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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-01
Largest Line of Highest Quality Foods in the West

Our Big Stores are full and
overlooking with hosts of good
things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-01
New 1920 Sweet Peas
Eyfr-a E;ffad

Invader Extra Sifted
Peas. 3 cans. 500
Dozen. 1850. 1913
Kisco Sifted Sweet Peas,
3 cans, sac; dz. $3.25
Jayl,awk Sifted Peas, 5
cans, sec; dz. .s2.69
Goodbuy Sweet Peas. B
cans, sec: DE-. .S2.25
Wildfiower Red Alaska
Salmon. No. 1 tall
cans, 35c; 3 for .S1.O0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-01

New 1920 Sugar Corn
Ktsco Fancy Crosby
Sweet Corn, 5 cans,
72e; dz. 80. S2.05
Wlldflover Fancy Maine
Style Corn, 3 cans
69c; d.. $780, $3.50
Iowa Sugar Corn, 8 cans
for dec; d.. :. S1.5a
Curtis White Meat Tuna
Fish, Nd. u cans. 3
FOR. 10
Fancy Blue Rose Head
Rice. lib. II &c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-01

Cannot use rough unfinished hogs for
packing purposes. Win have to buy at
stock prices.
The Washington times., 1920-04-25
BELGIAN BANKERS
TOSEEK AID HERE
Deny Contract for New Loan
With Kingdom Has Been
Made.

Two prominent Belgian bankers
will arrive In this country within
the next two weekB TO discuss with
banking interests here questions OF
finance on behalf OF the Belgian gov
ernment and Belgian industrial inter
ests, according TO cable advices re-
ceiyed by the Guaranty Trust Com
pany.
Regarding recent reports TO the ef-
feet that the purpose OF the Belgian
envoys was to consult with bankers
OF this country concerning q refusal
on the part OF an American banking
syndicate TO carry the new loan to
Belgium which had been contracted
for on a basis OF o per cent, the Guar
The Washington times., 1920-04-25

anty Trust Company makes the fol-
following statement:
mo such contract was ever made
so far as IL known. and consequently.
there could be no refusal on the part
of any American banking syndicate TO
carry out its terms.
"The facts are that this matter of
a new loan TO Belgium has been
under discussion and banking in
terests concerned In IL have wsit-
ed for what they deemed an oppor-
tune moment for attempting it's nego-
tiation.
"On June 30. next, the Belgian ex-
port credit Of $4,000, 900 natures, and
negotiations for the settlement OF re-
funding Of that loan have already
been started and will be continued
after the arrival of the Belgian repre-
sentatives. There is the fullest desire
on the part OF those who have been
interested In Belgian finascing In this
country to cooperate in every way
possible to meet the requirements OF
that country, and no misunderstand-
ings or conflict of interests between
them have arisen"
The Washington times., 1920-04-25
OVERALL WEDDING GOWN
COSTS TRIFLE OVER 4
Bride Sports Blue Ginghsm Drass,
And Carries Daisies. Groom
Wears Denim.

NEW YORK. April 2S.-Prontesrs
did not profit at the .,oyersil wedding
yesterday, In the ~walderf- Astoria
Hotel. OF Miss Gertrude Reinhardt,
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Rein
hardt. of Brooklyn. to W. Ramsey
Frederick. OF Pittsburgh. The bride
was sItired In what she described as
an Overall Jumper" suit. In place
OF the customary bridal white, she
wore plain blue gingham. prettily
made, TO be sure, but undeniAbiy Hina-
ham. Her bridal bouquet was OF
daisies. The bridal outnt cost a trins
over So A blue checked gingham
dress was worn by her attendant.
Miss Francis Grodsky. OF HemisteGd.
Long Island.
The groom. his best man. J. A. Rein
hardt. brother OF the bride. and the
officiating clergyman, the Rev. W. u.
Ticker. pastor OF ST. Andrews NJ. L.
Church, Brooklyn, were dressed in
blue denim suits.
The reception following the wed.
ding was attended by guests attired
In overails. denim, and gtngham Gre
ations.
The Washington times., 1920-04-25
G. W. U. ARRANGES SERIES
OF SIGHTSEEING TOURS
Trip To Luray Caverns May Will
Be Open To Male Students
And Goods.

