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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-18
Galesburg at Bishop HilL :

Galesburg Boosters will meet
Bishop Hill at Bishop Hill park
Sunday afternoon. This will mark
the first appearance of the Gales
burg team in Bishop Hill and fast
game is anticipated.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09
Seek Gold and Diamonds.

An expedition has sailed from Liver.
pool for the Araguaylan river and
some Of its principal tributaries in
Central Brazil in quest of gold and
diamonds The expeditions hope
rests upon experiences in those parts
OF a mining engineer. This engineer
has stated that the Araguaylan gravels
would yield payable gold. He was
hopeful they would discover copper in
commercial quantities. He found
diamonds in tributaries of the Ara
guaya, and also discovered payable
gold in the gravel of the river. The
country is peopled with tribes OF Red
Indians, whom the engineer speaks of
as being friendly. He also hopes to
locate a tribe reported to wear round
their necks strings of gold in rough
nuggets The party will leave the
liner at Para and proceed by steam
launch which they have with them up
to Tocantins river, of which the
Araguaya is an off-shoot.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09

In the past eighteen months there
have ed in the United States more
than twice as many American as a
result of automob le accidents, as We're
killed in the great war Only $4,000 Of
our boys went west in the big conflict,
while in the last year and half d.
600 Americans died as result OF mo-
tor car accidents.
The startling feature OF these fig
IRE lies in a knowledge that the war
is ended, while the motor car is with
US to stay and to increase in usa.
Depite the heavy toll it takes in
human life nothing is going to stop
its progress.
Con liberation of the situation brings
its Importance home to the country
even more than to the city because
nearly seventy per cent of the auto
mobiles manufactured n America are
sold and usel in towns of five thousand
populat on and under and on the farm.
THIS means that preyentable deaths
IN the country as a result of automo-
b lie activities prJpOrt.onateiy great
aloud that something be done to halt
this yearly national disaster
One OF the great sources of automo-
bile accidents / the grad crossing. a
problem in every small community.
In many states the law prescribes
that when grade crossings are elm
ira y the villages through which they
ras' must tapd good p;opolt ton
Of the exp nse This Is a heavy bur
den on the taxpayers.
On the oihr hand to Order the raj
roads general y TO elm nate crossings
at grade either by an elevation or by
h submergin tracks would appear to b,
an uniu demand
This matte, of grade crossings f.
more than local Indeed it is so ma
toual in character it might be well
fpr Washington TO assist more mater
iul'y than 1t does n checking the
couutry's most notorious death trap
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09
BENNINGTON BRIEFS


Mems Emerson Shoes in variety
of new fan lasts, srec'a at $500 At
NovecKs. 7t2
Miss DAISY Harding Of Old Bennlng
ton has gone to ottawa, p. G., to visit
sister
Mr.. and Mrs Il D. Bennett and two
children are at Lake George for the
weekend
Last showing OF Thomas Meighan
in 1.-THE Bachelor Daddy" the b &
happiness picture. Harte theatre to.
day,
Juyt received, a large shipment Of
ladies' new fall trimmed hats Beau
tiful models at very low prices, At
Noyeck's. 7t2
Mrs. p. a. Blanchard and sons,
Winsow and Duane OF Old Benn.ng.
ton are in Now York, the guests Of
relatives.
Miss Kathleen Bretcll of Old Ben.
ninpton has returned from Chazy,
n. Y. where t~e has been visiting
her cousin, Miss Mary Lea,
/ Wallace Reid IN Across the Cont.
nent," a feature with more swift,
thrilling action in than any five
serials Wallace risks his lie every
ninute-and makes you howl with
laughter the next! Also Century
comedy Cheerful Credit" Harte
theatre Monday
Mrs. Frank Crawford entertained
y ladies' enc afternoon this week in
honor Of Mrs NJ T. Buss, who has
been spending the summer IN Ben
uington and expects TO return 10
/ Florida soou During the afternoon
cards were enjoyed and the ladies
were later served a delic Gus supper.
Mrs. Buss was presented with beau.
/ tifu brooch as token of friendship
from her friends.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09
WHY
Crowded Living Conditions
Call for Restraint

