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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
FOR fine STREETS
SchOch Bill Would Give Topeka
System of BOulevards.
Make Improvement Upon Petit
ton 81 Pct Property Owners.
CREATE A MARKET BUREAU
Another Measure Makes Insan-
ity Grounds for Divorce.
Carroll Hits at Pool Halls in
State Institution Cities.

a boulevard system that would be
the pride of Topeka and the envy of
other cities would be made possible
by the passage of bill that has been
introduced in the Kansas senate by
Schoch of Shawnee.
The bill is drawn especially for To-
peka and applies only to cities having
a population between forty and sixty
thousand. 1t provides that whenever
81 per cent of the property owners
along a street want a boulevard all
they have to do is to petition the city
commissioners. who shall start at once
to take steps providing for it's con-
struction. The bill also empowers the
city commissioners with authority to
regulate traffic on all boulevards con-
structed and to forbid certain hauling
over it.
large number. of senators were ready
with their last offering of bills. Most
of these have already gone into the
hopper but it is expected the stream
will continue steadily until Thursday,
when the introduction of new meas
ures will cease.
Getty Floods Hopper.
Getty of Wyandotte has temporarily
taken the introduction honors away
from Schoch of Shawnee. The Kansas
City, Kan, senator had seven new
measures in the hopper this morning
iiiOoe VI IAASAA oAACNtAil9 OAiy his AAOAic
city and county. Schoch has put in
five so far this week, some of them OF
statewide importance.
One of the Schoch bills provides for
the creation of a division of markets
of the state board of agriculture. This
division would be under the direction
of a man appointed by Secretary
Mohler and his duties would be to
make investigations, furnish market
information to the farmers of the state
and prescribe and enforce market
standards as well as make inspections
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
BREAKS 4
COLD IN
4 HURRY
"Pape's Cold Compound"
is pleasant and affords
Instant Relief.

A dose taken every two hours until
three doses are taken will end grippe
misery and break up a cold.
1t promptly opens cloggedup nos
trils and air passages in the head,
stops nasty discharge or nose running.
relieves sick headache. duIlness. fever
ishness. sore throat, sneezing. soreness
and stiffness.
Don't stay stuffed up! Quit blowing
head! Nothing else in the world gives
such prompt relief as "Pape's Cold
Compound" which costs only a few
cents at any drug store. 1t acts with
out assistance, tastes nice. causes no
inconvenience. Be sure you get the
genuine. Don't accept something else.
Advertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
America Owes France
Debt of Gratitude

The important part France has
played in this war and her awful sac
rffice of blood are not the only reasons
we should be grateful to her Many
lives are said to have been saved and
thousands of surgical operations pre-
vented in this country by a French
peasant remedy for stomach, liver and
intestinal ailments now imported and
sold under the name of Mayr's Won
derful Remedy by Geo H. Mayr.
prominent Chicago chemist. 1t is a
moves the catarrhal mucus from the
intestinal tract and allays the inf1am
nation which causes practically all
stomach, liver and intestinal ailments.
One dose will convince or money re-
funded. Druggists everyWhere.-Ad-
Vertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
IN BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT.
Central Kansas High School Cham
pionship Contest This Week,

Salina. Kan, Feb. 18-Fourteen
teams already have entered the an
nual Central Kansas High School Bas-
ketball tournament, to be played here
February 81 and %, and several more
are expected to get into the tourney.
The games will be played in the wes-
leyan college gymnasium. There will
be two classifications, Glass A for
schools with more than 100 students,
and Glass B for those with smaller
enrollments. The tournament is gov
erned by fixed set of rules which ba r
pupils more than 21 years old and
who have represented their schools
more than four years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
SPORT NOTES 4
HAD RIGHT DOPE
AggieS Won First Missouri VAL
ley Track Meet From Kansas.
Gallagher Wins Four Firsts,
Sewing Up the Victory.

