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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-16
MEETINGS TONIGHT.

Bayard Legion.
Mt Calvary Club
|. c. : Fraternity.
Democratic League
Papcrhangers Union
Sumner Post, e. A. r
Camp No. 5. p. O s A.
Delaware Lodge, ;. of Il.
North End Athletic Club
Delmarvia Union, b. / p.
Antietam Temple, O / A.
Washington Lodge, n of 2.
Appomattox Camp, : OF Y
Fidelity Lodge, A. Q. L ".
Wilmington Lodge of Elks
Delta Chapter r. \. NJ
Delaware Lodge, l. o. o. L.
Harmony Council, L +. of A.
Beta Hive, No. |, l.. O o. NJ.
Brandywine Lodge. |. o. O. f.
N1inqua Tribe. Imp'd O. Il. NJ.
Beta Tent, No. :, II. O T. NJ.
Blue Rock Council, l. O. r. c.
Brownson Library Association
Santa Mania Council, h. of c.
Del Council, No. /, A. o. :. K.
National Protective Association.
Brandywine Library Association.
Wilmington Council, O. l. A NJ
St Benedicts Beneficial Society.
Lady Miller Lodge. No. 8. s. of B.
BrickIayers international Union.
Christine Encampment, |. O. q. +
Diamond Council, Jr o. L A NJ
Delaware Conclave, y. or s. W NJ
Wilmington Acre, No -, +. o. L
I'shers Union, Union NJ L. Church
Eleventh Ward Democratic League.
b. NJ & p l. L (Bricklaycrs U'nion)
VIM Mckinley Circle, No. ), IL. of 5.
Benevolent Pioneer Literary Association
vii. & Brandywine Council O. [ 4. NJ
Wilmington Circle, + of A., Nos 7,S.9
Ladies Catholic Benevolent Association
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-16
KENNARD S co.

Store opens daily, including Saturdays AT $50
Closes at $50. One delivery day With the request
that small parcels be carried and special deliveries
avoided. By the cooperation Of customers nth
the foregoing your service can be helpful
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-16
Dresses of Every Sort


Neither this store, in fact few other
showing such comprehensive assortment of Dresses
be found here every Not od model
annoy you your looking
Dresses of Serge Tricoiette, Jer.ey Cloth, Char
combinations of each. Every idea is represented
Other Suggestions
Reliable Furs and fur garments.
Top Coats representing hundred more OF the
seasons leading models and fabrics in plain and fur
trimmed
Suits, as usual, come in for a large share of atsen-
ton. A real honest quality for al little $3.50.
Others up 90 each.
Our Waist department, hrst floor, offers
you trebed assortment of styles Included you ~ill
find a tabeful strikingly reduced.
Fall and winter weight Hosiery and knitted Under
wear.
Buy Blankets, Comfortables, wool fabrics
Values and assortments complete.
621-e23 Market Street
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-16

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the haple@ Ruanan poople must and
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Providence journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
FOR NEGRO SELECTS
Draft Entertainment for New Sol
dicrs at Metropolitan Hall.

Topeka's ninety-four colored selects
who will leave for Camp Funston July
10 will, be honored Thursday evening
at an entertainment in Metropolitan
hall. Amy one wishing to attend, and
especially the drafted men and their
families. are cordially invited to be
present, it was announced today by
Fred Roundtree. chairman Of the COM
mittee on entertainment.
Refreshments will be served and a
concert by Jackson's band and a short
program will be given.
The principal features of the pro-
gram will be short addresses by James
H. Guy and the Rev. J. F. Peck. lover
the Top will be the title of a solo by
Miss Sylvia Newman, and Alice Bent
ley, years old. will give a recitation.
Several churches and lodges of the
city have donated funds to defray the
expenses and the entertainment prom
ises to be a huge affair. Friday the
Chamber of Commerce will entertain
the future soldiers and Friday evening
tn Kansas State Guards will accom-
pany the men to the train,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
HEARS FROM HER SON
Driver Writes and Topeka
Mother Knows of Wounded Soldier.

