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Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14

been here.
Miss Rossie Mitchell visited home
folks at Bokchita, Saturday and Sun.
day.
Miss Bessie holland spent the week
end with her mother in Bokchita.
T. d. Pearce is on the sick list this
week.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14

is before there was any town there.
She came to Oklahoma before Okla
homa became a state and lived for
some time in Achille.
She was laid to rest at Mead's Chap
pl near Calpra
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14

the amount asked for improvements
and the ground upon which they are
located.
KINCY REALTY COMPANY
Office with Salmon, Gilstrap & Ward.
IO3 South Third Avenue, Phone 22-
Phone 279-R. 2ws1
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14
FOR SALE

First class oat straw 3Oc per bale.
Spring barley, slightly mixed with
oats at $1.O0 per bushel.
Five first class Duroc Jersey SOws,
bred to one of the finest boars in
Southern Oklahoma. A few young
sows three months old, all sired by
the same boar.
Write f. o. White, 2 miles north
of Utica, Oklahoma.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14

THE AUTOPOINT Pencil. Have you
seen it. Just the hing fnr the office,
school or hom,. Excellent, handsome
and alway. ready fnr use. PRICE SOC
and un.--DtRANT BOOK STORE.
2wal
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14
MRS. KATE LEMON DIES

Last Friday night Mrs. Kate Lemon,
died at the home of her son, r. B.
Lemon, in this city.
Mrs. Lemon was sc years of age and
had spent the greater portion of her
life in Texas and Oklahoma. She
was born in Virginia and moved to
Texas and lived where Denison now
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14

CLERKS, (men, women) over II, for
Postal Mail Service. $3.50 month. Ex-
aminations January. Experience un-
necessary. For free particulars, write
r. Terry, (former Civil Service Exam
iner) 1861 Continental Bldg, Wash
ington, d. C. 1wa2.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14

FOR SALE-at a bargain-A Peter
Shutter wagon, almost new, 3-4 size,
also double set of A harness; both
in perfect condition. Call at 9O2 n.
10th ST., or call 94O-R oval
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14

statesmen WANTED to solicit or
ders for lubricating oils, greases and
paints. Salary or Commission. Ad-
dress THE HARVEY OIL CO., Cleve-
land, Ohio. oval
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14

FOR S3l5O.00 we offer for sale an ex-
cellent six room house, located on East
Florida Street. The improvements on
the ground cannot be duplicated for
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14

ANY AMOUNT of baled hay. C. r.
Elliott, care First State Bank, CAL
era, Oklahoma. 2watf
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14

CLERKS, linen, women) over II, for
Postal Mail Service. $3.50 month.
Examinations January. Experience
unnecessary. For free particulars,
write X. Terry, (former Civil Service
Examiner) 1861 Continental Bldg,
Washington, D. c. lwa2
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14

666 will break a Cold. Fever and
Grippe quicker than anything we
know, preventing pneumonia.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14
CLASSIFIED ADS.

AUTO TO TRADITION farm lands.
Chandler Chummy, practically good
a new and looks new. r. +. Pow
erS, Durant. Await
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14
FOR SALE

Frost proof Cabbage Plants. ali
varieties. 100 plants SOC, 800 $50,
1000 $3.50, postpaid. 500 plants $l.25,
1000 $500, 10000 $l.50 per 1000, Ex-
press collect.
KINSEY WHOLESALE PLANT co.
Valdosta, Georgia. 5lwa4
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14
COMING! COMING!
SECOND OF THE CALERA
LYCEUM NUMBERS.
DR.. Granville Jones. Noted Lecturer,
Will Speak at the Calera School
House. Sunday at 2 p. NJ.

DR.. Granville Jones, one of Ameri-
cas- foremost circuit lecturers will
speak on the subject of Governments
Personal, State, National and Inter-
national and will fully explain the rea-
sons for better or worse governments.
Don't fail to hear him. Bring the
whole family, it will be money we'll
spent.
Admission % cents; children under
5 free.
Adv.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1921-01-14
FOR SALE

fDR SALE
Good Louisiana Ribbon Cane Syrup,
i-27 gal. bbls. 81 per gal. 1000 cans.
5l.15. Grated samples on rcque t. @.
l.. Williams, Many, La. y wa3.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22
NO SHORTAGE OF PHYSICIANS
Kansas Is Well Supplied, Says Secre-
tary of Medical Board.