Manhattan, Kan, Feb. 1S.-Aggie
dopesters apparently knew exactly
what they were talking about when
they announced the day before the
track meet that the wearers of the
purple would furnish the largest num-
Der of tape breakers. The dope car
ried true in the meet Monday night,
the Wildcats piling up 461s points
against the university mems 38 "a.
The Aggies won seven firsts and the
JayhawkS took four. Gallagher. Ag-
gle, won four of the seven firsts an
neXed by the Manhattan school.
The Results.
The results of the various events
follow:
30-yard dash-won by Gallagher, Aggies
Medley, Aggies, second. Time-3 As sec
onds.
Mile run-won by Watson, Aggies; De-
wall, Kansas, second. Time minutes 4S1s
seconds.
3O-yard high hurdles-Won by Gallagher,
Aggies: Hobart, Kansas, second. Time
AS seconds.
44O-yard dash-won by Cliff, Kansas
O'Leary. Kansas, second. Time-56as sec
ondS.
3O-yard low hurdles-Won by Gallagher,
Aggies; Hobart, Kansas, second. Time
Two-mile run-Won by Foreman, AggIes
Oglevie, Kansas, second. Time-10 minutes
AZ 50 seconds.
O-yard run-Won by Rodkey, Kansas
Beckett, Aggies. second.
Relay >race-Won by Kansas by default
(O'Leary, Torrey, Rodkey, Cliff. No time
Shot put-won by Gallagher, Aggies
Liggett, Kansas, second. Distance-35 feet
High Jump-won by Frost. Aggies: Rod
key, Kansas, second Heights feet
Pole vault-Heizer, Kansas, and Frost
and Robinson, Aggies, tied for first. Height
10 feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18

The Ratchet, it will be remembered,
! was Carrie Nations favorite weapon,
but she also used the pen. kanSanS
will remember THE Smasher's Mail"
newspaper which she edited and
which first appeared March 8, 1901.
In the columns of this publication she
finished what she had left undone
with the Ratchet each week and there
was no mincing of words in her ex-
pressed opinions of the brewers, sa-
loonkeepers and all who sympathized
with them. F. M Stoves & Sons, 49,
11S West Fifth street, have a limited
number of the complete files of this
paper-twelve numbers in al1-which
they are offering to the public. Exist
ing copies of this paper are said to
be rare.
''Thc Smasher's Mail"
The. first two numbers of the
"Smasher's MaiI' were printed by
Nick Chiles, owner of the Topeka
Plaindealer. a negro publication. and
the first issue edited by Mrs. Nation
while she was confined in the Shawnee
county Jail following one of her
smashing crusades. Numbers three
to seven. inclusive, were printed by the
Mail Printing House; numbers eight
to twelve. inclusive. in her own shop
at 1927 Kansas avenue and number
thirteen at the same place by F. NJ.
Stoves & Sons, who bought her office.
The paper was made up for the great
er part of letters received by her from
all parts of the country-some even
from Europe-by those who opposed
her and her doctrines as well as her
sympathizers.
One of the most common varieties
of her letters were those from differ
ent towns and states that had heard
of her fame and implored her to come
there and smash a few joints. Then
there are a number of letters that
| threaten her life; others that praise
| her and her work and still others that
upbraid her.
Put Pro in Prohibition.
| Mrs. Nation put the pro in pro-
| hibition in Kansas with no gentle
hand. She tried argument at first;
she tried to reason with the brewer.
the saloonkeeper and the officials and
when she failed in this she went on
the war path i'll real earnest. Every
one knows the results and those who
messed them. Those were the first re-
sults-liquor running in the cutters,
mirrors demolished. bottles broken
and beer kegs STAYED in. But the real
| result is what Topeka will celebrate
| tonight.
Spent Time i'm Jail.
Carrie Nation spent a large part of
| her time in Jail, sometimes in Wich-
| tia, sometimes in Topeka, and some
times in other towns. But she never
lost her pep" the more she was
until her name became a synonym for
| danger to every saloon keeper and
jointist in the state. Nor did she stop
| with her demand for prohibition; she
| denounced the dance as an institution
of the devil and broke all records in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
Now That Nation Is Carried,
Her Deeds Are Admired.
Celebration Today Recalls Sem
satiOn of 20 Years Ago.
RATCHET WAS Her WEAPON
Her "SmaSher'S Mail" a News.
paper of Wide Circulation.
f. M. Stoves Has Files of Joint
Enemy's Magazines.

Tonight Topeka celebrates the fall
Of John Barleycorn-the triumph of
prohibition. And in SO doing she is
honoring Carrie Nation, the pioneer of
temperance, the smasher of saloons
and one of the best known characters
that ever crossed the pages of Kansas
history. Few Kansans of her time do
not remember; few have forgotten the
awful havoc she wrought in those
"dens of iniquity' that are no more.
Topeka and Wichita especially lived in
terror of her Ratchet, but her activi-
ties extended thruout Kansas and even
the Limited States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
HAS THE KIDDE
A SEVERE COLD?
DIR. Bells Pine-Tar-HOney is
pleasant to take and
works like magic.

