report at the county seat for
registration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
BILLION TO ROADS
U. S. win Spend Huge Sum on
Her Railways.
Santa Fe Alone To Get Al Mill
lions of This Fund.

Washington. May 20.-Railroads
under government operation this year
will spend nearly 1000 million dollars
for additions, betterments and equip
ment, or approximately three times as
much as in any one of the last three
years
Total capital expenditures approved
by the railroad administration as an
ncunced are $937,961.31S. OF this big
sum $440,071, 900 will be spent for ad-
ditions and betterments, such as sta
tons and other property improve
ments; s479, 6S6,000 for equipment
cars and locomotives already ordered
thru the railroad administration, and
sl8,203,000 for track extension.
The figures disclose Director Cen
era1 McAdoos determination to let the
railroads make many improvements
| which they had neglected during the
last three years thru permitting tracks
to run down, and postponing all pos
sible projects requiring big expendi-
lures of capital.
Western Lines Allowances.
Capital expenditures approved by
/ the administration and eliminations
from the original estimated budgets
include the following western roads:
4 -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
EUREKA is COVER TOP"
Kansas Town Already Over Her Red
Cross Quota.

Eureka, Kan, May 20.-Eureka is
far over her Red Cross quota, accord
ing to announcement this morning by
Charles e. Moore, chairman of the
county organization. The city's quota
was oversubscribed Saturday evening
when members of ward committees re-
ported volunteer subscriptions in ad-
vance of the opening of the campaign.
Eureka city was asked to provide a
fund of $1,000. Subscriptions in the
city are nearly $1,000 in advance of
the sum asked by the national or
Ganization. 1t is probable the quota
may be more than doubled in the next
day or two. All towns in Greenwood
county outside Eureka city have indi-
Gated they will report subscriptions in
excess of quotas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
X. U. MAN TO LONDON
Edwin w. Hullinger Gets Overseas Job
With the United Press.

Lawrence, Kan, May 20.-Edwin
W. Hullinger, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Kansas in 1917, will be sent
20 London as a representative of the
United Press, according to word re-
seived here by his friends. He has
been manager of the United Press
Bureau at Detroit, Mich, going there
from Chicago, ILL.,, where he was with
the same bureau.
Hullinger was active in the depart
ment of Journalism here, being news
editor and editor-in- chief of the Daily
Kansan. He left K. U. last year to
finish his work at Columbia univer-
sity, New York City. He was mem
Der of the Kansas board, a member of
Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism
fraternity and of Alemannia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
THE HOUSEHOLD
Who Works Your War Garden?
Edited by ANNE RITTENHOUsE

Some of US have been SO imbued
with the war garden idea that we
seem to think that the only objective
is to have a war garden, regardless of
the question of who tends that garden
and how much labor goes into it. If
we can honestly say that the vege-
tables we have consumed during the
summer have all come off our own
plot of land, we feel-do we not p
that we have helped solve the food
problem; that we have been part of
the great American land army.
But there are so many things to
consider in the achievement of any
patriotic act. And in this matter of
war gardens we have recently been
shown by authorities on war gardens
in Washington that there is really no
economy and no wise patriotism in
having a war garden when in order
to raise our vegetables we must en-
ploy man labor unaided by machinery
or modern lavor-saving gardening de-
vices. If we employ an abie-bodied
laborer to make our war garden and
to tend it all summer we must realize
that that 1aborer working for a farmer
on farm where modern methods and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20

where the immediate needs of thou
sands were met Since the retreat,
the American Red Cross has been
active in providing shelter and sus-
tenance for the needy families Who
have been forced to leave their homes
in the north.
A recapitulation of the expenditures
made from last years war fund shows
that $50, .103 was spent in France;
S2.0S6,131 in Belgium; $4,5S8,826 in
Italy; $1,206,906 in Russia; $2,676.3 6S
in Rumania: sS94.5S0 in Serbia ;
$3,260,230 in Great Britain; $4,476,30
for other foreign relie- work; and
$S,72S,123 for American needs over
seas and at home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
DISCUSS NEW BUILDING
Il. G. Graduates Want Better and
Bigger Shop Facilities.

