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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06

About the time man gets settled
down for life the trumpet blows and
he has to settle up.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06

Hunters are admonished to look and
act as little as possible like deer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-06
On "GOing to the Legislature"

And now for passing the buck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
Revival of Kansas ShOrtgrass
Motorcycle Club Planned.
Overland to Colorado Following
Garden City Races.
TOPEKAh is IN CHARGE OF TRIP
NJ. E. Harding Is Arranging for
Stops and Routes.
First "Vacation" of Club Since
Before the War.

Western Kansas farms and ranches
will see $50 pop-pops pop-popping
along in a cloud of dust en- route to
Colorado. if the plans of the revived
Kansas Shortgrass Motorcycle club
are fulfilled. The starting point will
be at Garden City Immediately after
the 3o0-nile national Championship
races are completed at Dodge City
July s.
NJ. E. Harding. of the Harding
Wheel company of Topeka. is on the
executive committee arranging the
tour
The first and only stop in Kansas
will be made at Syracuse. Las Animas,
La Junta, Rocky Ford, Puebla, Flor
ence. Canon City. Cripple Creek, Colo
RADIO Springs, Palmer Lake. Castle
Rock. and Denver. will all be enroute
stops and the party expects to arrive
in Denver about July is.
Many of the pop-pops will have side
cars attached, making it possible for
the diver to take a passenger. ANY
motorist in the state will be permitted
to make the tour by applying for en-
try blanks from Harding. The last
tour OF the club, which formerly was
an annual event. was held in 1914.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03

up the election contests and the slay-
cry forces controlling, celebrated July
by unseating the anti-slavery men.
Two days later it adjourned, to recon-
vene at Shawnee Mission on the Mis-
souri, border, and the Pawnee capitol
was left deserted
The slavery forces were not done
with it, however. Jefferson Davis, as
secretary of war. ordered a resurvey
of the Fort Riley reservation and the
PaWnee townsite was declared to be
on government land. The log cabins
of the settlers were ordered removed
and the capitol destroyed. Soldiers,
starting to carry out the latter order.
sent a cannon ball thru one end OF
the building. but for some unexplained
reason halted their work with that.
and for half a century the building
was left to the elements, the wood
work decaying, the floors distntegrat-
ing and the roof falling in.
Finally a bill passed congress ceoing
one acre, the site of the capitol, to the
state of Kansas. which placed COM
memorative tablet in the old structure
and restored the crumblfng walls.
that it might remain as a marker OF
an interesting chapter Of the early
history Of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
Classical Music Coming Back,
Clara EIledge Says.
GraphOphOne Expert Proves 1t
by Record Purchases.
TIRE QUICKLY OF THE "JAzz"
Wane of 'Shoe Shine" Airs Is
"Passing Out to Sea-"
Public Has No Use for War
Songs Amy More.

Popular music is fast losing its hold
upon the public and classical music is
again coming into its own, Topeka
music stores report.
Miss Clara EIledge. of the Jenkins
Music company. who has charge of
the Victrola records, says that only
the younger set come down to listen
TO the newest dance selection or Jazz
melody. When a man or woman
comes in to ask for a piece she does
not have to ask them what kind they
want.
'I just get out one of Mccormack
or Tettrazini's latest, and they gener-
ally buy. The war pieces such as
Goodbye Broadway. Hello France
are about forgotten. Right now the
public are seemingly trying their best
to forget all about the war. and since
the armistice I have not had a single
request for the alleged patriotic
pieces. They were surely popular dur
ing the fighting but they have van
ished now Only one or two will live.
Keep the Home Fires Burning will
always be bought, and believe 1t will
take it's place in history as a sequel
to Marching Thru Georgia. and
songs"
Like Best known Artists.
Miss Elledge also reported that every
day she received phone calls from
every part of the city asking II Nc
Cormaok or some of the other famous
singers have made any new records
that they have released.
Many new and clever tricky songs
are reported to be selling well. Bert
williams, Victor Roberts, Sidney
Phillips and other new Victor artists
are writing and producing the tricky
ones with great rapidity, but they last
only a short while. and then the GUS
toner comes back and buys another
classic. AS Miss Elledge says: THE
jazz piece catches the ear the first
time it is heard, the second time it
duIls and the third time the hearer
doesn't listen any more"
So the classic is coming back into its
own
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
Theater Goers as the Box Office
Man Sees Them.
Most Would Rather Sit in Gal
lery Than in Boxes.
WHEN WOMEN 60 SHOPPING
One Patron Tried to Slip Thru
"ChiId" on Lower Price.
Then Forgot to Pick Up Her
Change From So Bill.
Pardon me. madam"