C0ntigulty Of residence in the city
hnt curbs ones natural liberties. This
we must concede for the sake OF hni-
iual comfort. The more people there
are in the world and the closer To-
gether they live, the more must liberty
be subdyided into smaller bits.
The human capacity to annoy Is ire.
mendous. 1t may be human nature,
but memorable necessity cOmpeis 10
curbng That noted New York com
poser Of music was compelled to carry
on his work In his bathroom In order
to escape the clamor OF three pianos,
three banJos and talking machine
In an adjoining apartment eXemplllles
the disadvantages Of the collective
dwelling where the rules are lax or
lenlent.
One Of the highest achievements IN
tile development Of character Is to
reach IL point where one Is nolsclcsS
II Is the apex Of culture, plane little
lower than the angels. Not TO be loud
In voice, in action or in clothing, not
to obtrude, that is the glorious ultl-
mate.
If II Is reform, II begins, perhaps,
with care In not slamming doors. The
slamming door Is bad sign even
though Il be those on the corridor Of
u hotel where one has no social ties
and where so many emphasize that fact
on leaving their room nj IN early hour
by tie semblance OF an explosion wax
Ing everyone within one hundred feet.
-. II. Collier in the st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09
For Burma.

CASTOR oil Is said to be q good
dressing for burns. h
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09
Rest for an Anarchist.

Doctor--You must take complete
rest. by the way, what's your occupa-
ton?
Patlent--Tm an anarchist.
Doct0r-Well, don't throw any more
bombs for month AT least.-London
Tit-Bits
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09

In the time Of Queen Elizabeth
Q55SlG03) and in ;he time ot
George O7l4-l72O 60 shumss were
coined to the pound. This ratio stu
continues. hul the term pound has
lost MS original meaning and simply
signifies 20 sailluga of the pres NJ
coinage
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09
Not She.

"T'he prma donna says she VIII
climb TO the top Of son snowy peak
and sit there while the world rolls
by
Believe me-" replied the sardonic
guest AT fashionable summer resort,
she wont If the photographers refuse
to follow her"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09
A Counter Dare

"Parson, our friends dared US TO get
married and we never take a dare, SO
here we are"
well, young folks" said the wise
old clergyman, 81 dare you to go home
and endeayor to cultivate some com.
mon sense"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09
A MuIish Habit.

II was Betty's first visit to the coun-
try and when she saw the chickens
scratching vigorously on the walk she
ran to her mother in alaTm,
"Why, Betty" said her mother ARE
you'afraid of chickensi'
Eyes" said the child, they kicked
at me-"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09

Australia Needs Saint Patrick.
Australia Is said to have about 100
species Of snakes, three-foutShs Of
them yenomous.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN
Patient; Wow thought you
said you extracted without pain.
Dentist: Well, it don't hurt me a
BIT.
PasaInn Nae ResponsIblIItS

The cost OF living must improve.
Yet with determined frSHn
Each waitssfor some one else TO move
To put the prices down.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-09
Eew Autos In China

China, with four times the popula'
tion of the United States, has only
5000 motor vehicles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
Newer Form Of Iron
Quickly Increases "Pep"
Strength and Energy

you cannot be we'll and strong, and
full of vigor. force, and power unless
your blood is rich in iron" says DR..
James Francis Sullivan, formerly
physician Bellevue Hospital (Out-
Door Department., New York, and
the Westchester County Hospital. ut
Is your red blood that enables you to
resist and overcome disease and that
nourisheg every organ in your body.
Without iron your blood becomes thin.
pale, and watery. Poor blood cannot
nourish your vital organs and as d
result you may have pains in your
heart or kidneys. indigestion, head
aches, and feel all rundown and tired
out"
When your blood lacks iron do not waste
your time taking stimulating medicines
or narcotic drugs. but directly enrich your
blood with the newer form of iron sold by
ALI druggists under the name of NuXated
Iron which is like the iron in spinach.
lentils. and apples and is in form easily
assimilated into your blood.
Get bottle Of Nuxated Iron today. Take
it for two weeks and if you have not, like
thousands of others. obtained most surpris-
ing health, strength and energy, the manu-
facturers will promptly refund your money
The following local druggists will sell you
Nuxated Iron with this satisfaction or
money back" guarantee: Arnold Drug Co.,
J. F. Mcfarland Drug Co, Geo W. STAINS
field, F1ad & Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
BREAK A RECORD.
at X. s. A. C. Last
Year Highest Known.
Total of $3.50 Students Regis
tered-OutIOOk Good.

