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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-17
BY POSTMASTER ". o. RIGB'

BY POSTMASTER W. o. RIGBY.
Postal money orders provide a, safe
and convenient method of sending
money to all domestic and most for
eign destinations. They may be pur-
chased at any postoffice, station, sub
s ton or bra Oh, which places are
authorized to meet payments How
e--~, payment may be made thru
bank and business houses, providing
not more thE one transfer is made
before reaching a bank or postoffice.
Where a business house cashes a
money order, the fact should be borne
in mind that correct payment is eS-
sential, as payment to an unauthor-
lied person, or persS l unknown to
them, may result in 8 loss upon COM
plant of the true owner.
Good for One Year.
While no provisions are made for
the waving of Identification, the
method usually employed by firms
who have representatives calling at
town. where they are not known, is
to purchase a money order and at the
same time present a specimen sigma
ture of heir representative with the
request that it be forwarded to the
office of payment. If t. represen-
tative is able to duplicate the sig
n-ture no further identification is re-
quired. This same service is extended
the public.
It is not essential that money or
ders be presented for payment at the
same office upon which they are
drawn. They may be paid at any
postoffice in the United States for
thirty days from date of issue, after
which time they are payable only
at the office of issue or at the office
upon which they Ire drawn. Pay
ment may be paid any time within
one ear. After the expiration of a
means of a warrant payments will be
r ade upon lost money orders in like
manner if the record of original issue
can be established.
Five Stations in Topeka.
For the convenience of the public
stations are maintained in various
parts of the city, at which places
money orders may be purchased and
where payments are made. The sta
tons are located as follows: Station
No. 2, Crosby Brothers; station No. 3,
Pelletier's; station No. 6, Potwin sta
ton; North Topeka station, Gordon
street and North Kansas avenue; Oak
land branch, 247 Oakland avenue.
Service is also extended to all rural
routes emanating from the Topeka
postoffice.
At the present time there is a great
demand for money orders for payment
in European countries, particularly
Germany, Austria, Russia, Greece Ru-
mania, Bulgaria and Poland. The ex-
change of money orders with these
countries was discontinued in 1918 and
up to the present time has not been
resumed. However, some relief has
been extended by the esta Adjustment of
service with the Saar Basin in Ger
many, to which destination money
orders may now be sent under condi-
lions applicable to France. The serv-
ice with Great Britain, France,
Switzerland. Italy, Norway, Sweden.
Denmark, the Netherlands and other
ton during the war and is today quite
extensively used regardless of the low
rate of exchange.
Money orders may be purchased in
any amounts up to s100- An order for
S2.50 or less costs the purchaser 8
cents; $3.50 to SIS, cents; IS to $25,
8 cents; $25 to $50. 10 cents, and $50
to 800, 80 cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-17
Is YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
December II, 1896.


J. W. Priddy. president of the board
of education, was a schoolmate of VIII
Carleton in 1876 at Hillside college, where
he was graduated in 1865 His home was
on farm six miles north of there. In the
Alpha Kappa Phi society of the college he
ranked high, owing to his various attain
ments as a strong debater, fine orator,
and his ability to instruct and entertain
with rhymes. The first production Of his
to attract attention was his political poem
entitled Fax" written to discuss the ques-
lions arising in the presidential campaign
Of 1868.
Mrs. Charles Pierce entertained a few
guests at supper last night. They were
Mr. and Mrs, Frank farrell, Mr.. and Mrs.
A L Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. James Brew
er, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lingafelt. Mr.. and
Mrs. E. Austin, Mr. and Mrs James L.
King.
One Of the largest receptions ever given
in the city took place yesterday afternoon
and evening at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Lee Redden, 1101 Topeka avenue.
Mrs. Redden. Mrs Arthur Murphy and
Miss Redden received the guests, who mum
bered several hundred
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-17
CHEER TO DISABLED SOLDIER

Veterans in Kansas Hospitals or
Homes VIII Be Remembered
Christmas-AH Posts Are Noti-
fled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-17
IS SAFE METHOD
Postal Money Order Convenient
Way to Send Cash.
Business Houses Should Use
Care and Avoid Loss.
FIVE STATIONS IN Topeka
Service Also Extended to Rural
Routes Out of City
Big Demand for Money Orders
to Foreign Points.

