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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
END INDIGESTION
OR STOMACH PAIN
in FIVE MINUTES
"Pape's Diapepsin" makes sick,
sour, gasSy stomachs
feel fine.

Time it, In five minutes your sour
acid stomach feels fine No indiges-
tion. heartburn, or belching of gas, or
generations of und1gested food, no dir
ziness, bloating. foul breath or head
ache.
Pape's Diapepsin is noted for its
speed in sweetening upset stomachs.
It is the surest quickest and most GER
tain stomach antacid in the whole
world and besides, 1t is harmless.
Millions of men and women now
eat their favorite foods without fear
they know Pape's Diapepsin will
save them from such misery
Please, for your sake, get a large
fifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin
from any drug store and put your
stomach right Don't keep on being
misera ble-1ife is too short-you are
not here long, SO make your stay
agreeable. Eat what you like and
eniov it, without dread of acid fer
mentation in the stomach
Pape's Diapepsin belongs in your
home anyway Should one of the
family eat something which don't
agree with them, or in case of an
attack of indigestion, dyspepsia, gas
tritis or stomach arrangement due to
fermentation and acidity. at daytime
or during the night, it is handy to
give the quickest, surest relief known
advertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
DECLARE WAR ON FLY
Council Grove School Children En-
gage in a 'Swat- Contest

Council Grove, Kan, March Ia
The Council Grove schools are to
wage a war on the house fly this
spring as a food conservation war
measure and an insurance of health
Last year Prof. Charles o. Brown
inaugurated 2. bird house building
campaign among the grade schools
which resulted in over 400 bird
houses being distributed over the city
This spring he is putting on fly
trap construction contest which he
believes will produce even larger
number of fly traps with which to
trap the early spring fly that is re-
sponsible for the entire summer
swarm.
He is organizing the scholars into
searching squads which will search
the entire city for every possible
breeding place where flies propagate,
which will be reported to the city
health officers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
WANT CONCRETE ROAD
Farmers East and West of Baldwin
Strong for Highway.

Baldwin, Kan. March 13.-Initial
steps have been taken here by farm
ers owning property along the old
Santa Fe trail ocean-to- ocean high
way, toward making the road in Doug
las county hard surfaced.
A rousing meeting was held in the
offices of the Baldwin State bank, at
which plans were presented to the
farmers and business men of Baldwin
If the measure meets with favor it
is planned to lay a sixteen-foot con-
crete road two miles west and eight
miles east of Baldwin. Some concrete
roads have already been laid in the
western part of the state.
In order to assure the success of the
movement it will be necessary to cir
culate petition among the property
owners along the trail to which at
least 81 per cent must attach their
signatures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13

A laxative today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty
their bowels, which become clogged up
with waste. liver gets sluggish; stom-
ach sour.
Look at the tongue, mother, If
coated. or your child is listless, cross,
feverish, breath bad, restless, doesn't
eat heartily, full of cold or has sore
throat or any other children's ailment,
give a teaspoonfuI of California
Syrup CT Figs" then don't worry, be
cause it is perfectly harmless, and in
a few hours all this constipation pois-
on, sour bile and fermenting waste
will gently move out of the bowels,
and you have a WELL playful child
again. thorough inside cleansing
is oftimes all that is necessary. 1t
should he the first treatment given in
any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for a bottle
of California Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies. chill
dren of all ages and for grown-ups
plainly printed on the bottle. Look
carefully and see that it is made by
the California Fig Syrup Company "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
SPUDS $40 A BUSHEL
Butter Brought $12 a Pound During
the Revolutionary War.

diary of Abigail Adams of Revo-
tion1ry war fame shows the cost of
living was higher in rs to 'S3 than
now. Her diary shows she paid the
following prices in 1875: Corn, s25
a bushel; rye, $50 a bushel: potatoes,
SO a bushel; molasses, $12 a gallon;
flour, So a hundred pounds; sugar,
SO a pound
In 1879 she paid 81 a pound for
sugar; in 1880 she paid s12 a pound
for butter. Tea was sold for $40 a
pound but they quit buying tea. No
one had enough to eat except farm
erS ard villagers who raised their
own gardens and kept cows and
chickens. Abigail Adams was the
wife of John Adams. second presi-
dent of the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
EDUCATES THE PUBLIC
Private Insurance Companies Favor
Government Plan, Says o. T. Chopper.