Manhattan. Kan, Aug. 22.-Statis-
tics compiled by Miss Jessie Med
Machir, registrar at the Kansas State
Agricultural college, here. show that
the student enrolment for the school
year 1921-22 set a new high record
for the college. The grand, total for
the year was 1850 or a gain of 230
over the previous year, she said.
The catalogue record shows the at
tendance divided as follows: Sum-
mer school. $40; housekeeper's short
courses, 10; farmers short courses
special students, 297; vocational
schools, 221; freshmen, S31; sopho-
moreS, 628; juniors, 422; seniors, 296;
graduate students, 125.
In the divisions, the school of en-
cheering led with 929 students. The
division of general\science had IT'S,
the agricultural department 763 and
the home economics division $50.
Men in the Lead.
During the year, according to the
records, there were 2,414 men and
1,146 women enrolled.
The extension division of the col
lege enrolled a total of 37,472 during
the year. Miss Machir reported. OF
these. 476 took courses for college
credit, 492 vocational courses and
lessons or instruction sheets.
Thirty-seven of the> forty-eight
states in the Union were represented
in the K. S. A. c. student body during
the year, and % students at the school
represented twelve foreign countries
Brazil, China, Mexico, Philippine
Islands, Egypt, Canada, South Africa,
Bolivia, Chilli, Italy, Serbia and
Syria. Naturally, Kansas students
were the most numerous, 3.149 ma
tives attending during the year. Mis-
souri, sent 151. Oklahoma SO, Ne
braska IS, Colorado 22, Arkansas 10
Illinois Is, Iowa a. Texas IL, Cali
fornia 10, and SO on down the line.
Officials at the college predict the
coming years enrolment will set a
new record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
ADMITS THE BELL OWNS IT
Furthermore, 1t Is No Secret, Says
Manager Enporia Telephone Co.

Emporia, Kan, Aug. 22.-W. w
Finney, manager of the Emporia
Telephone company, which has been
cited by the Kansas public utilities
commission to appear and explain pos
session of it's stock by competing tele-
phone companies, declared there was
no secrecy about the fact that the
Southwestern Bell Telephone company
owns controlling share of the EN-
poria company's stock.
''It is a matter of common knowl-
edge that the Bell company owns a
controlling interest in the Emporia
Telephone company and has minority
interests in-some of the other proper
ties we are operating" Mr.. Finney
said. Bell people never have at
tempted in any manner to exercise any
supervision over the management of
the local. company or dictate as to its
policy. felt at the time I sold, the
controlling interest to the Bell that
the transfer would greatly benefit the
territory served and tend toward more
efficient and cheaper telephone serv-
ice. Experience has justified my ac-
ton for our exchanges are even by the
commission acknowledged to be the
most efficiently operated and our
rates the lowest in Kansas
THE Bell company he continued,
"also has a small interest in the Sa-
betha company. But it does not own
stock in the Burlington, Neosho Falls
or Paola companies"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
after 1T
In Scrap With Richf1eld for
Seat of Morton County.
Unlike Former Fights, Ballots
Will Decide This One.
az me AssoeIated Press.)

Richfield, Kan, Aug. 22.-This lit
de village faces the possibility of los
PIG its distinction as the county seat
Of Morton county in the extreme
southwest corner of the state. A spe-
cial election is to be held within a
few weeks to decide whether the seat
Of government shall be moved TO Elk
hart, which IS making strong BID
for il, according to announcement
Richfield. situated in the north cen
trail part of the county, is miles from
a railroad. while Elkhart, the largest
town in this corner of the state, Is
located on the Kansas-Oklahoma line
within a few miles of the Colorado
border and is on the Santa Fe-
This contest for removal OF the
county offices from Richfield recalls
an attempt made some thirty-flve
years ago to move the seat to town
called frisco. Frisco is no longer on
the Kansas map. Guns, fists, CLUBS
and knives figured in the controversy
in the late sos. Men, women anu
children participated in the mixups'
old timers say, as they did in many
other such squabbles in the early days
Was BloodIess Battle.
On the day of the election, so the
story goes. some dozens of Frisco men,
all mounted and moving en- masse,
coveted county ballot box. But guards
stationed on the outposts of Richfield
spread word of the advance and when
Rrhe Frisco braves neared the city
Soutslkirts they were promptly routed
and fled for home. 1t is said that
this was one Of the most bloodless bat
ties ever fought. however, for mot a
fatality, a scratch, limp or bump
was suffered by either side.
Now, after peaceful reign OF thir-
ty-five years since the hostilities
ceased, Richfield's right to the county
seat Is again challenged. The forces
on either side are mobilizing, but this
time the victor-Elkhart or Richfield
will be determined by the ballot.
To add to Richfield's anxiety over
the outcome Of the election, reports
indicate that sentiment in the county
is strongly in favor of moving the seat
down to Eikhart. Proponents of the
idea argue that Richfield is just
little inland village with little hope of
getting a railroad very soon. while
Elkhart is the big city of Morton
county and has its railroad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
RUSH WORK ON BUILDING.
Addition to State Manual Training
Normal Needed This Fail.

