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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
BY LLOYD SIEBER.


One of the most historic points,
shrouded with the greatest degree of
personal interest and association, in
Topeka, is the old "Ritchie Lime
Kiln" on the east side of Topeka. The
lime kiln, from which came material
used in the construction of most of the
early buildings of Topeka, was estab-
lished on land which was homesteaded
by John Richie in 1854. The home
stead originally included the piece of
land extending from Jackson street on
the west to Eleventh street on the
north and from Shunganunga creek
on the east to Seventeenth street on
the south.
The only piece of the original
Richie farm which remains intact is
the small strip east of the Santa Fe
tracks. There is a moderate growth
of trees upon it and the land is sub
ject to the occasional overflow of the
ShunGanunga. At the time of the ar
rival of the Ritchies, the family
the Santa Fe tracks east of where the
old lime kiln now stands. The land
at that time was typical prairie coun-
try. grown up with huge weeds.
Would 1t Grow Corn?
Richie held the opinion that if the
land would grow weeds like that it
would grow corn just as well, and
After he had prepared the land for
farming, he built a home at what
would now be about 1119 Madison
street. Hale Ritchie at that time was
about five years old. During the
seven years following, up to 1861. the
boy helped with the work around the
farm, and with the outbreak of the
Civil war the full burden of RESPONSE
bility was thrown upon him. He
farned the homestead during the four
years of the Civil war, while his father
was absent in the service.
In 1872 the A. T. & S. F. railway
laid its tracks thru the Richie farm.
and in 1886 the Missouri Pacific steel
was laid on the same tract, parallel to
the Santa Fe tracks.
Kiln Erected in 1888.
The Richie lime kiln was erected
in 1888. In 1890 another was erected
by Richie. north of the first. At that
time there was but one other lime
kiln in Topeka, one operated on JEFF
ferson street, north of Crane street.
A fine ledge of rock. hard and grey,
producing a clear white lime, was ex-
posed near Deer creek, and was quar-
ried there for use in the lime kiln.
Shale was added to make the lime pos
sess the requisite strength. Wood was
at first used as fuel, until it became
too scarce and high, when gas was
substituted, and the gas bill against
the kiln averaged SO a day.
Widely Used in Topeka.
The operation of the kiln was
stopped in 1910, at which time it was
estimated that lime from it had beer
used in the construction of 80 per cent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
INSTALL De MOLAY
,Cout,nuen lr9ln psFe One.I

Cpndnuen lrDh fdge One.l
Mcdonald, Cecil Perry; McFadden, Alan
Wade. William Edgar; Marshall, John
Crawford; Martin, Francis Hook; Mat
thews Richard Charles; Maynard, Robert
Parkinson; Merrick, Robert Greenwood
Mills, John wilbur; Mills. Linn; Mont
gomery, Maurice; Montgomery, Royal ;
Edward; Owens, Claude Edward; Painter,
Clayton Buckney; Pardee, Francis Erwin
Parker, Raymond delbert; Paynter, Uriel
Cressey; Pennington, Leland Luther; Pen
nlngton, Paul Wolgcmott; Pitcher, Perry
Thomas; Poor, Walter, (HoyD; Porter
Chester Warren; Price, John Fitzgerald /;
Price, Joseph Gilbert; Putnam, Claude ;
Quail Frank McLain; Rankin, Virgil
Eiendenning; Reed, Cleo Sylvester; Rood,
Howard Hart; Reynolds, Arthur Broaddus ;
Kickenbacher, William Omar; Rigby, Mil
meyer, Orvilie GaIen; Schmitt, Harry. An;
Iiorato; Sempie, William Henry, jr.; Ser
vice, Robert Orlan: Sinner, Emery Paul =;
SlOcum. Willard Charles; Smith, Albert
J'ranklyn; Smith, Bernard Frederick (;
Scott stanley; snediker, Oliver Ralph ;
Stickel, Arthur c.: Strahler, Richard Ed
ward; STREET., Louis Allen; Sumey, Ellis
Morton; Sutherin, George Dwight /;
Sutherin, Graydon Houghton; Swanson,
Karl Theodore; Sweangen, Willard Minor
Thomas, David Richard: Thomas. Glenn
Edwin; Tucker, Ray; Turner, Edmund
Montgomery; Wallace. Earl Byron; Ware,
William: Weaver, James Collin; Webb,
1tay; Wilkinson, Lewis Dixon; Wilson,
Wolfe, byron Ben; Wolfe, Clayton, ]. I;
Mhittelsey, Chauncey Albert, jr.; Yeager,
Howard Ausin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
VIEWS OF PANAMA CANAL

