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The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23
Food Prices Increase

Retail food prices increased 81
per cent in July over June prices
while the prices of wholesale food
.stuffs advanced l.5 per cent and
wholesale farm products LIS pei
cent, the Department. Of Labor an
nounced yesterday.
OF 43 articles on (which retail
prices were obtained. 16 showed de-
creases, including potatoes, 26 per
cent. eggs 20, butter 16, and sirloin
steak pc rcent. Decreases were
noted in % articles, including sugar,
Q per cent, caggabe S, onions S. and
Bananas 2.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23

den to be borne by the people Of
moderate means.
1It Violates" the resolution con-
tinues, "the promise of all parties to
reform and revise the system of tax;
alton so that all citizens and corr
poraticns shall bear a Just portion Of
the tax load"
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23

For Printing. See The Advocate.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23

Our past failures father our fu-
ture successes and our philosophy
today sprang out of yesterdays
folly. Each day is indebted to the
sufferings of the day before. Edu-
cation is ever tn echild of sweat and
groans.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23
MOUSE FOR SALE

10-room brick residence, modern
in every particular. Located in Win
chester on West Hickman street.
Lot 50x21O. This most desirable
property is offered privately until
September 1st.
DIR. r. ALLEN.
Colonial Bldg. Winchester, Ky.
8S and 90 pd.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23

Love is what makes girl of l6
feel very old aud wise--and woman
Of 80 feel very Young aud foolish.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23
SALT! SALT!

Mr.. Farmer, why do You pay 2 IL
cents to 8 cents per pound for saltf
We sell 180 pounds fine salt, iute
bags, $3.50; 51-2 bushel barrel. for
1878, cash. Phone Mt. Sterling
Commission & Storage Co.. s. p.
Greenwade, Prop. Phone 2. 89-2t
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23
coALI coALl

Mr.. Farmer, we sell The best Elk
ton Coal out of West Virginia, 25c
per bushel, 500 per ton in yard.
Greenwade Coal Yard. Phone 2.
(s9-2t)
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23

Victory is a child of determina-
ion and perseverance in power in
every undertaking.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23

Our guess is that the Kaiser is
now spending some of his idle mo-
ments picking the jewels out of his
crown.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-23

After a man has been married
long enough he will tell you that
when his wife's feet aren't hurting
she is having q headache.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-23
owe NEARLY "a BILLIONS
War Bonds Form Bulk of u. S. In
terest- Bearing Debt.