The Cooperative club met Tuesday
night at the Elks club and listened to
an address by o. T. Chopper of the
Aetna Life Insurance company, on
War Insurance
Mr.. Chopper said that the govern
ment plan for insuring the soldiers
was a distinct benefit to the private
insurance corporations, inasmuch as
it would educate the public TO the
value of life insurance, and especially
the monthly income policies; so that,
after the war. the companies would
handle even greater volumes of bust
ness by reason of the increased de-
man. for insurance.
Mr.. Chopper spoke especially well
of the monthly income insurance plan,
whereby a mans dependents, after his
death, receive the insurance in the
form of income payments, and thus
are saved from throwing the insur-
ancc money away on poor investments.
These income policies may also be
paid to the soldier if he returns home
disabled. If he returns home he may,
within five years, arrange to carry his
policy under government regulations,
regardless of his physical condition.
Every soldier and sailor" Mr..
Chopper explained, upon entering the
service is automatically insured for
about 100 days for $4,000 without cost
policy within that time, if he desires
further protection, but if he is killed
inside of 120 days, his life insurance
is paid to his family" Mr.. Chopper
gave the reassuring news that Eng
land and France, up to last Novem-
Der, had lost by death about per cent
of the men engaged on the western
front and that the percentage of
losses at present is below that of the
first two years of the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
BUSY R. C. WORKERS
Rawlins County Chapter Has Shipped
Away 5000 Articles

Atwood Kan. March 13-The
Rawl:ns county Red Cross chapter,
organized last year, is a busy body
of patriotic workers. The Rev. r.
A. White is chairman; Mrs. A. w.
Kelley, secretary; Fred Howard,
treasurer; Mrs. Fred Howard, chair
man of membership; Mrs. o. R.
Reeves, chairman of civilian relief;
A. W. Kelley, chairman of military
relief; Mrs. r. S. Hendricks is su-
pervisor of woman's work and the
work room; Mrs F. H. Hayward is
supervisor of knitting, and Mrs. E.
B. Barnes is supervisor of surgical
dressing.
Three branches and eleven working
units have been organized.
The Atwood work rooms have COM
modious quarters in the court house.
There are nineteen sewing machines
in operation, all busy two and three
times a week. So far the Atwood
chapter has shipped out about 5000
articles. A class of seven has COM
pleted the surgical dressing instruc-
tors course. Other dressing rooms
for instruction in surgery will be
opened. The Rawlins county coun-
try ladies are also doing a great part
OF work
r. S. Hendricks, ex-member of the
legislature from Rawlins county, is
chairman of the Seventh district
liberty loan He has organized the
bankers of the district, and feels con-
fident the district will make a great
showing when the call is made.
One of the largest and most sue
ccssful patriotic meetings was held
in Atwood. The Rev. M. r. Starbuck,
pastor of the Methodist church of
st. Francis, addressed the meeting
The address was timely and full of
patriotic spirit.
Rawlins county is filling her quota
of soldier boys, many of them having
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
IN MARCH Meeting
Shawnee County Horticultural Society
i'm Monthly Session Thursday.

The Shawnee County Horticultural
society will hold its March meeting
Thursday of this week in the state
house The society meets on the sec
ond Thursday of each month, and all
persons interested in horticultural
work are invited t. attend. The
meetings a-e held in the State Hortl-
cultural society rooms.
The officers of the society are: A.
c. Merritt, president; G. w. Mc1ntire,
vice president; Mrs. G. w. Crawford,
secretary treasurer Members of the
standing committee are: Frank Pea
cock, A B. Smith, F. P. Rude and
Miss Susan Dick.
The program for the Thursday
meeting will be as follows:
Planting Small Fruits ". L.
Lux
Window Boxes and Garden
Plants" Mrs Theodore Saxon.
Grating" H. Skinner.
successive Crops" Mrs. William
Macarthur.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
Is YEARS AGO In Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