It's a happy combination of cough
relieving medicines that brings quick
relief where other remedies fail.
Effective alike for children and
grownups. Helps to loosen the phlegm
and to ease breathing. 1t soothes.
promotes healing and, while Nature is
killing the infectious germs. starts the
sufferer toward speedy recovery
Priced as low as a genuinely good
cough and cold remedy can be sold for.
SOC, soc and $1.20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
ELEVEN GIANTS SIGN
Heinie Zimmerman Is Latest Vet To
Affix Signature

New York, Feb. 1S-Heinie' Zim-
norman, who has signed a Giant con-
tract, is the fourth of the old Giant
machine to get back into the harness,
Manager McGraw announced today.
Eleven contracts have already been
signed, the seven additional being re-
cruitS.
By the end of the week Hal Chase.
premier first baseman, will be a Giant
possession. Pat Moran, his present
boss, is headed for New York and will
close the deal upon his arrival.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
BURY LAURIER SATURDAY
State Services Are To Be Held for For
MGR Canadian Premier.

Ottawa, Ont, Feb. 1S.-A state
funeral to take place on Saturday is
being arranged for the late Sir Will
frid Laurier. The federal house will
open on Thursday, but will immedi-
ately adjourn until Monday out of re-
spect for the dead leader of the op-
position. Sir Wilfrid's body will lie
in state in the senate chamber from
Thursday to Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18

Detroit, Feb. 1S.-By agreement of
counsel, Judge Mandell in circuit court
has postponed until Thursday morning
decision in the choice of a trial court
and date for trial in the libel suit
brought by Henry Ford against the
Chicago Daily Tribune, in which
change of venue has been granted on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
no Ono seems to- KNOW.

Cleveland. o., Feb. 1S.-The motive
in the murder of Robert Blanca, bet
ter known as Bobby White" ban
tamweight boxer. was still a mystery
today. White was shot and killed on
the street here. An eye witness told
police he saw a man standing over
the body. Police have been unable
to find any trace of the assailant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
THEY BEGIN TO LINE UP
Billiard Wizards Ready to Contest
De Oro's Title.

Chicago, Feb. 1S.-Gus Copulos,
Bob Cannefax, Clarence Jackson and
Pierre Mapaume today were in line in
that order for contests against the new
king of three cushion billiards, AL
fredo De Orc. Augie Kieckhefer,
erstwhile champion, deposed by the
Cuban Saturday night. must wait un-
til next year for a chance at the title
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18

Philadelphia. Feb. 1S.-Johnny Kill
bane, worlds featherweight champion
will soon return to the ring for the
first real battle since Benny Leonard
kayoed him in this city. Efforts to
match kilbane with frankie Burns,
the sensational coast boxer, are now
under way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
Transport Hickman In

New York, Feb. 1S.-The United
States transport Hickman arrived here
today from Bordeaux with detach-
ment casual company No. 80 of Mis-
souri, and other casuals-41 officers
and men in all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18

Buffalo, n. Y, Feb. 1S.-Harry Greb
of Pittsburgh sparkled to a decisive
point victory over Battling Levinsky
of New York in their ten round bout
here last night. One-Round Davis
signalled his temperance in the ring
with a one-round knockout over Jack
Jones of Philadelphia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
BONEY IS H. S. CAPTAIN
State Golf Champ Will Lead Topeka
1919 Football Team.

Arthur Bonebrake was elected cap
tain of the 1919 Topeka. High School
football team at the annual spring
meeting of the team Monday. Bopey,
as he is known in both the golf and
the football world. is q sophomore
and will be playing his third year on
the high team. 1t is expected that the
local high team for next year will be
exceptionally good, in view of the fact
that nine letter men will be back in
uniform.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-18
TO FIGHT IN WEST
Willard Dempsey Battle Not for an
Eastern Arena.