Lawrence, Kan, May 20.-Gradu-
ates of the school of engineering will
meet at K. U. June 1, class day to
discuss the rebuilding of the Fowler
shops and to confer with the faculty
of the school of engineering on needed
improvements in the school. Better
electrical equipment, more professors
and better housing facilities are some
of the things that probably will be
brought up.
The result of the alumni engineers
investigation here will be taken to the
state legislature as a definite recon-
rnendation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
F1owered Muslin Frocks, Taken From,
Old Southern Fashions, Are Put
Out by High-Priced Dressinakers,
and the Skirts Look Like Panta-

New York--Do you remember the
picture in the family album of a little
girl in short skirts, proudly exhibiting
pair of ruffled pantalettes that came
to the ankles?
Well, that is the way you will look
today, in the year 1918, at the most
modern moment of the worlds his
tory, if you wear one. of the new
lowered muSlinS that Fifth avenue
produces at a price around seventy
five dollars
Whisper it not to the dressmaker,
but you can make it at home for fifteen
dollars if you omit lace. In the South
ern countries, such frocks run riot, but
the effect of pantalettes has been Ia
boo for several decades.
Simplicity and Economy Today.
These frocks are the substitutes for
the elaborate, Over-expenSive lingerie
gowns worn by Europe and the North
ern states for the last three decades
No more do we have handkerchief
linen, cobweb batiste, insets of Irish
lace or French embroidery. These are
not available for wartime, and their
cost is beyond the limits of the aver
age woman.
Something had to be done In the
way of a thin gown for hot weather,
so the fashion makers decided on or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20

CANDY, with handmade collars and
cuffs of batiste and Val lace.
After these were we'll launched, in
came a frock of lowered wolfe which
ran the gamut of popularity before the
first hot day came to the country. You
can buy it for one hundred dollars on
Fifth avenue, and for S1S.75 on a side
street in the middle of the town. You
see it in every twentieth shop window
in New York and find it in every town
southwark and eastward. Such is the
history of certain fashions in this
country. Beware of themi
After this gown, came the fine flow
cred muslin as it has been worn by
heroines of summer novels, associated
with hammocks. wide porches and
to become commonized. 1t is like
moonlight and sunlight and any other
attractive thing which we take as a
matter of course:
The Capricious Pantalette.
Those ruffled under-garments Of
which women made a brave showing
a half century ago, which they short
ened and hid quarter of a century
ago, and which they replaced with
silk Knockers ten years ago, have now
returned to a conspicuous position.
They are worn by dancers, they are
substituted for petticoats in thin
gowns, and now, in the latest lowered
muslin frock, they drop below the
hem of the tunic in the form of a mar
row skirt They are ruffled, as in the
o1den days.
The sketch shows the frock it is
worn and offered at all the prices
which are governed by such overhead
charges as rental, salaries and inside
labels.
The gown is pink and blue on a
white background. The immense fichu
| is Of white organdy finished with ruff
| files that are scaHoped at the edge.
| The short sleeves have gauntlet cuffs.
also ruffled. To carry out the touch
of civil war fashions in more COM
plete way,~there is a cameo in blue
| and white set in a filigree gilt frame,
to hold the fichu together at the bust.
| The picture hat is of soft straw
trimmed with a blue ribbon and a knot
| of pink roses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
new HUT AT FUNSTON
Salvation Army Building Will Be Ded-
icated Next Sunday.

Junction City, May 2o.-Sunday,
May 26, has been set as the date for
dedicating the Salvation Army build
ing at Army City. Furniture for the
building is now arriving and is being
installed. In addition to being used
for religious services, the building will
serve as a reading and recreation room
for soldiers and others and a number
of beds have been provided to accom-
modate visitors to Army City who
find themselves unable to secure &C
commodationS elsewhere
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
MANY VISITED CAMP
Eleven Thousand Were at Funston
Last Visitors Day.

Camp Funston, Kan, May 90
Eleven thousand visitors on the
monthly visiting day which happened
to fall on Saturday, May IL, is the
high tide for that occasion, according
to records kept by the information
bureau.
Nearby towns were filled the day
before with relatives, sweethearts and
friends of the soldiers and the follow
ing morning every available means
Of transportation did a capacity BUSH
ness campwardS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
Land Values Increased.

Lawrence. Kan. May 20.-Valua-
tons of farm lands in Douglas county
have been ordered increased per cent
because of urgent war necessity for
funds, according to an order sent the
local tax assessing authorities by the
state tax commission City val lations
have been increased proportionately
for the same reason by the state tax
commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
FIFTY SHIPS IN JUNE
Submarine on Point of Being Mas
tered Says U. S. Ship Commissioner.