Washington, July 23.-The interest
bearing debt of the United States on
May 81 consisted of $23,710, 405,9 $40.
the bulk of which consists of war
bonds outstanding among American
investors.
The treasury departments last debt
statement today grouped the items in
the debt as follows:
Consols conversion bonds, etc, and
Panamas, ssS3,728.270; liberty bonds,
including, first, second, third and
fourth issues. $15.269, 1858. 200; victory
notes. $4,022,101.500 certificates of in
debtedness, $2.S31, 94S.450; war saw
ings certificates. $703.369.490.
The statement showed that the VIC
tory note issue is being gradually re-
duced. The amount so far retired is
$473,272, 800; under the sinking fund
operations of the treasury, other
blocks of this issue are to be retired
at frequent intervals.
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den," to be given Wednesday evening.
August 8, at the city auditorium. Miss
Ceora Lanham, author of the produce
ton, is directing IT,
Miss Kirkpatrick attended Linwood
college at st. Charles, Mo-, last year
and will return again this fall.
The active members of Delta
Gamma sorority will meet Monday
evening at 1880 O'Clock at the home
of Miss Mary Christman, 7o7 Western
avenue.
A dance will be held at Garfield
park Friday evening, July 20. under
the auspices of the Public Health
Nursing association, in the interests of
the tuberculosis sanatorium porch
fund.
Tickets for the dance may be Sc
cured from Miss George Neese, Miss
Isabel Crawford, Miss Vivian Ware,
Miss Marian Moore, Miss Barbara
rick Updegraff, Mrs. Walter welding.
Miss Marian Reid and Miss Margaret
Morns.
The Prohibition Jazz Five orchestra
has volunteered its services for the
evening, the dacing pavilion has been
donated as also has been the printing
for the tickets.
Miss Helen Campbell 1885 HaTri-
son street, and Mr.. A. B. Carroll, 1880
Harrison street, have been selected to
take the leading parts in the Movie
Ball to be held this evening at KEEL
lam Hall. The ball will start at 9
o'clock and the film of all those at
tending will be made at 1880 o'cock.
\ y y
A group of boys who hiked to the
Forbes farm Thursday evening. where
IL =.
Henry Bubb, Burnell Vincent, John
Marshall. Hugh Marshall, George
Hart. Chick" Sessions. Mac Forbes
and "Chick" Mills.
THERE'S a MAN IN OUR TOWN
Who while praising his little apart
ment which contained bedroom, a
and a kitchenette, was interrupted by
listener who humorously asked:
DO you want to rent st?"
The Social Service club will conduct
another moonlight soda fountain
Monday evening at the west entrance
of Willow park.
THERE ARE FOUR CO-EDS IN OUR
TOWN
| Who are working in the state house
this summer and who have found q
sure way OA uOiiS away WIN Lne II
/ G. of L. when it comes to lunches
They have found what they call the
Hanna Anna Shop" which is located
anywhere on the state house grounds
Each of the girls gives 8 cents al
noon and from the total of go cents
four lunches are purchased. Some
times it happens that there are two oil
three cents left over after sufficient
supplies are purchased; this goes into
the sinking fund, which is used for &
Especial treat.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Horley will
have as dinner guests this evening q
the Country club, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-23
FIGHT OIL FIRE.
Damage in Amatlan Fields of
Mexico Reaches Millions.
Four Thousand Men Strive to
Prevent Spread of Flames.

