The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 15, 1916

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It troika JUJI'KK woic.ihw Mr. Taft on so Important a mission as peace, to day. W1 EATHER FORAST for Kansas: Fair tonight and Saturday; warm er Saturday and In the west tonight. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1916 TWELVE PAGES TWO CENTS. TfiFT KANSAS BEHIND EX-PRESIDENT IN BIG PEACE MOVE State Wide Organization of League to Enforce It. Searl? 3,000 Topekans Cheer Auditorium Speech. GCUHT TO SETTLE DISPUTES International Body for Argu ment of Questions. No Encouragement to Euro pean Interference. BUSINESS MEN CHEER HIM lioiising ltcreption for Taft at Chamber of Commerce. In Witty Talk He Admits His Defeat of 190S. EDDY TELLS OF BIG He Expects Ihuth Toll to Reach .Million ly Spring. 40 Million Men Have Been Called to Colors in Europe. Kansas went into the peace move ment with both feet this afternoon when more than L',500 men and women heeretl William Howard Taft, former lirteulent. in a speech in the auditor ium and voted for a state-wide organ ization of the national league to enf force peace. Organization followed a J Ui-minute talk uy me lormer pi" ident in which he outlined policies and plans of the peace movement.. Nut only will Kansas swing behind the peace program, but funds will be pr)idcd for an extension of the work to other fi Ida. In his speech Mr. Taft nrued the formation of an interna tional court to hear and settled isputes of nations. He urged international :tgt-'emerii.s for compulsory arbitration miu i:se forte only where arbitra tion t;tils or nations refuse to submit remedial disputes to investigations. I'rjrt's International Police. International police methods should b maintained by nations, Taft urged, in enforcement of its policies. Settlement of or incerference with the war in Kurope were not encourag ed in the Taft speech. Yet Europe, he declai ed, will wisely welcome and receive ;i;iy ;ironi:r, that bars prob ;.biiit:en of 1'turo warfare. I ):s -listing the European situation, Tat't .lecltrt'd that Europe would wel come the aid and leadership of the I n i ted States in directing a program for permanent peace. The first floor of the auditorium was filled and half of the seats in the pa Her ies taken when Taft walked on the stage at :ZQ. A volley of yells from Washburn r.nd high school stu dents greeted the former president and be responded to a noisy greeting with a bow and the famous smile that won't wear off. Mr. Taft was introduced by Walter Roscoe Stubbs, of La wrer.ee, former governor. The mere fact that Stubbs fa led to support Taft in the political campaign of four years ago did not lessen his praise of Taft in his advo cacy of world-wide peace. The intro duction followed prayer by Father llayden. "This meeting involves the great est problem in the world today." said Stubbs "and means the stopping by force if necessary the world war in 2nrp today. '"While our distinguished visitor held the greatest office in the gift of our people." said Stubbs, "I doubt not that the place he holds today means more to the future and welfare of the world thon any office we gave him." "We don't offer you a panacea or a cure-all that will end all wars," said Taft in his opening remarks. "What we do offer you is a program that will prevent many wars and make war less probable." The former president then discussed former proposals by peace conferences and thru treaties. "We had a big dinner." said Taft. "and a good dinner makes you anx ioux to agree. But what was our horror in August. 1914. to see the opening of this great conflict." Something more than dinners and s-.teeohes must be resorted to in our effort to work out the world peace plan, he said. Details of the plan for realization of ideals of League of Peace were then discussed by Mr. Taft. "If chis program is to be effective, it must have not only the endorsement of this nation, but most of the big nations of Europe," said the speaker. "Then there is no doubt the smaller nations will come in out of the rain." Settlement of disputes by arbitra tion wa the fundamental principle advanced by Mr. Taft. He illustrated hie plan by reference to the Kansas Colorado controversy concerning the Arkansas river. As a result of that suit, you have a dry state in more ways than one," he said. "As between nations your case might have been a cause of war but you settled the question thru and by your courts, just as you should have done." Mr. Taft injected keen wit into his TOPEKA'S William Howard discussion of the plan of arbitration and in illustrating his points. But in his use of wit he drove home his arguments for world peace plans. Take Grievances to Court. "Under the plan we bring to you, all nations must submit their disputes to a court of arbitration," he said. "This war would have been avoided and Austria and Servi- submitted their griefs to a court for compromise. "Now our plan is that force shall be used where nations refuse to await action by arbitration and seek to throw the world into war. By that T mean we must have an international police force that will make certain ob servance of the agreement. If they won't permit or give time to settlement by arbitration, then we shall join to settle that difference by force if neces sary. "Why we are all in favor of peace some of us more than others. But sane, practical men must take charge of this thing and there are sane, sensi ble men who know the value of peace end will face these matters in a sane but practical manner. Not a Mere Whim. "This is not a mere theory, or im aginary whim. It is something that big, practical men encourage and ad vance. "It is very wise and just that this league must have something to say about the armament the police force, if you please of all nations. Why England might now want assurance in event of peace that some guarantee may be given that they will not face such another crisis. And in such de mands are recognitions of our plan to enforce peace for all people." Taft referred to the power in con gress concerning the right to declare war. He said there were always un certainties as to what congress might do in settlement of international af fairs. "Why, I have known times when it was mighty uncertain what congress would do. And then there are people who do not believe we should have armies or use force. All 1 have to say about that is "it ain't so. Just, if you please, as a parent turns a child over his knee just to help the future generation. It is the presence, not the use, which gets results from elements of force. "This is a league to enforce arbi tration and settle remedial disputes. We don't believe in war or in force unless it is necessary. But first we want to know" that use of such force is necessary just as it is necessary for your police force to act." Mexico a X u i sa nee. "Mexico is an international nuisance and we are right up against it," was the former president's reference to the Mexican situation. "And there is the Monroe doctrine like the poor, some thing we always have with us." In the next war, Taft declared, there will be no room for neutrals. "Then everyone will want in this league, because there won't be any place to get under cover if we are not. Everyone and everything will be blown up if the science of war in creases as it has in the last few years. "This movement means sacrifice. It means enlistment and awakening of the interests of the people. Reitera tion damnable reiteration is neces sary. Now we want you to enlist. Kansas is different than I think she is if she will let the east lead her." Joked His Way Thru. William Howard Taft, ex-president of the United States, joked and guf fawed his way back into the hearts of 500 Topeka business men at the Chamber of Commerce this noon. For thirty minute?? the big man with the peculiar guffaw, who laughs at his own .lokes before anyone knows that they are, kept the audience in an up roar as he cracked one joke after an other, all at his own expense. "Isn't he a good old sport?" "You just can't beat him."' "I never saw anyone with such good sporting blood in his veins." These were expressions heard as the audience crammed its way out of the Chamber of Commerce and hurried to the city auditorium where the main address was delivered by Mr. Taft. John S. Dean introduced the speaker. Taft opened his after dinner talk by referring to Mayor House, who had announced that he would sit beside the ex-president and that he was one of the men in Kansas who had voted for Taft. "I wish to say that your mayor in js ..V.' sJW-:-:-:':-:-:-:o:-t-:.::::::-:-:7 GUEST TODAY Taft. making this confession has placed himself in very select company," said Mr. Taft. He chided ex-Governor Hock and ex-Governor Stubbs as men who oc cupied the same position that he now holds but braced them up by declar ing that the triumvirate of ex's "knew a whole lot more than some people who know lots." Always before in forming the audience of his humorous statements, Taft broke into his famous smile and guffawed and had them laughing before they heard the joke. "I feel grateful to the American people for what they have done for me," continued the ex-president. "And I feel doubly grateful to them for al lowing me to retire with such undis guised consent." Complimented Topeka. Taft had heard of the recent re juvenation of .the Chamber of Com merce and congratulated the city on the lare membership, which, he stat ed, indicated to the world better than anything else the strength and pros perity of the city. He further con gratulated the Chamber of Commerce for getting away from the dollar be fore the nose scheme of doing things and for centering its main activities in civic affairs and civic betterments. Taft remembered his visits to To peka in past years and spoke, in par ticular, of the time when he dedicated Memorial hall. Then he launched into a discussion of the recent election, which, by its closeness and accept i ance of defeat by his own party, ln I dicated the people's ability to govern themsel""s. This ability was more strikingl.v illustrated, he stated, in the famous Hayes-Tilden race. He de scribed the issues in the recent cam paign hs caloric. Everyone looked puzzled. "What does that mean?" some one shouted. The question was never answered. Webster's unabridged states that ca loric means heat. Tn ft tnnrhpd li p-htl v on his mission of peace which brings him to Topeka. He admitted that it would be "easy to suggest corrections on practical grounds," but urged the adoption of the principle, with corrections made later, in order to give the president the backing of the American people on a peace propaganda which should be proposed to the congress of na tions certain to follow the great war. Ills Faith in Kansas. In closing he expressed his faith in Kansas j "With $2 wheat I should think you all would be in a philosophic frame of t mind," wefe his parting words. 1 To get Taft and his party to Kan sas in time, the Missouri Pacific ran a special train out of St. Louis last night, j The train left St. Louis at 12:40 o'clock j and arrived in Kansas City at 7:40 o'clock, near a record breaking time. A special car was run from Kansas City to Topeka today and Superin tendent Brooks and Judge Merriam of the Missouri Pacific, accompanied the Taft party. Ex-Governors Stubbs and Hoch joined the party at Law rence. Other members of the party were: Charles C. Michener, director of field work for the League to En force Peace. Wendall W. Mischler, sec retary to Mr. Taft. George Sherwood Eddy of Leavenworth, and W. R. Boyd, jr., district secretary. Orchestra music was enjoyed during the noon day lunch. Eddy's Speech. George Sherwood Eddy, with the Taft party, told Kansans his after noon of the horrors of the European war and pleaded for united effort in bringing about world peace. Eddy is a former Kansan. He formerly lived in Leavenworth. In his appeal in Topeka this after noon, Eddy did not urge an effort to bring the European war to a close. In fact, he declared that the work of the peace league was in the future in cementimr the nations and settlement i of international disputes by arbitra- tion. j "I have been thru Russia, Turkey, I Bulgaria, Servia, Greece. Egypt, France, Italy and was on tours with the British army at its base camps. as well as on a trip thru Germany earlier in the war," said Eddy. "I went there hot with academic interest. I came back burning with the convic tion that America has the responsibil ity of laying the foundation for lasting peace. "Now, mark you," said Eddy, "I IContinued on Page 4.) DRASTIC RAILROAD RULES TO SOLVE f CARJHORTAGE Become Effectiye Thruout En tire Nation Today. ExpenslTe to Shipper to let Car Stands Loaded. PENALIZE RAILROADS ALSO Some Roads Hold 5,000 to 10, 000 Foreign Cars. Will Cost Shippers as High as $5 a Day Storage. Washington. Dec. 15. Drastic reg-J ulations adopted by the railroads went, into effect today, with the approval of the interstate commerce commission as emergency measures to relieve the shortage of freight cars which for, months has been a brake on the coun try's commerce and affected the high cost of living. The remedy is the railroads own, proposed by the car service commis sion of the American Railway associa tion and formally approved by the federal commission. The first regula tion provides that a consignee may have the usual two days to unload a car and that thereafter demurrage shall be charged at the rate of $1 for the first day, $2 for the second. $3 for the third and $5 for the fourth and each succeeding day. Heretofore the charge has been uniformly $1 a. day, and many consignees, notably au tomobile concerns and' coal dealers, are declared to have been glaji to per mit cars to stand for long periods be cause the penalty was so small that it compared favorably with warehouse charges. Detroit Held 25,000 Cars. Another order increases the daily rental paid by railroads to each other for cars from 45 to 75 cents per car. Some eastern roads are said to have from 5.000 to 10,000 foreign cars of a single type. The order is expected to make serious difficulties for some small roads which do not have suffi cient equipment of their own. The rise in the price of coal is attributed almost wholly to the car shortage aided by the alleged activi ties rf flrtfpulfltnrjl Tn rwlnprt tn fnnj. stuffs; the same situation iB-.aid tdtt have applied, only it has been less? acute. In railroad yards of the middle west the relief of the congestion under these and related orders are said to have been marked. Thus at Detroit within a month the number of loaded cars in the railroad yards awaiting un loading is said to have fallen from 25,000 to 15.000.' Further consideration of the prob lems presented by the shortage of cars is the subject of a conference here to day of officials of eastern roads. A meeting of some of the chief shippers of the country will be held here next week. CAPPER FOR PEACE Governor Speaks Before Con ference of Governors. "Better Fight It Out Than Have an Armed Truce." Washington, Dec. 15. Speaking be fore the conference of governors. Governor Capper of Kansas today de clared that in the desire for world peace it were Detter that warring na tions of Europe continue hostilities uninterrupted than that they resort to armed truce and nurse their animosi ties. Governor Capper spoke today concerning "Our Duty and Responsi bility at the Close of the World War." In a forty-minute speech he urged prompt action by the United States in forming a permanent international peace league at the conclusion of European hostilities. Governor Capper talked peace at the annual gatherings of United States governors this afternoon, while Wil liam Howard Taft. former president, urged adoption of the program of the League to Enforce Peace in a speech in Topeka, the Kansas governor's home town. Action by the United States looking to world-wide peace would be welcomed by the belligerent nations, said Governor Capper, who declared this country is the logical na tion to point tne way to future set tlements of disputes thru arbitration. The world, tho, must safeguard against make-believe peace pacts in the settlement of the war in Europe, Governor Capper said. 