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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-07
POISON YOUNG MENTALITIES
Textbook Presses of Z. S. Trick Public,
Charges Aggie. Professor.

Textbook Presses of Q. S. Trick Public,
Charges Aggie. Professor.
Salt Lake City. Utah. July T.
School book presses of America were
charged with "tricking the innocent
public, poisoning young minds and
moral lawlessness." by J. W. Searson,
English professor of the Kansas State
Agricultural College. in an address at
the National Educational convention
here today.
Pleas for a higher standard in text
book publication were voiced by Pro-
fessor Searson.
THE evil must be attacked at the
source" he said. mo new text book
should be published that does not Of
fer a distinctive. constructive i'm
provement over texts already in use"
Professor Searson suggested sew
eral definite steps which he said
should be followed in making dis
tinctive text books which answer the
highest need of the pupils. teachers
and the public" One suggestion was
made that no manuscript, regardless
of merit, be published merely for the
sake of sales. Another proposed that
publishers locate and cultivate text
book authors with scholarship and
real vision. A third suggested that the
authors manuscript be tried in schools
before publication.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-07
Is YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA
From the Columns OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL


JULY 1895.
One OF William Green & Sons delivery
horses met death in runaway accident
yesterday. John Green had him out about
two miles in Gordon street exercising him.
Green was on the ground endeavoring to
hold him when he broke away. After run
ming three-fourths of a mile he came to a
a sink-hole filled with mud, and stumbling
forward into this, his head was buried in
the mud Too exhausted to pull his head
out, he suffocated.
During vacation new floors are being
laid at Quincy school in some of the rooms
and the furnace is being given a going
over.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Meade chaperoned a party
Of sixteen young people on the 4th at a
picnic on Pixies Peak winding up in the
evening with a carriage drive thru the
Garden of the Gods. Mrs. Meade and chill
dren are spending the summer in Colorado.
Mrs. g. J .Mulvane, daughter Hazel and
sister Miss Name Hollis. accompanied by
Mrs. C. c. Baker and daughter Nellie. spent
Sunday at DR.. Mulvane's farm near Hoyt.
Mrs. A. S. Thomas and daughters, Misses
Nina and May, accompanied by their guest
Miss Mary Hiatt, will leave for Colorado
July 10.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-07
DID NOT COMPLETE HAUL.
So Thieves Played Return Engage
ment at Towanda Store.

Towanda, Kan. July Thieves
played a return engagement to Butler
county Tuesday night, when a mems
furnishing store here was robbed of
several dozen silk shirts, and other
clothing and materials
The robbers gained entrance to the
store by smashing in the glass in the
front door and then turning the latch.
Nostrace of them has been found. 1t is
thought that the thieves made their
getaway in a motor car. This is the
first store to be robbed in Butler
county in several weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-07
HOPE FOR KANSAS EDITORS.
Fl. Scott Man Says Canadian Paper
Makers Like Kansas Buying Plan.

Fl. Scott Man Says Canadian Paper
Makers Like Kansas Buying Plan
Fort Scott. Kan. July George
Tribune,.is in Canada on a mission for
Kansas newspapers in an effort to
make a deal with Canadian mills for
cooperative paper buying by the
smaller newspapers He writes that
the plan has been received with
warm sympathy by one of the larg-
er manufacturers Referring to his
visit at this mill. in Ottawa, Ontario,
he writes:
sistant sales manager and laid before
him our cooperative buying plan of
saving the smaller newspapers of the
states from extinction. He manifested
the same warm sympathy for the pub
fishers of small papers we found in
the head offices Of other large paper
producers.
Our plan. he said, was absolutely
the best practical way of protecting
the smaller papers from the greed of
the metropolitan papers. He asked if
the Canadian country press could be
included in the cooperative scheme,
saying they must either join with us
or organize independently as we in
the states are doing to escape the
speculative market created by the
over-buying of metropolitan papers.
The predicament of the smaller Ca
madam papers was well illustrated to
me at the little mining town of Tim
mons, where the publisher has been
paying nine cents a pound and the
mill located at this town. which is evil
IDENTIFY selling its output on the spot
market, has announced a new price
of fourteen cents. This mills paper
output, however. is but a bi-product
of its saw mills
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-07
OIL WE'LL WOKE UP AT NIGHT.
Left to Itself Florence Hole Became
Spouter Before Morning.

