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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-03-05
Making Play Pay.

A Bay City sociologist urges all IA
theirs to learn to play games of make
believe with their children, whatever
the expenses of energy or time, saying
it will in the end prove well worth
while, and we can fully agree with
this because of the excellent results
we have already obtained pretending
we are the sleeping child when Santa
Claus comes. or the black bear that
has holed up for the winter when the
Indian comes hunting for him.
troit News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-03-05
WISE Saws Lohn Tuthill

Tried everything to kill them Mix
ed poison with meal, meat, cheese, etc.
Wouldn't touch it. Tried RAT SNAP,
inside of ten days got rid of all rats.
You don't have to mix RAT-SNAP
with food Saves fussing, bother
Break a cake of SNAP, lay it
where rats scamper. You will see no
more. Three Sizes 25c, SOC, $1OO Sold
and guaranteed by
George E. Marshall, John Stewart and
Frost's Pharmacy.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-03-05

Terms Under $40 Cash-Over Approved Paper
LUNCH AT NOON-If stormy will be held the
following day.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-03-05
REsrFuL RESULTS FOR MEN

Only person who has experienced that awful
all night cough that sometimes follows intlu-
enza can appreciate what a good nights sleep
can be. Mrs Annie Dawson, 2OSO Myrtle St.
Long Beach, Cal, writes: THE result of using
Foley's Honey and Tar was a restiul one for
me" Foley's Honey and Tar checks harsh,
racking coughs eases wheezy breathing; stops
tickling in throat; covers raw, irritated sur
faces with soothing, healing coating.
Frost's Pharmacy. So Main ST.,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-03-05

G. w. & n. III. STONE
THE JEWELLERS
Al MAIN STREET A& MIDDLEBURY
Are You Thinking Of Victrola?
If So Why Not Talk With Us, About 1t,
Here You Will Usually Find All Models
of Victrolas.
We Mean To Have Always In Stock
Every Machine From $4,000 to $4,000,
The Demand For Victrolas Has Been
And Still Is, So Great That We Are
Sometimes Temporarily Out Of Certain
Numbers, But Even At That, People Tell
Us That We Have A Better Display
Than The Stores Of The Larger Cities
Victor Records, Too
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-03-05

James Oney, a well known Middle
bury boy, who is now serving on the
U. S. S. Oklahoma, writes from Colone,
Panama that the Atlantic fleet which
includes the Pennsylvania Arizona,
Nevada and Oklahoma have been visit
ing Barbados, Trinidad and the Pana
ma zone.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-03-05

FrOsts Pharmacy, 50 Main St.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-03-05
Ask Your Soldier Boy How "Cooties"
Got Such a Hold

He'll tell you that the battlefronts
of Europe were swarming with rats,
which carried the dangerous vermin
and caused our men misery. Don't let
rats bring disease into your home.
When you see the first one get RAT
SNAP That will finish them quick.
Three sizes, 25c, SOC, $100 Sold and
guaranteed by
George E. Marshall, John Stewart and
Frost's Pharmacy
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-03-05
The Three nRIs.n

"Treaty making" said Senator SOr-
ghum, "calls for the three rs"
"Ha haw chimed the deferential
laughter; you mean reading, 'riting
and 'rithmeticr"
mo Reading, reservation and
rough house."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-03-05
A FRIEND RECOMMENDED THEM

person often does more good than he
realizes when he tells a suffering friend how
to get well. J. ~ Tohill, clerk Lottie Hotel,
Evansville Ind, writes: For weeks l suffered
constantly with pains in the muscles of my
thigh, l was treated by the doctor for rheuma-
tism but found no relief. Upon recommended
ton OF friend, l tried Foley Kidney Pills and
began to get relief almost Immediately" Good
for backache rheumatic pains, stiff joints.
Frost's Pharmacy, SO Main St.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

the reliable firm that their father
started. L. L .Perine is As years old
and r. c. is 46. Both have families
and will take them to California as
soon as the business is sold and they
are free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

The old Leavitt house, S1S Jackson
street, which has stood for nearly fifty
years, is being wrecked to clear the
site for the new main exchange build
ing soon to be constructed by the
Southwestern Bell Telephone com
pany.
Little about the ruin Of the old
home shows that at one time it was
one of the finest houses in the city.
except the California redwood with
which it is finished thruout, now being
stripped from the walls and stacked
for sale. Suggestive of the former at
Effectiveness of the place is what re-
mains of a water lily pond where four
or five lilies are blooming in stagnant
water among boards, bricks and other
debris.
The house was built in 1872 by
John Douglas, prominent jeweler,
with a business located at 205 Kansas
avenue. Douglas was a Californian
and his fondness for the California
red wood led him to finish his home
in that material. In 1881 he returned
to California because of i'll health,
after having sold his home to Sylvanus
Lorenzo Leavitt, wealthy Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
way Telephone building

