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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-12

Announcement has been received of
the marriage of Miss Alma Grace Hal
bower and Mr.. STEELE Alonzo Giles at
Monmouth, ILL.,, December 80. They
are making their home in Delavan, Ill.
Mrs. Giles. who was known as Bob
bic" Halloween while attending the
Kansas State Agricultural college at
Manhattan. was a dietician at Christs
hospital following her graduation until
several years ago. During the early
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-12

part of the war she was home demon
stration agent for Middlesex county,
Massachusetts, and later was in the
United States army as dietician.
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Miss CASTOR Washburn will enter
tain this evening at her home in
Washburn avenue with a Valentine
party. The guests will include: Miss
Dorothy Rosebrough, Miss Lois Lynn,
Miss Jeanette Schwartz, Miss Eliza
beth Sargent, Miss Bessie Euler, Miss
Thelma Wood, Miss Jane Perry, Miss
Minnie Jones and Miss Vivian Herren.
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The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
SOLICITING FUNDS FOR
 CHILDREN'S' HOME HOSPITAL

R. P. Hopkins, Field Secretary of the Children's Home Hospital of Albuquerque, is here interviewing the friends with a view of receiving help for the home.
 Dr. c. E. Lukens, the founder and superintendent of the society, is well known in this part of the state, and the results of his work are suf- fcient evidence of it's merits to justify the support the work is re- ceiving.
 Dr. Lukens is not only giving his en- tire time to this work, for which he receives no pay, but is giving some of his own money for it's support. He has and is now treating sick and crippled children from this. state in that hospital, whose parents are not able to give them medical treat ment. After treatment theya are re turned home without charge.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

given tryout at the bat-and they tell the story on the new Judge that last week lady prisoner was being tried as cattle rustler, or some thing of the sort-and she pulled a sob stunt that all but wrecked the new judge. It is related that as he wiped a moist optic, he said: You're not Guilty, are you?" and in husky voice he lisped, You're discharged,' and they do say that this pathetic exhibition of Walton's sentimentalities, over which he had no control, is going to be used against him by the hardened wretches that are seeking to de- throne him.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
Thinus Mend.

Every line of history inspires con- fidence that we shall not go far wrong; that things mend. That is the moral of all we learn, that it warrants Hope, the prolific mother of reforms. Our part is plainly not to throw ourselves across the track. to block improvement and sit till we are stone. but to watch the uprise of successive mornings and to conspire with the new works of new days.-EmerSOn.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

perior court found it convenient to declare it necessary for Laton to pungle up SS5 just for running lcose without a license.
 In the last analysis, the knowledge that you can use is all the knowledge that you've got. The balance is waste. And it would be amusing if it were not so pathetic to hear the debtors to the Holbrook bank 'argu- fy'' for the soft pedal in clearing up the crooked trail.
 Assessor Shumway has outlined campaign for the collection of taxes this year that will clean up the en- tire tax roll in much shorter per iod than heretofore. Deputy Will jams will open an office in Winslow Monday and the field workers will begin combing the county at the same time.
 Dr. Alfred c. Mcdaniel, Grand Patron of the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star of the United States was in Holbrook Monday on his way from Bisbee to Albuquerque. While here he was the dinner guest of MT. and Mrs. Lloyd c. Henning. And a number of the members of the local chapter accom- panied him to the Petrified Forest and other points of interest.
 The last will and testament of Uncle Josh will probably read some thing like this: "fo my beloved son Jack, and dutiful nephew, Louie, I hereby bequeath the receipt for bailing the Arizona branch out of hook in the spring of A. D. 1921, and request that it be framed and hung in the home office as warn ing for the coming generation to "Lay off of Arizona speculations."
 The sidewalk is being constructed on the east side of Porter street this week. And then we'll get our wa ter and sewers, an ev'rything- there's an election going to be held before long and it's an infallible rule of the game that the best service of a public officer is just at the last of his term when he puts the cap sheaf on his career as a crowning triumph to his-past achievements-or as decoy for his constituents to say you're good for a repeater"
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
Wolf Once a Monarch.

