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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
Moulton Musings

81 ROY K. MOULToN.

Solving Ono Problem
As soon as we heard
That Calvin Coolidge,
Governor Of Massachusetts.
Had been nominated at Chicago
For the vice presidency,
We went to the telegraph office
And sent him n nice letter
Which read as follows:
Dear Cal: We know that
You live in 4 semi-detached
House for which you pay
A rental of $3.50 a month.
We don't know how you get
Away with that sort Of rent,
But as long as you do.
We are for you for vice president
Or anything else you run for
But that is not what we
Want to axe up with yOu-
OF course. Won will be moving
ont of your double house
And going to Washington
In the near future and We
Would like 20 he the first
On the ground to take over
Your house with its $3.50 rent.
We have Just been considering
Paying S125 a month for box car.
If You can see your way clear
To making over your lease TO US,
We will vote for You and get all
Our friends to do likewise.
We don't know where your house IL.
1t makes no difference"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19

portant subsequent affairs of your life
viii revolve
There are times in the life Of every
body-whether great or small, poor or
rich-Ehen everything looks dark.
But you meyer know what is going
to loom up soon-maybe in great
glory-after the clouds have rolled
away!
So don't give up the shipi" stand
nv vour guns. Be patient. Things
take their turn at strange times and
under surprising circumstances.
Your neighbor or best friend may
take little note of you as you go thru
this day. But on some tomorrow the
whole world may want to know all
about YOU Because you may be just
the one most needed for some impor-
tant task.
You never know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19

a tornado can be seen approaching
and the person residing in its track
has some chance to seek safety. Be
sides when it has passed there remains
little likelihood of a similar visit for a
long time. But an earthquake may be
followed by q more severe one in an
hour and the tremors come without
warming. Persons contemplating a
residence in California or even a visit
to that state Will do well to consider
thexe facts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
Household Hints


String Bean Salad Gin season.
Cook one quart string beans. after
stringed. and cut the ends off; boil
or cook in sailed water. When ten
der take out with a skinner, placing
in cold water. Drain from this water
very good, SO they will be almost dry.
Place them in salad dish. Chop pars-
ley Give cents worth) and a little
onion and serve with French dressing.
Cornflake About fifty)
One cup sugar, two eggs, three
quarters cup flour, two teaspoons
baking powder. one tablespoon butter
two and one-half cups cornflakes, one
teaspoon vanilla
Cream butter and sugar together.
Add yolks OF eggs. then add cor l.
flakes to which baking poWaer mas
been added. Add vanilla. Stir flour
in them well. Beat whites of eggs stiff
and add last.
Drop on buttered tins with teaspoon,
but very few on each tin, as they
spread.
Strawberry Shortcake - Two cups
flour, four teaspoons baking powder
one-half teaspoon salt, four table
( spoons butter, one egg, three-quarters
! cup milk, one quart strawberries.
| Wash and stem berries. sprinkle
with sugar and let them stand one
| half hour or more.
| Sift dry ingredients into a bowl
rub in butter, stir in thu milk anc
egg DWELL beaten). Spread in E
creased pan and bake in quick over
! twenty to thirty minutes. When done
split in halves and butter both halves
Put layer of Strawberries on lower hal
and replace top crust.
| Discoveries.
When serving small individual pie
/; or tarts, in order to have them crisl
so that the bottom does not becom'
soggy, have the cruSts baked and jus
before serving fill with any fresh o
canned fruit preferred. A littl'
whipped cream on the top of the frui
adds greatly to taste and appearance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19

The British sailors who plucked
feathers from the tail Of the American
Eagle. in Bermuda, July have begun
serving a long prison term. it is Off
cially announced The only people
who insult the Stars and Stripes and
get away with it are the Mexicans.
And this may be changed after the
election in November.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19

It may be that the slow progress
made by aviation in attaining popu-
Iarity as means of :ocomotion is due
to the lack of opportunity to luI- over
anybGdv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19