Specially conducted weekend sight
seeing tours are the latest novelty at
George Washington University. The
university is the first in the country
to adopt the plan.
The first tour of the spring series
will be on May 1 and 2, to the Luray
caveras. Co-eds as well as male stu
dents will be permitted to make the
trip. Professional chaperones will be
two girls. The Hatchet, student pub
lication at the university. has charge
of all arrangements for the trip.
The party will leave Union Station
at 1915 Saturday night, May ], and
will arrive at Luray at 4 o'clock Sun
day morning. The party will remain
on the train until T:30. when break
fast will be served at a hotel. The
students then will be taken to the
cayerns in chartered automobiles. A
special guide will show the party the
wonders OF the caverns. The univer-
sity will furnish a special photog-
rapher to snap pictures of every
thing that happens. The party will
leave at 8 o'clock for Washington, ar
riving here at 1890 Sunday night.
The Washington times., 1920-04-25
SHOE PROFTTEERS ARE
UNDER FIRE IN SENATE

\ drive against pronteering in shoes
was started in the Senate yesterday
by Senator Charles l.. McNary
(Republican) of Oregon, chairman Of
the Senate committee investigating
the high prices exacted from the con-
sumer for footwear.
Branding OF the manufacturers sale
price on all shoes. boots. slippers and
sandals transported in Interstate com
merce is provided In a bill introduced
by McNary as a means OF letting the
patron OF the retail store know exact
ly how much profit the retailer is de-
manding.
Early passage OF tho measure has
been promised by the Republican
leaders OF both the Senate and House.
The Washington times., 1920-04-25
n Y. Concern Asserts
High Price Of Clothes
Is Due to Huge Profits

NEW YORK. April 25.--one OF
New York's large ready-to-~eAr
clothing houses, advertising re-
ductions TO $3.50 in the prices OF
suits, and oyercoAts ranging as
high as SOS. and reductions TO
$3.50 on those priced as high
as $40. announced the drop as "A
deliberate cutting OF our own
profit for the purpose OF helping
the movement TO force down the
high cost OF clothing"
Thousands OF New Workers,
reading the announcement, con-
templated what the profits at
original prices must have been.
The advertisement was headed.
"why Wear OverRlls2" and ex-
planned the reduction was the
firms contributor to the ma
tional drive to cut the high cost
OF clothing"
The Washington times., 1920-04-25
Price Is the Thing = But Not at Sacrifice of
Style or Quality


q snde If could sell
= second pair of shoes
But happily appeal not in alone and the result: Of
Quality with sufficient evidence policy
Hirshs Stores the demands the increasing
The Washington times., 1920-04-25
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The Washington times., 1920-04-25

elimination Of competition which
~ Eht Fss0k ~ FGfs-Saftiak.
The large British steamship con
Germs represented a. the conference
are understood 20 have carried the
important point upon which they In
sisted, namely, that the high ocean
freight rates. directly resulting from
the scarcity OF shipping during the
war, should be maintained. In this
eonsction, u. has been frequently
pointed out by British officials that
the ability of England to maintain her
high ocean freight rates was an Abso-
lutte necessity IL that country was 70
recoup it's financial war Losses.
To Discuss Far Esst Rates.
At a meeting 10 be held In New
York on May the question OF trans
PAcinc rates to the Far East is to be
discussed between American operators
OF Shipping Board vessels. and rep
'ressntAtiyes OF the Toyo Kissen
Kaisha. the Nippon Yusen Kaisha,
and practically all other large Japa-
nese shipping companies, at which
the nnal terms OF the agreement are
to be discussed.
This will deal with the charges 10
be made by American and Japanese
rrms for trans-Paoinc cargoes. and II
is indicated that the maintenance of
the wartime rates Is practically as
sured.
Nearly all OF the 500 ships oper-
Ated for the Government by private
American companies under leasing
agreements are involved in the pact
The Shipping Board. which ar
ranged the entire conference. would
not make public today the names OF
the foreign companies represented. II
is known. however, that all the large
British concerns. as well as several
OF the best-known lines OF Japan,
Italy and France had representatives
at the meetings.
The Washington times., 1920-04-25
new NOMINATIONS.

The following nominations were
sent TO the Senate this afternoon:
Homer Britt. of Mississippi. now
consular agent at Caracas, to be con-
sui of class seven.
To be lieutenant colonel, marine
corps, Major william l. Rodles;
captains to be majors. Ralph l..
Davis, Harry W. Weitzel. and Sidney
n. Rayner.
The Washington times., 1920-04-25
VERDICT SET ASIDE.

