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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
ALLEY REPORT IN
Series of Suggestions Are Made
by Special Committee.
Public Hearing Set for Feb. p
by City Commissioners.

| The committee of appraisers ap-
/ pointed by the city commission to
assess the benefits and damages Incl
dent to the accomplishment of the
grade of the alley between Kansas
avenue and Quincy street, running
from Tenth avenue to Eleventh street,
made a report to the city commits
sioners this morning.
The appraisers, w. A. Neiswanger,
George w. Adamson, and w. T. Daw-
son, reported that they did not feel
competent to make the appraisal.
In lieu of their report of appraisal.
they presented series of suggestions
to the commission, to the effect that
the grade of the alley should be fixed
as the mean between the grades of
Kansas avenue, Quincy street Tenth
avenue and Eleventh street and paved
on that grade, which is the normal,
or permanent grade.
The appraisers fortified their rec
ommendation with the statement that
in the inevitable future growth of the
city, the permanent grade will be as
they have pointed out, and that the
expense of fixing the grade there and
paving the alley, which has been use
less to the property abutting thereon
for the past two years as result OF
the fighting over the grade, would be
well invested by the city
Both Damages and Benefits.
That there would be both damages
and benefits incident to the re-estab-
lishment of the grade on COM
promise basis, as provided for in the
ordinance under which the appraisers
worked, they admitted, but they de-
clared their inability to arrive at and
adequately assess those damages and
benefits.
Following a discussion of the sug-
gestions, Monday, February 81, was
set as the date of a special meeting to
consider the report, and to hold a
public hearing, by the city commits
sion.
The appraisers whose report on the
alley to be established in the block
bounded by Madison, jefferson and
Seventh streets and Sixth avenue,
running north and south behind the
Santa Fe hospital, was withdrawn,
and another report will be filed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
MANNERS AND CONDUCT WEEK
Students of Topeka High School to
Study SociaI Etiquette.

The students of Topeka high school
are not content to let the social graces
they learn from their parents and
from participating in the school af-
fairs. be the extent of their knowl-
edge of manners and conduct. They
have decided that an efficient method
to increase their knowledge along
these lines is to discuss them in the
class rooms.
Thru the cooperation of R. R.
Cook, principal, and the members of
the faculty, next week will be set aside
as manners and conduct week. The
faculty advisory period will be de-
voted exclusively each day to the dis
cussion of this subject. The students
will take as their authority the book
entitled, Manners and Conduct" The
school administration has placed a
copy of this manual in the hands of
each faculty adviser so they can study
the facts. The advisers are very busy
this week studying this book and
brushing up on questions of social ell
quette and every day courtesies. The
students are also very busy thinking of
questions to bring up for discussion.
This plan has been tried in other
schools of the country and has proven
successful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
TO 60 TO CHICAGO
Kansans VIII Attend n. E. A.
Meeting Next Week.
Miss Lorraine E. Wooster to
Head Delegation.

Special Santa Fe cars will take fifty
or more delegates to Chicago for the
meeting of the department of super
intendents. National Education asso-
citation, February 27 to March inclu-
sive, according to Miss Lorraine z.
Wooster state superintendent of pub
lie instruction.
The special cars will leave Kansas
City, Mo, at 1880 p. m. Saturday, Feb
ruary %, and arrive in Chicago 8:3O
a. m Sunday M. +. Pearson of Kan
sas City, Kan, state director of che
N z. A. is in charge Of transporsa-
ton arrangements.
The department of superintendent
meeting is open to city and county
superintendent, principals, college
faculty memb erS and others interested
in school administration. This gath
ering. according to superintendent
Wooster. is probably the most impor-
tant educational assembly in America,
as more concrete results are obtained
from it than from the general meet
ing.
Superintendent Wooster is urging
school boards to pay the expenses of
their superintendent to Chicago.
Some boards have established the Gus
tom of sending their superintendent
to the annual meeting
Several Educational Conferences.
Several educational meetings are
scheduled at Chicago during the last
days OF February. All state superin-
tendents have been invited to attend
a national illiteracy conference Feb
ruary % Miss Wooster is on the pro-
gram for an address at this confer
ence. She is also to speak at the an
nual meeting of state superintendent,
February IS Miss Wooster is past
president of the State Superinten-
dents association.
Methods Of cooperation between
the state and federal governments in
vocational education will be discussed
at a meeting Of state superintendenrs
called by the federal board for
March 2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21