Japan declares that she is pursuing
a wholly neutral policy as regards the
civil war in China. She can afford
to do so as long as the Chinese are
killing one another. Her future pro-
gram will be easier to carry out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19

ranean chambers for worship; but
none of them have any such elaborate
churches" as this one. The construc-
ton of so large and elaborate a
building solely for the purpose of
worship is said by ethnologists to be
an unmistakable indication of higher
civilization than had been attained by
any of the southwestern Indians in
historic times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19

The only campaign prediction that
may be regarded as reliable at this
early date is that the next president
will be an editor from Ohio.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23
JASPER INDIANA. FRIDAY, JANUARY %, 1920.
MURDERS Barred In
PLEA TO DOCTOR
Girl Telephones Physician Every
body Sick and Triple Kill
ing Is Revealed.

Passaic, n. J.-"Is this DR.. Carlisle
Well. please come to our house quick
everybody is sick"
This telephone message from Nina
Strong. II, disclosed the murder OF
her mother and elder sister and the
suicide of her father.
Masen II. Strong, architect and
structural engineer, with offices In
Wall street, New York City, had al
most successfully annihilated his fam
lily on Tuesday night with an AK. But
1t wis not until Nina, herself wounded
on the head. gained strength enough
to notify the family physician that the
tragedy was revealed.
Mr.! Strong killed his wife as she
slept in bed. He then crushed the skull
of his daughter, Elizabeth, 16, killing
her instantly. His son, Nathaniel, II
is dying in st. Mary's hospital witt
a fracture of the skull. Only Nina anC
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23

Thank heaven. bolshevism 10 not
Ias yet. compulsory.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23
POLICE SEEK FOR GHOST
Try to Solve Mystery Of Weird sovnds
Which Come From eust
Business DIeck-

Pottsville, Pa--Pottsville has q een-
uine ghost sensation and the police de-
partment Is puzzled over the weird
sounds which come from the haunted
building. One Of Psttsville's principal
business houses is the home Of the al
legged ghost. and the spectacle Of po-
licemen standing about there, waitinG
for an opportunity 10 arrest the AL
legged unearthly' speeter, 10 . newell enc.
The building is devoted - general
mercantile purposes and sfAces and
inhabited by hard-headeA business
m,n and lawyers. The police depart
ment has an idea mischievous boys
were the cause Of the mysterious
waiIlngs about the building and a
number OF boys were examined with
out shedding any light. Some police
men were OF the opinion that q cat
might have become imprisoned In the
walls and be responsible, but the
sounds were too humanlike for such
origin. The patrol is to be continued
until the mystery is solved.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23

said: bill, If you haven't got the
nerve. I'll get game guy But l. like
q fool fell for what she said.
Ion the night Of Feb. 11-but ] am
not sure it was on the 11th-I did my
first job in Detroit.
81 came home with a suitcase full
of money and had enough TO paper the
Dime Saving Bank building. but II
didn't last her very long She must
have eaten the bills and spent the sill
yer. When she was broke she would
say. Bill, make one more job and we
will go and live straight But II would
be the same story all the time. DC
another, Bill. maybe you will hit II
rich
"I- have not drank In II years. and
row she is not satisfied. But the rea.
son | am going TO do this is because
won't serve time for the woman
served as burglar for.
but hope this is a lesson to other
young lads; stay straight and don't
fall In love os I did. Tell my mother
and sister and brothers that am sorry
to disgrace them by knowing Bill was
a burglar. They always thought was
n good fellow. Tell little Rea daddy Il
going away forever. for God knows
love vi and baby"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23
ON BIOGRAPHY.
Jan % l920-l, wk