With graduating classes from the
medical schools back to normal after
the war, Kansas is in no immediate
danger of shortage of physicians, ac-
cording to DIR. A. S. Ross, newly elect
ed secretary of the state board of
medical examination and registration.
who moved the records of the board
to Topeka this week and established
headquarters in the capitol with the
state board of health.
Sixty-six new physicians were Ii
censed to practice medicine in this
state at the June examinations of this
year. while for all three 1920 exami-
nations only seventy-five or eighty IL
censes were granted, DIR. Ross said.
The 1921 directory of the American
Medical association shows 1850 ply
sicians in this state, or approximately
one to 700 population. For the entire
United States there are 145,608 ply
sicians or one to 725 population. So
Kansas is better off than the average
for doctors, Doctor Ross pointed out.
Since the state board OF examination
was established, $685. licenses have
been granted.
Doctor Ross, whose home is at Sa-
betha, will come to Topeka as fire.
quently as necessary to look after
board duties. A stenographer will be
at the office at all times. DR. H. A.
Dykes of Lebanon, who recently re-
signed as secretary of the board after
ten years service, has gone to Wash
ington to accept a position with the
United States public health service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22
WATER TURNED ON
Trouble at Olathe Deaf and
Dumb School Is Settled.
State Board Will Urge Early
Settlement of Claim.

Members of the state board of ad-
ministration and Olathe city officials
have ironed out their immediate trou-
bles regarding a water supply for the
state deaf and dumb school. Water
has again been turned on and the
state board will urge the next legisla
ture to pay Olathe's claim for former
supplies
When the school year closed at the
state institution last spring the city OF
Olathe cut off the states water sup
ply and announced there would be no
more water until back claims were
paid. Governor Allen and members
of the state board threatened to rec
ommend to the legislature the remov-
al of the school to another location.
Underwood Goes to OIathe.
Recently, tho, Ernest Underwood as
spokesman for the board Of admins
tration. of which he is a member, ap-
peared before the Olathe city commits
sion. He said the state wanted to be
falr with the city and that the state
board would recommend to the next
legislature payment of the balance
claimed by the city for water supplies
at the school. The city officials then
agreed to restore water pressure.
Governor Allen today stated that in
ms opinion the trouble was settled.
NO move will now be made by the
state administration to remove the
school
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22
MAJOR UNDER fire
Bruce Campbell Denies Getting
$4,000 Stacker Money.
Declares Mrs. Emma BergdOll's
Charges Are Untrue.

Washington, July 22.-Sweeping de-
NAL of all charges that he had re-
ceived any money from the Bergdoll
family or sought any money while he
was acting as counsel for Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, Philadelphia draft
dodger. was made today by Maj. Bruce
Campbell before the house committee
investigating the charges.
Campbell emphatica1ly denied the
charge made by Mrs. Emma Bersdoll,
mother of the Stacker, that he sought
S100, 600 for higher ups" in Wash
ington. He also made categorical de-
NAL of further statements by Mrs.
Bergdoll indicating that the officer
had received $1,000 from Grover.
Then He Cursed.
"There is not a word of truth in
these Statements Campbell said.
Campbell was extremely caust1c
with the committee and while testify
ing that he had told Mrs. Bergdoll of
an investment of $1,000 in stocks, was
questioned by Representative Luhring
as to where he secured the money for
this investment.
That's nobody else's damned bust-
ness but NINE" shouted Campbell.
Under pressure the witness said he
had the money in his possession. which
was his wife's. and that he also OBJ
tained money from speculations car
ried on by friend. Col. Milton
Young, of Lexington, KY, now dead"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22
S1,222 RAISED FOR FUND
Patients at Topeka tuberculosis
Sanatorium Anxiously Awaiting
Time When They Can Enjoy the
Comforts of a Porch.