Chicago, Feb. 1S.-The Willard
Dempsey battle July will be staged
in the west or middle west, not in the
east. it was predicted here today fol-
lowing conference between Willard
and Tex Rickard, promoter.
Illinois fans got a flicker of hope
that the state may be the battle
ground if laws permitting a twenty
round or a ten-round no decision con-
test are passed by the legislature.
Willard and the promoter were on
their way today to the Texas oil fields.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-05-29

Those cooks and tx. P.'s" who hang
around the base" and sometimes give
us good meals and sometimes bad
ones can surely put across a good ar
ticle of base ball.
The cooks played the "K. P.'s" last
Thursday evening and the game was
what might be- called "corker."
Everything that goes to make base
ball what it is was present in this
record-breaking game. The cooks
were determined to cook the TX. P.'s"
and the latter were equally decided
to dish" the cooks. Both teams were
about equally matched, but the final
score showed that the cooks were able
to pull the fat out of the fire by the
score cf 10 to 8.
Usually it is necessary in a game
for all hands to kill the umpire, but
in this game the tx Prs" tried to slay
the opposing pitcher by throwing d
ball at him when he wasn't looking
Their murderous intent did not sue
coed, however, for they found out that
the way to make this pitcher irwin
chile was to hit him with a shower
of base balls. When he found out his
opponents wanted to kill him he only
warmed up the more and sent the
balls across the plate with the pre-
cision and swiftness of machine-gul
bullets. Jordan, for the cooks, caught
like veteran, and the advice he gave
both to his own side and the oppos-
ing one was worth a whole game in
itself. 1t was worth the price of ad-
mission to see Hockaday cavOrting
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-05-29
DISCOURAGE VACATIONS
/" FOR MEN WITH STUDIES
Returned Soldiers in Training Civ
en- Vacations Only When It
Is Found Necessary.

Training for returned soldiers is
made intensive and as nearly con-
tinuous as possible in order that full
wage-earning employment may be Sc
cured as early as expedient. For this
reason the federal board for voca-
tional education does not encourage
vacations for men taking re-education
courses. However, some men are be-
ing trained in institutions where
courses cannot be arranged during
vacation periods, and in addition the
physical condition of some men de-
mand a rest period. These two
classes of men are allowed, during
such vacation periods. the same pay
ments to which they are entitled
while in actual attendance upon their
courses.
The board, however, will encourage
men whose physical condition per-
mits to continue their training dur
ing the months the schools and col
leges are closed by engaging in some
occupation related to the formal
training courses they are pursuing.
Men who are being trained on the job
will be allowed no vacation with pay,
unless their physical condition, ac-
cording to the advice of medical of
ficer, requires it.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-05-29
Baltimore Trip Fine.

Each week Capt. G. W. Ramaker is
sending 200 men of the hospital to
Baltimore in Army trucks so that thew
can enjoy some of the privileges Of
fered by the theaterS and other places
of amusement
These trips are delightful, and the
conducted speaks we'll for the man
agement of the school,
Besides this feature three men are
selected each week to attend the
weekly lunchons IF the Kiwannis and
Rotary clubs, Mrs Van Ripper, the So
cial worker, naming the boys who are
to go each time.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-05-29
INDIAN LANDING IS
SCENE OF PICNIC

Officers. enlisted men and recon-
struction aids of the educational de-
partment at the base" journeyed to
Indian Landing Sunday for an outing
on the Severn river.
1t was merry affair and the fact
that watermelons and canteloupes
were not ripe made little difference
in the demeanor of the picnickers.
Capt. G. w. Ramaker, of course,
was in charge: He engineered all the
boat rides, kept the nurses from fall
ing into the water and the officers
from getting their shoes soiled. He
saw to it that food was provided in
large quantities, and the official pho
tographer. Lieut.. Carl Mayhem, was
on. hand to place in the imperishable
archives picture of the party in a
body.
After an exciting day the party
broke down one of Anne Arundel
county's bridges with one =. of the
trucks and a stop had to be made for
repairs 1t was such day as will
long be remembered. Schwartz told
all about the ravages of the seven
teen-year locusts. and there were
many in the party who went out to
destroy the pests.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-05-29
CONVENTION TO HEAR
49,
OF MEADE PROGRAM

The vocational school at the base
will be represented at the convention
of the American Medical Association
in Atlantic City the second week in
June, by Lieut.. Carl Mayhem of the
Photographic department, Capt. Calm,
the orthopedic specialist, and Miss
Huger of the crafts department.
One Of the things to be explained
by Lieut.. Mayhem to the. delegates
will be his treatment of nervous
cases. He believes that work in the
studio is very helpful to men who
have seen hard service in France and
who come back with unstrung nerv-
Gus systems.
One man, he declared recently, had
learned the principal points Of the
studio after only about eight weeks
of training. A colored soldier is one
of the students who is doing very
good work
: Lieut.. Mayhem has a machine which
he uses for duplicating and charging
which can be used extensively in COM
mercial work. especially for lawyers
and architects. 1t is said to be SUI
perior to the mimeograph because an
exact copy. including the signature,
can be obtained besides all the pecu-
liarities of the paper, ink spots and
all.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-05-29
An "R. A."a Good Catch.