This is the second of a series of ar
ticIes by Postmaster Rigby concerning
the transaction of Uncle Sans postal
business. The third will appear in The
State Journal December q.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-03-04
WINTER WORK IN
GARDEN BIG AID
"Farmettes" Should Begin Dur
ing Cold Weather Season for
Spring Planting Time.
CLEANING UP IS IMPORTANT
Rubbish and Dead Plants Should BE
Raked Up and Burned to Protect
Crops Of Next Season From
Injurious Insects.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agricultere)
Home gardens were boons to thou
sands Of families In the United States
last season, and the garden habit
seems to have become fixed with a
large number Of persons.
In most sections the late fall gar
dens were killed by frost and in many
c&ses the debris still litters the ground.
Bean poles and tomato stakes, with
their burden Of frosted vines, are
toppled ever and give the garden an
unkempt and ragged appearance.
Aside from the aesthetic influence of
cleaning up the garden, 1t Is impor-
tant. specialists of the United States
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-03-04
Live Stock
News
TIME TO PURCHASE FEEDERS
Go By-CattIe Are Higher In
Spring Than In Fall.

Sim Baxter's right leg was In tenn
porary retirement under layer Of
arnica-soaked bandages. He regarded
the injured member with q CLINT of
rueful humor and spake thus to q
neighbor who had dropped In for 4
chat with the cheerful invalid.
"Bert, tell me somethin'. How can
Teller tell when mean white mule
named Anarchy Is gOin' to kick?
mean, how can he tell in time to do
him any good?"
Human knowledge goes no further
ways goin' to kick. Is that the an
swer? Then let me ask you a ques-
ton: How do you know whether to
buy your feeder steers in the fall
or In the spring. Do youDmake any.
thing by feeding them in the winter.
and will you make more If you let the
ether Teller feed 'em through? They
cost more in the spring than in the
fall. Is there any way to be certain"
Sim admitted that the thing was
past his comprehension and confessed
that he sometimes did the thing one
way and sometimes the other, but that
he never knew just how he was com,
ing out.
In reality, as to the time to buy
stockers or feeders, there is no hard
and fast rule. The usual time is in
the fall when they must leave the
grazing areas and go where feeds
have been harvested or stored for cat.
tie feeding. However, with falling
market, which no one can foretell with
any degree of certainty, the cattle
may not be worth enough more in the
spring to pay for the winter feeding.
Yet they have been kept largely on
feed for which there is no ether mar
ket.
Consequently, what Sim and his
neighbOr should know Is how much 1t
costs to keep stOckers through the
winter on various rations, how they
lose or gain weight, and hew they
gain through the summer as a result
of the way they have been wintered
Being in better position to carry on
feeding experiments to answer these
questions than the cattlemen, the bu-
reau Of animal industry, cooperating
with the West Virginia experiment
station, conducted series of feeding
tests in Greenbrier county, West Vir-
GINA. The experiments began De-
cember %, 1914, and covered a period
of four years, the results being now
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-03-04
FATE'S JOKE ON THE CRITIC
Woman Henceforth VIII Be Slower to
Find Fault With the Way Other
Folks Dress.

A woman living on the upper East
side of New York was being escorted
through West Forty-ninth street on a
recent evening on her way to her
favorite moving picture house in
Broadway. To her escort she re-
marked: a
do look at the skirt on the wom-
an Just ahead Of us. 1t is not hung
right. 1t says on the left side and
bitches up on the right side. If
couldn't put my clothes on better than
that wouldn't go out"
The speakers disapproval was
hardly voiced when she gasped,
clutched at one of her hips, then at
the other, then whispered tragically to
her escort:
Mercy, some of my clothing is I'M
fastened. It's coming down right
here In the street. Dear me, what
shall do? Isn't there hotel near? I
can't hold it up"
The escort steered her into handy
restaurant and she FASTENED inside.
emerging In little while looking
greatly relieved. AS the two took up
their walk toward the theater the
woman said contritely:
Guess I won't be so pert again
about criticizing other women's cloth
ing and the way it's put on"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-03-04
The Worlds
Champion Singer
By r. RAY BAKER