Two little girls who are sisters. are
lying in narrow white beds that are
side by side at the Topeka Tubercu-
losis sanatorium. They talk contin-
ually of the time when they will be
we'll enough to play again as other
children do. One is nine years old
and the other is eleven years old.
The little girls have a chance for re-
covery, but that chance will not con-
tinue without the fresh air and sun
shine that they need. They cannot
have a place on the one small porch
of the sanatorium all the time. and
yet they should be outdoors. Not un-
til the new porches are built on the
sanatorium will they be placed out
doors regularly. Who knows but what
gift to the Sanatorium Porch Fund
will contribute to the little girls
chance for recovery? Think of your
own happy. healthy little daughter and
then decide to give to the fund be-
cause you are thankful she is not at
the sanatorium.
The women in charge of the fund
are delighted over the many contri-
buttons. They have swelled the fund
to $1,222.25. But $4,000 is ncces-
sary for building the porches and the
amount is coming slowly. If one or
two checks of several hundred dollars
were given work could begin immedi-
ately on the porches.
Patients at the institution ask daily
when the porches are to be built, with
every confidence that they. are to be
provided soon. They anticipate with
much pleasure being allowed a place
on the splendid porches that are
planned.
Out of town persons are becoming
interested in Topeka's efforts to i'm
prove its sanatorium. A check for $25
has been received from Mrs d. E.
ing. Kan.
Checks for helping to build the
porches should be made payable to
the Sanatorium Porch Fund. Mrs. G.
B. Thomas, Mrs. F. w. Freeman and
Mrs T. B. Frost are in charge of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22
Road Celebration To Be Held
at Tecumseh August 2.
Chamber of Commerce Commit
tee Picks Location Today.
!, 600 INVITATIONS ARE OUT
State and County Officials Are
Asked To Be Present.
Federal Road Official Offers
Congratulations on Project.

The celebration of the opening of
the East Sixth avenue paved road
will be held at the double curve at
Tecumseh. on the ground known as
the Morris Tract" it was decided at
a special meeting of the good roads
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce at noon today.
The shade necessary is provided
by trees, and a speakers stand is to
be erected in the field adjoining, for
the occasion.
Two thousand invitations to state
and county officials and the officers
of highway and trails associations
have been contracted for by the en-
tertainment committee and are to be
mailed out in a short time
500 Pledged for Expense.
There has already been pledged for
the expense of the celebration, 500,
George W. Stansfield, chairman of the
committee on ways and means, re-
ported today. Representatives of the
Automobiles Trades association were
present at the meeting today and will
sociation the matter of assistance in
the financing.
The concerns which have already
donated to the celebration fund in
clude the Road Metal and Supply
company, $50; the Long Oil company.
800; the Merchants Transfer COM
pany. s10; the Topeka Transfer COM
pany, $40; the Stephens Tire COM
pany, s25. and the cement manu-
facturers of the state, $500.
Hold Celebration on Highway.
sThe committee decided that theiI
entire celebration is to be held on the
highway of which the opening is be-
ing celebrated, and for that reason
the project of a dance at Garfield park
was abandoned. The tentative pro-
gram ends with the festivities of the
afternoon at Tecumseh. -
County officials will see to 1t thai
the tree which is to be planted at the
county line by the Ladies' Auxiliary oi
the Victory Highway association, /!
prepared for, and a committee from
the auxiliary will supervise the setting
out of the. tree as a part of the open
ing celepration.
E. ]. James, chief designer and as
sistant to the chief of the bureau o
public roads at Washington, met will
the committee as their guest, ant
spoke briefly at the end of the meeting
James congratulated the committed
warmly on the project and its compile
tion. He declared that the idea incor.
porated in the Victory Highway hai
Victory Highway is the first to actual
1y carry out the idea of a highway IL
memory of the service man.
Biggest Job in q. S. Today.
1.-THE highway proposition is the big
gest project in the United States to
day." James declared. THE bureau
of public roads is administering mori
money and moving more dirt. every
day. than was moved during the con
struction of the Panama canal" HI
said.
There are now current more thar
5000 federal aid road projects in thu
United States, with their cost aggre
eating in the neighborhood of $3.50,
100000. In this work Kansas is wei
toward the lead, and is far ahead o
your neighbor states-Oklahoma, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22
Ninety Days ofDrouth
and Scorching Heat GiUe
London a Tropic Aspect
White Helmets, Cotton Suits and Sun Glasses Prevail
Cergymen Shed Coats in Pulpits for First Time His
tory-Bombard Air in Effort to Create Rainfall.