'Better that this war with all its unspeakable frightfulness and suffer ing should continue for years." sail the governor, "than that it should end with an inconciusive peace in an armed truce with the contending na tions nursing their old animosities and ready to resume hostilities upon the first provocation or excuse." WHEAT DROPS AT K. C. Down 12 Cents Today In Wild Rush to Sell Flour Price Cut. Kansas City, Dec. 15. December wheat closed today at $1.51, a drop of 12 cents since yesterday closing. The peace agitation was said to be the cause of the wild closing in all options. May closing at J1.5H4 as against $1.63 34 yesterday and July, which closed yesterday at $1.40 was $1.28 1.29 at the close today. Flour rops 50 Cents Today. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec 15. Flour prices dropped 50 cents here today, making the total decline for the week $1. Millers now are quoting at $8 per barrel. CONSPIRACY IS CHARGE AGAINST I PAPER MAKERS Have. Understanding to Main tain "Ruinous Prices." Federal "Trust Buster" Has 'How America Can Help Dis charge of Prosecution. j cussed hy Cabinet Today. EDITORS AFRAID TO TESTIFY Publisher-Agitator Finds Sup-. ply Is Cut Off. Probe Discloses Prices Range From 2 to 7 Cents. Washington. Dec. 15. Attorney General Gregory today turned over to I Assistant Attorney General load, gov ernment "trust buster," serious charges preferred by H. B. Varner, North Carolina, publisher, tending to j show "an understanding" between cer- tain manufacturers of newsprint paper to maintain "ruinous prices." j Varner's action in going right to i headquarters with his charges follow- ed his appearance before the- federal j trade commission which has been in- vestigating the alleged "paper trust." J Varner told the attorney general in- i dividual publishers are afraid to testify j against the paper manufacturers for i fear of having their paper supply sum marily cut off. He said after agitat ing the question in the house he found he- was unable to obtain print paper except at utterly prohibitive prices. Small Papers Boar Burden. "Our entire output contracted for," was the invariable answer, he said. Many small papers, particularly in the south, Varner said, are on the verge of positive bankruptcy from the present price of paper, when, indeed it is possible to get it at all. Manufacturers in an effort to con ciliate the publishers urged they in crease subscription prices and adver tising rates, throwing the burden on the public, said Varner. Inasmuch as most of the big metro politan daily papers overate their jywn paper mills, it is mostly the rural pa pers that are "feeling the pinch" he pointed out. After filing his charges with the at torney general, Varner, it was learned today, discussed possible remedial leg islation with Senator Simmon. The latter stated he believes that "unless thedepartment of justice finds some way to bust the news print paper trust,-the. freedom of the press is in danger. Canada Makers in Trust. "That there is a combination of pa per manufacturers is evident in infor mation now before the department," said Simmons. "I believe it is an international trust. "Without the aid of Canadian manu facturers I do not think the paper manufacturers of the United States could hold up the price of print paper. "If the department of justice, the attorney general and the federal trade commission, after exhausting their powers, find themselves unable to bust this combination, let them call upon congress for an increase in pow er and I am sure it will be granted." Federal Control of Distribution. New York, Dec. 15. Tackling the acute situation in the print paper market, newspaper publishers today proposed to make the federal trade commission the "middleman" to super vise distribution of print paper at equitable prices. They presented their plan to the Paper Manufacturers of North America in session here. The federal trade commission also met here and awaited decision of the manufacturers, recommending that no new paper contracts be signed mean while, -pending agreement by the three bodies now at work to solve the paper problem. Ernest G. Smith of the Wilkesbarre Times-Leader and E. H. Tomlinson of the Norristown (Pa.) Record, dele gates from the Affiliated Publishers' association, now in session at Wash ington, presented the publishers' plan at the Waldorf meeting today. Demand Stable Prices. They declare prices now range from 2 cents a pound for metropolitan pa pers with good shipping facilities i from mills to 7 cents for small pub- Ushers in far districts. They propose an investigation of cost of production j and present prices and the establish- i ment of a flat price by the federal trade commission, to which will be added freight charges. Available ton nage of paper would then be distrib uted fairly in the district adjacent to the mills, eliminating long freight hauls and insuring to publishers cer tainty regarding the price they would have to pay. At present, they de clared, prices fluctuate widely and publishers are forced to pick up a carload here and two carloads there at whatever price the manufacturer or dealer is able to demand. TO EDITORS' RESCUE Representative Campbell's Bill Would Break Grip of Paper Trust. Washington, Dec. 15. A bill aimed at protection of publishers of all small newspapers, which it is charged, are now at the mercy of a "combination" of powerful news print paper manu facturers, was introduced in the house today by Representative Campbell of Kansas. Government to Economize In Paper The senate today adopted a resolu tion by Senator Kenyon of Iowa, di recting the committee' on printing, in view of the scarcity and increasing cost of print paper, to investigate the subject and to recommend that gov ernment publication might be tempo rarily suspended and that economies might be practiced in the various gov ernment departments in the interest of conservation of paper. Xew Member of I. c. C. Washington. Dec. 15. President Wilson today nominated Winthrop Moore Daniels, New Jersey, to be a member of the interstate commerce commission. GERMANY NOW READY TO TALK DISARMAMENT Also Willing to Discuss World Guarantee of Peace. PRESIDENT WILSON PUZZLED Has Crucial Moment Arrived for Diplomatic Action! Cabinet May Inform Public What U. S. Intends to Do. Washington, Dec. 15. The whole subject of peace and the part America can play if any, will undoubtedly he threshed out in this afternoon's cabi net session. Confidential information from Sec retary Grew, of the American Berlin proposals, is scheduled for 'pro.fci.ta tion to the members along with con sideration of past Official reports and recent unofficial versions of foreign e.VHude toward peace. The state department was reliably understood to be collecting thJs fore norn all its past information bearing on the subject of peace. This, taken with news messages, indicated a sen timent on the allies part against yield ing up the struggle to diplomacy at this moment. Uncle Sam Still Uncertain. Meantime German official hints here pointed to a willingness to talk at least a partial disarmament and likewise a willingness for introduc tion of a world guaranty of peace. The administration now feels that there may be instructive discussion of the peace proposals among the allies, but has no reason to believe that the present proposals themselves will at once point the way to peace. Petro- grad s semi-ornciai statement tnat Germany is deluding her own people and trying to cast the responsibility for continuance of the war elsewhere is regarded as a. general allied view point. In these circumstances President Wilson and his advisers are admittedly still puzzled to know just what atti tude and what action, if any, to take. It was expected that the cabinet session- would serve to clear the official atmosphere and that it might be pro ductive of some definite information to the public as to what this govern ment proposes to do. WARMER AT LAST Backbone of Cold Wave Is Broken, Says Flora. Fair Moderate Weather in Sight for Weekend, Hourly temperature readings fur nished by the weather bureau: 7 o'clock 25 8 o'clock 25 9 o'clock 26 10 o'clock 26 11 o'clock 26 12 o'clock 27 1 o'clock 29 2 o'clock 30 Temperatures today averaged 4 de grees below normal The wind is blowing at the rate of 11 miles an hour from the west. The backbone of the cold wave is broken at last, according to dope giv en out at the office of the weather bureau this morning. Cold weather was reported In Texas this morning, indicating that the north pole variety is moving south. The mercury rose rapidly all night, and this morning for the first time in many days was 3 degrees above normal. The minimum for the night, 2 degrees, occurred at 8 o'clock. The snow will be practically gone by Saturday night, S. D. Flora, local .weather observer, stated today The forecast calls for fair weather (Continued on Page ?Mx.i GRANT WAGE INCREASE Clothing Manufacturers, However, Re fuse to Install 8-Hour Day. New York, Dec. 15. The American Clothing Manufacturers' association representing most of the manufactur ers whose workers are on strike, an nounced today .that on next Monday they will grant an increase in wages of about $2 a week, approximately the increased wage demanded by the strik ers. The manufacturers, however, re fused to reduce the working time from fifty hours a week to forty-eight, the other demand presented by the strikers. TEUTONS CAPTURE CITY Buzau Falls; 4.0OO Captured Rus sians Burn Villages. Berlin. Dec. 15 (via Sayville) Buzau has been captured by the Ger man forces. "Under the most unfavorable weath er conditions," the official statement said, "our troops rival each other in the plan not to let tho enemy rest on the march. j "Buzau was captured. The ninth army reported 4.000 prisoners cap tured. Near Fetestl strong Bulgarian forces crossed the Danube." RUMANIA PREMIER QUITS Announces Resignation at Xew Capi tal To Form New Cabinet. Copenhagen. Iec. 15. Rpslgnntinn of the Rumanian premier at Jaeay, the toevt cap ital of that monarchy, was announced in lipalches received here today. A new cabinet has not ypt been formed. Geyer Out Points Tate. Kansas City. Mo., Dec. 15. Jack Geyer,, Denver heavyweight, was giv en tne decision over Harry Tate in the ninth round of a scheduled 12-round j bout here. OPINION GROWS FOR ALLIES TO PUBLISH TERMS Entente Nations Open Ex change of Views on Peace. Three Views as to Course Allies Can Take. SUSPICIOUS JF A PITFALL U. S. Sentiment Urges Allies to State Demands. Opportunity Ripe for An nouncement of War Aims. London, Dec. 15. A steady increase in sentiment that the allies in refusing German peace plans set forth their own terms of peace, was manifest here today. Notwithstanding the continued illness of Premier Lloyd-George, it is known that the allies, thru the foreign office, have already begun an informal exchange of views on von Bethmann Hollweg's proposals. r,ei-o nr thrpp views entertained as to the course which the allies should adopt in answering the German note, based on the realization that the en tente powers must carefully avoid the pitfalls of the Teutonic nations. Three plans are: Blunt Rejection Advocated. First A blunt rejection of the note. The advocates of this course are convinced that this will be the only way in which to prevent the situations being maneuvered to ad vantage by Germany. Opponents of the plan hold, on the other hand, that it would be a serious mistake not to meet the issues raised by von Bethmann-Hollweg. Second That Germany name her terms on the assumption that these terms yet to be made known offi cially, may really be worth consid ering, and might be considered without damage to allied prestige. Third That the allies do not ask Germany's terms, but detail their own sentiments as to peace; their terms and conditions. V. S. Sentiment Has Influence. Suggesions made in the press of neu tral nations and particularly develop ment of such an ideal in the United States, has aided in developing senti ment for this third course. Moreover, it is seen by news from Germany that, the government did not expect a fav orable response to its proffer; there fore England regards the main pur pose of von Bethmann-Hollweg's pro posals as manifestly two-fold, to im press neutrals and the German public. Advocates of trie policy of the al lies listing their terms, argue that in such a situation as presented now. the entente have a splendid opportunity to put before the outside world as weii as the people of Germany whom they have always believea generally ig norant of the real issues of the war a clear cut. definite, united pronounce ment of the allies' aims and pur poses. Plan Likely to be Adopted. There was every indication today that the allies will adopt this course. It is fully expected that Lloyd George will be sufficiently recovered from his illness on Tuesday to give in his speech before the house of com mons a mrr it 1 "s.,;. of the allies' positions. U. S. CROP REPORT Estimated Wheat Production Was 639,866,04)0 Bushels. Washington, Dec 15. The total es timated production of wheat in the United States during 1916 was 639. 866.000 bushels against 1.025.801.000 bushels for 1916 and 728,225,000 for a five-year average, the United States bureau of crop estimates reported to day. The total production of corn during the year was 2.683,241.000 bushels against 2,994.793.000 bushels for 1915 and 2,732,457,000 bushels s for a five year average. Total production of cotton during 1916, according to latest estimates, was 11,511,000 bales against 11.191, 820 In 1915 and 14.259,000 bales for a five-year average. The total production of winter wheat was 481,744.000 bushels, and of spring wheat 158,142.000 bushels. The total production of oats was 1,251,992,000 bushels against 1.549, 030,000 bushels for 1915 and 1,157. 961,000 bushels as a five year average. Total production of tame hay was 89,991,000 tons against 85.920.000 tons in 1916 and 66,234,000 for a five year average: of wild hay 19.795.000 tons against 21,343,000 tons for 1915. Total production of apples was 67,695,000 barrels against 76. 