A verdict for $1,000 damages.
awarded by a jury to Mrs. Alice B.
Gordon in her suit against Henry
Schneider, formerly a captain of the
police force, and four other police Of
ficers for alleged false arrest, was set
aside by Justice Hit2 today, who
granted a new trial.
The Washington times., 1920-04-25

seeessity.
The Washington times., 1920-04-25
SHIPPERS TO keep
HIGH OCEAN RATES
Secrecy Marks Conference OF
Representatives OF Worlds
Boat Lines.

Z British and japanese shipping lines
have reached an agreement with
A srican steAmship companies
whereby the present high ocean
freight rates. estsblished during the
war. are TO be maintained for an in
definite period.
The utmost secrecy marked the con-
ferenees held between the foreign and
American representatives here. which
were concluded yesterday.
Despite the fact that the confere nee
Is Understood TO have been arranged
by A. s. Taylor, Assistant Chief OF
Operations OF the Shipping Board. no
Official information was available to.
day as to the nature OF the agree
ment which is understood to be
eagerly awaiteH by shipping con-
Germs In the United States and
abroad.
Benson IL Silent.
Admiral william S. Benson. chair
man OF the Shipping Board, made the
bare admission that "somethinx OF
the sort was under discussion, but
stated that he had received no reports
as TO the result OF the conference
and would make no announcement
until he did.
IL Is known. however. that the
Shipping Board probably will sponsor
the agreement, which Is aimed at the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-09-15
j. w. J A R N A G | N

hour. for light and power. to cities,
towns, villages and farmers in this sec
ton of the state. The company has
purchased sites on the Cedar, Maquo-
keta and Wapse rivers. Central plants
are planned at MaquOketa, Anamosa
and Cedar Rapids. The company now
owns a. plant at Oxford Mills also. The
Palisades, Shellsburg, Cedar Bluffs, Ce-
dar Valley. Canton and other places
will be the location of the plants
The county fair at Manchester, now
over, was insured against rain. That
is a new kind of insurance and indi-
Gates how marvelously the human mind
is operating these days in making pro-
visions for all kinds of disasters. Ev-
erybody knows what rain will do to
a fair but to insure against such visi-
tation is something unusual. Manches-
ter took out $4,000 in rain insurance.
Here are the details: The amount is di-
vided over the days, 81 500 being placed
on Wednesday. $4,000 on Thursday and
$4,000 on Friday. If more thanotwo-
tenths of an inch Of rain falls between
Z in the morning and at night. the
insurance company agrees to REIN.
burse the fair society in the specified
amounts less what receipts are taken
in by the management in spite of the
rain. AS large sums of money have
been pledged in securing the various
attractions and free acts, it was consid-
cred necessary to safeguard against
loss by taking on this insurance.
More than 1000 public. schools in
Iowa are serving hot lunches to their
students, according to reports from
|eighty-three counties covering 1919-1920
collected by the agricultural extension
department at Iowa State college. Con
soidated schools have the best show
ing. OF the 242 consolidated schools re-
porting ~ or 30 per cent serve hot
lunches. About 10 per cent of both
rural and town schools are following
this plan. ~ EP4E. 'r
The Iowa conservation commission
has been appealed TO that old FIT. At
kinson. in Winneshiel county, may be
restored and the surroundings beauti
fled and converted into state park
Professor Pammel recommends that a
park of about thirty acres he appor
toned with a circular driveway, the
ruins of the old fort restored as used
as a museum. The people of Whine
shiek will be asked to help financially
The fort was started in 1910 and was
named after the old Indian fighter, Gen
eran Atkinson. 1t was the connecting
link between FIT. Crawford at Prairie
de Chen and Fort Smelling. In 1915
ian Indian mission was started here.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-09-15