Mexico City. July 23.-It was re-
ported from Tampico today that the
fire in the Amatlan oil fields had flared
up beyond control and that fifteen oil
wells were on fire.
The government reported. however.
that according to official advices only
four wells were burning. A German
technician who is said to have ex-
elusive knowledge of chemical which
he claims will extihguish the fire, has
departed for Amatlan. His services
are understood to have been retained
by American oil interests.
May Not Spread.
Pittsburgh, July 23.-Four thou
sand men, working at top speed in six
hour relays, are striving to prevent
further spread of the oil fire which
since last Wednesday has caused dam
age amounting to several million dol
lars in the Amatlan oil fields of Mex
leo, according to advices received by
Pittsburgh oil companies operating in
the field. 1.-The consensus of opinion
is that the fire will not spread beyond
the confines of lot number 162, where
it started" one message said. Morri-
son well number five is wide open,
according to a dispatch received by
one of the largest companies. and is
making thirty thousand barrels day.
Most of the oil is being consumed in
midair and there is a very little drain
age. this lessening the danger to ad-
joining properties.
Steam Is Used.
Eschaucier well number one is also
burning but the valve has been part
ly closed. There is danger, however.
that the intense heat will melt the
valve, in which event the full force of
the oil being pushed up from below
will add materially to the flames.
Twenty-four boilers have been set up
not far from the fire and steam is be-
ing forced into the oil as it spouts
from the casing. All the other der
ricks on the lot have been burned
! down, but the fire fighting forces have
succeeded in covering the wells with
mounds of earth. and General Super
intendent McNabb of the Aquila COM
pany. who has taken command of the
forces, does not think they will be ig-
nited. Another encouraging feature
| the message said, was that the drain
| ing of oil was in such a direction thai
there was little danger to the main
part of the field.
Tunnels Arc Dug.
| Not satisfied with the attempt tc
snuff out the great burning torches
with steam, the fire fighters are driv-
ing tunnels SO as to reach the wells
under ground, far below the flames
! and shut, off the supply of fuel to the
| fire above. These tunnels. which are
about six feet square and must be-
some $50 feet long are being pushed
| forward at the rate of fifteen teel
every day.
! Only one pipe line has been affected
by the fire SO far. the Island Oil AMI
force at work laying loop around this
destroyed portion of the line and it Il
believed the interruption here will be-
| only temporary.
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is secretary of the Rota, club, a mem
Der of the Topeka Chamber of Com
merce, and is a most attractive and
talented young woman.
The office and store departments
and the officials of Crane & Company
will give a picnic for Mrs. Pitts at
Camp Daylesford Monday evening.
Other affairs have been planned for
the popular young business woman
previous to her departure for her new
home.
Mrs. Pitts will leave Topeka July 80,
to join her husband in Texarkana.
where he is house surgeon of the st.
Louis & Southwestern railway hos
pital. Doctor Pitts's home was orig
inally in Longmont Colo. He is a
graduate of the University Of Misso lri.
and is achieving deserved success in
his career.
The w W. Guild of the First Bap-
fist church had a picnic at the Carter
farm near Wakarusa. Thursday even
ing. Those in the party included: Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Reaugh. Mrs. T. J.
Ferguson, Miss Minnie Macaulay, Miss
Gertrude Macaulay, Miss Ann Kristen
son, Miss Margaret Carter. Miss Hen
rietta Price. Miss Lois Ferguson, Miss
Maud Conklin, Miss Ruth Hornsby,
5fiss Agnes jacobson. Miss Lillian ia
cobson, Miss Marie Carter, Miss Amy
Macaulay, Miss Mary ComStock. Miss
Zena Standiford, Miss Grace Ho1comb,
Miss fThelma Powell, Hiss Mary Pow
ers, Miss Katherine Lohrer. Miss
Grace Lohrer, Miss Elsie Carter, Miss
Eva Stamford, Miss Ruth Bauman.
Miss Viola Holt. Miss Faye Stevenson.
Miss Marjorie Irwin. Miss Sina En-
mons, Miss Dorothy Drummer, Miss
Augusta Holt, Miss Evelyn Miller, Miss
Katherine Wilkerson, Miss Faye FL
hot, Mr.. Russell Jones, Mr.. John Mil
Ter, and Mr.. Kittridge Holt.
Vinewood will be the scene of an
other dinner dance Saturday evening,
July so. These fortnightly affairs,
given by the Girls Friendly society,
are proving very popular, for dinner
is served among picturesque surround
inCs by a bunch of pretty, popular and
| poppy" girls. The dancing from s
! to IL in "K-Wise Hail." the name the
girls have given to the dancing paw
/ lion at Vinewood, is another attractive
feature.
/ The Woman's Home Missionary so
| ciety of the Lowman Methodist church
will hold a meeting at the church
| Wednesday afternoon at 2:30, to
which the members of all the Metho-
| dist Home Missionary auxiliaries in
| the city are invited. Miss Frances
Kallstedt, national field secretary, will
| be the principal speaker of the after
noon. Miss Kallstedt will also speak
at the Sunday morning services at the
| Lowman church.
Miss Mary Louise Kirkpatrick,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Kirk
patrick. SIS Fillmore street, will
have the part of Joan of Arc in the
pageant. THE Old Fashioned Gar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-23
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Looking Blackboard in Society
Columns Of The Stats Journal