670.000 barrels in 1915 and 65,966,000 for a five year average. Total production of potatoes v.as 285.437.000 .bushels against 359.721. 000 bushels in 1915 and 360.772,000 for a five year average. TOPEKA J0INSB0YCQTT Restaurant Keepers to Take rp Ban on Serving Kggs. Kansas City, Mo., Dfc. 1 5. This city's egg boycott effective since Sun day, is to be extended to other Kan sas and Missouri cities, according to an announcement made hre today by A. B. Crader, secretary of the Kansas City Restaurant Men's association. St. Joseph, Topeka and St. Louis restau rant men are expected to follow Kan sas City's example in the next few days and put the ban on eggs, Crader said PREMIER IMPROVING Lloyd -George Much Bettei- To Re main Indoors Until Tuesday. London, Dec. 15. Premier Lloyd George was much better this morn ing. He has every expectation of be ing able to go before the house of commons on Tuesday. In the mean time he will remain indoors. STATE TREASURER TO MAKE TEST OF CIVIL SERVICE LAW He Appoints A. L. Whitcom Mght Guard in Office. Whitlow, Present Guard, Says He Will Not Quit Job. OLD SOLDIERS .IN THE FIGHT They Back Up Payne in His Stand Against Law. The Case Goes to Brewster for His Opinion. Provisions ofthe state civil serrte law are to be tested in the appoint ment of a night guard in the office of Walter L. Payne, state treasurer-eleet-Arrangements for a contest were mad today -when John Whitlow refused to surrender his place to A. L. Whit comb, appointed by Payne. Whitlow claim civil service exemption. Payne con tends that he cangive theplac to Whitcomb under the old soldier pref erence law. Following the dolarations by Whft low that he liked his job and the salary and would not evacuate, the case waj laid before S. M. Brewster, attorney general. If Brewster rules against Whitlow, he threatens- to contest. If he rules in favor of Whitelow. Civil war veterans and friends of Whitcorato will contest. Gnartls Arc Exempt? When the tte civil serri- mmmirainn made up a lint of office affrtel by The law, a Herb clialketl op the name of Whit low. He wi exempteta from removal br i ruling thnt giianlM nt state intitation were under the eivil enl.-p law. Put Payne, who provided a million and a fef dollar bond for the perforin a n-e of tit duties, wauta aoniethitig to ray to ti, men whom he will be associated witav U the office. Xeed "o Examiitaittoau 'The theory that a night vaaM h sleeps in his office is affeWed by -iH ser vice rule, is preposterous."' says Iyte. "I can't imagine the sort of an exaniiKartna that would be given for sn-b a pl-e. Mr appointment was in oltedience to tie Soldier preference act." Old soldiers today declare! their tnrw tion to contest Whitlow s place in the w treasurers office. They have for yexa looked ujHn the ptac as ne ord?.! m veteran and have prepared to take as act ive hand In the fight. ierral J'.rvwwtor. who is inveatlgatiug the ease, wlil prob ably make a ruling in a few dar. MARKETS CRASH! Wheat Tumbles 8 Cents on Chi cago Board. X. Y. Stocks Renew Liquidations. llea'x Chicago, Dec. 15. Within an bonr, losees had been widened to cent a bushel. May wheat fumbled t $1.56 on the closing out of account in which -margins had been swallowed db completely. As comparer with price a month ago. the market at this stae was down more than 45 cents a busna-i in the December delivery. Chicago, Dec. 15. Wheat crashed down In value today on account of peace reports. First sales showed a. fall in some cases of 8 cents a bosh el. May wheat touching 1 1. 5s as agaiost $I.6fl4 to 9l.6S at yester day's finish. Prices varied as mnrh as S cents at the same instant tn different parts of the pit. The opening range for Ma?, the chief trading option, spread all the way from 115 to $1.63. Waves) of selling accompanied the exciting break in values. What chiefly sent prices) whfrtrnsj downward was the statement author ized by the German embassy In Wash ington that one of the most important subjects for discussion at a peace par ley would be u: iversal disarmament. Peace Han Cat Wheal 14 Crwts. Besides the German embassy state ment referring to a limitation of arma ment, the smash in wheat prices ww due largely to yesterday and thm borning's break in the New Tori stock market. 'Jesterday's big de cline in New York came too lar to have much influence here oft til t day. The decline at t he oat eel trite j morning in wheat carried) prices down j about 1 cents a bushel since the pee offer came from Berlin. j 20.0OO l S. Meef for Starter. I New York. Dee. IS. Liauidaeinn of j special stocks was resume at today's i opening with further losses of 2 to 4 j points in shipping shares. Continental i Can. New York airbraxe, I'tah t"Pfr. 1 Lackawanna and International Paper. U. S. Steel was the center of tnrr-ft on its initial offerinsj of 23.ee shares; at 112 to 113 as aarainst yesterday's (final quotation of 11SS- Hails were again the chief sustaining feature with marked strengtn ;n Keading an! Southern railway. DAILIES RAISE PRICE High Cost of Material Omtpet papers to IKohlc Price. Erie. Pa.. Dec. 15. Bwaos of "f he increase in the cost of paper and o'Hr material. the Erie Times- and the Krto Herald, afternoon newspapers b--, announced today that the price of pa pers will be raised from 1 to i cents a i copy, effective January 1. ALLIES YIELD TO U. S. Decide to Orant Safe Condort to Irian AmliMador. London. Dec. 1. The entert'e powers have decided to rrant conduct to Count Tarnowski von Tmr now. recently appointed Autro-Hm-garian embassador to the United States. 4

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9 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1916 Gibbs Clothing Co. Save on Your Christmas Shopping and Buy Practical Gifts from Our Great December Clearance Sale. Buy Now While Assortment Is Good. At Savings of a Third and Half. life W W Buy Now Clearance of Men's Suits and Overcoats Hundreds of our choicest Suits and Over coats in this Clearance Sale at savings of and V2. All sizes, all models, all fabrics, at these clearance prices. 1S.50 Wool 1A All Wool S1B..10 All All $3.00 Suit, and Kuit. Rtid Wool Suit Suit, and Overcoat. Overt-out. A Overcout. Overcoat. $7.50 l$10.50l$12.50$14.75 Clearance in Men's Furnishings Men Mon' Men' Mer' Men' Men' Men' Men Men en $150 Union its 60c N'-cktien. .30c $1.00 Sweaters s SOf. Mitti 39c $1.0 Caim. 7."e ft 10c Cot. Gloves. 7c a 75c Cape 51k! a 2Tc Woo Hose 9c a $1.15 Overalls. $1 s $3 Corduroy .$1.98 Me. 's $8.50 Mack- inaws $6.50 Men's 15c Jersey Gloves 10c Men's $3.50 Wool Union Suits $2.48 Men's S.O0 Wool Union Suits $1.08 Men's Heavy Tick Mitts 15c Boys' $4.00 Mack- inuws $3.98 Clearance in Women's Bargain Department Vo:non's Cap and Scarf Sets 98c, $1.25. $1.48, $1.98 Women's and Children's Sample Gloves and Mit ten 1-3 OFF. 10c to 50c Children's 15c Black Hose. 10c Women's Sample HanJ Bags off Women's $1.00 Union Suits 79c Children's 85c Union I .t; 65c Women's CI. 00 Tennis Flannel Nigh. Gowns 79c Children's 5c Sleepers and Night Gowns. -48c Women's F". ?ce-lined B ac'.: Hose 15c Fancy Christ" is Hand kerchiefs ..iOc 15c Clearance in Women's, Men's, Children's Shoes M" nr Work and Press Shoes, all styles and mir.ru, $2.48 up to $3.48 Ladles Shoes newest styles ojl leathers and sizes, $1.98 up to $3.48 3oys and Clrls School Shoes $1.98 up to $2.48 Children s Shoes 69c up to $1.25 Clearance of Overshoes Rubbers Ladies' Overshoes I Men's Rubbers $1.25 to $2.48 I 98c to $1.10 Lading" Overshoes I Ladies' Rubbers 98c and $1.25 1 89c to 98c n Noti ice United Commercial Travelers TOPEKA COUNCIL NO. 42 Booster meeting1, Saturday evening-, December 16th. Grand Ju nior Counselor Sam'l C. Varner, jr., of Independence, Kan., will address the meeting. Be there to welcome him. Lunch and Smoker after the meeting. R. T. KREIPE, Sec'y. v 'A t$M llRN L I I'll1 V Hi A,.o..a.,rin,.m.... ft Mil ,1 Mb i i f V1 u35Jsr sssl; nm U Iff W 3 Phone- It ot -trtkm, W J nwchinr" but mu.icl mmumnt y, j whch pUtf. ny m.kcoldac record ttf"' 'i' W lj v xX Ssj You who want to nuke tlx animal v-' Jf liIT0''"80" wf ,-t 4,1 Xmas Specials Our Pure Mixed Candy, now on sale at 15c the ACr pound, 3 lbs rVC Assorted Chocolates, the heat in town, in handsome boxes, the .bib8sOt::..8.!'s:.&5!-...$l.00 You Can't Beat This. HUNDREDS OF KINDS IN FANCY XMAS BOXES We Appreciate Your Business New York Candy Co. 728 Kansas Ave. Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. T. H. BEACOM IS HERE Rock Inland Official Says Road Is in Prosperous Condition Now. T. H. Beacom, general manager of the second district of the Rock Island, with headquarters at El Reno, Okla., and Mrs. Beacom, are in Topeka today. They arrived from Kansas City last night. Mr. Beacom came to Topeka to at tend a meeting of the officials f the Union depot at Wichita, which had been called to meet here in the office of E. L. Copeland, secretary-treasurer of the Santa Fe. It was found this morning, however, that a quorum of the officials could not be secured, and it was necessary to postpone the meet ing, which will be held some time this month. The physiical condition of the Rock Island, Mr. Beacom thinks, is the best it has ever been. The road is gener ally prosperous, also. 'Times just now are good, and we took advantage of the boom by pre paring our road bed, and getting our equipment in shape last summer," he Bald. The first cold spell of the winter has hit the railroads pretty hard, espe cially In the northern part of the country, according to Mr. Beacom. The first snow is always the worst. After that the men are used to it, and we are ready for it," he said. FOUR IS WEATHER TOLL W. W. Kimball Co. Factory Branch Store and District Wholesale Office. 822 Kansas Avenue. Phone 3108. F. P. WHITMORE, Mgr. Cold Snaps Cable, Killing Three Min ers One Freezes to Death. St. Louis. Dee. 15. Andrew Roiin shy, 45 years old, froze to death last night within a few yards of where his Polish countrymen were holding' a peace celebration, according to police reports. Marquette, Mich., Dec. 15. Three men were Instantly killed and three others fatally injured when the snap ping or macninery aue to tne severe cold allowed a casre to drop from the surface to the bottom of the Holmes mine at Ishpeming. The men dropped 200 feet; CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears tK. I Signature of I I MIL J Z&T f'llr-' HIT a u V V Rjk J7W W nil ,nfvKr I t& j i Pay Later W J Jr Save 10 to 30 Per vent ouy i our Gifts on One Bill 50c Down or $1 a Week Will Do J The Great Christmas Reduction Sale NOW IN PROGRESS Gift Suggestions That May Appeal To You Belts for men, $3. Chains, vest, $2 to $8. Lavallieree, $2.50 to $300. Cameo Pins, $10 to $35. C arving Sets, $2 to $15. Chains, coat. $1.25 to $2.50. Chains, Waldemnr, $2 to $7. Chains, solid gold, $5 to $25. Bracelet Watches, $10 to $50. Beads, pearl and gold, S3 to $20. Baby Lockets and Chains, $2 to $5. Baby Bracelets, $1.50 to $2.50. Chain and Knife Sets, $2 to $5. Chain and Pencil Sets, $2 to $4. Gift Watches of Quality Chains, ladies', colld gold, $2 to $25. Cuff Buttons, solid gold, $1.50 to $20. Cameo Rings, $6.50 to $15.00. Chatelaine Pins, $2.50 to $5. Crosses, solid gold, $2 tor $15. Cloth Brushes, $1.15 to $4. Cameras, Seneca, $6 to $18. Chests, Silverware, $4 to $50. Diamond Kings, $10 to $500. Diamond Set Watches, $15 to $20. Diamond Set Scarf Pins, $4 to $25. Diamond Set Cuff Links, $10 to $50. Diamond Emblem Rings, $13 to $125. Diamond Brooches, $5 to $300. Vmbrellas, gold. $8.50 to $15. Kmblem Charms. $5 to $25. Emblem Buttons, 50c to $5. Emblem Rings, $4 to $125. Fobs, silk and gold, $2.50 to $T.50. Fruit Knives, $2 to $5.50. Fountain Pens, $1.50 to S3. French Ivory Toilet Sets, $2 to $25. Knives, solid gold, $4 to $8. Knives and Forks, seta, $4 to $30. Ladies' Watches. $10 to $TO. Manicure Sets, $1.50 to $15. Military Sets, $8.50 to $5. Meek Chains, $1.50 to $10. Shaving Sets, $3 to $7.50. Suit Cafes, $6 to $18.50. Watches, $3.50 to $110. Kings, set, $1.50 to $15. Guns, rifle. $8 to $20. Platinum Brooches, $117 to $270. Pearls, Necklaces, $5 to $12. Rings, signet, $2 to $15. Rings, plain band, $3 to $10. Rings, diamond, $10 to $500. Silverware, complete lines In 1847 and Community. Toilet Sets, $3 to $25. Travelers' Sets, $3.50 to $12.50. Elgin Waltham Hamilton Hampden and Illinois Watches 17-Jewel Elgin, $16.50 25-Y'ear Gold Case Here Is a watch for men that is without an equal at the price. 17 genuine Ruby Jewels. Regularly this watch sells for t25. Thin model. Just the kind you have been looking for. Guaranteed to ran within SO seconds a week. 60c Down and 50c a Week M Save You I! l 10 to 30 U 21-Jewel Elgin, $25.00 20-Year Gold Cass A watch any man would be pleased to own. 81 Daimond. Ruby and Sapphire Jewels, in gold settings, tlnely adjusted and one of the best in the Elgin factory. Get one today. $1.00 Down, $1.00 a Week $17.Elgin, $9.95 Her is "everyman's" watch. Thoroughly guaranteed a Thin Model. Genuine Elgin, fit ted in 25-year Gold case. At such bedrock prices, on Easy Terms, there's no reason why every person should not carry an accurate timepiece. 50c Down, 50c a Week DIAMOND RINGS g FOR CHRISTMAS 9 We place on sale about one hundred Fancy Diamond Rings for women. These Dia monds are pure white, perfectly cut, exceptionally brilliant, and mounted in hand made 14-kt. solid gold mountings. When you see these Rings you'll wonder how you have gone so long without a Diamond Ring when you can get such a wonderful bar gain as this for so little money, and that, too, on easy payments. It is a gift that any lady would be proud to wear. Come to Harris- Gear's and make your selection of either plain, engraved or fancy mounting. Easy Payments, $1 Down, $1 a Week Come Where Prices Are Down o5. l RES jf" A TT-h v 1UZ-1U4 ljUlS. 6th R. E. MARLING, Manager, Topeka Store YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD HERE OPEN EVENINGS $15.00 Installed TOrKU, KANSAS. 1-2 i I Special Demonstration All Day Saturday introducing the New Automobile Policeman The "Perry" Lock Steering Wheel "When locked it spins like a top." Safety First Locked with a "PERRY." Your car cannot be driven nor towed away by an unauthorized person. A Xmas Suggestion for Father Brother or Friend Motorist. ?i Leather Brief Cases I iiii.iMiHtriniinl An Ideal flit for a lawyer, teacher or any person who has occasion to carry pa pers to and from the office. We have them in a Kreat vari ety of styles, in cow hide, seal and wal rus, and at prices ranginx from $2.25 to $15.00. Open evenings until Xmas, commencing Saturday night. HOSSFELD TlirXK, BAG AND SVITCASK M Hi. CO. i Ave. S10. Kansas Ave. Phone 433