Game wardens are unusually active
in an organi2ed effort to suppress VIC
lations of the state game laws. a cou'
pie of hunters in Franklin county have
been forcibly reminded of the penalties
imposed because of the shooting OF i've
Dheasants The justice OF the peace
fined each one SIS for each OF the pheas-
ants killed, making $125 for each hunt
er and in addition he assessed fine
against one of the men for hunting
without a license. That makes wlld
meat rather an expensive luxury
Pheasants that have been put in game
preserves in various sections OF the
state are beginning TO show a consider
able increase. The closed season con
tinues until 1925.
Twelve deaths out of IS from typhoid
fever is announced from Pella, Marion
county With the exception of one case
all of the victims used milk from the
same dairy. After inspecting conditions
at that place DIR. Sumner. secretary oil
the state board of health, with offices
in the state house, issued the follow
ing: '"There should be no typhoid fever
in Iowa to amount to anything. There
is an absolute preventive. vaccine
which immunizes an inoculated persons
from one of the most dreadful of dis;
eases, a disease which attacks rich and
poor alike and which the average case
costs $500 to treat. 1t is a vaccine that
was used in the recent huge army by
all the combating forces. AS resuit
Typhoid which was more deadly thafl
bullets in the Spanish.American and
RuSoO..IapancSe wars, was almost en-
tirely eliminated. have before me q
report from the bureau of medicine OF
the navy department which shows that
i'm the navy and marine personnel. a
total of 369.770 men, there was only
one case Of typhoid In the week ending
June 7th. the lowest disease total regis
tered for that period That's what ty
phoid vaccine will do. And that is the
ambition of the state department OF
public health--to get the people of the
state to become immunized against this
disease. If you wish it there is no cost
| You can buy the vaccine which is dis
t,ihuted by the state board of health
and your family physician can admin
lister it. but if you don't want TO stan6
the expense, the state will furnish the
vaccine and tell you where public spir
| tied physicians will be ready at some
central point in your community to ad
minister il to you That's part of the
Ianti.typhoid campaign now going on
| The old town of NonteZuma, the
| county seat of Poweshiek county, feels
chesty. all because it has been selected
/ as stopping place on the mail route
between New York and San Francisco
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-09-15

first American woman at the front to
die in France while serving her coun,
TRY. Miss era ndall served the boys OF
the French army through the Y. NJ o.
A. and was killed on March 2, 1918. at
Ia Soldiers Fireside" in France during
a German bombardment of st. Men
hould. A few hours before her death
she was asked if she did not fear the
bombs. "Oh. no. she replied. II pray
and then have no more fear" Miss
, Crandall was buried with military hon
ors. The body was draped in tri
colored flag and borne by the military
carriage. She received the same hon
ors given to soldiers who die fighting.
Robert II. Armil us made defendant
in suit recently Instituted by M. L.
! DeAacy, in which the plaintiff asks
DANCES amounting to $1.29S. The suit
grows out of DeLacy's desire to own
some pure bred livestock. Ele attended
sale held by Arml and purchased five
mich cows for $1,25O, which he says
the plaintiff knew to be tubercular at
the time they We're sold. They were
getting only $500 for them. FTe is ask
ing for the balance of his investment
ana for punitive damages.
Bill Robinson, high liner of top notch
ers at the Orpheum theatrical circuit
drawing a weekly stipend of $3.50, failed
| to find a hotel in Des MoineS thai
would entertain him because of his col
or. He was passed the first night as
| a valet with "A party of high class tour
lists at one of the big hotels and in this
way got lodging in an adjoining room
i and took his meals with the porters
| but this ruse was discovered and he
was fired bodily. He unused to himself
"a salary of S140O per month and nc
place to lay my weary head after re
lceiving the plaudits of an opera house
| fun of people twice daily. No better of
than q hobo But Bill takes the mat
ter philosophically and goes right aheat
with his dancing stunts and draws his
check for $3.50 every Monday morning
with unfaiiing regularity.
Old residents of Forest City, the beau
| tiful county seat of Winnebaao county
never tire i'm relating the history o.
| the hotel fight in that town twenty. OF
TWENTY-FIVE years ago. There were two
| fa ctions among the business men
| Bankers and professional men iolne'
one faction or the other. One buncl
formed a stock company and announca'
| that n large modern hotel was 10 b'
erected. The other crowd reported tina
| their, end of town could, put up just a:
good hotel as the other fellows ant
| so both factions went to it and in du'
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-09-15