London, July 22.-London is gasp
ing for breath in the highest tempera-
ture recorded in five years. and the
oldest conventions in the country are
shriveling like the prematurely brown
leaves of the roadside trees. For the
first time in history English clergy
men mount their pulpits coatless and
collarless, after the fashion of Billy
Sunday, to refresh their congregations
by discussions of helrs fire. Even
judges have been sitting in negligee,
discarding thier traditional wigs and
gowns, to the astonishment of learned
counsel.
Health officials and meteorologists
are equally puzzled and apprehensive.
Yesterday was the ninetieth Cay of the
drouth in England. and the fresh wa
ter supply virtually is exhausted. Crops
are as good as abandoned in many
regions, having been burned by the
sun, and the fields and forests already
have assumed a brown, autumnal
complexion.
Streets Have Tropic Aspects.
The health officers are no less
pleased than puzzled to be able to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22
BOTH HOLD FIRM
France and England Maintain
Stand on SiIesian Issue!
Eight Divisions of Polish
Troops to Scene of Trouble.

Berlin, July 22.-The Poles are pre-
pairing to send eight divisions of reg
ular troops into Upper Silesia to es-
tablish headquarters at Rybhik, Pless,
Kattowitz and Lublinwitz and over
run practically the entire province.
said a Breslau dispatch to the
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung today.
Breach Is Emphasized.
Paris, July 22.-The breach be-
tween France and Great Britain over
Upper Silesia was emphasized today
when Premier BRAND, in a speech to
the council of ministers said positive
ly that the supreme council would not
meet to take up the Silesian issue un-
of September. Great Britain has been
protesting against further delays and
emapding aimm ediate meeting OF
the supreme council.
The premier said France will not
relinQuish the view that the supreme
council should not meet until the
commission of experts had worked out
a preliminary solution and fixed the
new SileSfan frontiers.
President Millerand, of France, pre-
sided at the meeting. This was the
first time since the administration of
the republic had presided at a min
isterial council.
Meet at Presidents Home.
In view of the urgency of the in
ternational crisis, the meeting was
not held in Paris. The ministers
journeyed to the summer home of
the president in Rambouillet, in
order to give them an opportunity to
canvass the situation with the presi-
dent.
Premier BRAND, 1t was understood,
will take up most of the morning ad-
dressing the ministers. He empha-
sized the unshakable determination
of the government to hold to it's pres
ent viewpoint, despite any increased
opposition from London.
The Polish and French commits
sioners are reported to be arranging
for the establishing of Polish civil ad-
ministrations thruout Upper Silesia.
The Poles and French are charged
with spying upon English activities.
General Leronde, French chief of the
internal-high commission, has ordered
the English to limit the support of
the Germans in Upper Silesia, the
Breslau dispatch adds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22
KU .KLUx IN PROBE
Organization Head Will Make
Sweeping Investigation.
Believes Law ViOlatOrS Shield
ing Selves Behind N. X. X.

Atlanta. Ga, July 22.-The charter
of one local branch of the knight of
Ku Klux Klan already has been sus-
pended and one revoked and a rigid
investigation into other alleged activi-
ties of members of the order is under
way, it was announced here TO-DAY by
Col. William J. Simmons, imperial
wizard of the order. The charter sus-
pended was issued at Pensacola, Fla,
and that at Mobile, Ala, revoked.
Dallas, Tex, July ga sweeping
investigation of the activities of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Texas
and Oklahoma has been been ordered
by Col. William Joseph Simmons, i'm
perial wizard of the order and the
originator of the present organiza-
tion.
This information was contained in
a telegram signed by Colonel Simmons,
addressed to the Dallas News.
He stated that he would put thirty
members of the order at work on the
investigation at once, and that If local
Klans were found guilty of violations
of the law. their charters would be
revoked. Individual members will be
severely dealt with, he declared, if
they have acted without authority.
Colonel Simmons expresses the be-
lief that the organization has not been
guilty of any of the acts attributed to
1t, but suspects that some force is at
work attempting to hide its crime be-
hind the shield of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22