The old folk tales are right-as they nearly always are if rightly read. Be fore firearms were well developed, no lone man had any chance worth men tioning against the rush of wolf pack. The gray providers were the terror of Europe. as the tiger still is the terror of India, and deservedly so. Children who gather to stare at wolf in the zoo are gazing at a captive king.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
over-Education a Peril?

Have you ever read what Renan said of Over-education? Well, here it is: "A great danger impends because the accumulation of knowledge and power is unlimited, while the human intellect does not expand, There is reason to fear that the human brain may collapse under its own burden i; that there may come a moment when its very progress spells. its ultimate decadelce. It will be like an eQua- tion that carries it's limfts within its own statements. Los Angeles TimeA
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
Years Growth of a Pine Tree.

MT. Hill, lockmaster at Buckhorn, Ont, experimented with pine tree to determine improved growth which may be secured by proper care. Fifteen years ago he pruned all the lower branches off a four-inch white pine sapling. removing other saplings from its vicinity, dug up the earth around 1t and applied manure to it's base. It is now nineteen inches in diameter at its base and has a long. clean pole. Thus. during the fifteen years the growth in diameter has averaged one inch annually.-FrOm the Conserva- tion.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
Earlv navs of Tohacco.

While tobacco was getting q foot hold in England marvellous medicinal properties were ascribeG to it. and un- til Raleigh blew smoke ostentatiously from his nostrils because he liked it the addicts of the time usually pro fesssed to be smoking for the good of their health. By the year 1914 the number of tobaccOnists in and about London was estimated at 1000. Just before that time began the great to- baccO persecution
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
Surprised lfmethcr

The missionary society was meeting at our house and the woman who was to lead the devOtionals took the elas- tic band from her Bible. laid it on her lap and began. to turn the pages to find the passage she was to read. During the solemn silence my young son marched over to her and, picking up the elastic. he announced: "Why, that's my mothers garter p-Grit.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
A Learned Capital.

Aarau, capital of the Swiss canton of Argovia, possesses one of the hard est working libraries in the world. Though the library consists of only S0,O0O volumes-which is not so large as public institutions go in the United States-the population of the capital itself is only 10000 With eight vol umes per inhabitant. the library of Aarau has just cause to boast of itself as a miniature Athens.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
SERVICES IN THE NJ. E. CHURCH
Frank R. Speck, Pastor

Frank R. Speck, Pastor
 Sunday School 1O:OO A. M.
 Public Worship, 11:OO A. M. Ser mon: Gan a Man Rob God?" An them: Dear Lord, With Us Abide" Solo by Mrs. G. M. Thompson.
 Epworth League, ZOO P. M.
 Prayer. Meeting Wednesday even ing at 7:15, followed by choir re- hearsal at 500 o'clock
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

H. H. Scorse came up from Phoenix Monday on business e.
 Supervisor Cressweli was here on county business "Wednesday.
 .JiA Darling is a new employee of the local Santa Fe force
 Judge Sapp attended to legal bus iness matterS in Phoenix Wednesday. Attorney w. E. Ferguson was in Flagstaff Tuesday on professional busniess.
 J. H. Garfield of the Pinto Land and Petroleum Company spent sev- eral days here this week.
 J. w. Richards of St. Joseph has been appointed local agent for the Aztec Land and Cattle Co.
 Mrs. Ira Mann of Cooley has been. visiting at the home of Mir. and Mrs R. S. Teeple for the past week.
 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schuster wis ited with Mrs. Schuster's sister, Mrs. A. S. Brayman in Winslow, Sunday. Mir and Mrs G. O. Miller spent Tuesday at the ranch of MT. and Mrs. w. D. Stamps in Apache county. FOUND-A pair of earrings. Owner can recover same by describing property and paying for this ad. Miss Pauline Woods of the Win slow law offices of c. H. Jordan was here this week assisting in the local office.
 The store and dwelling of Charles L. Rhoton of Lakeside was burned last Saturday, entailing almost to- tai loss.
 Geo. Leaning, who is in charge of the schools of the Navajo Indian Reservation at Keams Canyon, was Tn town. Thursday.
 J. O. Freeman, the justice of the peace-that holds his job in peace ful contentment at Snowflake, was in Holbrook Monday.
 W. B. Farr who left Holbrook for Denver several months ago has yield ed to the "call of the desert" and is again staked out in Holbrook.
 A three pound can of Crisco for 75c is one of the specials at the Holbrook Traders this week-and there are lot of other bargains in the list also.
 w. W. Franklin returned from Phoenix Wednesday where he was initiated into the mysteries of the
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
J. P. OF w. NEXT BOUT
 SET FOR MARCH STH