O. 1920. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
AS Jim Hennessey stood at the top
or the brown-stone steps and stupidity
surveyed the white panels of the green
door, 1t began to dawn on him
through his daze that wooing Maggie
Walton and promoting prize fights did
not harmonize.
With ring In his pocket he had
called that afternoon with an errati-
caily humping heart. He had been
greeted cOolly, however, and Maggie
had seated herself on the davenport
and glared at him reproachful and
said accusingly:
"Jim, this Is the end of things.
can't stand it any longer"
He took the newspaper which she
held up and his eyes met the headline !:
KALOOZOS CONCERT
is CALLED OFF
Advance Sale of Tickets So Light
Managers Couldn't Make
Expenses.
"Yes, it's the end of things" Maggie
continued, while tears welled in her
eyes. "Since you came to town a year
ago and started the fighting business
CattOlane hasn't stood for respectable
entertainment. We used to have a
real musical artist once in a while,
but your fights have cultivated the
city's brutal tastes. This is the Sec
ond attempt to get a grand opera &C.
lebrity here, and it's the second fail
nre, since Cattolane developed thirst
for blood.
"Jim, I've tried to put up with it,
because I cared lot for you, but !
love music and lOathe fighting. So
there's no use of our continuing"
Jim made the fatal mistake of at
tempting reconciliation with his bank
book.
"But look, Maggie" he implored,
displaying the evidence of his pros
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-03-04

Department of Agriculture say, that
all rubbish and dead plants be re-
moved and burned to protect the crops
of next season from the insects and
disease spores which infest the debris.
A few hours Of work In the garden
now will save serious losses another
year. Gather the bean poles, tomato
stakes, and any removable trellises or
wires, store the good ones until they
are again needed; then pull, rake to-
gether, and burn all the dead vines
and plants left in the garden. If these
are too wet or green to burn, they may
be gathered in small piles for a few
days to dry and then piled together
and burned.
Spread Manure In Winter.
Winter is a good time to spread
rough manure over the garden. This
serves a double purpose, In that it
adds fertility to the soil and also pro-
tects the soil from washing and blow
Ing. Heavy clay soils should be broken
up and left rough and lumpy before
applying the manure. The kind Of
manure to use for this purpose is not
important, so long as it Is not filled
with weed seeds or trash of any kind.
Manure In which straw has been used
for bedding can be taken direct from
the stable and spread on the garden
as a surface cover during the winter,
the rough part being either plowed I'M
der in the spring or raked off and put
in the compost heap. The finer part
remaining on the ground can be
worked into the top soil In preparing
the seed bed next spring.
Compost Heap Helpful.
Compost made by pillng up sods,
manure, and any material having fer
tilizing value will be needed in prepar-
Ing special soil for seed beds and for
starting plants next spring. Now is
the time to make a compost heap. The
best method Is to obtain a load Of
manure, prepare a level space 4 by 6
feet, spread or inches Of the
manure over this space, follow with a
layer Of sod which has been chopped
int pieces with q sharp spade, then
additional layers Of manure and sod
uAtil all Of the manure has been used.
A q rule, the natural rainfall dur
ing the winter will be sufficient to
keep the pile properly moistened, and
~ spring approaches a roof Of boards,
Or other covering, should be placed
ever the pile SO II will not be too wet
for use when needed. When the time
comes to use 1t, the compost should be
cut from one end of the pile with
sharp spade, then thoroughly worked
ever and screened before 1t Is placed
In seed boxes or In the hotbed.
Experienced gardeners keep a COM
post heap going in one corner Of the
garden from one years end to another,
and all surplus manure and sod are
placed In 1t. AS consequence, these
gardeners always have supply of
good loan for preparing special plant
beds or top-dressing a piece of land
for the growing Of lettuce or other in
tenslve crop.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-03-04