Pittsburg, Kan, Aug. 22.-Work on
the new gymnasium and physical edu-
cation building at the State Manual
Training normal is being rushed to
make the building ready for use this
fall. The new semester will open Sep
TENDER 1 8 for work, enrolment begin
ming the preceding day.
Practically-All of the outside work
on the structure has been finished and
the contractors now are doing the in
side finishing.
The August term will close this
week. More than 700 students have
been in attendance during the month.
The August term Immediately fol-
lowed the close of the summer ses-
sion which was attended by more than
1900 persons.
At an assembly of the August stu
dents q recommendation that the nor
NAL authorities provide for two six
weeks summer terms rather than the
eight-weeks summer session and the
four-weeks August term was adopted.
The normal authorities will consider
the proposal to make the change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
A PARSONS FAMILY HAPPY
Son, Supposed Dead. Returns After Is
Years, and Family Reunion Follows.

Son, Supposed Dead. Returns After 10
Years, and Family Reunion Follows.
Parsons. Kan. Aug. 22.-There is
All unusually happy family in Par
sons these days. Oliver P. Beckman.
believed to have been dead for seven
teen years, has returned to the home
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. J.
Beckman, and a family reunion of
the parents. a daughter, Mrs. B. Pol
latz, and four sons. Oliver, Walter,
Chester and Clifford, was effected.
Oliver Beckman was Is when he
left the family home at Augusta, Mimi,
ito see the world" For about two
months he wrote home. Simultaneous
with the discontinuanee of his letters,
his father and mother received a re-
port that a youth answering his de-
scription and bearing almost the same
name had died in Minnesota. So they
gave up watching the daily mail for
word from him and shortly afterward
the family moved to Parsons.
Oliver saw most of the United States
and Canada in his wanderingS and
when America entered the war he en-
France as a corporal in the quartet
masters corps. When the war ended
he returned to haywood, suburb of
Chicago, and engaged in the produce
business He prospered and visited
the old home town, Augusta, but found
his family gone. He went to the Of
flee of the Augusta Times in his effort
to locate them. The paper shortly
before Christmas, 1921, had asked
former Augusta residents to submit
short articles for publication in an
"old timers edition." w. J. Beckman
was one of those who responded and
the editor informed Oliver that his
folks had moved to Kansas.
When the boy appeared at the
Beckman home here with Hello,
dad. Don't you know ?" Mr.. Beck
man said he did not recognize his son
Immediately. He had changed So"
the father said, but he's our boy all
right because he remembers the
spankings 1 gave him and we note
the same little characteristics he had
when a lad"
This is the second time a newspa-
per has figured in a reunion of the
Beckman family. Edward F. Beck
man, a fifth son, who has been in
the army twenty-five years and is
now a staff sergeant in the finance
department at Fort Riley. lost track
of his family after he had been sta
toned in the Philippine Islands and
various other places. After eight
years-he wrote a friend in Bangor,
Wis, asking fora trace of his rela-
tives- The letter appeared in a Ban
gor paper which reached the father.
A correspondence lasting eleven years
ensued before Edward was able to pay
his family a visit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
TOURNEY AT LEGION MEET.
Four Teams VIII Enter Elimination
Contest at Eldorado.