:. The litigation over the Keith tract has
finally been ended. and the property re-
verts to the original owner. NJ. c. Keith. of
Lincoln, Neb. The tract is S0-acre
property, and it has been in the courts for
the past five years.
The Y w c. A rooms were crowded last
night, the occasion being an elecutionary
and piano recital, given by Misses Lena
and Ethel Short. Miss Lena Short is an
accomplished elecutionist Miss Ethel pre-
scented five difficult piano solos. and Miss
Emma Burgess sang u solo, responding to-
an encore.
Mrs Cofran entertained yesterday after
noon at her home on jefferson street Re-
freshments were served during the after
noon and single rose or a carnation was
the souvenir.
Mrs. Cofran was attired in an afternoon
gown of beige silk trimmed with ribbon
fringe. She wore suede slippers and car
RED cluster of crimson roses.
She was assisted in entertaining by Mrs.
J. F. Daniels, Mrs. G. o. Wilmarth, Mrs.
John Sargent, Mrs. II. b. Scott and Mrs
The following young people spent last
evening with Miss Louie Smith. dancing
ana playing cards: Misses Minnie Carr.
Mabel McGiffin, Eta Whitmer. Isora
Davis Messrs. Harry Goodrich. Tom Whit
mer, Jack LIE Roy, Harry Swan and Mr..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
NEED NINE TOPEKANS
Major Hammel Wants Men for Field
Hospital Corps.

Major Seth Hammel is asking for
nine volunteers from Topeka of draft
age to fill up the unit of which he is
in command.
Major Hammel. a Topeka man,
commands the 139th field hospital,
which is part of the 10th sanitary
train. There are nine vacancies in the
train, and the major wants them filled
by Topeka men right away. He be-
lieves he can get the volunteers even
tho they would have to pay their own
railway expense to Camp Doniphan to
enlist. All the men of the unit are in
good shape, except two men who are
in hospital, tho neither of these is
seriously sick, and one is to be re-
leased in a short time.
The sanitary train has established a
field hospital south of camp as a part
of their preparation for foreign
service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
ARREST A PROFESSOR
New York Educator Held by Federal
Agents at Atchison, Kan.

Atchison, Kan, March 13-Prof. 7
P. Loesburg, former member of the
board of education of New York City.
was detained by federal agents here
today for investigation, following the
finding of a long list of names of Ger
man-born citizens in Texas and Okla
homa in his possession.
Loesburg denied he was guilty of
any illegal act, showed a naturaliza-
ton certificate. and credentials from
a New York movie company, and from
Nick's Weekly He declared he was
soliciting for a relief fund
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
HE DARKENED HIS
GRAY HAIR
They Used to Call Him Grandpa: Now
They Call Him Kid.
Tells How He Did 1t.

Mr.. J. A. McCrea, a well known
resident o. San Francisco. who was
called Daddy and Grandpa on account
of his white hair, and who darkened
it with a simple homemade mixture,
recently made the following state
ment:
Anyone can prepare a simple mix
ture at home. at very little cost, that
will darken gray hair, and make it
soft and glossy. To a half pint of
water aod l ounce of bay rum, a small
box of Barbo Compound and Il ounce
of glycerile. These ingredients can
be bought at any drug store at very
little cost Apply to the hair twice a
week until the desired shade is OBJ
tanned This will make a gray-haired
person look twenty years younger 1t
does not color the scalp, is not sticky
or greasy and does not rub off My
friends now call me Kid Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
PROTEST HIGHWAY ROUTE
Farmers of Wyandotte County Want
Road to Follow Old Course

Kansas City, March ia delega-
ton of twenty farmers and property
owners of Piper, Kan, has filed a
protest with the Wyandotte county
clerk against a section of the pro-
posed fort-to-fort highway to con-
nee. Fort Riley and Fort Leaven-
worth The proposed route would
follow parallel road to the county
line and proceed two miles along that
line.
highway should follow the estab-
lisned road a half mile east of the
line in WyanGotte county for two
miles The farmers also allege that
the original petitions for the protest
cd section of the road are faulty. A
new petition asking that the route
they propose be declared the legal
one will be filed Monday. they said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
Will Take Off
All Excess Fat

Do you know that there is simple
harmless effective remedy for overfatness
any man or woman who is losing the Slim
ness of youth?
There ;s and it is none ether than the
tablet form of the now famous MarmoIa
Prescription, known Marmola Prescrip-
ton Tablets. You can well expect q reduc-
ton of from two or four pounds a week
without dieting or exercising. Marmola
Prescription Tablets G-e sold by all drug
gists at Toe for a large case, or if you
prefer you can order direct from the Mar
mola Co.. S64 Woodward Ave, Detroit,
Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
NEW HISTORY VOLUME
w. E. ConneIIey Completes Fourteenth
Kansas Manuscript.