July IS. 1901.
Mrs. Byron Davis and daughter Ethel
have returned from an extended visit
with relatives in Hiawatha.
Mrs. J.. ID. Norton will leave soon for a
visit with her daughter. Mrs. Herman
Judd in Lead, s. d. Before going to Lead
she will spend a few weeks at Sylvan
Lake, S. d.
Mr.. Dick Alden has returned from q
short trip to Ell Reno.
Miss Mary Thompson entertained Miss
May Dallas of Washington. d. c., Miss
Florence Miller of Usage City, Miss villa
Rodgers and Mrs. Fred Cole at tea Mon
day evening. A corresponding number of
young men Joined them for the evening.
Mrs. frankie Scoville of Seneca Is
spending the day in Topeka with Mrs.
Edwin Knowles. She will leave this even
ing for Colorado to spend the remainder
Of the summer.
Mrs Margaret wiggIn returned the last
Of the week from visit with Mrs. C.
X. Hudson in the City Of Mexico
Miss Ada Moss of St. Marys spent to-
day shopping in Topeka.
Miss Harriet Stanley entertained a num-
Der Of her girl friends informally Mon
day afternoon at the governors mansion
at a "Kimono" party complimentary to
her guests.N Miss Joues, Miss Larkin and
Miss Parkinson, who returned to their
homes in Wichita last evening.
Mrs. Sarah Smith, Mrs. Frank Crane
and daughter Dorothy leave Wednesday
for an outing in Colorado.
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TO RETURN SOLDIER DEAD
Bodies of twenty-five Kansas Heroes
VIII Be Brought Home.

Bodies of twenty-five Kansas Heroes
VIII Be Brought Home.
Governor Allen has been advised of
the shipment of bodies of the follow
ing additional soldier dead to Kansas:
Henry ]. Miller, Co. B., 18th infantry.
Nearest Of kin, Mrs. e. II. Lang, Norton.
Ernest II. Frost, Co. c., 12Sth infantry.
Nearest of kin, Mr.. Nels Frost, Smolan.
Clarence +. Edmondson. Co. f., 18th IN
fantry. Nearest Of kin, Mr.. J. w. Edmond
T. L. McNeeley. Co. L., 35Srd infantry,
Nearest of kin, Mrs. Flenora McNeeley, III
Gene Ceiino, MIG CO.. 10th infantry.
Nearest of kin, George Celino, Aurora.
yernie Gilmore, Co. E., 10Srd infantry
Nearest of kin, James H, Gilmore, Cuba,
Noble Z. Sewer, Co; F., 1S7th infantry
Joseph Aslin. Co. f., Sixteenth infantry
Nearest of kin, Tom Aslin, Aurora,
Charles c. Cramer, Evac Hospital No.
Nearest of kin, Henry Cramer, Ottawa.
Leroy ?. Lambert, Co. l.. 353rd infantry
Nearest of kin, ]. A. Lambert, Neosho
George NJ Shaw, Co. A. 354th infantry
Nearest of kin, Charles W. Shaw, Council
Grove. Kan.
Lew A. Hege. 1t. Co. A.. 255th infantry
Nearest of kin, Mrs. Jane L. Hege, En-
Charles e. Heintz. Bly,. D., s42nd F. Art
Nearest OF kin, c. p Heintz, FortLeaVen
Casper ]. MiddIekauff. 1t. Med. Corps
Nearest of kin, ]. II. Middlekauff, Hays,
Kirk w. Scroggins, Co. C., S06th Z. in
fantry. Nearest of kin, Richard Scroggins
ChsrIes B. Hart, Co. G., Thirtieth infan
try. Nearest of kin, S. s. Hart, New
| Ulysses.
William f. Courtney. HI. Co., 1s7th in
fantry. Nearest of kin, William T. Court
ney, Lawrence.
byron H Mehl Lit. Bty. G.. Twelfth F. A
Nearest of kin, MrS w. H Mehl, Leaven
Willie H. Comfort. Capt, Co. F., six
teenth infantry. Nearest Of kin, L. L. Com
4 fort. Manhattan. Kan
| Clyde f. Kenney, Co. D.. 353rd infantry
| Nearest of kin, George Kenney. Onaga.
est OF kin, Mrs. Julia r. Clark. Pfttsburg
| Clarence Z. Prather. Co D., Seventh in
fantry. Nearest of kin, Mrs. Ona Prather
/ Leon.
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mosphere Which reminded one of
Chicago, or Pittsburgh. or some other
place where the streets were narrow
the buildings tall and everyone hur-
ries like mad. Only that night the
one thing which created a Similarity
was the smoke. as our streets are GER
tainly not what one could call narrow
Certainly the buildings aren't tall, nor
as lar as you could see no one was
hurrying.
All the girls OF our club are buying
Fords and they are remaining it the
Henrietta club. OF course, I haven't
bought mine yet, but I can still be a
member, for that happens to be my
first name Sometimes 1 wonder If
personal things are a bore to tell you
right out before the public. Anyway.
I'm not giving any descriptions about
what 1 look like Heaven forbid.
1 wonder if the boys back in New
York are as thoughtless as the boys
here. 1t never occurs to the younger
bunch at the Woman's club dances, or
at dance where there are chaperons.
to ask the older women to dance.
They just don't happen to think of it.
nine times out of ten, the older women
wouldn't dance anyway, but it's lit
tie courtesy. the absence of which the
girls all notice and comment on. The
other night at the Phi Delt party, not
one of those there, that the girls could
see. were courteous enough to ask the
chaperons or thier house mother to
dance.
A Topeka girl who was married this
week is going on a real romantic we'd
| ding trip. She and her husband will
| travel west. The bride is going to
wear high laced boots, khaki shirt
| breeches and coat and cap. wouldn't
J that be an ideal honeymoon?
| We're very dull here, our idea of a
! wild night this summer seems to be
sitting on the porch of the Country
club talking and then taking a ride
| IN the moonlight before going to bed
/ That and swimming at the Y. W. c. A.
and golf playing sums UP our summer
amusements.
Everyone here was real excited sew
eral nights ago when a big bulldog and
| an Airedale down on Topeka boulevard
| started a fight. One of the girls down
there, and you know her well, went
out and stopped the two with her bare
hands, choking the bulldog off. Wasn't
she a brave person?
An announcement made today of a
wedding which comes as a complete
surprise is that of Miss Marie I. John
son, youngest daughter of Mrs. Mary
johnson, of Eureka, to DR.. Earl
Greene Pitts, of~Texarkana, Texas, the
marriage taking place November Is,
1920, in Kansas City, with the Rev. H
]. Rand of the Seventh Street .Metho-
dist church performing the ceremony.
Doctor Pitts was relief surgeon for the
Santa Fe railway at that time, and
following the ceremony his bride re-
turned to Topeka until further ar
arrangements could be made for a
permanent home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-23
FEMININE. OBSERVATIONS
BY MYRA WILLIAMS FARRELL.