A high atmospheric pressure in the
northwest is causing general cooling
off over the central part of the coun-
try and has forced the temperature
down until during the past "a hours
Topeka has enjoyed an average tenn
perature of four degrees below nor
NAL, the weather bureau reports, and
probably will see a continuation of it
for the next 24-hour period.
The highest temperature here
Thursday was S5 at 3:45 o'clock,
which was also the high mark for
Wednesday, and Topeka folks had a
hard time getting awake early this
morning when the temperature was
down to 63. 1t was the coolest night
here since June 6. The temperature
may go as high as 80 today and from
S5 to 80 Saturday, with a drop to
about 6S tonight.
The weather prevailing here at pres
ent is knocking the claims of Denver
for being the ideal summer resort as
the temperature reached go there
Thursday. Calgary, Canada, which
usually shivers at this time of the
year, reports a temperature of so
Thursday and at North Platte, Ne
braska. it was "a. The east also con-
tinues to bake because of a drouth
east of the Mississippi river.
No rain has fallen in Kansas dur
ing the past forty-eight hours, and
altho the middle west will see more
or less cloudy weather during the
Continued on Page TwOl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22

state that public health is extraordi-
narily good, there being comparatively
little Illness except from sunstroke.
The streets of London bear a re-
senblance to those of cities in India,
for men are going about wearing
white pith helmets. usually associated
with tropic service, cotton suits and
sun glasses.
Some meteorologists attribute the
heat to spots on the sun. Others say
it is due to the altering of the path
Of the Atlantic depression" The pub
lie takes its choice and talks about
the weather. There are learned pre-
dictions that the rainfall of Great
Britain will continue to be insufficient
until 1926.
Try To Induce Rainfall.
Various experiments are being car
ried on in desperate efforts to induce
rainfall. Aerial bombardments are
heard every night and airplanes flying
at extreme heights are setting off nj
troglycerine charges among the clouds
to jostle out of them whatever pre-
cipitation they may contain. which
appears to be nil. Last night a new
experiment was tried, that of setting
off huge bulbs of liquid air.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22
MOUNTED POLICE IN BORDER
VIII Prevent Entrance of 1. w. w.
Host Into Canada.

Winnipeg. July 22.-Northwest
mounted police stationed in Winnipeg
today were ordered to border points,
where close watch will be kept along
the international boundary to prevent
the entrance into Canada OF several
hundred Industrial Workers of the
World. The 1. W. W., who are now In
North Dakota, are reported to have
declared their intention of marching
into Canada.
At Oakes. N. D., according to re-
ports received here, 100 members of
the 1. W. W. informed the mayor they
intended to say there and would make
their own laws as they saw fit.
reports reaching here declare the
l. w. W. are congregating at Fargo,
y. d, with the avowed intention of
hiEder:ng in the harvest field. They
will attempt also to invade the har-
vest fields of western Canada
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-22
MOTORIST MUMBLINGS

The most beautiful and comfort
able ride out of Topeka is on the
wonderful stretch of concrete high
way from the city limits to the
Shawnee-Douglas county line thru
Tecumseh. 1t is the favorite trip
on which to take visitors. Yet to
meet this road the motorist must.
to follow a straight line, go direct
ly east on East Sixth avenue. In
taking this route he is forced to go
over the East Sixth viaduct. This
viaduct is in disgraceful and dan
gerous condition. Loose timbers,
sharp spikes and a wrecking
bumpy approach make the ride
burden. The city and the railway
companies are at fault for this con-
dition of affairs. They should be
ashamed of the East Sixth route to
the concrete road.