in case gasoline is required or engine
troubles compel a landing. Postmaster
Mortland has been instructed to procure
a landing field and the baseball park
has been secured The other day an air
plane made a landing on the field and a
|croWd soon gathered after the manner
of d fire alarm In small town, but
imagine the surprise of the crowd when
it was discovered that the pilot had 4
high class Poland China pig as his on
" passenger. Governor Mckelvie, OF
Nebrasliii, presented the pig, a prize
winner, to Governor Phillips. of Wis
consin, and the animal was ON its way
to its owner A Lincoln airplane com.
pany was delivering the pig.
The town or city that does not have
liberaity enough in these latter days
to provide a free camping ground for
Automobile tourists is going to lose out.
Already publishers Of automobile rout
ing maps are Indicating by a dot of red
ink the places where free camping IA
cilities are provided. 1t is believed that
with the increase in passenger fares on
railways that by another summer auto
touring will be greatly stimulated.
J Story county claims to lead the pro
cessiop in. the consolidated school move
| Of the rural districts have been consol
dated and that four other projects now
under consideration will clean up the
county.
In the kitchen of n hotel in Des
Moines some months ago the cook. a
! Greek, threw a big butcher knife at q
man. delivering groceries. The cooks
name was Kachogeanis and the man
killed was named Mavity. The widow
| of the deceased brought suit for dam
ages under the workmen's compensa
| ton act The cook claimed that the
knife slipped out of his hand as he was
emphasizing demand that Mayity shut
| the door and that Mavity's death was
therefore accidental. In his ruling
Commissioner Funk refuses compensa
| ton to Mavitys widow on two grounds
First, that the injury and death did not
| result from Il risk reasonably incident
| to the employment, and second thai
the death of the deliveryman was The
lreslllt of wiful intent against his per
son on the part of Chris Kachogeanis
which under the Iowa law defeats com
pensation recovery. Kachogeanis was
convicted by a Jury and sentenced t.
serve five years in the penitentiary.
school i'm Davenport will be erected as
a memorial to Miss Marion Crandall
! former member of the faculty and tn.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-09-15
News and Comment About Iowa People and Events

time the old town found itself with
couple of white elephants on its hands.
Both hotels were good enough tor
real city. The Plummer house, named
after prominent banker and politician,
was a commodious, pressed brick struc-
t,lre three stories and basement. The
Waldorf with its massive stone pillars
and white finish in Bedford stone, look
ed like one of the department buildings
in Washington. Neither hotel paid run
ming expenses. A fire glutted. the big
Plummer hotel and the wall still stand
intact, a monument OF factional folly.
The Norwegian LutheranS bought the
Waldorf and for quarter Of century
have conducted the Waldorf academy.
The government hospital at Knox.
vile, formerly the inebriate asylum, has
received it's first installment of patients,
twelve in number. 1t is the policy of
the public health service to limit the
number of cases of this character to
500. Only those mentally afflicted will
receive treatment. st. Louis will be
the headquarters of the clearing house
for cases TO be treated at Knoxville.
Officers in charge at that place will grad
ually send the patients to Knoxville I'M
til the capacity of the institution is
reached. which will require about a
year. Work on the enlarged plant Will
start Immediately after the iowa legis-
Iature authorizes the board of control
to turn the property over to the govern
ment. The board of control is merely
the custodian of the property and has
no authority to sell. This must be done
ny act of the general assembly. Lieut..
Col Charles A. Barlow is the medical
officer in charge. Colonel Barlow has
had years of experience in the treat
ment and care of mental cases. He
came here from FIT. Sam Houston Tex.
Prior to that time he was at Fort Des
MoineS for ten months. For some time
he was chief of the government 'neuro-
psychartic hospital under the public
health service. Before entering the
army Colonel Barlow was for seven
years superintendent of the West Vir-
ginia state hospital at Spencer. He is
regarded as an authority on mental dis.
orders. r...
4 great development, of water power
is promised by the action of Col. w. G..
BOWS, of Cedar Rapids. president. and
manager of the Iowa Railway and Light
company of that city. This company al
! ready owns an interurban line connect
ing Cedar Rapids and Iowa City and
numerous electric light plants through
out central Iowa. g 1t is proposed to in
vest $1,000, 900 in water power develop.
ment Twelve or fifteen plants Will be
erected to develop $4,000 kilowatts an
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-09-15

A teachers cottage at st. katherine's
school In Davenport will be erected as
a memorial to Miss Marion Crandall,
former member of the faculty and the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-09-15

The old town of MonteZuma, the
county seat of Poweshiek county, feels
chesty all because it has been selected
as q stopping place on the mail route
between New York and San Francisco