It was on the battlefield in France
An American ambulance was carrying
to the base hospital a load of wodnd-
ed marines. In the ambulance was
Robert McGiffert, son of Mrs. A. D.
McGiffert OF 1895 Clay street, Topeka
What. is your name" the anbu
lance driver asked of McGiffert.
"MeGiffert," was the faint answer.
ANY relation to the McGifferts of
Duluth ?" the driver questioned again.
He is my Uncle john" the Topeka
boy informed him. -
The ambulance man Immediately
wrote John McGiffert of Duluth, and
the letter was forwarded to the boys
mother in Topeka.
Robert McGiffert. marine. was
wounded in action June 6. He is now
in a hospital in Paris. According to
the letter written by the ambulance
driver the soldiers thigh bone is shat
tered and he received several shrap-
mel wounds in his back
Mrs. McGiffertehas received no word
direct from her son since he was taken
to the hospital. All she knew was that
he was severely wounded"
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WOMAN IS KILLED
Three Other Persons Injured in
Grade Crossing Accident.
Santa Fe Train Hits Auto Con-
tanning the Burgess Family. -

Mrs. Maggie Burgess, wife of T. A
Burgess, a carpenter at the Santa Fe
shops, was instantly killed when the
motor car in which the Burgess fam
lily were riding was hit by south
bound Santa Fe passenger train at the
Eighth avenue crossing about o'clock
Tuesday night. T. A. Burgess, who
was driving the car, was badly cut
about the head and arms. A daugh-
ter, Fern, 16 years old, was badly cut
about the head and bruised about the
body. A son, Harold. years old, was
cut and bruised about the body. Pny-
sicians at the Santa Fe hospital. where
Burgess and the two children were
taken Immediately after the accident
stated today that they were resting
as well as could be expected"
According to persons who witnessed
the accident, both the train and the
Burgess motor car were running slow
ly, but owing to the close vision at the
crossing Burgess apparently did not
see the train as he drove onto the
crossing. The locor- otive hit the car
and carried it about fifty feet and
side.
Mrs. Burgess, it is said, attempted
to jump from the car as the train hit
it. Her body was found at the edge
OF the crossing. Burgess, who was
semi-conscious had found the body,
and persisted in claiming that his wife
was not dead. When the car was found
the gears were set in high speed, Bur-
CESS evidently having no opportunity
to back up or go forward faster.
OF Burgess and the two children,
the daughter is probably the most
seriously injured, it is stated. She was
unconscious When found and remained
so for several hours
Dr. o. F. Narcotic, county coroner
said today that an inquest into the &C
cident would be held at 9 o'clock
ThursdaY morning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
GOLF TOURNEY HERE
Shawnee and Country Club Players at
Shawnee Links Saturday.

The big golf event of the summer
in Topeka will be held at the Shawnee
golf links Saturday afternoon when a
match will be played between the play
ers of the Shawnee and Country clubs.
1t will be a three-point tourns ment
and it is expected that at least fifty
players from each club will be repre-
scented. Eighteen holes will constitute
a game and play begins at 1880 sharp.
This will be the fourth match be-
tween the two golf organizations The
first was played at the Country club
and the home team won. The next
was played over the Shawnee course
and again the home" players won,
making the event even up. The third
went over the Country club links and
the Shawnee representatives lost The
standing now is: Country club g
Shawnee club I.
The Shawnee golfers are anxious to
even up the game by capturing the
match Saturday afternoon and every
member of the club is asked to show
UP for play.
The plan is to match up every Coun-
try club player who shows up The
result between each pair over the
elghteeR holes will be made into a to-
tai deciding score for the dav
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
Police Break Up Professional
Party Yeggs and Auto Thieves.
Cornered in an Alley After
Robbing a Grocery Store.
HAD WEAKNESS FOR CANDY
Were Supplying Cache When
Boy Overheard Their Plans.
Carried All the Apparatus Nee
essary to Their Trade.