PhilliDs Brooks once told the boys
at Exeter that in reading biography
three men meet one another in close
intimacy-the SubjecI OF the biogra-
ply. the author ami the reader. OF
the three. the most interesting is. OF
course. the man about whom the book
is written. The most privileged is
the reader. who is thus allowed TO live
Familiarity with an eminent man.
Least regarded ei the three is the au-
thor Ii is his part 10 introduce the
others and to develop between them
an acquaintance. perhaps friendship,
while he withdraNS into the back
ground. OF all the forms of literature
perhaps no one has greater vitality
than biography aS The name implies.
the writing OF the llfe OF a great per-
son. In all ages. in all nations there
have been great mcn. but there have
been few great a.. .gY1pie> and yet
these have had pcI.uanence and in
nuence accorded TO fvw works OF any
other class OF literature. The reason
Cor this Is not tar 10 seek. We are
all interested in the deeds of men,,
says Indianapolis Star. We wish to
know not only what they did but also
what they thought and said and what
difficulties confronted them aS they
lived and did their work. The lives
of great men are The inspiration of the
race and it is in The reading of biog-
raphy that successive generations
come TO know about their heroes.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23
UNIQUE COLLECTION.

Robert Young, ironmonger, Edin-
burgh, who passed away recently.
was known far and wide as a collec-
tor of horseshoes. Row upon row,
on the walls Of his shop, hung shoes
dating from the time of the Roman
occupation (those having been found
in Monmouthshire) down to the
present day. Among the latter were
included shoes worn on the day Of
the race by such famous derby win
ners as Lord Rosebery's Ladas and
Sir James Miller's Rock Sand. Ev-
cry country in the world, from Chi
na to Peru, had been laid und@
ssiSe.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23
"PIease, Come to Our House Quick!"

Susanne, 8, escaped with injuries from
which they are expected to recover.
Friends Of Mr. Strong attributed the
tragedy TO chronic i'll health and finan-
cial losses
There was strong evidence that the
entire family had been drugged in
some manner before the craZed father
used the AK.
On the night of the tragedy Mr..
Strong apparently did not retire with
his wife. A deeply religious man. he
remained up for a while reading from
a book, what Would Jesus DoW II
was found open on the dresser, be-
side crackers he had been munch.ng.
The police infer that when his loved
ones dropped off to sleep the architect
went TO the cellar, where he obtained
an TX of the type firemen use.
Mr.. Strong afterward went TO the
bathroom. He stood the ak in cor
ner and cut his throat with a razor.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23
MARRIAGE Is NOT A JOKE
Wedding Ceremony, Staged az Lark
Ties Husband" and "Wife" for
Life, Rules Court.

Trenton, y. IA court here has re-
fused TO annul the marriage Of Pearsy
Girvan and Georgiana Griffin, alias
Georgiana Williams. which Girvan
sought to have set aside on the ground
that ii was contracted as joke; that
he and the girl had not lived together
after the ceremony; that he had con-
tributed nothing TO her support, and
that she had asked for nothing.
The marriage was performed August
16, 1917. by Rev. Walter Earle Lad
don. a Methodist minister. q, Belmar.
where the couple met.
Girvan. In his petition. alleged that
the ceremony was simply vacation
frolic. that he did not feel bound by
IL and he thought the girl also regard
ed il as joke.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23

The work of the Salvation Army
with the army was OF such magnitude
in the way Of results that Its members
came back from the war zone prae
tically without criticism on their or
gan,zation or methods and with the
love, respect and admiration or men
of all ranks. They faced all the as-
tual risks Of war In the discharge OF
their duty, and some paid the supreme
sacrifice in ministering to the needs
of the soldiers. Their appeal now
ought TO reach TO the heart OF the
country they served 90 well. and re
ceive substantial appreciation q sns(R
work In the war.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23
Detroit Man Tires of Robbing,
Kills Woman and
Himself.
LETTER TELLS OF LIFE
"Stay Straight and Don't Fall in Love
With the Butterfly Type Of
Woman" Is HIS Advice
to Others.