stupidity surveyed the White Panels.
rerity. "See the big wad I've laid
away as result of the fights. Why,
We could get married tomorrow. Let's
do,it. See, I've brought the ring"
Flame flared in Maggie's black eyes.
With majesty and grandeur she rose
to her feet.
~Go away, Jim Hennessey. I'd
rather trim hats the rest of my life
than marry the richest man in the
werld, unless he gained his wealth by
some decent method"
But Maggie" he protested, hold.
1ng the handbook before her.
Don't Maggie mep she cried, push
ing him into the hall and out on the
steps. "Do something worth while be-
fore you ask Inc to wear a ring"
Having surveyed the panels of the
green door to his satisfaction, Jim
shrugged his shoulders and made his
way slowly to the home of the DAILY
Banner" He had practically COM
pleted negotiations for an exhibition
by the worlds champion heavyweight,
and it was the correct thing to consult
the Banner" sporting editor.
Jim walked dejectedly up the stairs
10 the editorial room. The sporting
editor was busy, so Jim waited, and
looked abstractedly out of a window.
He saw a young couple pass, arm-in-
arm. chatting blithesomely, and In a
vacant lot two newsboys were batter
ing each other while an admiring
throng urged them on. Jim felt sick.
The sporting editor finished his
work, approached him, rubbing his
hands and grinning, and asked for a
cigarette.
"Well, do we get the big boutT' he
inquired affably, obtaining a match
from the same source.
Jim turned from the window with
n vacant stare.
"Say. BILL" he asked thoughtfully.
Swho is the worlds champion slnger?'
It was about three months later that
a debonair young man, who appeared
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-03-04
PHOSPHORUS FOR FERTILIZER
Method Devised by Department Of Az
rIeuIture for Obtaining Material
From Raw Reck.

A new method Is said to have been
devised by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture for extracting
phosphorous from raw rock phosphate.
II 1t proves practicable 1t may revo-
lutionize the fertilizer industry.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-03-04

published in department bulletin $40.
In brief, 80 yearling steers were Sc
lected each year and divided into three
lets Of ten steers each. When the lots
were carefully equalized, the average
weight Of the animals was 663 pounds
each. The steers were on winter ra-
lions an average Of 100 days, and on
pasture an average Of 15S days each
year.
The tests proved that an average
daily ration Of 1913 pounds Of silage,
five pounds Of mixed hay, and 20
pounds Of wheat straw during the
winter would maintain these steers
without loss of weight.
An average daily ration of 23.1
pounds of corn silage, 40 pounds Of
wheat straw and one pound Of cotton
seed meal would give each steer an
average gain Of 81 pounds.
A daily ration Of 11.9 pounds Of
mixed hay and IL pounds of wheat
straw fed throughout the winter will
not keep the animal In good condition.
This ration was responsible for loss
of 35 pounds per steer. Corn silage
gave better results than dry rough
age alone, and the steers that had
silage as part Of their winter ra-
ton made greater total gains than
those fed on hay and straw.
The cost of feed averaged through
out the four years was as follows:
Corn silage ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 500
MIXED hay ........................... l8W
Rye nay ...ss........'..s..'.'...s. lsW
SOy-bean nay ....................s...... HW
wheat straw ...............s.'..s...... tW
CottonSeed meal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 5000
The bulletin records feeding tests
that will be extremely valuable to the
farmers Of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West
Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, North
Carolina, Tennessee and the adjacent
states, and for them It does much to
answer the question that puzzled Sim
and his friends. The bulletin may be
Mad on application to the United
States Department of Agriculture at
Washington, ID. ..
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-03-04
Hiuhest Grade.

There are various grades of opti-
mism-the active optimists are now
being called 'peptimists.
Transcript ... q.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1921-03-04