Florence, Kan, J1iy Monday
night the drillers on the National Re
filming company and the No. 5 Stovan,
drilled to the top of the sand and left
the well to be drilled in. When at s
o'clock Tuesday morning they re-
turned the well was flowing over the
top. This surprisei of the Florence
field is the fifth well for o. B. Stovall.
The least of them is pumping 400 bar
reIS dailV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-07
Potato Harvest Record Breaker.

Bonner Springs, Kan, July 7.-On
July 5, Clyde Beaver and John Pera-
son on the Frisbie farm dug $50 sacks
of potatoes, more than 200 bushels.
One team ploughed them out and the
two men loaded them in the car with
one other team. The potatoes went
200 bushels to the acre on land that
was built up with sweet clover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-07

THE crude petroleum market
L plays no favoriteS: All refners
come to it on equal terms.
The Standard Oil CompanyQndiana)
is no exception to this rule. 1t buys
the crude oil it needs in the open
market and pays the market price.
Only an infnitesinal part of the
crude oil used by the Standard Oil
Company (Indiana) comes from
wells in which 1t has even an in
direct interest.
The Standard Oil Company Qndiana) concen-
trates its attention upon the highly special
lied business of refining crude oil It sticks
to its knitting.
In the past four years the demand for the
refined products of petroleum has more than
doubled, while the increase in the production
of crude has been only about 25 per cent.
This growing demand, plus the increased cost
of drilling and equipping wells, has caused the
price of crude petroleum to advance.
The market price of crude oil is dominant
factor in the price which the Standard Oil
Company (Indiana) charges for gasoline
Wherever possible the Company anticipates
the trend of the market in making its con-
tracts for crude petroleum. Whatever benefits
it derives accrues to the public in lower gaso-
! line prices.
The price charged by the Standard Oil Com
pany Qndiana) for gasoline has advanced, but
not to the extent warranted by the advance
IN the cost of crude oil
The cost of this commodity to the consumer
would be very much higher were it not for
the fact that the Standard Oil Company
Qndiana), through more efficient refining
methods, is able to utilize and make into
useful products all portions of the crude
petroleum.
The extreme economy and efficiency of the
Standard Oil Company (Indiana) refining and
distributing methods have acted as deterrent
upon the upward trend of gasoline prices
This Company gives its customers in the IL
Middle Western states which it serves the
benefits derived from any savings which it
effects in the refining of gasoline and other
petroleum products.
Standard Oil Company
80 So. Michiean Ave-. Chicago. III.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-07

Leayenworth Uses Concrete Only.
Leavenworth. Kan, July Thirty
concrete bridges and large culverts
have been built on Leavenworth
county roads in the last four years. In
that period the county has built
bridges exclusively of concrete.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-21

The III e c II a n | cs
whereby a man Is ap-
parently being slowly
drowned while i'm
prisoned in a chamber
in which the water Is
continually rising.
The effect is gained
by moving the frame
work into deeper and
deeper water while at
the same time a barrel
OF water Is allowed to
flow into the frame
work.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
CALVERT.

The Ninth District Auxiliary OF
Union Hospital will meet with Mrs.
Frank Mckinney Thursday, Jan. %
at p. m. This is the month for the
annual donation to the hospital.
Contributions of money, canned
goods and groceries can be left with
Mrs. Mckinney any time this month
by the Ninth District friends OF
Union hospital.
A Silver Medal contest by the q.
A. H. s. students will be held in tba
High School this Friday evening.
A Farmers Institute will be hold
in the High School Friday evening
and all day Saturday, Jan. 20 and "a.
Prominent speakers are expected.
Miss Wotring, County Home Demon
stration Agent. will have something
Of special interest to women.
Miss Elizabeth Stephens Ia visiting
her sister. Mrs. Charles Reisler.
]. B. Fassitt is attending the Phil
adelphia Auto Show this week.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
George N. Bennett.