Detroit, Mich.-That his wife made
him become q. burglar In order TO pro-
vide y her. with more money than he
was able to earn honestly, is the asser-
ton made In letter by William New
ell, who shot and killed his wife Violet,
26, and then ended his life with bull
let. The woman was strfkingly hand
some, having won beauty contests In
Detroit and Buffalo.
II hope my experience will be
lesson to other young lads" Newell
advised in the letter. stay straight
and don't fall In love with the butter
fly type of woman as did"
The letter, which was addressed to
the chief of police. follows:
Wife Ran Away With Another.
Dear Sir: Just a few lines to let
you know why | shot my wife and
killed myself. Four years ago today
she ran away with a gink In Buffalo
and went TO Pittsburgh. / have always
had q good reputation until l married
this woman. l had a clean divorce
from her and the judge told me 10 take
good care OF the little girl. Later
took her back on condition she would
live straight; then l quit my good JOB
and came to Detroit so l wouldn't hear
the people say Bill. you are a fool 10
take her back
"As for the last two weeks she has
done nothing but lie TO me. l have
caught her and -- in a million
lies. and believe that if Mrs.
(the other mans wife) saw what / saw
Saturday morning she would be look
ing for divorce also.
| Goaded by Wife's Taunts.
"I'll tell yoI what I've done for her
She said- Bill, if you don't quit youl
job at the Detroit Trailer and get more
money. some day I'll leave you ant
take Marie and you never will SCI
either Of u.s. So. like fool. listened
to her. She knew a crook while she
was In Pittsburgh and he told her how
easy it was to open a safe. and she
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23

drink. John Burgess, with nuiner-
Gus aliases, walked In on the girl. They
struck up partnership In cheap crime,
making speciality Of elevated station
holdups, then trading the cash for liQ-
uor and pleasure In back-room
cabarets.
Burgess would push q revolver az
the ticket window, and the girl would
run around behind and scoop up the
cash. Meanwhile the babies cried At
home and the young husband. rushed
franticatly about searching for his lost
wife.
The pair were arrested after numer-
GUS robberies had been reported to the
police. The girl confessed.
1T was SO easy" she said. I'VE
went out the first night and held up
a man for 35 cents. This would not
even buy a drink for two but we get
pleasure out OF It."
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23

TRUSTEES ANNUAL
REPORT

To advisory board Of Bainbridse
township, Dubois county, Indiana,
sh W ing receipts, disbursements
and balances of all township rev.
enues for the year ending Decsm-
ber 81, 1919.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23
CAREER AS BANDIT
LASTS TWO WEEKS
Girl Forms Partnership With
Stranger and Holds Up EIe-
waited Stations.

Craving a more exciting career than
that OF looking after her home. her
Catherine Van Beesley. nineteen years
old, OF Chicago. became Katie the
holdup queen" Her career lasted for
two whole weeks; then she was ar
rested.
Mrs. Beesley's first step AZ woman
bandit was TO 60 to q saloon and order
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23
Husband Fails to Kiss
Bride, She Kills Self

Council Bluffs. Ia. - Mrs.
Charles Allen. sixteen, brNe
of two months, committed SUI
eide at the Grey restaurant at
Corning, Ia, by drinking almost
half a pint of strychnina Be
fore swallowing the poison she
said her husband hadn't kissed
her when he left for work in the
morning.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23

lies and believe that if Mrs.
(the other mans wife) saw what / saw
Saturday morning she would be look
ing for q divorce also.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-23

Oh. well. worrying about how to
harvest bumper crop Is not the worst
worry that a country could have.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-06
IN aye OlDEN TIME"

If one Is inclined to feel that the
tendency of the times" is too much
toward prohibitions and restrictions
upon personal liberty of thought and
action he should occasionally read a
little from. the history Of early days
in America, when laws and customs
made and enforced by the Pilgrim
Fathers were in vogue. The enforce
ment by city mayor or justice of
the peace today Of such regulations
but Of course such thing Is not within
the realm of possibilities. The fol-
lowing little story Of the way social
customs were regulated by the Puri.
tans in New England now sounds more
like farce than fact.
1T was in 1921 that Governor Brad
ford was called upon to administer a
rebuke to some of the young men Of
the New England colony who had just
come over on the little ship Fortune.
and who wanted to celebrate the holi-
day. Puritanism brought over with it
feeling. and when the group of lusty
youngsters attempted to observe the
day they were sharply criticised by
the colony.
THE men were called out to work
that day as on other days, but the
newcomers declared it against their
conscience to work on Christmas day
The governor left them and led away
the rest of the workers. But when
he returned at noon. the young men
were in the street at play, some pitch
ing the bar and some paying stool
ball He took away their implements
and told them it was against his con-
science that they should play while
others worked. and that they could
observe the day within doors. but
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-06