Mr. Wilson was born September
II, 1929, in New York state. He is
comparatively a new settler in Kan
sas, coming here from Iowa seven
years ago.
The nonagenarian smashes one of
Lucy Page Gaston's theories of
longevity to smithereens.i Chatting
with a reporter in the office of The
State Journal, he smoked one cigaret
after another, with the most thoro en-
joyment.
Last year he made the trip to the
battlefield of Shenandoah, where he
fought in the Civil war, on the fiftieth
anniversary of the battle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
BIG THEATER RUN HERE
Grand Breaks All Records in Bat
and "FolIies."

The biggest three days business in
the history of any Topeka theater will
be recorded by Wednesday night.
That was the prediction made by H.
r. Uhlrich, manager of the Grand
theater last night. Three packed
sured and two more for The Green
wich Village Follies" are indicated by
the heavy advance sale of tickets.
Practically every seat for this eve
ning's repetition of The Bat" had
been sold last evening and only a COM
parative few remained for today's
matinee performance. Nearly half of
performance of The Follies" are al
ready in the hands of local theater
goers.
What was considered a record was
set when Harry Lauder made his one
day stay here, playing to two packed
houses. Now comes THE Bat" and id
two successive days plays to three
packed houses in a row with every
chance that the next day another conn
pany will duplicate LADDERS feat. Five
packed houses in three days was not
thought possible even in the best se3-
sons here, but coming as it does in
what might be termed the worst thF
atrical season in years, it is a recorh.
That is the way Manager Uhlrieh
puts it.
THE Follies'' company which ar
rives here tomorrow morning from
Kansas City is the same that played
return engagement of seven weeks
in Chicago, a record for return eh-
gagements in the Windy City. The
show IS one of the biggest road at
fractions now on tour and carries
more scenery and costumes than the
average musical revue even in the
times of cheap transportation, accord
ing to the advance manager who was
in Topeka this morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
plan FOR LEGION
EIdOradO Offers Prizes for
Largest Post at Meeting.
Kansas Veterans Prepare for
Convention Next Fall.

EIdorado, Kan, Feb. 21.-Tentative
plans are under way for the 1922 state
convention of the American Legion
here next fall.
1t will be the fourth annual meeting
of the Kansas LegionnaireS and it is
hoped to make it the largest on rec
ord Prizes will be offered to the
posts as inducements to have large
delegations in attendance. Prizes also
will be offered for the best Legion
bands.
Brig. Gen Wilder S. Metcalf, of
Lawrence, state commander, and
Frank z. Samuel, of Topeka, state ad-
jutant, were here last week to confer
with the members of Edgar Dale post
on convention arrangements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21

Chicago, Feb. 21-The Pennsyl-
vania railways injunction suit against
the United States labor board which
was scheduled for hearing today be-
fore Federal Judge K. NJ. Lands,
again has been postponed until March
s, because John V. Clinnin. assistant
United States attorney, who was to
have handled it. has been relieved of
his duties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
Gases
FatuIence

There will not be any distress-eat
without fear. It's because Pape's
Diapepsin really does" regulate weak,
t-of-order stomachs that gives it its
millions of sales annually.
Get a large siXty-cent case of Pape's
Diapepsin from any drug store. 1t is
the quickest, surest stomach relief
known. 1t acts almost like magic
1t is scientific, harmless and delight
full preparation which truly belongs in
every home.-AdV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21

When the food you eat ferments
into gases and stubborn Jumps; your
head aches and you feel sick and mis-
cradle, that's when you realize the
magic in Pape's Diapepsin. 1t makes
stomach distress go in five minutes.
If your stomach is in a continuous
revolt-if you can't get it regulated,
please, for your sake, try Diapepsin.
It's so needless to have bad stomach
make your next meal a favorite fool
meal, then take a little Diapepsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
BIouin Heads world BowIers.

