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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
EYE MEN TO TOPEKA
Optometrists of Kansas in Convention
Here March 1919.

The eighteenth annual convention
of Kansas optometrists will be held in
Topeka March Is and 10. The pro-
gram for the convention is now being
made up by w. j. Lewis of Topeka,
who was instrumental in forming the
association and who was its first presi-
dent. The association has about 400
members.
The officers of the association are:
Perry f. Miller, Wellington, president;
G. &. LETTER, lola, first vice president;
J. Fl. Parkess, Salina, second vice
president and Walter Starcke, juno
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
Is YEARS AGO In TOPEKA
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

Vice President Reinhart of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe road was today elected
to succeed President Marvel, deceased
w. X. Gillett of Topeka was made general
auditor, office at Chicago, promoted from
assistant general auditor. j. II. Mackib-
ben was elected auditor of the office at
Topeka, instead of as formerly at Boston.
Governor Lewelling has signed the joint
resolution providing for the submission
of the equal suffrage amendment to a
vote of the people. at the next general cleo
ton.
The governor signed the resolution in the
presence of delegation of Equal Suf-
fragists. including Mrs Laura M. Johns,
Miss Zu Adams. Miss Nesbaum. Miss Hays,
Mrs. Gandry. Mrs. Helen I. Butterfieid,
Mrs. Monteith. Mrs. Senator Lands, Mrs.
Woods and Mrs. s. A. Thurston.
The governor presented the pen with
which he signed she resolution to Mrs.
J ohns, who in turn presented it to the
State Historical society.
Mrs. r. L. Cofran's reception next Tues
day afternoon will be for her German
friends and the invitations for the Amer1-
can ladies are for Wednesday.
Miss Jessie Lewelling, the governor s
daughter, left yesterday for Wichita.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
PLEDGE WAR WORK AID
First District War Conference at Hor-
ton Enthusiastically Attended.

Horton, Kan, March Sat the
close of the First district war con-
ference here every man, woman and
child in the audience of 1 900 pledged
themselves to follow the government
war program until the war is won
Dr. r. L. WILDER, an assistant to Hoov-
er, and president of Stanford univer-
sity, called attention to the need of
foodstuffs at the front.
What you do today means more
than what the boys are doing at the
'front.'" said Doctor WILDER, because
without your support, and without the
food which you alone can furnish
they would be useless. Let us not be
too late in sending to our troops and
our allies the food that is absolutely
essential before armies can fight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
Food for Fans
BY GEO. e. PHAIR
tCopyright)

The Abysmal Fight Fan.
Tho l like Il man of science
And admire his self reliance
As he cleverly maneuvers in and out
Tho his cool and shifty action
Fills my soul with satisfaction,
would rather see a roughneck who can
clout
indicate that Augie Kieckhefer is a wonder
full billiard player in Chicago
Almost anybody can learn to be a boxer,
but nobody ever has learned to be fighter
IF the ball clubs will deliver, the good
old fans Will stick 1t is Ray Schalk
who speaks them words of wisdom. Do
greatest ball club in captivity? The good
old fans stuck outside the ball park.
Queer Bird.
The baseball bird IS hard to understand.
When buds of Springtime start to bios
som forth
He journeys to a far-off southern land
While other birds are busy flying North.
quet, had to autograph 800 programs. A
plea SAINT time was had by all but the guest
Of honor.
PTad Fulton got s5a4 Psa -. minute for
raise your boy to be college professor.
Verify, the price of beef is shooting sky
ward when heayyweights on the hoof bring
S544 per min
Tough Luck
Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Eating his curds and whey;
They won't give pie
He remarked with a sigh.
Because 1t is sweetless day."
Kid Howard threatens to run another
boxing show at Fort Sheridan. He will
announce the wipdup as as he has
found the necessary cadavers.
A week ago Dempsey wasn't good enough
to get a match with Fulton. Now he is
too good.
A Hangover.
This here Russian agitation.
With its grief and CONSERVATION
And its wildness and its weirdness and its
cIamor-
You will never in creation
Understand the situation.
If you've never had morning katzen-
jammer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
FEDERAL OFFICE HERE
Government Employment Agency to
Topeka-Danner at Head.