banker 1t was Leavitt who added the
attraction of water lily ponds to the
north lawn of the home, in which he
also cultivated gold fish and para
disc fish, and many varieties of moss.
He built a conservatory adjoining the
north side of the house. The Leavitt
family is said to have possessed much
fine furniture and many interesting
relics. Leavitt was extremely fond of
flowers and worked for hours in his
garden. Portieres made of Jobs
tears" hard, seedlike flowers were
among the unique decorations in the
home.
In 1892 Leavitt became associated
with Wiggin Brothers & Company.
one of the largest dry goods stores
of the city. He was active in the Re
public party and in the prohibition
movement, and was member of the
Congregational church.
The property passed into the hands
of Leavitt's widow and later to son,
Harrison L. Leavitt, who now lives
at 1881 Jackson. The property was
sold to the Bell Telephone company
in 1917
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
FEARS MOB Law
Troy Husband Who Shot Wife
Held in Jail.
Says He Killed Because She
Would Not Live With Him.

Troy, Kan, June 19.-Fear of vio-
Ience caused officials to keep a close
watch today on Emery Machmer. 81,
held for shooting his wife at the home
miles from here yesterday afternoon.
Machmer is said to have threatened
to get either Ruth or some member oil
the Whitaker family as a result of
their separation last January.
Machmer was released only few
days ago from the Doniphan county
Jail, where he had been serving a
sixty day sentence on charge of beat
ing his wife,
An angry mob of Troy citizens
which gathered soon after ms arrest
by Sheriff Privett threatened to force
the doors of the county jail at Troy
and lynch the prisoner.
Machmer drove up to the farm
house in an automobile Friday
His wife, her r-in-law, Mrs. Lewis
Whitaker, and her little niece, Verla
Ramsay, years old. were in the
house When Machmer approached,
the little tot ran and hid in a clothes
closet. Mrs. Whitaker ran from the
house t. get her husband from the
field snd the Inflated wife ran upstairs
and locked herself in room Mach
me= followed. Just as he beat down
The door to the room, his wife jumped
thru a window onto the roof of the
veranda. He followed. and she leaped
TO the ground. He jumped also ana
Immediately shot her, inflicting three
wounds, two in the left forehead and
one in the right temple. Mrs. Mach
mer was unable to arise after her fall
and was PROSTATE on the ground as
she was shot
Machmer, who has been working IN
a garage at Highland, ten miles from
tn, Whitaker home, left there yester-
day morning q. in a motor car, Whlch
was found after the killing a mile
north of the Whitaker house. In the
car were a number of loaded cart
4 posse of farmers led by the sher-
iff found Machmer hiding In hay
stack a mile nearer Troy He MADE
no resistance, altho he was armed WIN
two revolvers and pair OF brass
knucks. He also carried pair or
handouts.
The officers state that Machmer
confessed to the murder saying ina.
he did it because his wife would not
live with him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
DENOUNCE EGG PARTY
EIIinwood Newspaper and Business
Men Define Local Sentiment.

Ellinwood business men and cltlzens
have seemingly joined in denouncins
the rotten egg party staged seNeral
weeks ago for the benefit of j. q.
Steyic of Topeka and other Nonpartl-
san league speakers. An lnVestlgatlon
of the egg party has been directed by
Governor Allen.
Several columns of first page space
were devoted to the incident by the
Ellinwood Leader, one of the strong
weekly papers of Barton county. In
discussing the affairs and defining
local sentiment, the Leader said in
part:
Many false rumors were circulated to the
effect that the Ellinwood merchants We're
in league with the plot to break up their
meeting and would not even wait on the
farmers when they came into the stores
that day.
Every one of these rumors when traced
down was found to be untrue. In inter
viewing the business men of Eillnwood, the
writer has not found one but who depiored
the happenings of that day. The citizens
of Ellinwood are not in favor OF MOB law,
but were helpless to do anything last tues,
day. The fact of the matter is, the deal
was pulled off SO quickly that 1t was all
over before the people up town knew what
was going on.
No fair minded person can sanction the
breaking up of a farmers meeting II they
are real Americans and believe in the con
situation of the state and nation. .,,.,oa,
However citizens may differ in pol1Ocai
views each should be accorded the right TO
his own opinion, and only by open and
frank discussion can problems OF puDhe
concern be properly understood.
The meeting in VOLTS grove in Ellln-
wood last week was not secret meeting
1t could of been the privilege OF an TO on nave
true to their oath of office, could have been
relied upon to have promptly stopped the
meeting in the event that anything was
said and done that constituted viola
fiOn of the law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

ing division of the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college this week. 1t will be
set up in the college machine shops
for the use of students of engineering
of whom there were more than LOU
regularly enrolled in K. S. A. c. dur
ing the last year. The machinery cost
the college less than $4,000.
The college was enabled to purchase
it from the United States war depart
ment at l 5 per cent of the government
cost by virtue of the Caldwell act, re-
Gently passed by congress. Much of
the machinery was bought by the gov
eminent toward the close of the war
and never had been used.
1t would have cost the college from
100000 to $4,000 to buy the equip
ment in the open market. At the rate
of past appropriations for additions to
the equipment it would have taken
from ten to twenty years to have ac-
quired it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
WOMEN need
NOT STAND II
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound Surely Re-
moves Suffering and Pain.
Here is Proof.

st. Paul, Neb.--'1 suffered with
periodical pain for about four years SO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
BY W. L. HUGGINs, JR.