Only a few Americans ever will see
with their own eyes the great canal
at Panama. Nearly all of US have
seen maps that show, in black and
white outline, the course of the great
waterway.
Fortunately, there is a type of map
which is not the dead, flat outline,
but which comes as nearly as may be
to giving one an idea of how the canal
looks. This is a bird's-eye view of
the whole canal made under the di-
rection of the National Geographic
society.
This map21s printed in four colors
on coated paper, and, is IL by III
inches in size
Any reader of The Topeka State
Journal may secure copy by filling
in the coupon-s and sending 2 cents in
stamps for return postage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
BISHOP JOHNSON TO SPEAK.
Will Preach Baccalaureate Sermon t.
Bethany Graduates.

Bishop Johnson, of Colorado, will
preach the baccalaureate sermon at
Grace Cathedral to the graduates of
Bethany college and Christ's hospital
training Schools Sunday morning.
commencement exercises will be
held on the hospital campus at 1880
o'clock Tuesday evening. A tea and
garden party for the graduates and
their friends Wall follow. All friends
of the hospital are invited.
The members of the graduating
class were guests of the board of
trustees and their wives and the medi-
cal staff and their wives at picnic
dinner given at Daylesford farm, Fri
day evening.
Members of the graduating class
are: Florence Snyder, Neva Pickrell.
Clara Brown, Nellie Williams, Waneta
Bonnie, Hazel Spence, Sophia Meili,
Vida Bates, Mary Olson, Bessie Perry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04

The regular meeting of the North To-
peka club will be held Tuesday evening at
and Jackson streets. good attendance
is desired as n number of matters of in
terest to the community will be brought
up.
The concert given last evening at the
North Topeka Community house by the
Topeka Association of Blind, was well at
tended, and the audience was most ap-
preciative of the unusually good program
given by the talented. tho sightless, artists
The offering amounted to more than $40
The concert will be repeated Monday eve
ming, June g. at the First Christian church.
and June Z. in the auditorium of the Oak
land high school.
The second meeting of the free baby
clinic will be held Tuesday morning, June
Z, from 10 to / O'Clock, at the North Topeka
Community house, corner of Laurent and
Jackson streets.
Miss Cecile Hamilton, who assisted at the
concert given by the Topeka Association
of Blind last evening at the Community
the Kansas Avenue Methodist church. Sun
day. Miss Hamilton's selections will be
Fox's Rock of Ages"
The Midwest Building and Loan associa-
ton will begin excavation work Monday for
the two new bungalows they will build on
the lots in the 400 block, Quincy street,
recently bought from C. C&Maze.
Notes and Personals.
S. r. Graham, of the Graham Clothing
company, stopped off in North Topeka
yesterday on his return to Kansas City
from the west.
Ray Parnell will lead the Christian En-
deavor meeting at the Second Presbyterian
church tomorrow evening at o'clock
The subject will be "Thy Kingdom Come
in the World"
Mrs. Fred Rose and family of Elmont
have returned home after visit to Mrs
Roses mother, Mrs. Holtzmaster, of S24
Jackson street.
). X. Dexter. undertaken. Lady as.
sistant. 1928 Kansas ave.-Adv
Miss Ciciie Hamilton, who is visiting her
| uncle, A C. Gurtler. and family, will sing
at the North Topeka Christian church
Sunday evening
wall paper, 10c and 121k cts. roll Mon
day and Tuesday: paint. $2.45 gal. o. O.
Mcclure, SIS N. Kansas Ave.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
Gossip Ruined
Wfe-SlUop Plan
Two Couples Go Ahead With Divorce
Suits but There's Little Chance for
Marriage Now.

Anderson, Ind. June 4.-The mat
rimonial ark launched by Bill Muncey
and German Huffman, by which they
hoped to swap wives, was wrecked on
the rocks of neighborhood gossip.
Members of this matrimonial quad
rangle today declared they had given
up plans for changing spouses.
What caused you to change your
Observation-Disclosures gossip" Mrs.
Munsey was asked.
We'll. it sure stirred up q lot Of
talk,i Mrs. Muncey said. Il am go
ing ahead and try to get my divorce.
but I am not going to. marry German"
Plans for the marriage of Babe
Huffman and Bill Muncey. announced
when the quartet walked into the
court room of Judge Kittinger with
their wife swapping arrangement,
were also said 70 have gone by the
boards
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
WEATHER
fro1I Page One. }