Chicago, Feb. 21.-Thru revision
Of the scoring system inaugurated by
officials of the worlds championship
bowling tournament, Jimmy Blouin cf
Chicago finds himself at the head of
the list of twenty-four bowlers today
Blouin has participated in seventeen
five-game series and has an average OF
24.27. Second place is held by P
Wolf of Chicago, and third position by
Mort Lindsey of Stamford. Conn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
Can't Agree on Piece Work Basis.

Springfield, Mo, Feb. 21.-Having
failed to reach an agreement regard
ing the proposal of the st. Louis and
San Francisco railroad company to
place all car repair work on a piece
work basis representatives of the fed
Grated shop crafts of the Frisco and
company officials, who were in secret
sessions all day yesterday at the Frisco
general offices here, again met in
conference today. No agreement was
reached at a late hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
Conclude McPhcrson Trnctor school

Mcpherson, Feb. 21-A tractor
school has just been concluded here
under direction of Y. NJ Emmert.
county agent. Mark HavenhiIl of the
Kansas State Agricultural college, was
chief instructor Local dealers fur
nished the demonstration tractors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21

Warsaw. Feb. 21.-President Pill
sudski today announced that he had
awarded Gen. John J. Pershing the
order of the White Eagle. This is
the highest decoration in the gift of
Poland
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21

One of the most interesting men in
attendance at the session of the Grand
lodge of the Royal Arch Masons in
Topeka last week was L. M. Wilson,
of Ness City, SO years of age. and a
Mason for the past sixty seven years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
EAST SIDE IMPROVEMENTS
Boulevard, Drainage and New School
Planned by Association.

Cooperation with the city planning
board in the extension of the proposed
Eighth street boulevard east, the solu-
ton of the BiddIe creek drainage prob
lem, and the erection of a modern
school at Eighth and Lake streets, are
matters that will come up before the
East Side Improvement association at
a meeting to be held Thursday evening
at 1880 O'Clock at the East Side Metho-
dist church, Seventh and Lime streets.
The association is planning spring
and summer of activity for the i'm
provement of this section of the city.
Meetings are scheduled for the second
and fourth Thursday of the month.
The officers are:
W. R. Carrie. President
NJ. V. Vigneron. Vice President
w. A. Vogt. Secretary
J. B. Price. .... Treasurer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
PLAN NEW SEWER SYSTEM
improvements at Washburn College
VIII Cost $4,000.

Plans have been developed by the
trustees of Washburn college. for the
installation of a new sewer system at
the college. during the coming sum-
mer, and also for the remodeling of
the college heating plant. The pro-
posed improvements will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
The entire sewer system is at pres
ent inadequate. and will be replaced,
according to the plans OF the trustees.
Several of the steam mains will be re-
built and a new main will be in
stalled to heat the girls dormitory
The work will be done under the
direction of the head of the college
engineering department. C. S. Lopez.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21

County Agent Both Buys and Sells
Jetmore, Kan, Feb. at. F. Yost,
Hodgeman county agent, is making
up a seed list for the use of farm ers.
His purpose is first to help farmers
sell their seed and second to find seed
for farmers who need it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
A MASON FOR Ct YEARS

l.. NJ. Wilson of Ness City Is 80
Years of Age-Was in Atten-
dance at Grand Lodge Meeting
in Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-21
Makes a Family Supply
of Cough Remedy

Really better than ready-made
cough syrups, and saves about 81.
Easily and quickly prepared.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-23