New York. May 20.-Fifty ships of
major size will be put into commission
at American yards next month, and a
large number will be ready for sailing
in July and August, said cambridge
Colby. United States shipping commits
sioner, in an address here.
The submarine is at least on the
point of being mastered" declared
MIR. Colby, land we shall choke the
seven seas with American shipping"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
WADED INTO DEEP HOLE
Two Small Boys Drowned in the Ark.
ansaS River Sunday

Hutchinson, Kan, May 20.-Law-
renee and Delbert Couch, brothers, 8
and years old, while wading in the
Arkansas river Sunday afternoon
walked into sand pump hole and
were drowned. Two older boys al
most drowned in an attempt to save
them.
Hundreds of people helped to drag
the hole, a hay rake finally bringing
the bodies to the surface after two
hours work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
FALLS FROM PLANE
Famous American Flyer in an Acct.
dent-Exact Results Unknown.

With the American Armies in
France, May 20.-In the course of a
running air fight on the American
front, Major Raoul Lufberry, Ameri-
can ace, and. former member of the
Lafayette escadrille, fell from his ma
chine.
The cablegram did not state
whether Lufberry was killed. or even
seriously injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20

No one knows the humiliation of be-
ing wall flower" better than the girl
with red, rough, pimply complexion.
If yo1r skin is not fresh and smooth,
or has suffered from an unwise use of
cosmetics, try Resinol Soap and Resinol
Ointment for week and see if they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20

observation-disclosures difference.
They also help to make hands and arms
soft and white, and to keep the hair
live, glossy and free from dandru1.
All druggists and dealers in toilet goods sell Res
mol Ointment and Resinol Soap. You'd better try
them, Trial free. Write Dept SIS. Resinol Bald
more, Nd.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-20

ing.
In connection with the Canteen
work it is of interest to note that
the Government so highly regards
the welfare and comfort of the
soldiers that while sugar is limited
to everyone else, it is NOT limit
ed when used in Canteen work.
The best is not too good when
the comfort of the troops is con-
cerned.
Large bathrooms are to be
built right away near the tracks
at Raleigh so that the hot, dusty
soldiers in passing through may
be refreshed and cooled by a
shower bath. 1t is suggested that
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-20
Buttermilk Wanted.

100 gallons of buttermilk are
wanted for the Canteen service
next Monday. This buttermilk
will be iced and served to the
soldiers passing through Hamlet
during the day Monday. Those
vino will donate this buttermilk
will please phone Mrs. w. N.
Everett number 25), and it will
be collected from the donors
Monday morning between s and
10 o'clock. Anyone from the
country who will give this milk
is asked toleave same at Everett
Hardware store Monday morn
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-20

somes such arrangements be made
at Hamlet.
The 500 which the Food Ac-
ministration made the Busy Bee
cafe proprietor recently pay for
food violations, has been turned
over to the Canteen service of the
Red Cross.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-20
PERSONAL


H. R. Peele was in the city
Monday. He lives five miles from
Osborne.
| Mrs. Lou Crosland and sons,
Robert and David, left Friday for
Montreal.
Mrs. Harry Griffin, of
Columbia, came Tuesday to visit
her sister, Mrs. Robt. S. Leak.
Mrs. J. D. Rast and daughter,
Martha, of Anderson, S. c., came
Saturday to visit her cousin, Mrs.
H. c. Watson.
Homer LeGrand returned to
Hamlet Sunday from Pulaski,
Tennessee. where he has been
teaching school.
W. c. McColl, principal the
past year of Roberdel school, has
accepted the principalship the
coming year of the Elise High
School.
Mrs. ]. D. Chalk and Mrs. w.
S. Stuart, who have spent three
weeks with their parents here,
returned to Observation-Disclosures
at Rochester and Charlotte Sat-
urday.
Prof. B. e. McIver was recently
reelected superintendent of the
Cheraw graded school for the
9th consecutive year, but same
was declined. He will make his
home at Cameron.
Thomas Randolph Leak, son
of Mrs. w. c. Leak, left
Wednesday morning for Bing-
hams School, near Asheville, to
take the six weeks University
Military Summer School course.
DR.. and Mrs. R. T. Nichols and
DR.. R. S. Cole are attending the
Dental Association at Wrights-
vile. Clifford Steele went there
Monday to stand the dental ex-
animation for license.
The B. Y. P. U. elected new
officers Monday night for the
ensuing period of six months:
President, R. L. Johnson; Vice
Pres. c. Y. Coley; Sec.- Treas.
Chas, B. Deane; Chorister, Miss
Hattie Marks; Librarian, WI. Is
bell.
On June goth, Mr.. Warren G..
Ferguson, of Chicago, and Miss
Kate MCPHERSON, of Cameron,
will be married. Miss McPher-
son taught in the Derby Memorial
School the past year. Mr.. Fer
guson is an A. & E. graduate,
and is connected with a large
electrical constructing company.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Lowry left
Sunday morning for an extended
automobile trip. They will visit
Camp Green at Charlotte, will
spend a few days at Gastonia
with Mr.. Lowry's brother and a
few days at Asheville; from
which place they will visit points
in South Carolina, including
Greenville and Columbia. AT
Leeville Mr.. Lowry will return
lhome, leaving Mrs. Lowry to
visit her parents.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-20