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL- FRIDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 15. 1916 SANTA FE BUSINESS Mope Than 144.0AO Cars of FrelEht Handled In Smrrmbor. The Panta Fe. in the month of No- temher. handled 144.162 cars of rev enue producing freight. That number includes the freight loaded directly onto Santa Ke cars, and turned over by other lines for ceiivery by the: Santa Fe. The 144.162 cars repre- I sent an increase of 2.1 94 carloads, or 1.54 per cent. In October of 1915. there were handled 141.D68 cars of freight. The greatrst sinsle item of freight h:-;iled in the month consisted of live st'ick. of which there were 14.451 ears. Coal came next, with 10.676. There were 9 cars of grain. 6.453 of lum b"r. and 8.580 of oil. Perishable freieht to the amount of 7,504 cars was handled, and miscellaneous mate rial to the amount of Sa.13 cars. The grain and lumber shipments for 1 ru 6 s-how decrease from the ship ment in the same month of 1915. In 1315 there were shipped 9.14iH cars of' trnin. aa against the 6.S62 in October! of 11: there were shipped 6.471 cara I of lumber in October of last year, as a-.-;iinl 6.45J of lumber in October of j 131. s lcimn nanilit Given 15 Years. Brownsville, Tex.. Dec. 15. Ramon Pizana. sentenced to fifteen years in pri.-n late yesterday for participation in the Mexican handit raids in this region last summer, is expected to ap- P";1 today. Quinino Cuajardo, charged with murder in connection with the rrvtls. va discharged because of in sufficient evidence. Kidney Disorder (Vty Dr. I C. Eabcock.) Simple methods are usually the moat effective ones when treating: a,ny di. r of the human system. Tn m re drinking of a cup of hot water each morninp, plenty of pure water all day. and a Httte Anuric before every meal has been fount! the irnwt effective mpans of overcoming kidney trouble. Death wouM occur if .ho ki-lneys did not work day and nli?ht ir IKir: ing poisons and uric acid from th- blood. The f'aner signals are backache, depressions, aches, pains, heaviness. drowsiness. irritability. headaches, chilli new, rheumatic twinges, swollen joint. sut. It irf uch a simple matter to sti into your favorite urut store and ob- tain Anuric. which was first discov ered ty Dr. lierce. of the Surgical In- 1 stitute, Huff-ilu. N". Y. Every druggist disensos it. All people tn America and especial- ly those who are past middle age are j prone to eat too much meat and in ctinnpfluencp deposit uric acid (uratic sn!"sj in their tissues and joints. Thy often suffer from twinges of rheuma fNm or lumbago, sf etimea from i pout, nwollen hnnd? or feet. Such -.pi are not always able to es-.i-ci.se; suffi ?iently the outdoor air in order to sweat freely and excrete impurities; thr ..e skin. Anuric will overcome suh corditinns as rheumatism, drop- sicul swellin', cold extremities, scald- s intr and burning urine and sleepless- j lies.s due to constant need of yetting j nut f led at niht. by carry in p off! the uric acid poison. Advertisement. 1 PAIN GONE! RUB SORE, RHEUMATIC ACHING JOINTS Rub pain away with a small trial bottle of old. penetrating "St. Jacob's Oil." Stop -.losing" Rheur? mism. us pain oniy; not one case in fifty retinites internal treatment. Hub soothing, penetrating t. Jacob's Oil" right on the tender spot." and by the time you say Ja'k Kobinson out conies the rheumatic pain and dis tress "St. Jacob's Oil" is a harmless rheumatism liniment which never dis appoints and doesn't burn the skin. It takes pain, soreness and stiffness from trhinf Joint. muscles tnd bones; stops sciatica, lumbago, back-&ch- and neuralgia. Limber up! Get a small trial bot tle of old-time, honest "St. Jacob's Oil" from any drug store, and in a moment, you'll be fr e from pains, aches and stiffness. Don't suffer' Rub rheumatism away. Advertise ment. STOMACH UPSET? Get at the Real Cause Take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets That's what thousands of stomach sufferers are doing now. Instead of taking tonics, or trying to patch up a poor digestion, they are attacking the real cause of the ailment clogged liver and disordered bowels. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets arouse the liver in a soothing, healing way. Vhen the liver and bowels are per forming their natural functions, away goes indigestion and stomach troubles. If you have a bad taste in your mouth, tongue coated, appetite poor, laiy. don't-care feeling, no ambition or enercry. troubled with undigested foods, you should take Olive Tablets, the sub stitute for calomel. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. You will know them by their olive color. They do the worjc without griping, cramps or pain. Take one or two at bedtime for quick relief, so you can eat what you like. At 10c and 25c per box. All druggist. NUXATED IRON: I n ttvnrth off tlrlirnte. ntTvoni. rna- ilnwii people 2urt .r 1 cent tn tn iIajs tn uihiij m si it npji. Sift forfeit if it faiis nt per fill I ex plu nation in larjre article hood to appear in this paper. Ask your doctor or dniirtrfif n hunt t Arnold lrti: Co.. Bniix MrtlB lnic Ck. ;o. V. Stunsfleid. A. C. Ktinsaiuau at mays cary It in atui:k. Snrcejssors to The Mills Dry GfKxls Co. aturday is 7K Serge skirts $1.00 formerly priced $5.00 A special lot of plaited and plain circular style Skirts of black, blue and brown serge, and wool eponge in plaids Only a limited tot so come early Skirt; formerly priced 15.00 on sale Dollar Day. as long CI OA as they last ?.VU THIRD FLOOR PELLETIEU'S Dollar Day Linens Bedd.ng Domestics 6.V Bleached Table Dam $1.00 ask two yards for. 6.V- Iresser Scscfs trimmed with met lace and finished with em broidered edges ollar $1.00 Day i for toe Towels: 20x40-inch hemetitch ed damask and woven end huck Dollar $1.00 Day for est- nieached Sheets: the 72xS0- inch size of extra good .$1.00 Quality Dollar Day 2 for $1.59 Fleeced Cotton Blankets: gray just one pair to a (Jl AA customer Dollar Day PA.W fl.So Cotton Batts: the full com fort size, weighing three $1.00 pounds Dollar Day. S9c Scotch Plaid Flannels for chil dren's dresses, for fi?" AA waists, etc yards" W MAIN" FLOOR PELLETIER'S Dollar Day S Ribbons Four fine-, bis lot of Ribbons: th kinds most in demand for Christ mas. Up ot 25c Ribbons; plain colors and fancies from 4 to S $1.00 inches wide. .7 yards Up to 5c Ribbon,; daintiest Dres dens from 4 to 5 inches CI Aft wide 4 yards ?A.UU Up to 85o Ribbons; plains and fancies in light and dark j" AA colors 3 yards V-.UU It) to Sl.OO Ribbons: wide Per- slans, stripes and plain ,$1.00 colors Dollar Day. 2 yds MAIN FLOOR PELLETIER'S Dollar Day 7 A rare galaxy of bargains in the basement .featuring many of the best values we've ever had the pleasure of offering Jor Dollar Day WOMEN'S HOrSE DRESSES; per cales and ginghams our special 7 9c Dollar Day 3 for $1.00 FLANNELETTE GOIVXS; full size, wide ones, soft and warm 11.50 v.-ilues CI AA Dollar Day CHILDREN'S tilRIX DliESSES of pretty ginghams and' percales; sizes 8 to 14 years regular BOc ones for $1-00 GIRLS' WOOL and part wool Dresses in pretty plaid patterns; sizes S to 14 years a small sam ple line on sale CJI AA Dollar Day HDKF-1. WOMEN'S HANDKER CHIEFS: plain white, colored borders and em broidered corner s slight "seconds" and samples of 10c onw on sale Dollar AA Day 15 Tor GIFT BOXES OF HANDK'FS: si regular 10c ones on special sale Dollar II AA Day 3 boxes V-.VV FOOTH EAR ALL WOMEN' S HOCSE SLIPPERS; fur-trimmed felt and satin Juliets, felt Everetts and ribbon trimmed felts with pad ded soles 11.25 and $1.50 values; choice yar $1.00 Dollar Day MARINELLO SHOP Mezzanine floor Underwear Cliildren's up to. $1.00 camel's hair wool Vesta and Pants CI Aft Dollar Day 4 for Women's $1.50 medium weight "Stretton" Union Suits of fine ribbed cotton; high neck. long sleeve, ankle length on $1.00 sale Dollar Day Women's extra size "Mnnslng" Cnion Suits; the low neck, sleeve less, ankle length style of me dium weight cotton; siaes 8 and 9 only on sale Dollar Day $1.00 Women's T'nion Suits of medium weight cotton; all styles on sale Dollar CI A A Day MAIN FLOOR- ...9 for -PELLETIER'S S Dollar Day Neckwear Net Uchu Collars, Georgette Col lars, organdy Collars, Collar-and-Cuft Bets any one of which would make a very dainty gift. Be sure to see this Neckwear at $1.00 Middy Ties and large Windsor Ties in navy black, cardinal and Em eraldextra good $1.00 values 2 for MAIS FLOOR PELLETIER'S Dollar Day Handk'fs Women's embroidered linen Hand kerchiefs; three in a fancy ft. .-..51.00 Women's sheer Shamrock lawn and pure linen Handkerchiefs brfor.a.... $1.00 Men's initial Handkerchiefs with colored borders; three colors Dox 2 boxes $1-00 Men's pure linen Handkerchiefs with colored initials; three col ors six in a box for MAIN FLOOR- $1.00 ER'S -PELLETIER'S Dollar Day Draperies Recular 35c Marqnisette; the 39 inch width, double thread weave, fully mercerized Dollar for yard, $1.00 Up to 50e jQretonncs; imported and domestic, from 31 "to 36 -lnche3 wide in a beautiful line fof de signs and colorings Dollar for5: yards $L00 35c to 60e Madras; cream and white, from 3ti to 45 inches wide; sheer and dainty on sale Dollar 1 AA Day 7 yards P.VJV Window Shades; 38 inches wide, and 7 feet long, made of slightly imperfect oil opaque s light "seconds" of 85c Win- ?t Aft dow Shades 3 for P-1"U FOURTH FLOOR PELLETIER'S Dollar Day Gloves Niagara Maid double Silk Gloves in white, navy, black C" AA and brown V1'"" Dollar Day All trimmed hats in the Bargain Basement $1.00 hats icorth up to $4.4.8 Your unrestricted choice of the entire 6tock; large hats and small hats, black hats and colored hats hats worth up to $4.48 Dollar Day every Trimmed Hat in the Easement will be on l fjft sale in one great lot at pJLUU MILLINERY SECTION PELLETIER'S BARGAIN UASEMtNT. WOMEN'S SHOES; lace style of patent with plain toee. cloth tops and Cu ban heels rare bar- at.'"3.' $100 WOMEN'S RUBBERS; strictly first quality; low or storm cut for high or low heels regular 65e ones Dollar f AA Day S pairs MEN'S MEN'S SHIRTS; both soft and laundered styles; some a bit soiled our "special" 69c and 79c Shirts priced for FOrit-IN'-HAVDS; the wide end style in good patterns and colors; each one in a Christmas box up to 50c values on sale Dollar Day S for M K N S HANDKER CHIEFS; fine and soft; plain or with initials up to 12 He ones special ly priced for Dollar it. 13 for SOCKS; close knit cot ton that will stand lots of hard wear; black and colors on sale Dollar $1.00 Day at 19 pairs 3 for MEN'S SWEATERS; heavy, warm, coat style; samples and some slight lv soiled up to f f AA SS values, choice PA'" FIFRE STLK SOCKS; fine black ones six pairs in a pretty holly fb0rx... $1.00 BARGAIN BASEMENT rELLIETEB'S See Saturday's Dollar Day The biggest, the best and the most helpful Dollar Day of the -whole year. The most helpful because it offers great lots of Christmas gift things at ?1.00 and standard, staple, bread-and-butter merchandise of all kin ds at radical reductions f rorrr the regular price3. So no matter what you want whether it be things to give, things to wear or things for the home come to Pelletier's Saturday and share in the savings! Come in the morning if possible Dollar Day Santa Fe pay day, the last Saturday, but one, before Christmas it's going to be far and away the biggest day of the year! And we're ready, splendidly ready with bountiful stocks in every section and plenty of court eous, obliging salespeople to serve you quickly and well. In the morning the aisles and elevators will not be so crowded, and stocks and displays will be in perfect order. An hour in the morning, especially Saturday morning, will be worth two in the afternoon. No 'phone or mail xxrders filled for $-Dollar Day-$ items Only 7 more shopping days! m All children's hats $1.00 values to $3.45 Pretty little Hats of plush, vel vet and corduroy, attractively trimmed Hats worth up to J3.45. Dollar Day all Children's Hats will be on sale in one big lot at $1.00 THIRD FLOOR PELLETIER'S S Dollar Day Brassieres Cp to S1.50 Brassieres elaborately trimmed -with dainty laces and" 5 embroideries specially priced Say1"?1!".. i'. SLOXr 59c Camisoles of flesh color WiU o the Wisp silk with lace yoke and ribbon shoulder straps on sale Dollar Q1 A A Day. .2 for Dollar Day-

Litth Tots' Little tots $t.25 to 92.50 Rati, Ilohcs of "Beacon" cloth, eider down and flannelette trimmed with satin your choice Q"! AA Cellar Day rA.UU Little tots $1.23 Sweater Coats of gray worsted with high turned over collars and patch C" AA pockets Dollar Day... ?A,UU SECOND FLOOR PKLLETIER S Dollar Day UNDERWEAR W OMEN'S UNION SUITS; medium weight, lightly fleeced; sizes 36 and 38. only 1 AA on sale 3 for 'l,A,uu WOMEN'S HOSE: fast black cotton with dou ble heels and toes our "special" 19c ones on sale Dollar ttt AA Dav 6 pairs V-l.UU CHILDREN'S UNION SCITS: medium weight of natural eolor cotton; sizes up to 14 vears a0tneSa.le..4 for 51-00 TOWEL5 BIO BATH TOWELS, slightly defective, other wise they would be 50c each Dollar CI A A Day 4 for ?A'VU BLANKET FULL-SIZE COTTON BLANKETS; heavy, warm ones in gray or tan on sale igl AA Dollar Day tP-L.UU BABY BLANKETS; soft and warm; Teddy Bears, cats, dogs. etc. our regular Sc ones 01 AA Dollar Day a for V-.W .YARD GOODS PART-WOOL SUIT INGS; good. heavy weight in plain colors.' stripes, checks and mix tures up to 50c values Dollar CI Aft Day 4 vards pA" COMFORT COVER INGS; yard wide, in pretty floral patterns the usual 124c quality on sale CI A A $1.00 $1.00 at. yards Journal for after-supper Specials Charge it Saturday pay in Feb. Charge purchases made from now on, need not be paid for until February. Open a charge account and take full advantage of this liberal pay-in-February offer. See the credit man. OFFICE SECOND FLOOR Dollar Day SILKS 1 .23 Satln-strlpe Tub Silks. 32 Inches wide; for waists and men's shirts Dollar Day, j1 A A per yard ?1.UU Cp to $1.00 Silks; Sertres. Satins, Foulards, etc.; good line of colors on CI AA sale. 2 yards lp to 63c Silks; Shantungs. Meesi- Itn ;s. Banzais. etc. 1 (Ml Opollar Day. S yards 2 7 -inch white Habutai a nice, very low smooth weave at price Dollar $1.00 Day S yards Sfl-lnch Satin Habutai in white and flesh coloi for blouses, cami soles and underwear ffl AA very special at. $1.25 and Sl.SO Silk -and-Wool Poplm in black and a very good line of the most wanted AA colors Dollar Day V Dress Goods 50c All-Woo! Cli Ulles In the dainti est of Dresden CI AA design 3 yards All-wool Nnns Velllna that is worth 75c a yard today; fair 1 llil line of colors. yards SB-inch Tartan Plaiilw in bright dresses. colors: for children's blouses, and the lit si nn TUTllar Dav yards v MAIS FLOOR PELLETIEK S Dollar Day Toilet Goods 50c Pebeco Tooth Paste. 3 for $1.00 10c Bocabelli pure Castile Soap 14 cakes 1.0O 25c Woodbury's Soap.. 5 for Sl.OO 25e Cuticura Soap 5 for $1.00 11.10 Djer Kiss ToiKt Water.. Sl.OO 50c LaBlache Powder. 