Again his engagement was reported TO
Mrs, John A. Hoagland Number Two, wht
was billie Allen" beautiful cigarette girl,
before she succeeded Mrs. Grace Weir
Hoagland.
NO indeed" said Mr., Hammerstein to
this. Billie thinks in seven figures.
couldn't afford her as wife, to begin
like wife-in-law. l couldn't think OF
aling two wives from Johnny"
In spite of these emphatic denals
Broadway insists that Mr.. Hammerstein
will wed again soon--if not either of these
two beauties, then another in the flower
garden that flCurishes around Times
Square. An announcement is expected
this Autumn. And the new derbios are
appearing then, by the way.
To all questions and9rumors Mr.. Ham.
merstein only smiles. He is used to this
match making He knows that, when tho
broadway gossips have nothing else TO do,
they start the subject, Il hear Arthur
Hammerstein is going to marry So-and.
So Frances White, the dainty dancer.
is the latest Broadway favorte so men.
toned.
a may not marry at ALL he says. I'm
more interested in my daughters caroer
right now than | am in my own
Elaine Hammerstein, his daughter, 10
the child of his first marriage. When Jean
Allison Hammerstein got her divorce sha
did not ask for the permanent custody OF
Elaine. She stipulated only that the child
might be allowed to choose for herself
when she reached the age Of maturity.
When Elaine graduated from Bryn Mawr
College in 1913 she was seventeen, She
went to her father, and soon after that hi
gave her position in his own production,
High Jinks." From there she went -
the motion pictures, in which she has be-
como a star in her own right.
MY daughter means more to me than
wife right now" says MI Hammerstein.
"But-who knows? l said ! couldn't think
of promising to stay married. / can.
promise to stay single, either"
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-23


Claire Nagel died in Reno before Tho
iivorca litigation had progressed very far.
Though they were senarated. MIR. Ham
morstoin was a devoted husband during
or fatal Illness. He had her removed
from her residence to a hospital wired
fer Tie best physicians TO attend to her.
nj did everything possible to save her
lie.
She was ? fine woman and q talented
1fress," was his only comment whcn,news
T her death was flashed 70 New York.
Wo were simply not suited 10 one an
her"
Since Claire Nagors death in 1921 III.
r0rs Of another Hammerstoin marriae"
ave been as thick along the RialtO a.
Hon's hats in the shop windows. Bat II
.lr, H2mmerstein has chosen one Of the
hats he has been wary ABOUT choosinc
Mrs. HammersteiI Number Four Every
week or two his name is linked with thai
Of sOmo reigning beauty, and just as often
Mr.. Hammerstein says. Nothing to it,"
Thus he was billed as a leading can.
didate for the hand of Peggy Hopkins
JoyCe, when thai Wnsome darling of three
millionaire husbands returned recently
from Europe. She and Arthur Hammcr-
stein were seen riding along Fifth avenue
IN Peggy's 'jeWelboX' limousine, and i'm.
modiately tongues began to clatter But
"Not me-" declared Mr.. Hammorstein
Peggy is a beautiful girl and a fine wo.
man.
Mr., Hammerstcins expression as he
made this remark was that of a man stand
ing before mirror and wondering whether
the hat on his head wouldn't be trouble
some when the wind began to blow.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-23

III A WIFE IS like derby hat. When
~ a man gets new derby he may
think it is a fine derby. But he
doesn't fancy he must wear that particular
derby till he dies
The handsome Mr.. Arthur Hammerstein.
theatrical manager. son of the famous
ampresario, Oscar Hammerstein, and ia
vorite Adonis of the Broadway peach belt
thus expressed himself after his third
marriage.
Really" he said, ~ couldn't think Of
promising to stay married.
And he didn't. Two years later The
third Mrs. Hammersten was in Reno. O..
tablshing residence preliminary to suing
for divorce. She died before the case ever
came to trial
Now that Broadway's "tipSters" deglar-
Mr. Hammerstein is contemplating matr-
mOny once more, they not only wonder
who the fourth Mrs. Hammerstein Will bo.
but how long she will be it,
VIII Mr.. Hammerstein change his phi
losophy when he becomes a bridegroom 70.
the fourth time. or will he still maintain
that wife is like a derby hat-"a fine
derby this year but out Of date next?
Mr. Hammerstein was Just about old
enough to wear his first derby when he
married his first wife. She was Jean Kent
Allison, a seventeen-year school girl
and he was a youth of twenty. They
eloped February 10. 1895
In the nineties people were not so ten
peramental as they are to-day. STYLES IN
derbies didn't change every year and d.
vorces were not so numerous. Mr. Ham
merstein and Jean Allison Hammersteia
stayed married for twelve years The rec.
ord does not show whether Mr. Hamn
stein wore one derby only during rhis
period.
The first signs Of breakup came in
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-23