Employment offices are to be es-
tablished in Topeka by the federal
government. c. H. Danner, state en-
ployment agent under the Capper adj
ministration, has been placed in
charge of the federal offices for Kan
sas and has resigned as state agent.
The employment work for Kansas
will be handled by the government
from Topeka instead Of from Kansas
City, Mo, under the old plan. Of
fees are to be opened here at once.
probably in the federal building at
Fifth ard Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
~ Up to the Minute
~ SPORTING NEWS
FROM EVERYWF1EKE.
To SUBSTITUTE FARM WORK
FOR ATHLETIC COMPETITION

Chicago, March 5.-Farm work
will take the place of inter-scho-
Iastic athletic competition by s-ib-
urban high school league boys
here this year. The decision was
officially reached at a meeting of
the league here Monday night. The
farm work will be done under di-
rect supervision of the state council
of defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
Star Runner Enters Service

Chicago. I'LL, March George Otis,
star runner tor the University of Chi
cago track team, has been called to
service with Base Hospital Unit No.
ID, with which he enlisted last sum-
mer. Otis was instrumental in win
ming both the one and two miles re-
lay races at the University of Illinois
games last Saturday night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05

we heard coming across the Atlantic.
AS we moved out thru the railway
yards at snail's pace we passed an
other train. This. too, was loaded
with men in the horizon blue of the
French army. They hung out of the
windows and shouted in gay jest to
the men on our train. / cannot say
it in French, because 1t was in the
slangiest of French slang, meaning to
the trenches, Back from Paris. Broke
again"
Continued tomorrow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
FALLS FROM WINDOW
Attempts to Make Exit From Hotel on
Rope of Sheets

Dallas, Texas. March 5-A man
said to be T. K. Bullet, rs, Phila-
delphia travelling salesman, was found
on the sidewalk near the Oriental
hotel here early today; with his skull
crushed.
In room in the second story of the
hotel there were several bed sheets
tied together as if a man had tried to
let himself down from the window
The man is now in the city hospital
No explanation has been made for
va
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
DIDN'T HALT INVASION?
Reported Advancing on Petrograd "a
Hours After Peace Signed.

London. March 5.-Narva, 100
miles southwest of Petrograd has been
captured by the Germans and the en-
envy is reported to be continuing his
advance on Petrograd, according to an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Petrograd dated Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
Bear-Cat Draws Suspension.

Milwaukee, Wis, March 5.-Joe
Eagan, Boston Bear-cat, has been sus-
pended by the Wisconsin state boxing
commission for sixty days, because Of
tactics in his recent bout with Bryan
Downey here. Downey had already
been suspended.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
SNOW BURIES ALPS
Avalanche Hits Austrian Military
Train Killing rs Soldiers.

Geneva, March 5.-The heaviest
snowfall of the present winter in the
Swiss Tyrolese Alps has occurred dur
ing the last twenty-four hours. The
snow is from three to six feet deep
and is still falling.
One avalanche cut an Austrian mill
tary train in two south of Botzen
Twenty-siX officers and men were
killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05

"Mary's Ankle" is a farce comedy in
three acts designed solely to amuse.
In this it succeeds brilliantly, thru its
droll situations, witty dialogue and
rapid action. ut would be unfair to
disclose the plot of the piece. but it
may be best outlined as complicated
honeymoon. The notable company in
cludes Amy Leah Dennis, Bert Leigh,
May Wallace, James Hester. Edward
Butler, Louise Sanford, Donald Mac
Leod, Gertrude Mann, Frank A.
Meehan and others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
Aggies Defeated by X. U.

Manhattan, Kan, March 5.-The
University of Kansas basketball team
overcame an IL point lead in the sec
ond half and defeated Kansas State
Agricultural college, 35 to 80. The
university team won on long shots
from the center of the court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
ANKLE DISPLAY TONIGHT
Musical Comedy Begins Two-Day En-
gagement Here.

LAS good farce as The Boomerang
is what the New York Globe said of
"Mary's Ankle the sparkling farce
comedy by May Tully, which A. H.
Woods will present at the Grand to-
night and tomorrow matinee and
nj pht
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05

Column ia, Mo-, March 5.-The Uni
versity of Missouri basketball team
continued its winning streak by de-
feating Washington university, "a to
49,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
Back From Paris, Broke Again.

