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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
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Financial Statement

ASSETS
Cash and Certificate of Deposit IS 86,12786
Liberty Bonds OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 76,60O.OO
Mortgage Loans .................. $4,000
Accrued Interest ................. 3,772.50 s
Deferred Premiums .....- 6,563.03
Total. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1921, 1889
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock. ...................$ 1O0,OOOOO
Reserve (American 80 ........... 1O4,17453
Surplus. ...................... 5698886
Total. ............ ......... 1851 1889
"SOME RECORD"
Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN

A dinner will be held this evening
at Pelletier's Tea room for all per-
sons in Shawnee county who have at
one time been students at Kansas uni
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20

Charles F. Bolton, Scranton.
Kansas. Banker.
Eli G. Foster. Topeka, Kansas.
Educator. Proprietor Histori-
cal Publishing Company.
James r. Plumb. Emporia. Kan
Sas. State Senator, Lyon
County. President Kansas
Live stock Assn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
SECOND VICE PREsIDENT:

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT:
Will W. Mcbride, Topeka Kansas, four years
Field Superintendent Omaha Life Insur-
ance Company, formerly with Travellers
Life Insurance Company and the Pacific
Mutual Life Insurance Company.
SECRETARY AND TREASURER:
B. r. Bays, Topeka, Kan. Four Years Chief
Examiner Nebraska Insurance Depart
ment Prior thereto engaged in banking
business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
MEDICAL. DIRECTOR:

DIR. Henry 3. Hogeboom, Topeka,
Kansas. Physician Twelve
years District Surgeon for
Union Pacific R. r.
Chester Woodward. Topeka,
Kansas Farm Loans and
Banking
DIR. Charles S. Huffman. Column
bus. Kansas Lieutenant
Governor. of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
FIELD SUPERVISOR:

Samuel J. Rice, Topeka, Kansas.
Twenty-three years with The
Prudential Insurance Com
pany of America Assistant
superintendent from 1898 to
1912. superintendent since
1912.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
PRESIDENT:

General Wilder S. Metcalf. Law
renee, Kansas. state Senator
Douglas County. Farm Loan
business in Kansas over thirty
five years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
OFFICERS

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT AND
MANAGER:
Charles A. Moore. Topeka. Kan
sas. Ten Years General Agent
Equitable Life Assurance
Society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-10

from the eyes of one TO other mem
bers of the family and among peo-
pie who associate closely and handle
the same utensils. books or cloth
ing.
II is dangerous to the eyesight.
If neglected it may cause partial or
total blindness. IL foreigners have
this disease, they are barred from
entering this country.
1t is not easy to tell when eyes
have trachoma, however. especially
i'm its first stages. You may have it
and not know it or the person sit
ting ext to you at your work may
have it and neither he nor you know
IL.
The only safety from it is TO keep
the eyes clean. Never touch the
eyes with dirty hands or use a towel
or cloth used by any one else.
If there is the slightest indication
of any OF the symptoms of trachoma
consult an eye specialist at once.
Home treatment for trachoma with
out expert advice is very dangerous
both for you and those about you.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-10
To Give cap,ata In Woodbridge

The choir of the First Presbyterl'
an church of this city. augmented U
t~hirty-five voices. will repeat IN
Christmas Cantata, The CnrlS
Child" by C. b. Hawley. to be give
in this city on Sunday. Dec. ~. IN
following night, Monday. Dec. 20, u
the Methodist church, in WOO
bridge for the benefit of the orgal
fund of Trinity Episcopal church o
that town. The choir will be assist
ed by Mrs. Lester White. h wei
known violinist of this city. and ste
phen +. Somogyi. cellist. also or TINS
city. The concert. which will begin
at Sis o'clock. will be given under
the direction of st. Elizabeth's UNI
of Trinity church.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-10

Club was more successful than on
any of the previous Wednesdays
since its opening. Over $50 was
realized for the Y. w. c. A. fund
and this large increase is due to the
splendid amount of donations from
the various women and girls inter-
ested and the large attendance at
the basketball game played in the
gymnasium last night. The entire
amount of money taken in at the
door after the expenses of the team
were taken out was put with the
fund.
The donations which were not
only especially large in quantity but
of an excellent variety we're given
by the following people: Candy,
Miss Marie Robbins, Mrs. Ralph
Young. Miss Faith Conard, Miss
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-10
Meets All Corners At Checkers