The Perine Plow Works. the oldest
business institution in Topeka. being
founded in 1857 by A. B. Perine, is
about to dissolve from business if the
plans of the two sons of the founder,
L. L. and r. c. Perine, materialize.
The brothers have run the business
since they were / 5 years old, and have
watched it grow from a strictly horse
shoeing and farm-ma chine repair shop
to a welding and automobile business
They are going to sell out and take
their families to California to live.
In 1857, A. B. Perine, then a boy
of 81, came from Cuba. n. Y. where
he had learned the blacksmith trade
and opened a blacksmi-h shop on the
site where the Warren NJ. Crosby store
now stands, and for a number of years
the business thrived until a larger
place was necessary. He then moved
his shop to Eighth and Kansas ave-
nue., the site now occupied by the
New Toggery. A little later the bust
ness again shifted, this time to little
farther east, to the site now occupied
by the Majestic theater About 1885.
Mr.. Perine. with his business con-
tinually growing and demanding more
Quincy. where the business has been
carried on thirty-five years by the
Perine family.
27 Blacksmith Shops.
BY that time Topeka had grown
from a mere crossroads junction to
a town of considerable size, was the
capital of Kansas, and had twenty
seven blacksmith shops operating in
the town limits. The Perine Pillow
Works is the only one of those twenty
seven shops that has been able to
keep up wiz the times. L. L. Perine,
the eldest son, tells how the present
location was acquired. A. 3. Perine,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
MOVIE ACTORS UP IN ARMS.
Snubbed, COLONY" Starts Finish Fight
On Los Angeles.

Los Angeles. June 19.-When Will
liam de Mile, noted playwright. mo-
ton picture director, recently re-
signed from the fashionable Wiltshire
Country club, he started something.
His act was a spark that grew into
flame of fierce resentment on the part
of the great motion picture colony
against Los Angeles in general 1t
has assumed the proportions of an in
ternecine war.
De Mile, altho a graduate of Co
lumhia university and man OF
wealth and many attainmentS, was
asked to retire from the board OF d.
rectors on the ground that his tenure
might indicate the clubs desire for
movie folks as members. The i'm
plication was so plain and sweeping
that when de Mile more than COM
piled by quitting all connection with
the club, Walter Long, a prominent
actor. took up the cudgels and issued
a public statement that, because OF
the "abominable treatment by the
people of the city of film folks and
the film business. the latter were IN
a fight to the finish" against Los
Angeles.
Merchants were accused of grossly
oyercharging movie people, realty
owner were said to have put out signs
barring "peddlers, dogs and movie
actors;' social bodies and society
leaders were alleged to have snubned
The bitterness of the film people Is
so keen that at a big benefit entertain
nent in which many leading stars were
taking part, including Bessie Bar
riscale. Sessue Hayakawa, Roscoe
Arbuckle, Theodore Roberts. Clara
Kimban Young, William Desmond and
others, the use OF the stage by the
actors fatty was refused speaker for
a proposed civic enterprise. The act
provoked a public turmoil. Columns
of type in local newspapers have
sought to still the turbulent waters
Cooler heads in the studios (including
c. B. de Mile, brother of William)
have given out statements qualifying
the Long charges.
Theodore Roberts has come out Wig
orously in support of the charges, and
no one specifically has denied the ca
istence of the hostile feeling. The
Chamber of Commerce sought a peace
maker role and citizens are writing
to the papers pro and contra. There
are five thousand actors in Los Angeles
and more than twenty-five thousand
persons connected with the studios,
whose annual output IS thirty million
dollars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

troubles. You may publish this letter
for the benefit of other women."-Mrs.
WILL THOMAS. St. Paul, Neb.
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotic or harmf' I
drugs, and today holds the record or
being the most successful remedy for
female ills we know Of and thousands
of voluntary testimonials on file in the.
Pinkham laboratory at Lynn, Mass,
seem to prove this fact.
For forty years it has been the stand
ard remedy for female ills, and has re-
stored the health of thousands of women
who now are free from suffering by
its use.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