3 for Sl.OO Fountain Syringes and Hot Water Bottles 11.25 values Sl.OO MAIN FLOOK-1'KLLETIF.K'S Slippers $1.00 for men Men's Opera style Slippers of tan kid with patent quarters, C"! AA round toes and flat heels. P for women Women's felt Juliets: black, gray r brown with plush trimmings, soft beltinB leather soles CI AA ind flat heels.... ?X.UU for children Children's red felt Juliets with black fur trimming and fiat CI Aft heels; sizes 4 to 13 Picture "Corafles" of navy or red felt with soft, wool-padded soles, sizes 4 to 12....... $1.00 SECOND FLOOR PEIXETIEK S 1 S Dollar Day Dollar Day THE on the best Morning hours are the best! Self filling fountain pens $1.00 The latest im proved screw cap style that can be carried fiat in one's hand bap. upsidedown o r any other way. They have good size, eolid g"old pens with genuine (iridium po i n t a and are easily and quickly filled aa pictured. Each one is complete with a clip and somes in a box self-filling, safety Fountain Pens. the equal of which we have never- seen offered before at the $1.00 very low price of. MAIN FLOOR PELLETIER'S Dollar Day Laces Trimmings Si. 75 to $3.00 silk-anil-cotton All Over Laces, 40 inches wide; the prettiest of patterns in white and ecru on sale Dollar tf AA Day, per yard V1'"" $1.25 to $1.65 Metal Laces, 2 to 5 inches wide; for collars, for trimming hats, and the ffi AA like Dollar Day X.UU $1.35 and $1.63 Coney Fur Band in;r; black. and brown-and- "tr0?!1" $1.00 Velvet and Silk Roses for corsages ana lor trimming party dresses; rea, rose ana pin very special $1.00 MAIN FLOOR PELLETIER'S Dollar Day P1 Santa Claus will be in Toy!and All Day ready and waiting to greet good little girls and boys, to hear what they want him to "bring" them for Christmas and to show them- the thousand and one Dolls and Toys he has ready here in Toy land for them to see and decide on. $2.00 to $2.50 Toilet sets $1.00 A sample line of $2.00 to $2.50 Toilet and Traveling Sets which we have been selling at $1.49 and $l.S your choice Dollar 1 AA Day. BASEMENT PELLETIER'S 75c Jointed Italia with lirTht or dark hair and sleeping eyes Dollar Day.. 4 for $1.00 Prrswod Dolls with Ions curls and closing eyes; dress, hat. shoes and stockings on sale AA Dollar Day 4 for V1"" Doll Swinjrs; bijj. wooden lawn S wines with two seats and canopy top for. $1.00 $1.19 Folding Doll Boggles; metal frame, wire wheels and imitation leather seat and back Dollar Day for. $1.00 $1.25 and SI. O Toddy Bears: fine bit? ones with movable heads. arms and legs $1.00 for. Boys Tool Chests: oak chests full of real tools that a fella $1.00 can use American Flyer Trains; engine, coal car and two passenger coacnes, complete with track: engine guaranteed for six months..... $1.00 GIFT SHOP the ind floor Satisfaction money one of the y eaE China. Glass and Housewares SOAP COMBINATION II bars of Ben Hur Soap, 12 cans of Light house Cleaner and a package of Gold Dust a regular $1.35 com- ban $1.00 TOILET PAPER Regular 10c. 1000-sheet rolls of "Jefferson" high grade Toilet Paper. 01 AA Dollar Day 14 rolls P--"V Tea servlee sets; a 10xl-inch ma hogany Serving Tray and half a dozen decorated Japanese Tea Cups and Saucers regular $1.73 sets Dollar Day (J QQ S1.50 Near-Cut a-lam Handled Bas kets; the Tx-inch size tl A A Dollar Day for .pA.VVJ $1.75 Hand-painted. Japanese china Sugars and Creamers on SS.Tf $1.00 Cp to $1.75 Smoker's Stands; 24 ana ZS inches Bign. in manogany finish with glass tray: Dollar Day for $1.00 Vp to $1.75 Near-Cut glass Berry Howls; tn ana s-incn size. with and without feet Dollar Day. $1.00 24-piece Service Sets; six gold-and-white American china Dinner 'Plates, six Cups and Saucers and six. 8-ox. size, grape etched glass Tumblers regular ffl AA 11.80 sets for l.UU Oil Mop sets; a chemical oil Mop. an oil Mop and a bottle of oil regular J1.75 seta SI AA Dollar Day for $1.50 Casseroles; the full No. 8 size, fire-proof, brown-and-whlte Casserole in a nickel plated frame with wooden handles- Dollar Day for. $1.00 FOURTH FLOOR PELLETIER'S Dollar Day Art Needlework 65e Finished Pieces Dresser Scarfs with Pin Cushion Covers to match; white finished with light blue, yellow or rose cro cheted edge. Linen color Dress er Scarfs embroidered in blue, brown and green. White, linen finished Dresser Scarfs, neatly embroidered regular 65c values Dollar 1 AA Day. for S5c Stamped Pieces requiring but very little work to finish: Vanity Cases, Soap Cases. Pin Cushions. Bags of all kinds. Handkerchiefs and Glove Cases on sale Dol lar ill AA Day. .6 for 25c Stamped Turkish Towels that reouire but very litle work to finish on sale Dollar $1.00 Day 6 for Gift Shop 65c Solid Mahogany Can dle Stick two for..i. 50c Candle Sticks with shades three for...... 50c Christmas Baskets of Holly three fur 25c Small Cushions and Baskets six for. $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 SECOND FLOOR PELLETIER'S Dollar Day Joylarvd A table of Mechanical Toys; Autos, Kire Engines, Jitney Busses. Spinning Tops, and the like your choice $1.00 Battleship that blow np when hit with dart from the cannon: then you put them together and start all over again big "1 A A values at $J..UU Candy 1 -pound boxes of the choco lates and bon bona that most stores sell for 6o a pound here Dollar CI AA Day .4 hoses Our 3c Chocolates; fresh and delicious. on sale C "1 AA Dollar Day. .2 pounds p V"-' BASEMEXT PELLETIER'S TOYLAND IS AT PELLETIER'S IN THE BASEMENT. or your back Silk Hose H $1.00 1 $1.25 and $1.50 oneh and Christmas only a week awayt, Some an of pur silk from hem to toe and some have lisle garta tops and lisle reinforced feet: white and black, only Commencing with the opening ot the store at 8:30 Saturday morninrr and continuing as long as they last, these regular $1.25 and 1 Silk. Hose will be on (El Aft sale. 35c Hose- -4Pr.$ioo Wayne Knit" blaclr Women's cotton and llsls Hose regular le ones priced for Dollar $1 AA Day 4 pair MAIN FLOOR PELLETIER'S Dollar Day Little boys suits $1.00 formerly $3 and $5.00 This is 3 fast color. cpecial lot of strictly all-wool serge Suits for little boys: Russian style in sizes 2H. 4 and 5 years in red and brown regular $5.00 values on t1 AA sale Dollar Day 1.UU Blouse style Suits of blue and brown serge in sizes and 10 years regular 3.00 and 15 00 1 Qf) values on sale Dollar Day."r-,'vv -other bargains St.aO Flannel Shirts; sizes 12 to 14 neck, tn blue and gray CI AA Dollar Day X.UVJ U1 IJno-1 Trousers: blue sre mi tan. arav ana orown mix tures in sizes to 17 years Dollar Day $1.00 59c Kaynee and Bell Blouses la plain white, tan and blue, and light striped patterns: siaes to 14 years on sale Dollar $1.00 Day 'or $1.95 Gray Sweater Coats with big shawl collars and patch pockets: sizes 8 to 15 years on 1 AA sals Dollar Day v 29c Silk Four-ln-Hand Ties, hand some patterns and color- Cl flf) gsDoUar Day.. for Our o Blouses In light and ark colors; made with full yokes, open cuffs and high collars: stsea 6 to 12 years on sals $1.00 Dollar Day t or 'VV SECOND FLOOR PELLETIER'S. Dollar Day- Men's boys' Ice skates $1.00 Ice Skates with carbon steel runners. By means of adjust able clamps the same skates will fit small boys or full grown men Dollar Day. $1.00 BASEMENT PELLETIER'S $1.1 I xk-o motives and Coal Cara; big red ones, trimmed in goid: heary enough to stand Cf AA lots of play Dollar Day PA.VV Electric Train. and Track; engine, coal car and I jsenger coach, and a track; -uns from C AA two dry cells f1'"" Passenger Trains to be pulled around over the floor; engine. coal car and three coaches. brightly painted. $1.00 Sl.SO Boy Scout and Soldier Sets; hat. breast plate, gun. hatchet. etc. on special sale 1 AA Dollar Day. Bis; Sleds: long enough for two: low runners. 11 braced, two hand hold: rr? $i-oo Values at Steam Ksisrines; good ones, com plete with alcohol lamp, fljl AA whistle and steam rtuge.v-"" Erector Motor: runs from dry cells or Edison current, with reducer. Most stores ask 'Sl.SO our price $1.00

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALFRIDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 15. 1916 rprba tate Journal An Independent Newspaper. B PRANK P MAC l.KXNAN. jiltrml JnIT 1. IXTR. as second-class nutter at tli i oa'offl.-e at Topeka. Kau.. at!'lr ttie act of rongreasl VOLUME XXXVIII. .No. 300 -il state Paper. orrietitl Paper City of Topeka. TKHM8 OF SntSCKIVTION. Iillv edition, delivered by carrier 10 rents a week to any part of Topekn or Kuhu rt or at the same price In any an town hre the paper uas sKtem Bv mnil. one vesr Bv m-iil. pIt months K. mail 1M calendar days carrier $3W i n 1.00 Private hrami ichange. ask the state Journal operator for peraon or rtenartnienf desired. tlJ. eon Rn2 Topeka Btnte Journal bnllrtlns ."0 ra and M14 Kansas avenue. ElfhVt,nni. New Tnrk Office. SOO Fifth avenn-j. Paul Rto-k. manager. ,,t pnl Chlcaro Office. Mailers building. Paul Block manager. rni Detroit Offi.-e. Kreage building. Paul Block, manager. B0.. o"'- ft Devonahlre street I'Hiii Block mannger. FULL I.KASKD WIRF. REPORT OF THE ASSOC1ATFD PRFSS The State Journal mBmtwr of the annodated Presa and receives the mil oay tVlesVarb report of that great news or lVfi?nn. for the exclualve afternoon P The r,w. la received in The S te JMnml but line over wires for this sole purpose. MKMUKIt: Associated Press. v,,, of circulation. American Newspaper Association. nblkhers' A MESSENGKR OF PKACE. No more fitting time could have been chosen for the visit of Former President William H. Taft. head of the American 'branch of the League to Enforce Feace, than the present. He comes to Topeka today for the pur pose of laying the foundation for a branch of the league in Kansas. The time Is propitious, coming as it does, when the attention of the world Is directed toward Germany's proposal to end the European war and at the sea son, when the sentiment of "Peace on Earth; good will to men" is uppermost in the minds of all. There can be no doubt." says the Minneapolis Tribune, "that the move ment for a peace league is now strid ing along with seven league boots. Only a few months ago, it was tim orous and apologetic, but of late it has undergone a marked change of attitude. Its bearing has a confidence and a virility at present which can be explained on no other hypothesis than that of continuously successful recep tions- Everywhere, people are turning to It with enthusiasm. The original apostles of the creed are speaking dally to larger and more sympathetic audiences. Lord Bryce has already Interested an immense following in the cause. Lord Grey, not long ago, an nounced himself a convert to the idea. President Wilson has several times in dorsed it with unmistakable emphasis. Mr. Taft has persistently lent his voice to the movement. And most sur prising of all the Imperial Chancellor of Germany, Bethmann-Hollweg, has recently confessed that he, too, had embraced the new faith. Thus we fincl j representatives of the three great camps into which the world is now divided agreed that the peace league j must come." Behind the activities of the League to EnfQrce peace, behind the com mendations of its purpose from states men of the nations now at war, is the feeling that civilization must never again be threatened by such an up heaval as the world Is now witnessing. With the 'establishment of a League to nforce Peace, a system of living International law interpreted by an In ternational court and supported by International force would be possible And Just as it is no longer necessary In "civilized communities for each citisen to be his own protector, that duty being left to tho power of public sentiment and the police, so the day would come when national armaments could be reduced and the peace of the world be placed in the custody of thfr international police force, to which all nations would contribute. The League to Enforce Peace, Anferican Branch, is an organization created to advocate an international alliance that will have the power to prevent some wars. It concedes that no human agency cart prevent all wars, any more than a police force, however efficient, can suppress all crime. The League to Enforce Peace was organized in Independence Hall, Phil adelphia. June 17, 1915. Its objects are, set forth in the following pro postals: We believe it to be desirable for the United States to join a league of nations bind in the sipnittories to the following: Ft rut All JuHticlable questions arising between the signatory powers, not settled by aegotlatioii, Khali, subject to the limita tiooa of treaties, be submitted to a judicial tribunal for bearing and Ju dement, both upon the merits mv upon any issue as to its Jurisdiction of the question. Second All othtr questions arising be tween the signatories and not settled by negotiation, shall be submitted to a coun cil of conciliation for hearing, consider:, tlon and recommendation. Tfaird The signatory powers shall joint ly u forthwith both their economic and military forces against any oue of their number that goes to war. or commits acts of bostli.ty, against another of the sign atories before huj question arising shall be submitted as provided in the foregoing The following interpretation of Article 3 ha been authorized by the executive com mittee: "'4'he signatory powers shall jointly ne, forthwith, their economic forces against a i) of their number that refuses to sub mtt any question which arises to an in ternational judicial tribunal ox council of conciliation before issuing an ultimatum or threatening war. They shall follow this v tu 4nln use f their military forces agaioat that nation If it actually proceed to make war or invades another's terri tory." Fourth Conferences between the sign atory powers shall be held from time to time to formulate and codify rules of in ternational law. which, unless some sign atory shall signify its dexsent within u stated period, shall thereafter govern in the decisions of the Judicial Tribunal men tioned in Article 1. TAFT-PEACE (Continued from Page One.) am not speaking of ending this war. The league must Keep clear or that. 'But for a moment 1 want you to look at the horrors of that conflict in which fourteen nations with their 1 00 million people, are in conflict. That represents two-thirds of the population of the world. And the loss in that war has been so terrible that the average is 25,000 men killed, wounded or taken prisoners every day." War Is To (io On. Then Kddy predicted that the war would go on. He based his prediction on the assertions of men on the in side of conditions. That war will go on," ventured the speaker. "I found able men on the Inside who expect the war to continue two years more. They told me they want America to take a part and end it. "Forty million men have been called to the colors in Europe twice the to tal number of men called in all the wars of the world in the previous 125 years. I predict that by next spring five and a half millions of men will have been killed. "The cost of twenty big wars pre ceding the one in Europe was $26,000,- 000,000. In one year the cost of the war in Europe was $40,000,000,000. That war is costing $100,000,000 a day right now. or $100,000 a minute. In one day on the Somme front Great Britain used ammunition equal to its combined output of ten months- at the oeginning or this war. Cabinet members in Europe told me that America is the only country that can draw them together in peace. I Our wealth is the greatest in the world our war profits alone have been i two and a half billions." j America Has Been Stingy. Then Eddy told Kansans that Amer- 1 ica has been stingy. "We have not given one-fiftieth of that war profit to suffering nations," said Eddy. "We are behind all others in giving. We gave Belgium $8,000. 