At that he scoffed; scoffed at the
spirit of a people who could be cowed;
robbed of their personal liberty by
lot of crazy laws.
I told him there was no law on the
statute books of Kansas or of the
United States that l cared to break.
which remark brought forth vitupera-
lions on people so limited in scope
that th-y didn't know when they were
restricted.
When lie was reminded that Kan
sas had pioneered in what he was
pleased to call fool laws. and that the
rest of the country had sat up and
taken notice and had followed our
example. and would continue SO to do.
it was too much. It brought to men,
Org his beautiful lost bottle and ne
grew purple in the face and mouthed
horribly.
Not wanting to see him have fit, I
laid off, and delivered no more upper
cuts.
To a Kansan-at least one OF the
feminine gender-it's a queer view
point, this one; that life holds no joy
unless one can be drunk or dissolute
or immoral: unless one can exercise
his divine right to freedom by strik-
ing or causing strikes even when it
involves the suffering OF thousands Of
innocent babies: unless ono can with
impunity run off with another mans
wife; unless, in fact, one can enjoy all
the delicate brutalities which appeal
TO one. but which make one q menace
to civilization.
Because we have a lot of fool laws,
made by professional purists. who use
their votes as clubs with which to
beat the cowardly politicians into the
forming of such laws, our happiness
is gone, our lives are barren.
This, need I say, is the viewpoint
of that spoilt and violent poet, Harry
Kemp. crying for his bottle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-23