Horton, Philhpsburg and Scott City.
The highest in the United States Fri
day was 90 degrees at Little Rock,
Ark, and the lowest in the United
States Friday night was 36 degrees at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Rainfall was reported as follows
for the twenty-four hours ending at Z
O'Clock this morning: Dodge City, .04
inch; Fort Scott, 10 inch; Liberal, .O4
vile. .0s inch; Oswego, IA inch; Phil
lipsburg. "a inch; Scott City, .02 inch !;
Wichita, .01 inch.
The highest temperature ever re-
corded in Topeka on this date was "a
degrees in 1911, and the lowest was As
degrees in 1897.
At o'clock this afternoon the wind
was blowing at eleven miles an hour
from the northeast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
Each Motor Car
VIII Haze Still
Declares Edison

Boston, June "A prediction that
automobiles within a few years would
carry individual stills to produce fuel
for their operation was made last
night by Thomas A. Edison, jr., dis
cussing carbueration at the graduation
exercises of the Knights of Columbus
automobile school.
A car of average power, in his opin-
ion, could be equipped to produce suf-
ficient fuel to run itself and enough
by-products to pay for its mainte-
nance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
Kansas U. G. T. Elects.

Salina, Kan, June &C, w. Payne,
of Hutchinson, was elected grand
councillor at the grand council ses-
sion, U. c. T., here today. Other Of
ficers are E. C. Bernardin, Parsons,
grand secretary; j. G. Anderson,
Leavenworth. grand treasurer; w. A.
Hollingsworth, Atchison, grand junior
councillor; w. NJ. Leavitt, Concordia,
grand conductor, and Edwin c. Curtis,
Kansas City, grand sentinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
Open Institute Series in Kansas.

Chicago, June 4.-The first of a
series of eleven Epworth League in
stitutes in the United States will open
at Kingman, Kan, Monday. DR..
Charles E. Guthrie, secretary of the
organization, announced today. Bishop
E. L. Waldorf, of Wichita, DR..
Fletcher Homan, of Kansas City, DR..
]. E. Lander, of Troesdale, Kan, and
DR.. A E. Peterson, of Wichita, are
to be among the speakers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
DINNER STORIES

There is an official in Washington
who likes nothing better than a fling
at the medical profession. He was af-
forded an opportunity not long ago at
a public dinner to chaff the medicos,
and he did so in this wise:
physicians may be divided into two
classes-the radicals, who kill you,
and the conservatives, who let you
die"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04

New York-The illness Of Central Park
sheep was diagnosed today as too much ice
crefm aad canned lobster. They ate the
Ieayings Of Decoration day picnic parties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
North Topeka MelDs

Items for this column may lie left at
Petro's drug store. or telephone EDeanor
kimbaii. 1881 after Z o'clock. Other
hours. $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
RECOVER NASH CAR.
Auto Belonging to 1. A. SiIlman, Ills
Arch Street,

A Nash touring car. belonging to I.
A. Sillman, Ills Arch street, and
stolen at 1920 o'clock Friday night
from between Fourth and Fifth
streets on Quincy street, was found by
the police at $3.50 o'clock this morn
ing about one-half mile west of the
Kansas Industrial and Educational
institute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04

New York June 4.-Benny Leonard, light
weight champion boxer. and Rocky Kan
sas. his challenger in next Mondays bout
at Harrison, N. j. finished their training
They will weigh in at 2 p. m. Monday
and are required TO make 1875 pounds The
bout will be a 12-round no decision contest.
Milstadt. I1l.-The camel will walk no
more in Milstadt. The mayor after n pain
full visit to the towns jazz palaces, banned
the camel walk toddle and shimmy as Gin
decent and a menace to the purity Of the
village.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
KANSAS WEATHER REPORT.

Furnished by the weather bureau office,
Topeka, Kan. for the twentyfour hours
ending at a. m. Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04

Alma Mann, eleven-year-old
girl wonder Of the world" il
shown here about to dive into
waters of the Panama canal. She
IL tightly bound with sixty feet of
heavy rope, from which she frees
herself In Houdini fashion under
the water. She Is q member Of the
ked. White and Blue troop Of the
Panama canal zone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
june BRIDE SEASON BEGINS
Judge Hamilton Performed Seven
Marriage Ceremonies Today.
hride season lie al hand

The June bride season is at hand.
J. d. NJ. Hamilton. probate judge
performed seven marriage ceremonies
before noon today. Marriage licenses
were issued to:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
DAILY WEATHER REPORT,

Furnished by the weather bureau office,
Topeka, lan, for the twenty -four hours
ending at a.. m. Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04