Jacob Little, colored, was
transferred to the Richmond, Va,
exemption board and sent to
Camp Lee May 21st. VIM. Lacy
Leslie was transferred from the
local board to the Norfolk board
and sent to Camp Lee June Bird.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-20

l ueSday night from a Visit 70
Gastonia.
Mrs. Sam Steele and children
went to Jackson Springs Saturday
for a weeks stay.
| Mrs. ]. NJ. Ledbetter and Miss
Jessie Steele went to Charlotte
Wednesday night, returning to-
night.
Robert Steele, 3rd, left this morn
ing for Asheville to enter the
University Summer Military
School for six weeks.
Mr.. E. A. Allen attended the
State convention of the Merchants
Association at Wrightsville Tues
day and Wednesday.
Mrs, Peter Ihrie, of Rock Hill, is visit
ing Mrs. Florence Bynum Misses Ida
and Mary Bynum spent the weekend
with her, leaving for Rock Hill last Tues
day morning
Miss Lucy London Anderson,
of Fayetteville, came Monday to
visit Mr.. and Mrs. l. S. London.
She returns to Fayetteville Fri
day morning.
Mrs. John Gay, OF Entwistle,
who was operated upon for APP
pendicitis at James hospital ten
days ago, is doing nicely and will
leave there in four or five days.
Mrs. M. H. Russell returned
Tuesday night from Chapel
Hill, where she spent the past
ten days. Rev. and Mrs. z. V.
Robertson attended to the library
in her absence.
| Mrs. RussellFord and two chill
dren will arrive Friday night
from Denver to visit Mrs. Hill
Parsons. Mr.. and Mrs. J. w.
Bethel, Reidsville, will come Fri
day night to visit at Mrs. Hal S.
Ledbetter's. a
T. B. and John c. Matheson, of
the Mangum section, were in the
city today. John is scheduled to
go with the Is men to Camp Jack
son the 25th. He lacked only
two months of being 81 at the
registration June 9Th, 1917. 8
DR.. F. J. CARROTS address is
New York Eye and Ear
Infirmary, 18th St. and End Ave,
New York City" He went there
last Saturday for a four weeks
special course Of study in the
eye, ear, nose and throat.
Rev. E. H. Davis, of Laurir-
burg, is considering entering
amry Y. M. c. A. work. George
T. Goodwin, a Laurinburg young
man, has volunteered for this
work overseas, and has received
orders to report in New York
June 24th :,
A party consisting of Misses
Sue and Bessie Taylor, lila Cul-
berson, Robert Mckenzie and J.
S. Frankel were motored by Ray
Baucom to Camp Jackson Sunday.
They left here at A a. m. and re-
turned at midnight. They dined
with the soldiers in camp.
Mrs. Anna Lea,of Washington,
D. c. has been spending the week
in Rockingham with her parents
and friends. She will return to
Washington Sunday night. Miss
Mildred Stephenson will accom-.
pany her there, where the latter
enters the services of the Govern.
ment.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-06-20

LOCAL ITEMS

Short News Items of Interest
Of Town and County, Con-
densed Into Paragraphs
for Hurried Reading.