Perth Amboy checker champions,
fair warning is given all title-holders
to get in trim al once to play a game
or a series of games with w. /. Da-
vies. a champion who claims victo-
ries over some of the best players
of this game in this state. Davids
is DESTROYS of meeting a local player
known as Bruner, or anyone else In
the city. county or state. Davids de-
feated Bruner in a hard fought brain
tussle in this city a short time ago
and is DESTROYS of securing a return
game. Davids has been in this city
doing government work for about
eight months, and all challenges
should be directed to him at the Y.
NJ q
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-10
HEALTH NEWS


Trachoma is sometimes spoken Of
as true graduated lids.
1t is a disease which usually
makes itself known by redness. itch
ing and watering of teh eyelids.
II is very Catching" The watery
discharge from eyes which have
trschoma is easily transferred to
towels. washcloths. sponges or bed
clothing and from door knobs, street
car straps. etc. and so may easily
find its way to the eyes of other
people.
Trachoma frequently appears in
schools. factories and crowded liv-
ing rooms 1t commonly spreads
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-10
~ uo,d Food Sale Tomorrow

The Foreign MISSIONARY Society OF
the First Presbyterian church will
hold a food sale in the chapel to-
morrow afternoon from 2 till 5
o'clock. The sale will include a great
variety of homemade foods baked
and prepared by the women of the
church. and the money realized will
be used towards the support of Miss
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-10

Alberta Williams, Miss Laverne De
Hamm. Miss Rose Sacarny. Miss
Sally Michaels, Miss Helen Grannis,
Miss Gladys Sheyer. Miss Leisa
Henry and Miss Ruth Macan; cakes,
Mrs. Harry. Waterbor, Mrs. Thomas
Hawkins, Miss Dorothy Haddon,
Mrs. NJ. Herbert. Mrs. Gray. Miss
Pauline Philo, Miss Helen Fettman,
Miss Harriet Mead. Mrs. T. Eggert-
son: pie. Miss Marion Floersch, and
milk, Miss Sally Michaels.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-10

Morris. the foreign mission
airy which the society are financing
James Henderson and Mrs. SID
ney Riddelstorffer will have charge
of the sale.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-10

The election of little Tom Davies
at Pittsburgh was a popular choice,
and it is likely that IL Pop" Warner
could have had the say he'd have put
his index finger on Toms headgear'
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-10

Cafeteria Again Success
The cafeteria at the "Y" y~ester-
lay under the auspices of the Girls
The Glenwood post., 1920-06-26

istration has made it possible for Bol,
shevism and all kinds of extreme radi-
cal forces to gain headway. 1t must he
stopped, and when Warren G. Harding
is elected president it WILL be stopp-
ed. There will be no more playing
with radicals as we have seen going on
with Mitchell Palmer as Attorney Gen
eral. There will be no more sending of
money by the millions to foreign coun-
tries or planning to mix up with every
country in the world when our own
problems shoud be solved first. We
will have government as the great
Lincoln said, 'of the people, by the peo-
pie, for the people. The Republican
PARTY has had the courage to say it
must end and we will have no more
of Wilsonian government.
"Where did Senator Harding go af-
ter the conventioni" asked Jack.
"He went right back to Washington,
Jack, to attend to his duties as senator.
He is not going to resign or quit as
senator. He is hard worker and al
ways arrives at his office by ninc
O'Clock in the morning. On his first
day in Washington after the convention
he worked far into the night to catch
up with his letters. But although nc
has been under hard strain and work
ing hard since he arrived in Washing
ton he is in the best of health. He
loves to play golf and plays a splendid
game which keeps him in good phys-
cal shape, very necessary for any man
who must face the responsibilities :As
head of this great country.
"To show you what people think of
him, who know him, I am going to read
what Senator King, of Utah a Demo
crat has said about Senator Harding.
Here it is: Harding reminds me very
strongly of Mckinley, whom I knew,
1t seems to me that the Democrats
should he willing to admit, as ] AIN,
that the Chicago convention selected
the strongest ticket they could have
chosen
81 hope Senator Harding will be the
next PRESIDENT said Ruth.
He WILL be the next president -
answered Uncle Ted, land the United
States will again be governed by the
contribution as the fathers intended.
Now scamper along to bed and next
week l will tell you all about Senator
lIarding's life and the many things ne
has done
The Glenwood post., 1920-06-26
SWITCHMEN DECIDE
TO TAKE VACATION

