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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
She Likes Kansas Better
After Visit to Netu York
Folks Must Be Awful Friendly in New York, Because
They Build Their Houses Right Smack Up Against
Each Other, Says Ma Jimkns.

scratch up their gardens, because
there amt any gardens, nor no chick
ems neither, outside the meat market
Mrs. Vanderbilt has a right big
house out on Fifth Avenue. 1 reckon
she don't never have to bring down
cots from the attic and set 'em up when
they's unexpected company comes.
But big as her house is, they's> one
right smack up against it on one side.
I suppose that's so she won't never
get lonesome. And it must be right
convenient, too, for If she runs out of
eggs when she's baking q cake. all she
has to do, instead of running to the
store, is just to put her head outen
her window, and peek around into her
neighbours window and askin' her can
she lend her some.
They's a lot of folks goin' some
where all the time here in New York.
Sometimes I wonder if there's any
body to home. And the funny thing
about it is that they're allus goin' just
where we are. 1t beats anything. how
I do and at the same endurin' time
that I've set for to go there.
On Move on Sundays.
Sundays especial, folks are on the
move. 1t seems sort of queer to me,
Out in Topeky, oncet I've been to
church in the morning, don't go any
where's else much, come Sunday
They's allus so many magazines to try
to catch up with, and the children to
write to, and such peace as settles
down over us, that don't never feel
restless like, and just love those quiet
Sabbaths.
But la, here in New York folks Is
like the restless waves of the ocean
forever on the move, beatin' against
the shore Of life, comm, goin', payin
no attention to any otffer waves, an
not stayin' long enough on the beach
to notice even the sand
It's fun to come here oncet in awhile
but, oh-when it comes to really
LIVING-they can take their little ole
Manhattan Island and run away with
/ it for all of me. I'll take Kansas fol
Tninei
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
BY MA JIMKINS.

When I told Pa Jimkins before I
come east that the middle sized jim
kins boy had engaged an apartment
for US in Greenwich village, Pa begun
to worry some for fear I'd come home
with my hair bobbed, smoking cigarets
and talkin' parlor Bolshevisn1. But la,
amt done none of them things yet,
an I don't believe there's a mite of
danger that I will.
They's lot to see in New York, and
amt seen it all yet, tho I've been
heer right smart of times. But I've
seen things this time that amt never
seen before, bein' as the littlest Jim
kins boy and me amt had nothin'
rides, an wander around Greenwich
village and say 'Howdy" to the folks
Twin here.
Selling "SouI Candy"
They was poet we met last night
when we was eatin' dinner in one OF
these here places where there's more
atmosphere than anything else. This
yere poet was clothed all in white and
had his hair throwed back from his
face and bobbed like the women wear
it here in the village. He was sellin'
what he called Soul candy" and
SEPARATION to do anything a. body want
ed to do. He was that sensitive that
he couldn't bear to take money for his
soul candy" but allus give in when
folks insisted, or even when they
didn't, and took twenty-five cents for
some candy like what I learned how to
make from one of the home papers
last winter and didn't know was soul
! candy at all. or that it had any special
| spiritual qualities like what this yere
poet said it did. Leastways, he called
hisself a poet, and don't never like
to contradict no one.
| Folks must be awful friendly
and neighborly here in New York City,
for they've built their houses right
smack up against each other. They's
! one thing sure, tho, and that is. that
there amt no one goin' to get mad al
the neighbors because their chickens
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
All days come that are to be.-Dickens.

All Gays come that are TO oe--Dickens.
See to It continually. that whatever re
morse may possess you at the close Of any
day, it shall not be this: They made me
the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own
vineyard nave 1 not kept. Stuart Holden.
Holden.
Self-reverence, self knowledge, self con-
troll,
These three alone lead life to sovereign
power. Tennyson.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose
the good we oft might win by fearing to
Observation-Disclosures
Teach me thy way, o Lord, and lead me
in a plain path.-The Psalmist-
Learn that to love is one way to know,
OF God or man, 1t is not love received
That maketh man to know the inner life
OF them that love him; his own love be-
slowed
Shall do it.
Jean Ingelow.
II you want anything in this world you've
got to go after tt-hard Edward Payson
Hammond.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
AN OUTSIDE FORCE
Prohibition Workers Busy,
Says F. L. Crabbe.
Use Many Means of Bringing
Liquor Into State.