George N. Bennett, well known
resident of Chesapeake City, died
Jan. at the home of his sister, Mrs.
George s. Woolley, 500 w. 18th
street, Wilmington, DEL. from
Bright's disease, in the seth year OF
his age.
Mr.. Bennett was born in Chesa-
peake City, where he spent all his
life. He was the only son of George
w. and Elizabeth Bennett. His
father owned the first tugboat that
piled the Chesapeake & Delaware
canal.
Mr.. Bennett engaged in the drug
business for time, and afterward in
the coal and lumber business with
his brother-in-law, the late George s.
Woolley. He was a director of the
CHESAPEAKE City National Bank. He
never married. His sister, Mrs.
Woolley, is the only surviving men,
ber Of the family.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16

Memorial Fund For Pencader Church
A fund of seven hundred dollars
in Liberty Bonds has been placed in
trust by Mrs. Mary E. Cooch, Francis
A. Cooch of Newark, Edward w.
Cooch Of Wilmington and Mrs. Caro-
lima G. Schoolfield of Pocomoke City,
Md. for the maintenance of Pencader
Presbyterian church.
This is to be known as the Edward
Webb Memorial Fund in memory OF
Rev. Edward w. Webb, who was pas
tor of the church from 1866-1S71.
He was the father of Mrs. Mary e.
Cooch. This fund may be augment
ed by voluntary contribution. It
will revert to New Castle Presbytery
If Pencader should cease to exist as a
church.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
Peachx To Omit.

The Peach Bottom railroad is to be
abandoned, 204 of the 263 shares
having so voted at the annual meet
ing held at Fairmount, Pa. The
officers of the road reported an engi-
neer estimated it would cost thirty
thousand dollars to put new ties in
the road from Oxford to Fairmount,
and that the present ties were not
safe for traffic.
They also stated the road was
running behind at the rate of $400 a
month. but that in spite of this they
had continued to operate until the
United States Government condemn
ed their engines and they had no
money to repair them.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
LIGHT AND POWER FROM THE
sUsQUEHANNA.
Rising SUN To Be Connected Up With
The McCall's Ferry Plant.

Rising SUN To Be Connected Up With
The McCall's Ferry Plant.
The Commissioners of Rising Sun
have been negotiating with repre-
sentatives Of the Susquehanna Power
Company, and it is altogether prob
able that the town will be receiving
service from the plant on the river
at McCall's Ferry early in the sum-
mer.
An agreement has been reached
whereby the Susquehanna Company
assumes the $4,000 bonded indebt-
edness, placed on the aown for the
municipal lighting plant, and will
take over the pole line and wire sys-
tenn and give the town day and night
service.
The Sussuehanna Co. will extend
their line from Oxford as soon as
the frozen condition of the ground
will permit the setting of poles. The
company will supply the creamery at
Glen Roy and the Sharpless Co. in
this town with power and light.
The town lighting plant is already
overloaded and its taking over by the
McCall's Ferry concern will not only
give daylight service, but will permit
further extension. that the present
plant cannot carry.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
FARMERS INSTITUTES.
Will Be Held At West Nottingham
and Calvert Next Week.

West Nottingham Grange, in CO.
operation with County Agent Knode,
of Cecil county, and the Extension
Dept. OF Maryland College of Agri-
culture, will hold Farmers Insti-
tute in West Nottingham Academy
on Friday, Jan. 23. The ladies Of
the Grange will serve lunch.
Beginning at 10 a. m. the forenoon
will be devoted to spraying and
pruning of apple trees and the mix
ing of spraying compounds. The
afternoon to the cutting up Of pork
and beef for home curing, and to the
public installation of the Grange
officers. Demonstrations in Home
Decoration and Domestic Science
will also be given.
The evening will be devoted to
Horticulture, Agronomy, Feeds and
Feeding of Farm Animals, and
Round Table questions.
An Institute will be held in the
Agricultural High School building,
Calvert, on the evening of Friday,
January %, and all day Saturday,
Jan. "a. John H. Kimble, of Port
Deposit, will speak Friday evening a
500 o'clock, and an illustrated lee
ture on Home Decoration will be
given by Miss Stephenson.
At 1000 o'clock Saturday morn
ing Prof. S. B. Day will talk on farm
topics, and at 1880 DR.. s. S. Buck
ley will demonstrate stock judging
on the farm of c. M. Reisler.
Miss Wotring and Miss Stephen
son will be present all day Saturday
and give talks in the afternoon on
the remodeling Of clothing, etc. y
A lunch will be served by the
school at IL o'clock.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
No Liquor License Court In Chester
County.