Hannibal, Mo-, June Switchmen
working ON the second shift in the yards
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad here refused to report for duty
at , o'clock this afternoon announced
that they would take a vacation" un-
til the railroad labor board has acted
on their wage demands.
officials are working IN the yards
and keeping passenger trims moving
but freight traffic, they say is at a
standstill.
The Glenwood post., 1920-06-26
McADOO NAME WILL
GO BEFORE CONVENTION

Kansas City, Mo, June 22.-Bmris
\. Jenkins, clergyman and publisher of
the Kansas City Post, issued a positive
statement today that the name of Will
liam G. McAdoo will be placed in nom
nation before the Democratic national
convention at San Francisco whether
Mr. McAdoo consents or not.
The Glenwood post., 1920-06-26
CAPTAIN AINSLIE IN
GRAND JUNCTION

Captain Walter Ainslie whizzed over
town this morning about nine O'Clock
II his nirplanc, from Glenwood Springs
and lighted at the landing field on
east Grand avenue. He will remain
here for several days making CONNER
cial flights. He expects to arrange for
exhibition flights during the fall fairs
on the western slope. Grand Junction
News. CThursdav)
The Glenwood post., 1920-06-26
CAN MAKE NEWSPRINT
OUT OF ALFALFA

Pittsburgh, Pa, June 22.-Alfafa,
mixed with certain organic chemicals,
will produce scrviceable grade of
newsprint paper, according to J. CLARK
of Boston, representative of paper
meeting of the Pittsburgh Advertising
club here today.
The Glenwood post., 1920-06-26

Never can tell when you'll mash a
finger or suffer cut, bruise, burn or
scald. Be prepared. Thousands rely
on DIR. Thomas Eclectic Oil. Your
druggist sells it. 3Oc and 60c. 3
The Glenwood post., 1920-06-26
FOR SALE

New 1920 Chevrolet at sacrifice.
Mccoy Holland Motor Sales. Car can
be seen at Trimble Brothers Garage.
The Glenwood post., 1920-06-26

Take the Glenwood Post, only $500
year.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-04-09
SPORTING.

Moving pictures and mirrors will be
used in the training of athletes at Har-
ward this season.
Troytown won the Grant National
Steeplechase, Liverpool. Twenty-four
horses started; only four finished the
race
Ivring Joseph, 16-year-old high
school boy, who recently set mark
of 2 So seconds for the 20-yard dash,
repeated his performance at Hartford,
Conn.,, in an indoor track meet be-
tween Hartford High School and a
team representing the high schools
of Worcester, Mass
Cambridge beat Oxford in Englands S
favorite aquatic event before probably
the largest concourse of people which
ever witnessed a British boat race.
Betting was to 4 in favor of Cam
bridge, although just before the race
Oxford, with the advantage of two
veteran Australian rowers who are
Rhodes scholars, was the favorite. 1t
was officially announced that Cam
bridge won by four lengths. The time
was 21 minutes IL seconds.
The worlds record was beaten by
French motorboat in a trial on the
Seine, which made Is, miles an hour.
The Prince of Wales thoroughbred
race horses probably will compete at
Western Canadian tracks next sum.
mer.
Coach Jack Slattery has christened
his Harvard infield the rabbit infield.
There's q reason. Conlon, the short
stop, stands five feet seven inches and
weighs only 140. Eddie Lincoln, at
third, is the same height and is three
pounds heavier, while Captain Bobbie
Ealnmons is an inch taller and weighs
$50 pounds. Slattery says small men
make the best intielders.
Georges Carpenter, champion heavy
weight boxer of Europe, was the guest
of honor in New York at midnight
supper given by officers of the Inter-
national Sporting Club to celebrate the
election of its e-thousandth member.
Mai. Gen. John L. Organ, who COM
manded the Twentyseventh Division
in France. was toastmaster. Scores of
wealthy and prominent amateur sports
men attended.
Ping Bodie will play no more base
ball with the Yankees. The Yankee
manager takes the ground that Bodie
committed a serious breach of dis
cipline in leaving the Jacksonville
camp for New York without permis-
sion, and he doesn't want him on his
team any longer.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-04-09
A Summary for Busy Readers
of the Significant Doings
of the Day.
OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST.
PROGRESS of the World in General.
legislative Activities at the Ma
tion's Capital-NeWs From Ev-
cry Corner of the Country.
WASHINGTON.