Kansas is being invaded by an or
ganized force of anti-prohibition
workers from outside the state in an
effort to break down the enforcement
Crabbe, superintendent OF the Kansas
Anti-Saloon league, and special assis-
tant attorney general. The Anti
Saloon league, in cooperation with the
state officials, has been welding eff
forts against this outside force, ac-
cording to Crabbe.
THE invaders are using the most
secretive and effective means in bring
ing liquor into the state" said Super
intendent Crabbe. I'VE have found
that much of the western part of the
state is being visited by airplanes that
points. The liquor has been brought
as far as from Canada, in some cases,
and much Of it is being brought from
Denver"
Confiscate Much Liquor.
Last week the state officers confis-
Gated $4,000 worth of liquor in Ford
county, and similar discoveries have
been made in other counties, including
Barton, Scott, Leavenworth and Sedg-
wick. Eighteen violators were caught
and prosecuted in Wichita. 100 in
Leavenworth county, ten in Scott
sections, according to Mr.. Crabbe.
Very little of the so-called home
brew is made for home consumption, "
Crabbe stated. TT is clearly evident
/ that the offenders in most cases are
professionals who are carrying on
their work purely for financial gain,
We have found q number of county
officers who have been negligent in
enforcing the laws, and q few cases
where officers were implicated in
the production and sale of the liquor
Find Many Home-Brew Stills.
Since January, according to Crabbe
more than nine hundred home-breW
stills have been confiscated by state
officers. It has been found that there
are from ten to one hundred stills in
each county and many of them are
active in liquor production.
| I'VE expect to keep waging our wal
on the bootleEger and other violators
until we have discovered and de.
stroyed every still and prosecuted
every offender possible Mr.. Crabpe
| declared
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
AMERICAN LEGION NEWS

Deploring what they call "a la
inevitable lack of courtesy" on the part
OF the public toward the American
flag when displayed on various patri-
otto occasions, members of the state
executive committee of the American
The department Americanism commit
tee will attempt to instruct all citi-
zens OF the state in flag etiquette.
The most unique band representa-
ton from Kansas at the national con-
vention of the American Legion at
Kansas City, next fall is claimed by
Garden City. according to commune
cation received at state headquarters
OF the Legion from S. A. Daugherty,
district committeeman. Garden City
is to have q hundred piece cowboy
band, with six-shooters, broad
brimmed hats and chaps. Other Kan
sas posts which will be represented by
bands include Topeka, Holton, Hiawa-
tina, Abilene and Wichita.
Organized labor is solid behind de-
cent treatment of American war vet
Grams, according to a letter from
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, re-
ceived at national headquarters of the
American Legion.
Referring to the Legion's legisla-
tive program for the relief of the dis
abled, now pending in congress, Com
pers said: You may rest assured that
labor is united in its demand that
those who saved the world frem autoc-
racy in government shall receive every
consideration that can be given to
them. The American Federation of
Labor has insisted that gratitude to
those incapacitated should be shown
in a practical way. Permit me to as
sure you that whatever aid I may be
to obtain such relief for those who are
suffering because Of their participation
in the great war will be given to the
utmost"
In the same mail came expressions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
HOLD Community CHAUTAUOUA
North Topeka Event To Be Opened
With Big Ticket Sale.

North Topeka Event To Be Opened
With Big Ticket Sale.
More than 200 Topeka men and
women will open a campaign on We'd
nesday of next week for the sale of
tickets to the Chautauqua which is to
be staged in Garfield park during the
summer.
A meeting of the business men and
women interested in the promotion of
the Chautauqua was held Thursday at
the community center in North To-
peka. Six women and twenty-eight
men were appointed. heads of teams
which will take part in the sale of
the tickets.
Fred Morns is general chairman of
the campaign, with R. r. Baer as as
sistant chairman.
1t is pointed out that the Chautau-
qua, while it is to be held in Garfield
park in North Topeka, and Is under
the auspices of the North Topeka
tire city. Cooperation Is being given
by the Chamber Of Commerce, and
half of the team leaders are from the
south side of the river. The program
is in charge of the Cadmean Chau-
tauqua company IN the New England
building.
In addition to the canvass of, the
city for the sale of tickets, the work.
ers mean to make community event
of the chautauqua, and to that end will
visit every town and settlement with
in a radius Of twenty miles, to urge
the attendance of the people there.
The women's teams have started
series of personal visits to the
women's clubs and other organizations
of the towns surrounding Topeka.
The oranges of the county, nine IN
number, are cooperating in pushing
the community event. thru the county
secretary. R. H Searle. The Indian
Creek grange has already appointed
a committee to manage the sale of
tickets in its neighborhood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
Contracts Totaling ss,4s7,224
Awarded Since January.
Douglas, County Leads in Work
Contracted For.
CONCRETE IS MOST POPULAR
Dickinson County Takes Sec
ond Place in Road Work.
Many Kansas Hard-Surfaced
Roads Under Construction.