Eldorado. Kan, Aug. %. - -Four
legion baseball teams from Wichita,
Council Grove. Pratt and Eldorado
will put on an elimination contest as
a feature of the annual encampment
of the Kansas department of the
American Legion to be held here Sep
TENDER II, II and IS. The team
winning the four-sided contest will re-
ceive a cash award of $3.50.
A legion band contest also will be
held in which a number of Kansas
posts will be represented. A prize OF
SIS is at stake in this. contest. One
of the big features of the program will
be a rodeo show in which a large num-
Der of ropers will compete More than
$1,000 in cash prizes have been Of
fered in the various wild west con-
tests which will occupy portions of the
first and second days programs.
A street dance is being arranged
and on the evening of the third day
the program will be turned over to the
Eldorado voiture of the Society of
Forty and Eight, an ex-service mems
organization, which will initiate more
than 100 candidates into the order.
Tours thru the oil fields will be made
daily to show the visitors a CLOSE up
of the activity in the Kansas oil field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
JURY BLAMES THE FATHER
Francis Black, Who Buried Baby, Is
Charged With Neglect.

verdict of wilffuI neglect was brought
in by a coroners jury today against
Francis Black, whose infant son was
found buried in a corn field near here.
The body was placed in a suit case in
which it was found, when exhumed
by the officers, they testified.
A physician was not called until
after the birth of the child. He had
pronounced the baby normal and
healthy in every particular. Black.
who is rs years old, told the jury he
did not know it was the custom to cali
an undertaken and to make out a GER
tificate of death, but that he and his
wife decided to bury the baby pri-
YateIy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
DRIVE ON PRAIRIE DOGS
Attempt VIII Be Made To Rid Cen
trail and Western Counties of Pest.

Lyons, Kan, Aug. 22.-Prairie dogs
have infested every Kansas county
west of Harvey, according to Otis
Wade, representative of the United
States department of agriculture and
the Kansas Agricultural college. who
was here comforting with County
Agent Adair on a plan of destruction
for the rodent in Rice county.
Beginning in September. Mr.. Wade
said, a campaign. of radiance will be
started in Rice. Reno, Kingman, Har-
per, Saline, Ottawa, Cloud and Repub-
lie counties. After these districts
have been cleared, the work will be
extended westward taking in a tier of
coIIties each year, he said. Sedgwick,
Harvey, Sumner. Marion and McPher-
son counties have already cleaned out
the little animals.
THE last pair" will be the slogan
of the prairie dog drive in every coun-
ty gone into, Mr.. Wade said. He be-
1ieves that within a few years every
infested area will be free from this
pest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.

Southwestern League.
Sapulpa at Topeka.
MuSkogee ut Independence
Bartlesville Mt Hutchinson.
Coffeyville at Salina.
National League.
Brooklyn at Chicago.
New York at Cincinnati.
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh.
American League.
Chicago at Washington.
st. Louis a. Boston.
Detroit at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at New York.
American Association.
Toledo at indianapolis.
Columbus at Louisville.
Minneapolis at Kansas City.
st. Paul at Milwaukee.
Western League.
Wichita at Sioux City.
Tulsa at Denver.
Oklahoma City at Omaha.
st. Joseph at Des Moines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
OPEN A CoNNnssARY STORE.
Strikers ut SedaIin TO Help Needy
Ehmilies of Members.

Sedalia, Mo, Aug. as ri n 8
shopmen of the Missouri Pacific and
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroads
here have established a commissary
store at the Labor Temple for use of
needy members of the Sedalia organ
iZation.
Supplies of sugar. flour, coffee. po-
tatoes and other staple groceries are
being stocked, ready for release only
to those families where sickness or
financial reverses necessitate relief.
30 charge viii be made in such cases
Ind no stores will be sold.
Shop craft leaders explained that
the action was taken to help the local
grocers carry their unusual load as
well as to alleviate cases of actual dis
tress among the shop men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-22
CAMP INTO SECOND WEEK.
Guards ut Fort Riley Arc Preparing to
StaRe MIMIC Wnr.

Junction City, Kan, Aug. 22.-Units
of the Kansas National Guard en-
camped on the Fort Riley reservation
opened the second week of their fort
nights stay today with work prelim-
mary to a field problem that is to be
staged on Friday. The guardsmen
were sent out over the hills to become
acquainted with the territory over
which the mimic war is to be waged
and to become toughened to march
ing. Rifle practice is being con-
tinued on the target ranges.
The 1STth infantry band from Has
keu institute is proving a big attrac-
ton and scores of people drive over
TO the camp each evening for the con-
certS.