springs which were on all bug
gies. for the spokes. Mr.. Perine
believed that by using an S shaped
spoke, the wheel would take up all
the bumps and do away with the
necessity of springs The men to
whom il was shown had their doubts
but Perine had the courage of his con-
victions, and the next week, he had
equipped his light blackboard with
four of the new wheels and at noon
he hitched up his best trotting horse,
Prince. and drove out of the shop to-
ward the Avenue. Kansas avenue was
not paved in those days and the street
had just received a new surface OF
Kaw river gravel A good rain had
fallen the night before and the mud
was thick in places.
The population of Topeka had heard
about the new wheel. and many of
them were on the street waiting for
Perine to exhibit his new invention.
Promptly at IL o'clock. the cry was
| heard: Here he comes"' and he was
seen, turning the corner at Eighth and
Kansas avenues. sitting very erect in
his snappy blackboard with Prince
well check-reined and lifting his we'll
turned feet high. beating a tattoo on
the gravel.
| Down the street they came, slow at
first, but gaining rapid momentum as
| Prince got into high. The wheels,
| Joined together as they were with no
rims and the end of the spokes pro-
truding a half inch from the turn of
the wheel, began to catch gravel and
1 mud and throw it high into the
air. Prince was going faster and
faster, and because his driver was a
real master of horses, he had put no
blinkers on. The intelligent animal
knew that something was wrong by
| the way the gravel and mud was
showering around, and when the
crowd began to laugh it put fear into
the animals heart. and with a final
lunge he jerked the reins from Mr.
Perine's hands and ran amuck the full
| length of the block from Seventh to
| Sixth, turning west on Sixth with such
speed that he overturned the buggy
| throwing his driver high in the all
and wrapping him around a tree.
| Mr.. Perine suffered three broker
ribs and much gliding and kidding
| from his friends. That was the last
of the springless buggy and Perine's
Patent Wheel. A. B. Perine died last
year after a long and useful life al
tS4. He had worked little or none
| during the last fifteen years of hi:
| life. Mr.. Perine's theory was that
"workin' won't spoil 'em like the most
larnin'," and he put his two sons &c
work as soon as they were Is years
old letting them grow right into the
business. until in 1905, they took il
over and have made it continue to be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
AGGIEs GET MACHINERY CHEAP.
Nearly $780, Worth of Valuable En-
cheering Apparatus Obtained.

chinery valued at between $4,000 and
$50. 600 was received by the engineer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

seven or more children in the nursery
which had overgrown the large room
at the Provident association building.
In that ten years the only play
ground the children had was the side
walk in front of the association build
ing at Fourth and Jackson streets. A
month ago the Gage home was rented
by the association. Several families
of mothers and children are occupying
the home the requirement being that
they shall be mothers of very limited
financial means who are supporting
themselves and their children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19
Oldest Business In Topeka
Firmly Established When
Buggy Was Traded ForLots
A. B. Perine Started Blacksmith Shop Here in 1857
Colonel Veale Gave $4,000 Lots for One
Carriage-Shop To Be Sold.

the founder, was the possessor of
fine buggy, slightly aged, but still in
fine shape. Col George w. Veale
grandfather of Tinkham Veale. took
strong fancy to the ha idsome We
hicle, and asked Perine what he would
sell it for. Mr.. Perine was proud of
his buggy and not caring especially
about selling. told Colonel Veale so
The colonel walked away, considerably
miffed but a day or so turned up
again.
Traded Buggy for Lots.
well, Perine," he said, 'I'u give
you those two lots over on Eighth and
Quincy that you have been talking
about for the buggy. They will make
a fine location for you to build the
new shop" Mr.. Perine stroked his
chin a few minutes and looked medi-
tatively at the ground. Then he
Colonel. I like that buggy" he
said, but I'll let her go, providing you
give me the lots and twenty-five dol
lars to boot" The colonel jumped at
the proposition and tok the buggy
away with him the same day. The
corner has been in possession of the
Perine family ever since, and its
worth is now estimated at about $16,-
900.
His Invention.
Mr.. Perine was a well-k1own and
liked man in the town and conse-
quently a number of the men used to
visit him at his shop during the noon
hour. He was somewhat of an in
ventor and at one time for about three
weeks, he was no where in sight dur
ing his leisure hours. When he finally
put in appearance he answered the
questions of his friends as to his hid
ing, by showing them the plans for
a new buggy wheel, made with
a hub and the S shaped
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

The Provident association day nur-
sery work has grown from the day
about ten years ago that two baby
girls were cared for at the associa-
ton rooms while their mothers were
working-until there are twenty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-19

that L was unable
to do my work at
times. 4 friend told
me about Lydia Il.
Pinkham's V e &c =
table Compound and
l took it. 1t soon
stopped all my suf-
ering SO that / am
now feeling fine in
every way. I rec
ommend your medi-
cine TO my friends
who have similar