Contracts for hard-surfaced roads,
totalling $3,4S7, 224.13. have been
awarded in Kansas since January /.
1921, according to a report issued to-
day by NJ. w. Watson, state highway
engineer. OF this total, S7s3,702.34
was for 76.5 miles of grading and cul-
verts and $2,693, 521.79 for $50 miles
OF surfacing.
Douglas County in Lead.
Douglas county leads the state, in
value of contracts let, with ten miles
of concrete paving on the Fort-to-Fort
highway at a cost OF 11,67S.55, an,
average Of $5o.e3s.73 a mile. Dickin-
son county is a close second with 1913
miles of concrete pavement. costing
tota lof $504,499.32, an average of
$47,e70.72. Shawnee placed contracts
totalling $429, 023.67 for slightly less
than eight miles of concrete road and
sixteen miles of grading and culverts.
Concrete apparently is the most
popular material for surfacing. All
projects specify concrete excepting 6.s
miles of bituminous macadam in
Bourbon county, .25s miles of btu
minous filled brick in Franklin, 4.z6I
miles of monolithic brick in Crawford
and 1905 miles OF gravel in Chero-
kee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

Teach me thy way, o Lord, and lead me
in a plain path.-The Psalmist-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

Our doubts are traitors, and make us los
the good we oft might win by fearing I
attempt.-Shakespeare-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
British Mines Ask for Helm.

London, June 1S.-The executive
committee of the miners union,
which met this morning to con-
slider the coal situation, decided to
ask all the trades unions affected
by the wage dispute to meet the
miners representatives. at an early
date with the object of taking
national action with the miners, and
said this implied a general strike If
the other unions agreed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18
self-reverence, self-knowledge, self

troll,
These three alone lead life to soverigl
power. Tennyson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

Sheriff's force captured four stills
and four would-be distillers in Oak
land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-18

anu IN the state, 1862 acres, was in
second in acreage with 4,o2s, followed
by kafir, milo and feterita, for seed,
5000 acres. The acreage in sugar
beets decreased in the decade from
1853 to $751; Despite the decrease,
sos per cent of the total harvested in
the state.
Irrigation in western Part,
The irrigated area in Kansas repre-
sents but one-tenth of one per cent of
the total land area. With Garden City
as a center, irrigation is practically
confined to Gray. Finney, Kearny.
H m 1T n, Scott, and Cheyenne
counties in the western part of the
state. Irrigation is practiced to a
small extent near the Republican
river, Smoky Hill river. and other
tributaries of the Kansas. This area
decreased from 2,792 acres In 1902 to
773 acres in 1919.
Precipitation decreases in Kansas
with remarkable regularity from
forty-two inches in the southeastern
counties of the state to just a little
more than fifteen inches at the Colo
RADIO line," says the bulletin.
About rs per cent of the annual
precipitation falls during the six crop
growing months, April to Septemb Der.
ing the late summer. the large amount
of sunshine and the hot drying winds
cause a rapid evaporation that in
creases the water requirements of
vegetation and the necessity for irri-
cation. The precipitation in the west
ern part of the state in 1918 was
above the normal and it is probable
that some land was not irrigated that
would be in a drier season.
I'm the eastern part of Kansas the
rainfall is sufficient for the growing
crops. and the streams carry an album
dance of water. In the western part
Of the state the streams, with the ex-
ception of the Arkansas river, rise on
the plains, and depend mostly on local
precipitation for their summer flow,
consequently they carry little water
except during storms.
1.-The Arkansas river rises in the
main range of the Rocky mountains
and receives water from melting
SHOWS. but losses from evaporation
and seepage and diversions in Colo
RADIO exhaust the surpmer flow of the
river. except such as comes from To-
cal precipitation and seepage from ir-
rigated land in Colorado. More than
one -fourth of the land irrigated in the
state is supplied from ground water al
shallow depths in the stream valleys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-29
SANTA FE NOTES
Notes and personals by Mrs. II. u.
Wadleigh. Call Blue 422I or $3.50.