We finally arranged ourselves and
slowly pulled out of the station, in
spite of the songs of the sirens who
chic and pretty as they were could not
sing their pleas for US to stay with
Them loud enough to drown the calls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
DREAM COMES TRUE!

Continued tomorrow.)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26
Garfield School Girl
Tells How Her Uncle
Was Taken Prisoner

My uncle Salvador was called to
the colors May s, 1915. He was in
the Italian army and served in the
trenches one year. fighting hard
against the Huns. Then he fell sick
and was sent to the base hospital.
He was in the hospital one year,
helping the nurses.
Then he was called in the trench
es once more and was there four
teen days when he was captured
by the Huns.
We have received three Red
Cross postal cards. The first one
we received told us he was pris-
oner in Austria Hungary. He has
been a prisoner for a year. We
have not received any letter from
him for six months.
He has a girl about three years
old and a boy about a year old, and
his wife. They are over there In
Italy.
This is written by his neice.
Catherine Portfolio, Garfield school.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26
''Be Loyal" Is Law of
Boy and Girl Scouts
BY MADGE WITNESSED.

People haven't heard as much
concerning the Girl Scout as they
have the Boy Scouts, because the
Girl Scout organization is only six
years old. Nevertheless the Girl
Scouts will play an important in
the welfare of the country.
One of the Scout laws is that all
Scouts are loyal.
In the following incident, which
I have copied from "The Lads
Home Journal" a Boy Scouts 10y
atty is shown:
"A German column was cautious
ly approaching a bit of French
woods, when lad of fourteen was
caught hiding in clump of bushes.
The German captain asked the
boy in French if there were any
French soldiers in the woods. No
answer came from the boy.
Cant you talk?" asked the Ger
man officer.
81 can" answered the boy.
The captain repeated the ques-
tion and the boy refused to an
Swer.
'If you do not answer" said the
captain, Eve will have to shoot you
as an enemy"
No answer came from the boy.
Just then voley Of fire came
from the woods, several of the
Germans were killed and the col
umn retreated with heavy losses,
taking the boy with them.
The German captain asked the
boy if he knew that there were
French soldiers in the woods.
Il did," answered the boy.
The German ordered that the
boy be shot AS the volley of the
firing squad opened on him, the
boy looked the party full in their
faces, with a smile of triumph on
his own young face.
On his left arm was seen the in
sigma of the Boy Scouts!"
That Boy Scout was loyal to his
country and to the Boy Scouts Of
France. So. even If you aren't a
Boy or Girl Scout you can be loyal.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26
Wienie Holders Are
Easily Made, Says Scout

If you have ever toasted marsh
malows on the beaches or cooked
wienies (Frankfurters) in the
woods you will appreciate this hint.
Get a green twig about one-eighth
of an inch in diameter, peel the
bark off and then sharpen the end
to a point. The twig may be as
long as you like, but the best are
about one foot and half long.
Spear your marshmallow or put
your wienie on and you will be
surprised what dandy holders or
forks they make.
forks they make.-John Keller, in
Lone Scout
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26
Three-Year-Old Girl
Gets Letter from
Soldier in France

Helen Pearl Ringley probably is
one of the youngest Richmond girls
to be getting letters from France,
for she is only three years old, but
her uncle, who is a soldier and has
gone overseas. thinks of her so
much that he has written the fol-
lowing letter to her:
My Dear Little Niece:
What are you doing these days?
I'll bet you are great big girl by
this time, and just as sweet as can
be. I'd just love to see you and
see how much you have grown. I'm
coming home before long, and then
I'll bring Aunt Mona and come and
see you and little sister.
I'll tell you about the little
French girls over here. l can't I'M
derstand them very well yet. They
all like the American soldiers real
well. They like to get American
pennies, nickles and dimes for SOU
venirs.
I'll try to remember some French
words to tell you when l come
home. When they say. II thank
you" it is like this, "Je vous re-
mercie," "good-morning" is Bon
Jour-" goodnight" is bon mutt"
How do you do?," Comment allez-
vous?"
Do you think you could under
stand such wOrds?"
I'm not studying any French, be-
cause l know I'd never learn it
very we'll.
Do you still like to drive Fred
better than to ride in the Buick?
I'll bet you know all about the Five
and Ten Cent Stores where you 60
to buy pretty play things. What
are you expecting old Santa Clause
to bring you for Christmas? I'll
bet you want another new doll.
I'll not look for Old Santa Clause
now, for I'm getting too old for him
to look after me any more.
Tell mother I'm looking for a
letter from her most any day, and
you must write too. And tell papa
he's not excused from writing at
all.
Hope you are real weyy. l am at
present. Take good care of your
self and little sister
With lost of love,
Your uncle,
VERNON HOBBS.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26
u. S. S. G. Children May
Haze Winter Gardens