Marriage, of course, does not occur
to those who are working with the
''R. A" girls inthe base" but, aside
from their comeliness, the fact that
of the twenty-four ladies present
eighteen are college graduates, might
be point of interest to those who
have not hitherto been considering a
matrimonial alliance with any of these
fair maidenS.
AS to their beauty, it is only right
to admit that it is not their uniforms
alone which make them attractive.
The aids are a source of much pleas
IRE to Camp Meade officers and Ensn,
ranged perhaps there win BE a6me
plain n5kptialss s..
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-05-29
HILLHOUsE ARRIVES.

? j. N. Hillhouse, master signal cleo
tricfan. of Vicksburg. Miss, is back
with Lieut.. Carl Mayhem in the pho
tograph studio, after having served
a long time in France.
Lieut.. Mayhem was delighted to
obtain the services of Hillhouse, who
had served with him in the same ca
pacity in Paris. He is said to one of
the best studio men in the A. E. F..
:. L would not let him go to the front
TO take pictures" said the officer,
because he was too valuable"
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-05-29
Mr.. ZURICH LEAVES; |
Mr.. ROME ARRIVES

E. Evans U1rich, business secretary
of the ''Y" at Camp Meade, has re-
signed, and will take charge Of the
business end of Sherwood Forest, near
Annapolis-o the Severn. where pc
will be glad to see all his friends. He
was married last week. -.
Mr.. Ulrich made many friends In
his stay of year in the ''Y" service.
and his work was regarded as of an
important character and distinct
contribution to the success of the
WORK in Camp Meade.
He will be succeeded by Mr.. George
Rome Of Brooklyn. N. Y, who has
been overseas with the "Y" until re-
Gently, when he returned to take up
troop train work in this country. RE
was formerly connected with the
Travellers Insurance Company andEis
an expert accountant.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-05-29
417TH BOYS WIN
IN FAST CONTEST
Melvin Jones Pitches So Well He
Night Curve Rubber
Pipe.

Friday night was another big night.
About fifty of the boys had on their
discharge stripes and naturally they
were all smiles.
Our stunts were started with for
NAL game of.volley ball. We had three
good teams entered. BY the process of
elimination the contest was a battle
royal between the crack team of head
quarters and picked team in D
Block.
With 200 frenzied spectators yelling
for their favorite team, the game was
OF untold interest. To have seen
down the net and Mack Coleman,
Hamp Ellis and Frazier Courtney
making long and RuZzling relays was
Aadeed . splendid exhibition of skill.
We think for individual playing Pitt
was the. star, with Hill and Private
Wright close seconds. Next came the
:uck- and-wing Dancing Martin, our
old standby. He gave the boys some
new steps he learned while IA. w.
%. L.
Yell for "Pop" Jones.
Then the boys called for pop"
Jones, the camps greatest eccenl. &c
clog dancer. Pop" carried away first
honors. All the boys were glad to see
him discharged, but equally as sorry
to lose such q good old-timer.
The boxing was of high order, Pop"
Jones VS.. sergeant of headquarters.
They had three-round draw. The
boys called for group singing, which
was the best we have had. Then that
jazz. band came and had everybody
jazafng. Some musici Some band!
Did you see that game of base ball
wednesday between Headquarters
Company boys and 417th Labor Bat
talon? 1t was won by 417th Labor
battalion. 8 to 0. Who pitched for
417th? That wonderful twirler, Mel
vim Jones of Farmville, N. c. Melvin
was at his best. / actually believe he
can curve O rubber pipe.
Another Jones.
Jones is a great pitcher and hard
hitter and, above all. plays the game
Clearly and sQuarely. He goes back
to civilian life today. Goodbye, Jones.
Your place will be hard to fill. Our
correspondent heard a conversation
between two soldiers of 417th Labor
Battalion. Company A to Company b:
/. ..Say, boy, If you had fifty more years
: to live, how would you use them%
His answer: IT would use every one
of them trying to get out of this labor
battalion"
Don't forget Friday night (tomor-
row.. May 80, our stunt night, If you
are here. We start at 8. H. r. H.