Pardon me, madam"
The usher at a local theater had
paused beside one of the aisle seats,
his hand outstretched-
Here they are and know they are
right" answered a woman's voice
from the semi-gloom as after a hur-
rted search thru a voluminous hand
bag the woman brought out her seat
checks.
''It isn't your checks. it's your
change" replied the usher. You left
it on the ledge at the box office"
'.And the funny part of it is" said
the box office man, telling of the in
cident, that same woman had spent
several minutes of my time trying to
get a child's ticket at a five-cent
reduction for her daughter who feel
sure is attending high school. She
was so upset by her failure to save
five cents that she walked away leav-
ing the remains of her five dollar
Bill behind"
Box Seats Sell Last.
According to the box office man,
there are many foibles of the human
race displayed at a vaudeville 'theater
and not all of them on the stage
either.
The last seats in the house to be
sold are always the boxes he declares.
The average person objects to being
on display and often will take gal
lery seats in preference. =.
And speaking of gallery seats. :"
the 3. o. man continued. That re-
minds me of a woman who came in
here recently and asked the price of
the parquet seats. After receiving
the information, she asked the price
of seats in the gallery. The difference
apparently surprised her. But I was
"'Do you see the same show up in
the gallery2'''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
Reservation.

The legislature, on converting. took
Sixty-five years ago Friday. July 2,
1855, the first territorial legislature of
Kansas met in the state capitol at
Pawnee. Governor Reeder. an anti
slavery leader. had proclaimed Paw
nee, then on the extreme western
edge of civilization, as the seat of
government in order to make control
of the session by the slavery adyo-
Gates more difficult, and the Pawnee
Townsite company had built the CAPT
toll, a two-story building of stone
quarried in the nearby hills. The
first floor chamber was planned for
the use of the house of representa-
tives, the second floor for territorial
council. as the upper house was
called
But Missourians had poured into
every voting district and voted slavery
candidates for the legislature into Of
flee when the election was held. Gov
ernor Reeder next had ordered a new
election in several districts where the
Missourians had appeared in armed
bodies and when the same tactics were
repeated. countered by issuing election
certificates TO the anti-slavery candi-
dates in spite Of the returns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
sHAKEUP AT REFoRMAToRY.
Hutchinson Institution Gets Five New
Officers When BigcIow Goes In.

Hutchinson. Kan, July 5.-Follow-
ing the installation of A. S. Bigelow.
of Hiawatha, as superintendent of the
state reformatory. several Changes in
the official staff of the institution are
reported.
ChatIes Martin, recently night war
den at the penitentiary at Lansing,
becomes assistant superintendent. sue
ceeding Richard Allen, a veteran at
tache of the reformatory, who takes
charge of the dairy. D. w Larkin
becomes supervisor OF the farm to
succeed Milt Cross. r. NJ Cunning
ham, formerly a mess sergeant in the
Eighty-ninth division, becomes assis-
tant chef. Waiter Woods, head of the
printing department. resigned to be-
come manager of the Anthony Re
publican. No successor has been ap-
pointed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
ROBBER ELUDED WATCHALAN.
officer Went in to Get Him But Left
Door Open for Thiers Exit.