Although Wayne county is not in
the portion of the country which is
best suited to having winter gar
dens, many careful gardeners have
been most successful in raising
vegetables during these months.
A bulletin from the United
States School Garden Army gives
the directions for making hot beds.
in which the vegetables can grow
during winter especially if the
weather continues warm, or at
least in early spring.
1t is well to construct hot bed
during October, when time can be
devoted to it. The construction of
a hot bed is not difficult, and offers
good practice to anyone interested
in manual training.
A pit is dug from 2 to 3 feet
deep and from five to six feet long.
Glass sashes are used to cover the
pit. Place a two inch plank, IL to
Is inches on the north side of the
bed. The plank used on the south
side is about one-half the width
of the one used on the north
side. This allows the sash to
slope towards the south in order
to get better results from the sun
light The ends of the bed are en-
closed with boards to fit snugly,
and soil is banked up around the
entire framework to keep out the
cold.
The sashes may be hinged at the
top, or they may be made to slide.
Some arrangement for opening is
necessary to allow proper ventila-
ton. and to allow the gardener to
work in the pit.
About ten or twelve weeks be-
fore the time of outdoor planting,
the pit should be filled with well
heated stable manure. This ma
nure is covered with six or eight
inches of rich soil, finely pulver-
lied. Keep the soil moistened
while it is being heated by the fer
menting manure. Keep soil Their
mometer in the pit and carefully
record the temperature from day to
day. When the temperature falls
TO 80 or IS degrees 1t is safe to
sow seeds. If the bed has been
properly constructed, 1t will pro-
duce enough heat to grow plants
during a period of five or six weeks.
II it is impossible to purchase
glass, strong white canvass can be
stretched across the pit.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26
Boys and Girls May
Cause rinking Cups
to Be Taken Awcy

The Richmond boys and girls
are preparing to cause themselves
a great inconvenience at Glen Mil
Ter. II they continue to play sail
boat" with the drinking cups at
the first spring, and waste them as
they are now doing. Paper is
growing SO scarce and expensive
nowadays that the park superin.
tendent and all the city officials
will not feel it Is right to put the
sanitary drinking cups out by the
spring. II the boys and girls get
whole handfuls Of them, and throw
them around on the banks Of the
stream.
Boys and girls should know what
It means to be thirsty and 60 to the
spring for a drink. only to find that
all the fresh cups have been taken
and thrown around on the banks
The cups are not put there just for
the superintendent. or for grown
up people. They are put there for
every one Of you, to be used when
you want them. And II they have
to be taken away. II will be because
you boys and girls have turned
the comfort and convenience OF
drinking cups into an ugly nuts.
ance.
Mr.. Hollarn. the park superin
tendent. said that the other day
he put fifty cups down by the
spring. and then when he came
back about fifteen minutes later.
found that every one OF those nifty
cups had been taken out OF the
container which Is there on the
tree beside the spring and had
been thrown on the ground.
Before you boys and girls Dc
such a thing again, you better
think how would you feel to come
to the spring some day. just as thir-
sly as you could be. and see the
cool water pouring out and spark
ling as 1t runs along the narrow gull
iy to the little stream farther down.
and then have no way to get sat
isfactory drink. The boys might
try to stoop down and drink from
the spring itself, but the water
would run all over your face and up
your nose and even into your ears
because OF its volume and force:
and tn : girls might try to make 4
cup oui = their hands. but they only
could , a tiny little sup at time
while the water would drip all over
their clothes: and then the boys
and girls would think of the days
when hundreds OF the cups had been
lying around over the banks and
floating around in the stream.
wasted.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26