000. But we made $40,000,000 from Belgium during this war. "Two courses are open to us. We may stand in open, selfish isolation. Or we may back the league and free the nations from this curse of war." By unanimous vote Kansans got be hind the league to enforce peace. A permanent Kansas organization was formed. A committee on permanent organization composed of Stephen H. Allen, Topeka; Frank P. MacLennan, Topeka; William Allen White. Em poria Chancellor Frank Strong. Lawrence; John S. Dean, Topeka; Charles F. Scott, lola; E. W. Hoch; Marion; P. W. Goebel. Kansas City; and Henry J. Allen, Wichita, reported the following plan of organization: Plans of Organization. Tour committee on permanent or ganization and resolution begs leave to submit the following report. We cordially endorse the plan of organi zation and activity embraced in the resolution offered by Judge Stephen H. Allen'and we recommend for elec tion of the Kansas State branch of the League to Enforce Peace the follow ing: State chairman: Governor Arthur Capper, Topeka. Chairman of state executive com mittee Walter R. Stubbs, Law rence. Vice chairman of state executive committee: P. W. Goebel, Kansas City, Kan. Treasurer: Scott Hopkins. Topeka. General secretary: J. Will Kelley, Topeka. Chairman of ways and means com mittee: C. B. Merriam. Topeka. Vice chairman of ways and means committee: C. W. Green, Kansas City, Kan. Chairman of committee on public ity: Frank P. MacLennan, Topeka. Vice chairman or committee on publicity: William Allen White, Em poria. Chairman of state field committee: J. N. Dolley. Topeka. Vice chairman of state field com mittee: W. W. Webb, Topeka. Members of Committee. Your committee further recom mend that among the large number of representative citizens of Kansas, who should be appointed and who should serve as members of the state exec utive committee, that the following be elected by this convention to member ship on said committee and are earn estly requested to lend their active and enthusiastic support and co operation in this the greatest move ment in the history or twentietn cen tury statemanship. The elective officers: Kx-Governor E. W. Hoch, of Marion; Ex-Governor George H. Hodges, of Olathe. United States Senator Charles Curtis; United States Senator W. H. Thompson; Judge J. C. Ruppenthal, of Russell; Hon. Vic tor Murdock, of Wichita; Mrs. H. O. Garvey, of Topeka; Mrs, W. J. Bailey, of Atchison: Hon. Charles F. Scott, of lola; Chancellor Frank Strong, of Lawrence; Dr. Henry J. Waters, of Manhattan; Chief Justice W. A. John ston, of Topeka; Hon. Henry J. Allen, of Wichita; Mr. Maurice McAuliffe, of Salina; Mr. J. L. Sheppard, of Ft. Scott; Hon. A. M. Keane, of Ft. Scott; Lieut. Gov. W. Y. Morgan, of Hutchin son; Mrs. Winifred Breskey, of Bur lington; Mrs. Eva Morley Murphy, of Goodland; Hon. W. C. Lansd jn, of Sa lina; Hon. Fred Stanley, of Wichita; Hon. W. F. Sapp, of Galena; Mr. Alex Howatt, of Pittsburg; Judge Stephen H. Allen, of Topeka; Mr. Geo. E. Blakely, of Emporia; Rev. Dr. Chas. M. Sheldon, of Topeka; Bishop Shep ard. of Wichita; Father F. M. Hayden. of Topeka; Mrs. Lillian Mitchner, of Beloit; Col. W. D. Metcalf, of Law rence; Mayor J. E. House, of Topeka; Mr. A. A. Hyde, of Wichita;- Mrs. Mar garet Hill McCarter, of Topeka; Mrs. A. Marburg, of Topeka, and Mr3. Lilla Day Monroe, of Topeka. Offer Resolutions. Your committee further recom mends the adoption of the following resolution Be it resolved, that the Kansas State Branch of the League to Enforce Feace in convention assembled," ex presses its cordial appreciation f the visit of the president of the American Branch of the League, the Honorable William Howard Taft, and to Mr. George Sherwood Eddy and its thanks for the able and admirable addresses delivered by each. And further that the thanks and appreciation of the Kansas State Branch be also expressed to the Tope ka Chamber of Commerce and its pub lic spirited officers and membership for their enthusiastic co-operation in the entertainment of our distinguished truest and for its efficient arranure- ments of the preliminary details for this meeting. Judge Stephen H. Allen offered 'the following resolutions which were adopted: Be it resolved by this convention of Kansas citizens in mass meeting as sembled; That we are in hearty sym pathy with the program of the League to Enforce Peace, the practicability of which we endorse, and we pledge our enthusiastic co-operation and ac tive support of the plan of campaign, suggested by the American Branch, to the Kansas State Branch which is formally organized in the manner hereinafter stated. Be it further resolved that we Cor dially approve the appointment, of Governor Arthur Capper as temporary chairman of the Kansas State Branch. ttt it further resolved. That there shall be formed a Kansas state com mittee, composed of one representa tive citizen of each county in the state of Kansas, that the members of this committee shall be ex-offlcio chairmen for their respective coun ties an1 they are hereby empowered and directed to form a county com mittee within their respective coun ties. Said county committees shall be formed by appointment by the coun ty chairman of one representative citizen from each voting precinct in the county and the county chairman shall organize a county executive com mittee of such number of resident citi zens at large as may be deemed nec essary. The county organizations shall have the co-operation and ad vice of the state organization and each shall be expected to campaign with public speaking the various sections of the county, explaining the program of the league and enrolling member ship in approval thereof. Honorar Vice Chairmen. Be it further resolved, That this convention shall elect a permanent state chairman and that such chair man shall be directed to forthwith proceed with the appointment and or ganization of the .state committee and said state chairman is authorized, if in his judgment desirable, to appoint such number of honorary vice chair men thruout the state as he may see proper. Be it further resolved, that there shall be elected by this convention a chairman of a state executive com mittee, who shall be empowered and directed to form a state executive committee of such number as may be desirable and that this convention shall also elect a vice chairman of said state executive committee, who shall have authority concurrent with the chairman to appoint members to said committee. The chairman of said executive committee shall designate one member of the committee from each congressional district as the chairman of a district committee, which committee shall be composed of the respective county chairmen within the congressional district. The state executive committee and its sub-committee shall have immediate super vision and be charged with the duty of co-operating with the various county chairmen in seeing that county organ izations are properly formed and active in campaigning and member ship enrollment. The district commit tees are also charged to co-operate with the county organizations in their work of organization, campaigning and the enrollment of membership. The state executive committee shall have, in addition to auch other and futher committees as it may deem necessary from time to time, the following standing committees: Standing Committees. A committee on ways and means, which shall give attention to financing the work of the state and countv or ganizations and aid in supporting the American branch. A committee on publicity, which shall supervise the preparation of matter and the obtaining of publicity and co-operation from the daily and weekly press of the state. A state field committee. This shall be the sub-committee charged with the active supervision of the forma tion of county organization, co-operating with them in campaigning the various counties of the state and se curing prominent and influential men of state-wide and national prominence to deliver speeches to meetings held In all the important centers of the state. Be it further resolved that this con vention before its adjournment shall elect the following permanent offices: A state chairman. The chairman of the state executive committee. The vice chairman of the state ex ecutive committee. A treasurer. A general secretary. The chairman of the ways and means committee. The vice chairman of the ways and means committee. The chairman of the committee on publicity. The vice chairman of the commit tee on publicity. The chairman of the state field committee. The vice chairman of the state field committee. Be it further resolved that the man aging committee of the Kansas state branch shall consist of the state chair man, the chairman and the vice chair man of the state executive committee, the ways and means committee, the committee on publicity, the state field committee, the treasurer and the gen eral secretary. Employ Executive Secretary. Be It further resolved taht the man aging committee is hereby authorized to employ an efficient man. who shall devote his whole time to the active and vigorous promotion of the activ ities cf the Kansas state branch: that such man shall have the-title of exec utive secretary and shall be paid from the funds of the state organization such compensation as may be agreed upon by the committee. The executive secretary shall work in close co-opera tion and harmony with all the com mittees and 'county organizations and shall file monthly reports of his ac tivity and the progress of the cam paign with the general secretary, and he slfall refer carbon copies of the same to tho members of the manag ing committee and to the executive secretary for the southwestern district of the American branch at Kansas City, Mo. Be it further resolved that the chairman and vice chairman of the committees specifically mentioned are hereby authorized and directed to form said committees, by appointment of such number of members as in their judgment is desirable. The chairman and vice chairman in each instance, having concurrent authority. Be it further resolved that the state chairman is hereby authorized to fill vacancies in any of the offices to which election may have been made by this convention. Be it further resolved that the chair be authorized to appoint immediately a committee of seven on permanent organization and resolutions. Taft at Lawrence. Preceding his two speeches in To peka, the former president talked twentv minutes this morning to Kan- sas university students at Lawrence. His train arrived in Topeka fifteen minutes behind schedule. Leaving St. Louis Thursday night. the Taft party was assigred a private The.UveuseASt The party used the car on the trip to Topeka and will use it on the trip to Kansas ijity lute tnis arternoon. Su- perintendent Brooks of the Missouri Pacific came to Tonpkft -with Vm f party. In the party with the former president were also: C. E. Aiichemer, executive committee of the league to Enforce Peace; W. J. Boyd, Jr., and George Sherwood Eddy. A delegation of prominent Topekans j It is probable the public utilities will met the Taft party at the Santa Fe de-j grant a new "temporary" gas rate pot. At the personal request of Mr. pending final negotiations for the sale Taft. the party visited Memorial hall, of the Kansas Natural Gas company to While president of the United States, the Doherty interest?. While the new Mr. Taft laid the cornerstone for the (rate will in a large measure be a con half million dollar all in 1910. .1 cession by the state commission that Michemer Pleads for Funds. Charles Michemer, of New Tork, pleaded for funds with which to carry on the work of the league. Michetner's speech held out a warning to the United States against probable adop tion of a strong military program un less action was taken regarding the peace plan. cnange m mic "Unless we do something, there is be in force Pending another investiga nothing in the world that can keep tion of gas conditions. The serial the. United States out of a military number of the new investigation is not program." said Michemer. "This is known. the first meeting of the league west of After plans had been announced for the Missouri river. I want you, every i the sale of the Kansas Natural Gas one of you, to carry this message to company to the Doherty interests, your home. I want you to preach the members of the commission an word in your country towns, in your flounced that the purchasers would schools, in your churches. If you take over the Property in compliance don't, we can never succeed. I with the 28-cent gas rate order. When "We have come to a time of la- Doherty representatives read the an tional opportunity. We have come to nouncement, they balked. They ln a national crisis. We must show the sisted on a rate equal to the one paid world we can lead in this movement. ne Kansas Natural and refused to We must t,i-ov m th wnriH wo feonclude the purchase under the old the Christian nation we claim. You must show to the nation thct Kansas is with the government in this move- j ment. Taft at Kansas City. Kansas City, Iec. 15. Former President Win. Howard Taft, beau of the American branch of the Lengrue to Enforce Peace, was expected to arrive in Kansaa City this Afternoon for an mUtwaa Ltfnr. llio locnl organization of the leaifiie at a dinner to- night. Mr. Taft will use for bis subject, "Our t'rogram: Is It Practical?" On the program with him is leorge Sherwood Eddy, an international offh-er of the Y. M. C A., recently returned from European war fronts, who will- speak on l ne war: Its l hnllenge to America. A reception will be tendered the former president before he delivers his address in making the 28-cent rate... Yet at and the Vale Alumni association has torneys who are in touch with the case plnntred to greet linn in numbers and with deciare that the "temporary" rate is much collegiate enthusiasm. Mr. Taft oc- enptes the chair of international law at he nex.t b!s "ove in the Ras case' 11 Yule university. i ls seemingly the best course to permit m i the commission to back up and sub- DEATHS AND FUNERALS T. J. PARRISH, Twenty-fourth and Highland avenues, died in Parsons. Kan. The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Conwell's chapel. Interment in Mount Hope cemetery. Services in charge of Gold en Rule lodge No. 90, A. F. and A. M. MART E. STARLING, age 72. died Thursday at the home in Highland Park. Arrangements for the funeral will be made later. GRACE EM MALI NE STEWART. 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Stewart, died at the home. 1193 Grand avenue. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock Saturday in the j home. Interment in Rochester cem- i etery. MRS. CATHERINE BROWN, who died Wednesday at her home on Blaine avenue, will be buried Sunday afternoon in Topeka cemetery. Fun eral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock in Conwell's chapel. MRS. JOHANNA WABER. 307 Van Buren street, died at 12:30 o'clock today at her home. Arrangements for the funeral will be made later. W. H. BROWN. The funeral was held at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Pen well's chapel. Interment in Topeka cemetery. Mr. Brown died in Salina. MRS. T. V. SHAFFER, who died Wednesday in a local hospital, will be buried in Dover cemetery. Funeral services will be held at 1 1 o'clock Sun day morning in the Dover Baptist church. Xew York Money Market New York. Tcc. 15. MONEY Mercantile Eaper. 4tti4V per cent. Sterling. fiO clay ills. 4.7114: rftinmpn-inl. U ilnv blll nn bunks. 4.71 ?4j commercial, m lay bills. 4.71 uemaiin, i-anies, -.n. i-in. francs, neniamK ',Lf. 5.?Vb. Marks, de- mitnd, i4: cables, i4. Kronen, demand, l.dA: cables. 14. Guilders, demand. 404 cables. 41. Lire, demand. Ii.75; cables. (1.72. ubles, demand. 30 cables. 31. ltur silver. 7;!&c: Mexican dollars. aTMc. Government bonds, steady railroad bonds, heavy. Time loans, strong: 60 days. 4V(d per cent: &Mt?4 cent; 0 moUtb"' t:an money, strong: nign. o per cent; low. 4 per cent; ruling rnte, 4 per cent; lost loan, 0 per cent; dosing bid 5 per ceut; offered at 6 per cent. New York Stock Market. (Closing price for the leatlinp Kto-ks ob The New York Stock Kxrhung as re ported by Tbos. J. Myers, Ilroiiyr. Colum bian ut.ig.j i"Mne Today. Yes. New York. De- 15. ok liH MVj 51 Vi 8Vj 7!U MiV Am. Beet Sugar... Am. Can, c Am. Car Fndy. Am. Locomotive Am. S. It., c 1K"4 1(H! .HI '-it Am. Sugar Itef 110 110 Am. Tel. T 1-'S4 W"74 Ancauda Mining W4 K5v4 A. T. S. F.. e Iu:i'y4 MS A. T. S. F.. P 10014 Faldwiu Locomotive 07 OSHi Baltimore Ohio MWj 84 Bethlehem Steel wii Brooklyn H. T M SO Canadian Pacific ltioV2 Central Leather IW3 Chesapeake Ohio 0R 044 Chicago northwestern x.-i C. M. St. P.. c 0J C. H. I. P Chino Copper 5tt Colorado Fuel Iron 4i74 Crucible Steel 7Vj Erie, c -to General Electric It-' Great Northern, p 117V4 Great Northern Ore .'IBM: Inspiration 5H4 K. C. Southern, c 2."vi Kenu. Copper 47 Lackawanna Steel Mi Lehigh Valley 7ft1 Maxwell Motors 04 14 Miami Copper SS74 M. K. T., c 10V4 Missouri Pacific National Lead 61 Nev. Con Copper KH4 N. Y. Central 1: 91 -Xi 77. fioVj 47 s4 -ov I 1004 I 11"