Diamond Engagement Rings, $50 to
$500. Easy terms. Harris-Goar Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04
Local Mention

Armstrong Auxiliary United Span
meeting at the home of. Mrs. Relic
Rose, 405 Tyler street. Monday after
noon at o'clock for the purpose of
making financial arrangements for
delegates to the convention to be held
in Wichita, July A.
w. o. Anderson has left for a motor
trip to Lake Geneva, Wis.
TIL Ladies of Lincoln Circle Liter
airy society will meet all day Tuesday.
June 7. with Mrs. NJ. 7. Kelsey, 106
AFTER avenue. The women will bring
their lunch and meet at Sixth and the
Avenue at $3.50 o'clock.
Raymond Chiropodist, Orpheum Bldg.-Adv.
Friday evening, June 10, at 8
O'Clock. a musical and literary enter
tainment will be given at Redden
chapel by the Modoc quartet under the
direction of the Social Service club.
Chicago-The ceiling of Mrs. Harry Jones
leaked. Police arrested Mrs. Margaret
Biolitz who lived in the apartment above
after they discovered the leak smelled like
moonshine still was confiscated.
WICHITA LIVESTOCK MARKET.
Wichita, Kan, June 4.-HoGs-Receipts
400 MARKET steady. Top, $40; bulk of
CATTLE@Reeeipts 100 Market steady
for week. Beef steers, S3.5OHS.O0: beef
cows and heifers, $3.50@7.5O; stockers and
feeders. s3.J047.25: stock cows and beifers,
S2y0Go50; bulls, $2.0oQ5.OO; calves, 5000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-04

The second meeting of the free baby
clinic will be held Tuesday morning, June
Z, from 10 to O'Clock, at the North Topeka
Community house, corner of Laurent and
Jackson streets.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-12

Lucretia (Whipple) Barrus, who came
from New Hampshire Her home was in
NlnhaI until she married, although she
worked in other places much of the time.
At one time she was employed as a wait
reSS In one OF the Brattleboro hotels. She
also worked in Cambridge. Mass.
con Nov. %, 1864, she married George
tt. Phillips. native of Athol, Mass. who
came to Ninhall in his boyhood Mr..
Phillips had come home the previous
year, 1863, from the war, where he served
in Company &, 14th Vermont Volunteers.
ana obtained employment as superintend-
ent OF the DIR. Jackson stock farm in
Winhall After serving in that capacity
three years Mr.. Phillips and his wife
moved to West TownShend, where they
bought the Ranney farm, remaining there
until 1870, when they moved to Putney
Mr.. Phillips carried on the live stock
business in Putney until his death. which
occurred suddenly of heart disease while
his wife was ministering to him Jan. II.
1904. He bought cattle throughout
Vermont and New Hampshire
and in Massachusetts, sending weekly
shipments from putney or Brattleboro to
the Brighton market He also shipped
ciated with j. L. Henry of WATERFOWL.
Mass. He was a representative to the
legislature in 1898 and was one of Put
ney's heaviest taxpayers.
Mrs. Phillips was devoted to her home
and lived a consistent Christian life. She
took an active interest in her husbands
success in the live stock business. and i'm
those days her home often was the stop
ping place of drovers who had dealings
with Mr.. Phillips and they were recip-
tents of bountiful entertainment. Mrs
Phillips had been a member for many
years of the Methodist church in Bond
vile.
She leaves a brother, Moses I. Barrus
of Hannibal, n. Y, niece in BrattIe-
boro, niece in Worcester, Mass, and
two nephews in Hannibal.
The body will be taken to Putney to-
morrow by Undertaken Carl A. Mitchell
and the funeral will be held in the Com
munity church at , o'clock, Rev. G. III
Moorhouse officiating. The burial will
take place beside the body of Mr. Phillips
in Mt. Pleasant cemetery
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-12
FAILS TO SAVE LIFE.
Continued from Page II