The evident weakness of Earl Read
er, James Moran and companion,
whom the police believe are profess
sional yeggs and motor car thieves.
for Iuxuries in the way of cigars and
sweets was responsible early this
morning for the arrest of Reader and
Moran.
Reader and, Moran, with the COM
panion, the police say, broke into the
G. B. Galliger grocery store, Eighth
and Clay streets, last midnight. They
obtained a quantity of cigars and sew
eraI pounds of candy, so much of it,
IN fact, that they left part of it in
an alley, and planned to return for it
later. James Kennedy. boy who re-
turned home late overheard the plans
and told his father who in turn noti-
fled the police.
Cop Heard Them.
Sergeant Joe Wonderly, with Off
GERS Kirk Pinkston, Jacob Maze and
w. X. Hill went to the alley and
found the loot. Leaving Pinkston to
the party started out to look for the
robbers. Shortly afterwards Pink
ston heard the trio returning and
promptly threw a gun and flash
light on them. Reader and Moran
were securely covered" but the com
The police today declared that
yesSs and Professional d sffe motor eS1Pe" cay
thieves, and that the store robbery
was apparently a side job" In the
side pockets of the two men arrested
were found keys that would turn the
switches on practically every standard.
make of motor cars. Reader had in
his possession an Iowa license num-
Der. and the police think that the trio
had spotted a car and were preparing
to place the Iowa license on it and
drive away.
Reader and Moran also had in their
pockets a number of skeleton keys
that would manipulate padlocks and
door locks. They also carried several
dies of the kind used to alter the fac
tory numbers on automobile motors
Each carried guns and ''jimmies" the
police assert. Both are in Jail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
CORN LOOKS FINEI
Federal Weather Bureau Issues
Weekly Crop Bulletin.
Threshing in Progress and
Wheat Yield Is Excellent.

Temperatures ranged slightly below
normal most of this week, with light
showers over the greater part of Kan
sas on several days and some locally
heavy rains in the central and south
western counties, says the weekly crop
bulletin issued by Meteorologist S. D..
Flora, of the weather bureau. Most
of the state is in great need of a soak
ing rain.
Corn has stood the dry weather well
In most places and is commonly rated
as good to excellent in the important
producing counties in the central and
Northeastern parts of the state Prac-
tically the only places where It mas
suffered serious damage are the ex-
trail part of the state eastward and a
few in the northcentra1 portion, west
of Salina and Concordia.
Most of the crop has been laid by
in excellent condition and is tasseling
and silking, except in-the extreme
western counties. Some of the earliest
planted is coming into the roasting ear
stage in the eastern portion, but the
bulk of the crop will not reach that
stage before the end OF the month.
The greater part of it has a fine deep
green color and is at present thriving,
but it is rapidly approaching the point
in its development where it must have
abundant rains il 1t keeps up its pres
emit condition.
The grain sorghums and cane are
inclined to be backward in all parts
but are resisting the dry weather well.
Some of the earliest are beginning to
head here and there, but the bulk OF
the crop lacks a bit of being so far ad-
vanced.
Wheat Yielding Well.
Harvest of wheat and oats Is over,
except in the extreme northwestern
counties, where another week will al
most finish it. Threshing is from one
half to three-fourths done in the
southcentral and southeastern portion
and just beginning in the northcentral
portion. The yields SO far are very
satisfactory, except in the northern
trail counties, where the effects of thu
drouth and hot weather of June are
in evidence in the way of shriveled
grain.
Pastures and hay crops are reported
to be in poor condition and stock
water is becoming scarce in many
localities and not good anywhere.
Broom corn and sugar beets are
reported to be growing nicely in the
southwest
all blowing is beginning here and
there. except in the extreme western
counties and localities where the
ground is too hard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
THEY WELD EN- NOW
Fusing Ship Plates Saves Time. Ma.
terial and Labor.

London, July 1.-THE first steel
ship built without rivets so far as
known has just been launched on the
south OF England. The production of
this vessel 1t is considered, may mark
an, epoch in shipbuilding, the plates
being fused together by electric yeld-
ing in one process. General adop-
ton of this process 1t is held would
speed up production with an esti-
mated saving of from 20 to 20 per
cent in both time and material. The
United States shipping board, it is un-
derstood, has been in close touch with
the experiment. with the result that
arrangements are said to be in hand
for building number of 10000 ton
standard ships after this plan. Under
the new method of construction the
riveters become welders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
WOMEN TO HELP
They Plan a House to House
Canvass in a Drive s
To Arouse Interest in Project
of New County Home.