an 2-H4 5V nr. 14 7N'4 2t4 :t 10 1714 ;i N. Y N. H. H .-Vii ii2')i Norfolk Western 1MB V Northern Pacific 110 110 Penn. Kailroad -J-J 5:1 Uav Con Copper 1 "JS Beading, c 107'S, 10014 Southern Pacific 07s .Vi omhern Railway, c :cii .11 i Studebaker 11414 113 1 I'nion Pr.ciflc, c 14 144H U S. Steel, c lllhk IMS C S. Steel, p l-ti'A rtah Copper 107 114 WMlprn Cnion 10 Wcstinghouse Electric 54Vi ai Ex-Div. Chino Copper, 24. Gen. Electric. 2. Kenn. Copper, l1. Lackawanna Steel. 4. Nev. Con Copper, 14. Utah Copper, 3V4- GRANT NEW RATE Commission Is Plan. ning a Gas Move. BristOW Board Just Realizes Mistake of the Old Ruling. it guessed wrongly in its 2 8 -cent order of December, lsio, a new raie ocueu- ule is now regarded as the only course which will lead to a change in the gas company management. Rumors' in the state house indicate that the commission will shortly hold a special session to direct a temporary te- N" they are standing out against signing final contracts for the purchase of the gas company. The ui ciiase win. uc vuiiuiiiiuaicu uuiy 111 event the state commission grants a rate considered by the gas company as fair and adequate. Temporary Rate. In order to insure the transfer of the gas company property, it is. assert ed that the state commission will soon grant a "temporary" rate. This rate will be an increase over the rate which J. Bristow and commission members declared adequate in their 1915 order. It will be a flat and open admission that the commission guessed wrongly sequent findings are expected to show i that an increase in the gas rate is justified in view of the high cost of living, the war in Europe or other 1 causes. STEEL CUT $20 SHARE Panicky Dumping of Storks Con tinues on N. Y. Exchange. Xew Tork. Dec. 15. The fourth day of panicky dumping of stocks on the stock exchange, which was start ed on Tuesday by Germany's an nouncement of peace proposals, saw new low levels established this after- noon, United States Steel, which has feTt e force of the pounding hour after I hour since the initial upset, was quot v eJ.,sat 1-09 at one time today and ai that, figure showed a loss of "$20 a ehare? ,f rom the hich record tamoa m. ta'blished recently. ,The mad scramble to unload has resulted in four days' trading aver aging two and a quarter million shares or more. At noon today 1,300, 000 shares had been dumped on the exchange floor, a large part of it on orders from business men of the country who had played the bull side consistently thru two months of the greatest bull market Wall street has known since 1901. BURGLAR GETS13 CTS. Novice Cracksman Trios to Rob Ga f briel Lumber Co. Offices. Someone attempted to open the safe in the office of the Gabriel Lumber company at the corner of Third and Jackson streets Thursday night. They imeu me onice ana tiamagea the safe but did not succeed in opening it. The man who did the job did not under siana tne mecnanism of safes He believed, apparently, that when v, ha AVe vCt. t. v.. "e had knocked off the hinges the big oor wo,uld simply fall out on the oor.- He broke the hinges and marks show he nried on the Hnnr i.,i- the big bolts which are entirely" in dependent of the hinses held It Thirteen0cUtsewansSthe?oalamount me uuigmr uuiainea. mat was taken from a drawer in a desk. HIT MAIL ORDER BOOZE I. O. Committee of House Votes to Prohibit IJquor Advertising. Washington. Dec. 15. With senate and house leaders predicting congress will act favorably on a national prohi- Dition Din pernaps tnis session, the house postoffice committee today struck a blow at the liquor interests when it voted by -a one majority to I prohibit use of mails for dissemina tion of intoxicating liquor advertise ments. STEAMERS TO THE BOTTOM Lloyd's Reports Indicates Hostile j Eoats Busy as Ever. 1 London, Iec. 15. Lloyd's shipping agency announces the following: "The Norwegian steamer nanpauger has been sunk." The Portuguese steamer Leea. formerly the German steamer Euos. and the British steamer Glencoe are reported sunk. PASS NEW WAR CREDIT Bill for Additional 400 Million Pounds Goes Thru Comons. London. Tec. 15. The new war credit for 4(K).000.000 introduced In the house of commons yesterday by Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, passed thru all Its stages in the lower house this after uoon. LOCAL MENTION Framed pictures. V4 off ers. Adv Coe Broth- Expert Brothers framing Adv. Cut rates. Coe Card of Thanks. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to our many friends for their kind assistance id sympathy in our sad bereavement, also lor the beautnui floral offerings. SAMUEL. W. -n YE, "MR. AND MRS. ORTON T. REES, MR. AND MR?. A. D. SCHSACKE. i MISS LTJCILE NYE. (Advertisement.) INSIST 0N RIGHTS Trainmen Justified in Demands, Says Brotherhood Head. Shorter Day's Work Means Bet ter Service on Road. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 15. The Adamson law was discussed from the standpoint of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen 'today by W. G. Lee, president of the brotherhood, in an address to the Central States Con ference on Rail and Water Transpor tation. Mr. Lee told the now familiar story of the clash between the rail roads and their employes over more wages or shorter hours which ended in the passage by congress of the Adamson law after President Wilson had personally taken a hand in the efforts at settlement when attempts to arbitrate had failed. 'When the Adamson law was en acted," Mr. Lee then said, it was ac jj ceptea as a sauaiaciory aujuai.iu, j by the four railroad organizations in terested. The law, which in its intent covered precisely the final demands of the men, is agreeable to a great ma jority of them. "We believe the men were fully justified in making their original de mand. The hazards and responsibili ties of railway service require that every transportation employe be at his best, which is out of the question if he is compelled to work unreasonably long hours. Eight hours is long enough for any man to be under phy sical and mental high tension. North Side News Forty persons attended the oyster supper Thursday niht in the Second Presbyterian church. Fred Morns acted- as toastmaster. C. M. Morrow gave a short talk on men's work in the church. The church quartet fa vored the banqueters with two songs. Mr. Morrow then gave an illustrated lecture on Japan. A social half-hour ended the patherinpr. Coseen Ingle and H. G. Barrett, popularly known asr "the Grantville twins," are Christmas shopping in town today. P. G. Hunt started from Denison Thursday morning at 5 o'clock with some beef cattle and arrived in North Topeka at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Charles Meredith has accepted a place as brakeman on the Rock Island railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Ed ChidtMx of Meno ken are in today on business. T. D. Joseph has returned from a busineps trip to Butler county. Poinsettas at A. M. Petro's, the druggist. Adv. Christmas Stationery. Street car fare remitted on $1 purchase. A. M. Petro. the druggist. Adv. John Duffy and Earl Wendell of El- mont and Edward McConnell of Meno ken were in on business Thursday. J. S. Gwin is in on business today. A nice Xmas present magazines. A. M. Petro, the druggist. Adv. LAST SESSION TONIGHT Sunflower Agricultural Association Meetings Have Iiecn Big Success, "This has been a profitable meet ing, and all will leave here benefited." declared Dr. William It. Carter in call ing to order the third day's session of the Sunflower State Agricultural as sociation in the chapel of the Indus trial and ICducational institute this morning. "Growing Sweet Potatoes," was dis cussed by David Childs, of Oakland, who told how the plant should be cared for, how set out and the kind of soil to produce it. This was followed by a practical talk on potatoes by the most successful potato grower in the country, J. G. Groves, of Edwardsville, Kan.- He showed that the soil of Kansas dif fered from that in other places, and you could not treat the hill land for potatoes like you would the bottoms, and assigned the reasons. He was asked many questions. "Rural School Life" conference was held with Prof. C. J. Calloway, of Tus kegee, who is handling thousands of dollars in the building of rural school houses, the gift of Julius Rosenwald. of Chicago. Pr if. Calloway is kept constantly on the road looking into the rural school life and its needs. The closing meeting will be held tonight. Dr. Carter will deliver an address. STILL AT 0LD TRICKS Woman Who Ijooted Mrs. Alters House Pulls Same Stunt in K. C. Under the guise of Mrs. Anna Stev enson and son, Paul, the Mrs, A. Thomas and son, "Jack," who stripped the home of Mrs. Mabel Akers at 806 West Eighth street of many valuables, denuded another home of its valuables in Kansas City this week. The woman had secured a position as housekeeper for Mr. and Mrs. II. M. Bacon in. Kansas City, telling prac tically the same story she told when she took the furnished Akers house in Topeka. Kansas City papers say $1,000 worth of Mrs. Bacon's jewelry disappeared when the woman and her son disappeared. 327 MILLION FOR P.O. Bill Provides Raise In Rates on Pe riodicals. Washington. Dec. 15. The $327, 000,000 postal appropriation bill as agrreed on today by the house commit- i tee retains Postmaster General Burle- j son's recommendation for curtailing nneumatic tube service and also re-1 tains approving establishing zones for second class mail matter, designed to raise the postage on periodicals. The bill will be reported immediately. VILLA MAKES PROMISES In Overtures to V. S. Says He WiU j Stop Border Depredations. El Paso. Dec. IB. Francisco Villa, j thru representatives here, ha? made overtures to the United States and has promised to cease his depredations j upon American property and discon- tinue killing Americans in Mexico, it! was announced today by a government sarent here. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY WARM, modern room, electric lights, excel lent table board. 1301 West Oth. TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS MAJESTIC Griffith the Hypnotist. NOVELTY Vaudeville and Pathe News. ORPHEl'M Clara Kimball Toung in "The Common Law." IRIS Theda Bara in "The Vixen." GRAND "Very. Good Eddie.' mu sical comedy, Saturday. For -details, prices, etc., see ads on an other page of the State Journal. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Tomorrow at noon the Topeka and Lavr reiue V. M. C. A. voileybull teams will clash at the Central Y" gym. Aruie Mitchell, fliarcred bv his wife with assault with iuteut to kill, was bouud over to the district court today after a lively hearing in the court of Topeka. During the hearing Mrs. Mitchell en traced in wonly encounter with A. P. Tone Wilson, attorney lor her husband liids for the new $J5.0O0 Dibble grocery at Sixth ami yuincy streets will be opened about January 1. Work of construction proUiiuiy will betriu about Feliruarv L ue uuimiuit win oe iwo stories in ueiirni ;iml 8tri,.t v uiem. A sod fouutaiu will be a new feature of the store. Soottie May Baldwin who admits she left her husuuud in Missouri in V.iVl and came to Topfka to find employment filed suit ior uivorce in me uistrict court totiay alleging ftbaiKloiiment. She also asks for custody of three hoys, aged 9, 7 and 3 yeitrs and for the household troods she says she uas accumuiuteu. Fred Semon. a gang foreman in the me chnnicul department of the Santa Fe at ropeka, 1ms been added to the pension list or ham re employes. Semon was born at Moisten burp, Germany. Feb run rv 14. XNKt. and began his work with the Santa Fe us n laborer in the Toiieka shoos Mar 1SS1. He has been in the emplov of the company continuously for thirty-five 3 Frank Pollario, the Italian charged with EiHHiiiii in tinsKcu in a row over seven reeii-yc:(r-old lreue Angle at 2K) Crane street Tuesday night, was bound over to the district court today on the charge of assault with intent to kill. Haskell is at pu. irnncia oosmtal with a bullet wound in his jaw. The tcstimonv given bv the Angle girl today had much to do with hold ing i-oiiario ior a jury trial. The third biennial "Safety" picture show whm-11 uas oeeu put out Dv the saretv com missioner of the Santa Fe railway, "Isaiah iiuie, win s art a tour or the entire sys te.j. to last three and a half months. Jan nary 1. Mr. Hale will accotnpanv the show, which will include a three-reel fea ture entitled "The House That .Tack Hull which was written and filmed especially im ne ni it-iy campaigns or tne railroad, scenes of interest alone the road, anil bin- teru slides. The month of January will be spem iu ifMis aim 4'Ktauoma. H. G. Caddie of Zelmar. Mn.. to the polite Tlmrsiliiy niptlit tliHt lie wna helrt up and robbeil of $13 Wedneadnv night nt'iir the comer of Fourth and Madison streets. lie ntnted that he started out for a wais rrom the Lelnnd hotel about o Hock in tile evenilitr when a main stcime, from behind a billboard and ordered him to put up his hands. He did so and the Ulan with