A lucrative source of revenue to
Chester county lawyers and hangers
on has been shut off by the killing of
Old John Barleycorn, and there will
be no session of the Liquor License
Court in that county in March. The
date will be omitted on the legal
calendar for this year. The March
session has for many years proven
one of the lively occasions of the
legal calendar and a harvest time
for members of Chester County Bar.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Mid-Year Examinations Last Week
In January-Audit Shows
Accounts Correct.


Accounts Correct.
The Board Of Education met in
regular session on Tuesday, January
18th. Those present were VIM. M.
Pogue, President; DR.. Delmar Smith
ers, Vice President, and Wilmer j.
Falls, Commissioner.
Minutes of the previous meeting
we're read and approved and sundry
bills examined and ordered paid.
Consideration was given to the
Cecil County Plan for Club Work
which has been submitted to the
State Department for its action.
The Board ordered that the Mid
Year Examinations of pupils above
the third grade be held January %,
20, and 80. The questions are to be
prepared by the teachers, "and q
copy of such questions shall be pre-
pared by the teachers together with
the answers written by the pupils,
shall be preserved at the school
house for six months and shall be
open to the inspection of any inter-
ested person"
The resignation of Mrs. L. G.
White as principal of Franklin school
was accepted.
The following appointments were
confirmed: Rev. j. P. George as
principal of Middle Neck school;
Miss Josephine B. Stearns as prin-
cipal of Warwick school.
A report was read from the Will
liam A. Gillespie & Company, Certi-
fed Public Accountants, Baltimore,
stating that they made an audit of
the cash transactions of the Office OF
the Board of Education for the year
ended July 31st. 1919, and found
same to be correct. The audit en-
braced the examination of the can
celled checks and vouchers and the
application of same to the cash book.
The balance of cash on hand was on
deposit in the Second National Bank
of Elkton and verified with the bank
pass book and check book balance.
The meeting was then adjourned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
John Thomas Sergeant.

John Thomas Sergeant, a respect
ed and lifelong resident of this
section, died Friday, January 8, a,
the home of William A. Reeder,
near town, aged IS years. Mr.. Ser
geant had been in feeble health for
some months past and recently suf-
fered a stroke of paralysis, his con-
dition gradually growing worse,
until death finally claimed him.
The deceased was a son of Robert
and Rachel Sergeant, and was the
last survivor of family of three
sons and two daughters born to
them. He was born near Rising Sun
on what has been known in recent
years as the Parthenia Coulson
property. His parents died when he
was young man. Mr.. Sergeant fol-
owed farming most of his long life,
making his home with and conduct
ing the farm of the late Henry Bris
coe, adjoining town, for So years,
from the time he was IL until 70
years of age. For the past seven
years he had made his home with Mr.
and Mrs. VIM. A. Reeder. He never
married, and Clarence Thompson, of
near town. a nephew, is the only
near relative in this vicinity. There
are a number of other nieces and
nephews residing in Wilmington.
Del, and in North Carolina.
The funeral was held on Monday
afternoon, services being conducted
al hts late home by Rev. A. B. Hal
lock. with interment in West Not
t:ngham cemetery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
Mrs. C. v. Howard.