Monday, March is the date set for the reopenng of the Sweeney and Walton struggle for the dis tinction of Justice of Peace of the railroad town.
 In the meantime Walton is being
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
F,ftv.Fiftv offer.

Patient-'I tell you what I'll de; m compromise with you. doctor" DOctoF -"Compromise? What do you meanf' Patient-"Well. I'll pay you for your medicine and return your visits.-- Judge.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
why omIt Jonah2

Each of the followfng-named gentle men, being off on time with the boys. concocted famous excuse. and got away with it-Ulysses, Rip Van Win kle and Robinson Characterization Transcript.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
Masonic Order. w. R. scorse took the shrine degree.

Frank Castro, salesman for Bab- bitt Bros, was fined $1O in Justice Easley's court Wednesday for speed ing. He came through with the fine and now he steps easy on the gas.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
Most WeIcome.

A man never appreciates the gift of a solitaire diamond more than when he holds the three other aces.-Boston Transcripts
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

w. B. Yeast has purchased the lease of the Pastime theater and will take charge the first of March A better line of attractions will be secured and it will be run on a plane commensurate with good bus mess.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

M. B. Laton of Eager plead guilty of being late in securing aecertifcate of convenience and necessity for his auto truck and the judge of the su-
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
New Lamp for BicveIe.

A new electric bicycle lamp is to be carried low on the front fork has a red jewel in the back to make 1t serve as a rear light as well.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

Judge Sapp attended to legal bus mess matters in Phoenix Wednesday.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

Attorney w. E. Ferguson was in Flagstaff Tuesday on professional busniess.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

perior court found it convenient to declare it necessary for Laton to pungle up SS5 just for running lcose without a license.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

Mrs. Ira Mann of Cooley has been visiting at the home of MT. and Mrs R. S. Teeple for the past week.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

J. H. Garfield of the Pinto Land and Petroleum Company spent sev- eral days here this week.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

J. A. Darling is a new employee of the local Santa Fe force.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

J. w. Richards of St. Joseph has been appointed local agent for the Aztec Land and Cattle Go.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

Mir: and Mrs. Arthur Schuster vis- ited with Mrs. Schuster's sister, Mrs. A. s. Brayman in Winslow, Sunday.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

Mir. and Mrs G. O. Miller spent Tuesday at the ranch of MT. and Mrs W. D. Stamps in Apache county.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

w. W. Franklin returned from Phoenix Wednesday where he was initiated into the mysteries of the
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

pair of earrings. Owner can recover same by describing property and paying for this ad.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25
GOSSIPY GOSSIP FROM
 AROUND THE TOWN

H. H. Scorse came up from Phoenix Monday on business. e.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

Miss Pauline Woods of the Win slow law offices. of c. H. Jordan was here this week assisting in the local office.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

A three pound can of Crisco for 75c is one of the specials at the Holbrook Traders this week-and there are lot of other bargains in the list also.
The Holbrook news., 1921-02-25