II you wish to have yOur win
dows washed. just call on Otis Gull
vim.
II you wish to know how to make
things look new, ask Alice McGrew.
Grannie Hodapp is quite an ento-
moiogist.
Bobby GREGG seemed to enjoy
walking last Monday.
Madge Whitsell is quite an artist
at trimming hats.
Roland Osbourne is said to look
nifty in brown.
The Dean twins enjoyed q very
nice buggy ride Sunday afternoon.
1t takes Gus Pfafflin and Charles
Lawler an hour to eat bon-bon at
Mowers.
Howard Roberts Is q victim OF
the Spanish Flu.
Christ Hale and Robert Sudoff
now stay at T0wnsend's.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26

1.-THE total now is $37.096.17. while
in June it only was $23 ,451.70. The
average amount of money which
each boy and girl owns now is $3.50,
while in June it only was $*.76.
If any boys and girls would like
a little problem in arithmetic, they
might try to find the number of
pupils in the public schools this
winter from the above figures.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26
Richmond Children
Own $37,O96.l7 in
War Saving Stamps

Thrift stamps and war saving
stamps which the girls and boys in
the public schools of the city have
bought, are reported to Superin-
tendent Giles each month. and at
the end of September the total re-
fo11
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26
Lone Scouts Will
Take Hike Sunday

The members Of the Lone Scout
tribe, under the leadership Of Will
liam F. Gilmore, will take a Ave
mile hike next Sunday. Any boy
wishing to join this Loan Scout
camp may call William f. Gilmore
at his house. 229 South Second
street. at once.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26

The total area Of Russia before
the war was estimated at 8,660,395
square miles, while Its population
was l60,095, 200.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26

The Yank fighter has made a pal
of the little Alsatian lass during
the period Of his leave. She guides
him about the village, sips his win
ordinaire with him and with child
like enthusiasm marvels at the
tales he tells her of her little Amer
lean cousins over the seas.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26
The Fresh Freshies
Ry CRANNtE HODAPP.

II you wish to have yonr win
dows washed. just call on Otis Gull
vim.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-18
LEGAL NOTICE

To Mary Gratz, whose place OF res
idence is unknown, you will take no.
tice that said plaintiff did on the 25th
day of sejt. A. d., 1918, filed a petit
tion against you in the Common Pleas
Court Of Montgomery Co, Ohio, Di-
vision Of Domestic Relations, being
cause No. 44o2o, praying for q decree
of divorce from you, upon the ground
Of wilful absence for more than three
years last past.
You are required to answer his said
petition within six weeks after the
date Of the first publication Of this
notice, to-wit: Sept 9th, 1913, or such
divorce may be granted.
WILLIS graf, Pitt.
Per MOSES H. JONES, his Atty.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-18
LEGAL NOTICE

Common Pleas Court, Montgomery
Co, Division Of Domestic Relations.
TO Parker Burks, whose place OF
residence is unknown, you will take no.
tice, that the said Plaintiff did on the
1lth day Of Aug, A. D., 1913, file q
petition against you in the Common
pleas Court Of Montgomery Co, Ohio,
Division of Domestic Relations, pray
ing for decree of divorce from you,
upon the grounds Of gross neglect O
duty and extreme cruelty.
You are required to answer her said
petition not later than six weeks after
the date of the first publication of this
notice, to-wit: Aug 17th, 1918.
Case No. 43s44.
LUELLA BURKs, Pltf.
per MOSES II. JONES, her Atty.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-18
DANIEL c. BRoWER, Chairman Republican Executive Committee

8 to o'clock and from 4 to 8 o'clock
in the evening. Every voter who has
been in the state for one year, by No
venaber 5, is entitled to register and
to vote. In order to vote it is neces-
sary to register. That includes every
one, regardless of how many times
they have registered previously. Ev-
eryone is interested in good and hon
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-10-18

est county government. Every coun-
ty office will be filed this fall. II
you haven't yet registered, do so, By
all means, Saturday, and then go to
the polls on November and vote for
the men you consider to be best fitted
TO give this county the kind Of GOV
eminent you wish it to have. YOUR
vote may be the deciding one!