Therefore the board Of commission
ers duly assembled were called to
order by the mayor
Present: T. |. Flittie, mayor, and
commissioners II. b. Mathews and
f. j. Ray
1t was moved that resolution No.
254 relating to special duties of the
commissioners be adopted
On roll call Mayor Flittie and Com
missioners Mathews and Ray all voted
aye.
Upon motion e. j. Ray was by the
majority vote of all members appointed
acting president of the board Of com
missoners, he to perform all the duties
and be invested with all the powers
of the mayor in the event that officer
is unable to perform the same by rea-
son of absence or sickness.
The following persons were ap.
pointed by majority vote of the mem
bers of the board of commissioners
to the Offices hereafter named for the
ensuing year;
G.. II. Stoddart, city auditor
Walter NJ Cheever, city attorney.
c. A. Guliick assessor and accountant
]. p. SoderstrOm. acting city engi-
neer, without salary, but with author
ity to locate lines and establish street,
alley and sidewalk grades.
Nels GuIlick, chief Of police
j. J. Connolly policeman.
Chas. Shea, manager Telephone ex-
change.
e. w. Hyde, manager electric light
and power plant
Henry Wiese. street commissioner.
and upon recommendation of the fire
department
Iver Dybdahl, chief of fire depart
ment.
A G. Fricke first assistant
Chas. Severson, second assistant
Moved that the meetings of the
board be held at the city hall every
Monday at 500 p. m.
Motion carried.
COMMISSIONERS Mathews ana kay
determined by lot their respective
terms as follows: H. B. Mathews to
serve for two (2) years, and f. ]. Ray
for four (4D years.
No further business appearing. on
motion, the board adjourned
T. l. Flittie,
Attest Mayor.
c. H Stoddart, City Auditor
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-06

nicipal commissions are seeking So
luton.
Why not stop burning up the exist
ing buildings, if there are not enough
to 90 around and more cannot be built
under existing conditions? Thousands
of homes are burned each month, most
of them through carelessness. II
housing is so important, if homes are
so hard to find, why not be careful
with those that we have? Apply fire
prevention methods. Be careful about
matches, smoking, lighting and heat
ing apparatus and gasoline. Clear out
the rubbish, inspect the fiues, watch
the shingle roofs. Conservation is the
order of the day. and if the shortage
Of dwellings will cause householders
70 be careful about the fire hazards
Of their homes one criminal cause of
that shortage will be greatly reduced.
The damage by fires in BrookiTfgs
county in February, 1920, was 81 10000.
In the state the total damage amounted
to s6S,7S9.69.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-06
SEE NE FOR LOANS

Having resigned my position with
the State Rural Credit Board | am
employed by John H. Roberts in his
investment business.
Probably all applications for loans
from this county to the Rural Credit
Board will be referred to me for in
spection and report.
| shall also take applications for
loans and think can assure all appli-
cants good service.
Better see me if you anticipate max
ing loan and | suggest that you do
not wait until you must have the
money. Make application six weeks
to sixty days in advance.
NJ G. Carlisle,
Phone 421. Under First Nat. Bank.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-06

Miss Hjertaas. All of the dances,
drills and athletic stunts were exc
cuted with the perfect mechanical per
cision that canes only with long and
arduous practice The program con
sisted of complicated grand march,
wand drill, magyar or Russian folk
dance, Indian club swinging, buck
jumping and a Zouave drill. The spec
tators were all highly pleased with
the performance and loud in their
praise of the work of the girls and
Miss Hjertaas