The project for building q county
home and hospital, Is to have the sup
port of the Shawnee county unit of the
woman's committee, National Council
of Defense. The members of that or
canvass in a drive,
which will include solicitation of the
interest of the women of the county
in the plan for county home.
The United States government has
established as a department of its Ma
tional Woman's committee, a branch
for the maintenance of existing social
agencies, the authorities being con-
WINGED of the danger of tagging in
terest in home welfare in war time,
and the deterioratio of home agencies
for social betterment. This depart
ment,s therefore, was established as a
war measure. The chairman Of the de-
partment of the maintenance of exist
ing social agencies of the woman's
committee for Kansas Is Mrs Charles
Brooks Thomas of Topeka Thru that
department the Shawnee county unit
will work for the home for the aged
and infirm of this county. At the
same time the project Is presented to
the women of Shawnee county, sale
of War Savings Stamps will be con-
Quoted in the house-to-house canvass
and also a campaign for the recruiting
of women for nursing service or train
ing.
Bond Election August 9.
The bond issue for the home is to
be voted on August 6. The plan IS to
build a home and dornitory, where
aged dependents of the county can
be cared for, and be safe from fire
and disease. The present county farm
accommodations are entirely made
quate.
Miss M'Edna Corbet is at the head
of the Shawnee county, unit of the
committee, and it is her intention
that all her precinct captains and
lieutenants who are to assist IN the
drive, will present to the women in
their districts the need for a new
home for the aged. Folders which
have been printed, will be distributed
by the workers. This folder, just off
the press. contains the plan of the
new home and some information re-
gardfng the need for 1t. ~.
The cost of erecting a moderR,
sanitary, fireproof and comfortable
building of sufficient size for the pup
poses of this county, would be about
$4,000, which would mean an as
sessment of about four cents a year
on property valued at $1,000. The
special election will be held IN con-
nection with the primaries, so that
there will be no additional election
expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
ROCK ISLAND UNIOKIzED
Operators, Reported to Have Joined
o. r. T. We're Members Previously.

In letter to the State Journal j. C..
Smith. agent for the Rock Island
lines at Whiting, Kan, throws new
light on the organization of the Order
of Railway Telegraphers among the
Rock Island and Santa Fe operators
here.
In~his letter Smith says that the
Rock Island operators in Topeka are,
and have been members of the o. r. I.
for some time, at least before the date
of the organization of the Santa Fe
operators. Smith says that the Rock
Island operators met with the Santa
Fe operators for the purpose of or
ganizing the Santa F'e operators and
not to organize themselves over again.
In short Smith declares that the one
hundred telegraph and telephone
operators who Joined the o. r. T.
Sunday are all Santa Fe men for the
reason that all of the Rock Island
operators in Topeka were already
union operators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
SOAKING RAINS FALL


(Continued from Page One.l
sands of dollars in corn. The north
eastern half of the state was not so
badly in need of moisture.
The lowest temperature in Topeka
during the last "a hours was ~ at Z
o'clock this morning, which is de-
grees above the normal night tempera-
ture. The highest was Sc at o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. At 9 o'clock this
morning the temperature still stood at
~ and it is not likely to go above 80
or So during the hottest part of the
day. Tomorrow will start in with a
temperature of about SIS and rise to
about 80. with plenty of sunshine.
There is not likely to be more than
sprinkle of rain in Topeka.
The highest temperature reported
il Kansas Tuesday was "a degrees at
Fort Scott. The highest in the United
States was 104 at Phoenix. Oklahoma
City came second with SO degrees and
Fort Worth third with 96
The highest temperature ever re-
corded in Topeka on this date was
104 in 1887 and the lowest So in 1900.
The wind at o'clock this morning
was blowing five miles an hour from
the southeast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17

Pvt. James c. Silhanek, Cicero, Ill. -
Pvt. W. B. Spears, Aurora, Ill ~
Pvt Amos NJ Tippins, Atlanta. Ga
Pvt Dominik Tomkin. South Bend, Ind.
Pvt. Earl NJ. Ward, Atlanta, Ind.
Pvt. kenna J. Williams. Liverpool, W. Va.
Pvt. Timothy W. Williamson. Van zant,
Pvt G. Franklin, Golden Pond, Ky.
Pvt J. h. Goodman, Springfield. Mass.
MISSING IN ACTION.
Sergt. Carl S. Mckee, Sibley, Iowa.
Corp. Charles H. Doan, Terre Haute, Ind.
Corp. Earle e. Murphy, Hartford. Conn.
Pvt. Robert e. McEnany, Vancouver, Wash.
Pvt. Mike Orestean, East Youngstown.
Ohio.
Pvt. John E. Sciullo, Waterbury, Conn!.I
Pvt. James J. Shea, Cincinnati.
Pvt. James Whriteneur, Smith Mills, N. J.
PRISONER.
Pvt. Effim Lehukey, Philadelphia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
A CZECH VICTORY
Friends of Allies Occupy Inn
portapt Territory.
Siberian Bolsheyiki Reported
Preparing To Flee.