Mrs. c. z. Cox has returned to her home
in Freeman avenue from WILLIAMSBURG
Kan, where she spent few days the guest
OF her mother, Mrs Elizabeth Snodgrass
and other relatives.
Mrs. Harry German and little SON Billy
Ray, of Tulsa, Okla. are spending few
days in Topeka the guests OF Mr. and Mrs
H. i. Porter at their home in Scotland
avenue, and other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Weaver of Lincoln
street spent Thursday evening the guests
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Barrett Sheffield at their
home in Jefferson street
Mrs. Ira Neiswinter and little daughter.
Betty Bee. Of Emporia, Kan. and Mrs. NJ.
s. Cremer at her home in Grafton street
Mrs E. L. Jones of Highland Park spent
Thursday the guest of Mrs. c. f. Fox In
Freeman avenue
Mr.. H. +. Porter has returned to his
home in Scotland avenue from Kansas
city. where he spent a few days on busf-
ness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-29

Sealed bids, addressed to the Water ana
Light Department Of the City of Topeka.-
will be received by Eta NJ. coveIl, City Clerk
Of Topeka, Kansas, at her office up to 10
O'Clock a. n. May II, 1921, and then pub
licly opened, for furnishing Z. o. b, factory.
with full freight allowed to the West Eng
Pumping station at Topeka, one $50 II. II.
Water Tube Boiler. I'm accordance vita
plans and specifications on file in the office
Of the City Clerk.
Specifications, contract and bidding
forms, may be obtained without charge
from either the City Clerk or the Engr-
neers, Black & veatch, Mutual Binding,
Kansas City, Missouri
When filed with the City Clerk. each bid
must be accompanied by a certified CHECK
on q Topeka. Kansas. bank, or a Cashiers
Check on any bank. made payable TO the
City Treasurer of the City Of Topeka. 81
the amount Of five hundred tS5oo.00D dot
lars. The checks OF unsuccessful bidders
will be returned Immediately after their
bids have been rejected. Checks OF sue
cessful bidders will be held until the re-
quired ooads. and signed contracts have
been filed with, and approved and executed
by the City.
The City reserves the right TO reject any
or all bids or to waive defects IN bids.
II. J. C0RwINE. Mayor
ETA N. COvEBL.
fSeaL1 City Clerk.
Black i veatch. Consulting Engineers,
Kansas City. Missouri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-29
TYPEMRITEKs.

TYPEWRITERS Of all makes. new aud r8
built. Agency tor the New Royal Type
writer end Victor Adding Machines. Sup
pies--Reaai7s- Phsne g22 Western type
writer Co, GA Kansas ave-. Topeka. Kan
ALL STANDARD MAKES. Sales or rent
Repairs by factory trained mechanics
We lead; others follow. CRANE & COM
PANY. 80 wears Tn business.
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WANTS
AND MISCELLANEOUS ADS

ADVERTISING RATES: The rate for
Journal rs / cent a word each insertion;
minimum 10 cents; by the week cents a
word; minimum SO cents.
OUT OF TOWN advertisements must be
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payment of the same. Note the foregoing
the rate per word for The Topeka State
Journal
CLOSING HOUR: Want Ads to be
classified properly must be in The State
journal office before 10 20 o'clock Want
Ads received after II 80 till 10 p. 10. will
be inserted under the head: TOO Late to
Classify
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-29

In the Probate Court Of Shawnee County,
Kansas.
In the matter of the estate Of John ID.
Freeman, deceased
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
All creditors and al others interested In
the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified
that on the 14th day of May, 1921, l shall
apply to the Probate Court sitting at the
Court House in the City of Topeka, Shaw
nee County, Kansas, for a full and final
settlement of said estate and for an order
of the Court finding and adjudging who
are the heirs of John d. Freeman, deceased.
You are further notified that my claim
for compensation as Administrator and for
attorney fees and other expenses necessari-
~ incurred in the administration of said
estate has been filed and, ordered by the
court, will be heard on the said 14th day
of May, 1921, at 10 o'clock a. N.
BERNICE FREEMAN, Administrator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-29
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

WE PAY the highest price for cast off
clothing Shoes hats and overcoats. Drop
us a card or call Gordon Brothers Loan
office, 400 Kansas ave. Phone 1919.
WANTED-Good driving horse. 104 North
Lake st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-29
FOR sALE-sUBuRBAN.