Porker and R0r
A plump little pig Is a writer, but
Q puny pig Is q runt. :
New-York tribune., 1921-06-09

say about how prominent persons
should conduct themselves.
I've been sending many chauffeurs
to jail for from five to fifteen days as
we'll as fining them" he continued. ~
realize some chauffeurs are earning
but $25 or $50 week and have fam
lilies dependent on their support.
Therefore, it does not seem fair to al
low prominent merchants or society
men or an outstanding figure in the
sporting world as you are to come into
the court and be given small fine
and go away.
"Just because you are prominent is
no excuse for speeding. To let you off
you'd be bad example for chautfeurs.
On seeing your case let of in light
manner, they possibly would be dis
posed to break the law"
When the eentence was pronounced
Babe paid the fine without murmur.
He was called back and Magistrate
House said to him: :
'1 do not wish to force you to take
q suggestion. You can accept it or do
as you wish. But when driving on the
New-York tribune., 1921-06-09

to do the killing, Chief Christianson
would not say.
He added that the alleged confession
obtained from Mrs. Brickel, through
threats to imprison. her son Charles,
was accomplished with the consent of
Prosecutor Stanton.
II. IL. Felsman, attorney for Moses
kaber, Daniel Kaber's father, accom-
panied Chief Christianson, Mrs.
Christianson, and Cleveland detective
to New York.
! Marian McArdle, Mrs. Kaber's daugh-
ter by her divorced husband, Thomas
McArdle, of Chicago. was pale, wearied
and in tears when she received report
ers in the Tombs late yesterday after
noon. Insisting that she had been in
structed not to talk, she would say no
more than that she was absolutely in
nocent of any completely in the mur-
der and that the statement that she
had attempted, with her grandm other.
Mrs. Brickel, to simulate a burglary
the night of the c&me was false. Ger
aldine Corey, her chum while on the
road with James Hodges musical COM
edy troupe, was denied permission to
see her yesterday. Detectives took
Miss Corey to headquarters, where she
was questioned. She will be allowed
to see Miss McArdle to-day.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-09
It's Iced.tea Time

And welcome to our City"
is the unanimous greeting. You
see the tall, amber-hlled glasses,
hear the CHEEKY tinkle of the ice
in restaurants, clubs and
homes. In none of them would
tea the purity of which was
not known be served. In most
of them equally scrupulous care
is exercised in demanding ice
purity. For however pure the
tea, if the ice used be not of q
guaranteed quality, the tempt.
ing drink can't be safe.
That's qvhy Kniekerbocker ice made
from 4-tsmes filtered qcater, frozen in
sanitary containers-desivered in clean
qoagons-ts used TN restaurant. tlnbs
ard homes zyhere Purity Of food is the
ruie.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-09

attached to the extraditiou papers il.
dated April A, 1927. Il was not made
public in Cleveland until June l. Two
counts are made in the charge Of mur
der in the first degree. The first ia
that, beginning March 26, 1919, and
continuing until July 10. 1919, Mrs
kaber put arsenic in Daniel Kaber's
food "at frequent intervals" and that
Kaher became i'll during that period.
In the second count Mrs. Kaber is
accused of stabbing Daniel Kaber in
the abdomen on the night of July 18,
1919, causing his death by wound
five inches deep. The legal terms do
not necessarily mean that Mrs. Kaber
used the dagger herself.
Mrs. Kaber appeared hatless in court
yesterday. She has eaten very little
since her arrest, and after the state
ments attributed 10 her mother, Mrs.
Mary Brickel, in Cleveland. that she
declared she must be rid of her hus-
band, she has been respondent.
In Court Without Lawyer
Arriving at the Harlem court two
detectives assisted her from the patrol
wagon and up the stairs to the court
room. She was weak, probably from
loss OF blood Bandages concealed her
right arm. She had no lawyer.
After giving her age as thirty-nine,
her occupation as housewife and her
| address as 500 West Ninety-third
Street, Mrs. Kaber was formally COM
mitted to the Tombs for thirty days,
pending extradition proceedings. c hief
Christianson said he probably would
take both prisoners to Cleveland to-
night
Notwithstanding that Captain Carey,
of the homicide squad here, said he was
not looking for a Syrian, the owner Of
razor found III the Kaber kitchen and
bearing an Oriental inscription be-
lieyed to be the owners name, Chief
Christianson said it was fact that
the Cleveland police very much wanted
this man. He is the one who sold a
rug to the Kabers, who visited them at
their home in Lakewood, and who later
called number of times at Mrs. Ka-
ker's millinery shop in West Forty
seventh Street.
Whether it is the rug dealer whom
the Italian woman, under arrest in
Cleveland, is believed to have procured