Burlington, Kan, July "a robber
was discovered in the Hoffman Mer-
camille store here and c. J. Hoffman
was called who together with a night
Waterman, Howard Thompson, en-
tered the store leaving the front door
unlocked. The robber used this for
an exit. He had about $1,000 worth
of silk and other expensive dress
goods about ready to depart with.
The next night a robber entered the
Howard Meyer mems furnishing
house in Waverly and took two suits
of clothes and a few other minor
articles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03

thoro examination by his clerks, Mrs.
Isabel r. Lutz and the Rev. c. D.
Shoemaker. AS supervisor the census
department made no mistake in the
choice of DR.. Joe Lutz for the posi-
ton.
The Norcatur Dispatch says of con-
ditions of the country in that part of
the state: There may be other spots
on this old globe good to look at, but
none more beautiful than northwest
Kansas in this month. None can gaze
at her robe of green without admiring
her" This town is on the B. & NJ.
road, halfway between Norton and
Oberlin, the main business street OF
the town being the line of the two
counties Norton and Decatur.
The Oberlin Herald has started out
on its forty-second year. The editor
and publisher are E. M. and E. w:
Couldren. When they took hold OF
the paper 1t had 700 subscribers, OF
They were cut off as fast as the chop
ping knife could get to them. Now
the paper has about 100 good paying
names on the. books, besides the best
business in the history of the Herald
Political Notes.
P D. Scott, present member Of the
legislature from Rocks county. is a
candidate for denomination. The
Democrats have centered on one OF
their party for the honor, s. r.
Tucker, farmer and stockman in the
Codeu country
The Democrats of the Sixth district
will go into the congressional contest
with three candidates for the primary
nomination, ]. H. Egan, of Cheyenne
county; J. c. Ruppenthal. of Russell,
and Miles w. Mulroy. of Ellis.
C. E. Howard, of Rawlins county, Is
A. new candidate for senator in the
Thirty ninth district. He is farmer
living near Mcdonald. He has been
a farmer, school teacher and stock
raiser in his county since he became
a voter, besides being a member of
the board of commissioners for the
last eight. years. This makes five
good and true Republicans who want
to succeed the present state senator
James Malone.
Only three candidate filed their
papers for legislative honors in Trego
county the same day. J. NJ. Rinker.
Democrat, and H. F. Kline, present
incumbent, and H. S. Givler- There
is going to be an exciting race:
1t looks If the Democrats OF Nit
chell county have no chance of elect
ing a member of the legislature.
Slater White was the choice of rep
resentative body of them, and he de-
clined. The same meeting brought
out Ira Keller, for senator of the
Jewell Mitchell county district. He
too, declined.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03

time the town was in control of the
petticoat government from constable
to mayor. 1t is the only town in the
Sixth district ever controlled and run
by women officers. The town has
had two Republican candidates for
congress, one of whom was nominated
and beaten in the election. and the
other failed of a nomination in the
convention. 1t was the former home
of w. H. Haskell at one time warden
of the penitentiary. With these his
torical facts in her favor how is
Gaylord going to get along without a
newspaper?
The people of Smith county have
erected a soldiers memorial tablet
which will be placed in the court
house square, to be dedicated the mid
die of August The program as now
arranged will be an address by Cover
nor Allen, a parade in uniform by the
American Legion boys in which every
school in the county is invited to take
part carrying flags, and a run salute.
A feature of the occasion will be big
basket dinner. Inscribed on the tablet
will be the names of all overseas boys
who served in tina war from Smith
county. Credit is due to the noble
women of the county for the success.
The officers of the committee are:
Mrs Isabel R. Lutz, chairman; Mrs.
A. Garrison. treasurer. There will be
700 names on the tablet and it will
cost $4,000. The commissioners CO.
operated with the committee in a
satisfactory manner to defray ex-
penses.
DR.. Joe Lutz, of Smith county, is
finishing his work as supervisor of
census of the Sixth congressional dis
trict. The twenty-five counties were
divided into $50 districts, and the su-
pervisor received returns from all of
them. 1t is found the district held its
own in population the past ten years.
which will finally show up better than
many districts composed mostly of a
rural population), can report If all
Supervisors had as competent force as
the Sixth district had the accuracy of
the 1920 census will not be questioned.
His clerks were conscientious. and felt
they owed the United States their best
endeavor. Every paper was given a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the Columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL


July 3. 1898.
'By the way" said Sam Radges today,
I've got the briefest history of the war
Of the rebellion that was ever invented ~
Radges led a reporter TO his quarters In
the office block. The history Of the
belliOn'' is kept conspicuOusly on top of
bookcase. In the center is a human skull
found on 4 battlefield, with a Union sol
dier's cap upon II. On the right is bust
in black marble of q negro, and on the left
is miniature bale Of cotton. Altho Rad
geS served thru the war. this is the only
history Of the rebellion" in his possession
DR.. T. B. Reynolds and family~of North
Van Buren, street will spend the Fourth
at the country home of Mr.. Whitney.
Miss Hortense Kelly. who IS visiting
Mrs. Arthur Capper, will return to EN-
pOria next Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs Albrecht Marburg and
daughter Wilhelmina, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Wolfe and son William and Miss Margaret
Jetmore will go to Wnkarusa fishing to-
morrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03

o no of
promised
resorts To
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
Prosperity Notes.

A quarter section of Rocks county
land owned by ]. w. Burnett, was
bought by James Lala for $4,000. the
nurchaser believing he made a good
bargain.
out in Oakley, Logan county,
new school house at a cost of 100000,
is being built. Besides a 5O-barTek
grist mill, a 10000 bushel capacity
elevator, several residences and other
improvements are under way.
Joe Papas. a substantial farmer OF
Trego county, has added another
quarter section to his farm. paying
$1,000. A few years ago, ne could
have bought a section for the price
he paid for this quarter
HaIford. Thomas county. is having
a town lot sale. Situated on the
Union Pacific. between Colby and
Oakley, and in section OF country
full of the best crop of wheat raised
this year, the town is expected to take
on a big building activity this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
Sixth District NetUs Notes
Items and "reminiscences by An Old Timer With His
Ear to the Grass Roots.

built five miles from the town, and
started a new town and named it
Bogue. There isn't much left of Nico-
demus this day except the name most
For many years the colored people of
Graham and adjoining counties have
celebrated the emancipation of their
race at Nicodemus. At one time one
celebration was plenty to hold annual
~, but later two have been held the
same day, in separate groves, said to
be on account of jealousy among the
colored people. The writer of theEe
notes attended several of them, and
heard senators, congressman, state Of
ficers, and county officials speak. In
earlier years probably 5000 people,
white and black, have been present
Many of the colored people having
left Graham county, the annual at
tendance is now from 1000 to $500
The colored people have made good
progress in Graham county and the
Nicodemus settlement. Many of them
have got quite well to do in general
farming and stock. E. P. McCabe the
officer in Kansas. served two terms
as state auditor. His home was in
Nicodemus. Those who stayed with
their farms thru grasshoppers, drouth
and hot winds. succeeded. The coun-.
try is fine as any in northwest Kan
SIS. From the town one can see
Bogue, Damar and Hill City.
Is the town of Gaylord going to get
along without a newspaper? The an
nouncement is made that the Seminal
will suspend publication. That paper
is an old landmark. 1t was started
in the pioneer days when J. r. Bur-
row operated the mail and stage line
between Gaylord and Smith Center.
The town was the home of Webb Nc
Nall. who was the Populist state
superintendent of insurance. One
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.

Man will be a soul a long time after he
has ceased to have A body; and it takes
a soul to lift a bOdy."AJames l. Vance
Trust men and they will be true to you :;
treat them greatly and they will show
themselves great.-Emerson.
The years at the spring!
And Days at the morn!
The lark's on the wing
The sDail's on the thorn!
Gods in His heaven:
Ais right with the world.
Browning.
Nothing can work me damage but my
self; the harm that I sustain carry about
with me, and 1 am never a real sufferer
but by my own fault.-St. Bernard.
He that humbleth himself shall be exalt-
ed.-Luke IA IL.
Time is
To slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice;
But for those who love
Time is not!
Henry Van Dyke.
There is no vice which mankind carries
to such extremes as that of avarice.-Swift.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-03
SCRIPTURE
Hebrews s:f2-1s

Take heed brethren, lest there be in any
of you an evil heart of unbelief, In depart
ing from the living God.
But exhort one another daily, while 1t is
called Today; lest any of you be hardened
thru the deceitfulness of sin
For we are made partakers of Christ, II
we hold the beginning Of our confidence
steadfast unto the end;
While it is said, Today IL ye will hear
his voice, harden not your hearts, as IN
the provocation. -.
For some, when they had heard, did
provoke: howbeit not all that came out
Of Egypt by Moses.
years? was it not with them that had
sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilder
ness?
should not enter into his rest, but to them
that had believed not?
So we see that they could not enter In
because of uubelief.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1920-05-29
Cherish Enthusiasm.