Mrs. Pitts was educated in the To-
peka schools, ard for several years has
been confidential secretary to Mr.. T.
s. Crane and Mr.. Charles L. Mitchell
Of the Crane & Company printing in
stitution. About year and a half ago
she went to California and entered the
services of the H. S. Crocker company,
the largest stationery and printing
company on the Pacific coast, and was
connected with the printing depart
ment of this firm until the officers of
Crane & Company prevailed upon her
to return to Topeka to take charge
of the stenographic. filing and billing
departments.
In the handling of the large amount
of civic work with which Mr.. Charles
L Mitchell has been connected for sew
eral years, Mrs. Pitts has been closely
identified with the Improvement and
betterment plans of the city. Mr..
Mitchell insists that Mrs. Pitts has
taken care of the details of the cam
paigns and deserves the credit for
much of what has been accomplished.
She is widely known to the business
men and women of the city. and is
one of Topeka's most brilliant and
capable young business women. She
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-23

Harry Kemp, Kansas-Greenwich
Village scribe, is a violent poet; not
violently a poet, understand. but a
violent poet.
In speaking of Kansas his face
grows apoplectic. He is far from the
usual conception of a poet, anyway.
even when not bitterly angry.
One pictures a poet as soulful-eyed,
spirituelle, long-haired, pallid, and
slim from abstemiousness, whether
because there is a poor market for q
poets wares. or from living in world
of dreams and metaphor, where bread
and meat have no part.
Not SO Harry Kemp He looks
Iwell-fed,-grossly well-fed, I should
say The marks OF self-indulgence
are in his heavy jowls and puffy
eyes.
He acts like a spoilt child whose
bottle has been taken away from him.
Also, for that matter, Judging by the
letters in the public letter box of the
New York papers, do many who are
neither poets or socialists. So that
Harry Kemp's mental attitude is not
| unique, a goodly portion of New
upon the flesh pots and found them
good.
J; wber he learned that I was from
/ Kansas, Harry Kemp waxed wroth
j with MY beloved state, where, he
take away the very air that one
breathed.
! aoh, no." 1 protested, THE air is
free, and there's lots OF it,-plenty for
| Later, after he had raved some
] state, its wheat fields, its people, its
spirit.
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saw that I did not suffer much more
when my baby was born than ] used to
suffer with my periods before took
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound years ago. give all the creditto
your medicine and shall always recon-
mend it very highly. - Mrs. II. H.
JANSEN, Miliston, Wisconsin
How can women who are weak and
sicklyexpect or hope to become mothers
of healthy children? Their first duty is
to Themselves. They should overcome
the arrangement or debility that is
dragging them down, and strengthen
the entire system, as did Mrs. Jansen.
by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and then they will be
in a position to give their children the
blessing of a good constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-23
SEARCH FOR TEXAS MAN.
Abandoned Auto of Dallas Man Found
in River Bed.

Phoenix, July 23.-Sheriffs posses
on horseback started this morning on
a search of the desert for ]. J. knight
of Dallas, Tex, whose automobile was
found stuck in the sand of the dry
bed of Hassayampa river, sixty miles
northwest of Phoenix, Sunday. A
search of the vicinity where the car
was found resulted in the finding of
charred fragments of papers which
Knight has been found, however, since
he left Buckeye, Ariz., a small town
thirty miles west of here, last Friday.
Knight was travelling alone. according
to information at the sheriffs office
here.
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me0lCln0. we are
very fond of children
and for a consider
able time after we
|marriedsI feared I
would not have any
owing to my weak
condition. I began
taking Lydia E.
Pink h a ms Vege-
table Compound and
now I have a nice
strong healthy baby
GIRL / can HONESTLY