w E. Connelley, secretary of the
Kansas State Historical society, has
finished the fourteenth volume of hif
Kansas Historical Collections. and the
manuscript will soon be on the press.
The volume, including Kansas history
from 1914-1S, will be the largest of
the collection. 1t will contain many
illustrations and portraits.
Mr.. Connelley expects to add a VOL
une to the collection every two years.
Among other subjects, the present VOL
ume takes up prison reform.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-13
DIR. LULL TO NEW POST
Battery A Physician Goes to the 10th
Military Police.

Camp Doniphan, Okla, March IS.
Lieut.. Claude c. Lull, formerly of
Ba terry a $50 field artillery. has
-beel transferred to the 10 military
police and is stationed at divisional
headquarters.
The 10 military police is a Kan
sas unit. being composed entirely of
Kansas men.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-11
LARGER SUPPLY OF
CORN HITS PRICES

Chicago. Feb. II. = Decidedly en-
iarged receipts gave the corn market
downturn today. Bright warm
weather tended also to favor the bears.
Peace gossip also attracted attention.
opening prices which ranged from a
shade to lsQ4c lower with March
sl.2S and May $1.24h to s1.25, were
ioito~ed by a moderate setback all
around.
oats, like corn, showed weakness
owing to material increase of ar
rivals. After opening s@Ac to
ESQ &c Off with May 1913 to 79hc the
market underwent further Sag.
Big receipts of hogs led to d sharp
break in provisions.
Trade however, was not heavy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-11

and private legal relations, the ex-
change Of prisoners of war and in
termed civilians, the question of am
nesty and the question of the treat
ment of merchantmen in enemy seas
will be regulated in separate treaties.
Article 9ZThe agreements made in
this peace treaty form an indivisible
whole.
Article 10-The concluding part OF
the treaty provides:
THE present peace treaty. will be
ratified. Ratified documents shall be
exchanged as soon as possible. So
far as there are no provisions to the
contrary the peace treaty shall come
into force on ratification"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-11
CAPTAIN IN ROLE
TuSCAN|A'S HERO
Handles Situation With Same Goodness
As Though It We're Affair Of
Daily Routine.

Glasgow, Scotland, Feb. 11.-Cap-
tain MacLean of the Tuscania has sub
mitted report to his owners and to
the board of trade and the naval au-
thorities. He declined to make a
statement for publication, remarking
that the main facts of the disaster al
ready had been fairly stated.
An Irish youth, a resident OF Glas-
cow, who acted as Captain MacLean's
boy, was interviewed by the Associated
Press correspondent. The~boy said
that after the torpedoing Captain Mac
Lean looked to be the coolest man on
board, giving orders as II nething had
happened to interfere with the ordi-
nary ship routine.
He was just like father looking
after his children" the boy said, and
repeatedly encouraged small parties
who were hurrying to get into life
boats"
The boy added that the captains
amazing GOODNESS shad a marvellous
effect on the men aboard. The second
officer, who superintended the launch
ing of the boats on the starboard side,
the boy said, also gave splendid ex-
ample of courage, exercising great con-
troll over the men and repeatedly risk
| ing his life to get the boats away.
The boy saw him lifting an uncon-
scious man and leaning over the ships
side at dangerous angle, placing him
in a boat which was being lowered
/ The conduct of all of the officers and
crew was magnificent, the boy de-
clared, and they stuck by the ship
until all of the soldiers had disem-
barked.
The boy also was impressed by the
! courage of the American soldiers when
the British destroyers came alongside
and they had to slide down ropes
which he said was a dangerous pro-
ceeding owing to the swinging of the
i boats. The Americans accepted the
risk with great spirit. he said, three OF
them shouting, "let her rip" as one
after another they clambered over.
board and slid rapidly to the deck of a
warship. Indeed, many looked upon
the exciting experience as joke, the
boy recalling that one was coolly
smoking a cigaret as he took his turn
on the rope.
The Tuscania's second officer had a
remarkable experience. He WAS in-a
boat with 10 others. He said: .All
at once we bumped into something
hard and when l looked around there
was submarine lying awash to looh
at his dirty work. What could we do
We simply carried on and got picked
iup. The tin fish submerged imme
ldiately after"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-11
|DA!LY MARKET QUOTATIONS.
RECEIPTS BIG; HOG
QUOTATIONS. SLUMP