Unless consumption Of sweets is ma
terially reduced there is grave dam
ger of a candy shortage, according to
q warning issued by DR.. S. Dana Hub
bard, of the department of health.
The senate adopted the house
amendment to the agricultural appro-
priation bill striking out the appropri-
alton of s234,000 for distribution of
free seeds.
An intimation was given that the
statement made by Andre Tardieu that
President Wilson agreed that France
should have the right Of indefinite oc-
cupation of German territory if the
senate failed TO ratify the Franco
American defensive treaty was incor-
rect.
Charges that war profiteers had
combined to control the national con-
ventions of both the Republican and
Democratic parties this year through
the use of money were made by Sena-
tor Borah in a speech in the senate.
"a saturnalia Of corruption was in
prospect as a result, declared Mr.
Rorah "a national peril was I'M
pending and "a public scandal of the
gravest sort was in the making.
What is regarded as a prearranged
plan on the part of anti-administration
Democrats to forestall any third term
aspirations which may be harbored by
President Wilson was launched In the
house in spectacular fashion. Repre-
sentative Humphreys, Democrat, of
Mississippi, in a carefully prepared
speech, advocated a single presidential
term of six years.
President Wilson has written n per-
sonal letter to the heads of depart
ments and federal agencies asking that
coal for winter use be laid in at an
early date
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-04-09

SllCc u
America is just as unsafe as Europe
from typhus and the white plague now
spreading over the world with light
ming rapidity.
Two million three hundred thousand
infected Russian refugees are now
pressing against western Europe's bor-
ders in their mad rush westward, In
the hope of escaping death under the
most horrible conditions
A ship carrying two full-fedged gen.
erals, seven brigadier generals, "A coll
onels and 700 troops from Russia Is
even now rowing the Mediterranean.
rejected at every port like hopeless
pilgrim, unable to land her infected
cargo The ultimate fate of this mod
ern phantom ship cannot be foretold.
Conditions as bad as in Russia pre-
vail In Hungary, Serbia, Austria, Mon
tenegro, Turkey and Syria. and
throughout the near east. Poland is
especially severely stricken.
More people are daily dying now
than during the war.
Whole populations are being wiped
out The fatal germs pass from one
country to another, owing to the lack
Of sanitary devices. The American.
British and Italian Red Cross organiza-
tions are doing their very best, but 1t
Is impossible to combat this immense
danger by private means. 1t Is mat
ter to be handled by the governments.
They handled the war. and this is
worse than war.
Unless quick relief Is provided the
world will see tragedy greater than
that Of the last five years.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-04-09
FOREIGN.