FOR SALE-12k lots on California ave,
large 5-story frame house. five rooms,
porch. pantry, hall. cellar, chicken house.
good barn: well, cistern, pump, old shade,
three blocks to street car; tract lays fine,
price 81 800; terms on half IL wanted. 4. L.
Furman, Real Estate. log West sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-29
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

-~1>-ec-~~--r-0-S--~-- -,
Kansas ave Orchard Place ........ 81, 700
H A. LawIer to w. t. Stonestreet,
add add -o' 49, .....'.........s.... 1905
w. +. StOnestreet to NJ. Il. Henson, pI.
lots 4Gs-10 Lane St, Kings add. I
e L. Brenm to II. Chalmers, lots 5OI- 49,.
0, West St, Williams add. 1900
C. w Cnrrier to f. Fowler, lots to
dale .............:...... . ZOO
The Belvoir Improvement Company to
same. lots 1874, same. ..-..........
r. o. CerSill to d. NJ. Ray, lots 113-
10 Garfield ave. Thurston Place. I
S. G White to w. w. Morris, lots
T-9-11, Logan St, Hardt's add. 100
To J. McNown, lots 43 to So, Catherine
st, Wilder's add ....-.-.-.....-... -
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LEGAL


per month, s1ssoo; Firemen Of the second
class each, per month, SIP. G6fs; Firemen
s Of the the, third class, each. per month,
$145.6694 Meehanician, per month, $500;
per Rer m9nth f $0 Engnes
$1oS;50 Telephone Operator, per month,
$SG25; Night boys, each, per month. $iO.6.
sion rb,ef Police ~ p JqGge per month
$4,000; Chief Detective, per month. $1,000;
CAPTAIN of Police, per month, $4,000;
month, $4,000; Desk Sergeants, each, per
month, $4,000; Detectives. each, per month,
SM1 2toE Drivers each per month, $Iso0o
Patrolmen, each, per month $4,000; Police
Matron, per month, $1,000; Welfare
fare Worker, I'd per , month, $1,000; Janita,
Section IL Electric Light Department
salary of each employe not to exceed as
follows: Superintendent per month, $1,000,
city to furnish vehicle for Superintendent;
Assistant Superintendent of Light Depart
per month, 14100; Second Engineer, per
month, $l32 90; Firemen, each, per month,
Sl4! 20; Linemen, each, per mouth, 1890;
Ground men, each, per day. 1915; Drivers
an see teams Wot per- dsy s,.r
OF each employee not TO exceed as follows:
supeTintendent Of water works, per
Works to be allowed $1,000 per month fer
maintenance and upkeep of motor CAT
Cashier, per month, $4,000; Chief Eng1-
! neer, per month, $4,000; Detail Engineer,
per month, $500; Glass "a" Clerks, eaeh
per month, $4,000; Glass ''B" Clerks each,
per month, $500; Class &C" Clerks each,
per month, $1,000; Taper and Hydrart
repair man, per month, $1,000; Meter re-
pair man. per month, $1,000: Meter Repair
man to be allowed $500 per month for
maintenance and upkeep oEmotor car;
Service man, and Janitor, per month,
$4,000; Engineers, each. per month,
$500; Machinery and repair man. per
| month, S117O0; Firemen, each, per month,
$122.00; Street Foremen, per month. $140.O0;
| Service Foreman, per month. $4,000; Boiler
Washers and Assistant Ffremen. each, per
month, $105.00; Meter Readers, each, per
| day, $500; Gang Boss, per month. f95.0d;
Laborers, each, per day. $3.75; Service men,
| each, per month, $4,000.
| Section II. That Ordinance No. 1850, an
! proved June so. 1920. Ordinance No. 5007,
| approved September z, 1920, and Ordinance
| No 5o35, approved December 81, 1920. and
all ordinances and parts of ordinances N
conflict with this ordinance be, and tlie
same are, hereby repealed.
Section Is. This ordinance shall take ct
! feet and be in force on and after May LIST,
1921, and after its publication in the OF
| fetal city PAPER.
Passed The Board of Commissioner.
Approved April 2s, 1921
II. J. CORWINE, :
! ATTEST: Mayor.
ETA NJ. COYELL,
/ (Seal) City Clerk.
I .Ts-1,o = rbn To fnf
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