for help and then went to her couch and
covered herself with a couch cover. ap-
parently in an effort to smother the fire,
and was on the couch when help arrived.
Mrs Harry Amidon, who lives two doors
away, had just started for her fathers
home and saw Indications of a fire in
the Phillips home. She told her husband,
who was in his shop, and he ran to the
Phillips house. Quincy Il. Newcomb,
who lives across the street. saw smoke
issuing from the front doorway and has
tened 10 give assistance, as did Frank
Howard, who with his brother, Ben
Howard. was driving past in an automo-
bile Mr.. Ranney was away chopping.
When the men reached the house the
covering over Mrs. Phillips was on fire
and when ii was removed it was found
that all of Mrs Phllipss clothing had
been burned off except skirt bindings and
her high Ovcrshoes.
Ben Howard made quick trip to the
village after DIR. LII Bugbee, who had
Mrs. Phillips wrapped i'm blankets and
placed i'm u. III. Smiths automobile truck
and taken to the hospital. The upper
part of her body especially was horribly
burned. She was attended here by
DR. Harry L. Greene.
Mrs. Phillips was born in Winhall
Oct. II, 1886, daughter Of Holman and
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-12
HANFORO Mac NIOeR

among them, viii do more to inspire
the American people and to bind to-
gether the great friendship of the Al
lies than can be accomplished by any
international agreements.
To every American who served
under his command, to every Ameri-
can who may see and hear him or
even read his messages to our people
has come the realization of the
high integrity and fine, simple great
ness of the man. To him goes at
once our love and a silent pledge to
do our part to carry out his deepest
desire. A just peace and a safe
peace for all the world.
His comrades of the American I.e-
glon are proud and happy that they
can bring him to our people, that this
grateful nation can learn to know
him as we. do; to appreciate him and
to appreciate our allies. who still
sore and bleeding from their defence
of the civilized world, are proving
that their spirit is indomitable.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-12
THE AMERICAN LEGION SPECIAL
\ CARRYING MARSHAL focH

The American Legion is pledged to
carry on the battles for the princi-
pies for which our buddies died. We
feel that this would be their wish.
and we shall not forget.
Composed of men and women who
know what war means and not as
pacifsts, but with open eyes and
hard earned experience, they intend to
cement together the great allies who
fought that war might not come
again. There is no surer guarantee
TO the peoples of the world that our
victory may indeed be victorious and
bring security to those who come
after us. Every man and woman in
the American Legion has no other de-
sire than to build their organization
into such a wonderful force for good
and tie it so strongly into our ma
tlonal existence that it can accom-
pllsh these things.
The strength of the legion Is in
the individual post and the men who
compose it. 1t is to do them honor
that this great leader of men comes
TO their communities. 1t has nat
uralIy been our duty in fighting the
battles for the disabled veteran and
Tor all the ex-Service men and women
to ask things of the American peo-
pie. We are now bringing them
something that we hope and believe
VIII be the greatest inspiration to-
ward their future welfare.
The simple, wonderful character Of
this man We bring to you we believe
will impress itself upon America.
Looking into the faces of our people
he finds them good, and he will take
back the message he reads there that
the allies of yesterday are the allies
of to-day and that they shall be the
allies Of tomorrow,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-12
WEST BRATTLEBORO

The Twentieth Century club will meet
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. James
c. Gibson.
Mrs. Flora Adams. who had been a
guest Of Mrs. J. :. Morse and Mrs
Henry StockweH, went Friday to New
tame to visit Mrs. George Foster and
other friends
Mrs. Hoyt IT.. Barber, who had been
confined to her home several weeks bv
illness, went Friday to tjrecnfch TO re
man ma ,, Tor a time with her parents, Mr.
The Every Member canvass IF +bo
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL church was co i,e
.ucted Yesterday afternoon, when about
- eanvassers called on the members of
the church and parish The returns are
lot yet all in, but it is assured that tbe
mount Mount desired win be subscribed, Over
SI,5o0 was subscribed yesterday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-12
BY HANFoRD NIAcNInER


National Commander, american Le-
9io1 En- route teitb Special Train
for Marshal FocH.
at is not things I want to see. it
is the men, women and children. es-
pccially the children for there lies
the future of America" This Won
derful statement characterizes the
MarshaFS visit to America, where he
comes to pay his respects to the men
who served under him and to the
great American nation, in which is
mixed the blood of every country in
the world. He wants to see the
American people in times of peace,
and as a great soldier who hates war,
TO promote a real and just peace
which will make future wars impos-
sible. The great Marechal repre-
sents to US not only his own country,
but every allied country whose armies
fought under his command.
1t was France, Great Britain, Bel
GUM, Italy and our Allies who, fight
ing for their very existence held back
the enemy while we, unprepared.
stroVe to build our armies that we
too might do our duty to civilization,
and they are grateful and they do
not forget that we did add the men
and ships and material which in
Splred by the leadership of the great
Marechal made victory possible.
The very presence of this man
who commanded the greatest armies
in history, those of our own men
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-12-12

National Commander, american Le-
9ion In route 1oitb Special Train
for Marshal FocR.