To keep to the forefront you must
not lose your enthusiasm. Charge your
boy dreams with man experience and
watch the world gasp at your progress.
When the visions of youth set the skill
of maturity to definite tasks there's
bound to be ringing achievement that
will last. The sober old world will
scold and scott. but it can never har-
ness the spur of youth. Dreams bred
of surging desire and chatting enthu-
siasm are bound to find fulfIlment
whatever the cost And best of all
the fulfillment means blessing to the
world. We all profit by every new
gift to the world Gifts are the product
of dreams and visions. It's the spirit
born of youth that provides for the
worlds progress. Keep young by
dreaming and doing to the extent of
your power. It's spur to power.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1920-05-29
Dodo's Biz Mistake,

The dod0-its name today a syno-
nym for back number" ex-
tlnct owing to the circumstance that
1t was good to eat. Not being able to
fly, its clumsy waddle gave il no
means of escape. Sailors stopping at
the island of Mauritius, to which It
was native, killed it for food. Not
even a skeleton af the dodo now
exists. and until recently Il was sup
posed there was orEy one picture of
the bird-made by an artist who Wis
tied Mauritius in 1926. But il now an
pears that living specimens were
taken to Amsterdam at about the
same period, and beautiful painted
portraits of them have turned I'D. One
OF the latter is of a white dodo (not
an albino). which presumably repre-
sented distinct variety, the ordinary
type having pumage that was mostly
gray.-Detroit Journal.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1920-05-29
CHILD GIVEN UNIQUE NAME
american Girl to Go Through Life
With YWcA as One of Her
Applications.

we've named her Y. w. G.. Ar
saldAa proud young mother as she dis
played her two-months-o baby to a
group of girls at one of the many
Y. w. c. A. branches in New York city
recently. SO "AIice YWCA Stambou-
iides' is real child the possessor of
a unique name which will always be
a reminder of her mothers first DAYS
IN a strange country. When Mrs.
Lulu Stamboulides, a pretty Rouma-
MAN girl, first came to the United
States nearly two years ago her young
Greek husband, whom she had conc
here to marry, took her Immediately
to the Harlem branch of the Y. w.
G. A. in New York city to learn the
American language, customs and
ideals. He himself had found this
training at the Y. NJ c. A. Mrs. SIAM
boulides entered English, art, cooking
and sewing classes and soon became
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1920-05-29
JITNEY' NOW WITHOUT HONOR
as Real Money in These Spend
thrift Days.
f.T.ll9

Once upon time nickel was real
money-but those days are gone.
In the days of our youth, watermel-
ons could be purchased for the sum
of five cents, but now not even the
transparent slice can be obtained for
this sum.
Enough bananas could be bought for
five cents to give three boys indiges-
ton, but that was long ago.
There was time when small boys
were wont to do chores around the
home for the coveted nickel-but not
now.
Who can forget the man who used
to walk into the cigar store and say,
in loud voice, "Give me a good
nickel cigar"
There was a time when a nickel
bought loaf of bread, or a dish of
Ice cream paid for shoe shine and
even made a sizeable tip. Some of the
old citizens, In their more reminiscent
moods, can recall those days-or at
least they say they can.
But gradually, one by one, the uses
OF the "jitney' passed away. 1t would
buy nothing to eat, nothing to drink,
unless reinforced by the once despised
penny, until only ride on a street car
remained to be secured in exchange
for the nickel.
And then the street railway company
followed in the wake of a long and
illustrious procession of profiteers.