Mrs. Carrie v. Howard, an esteem.
ca lady of Elkton, widow of the late
Jacob Howard, died at Union Hos
pital, in that town, on Jan. Z, after
about two months illness from COM
plicatioa Of diseases, aged rs years.
Mrs. Howard was formerly Miss
Carrie ". johnson, daughter of the
late John A. Johnson, of near Elk
ton. and she spent her entire life In
that locality. One brother. William
A. johnson, of Philadelphia, sur
wives. The funeral was held from
the home Of her nephew, Mr.. Arthur
Rambo, Saturday afternoon; inter-
ment in Elkton Presbyterian ceme-
terry.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
Real Estate Sales.

At the administrators sale of real
estate of the late Thomas Herbert
Cummings, held on Friday last the
home property, near Pleasant Grove,
was purchased by Stephen C. Ragan
for $3.50. The property near
Pilot, embracing lot of ground and
frame dwelling, was purchased by
Andrew C. Fulton, the present ten
ant, for $3.50. One-half interest in
the Bald Friar property, frame
dwelling, barn and three acres of
land, was purchased by w. Albert
Caldwell for $405, who owned the
other half-interest.
The Elkton Cannery property on
West High street, in that town. was
sold last week by Robert C. Thack-
cry, Esq, to the Victory Sparkler
Company, for $3.50.
: Robert j. Duhamell has purchased
from Mrs. Mary L. Burroughs for
$1400, her property on Moffitt street.
in the town of Elkton. Mrs. Bur
roughs has purchased the property
of Philip OFT, on the same street. for
$378S.
Judge Milton S. Sentman has sold
his farm at Fair Hill to Alexander
McCarns and will move to North
East.
Abram Hershour has sold his farm
of 1872 acres In Lancaster county. to
Miller Eller, of Kentucky. for
$4,000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
Annual Stockholders Meeting.

At the anhual meeting of Stock
holders of the National Bank of Ris.
ing Sun, held Jan. 13, 1920. direc-
tors were elected as follows:--A. l.
Burlington, Jesse T. Cameron, A. L
Duyckinck, S. G. England, M. E
Founders, John T. Neary. w. M
Pogue, Chas. s. Pyle, VIM. M Reyn-
olds. Jesse Wood, Robt. X. Wood
Officers elected were: Charles s
Pyle, President; A. L. Duyckinck
Vice President; Mark e. Founders
Cashier.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
DEATHS.
Miss Annie Jenkins.

Miss Annie Jenkins died January
at her home near Wrightsdale, Pa,
aged ~ years. She lived alone.
Miss Jenkins taught school for 40
years in the southern part of Lancas-
ter county, and in Philadelphia.
The deceased was daughter OF
the late George and Susan Jenkins
and was the oldest one of the family.
She is survived by five sisters and
one brother.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
Augustus A. Howell.

Augustus A. Howell, who for years
operated the Seneca Point farm at
Charlestown, summer home of the
late Horace Disston, of Philadel-
phia, died at the home of his son,
John Howell, near Elkton, on Jan
z, aged 72 years. Mr.. Howell had
been in poor health for number OF
years, due to complication of dis
eases He leaves a widow and ti7e
children, four sons-John, Harry,
Charles and Jess, and one daughter,
Mrs. ]. J. Graham. The funeral was
held on Saturday afternoon, with in
rrment at Charlestown.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
Newark Lad Wins First Prize In
Corn Judging Contest.

Martin L. Doordan. IL year old
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Doordan
of East Newark, Del, won first place
in the corn judging contest held as
part of the program for Boys and
Girls Club week. This entities the
young man to free trip to Washing
ton furnished by the Charles Warner
Company of Wilmington who offered
three such prizes. Second and third
place in the contest were won by
boys to 6 years older than Martin,
which makes his achievement all the
more noteworthy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-01-16
Mrs. James r. Foraker.

Mrs. Lydia Foraker, wife OF ]. R.
Foraker Of North East, died at the
Eastern Shore Hospital, Cambridge,
Jan. 2. She was in her 10th year.
Mrs. Foraker had the misfortune to
sustain a fall several weeks ago at
the hospital which resulted in a
broken hip, and hastened the end.
The loss of both her sons under
peculiarly distressing circumstances
in their early manhood, was blow
from which she never recovered. The
body was brought to North East for
burial.