1t is the opinion in official circles in
Berlin that an agreement shortly will
be reached between the government
and the militant workingmen in the
Ruhr region, according>to advices from
the German capital.
Part of the former Emperor VIII
liam's luggage has been moved from
Bentinck Castle to Doorn, where the
ex-Kaiser soon is to take up his resi-
dence Many trunks, most of them un-
opened since his arrival, have been
taken to Doom in motor trucks. Nov
ing day for Count Hohenzollern is ex-
pected to be May !.
Grand Duchess Olga AleXandrOvna,
sister of Nicholas of Russia, has left
Constantinople for Serbia on her way
to Denmark, where she will reside per-
manently. She still firmly believes her
brother and his family are alive.
France is reported well equipped for
American tourists, who are expected
soon.
Delmarze Maze, French inventor,
sold to the rencn government IIle pat
ent on Il new long range gun, which,
after thorough tests, has shown range
of 100 to 12O miles. The shell leaves
the muzzIe at a speed OF approximate
ly AIS feet a second
Alan Bell, K. c., the fifty-five-year-
old resident magistrate of Dublin, was
dragged from a street car and shot to
death by a party of masked men, pre-
sumably Sim Feiners, who escaped
without being identified.
Germany, in the event of mobiliza-
ton, can place an army of 100000
men in the field. Germany secretly
has REINFORCED her once famous war
machine, which In 1918 was virtually
shattered, officers are arailabls to
command an army of a,ooncoo men.
wha. purrorts to be the frs. astuai
evidence of the participation OF Gen.
sral Ludenderf, formerly ausrternRs.
ter general OF the Kaiser:s ARMIES, in
the German miiitarist movement which
finally crystallized into the rebellion
headed by DR.. Kapp, was printed II
Rerlin newaphpers,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-04-09
THE NATIONS BUSINESS

A tentative plan for the financing of
Americas foreign trade under the
Edge Act has been formulated by John
McHugh chairman of the Committee
on Commerce and Marine of the
American Bankers Association, and is
to be submitted for the consideration
Of bankers of the country.
The new International Chamber of
Commerce, projected at the 1nterna-
ticnal Trade Conference at Atlantic
City last October, will be formally or
ganized, it is announced by the Cham
Der of Commerce of the United States
at Paris during the week of June II.
The American liner ST Louis has
been turned over by the underwriters
TO be sold or sent to the scrap heap,
as their ship construction experts may
deem fiji.
The fleet of former German passen-
ger liners, which his predecessor. John
Barton Payne, attempted TO sell, Will
be recondtiOned and placed in service
under the American flag, should the
court injunction granted William Ran
Golph Hearst he made permanent, Ad-
miraI Benson said.
New York city is about TO expert
ence q visitation of the Department of
Justice mission which has been work
ing on the high cost of living in
northern and western New York and
In Philadelphia, and has left string
Of indictments to mark its progress.
Manufacturers of New York state,
assembled in Syracuse at the conven-
ton of the Upstate Associated Manu-
facturers and Merchants, voted TO con-
tinue their fight against health insur-
ance legislation now being considered
by the state legislature
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-04-09
PLOT CHARGED TO BUILD
new GERMAN ARMY
Paris Press Asserts That 800, 900
Men Secretly Are Being Organ.
lied in Bavarian State Alone.

Paris.-Charges that the military
working on a reorganization plan for
the German army are made by the
journal" Investigation has revealed
this, it declares, and has shown that
the list of men who can be modified
totals 100000 in Bavaria alone.
The Petit Parisien says it learns
that the government has proposed to
the Allies that immediate action be
taken to prevent the neutral zone
along the German border being con-
stantly entered by Reichawehr forces
contrary to the peace treaty's stipula-
tions.
1t is the opinion in official circles
in Berlin that an agreement soon will
be reached between the government
and the militant workingmen in the
Ruhr region, according to advices from
the German capital. The Nossische
Zeitung says the Socialist groups
have decided to send emissaries to
Wesel to arrange peace between the
regular troops and the workers forces
who are beaieging the fortress there.
A dispatch from Mayence reports
that the workers committee which as
sumed power in Duisburc- removed
the burgomaster, sisbanded the police
and confscated the banks.
Berlin.-A Duisburg report says
that strict dictatorship has been pro-
claimed there. A revolutionary peo-
pies defense force has been replaced
by police. The new executive commit
tee is In the hands of the extremists.
The news from the Ruhr district Is
still disquieting. There is report
current here that the government
intends to issue an ultimatum to the
workers army, allowing three days in
which to observe the Bielefeld agree
ment Failing this drastic measures
will be taken.
There are indications, according to
the dispatch, that the rebels are get
ting out of hand Of the leaders, among
whom are DR.. Max Lev.en, who was
president Of the short lived Bavarian
soviet, and Marcuse, who is alleged to
have been implicated in the murder of
hostages at Munich during the soviet
regime. Lack of food seems to be
damping the spirits Of the Spartacists.