Chicago, Feb. ll.-Huge receipts of
hogs today brought about a sharp
Areak In prices. Cattle were in fair
demand Offerings of sheep proved to
n more plentiful than had been ex-
pected.
Hogs Receipts 10000, tomorrow,
5000. slow 25c under Saturdays aver
are; bulk. 1869 1880; light, l5.60m
iSs5; mixed, l5.S0dl6.30 heavy.
lyb5Gl6.30; rough, l5.55d15.S0; pigs.
i3soG 1890.
Cattle; Receipts. $4,000. tomorrow
1900, steady; native steers, S.40M
iase; stockers and feeders, 7.20M
1910; cows and heifers, 625011.65;
calves. ?,50dl5.25.
Sheep, $4,000. tomorrow, $4,000.
weak; wethers, lO.O0G13.3o; lambs.
ile5Tl1.50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-11
Hog Range bay TO Day.
Kansas Citv Livestock

Kansas City. Feb. ll-Hogs. 10000;
lower; bulk, 16.00Ql6.20: heavy, 1910
@l630; light, 15.90ql6.l5; pigs, HOO
Gl400
Cattle. 1a.000. steady; steers. 9.o51
1875: cows, 6,75@10.00; heifers, 1000
Ills; calves, 7.50M14.25. .
Sheep, 1000. lower; lambs. 10000
1I10; yearlings, 13.50@1475: weth-
ers, 1l.50@l3,50; ewes, 11.25@12.75.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-11
LEGAL..


Estate of Thomas Fuller, deceased.
The undersigned having been ap.
pointed administrator of the estate of
Thomas Fuller, late of the county of
Rock Island, state of Illinois, deceased.
hereby gives notice that it will appear
before the Hon. Benjamin Bell, Judge
o fthe probate court of Rock Island
county. at the probate court room. In
the city of Rock IslanA, at the April
term, on the first Monday in April next.
at which time all persons having claims
against said estate are notified and re-
uuested to attend for the purpose of
having the same adjusted All persons
indebted to said estate are requested to
make immediate payment TO the under
signed.
Dated goth day Of January, A. d. 1918.
ROCK ISLAND SAVINGS BANK.
A. J. Lindstrom. Administrator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-11
st. Joseph Livestock.

St. Louis, Feb. 11.-Hogs. $4,000,
lower; lights, 15.90@l6.1o; pigs, 1850
Gl490; mixed, 1610@16e35; good
heavy. 1850 1885; bulk, 16.10@1630.
Cattle. 1000; steady; steers, 5000
1850. heifers. 7.00@13.50; cows, $500
ll.50. calves. 6.00G1600.
Sheep, 1900; steady; lambs, 13.O0@
l7.75; ewes, l0.50@12.00, wethers,
11.50@1 1925.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-11

Our whole strength will be put into
this war OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ton from the threat and attempted
mastery of selfish groups OF autocratic
rulers-whatever the difficulties anil
present partial delays. We are indom-
liable in our power Of Independent ac-
ton and can in no circumstances con-
sent to live in world governed by
intrigue and force. We believe that
our own desire for new international
arder under which reason and justice
shall prevail is the desire Of enlight-
ened men everywhere. Without that
new order the world will be without
peace and human life will lack toler-
able conditions Of existence and de-
velopment, Having set our hand 10
the task OF achieving 1t We shall no.
turn hack.
Not Intended as q Threat.
Il hope that 1t is not necessary for
me to add that no word Of what I have
said is intended as a threat. That is
not the temper OF our people have
spoken thus only that the whole world
may know the true spirit OF America
that men everywhere may know that
our passion for justice and for SELF
government Is no mere passion OF
words but q passion which. once set
in motion. must be satisfied. The
power OF the United States 10 . men
ace to no nation or people. It will
never be used In aggression or for the
aggrandizement Of any selfish inter-
est Of our own. It springs out OF
freedom and 10 for the service Of free-
dom"