IN PICKLE Me" She charged
later that her husband began,
as it were, another derby
hunt in the following Spring.
Yes admitted Mr., Ham
mcrstojn in April, my wife's
in Reno. She's a fascinating
companion and a real pal. A
great little sport-Claire. |
never had 2 wife I was more
Interested in. Thans all"
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-23
Arthur Hammerstein, Whose 1922
Philosophy Is: Sometimes,
wives, like hats, don't become
us. And then one must change"

* A WIFE is like derby hat When
~ man gets a new derby he may
- 81 think il is a fine darby R11t ho
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1922-09-23

Claire Nasel, Of Buffalo. She
vas pretty, blonde and twenty,
hVe, famous to magazine read
ers as the kodak girl Of the
advertisements; to theatre
goers as a Follies queen and
star of Tumble In"
This was Hammerstein
production. When it closed its
run Mr.. Hammerstein married
the star, June 9. 1919, She re-
tired from the stage, but re-
turned in December. 1920.
playing opposite Frank Tinnev
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-12-30
l0ehard lloyd oney feLIs1 1 =; i s.; :. g.; s..

New York is a crowded town. Her subways and
elevated railroads in the jam hours of the day are lit
orally packed sardine-tight with human freight. But
with all, this congestion of millions of people upon a
little island, it is the easiest town in the world to To-
cate your whereabouts without the aid of a compass
or a guide. 1t is eleven blocks wide and her cross
streets are numbered. New York is just a great
checker board. IF you can talk the American tongue,
any policeman will help you find yourself if you are
lost.
The other day a pathetic story went the rounds
of the press of a Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gallo, of Fair
fax, S. D., who had lived 10 years in mid-America and
were returning to the mid Europe whence they came.
On their way to the dock to board the boat which
was to start them back to Czecho-S1ovakia they be-
came separated when a door of a subway train closed
between them.
Eighteen years in South Dakota and this un-Ameri-
canized woman was without enough language to find
her way back to the dock. Under the strain of fear
and helplessness, she died in the Bellevue Hospital.
For Is years these strangers had lived in our
land with no love or thought of America except as a
good thing to be used by them that they could return
to their foreign home with the gain they got here.
We think of America as the great. well educated
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-12-30

necessary. Pope Gregory made Ger,
tain changes in 1852, A. D., and adj
ditional minor changes were made later
on, from the "old style" to the new
style" calendar" We now employ the
new style.
After the French revolution France
decided to set up an entirely new or
der of things. A new calendar was
made. The Christian era was wiped
out, and was replaced by the new
French era, beginning September %,
1892. Instead of our week of seven
days, a week of ten days was estab-
lished-in accordance with the decimal
systematic tenth day being set aside
for rest.
Instead Of the NEUROLOGICAL names
of the months, others deduced from
the prevailing seasons of the year were
substituted.
Everything was to be based upon
reason! The Notre Dame was con-
verified into a "Temple of Reason"
Nine. Momero, the young and beautiful
wife of a Jacobin printer, was chosen
to represent Reason" And so 1t
went.
The months were chosen and given
French names which were thought to
be characteristic of them. Thus
autumn had a vintage month, a foggy
month and a sleety month. Winter
a snowy month, a rainy month and
a windy month. Spring, a budding
month, a flowery month and a pasture
month. Summer, a harvest month, q
hot month and a fruit month.
Each month began somewhere be
tween the 18th and the 22nd-accord
ing to our reckoning. Thus the first
month of the autumn trio began or
September %, and lasted until DC
tober 81, etc.
With the restoration of a stable
government in France, this calendar
was repealed, and the usual one sub
stituted. But for a time, as we have
| seen, New Year day did not begin or
January l, in France, so late as TIT
last century, and it does not 5egir
on that date in n-Christian coun
tries even today!