Picking. July 1.-THE town of Klut-
shevsk. in the southwestern extremity
of the Trans-Baikal region, has beer
occupied by the Czecho-Slovak forces
following their capture Of Irkutsk.
The Bolsheviki are reported concen-
trating at Verhenudinsk.
Bolsheviki Are frightened.
London, July 17.-Reports received
in Toxic. sta the Bolshevik leaders
in the Irkurtsk region haYe taken
alarm at the coup executed by the
anti-Bolshevik elements at Vladfvostok
a are preparing to flee toward Mon
golia, according to an Exchange, rele-
gra- : dispatch from Tien Tsin.
Threatens to Sever Relations,
Amsterdam, July 17.-Premier L.
nine is about to break off relations
with Great Britain and other members
OF the entente, because of the landing
OF allied forces on the Thurman coast.
according to German newspaper dis
patches from Moscow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
KILL TO HIDE TRAIL
Huns Suspected of Poisoning Agents
Who Fall Into Allied Hands.

New York, July 17.-Mme. Marie K
De Victorica. held as an important
member of the German espionage sys-
tenn in this country, is dangerously i'll
today from pneumonia at the armv
base hospital on Ellis Island. 1t wa
in this hospital that Mime. Despina
Davidovitch Storch, Turkish beauty
and alleged member of the Spy sys-
tenn, was stricken with pneumonia and
expired just when it seemed probab be
she would divulge all she knew Of the
V''lhelmstrass methods.
Government agents are working on
a theory that scientific murder may
be used by German agents to forestall
confessions by prisoners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17

Chicago, July 1.-THE Tribune: Grain
II was the gossip In corn that most leading
longs had taken profits on the bulge and
on the closing break several returned 10
the buying side. Their theory was
that this week will likely ee
the last Of the big run which has been
OF unusual volume for this time Of the year
The increased use of cars for moving wheat
and rye is expected to affect the movement
Of other grains. altho railroad officials say
they expect to have enough cars I'm the
west to move all grains offery,I regardless
Those who have operated the long side
said they saw evidence of local elevator
interests trying to get in on their short
July contracts. Spectators as whole are
said to have reduced their commitments
on the short side of July, preferrfng the
September. There is also q claim that the
bulk of the good corn here. as well as parf
OF the low grades. Is owned by elevator m
terests.
New York. July 1.-THE Fina nciaI News
Bulletin: Stocks-Steel socks reported to
be under accumulation by people who re-
alice that the current dividend even with
the worst taxation yet proposed will be
able TO pay present rates. Good buying
of rubber common: A speciality trading
market is expected for the present with the
general list irregular. Professionals still
inclined to sell on rallies and until the
news from France is little more definite
on recoyeries.>
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
WANTS. THE PROPERTY
Wife of Man Drowned in Kaw Would
Keep Heirs From Claim on Farm.

Kate Purl, widow of Fillmore Purl.
whose body was found Sunday morn
Ing in the Kaw river, has filed a suit
in the distric- court to quiet the title
OF 200-acre farm south of the city
against any claim that may be made
by PurPs heirs.
The petition states that Mrs. Purl
came into possession of the land thru
a tax deed in 1899.
Priar to Purrs drowning, the do
nestle troubles of the couple were in
vestigated last Friday by Miss Kate
and Kilmaurs King, welfare workers,
and the sheriffs office. Neighbors re-
ported that Mrs. PurI dragged her
husband out the back door and hit
him with a cane.
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HOME WHEN IT'S COLD
Wife Says Husband Leaves Her IN
Sunnmer-Sues for Divorce.

Because. she says, he refused to pay
the rent. and leaves her every summer,
returning only when the winds and
snow of winter begins to blow. Mary
c. Nihart has filed a suit for divorce
in the district court against Elmer E.
Nihart.
The plaintiff states that they were
married in Topeka lin 1898. Resides
a DIVORCE, she asks for custody of the
three children. Myrtle, IS. May, Is.
and Glen IL.
George N. Goodrich also filed Suit
for divorce from Edith NJ. Goodrich,
alleging neglect of duty. The couple.
according to the petition, were mar
ried at Lawrence in 1896.