Supervisor Cressweli was here or county business "Wednesday.
Connecticut western news., 1921-06-16

did not take a freight train, as some people suppose! 1 walked through the town and was seen by several people that I knw. I took the Pitts field Express Monday night and got out of the state and went into Can ada. The rest of the story you know. l went to Canada and married n wo- man who knows the truth and who is standing by me"
 Johnson's Estate Gone
 Johnson pointed out that after he had disappeared, Horton sued his cs- tate for $9,000. Johnson's house which was assessed for $S,500 was sold to Miss Helen Pettibone for $5,500. He lost all his furniture, in fact everything he had. All John son knows, he says, is that his estate went through bankruptcy proceed ings and that he can get no papers showing its assets or liabilities. He said Horton even tried to dupe First Selectman Augustus P. Curtiss, mak- ing an effort to secure Curtiss's livery business, his feed and coal bus mess for certain parties through. town funds.
Connecticut western news., 1921-06-16

for the telephone compayn. Horton told me the note was due and that I would have to settle. I asked him if 1t could not be renewed, put he said it would have to be paid and that l would have to pay it. I op- pealed to him. I told him I couldn't do anything about it. I can hear his sardonic laughter over the telephone yet.
 You'll have to pay that note, Monday. You can't back out now. It's up to you
 "He laughed again, and with the old threat about Miss Eldridge he put up the receiver. I couldn't meet the $4,OO0 note without taking the town funds. felt that the years of hard work I had put in to help the town and its enterprises were all wasted. l thought the company had been a community affair Instead of that had been cornered, ruined and wrecked in body and mind. William B. Cobb was an intimate friend of mine. l decided to tell him every thing and then take a rife, go up on Canaan Mountain and take my life.
 Spent 2 Days on Mountain
 ''In my note to Cobb I wrote that Horton had ruined me, that he was liar and scoundrel and that I had nothing more to live for. I wrote the note On typewriter. The state police know that Horton is in it. They know from the time I wrote that note.
 "I took my loaded rife and made my way through the snow to Canaan Mountain, it was o'clock in the morning when I left the old town, sick at heart of everything and de- termined to shoot myself. I told State Policeman Mitchell, who brought me back from the Canadian northwest, that I could take. him up to the mounain and show him the place where I left the rife.
 ''It was still dark when I got to the mountain. My brain was in daze. It seemed too bad to end ev- erything after all the work I. had done, all to a good purpose. The company would have been a big suc- cess if it had been run right. If Horton had let me alone everything would have come out right. I walked through the snow with the gun in my hand for hours, but I couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger 1 re- mained on Canaan Mountain from. early Sunday morning until late Monday. I threw the gun away and made my way to Falls Village.
Connecticut western news., 1921-06-16

l was forced out of the company. If am not mistaken, those who voted for it were George E. Quinn, P. H. Quinlan, H. H. Denny and J. M. Motto, the latter now admitting that he was buncoed out of about $42,OOO.
 q was keenly interested in the welfare of the fire company at the time and it's work took up some of my time. I believe that Horton had interested MT. Lasbury of Broad Brook in the manufactU company MT. Lasbury thought ne was buying out the business but Horton had succeeded in buying out others after securing MT, Lasbury's note, so that he, Horton, still had control. I saw that things had reached a serious point and that scores of people in the town and out of it were in fair way of losing a pile of money. It looked to me as if Horton had held up the City Bank & Trust Co. in a clever scheme. In the fall of 1916, as an official of the fire department I went to a fire one night and slipped while getting off the truck and was badly injured. I lost consciousness. Dr. Hamant attended me and I was i'll Der for some time. It was during this period that Horton made life unbearabIe for me. There was a note due, some $3,000, and Horton put the whole burden on my shoul- ders He told me he had been about town long enough to know that those who were supposed to be my friends were working constantly against me. He always wound up his story by threatening to tell everything to Miss Eldridge, the woman who had befriended me, the woman for whom I would have preferred to give my life than cause hr any injury.
 7. From Bad to Worse
 ''The situation went from bad to worse. The affairs of the company were in a precarious shape and 2 Horton had cornered me to the point where I would have to tell Miss Eldridge everything or agree to his schemes. I was living at the, library at the time and had reached a des- perate frame of mind. Suicide seemed tn only way out, although I had done nothing wrong. I learned later that the late Mrs. Frederick Dennis, wife of Dr. Dennis, would have gladly given me $25,OOO to straighten out everything if I had asked her. Horton in the meantime insisted that I cover his notes for the manufacturing company. When the new year came in Horton was as active as ever. There was a note for $4,0O0 due on January 21, 1917. On the Saturday before the note was due Horton called me up on the tele- phone while I was at the library. This conversation, by the way, was heard by William Smith, lineman
Connecticut western news., 1921-06-16
LIFTS CO.," SOLDIER SLOGAN
Expert Declares the Phrase, So 7opu- lar With the Troops, Did Much
 to Keep Up Morale.

The most inspiring and, at the same time, the most popular slogan used by our troops during the World war is embraced In the unpretentious words Lets Go" fin tho judgment of Col. Edward l.. Munsui, thief of the morale hranrll, general staff of the army. Colonel Munson said:
 My conviction un this subject-a suhJert that Is uf real imror, ancc to students of military morulc-is based on the almost unanimous verdict of those who served with troops, re-en- forced by the Judgment of many who have looked at the question from oth- CT angles. The appeal Let's Go con- pines all the necessary psychological elements of a military slogan.
 "The slogan contains no word of command. no stern admonition, 1t does not Impose itself upon the will of the nearer. It calls rather for companion ship, for voluntary action and contri- button on the part of the soldier, for concerteV movement prompted by mutual desire.
 My analysis may not be a correct one, but, correct or not. I am certain that Let's Go was used spontaneous ly under all circumstances and always with an encouraging response. Other slogans were adopted from time to time hy various contingents of the ex- pedltionary forces and units serving in this country, but none of them quite filled the place of the one now under discussion. Where do we go from hereT was not m unusual sentence during the war and eye-witnesses tell us that the song hy that name was sung quite cheerfully as the transport Tuscania sank into the waters of the British channel. When do we entT Who won the warT and Where are the shipsT were three sentences many times repeated by American soldiers, but they were usually used in a satlr- ical vein and formed an outlet for the distinct and individual humor of our troops, but for everyday use, in rest, or battle, the slogan Let's Go stands foremost as the strongest stimulus to mind and hence to bodily effort"
Connecticut western news., 1921-06-16

horizon. l have a strong suspicion that Horton went to the City Bank & Trust Company and told the bank officials that I was his intimate friend and that would back him to the limit, and that the town funds were in my hands, to be used for any legitimate project the town saw fit to get into. At any rate Horton took me into Hartford and met the of fcials of the City Bank and Trust Company.
 "From that time on Horton be- gan his game of high finance. He was receiving from the Norfolk Man ufacturing Company a salary of something like $334 a month and expenses. He never skimped on his expense account, as one of the slips found in his desk recently will show. That company would have been financial success if it had not been bled by Horton. Things began to go bad with the company. At this point Horton began to preach to me about finance in general and our litle company in particular. He said the big financial men did not stick closely to ethics. One had to use his own judgment to make success. Notes could be endorsed and checks signed provided the money was forth coming later. I was enthusiastic about the company. It meant money for a lot of men who were out ot work, it kept industry in the town on the move. I worked hard to make the thing go. I was interested in. several projects, among which was the Norfolk Agricultural Asso- citation. My accounts there were 0. K., as Mr. Dennis will say.
 Company Loses Ground
 "The company began to lose ground and Horton began to get after me to meet notes- Late III 1916 he had put me in several em- barassing positions. The fact that Miss Eldridge had put confidence in me helped me tremendously with the many people of Norfolk. Horton knew this and, now that l was sad dled iii the company, he lest no op- portunity to press me at every turn. Horton must have had wide experl- ence in launching wildcat scheme. He seemed to know just how to spring when in a tight place; When things began to look blue for the company he conceived the idea of increasing the capitalization from $5O,OO0 to $10O,OOO. I knew what that would mean, even with my linn ited experience as. financier. A meeting of the major stockholders was held and new division of stock , was voted for. I refused to vote for it. The new stock was divided up and Horton took 200 shares. His attitude toward me changed at once when he found he could ont
 porsGad me to vote for his scheme