the gun went through his pockets. Hobert Yates, secretjirv of tlio PrmHiiant Association, looked into the case and ten tatively agreed to furnish him with a rall- roau iicKct oacK as far as Kansas City. teorpre H. Fleishman, until a year and a nan ago connected with the Knusas pub lie utilities commission as traffic exiiert and prior to that in the traffic department or the Mmta Fe railway, has tendered his resummon as commissioner anil secretary or rue icnita commerce committee, effec live 1'cbrmuy 1. when lie will head the traffic department of the Kanita Refining '-i'ui;mi.v in xiuusas v it.y word or Mr. v leishmau s advancement was ieeived in lopeka today. He has been with the Wichtta commerce committee since leaving Topeka. Associates say he was one of the most capanie rrnme men ever hi the em ploy or tue Wichita traffic bureau. The mothers of liedden chapel gave a surprise party Thursday for Mrs. F.va Iturce. one of the'workers for the titissiou. who lias been with them for ten years. The amies were decorated with chrvsanthe. mums, given by Mrs. M. E. Holhraft. A rruit ienterpiece was the gift of Mr. P. S. Schilling, a former worker in the mission, A tu;I:ey dinner was served. Thirty-two mothers were present. The guests of the urteruoon were lr. !S. !S. Kstey. the Itev and -urs. j. l-nze'. Airs, rsurge ana her rout children. Mr. N. It. Iturce. Mrs. C It. Unrire Miss Beatrice Iturge and Mips linth lturge. Ir. Estey and the Hev. Mr. Fazel made short addresses. During the afternoon missionary box of generous sine and con tents was packed for a l'resbyterian school in Arkansas by the relief committee of Keddeu chapel. Vote to Retain Subtreasnry, Washington. Dec. In the first vote today on retention of subtreasuries, the house, sitting as a committee for the whole, voted sixty-five to forty-two to retaiu the t incinnati subtreasnry. defeatin Representative S:son's amendment to strike lnciunati s establishment irom the legis lanve appropriation nins PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS Ask Your Doctor About Us DRUGS AND TOILET GOODS Tho Modern Drug Store t CXT-RAT. 500 West 10th. Telephone 430. Free Delivery Wm. Connors 706 Kansas Avenue We offer vou some exceptional values in Furniture pieces which will be 'most acceptable Gifts, useful the year 'round. r rinMpn Oak. reeular Drice S13.50, now $8.50 Dressing Tables i Tea Wagons TABORETTES A few left, fumed oak, were 35e. Come and get them. No deliveries at ORIENTAL, RUGS All sizes and grades. They are excellent gifts. CRETONNE LUNCHEON SETS, 13 piece-set 750 CARPET SWEEPERS .$2.75 UP VAC-SWEEPER 95-50 ELECTRIC CLEANER None better. Why J?7C pay more than ....ipCiU SECTIONAL BOOKCASES Excellent Gifts. CEDAR CHESTS Practical, indespensible 8.50 Up L hoe our New Tapestry, nrrfMHutcred PavcnlJorts an I Chain ho'oro yon buy. I Vm. Connors NEW WATER PLAN New land Proposes Property Owners Pay for Repairs. Let Renters Settle With Those Who Own Houses. Frank M. Newland, commissioner of water, today offered a counter proposition to straighten out the mud dled state of affairs arising over the demand or three city commissioners that the city make arrangements for the upkeep of water services before an ordinance was passed providing for a cut in water rates. Commissioner Tandy instantly rejected the proposi tion or Commissioner JSewland. The other two "insurgents,." Commission ers Wasson and Porter, failed to ex press their sentiments. Newland believes in the principle of the city upkeep of services but he does object to dictation of policies of his own department by the other three commissioners. And he asserts that a number of citizens are object ing to the dipping into Newland's de partment by the other three commis si oners. Newland's Plan. Newland does not believe that tho water users at large should be obliged to pay for a leak in a service of some other user. He wants provisions made for the city's repair of leaks but demands that these repairs be charged against the property owner rnd not against the water users in general, as has been proposed by the insurgent commissioners. Need Legislative Action. In order to make the change de sired by Commissioner Newland it would be necessary to get a local bill thru the legislature, providing for as sessing th. cost or repairs made bv the city on services against the prop erty owner, ne would leave the rent er out of it. If the property owner wishes the renter to pay for the up- Keep tnat can te settled between them but the city will look to the property owner for the cost of repairs. HITE AFTER SOLDIER Battery "A" Captain Wires Police to Detain Private Wilson, Just before noon a telegram was received at the police station from Captain C. M. Hite of Battery A at Fort Riley instructing the officers to pick up and detain Frank Wilson, a private, until a guard could come to Topeka for him. The telegram does not state any charge against Wilson. Police officers know Private Wilson but had not seen him at noon. Thev are doubtful if they have any author ity to arrest him since Captain Hite made no charge and failed to say that he had a warrant for him. Wilson has been on the border with Battery A. Policemen say they doubt if any private would be foolish enough to de sert now when the battery is to be musterea out witnin a few days. 3. CANDY Special for Saturday Peanut Brittle 15c lb. IDEAL BAKERY CONFECTIONERY and Sixth und Jacktton 8ta. "Horn of famous Uuttcr-N'ut Bread" b For your convenience Laun- dry Bundles and Plain I Dry Cleaning J RECEIVED BY 8:30 A. M. J READY BY 6:00 P. M. Suits Pressed and Hats Ironed while you wait S Hat work of every description S done by a Real Hatter at our uptown office and Service Sta- tion. 114 W. Klghth St. Phono 1214 J Open 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. S TOPEKA LAUNDRY CO. j 31st Year. Furniture Co. Circassian Walnut, reg. price $20, now I J. Mahoganv, regular price $33.00, now 25.()l I Circassian Walnut, reg. price $35, now S2A.50 I Circassian Walnut, reg. price $45.now $:S6..V f Mahogany, well made; i made in two styles. 9 S7.50 Also in Fumed Oak ow 1 1 Jacobean Tea Wagon, was $13.50, 1 now S10.95 25c Furniture Co.- 1 a 1 I i f v

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 15. 1916 5 'art 3 IX Percolator Sale Saturday we will place on sale a complete shipment of Universal and Rochester Per colators. $3.75 Nickel Plated, 4-cup. .$2.2 3.00 Nickel Plated, 6-cup... 2.4 4.25 Aluminum, 9-eup S.69 5.23 Aluminum, 9-cup 5.50 Nickel Plated, 7-cup... 4.69 Keen Kutter CARVING SETS Are a Gift that will be ap Our stock is nr 1' f' V complete. Prices S7.00 'C,iBeJ down to S2.SO 713 Kansas Ave. Phono 1323 For Quick Return Try a Journal Want Ad. HONOR MEN HERE Topekans Among Santa Fe Com. spondence School High Graders. Sijrty-thre employes of the Santa Fe, who are doing work with the In ternational Correspondence Schools, won recognition in the Santa Fe Mag azine, the official paper of the road, for having attained grades of 95 per cent or better in their studies during the month of October. Twelve of the sixty-three honor men are In Topeka. Three of the Topeka men received grades of 100 per cent for the month's work. The three are Fred M. Kunlsh, C. I. Jones and James H. Bunts. The nine who received grades better than 95 per cent are K. C. Boggs. Browne E. Clark. Frank C. Williamson. Herbert D. Kistler. Wilfred E. Bush, Coy R. Dixon. Chester F. Ebey. Clarence Re ser and Edward P. Brandt. Educator Retires After 46 Years. Boaton, Dec. 15. The retirement of Dr. William E. Huntington from active educational work was announced to day. The trustees of Boston university yesterday accepted his resignation as dean of the graduate school. Doctor Huntington has been connected with the university for forty-six years and serveu as us president two years. Prof. Arthur W. Weysse, head of biology department of the college of liberal arts of the university, was chosen aa Doctor Huntington's successor. tMyggjia WJieu-Vi .nmm,m Glove and Gift Certificates Issued for Any Amount Kansas City, Kansas 707 KANSAS AVENUr Kansas City, Missouri The House of Courtesy A Plush Coat Will Make an Ideal Christmas Gift THE BEST Plush Coats IN THE CITY AT $20-$25 MANY SMART STYLES TO CHOOSE FROM Plain and Belted models with extra wide flare and many are trimmed with Chase's Beaver or Fur. "ill25' Saturday Special Far Trimmed Plush Muffs $3.95 It denotes more love and ap- rf preciation than any other IS1'' YULE TIDE GIFT g 1(3 An( we naye thousands of sugges- jlS "SU tions to solve your gift problems. jj hjKJjp: In act our entire stock sparkles J-iiSPiEtflS jr with the attractiveness of its Yule- ee Window Display. J can choose wisely "W "Will Be fiLSpy?- J at thiS Stre Here Eveninars. M Auerbach Guettel E-J CLOTHING CCLS "VOU like our guarantee of satis- faction because there's no doubt about it; no time limit on it; no thought of evasion nor argument. When you realize you're not satisfied, you know we're not; your money cheerfully refunded. The Southwest's Leading Store for Men's Gifts "REAT stocks of practical Vi Xmas gifts for men stocks assem bled by a store that caters to men the year round and really knows what they like. It's wise to follow our gift "tips." It's logical to buy a man's gift where he supplies his own needs if you do that, you'll buy it here. X70NDERFUL stocks to se- aro-a ni all ntVifr ntnres in Toiwka com- k: 1 H'U-. n.nn4-A Ilrln. aloa. Te umcu. y ii j njuic nine; tias.- where when you can come to headquar ters and make your selections quickly, satisfactorily and with assurance that style, quality and price is right Give Him Shirts Give Him a House Coat Men's Silk Shirts of Beautifui Quality at $5 Many of these shirtings are exclusive with this store. They include fine tub silks with satin stripes in any number of attractive colors and new effects, from those quite sober to those quite festive. So each. Other assortments, J6, S6.S0. $7.50. J8.50 and S9.30. Special Men's Silk Skirts at $3.95 These are excellent shirts at the price, for they are silk, and the assortment is particu larly commendable for the splendid patterns and colors included. Fancy negligee and pleated bosom shirts with starched cutfs, $1.50 to $2.00 and $2.50, and soft-cuff shirts( SI, $1.50, $2 and $3. Give Him a Sweater Coat A larse assortment of sweater coats, with or without collars, of worsted yarn, knit with small stitch, $5, $3.95. Imported and domestic brush wool sweater coats with and without collars, $6 to $10 Sweater coats with college stripes and large shawl collars, knitted in a heavy shaker stitch, in navy blue with white, black with orange, maroon with navy, $5, $6, $6.50. A wide assortment of house coats ia here from which to choose the gift to please the man who loves his comfort. HOUSE COATS, $5 TO $20 These are of wool, of silk and of velvet, in the newest colorings. of gray, blue, maroon and brown, with collar, cuffs and pockets trimmed with cord and fabrics in contrasting colors. And here are all sizes according to fabric, $5 to $20 Give Him a Bath Robe Give Him Neckwear Extensive Assortments of Men's Neckwear Presented at SI, $1.50 and $2 Here is such variety that description cannot be attempted. Kere is neckwear of every con ceivable kind that is new. that is right in qual ity and attractive, according to a man's view point, in color and pattern. Here are necktiea running from the plain to the gay, but with good taste evident in each. Special Christmas Assortments Are Also Provided in Men's Neckwear at SOC. 3c. 75c, $1.30, $2, $2.50, S3, $3.50, $4 each. And here one may select from a splendid assortment of bath-robes of many different weights and many different patterns, in many different colors, all suitable and aU picked to please the masculine, fancy. $2.93, $3.95, $5, $7.50, $10 and $15 GiveHimLeatherGoods CROSS Mark Cross Leather Novelties are the most exquisite gifts for one to give and no more expei live than the cheaper qu-ilities of these novelties We can't begin to enumerate our enormous stock, but if you want some thing that is different, useful and ap preciated we would advise an early selection. Suit Cases for Men and Women: plain or fitted $5.M to $25.00. Beautiful Leather Bags canvas or leather lined in many new shapes and ideas, $5.GO to $25.00. Ladies' Handbags exclusive designs not shown in Dry Goods Stores, $3.00 to $6.00. Give HER A Silk or Angora Sweater, $5.00 to $15.00 Silk Stockings, 50c to $1.50 A Folding Travel ing Umbrella, $2.50 to $3.00 A Pair of Slip pers or Shoes A Fine Leather Handbag Sew ing Basket all very exclusive styles and quali ties, not to be seen in dry goods stores. Give Him Gloves The bigsrest stock of Gloves to select from you ever saw. Everything a man wants from a dresss Glove to one of fur. Our prires are very low, as we anticipated an immense Christ mas business. Cross English Gloves, Perrins French Gloves, Luken, Ireland and Wilson. American Gloves, for both Men and Women quick service assured. I This sale is throwing precedent to the winds by offering tremendous values in Hart Schaffner (Ql50 Marx Suits Overcoats Men must be hurrying to get these Suits and Overcoats that other dealers all over Amer ica are selling at $25, $27.50 and $30 YELL reduce the story to telegraphic t going up continually. No one knows where they'll stop. H Every indication of highest ever prices on clothing next H fall. And defiantly disregarding conditions we offer II the Hart Schaffner Marx surplus wholesale stocks and pf our own broken assortments from this season's best lines E at $19.50. No other Hart Schaffner Marx dealer in H America sells a single one of these garments at less than U $25 some at $27.50 some at $30 ft H Oi f anu y uu ucin ncive any ux Liieiii wmui -ji a mS B row ior last time lor i .Last day of this sale Saturday. '"i f .IJ-s Kenilworth Guaranteed $20 Value Suits and Overcoats at $15 4-store purchasing power coupled with four store selling power are responsible. The clothes are made by a $20 manufacturer we buy enough of it them to pay a $15 price we sell thousands of them by pricing; tnem -Q $15 instead of $20. Many of them silk lined. Elegant all-wool worsted Suits, strictly hand tailored, that are really worth $20, in all sizes, for Beautiful all-wool blue serge Suits; many lined with silk, in all sizes no mat ter how small, tall, fat or lean you are you can be fitted at. $15 $15 ..$15 Overcoats good for all the year round wear in beautiful fabrics, many of them full silk lined and are posi tive $20 values for. Raincoats in beautiful tan gaberdines, satin yoke and sleeve; also full lined worsteds, in neat b'ack and white and gray effects specially featured ffir ff A at. H. S. M. Fine Trousers, Suit Ends, special. For Out-cf-Dcor Men Duck and Sheep Lined Ccats. $5 .$1.95 to $7.50 (in ia price $6.75 Old Santa O.K.'s Everything Bought at this Boys'. Store these specials should interest economical parents. Christmas "Special" GtTing yon a splen did opportunity to aurprlae your boy Christmas morning with a dandy new, p)fran.t bio aerxe Svit. Tb fabric ia a pure all-wool woratrd bine aerir guaranteed fast col or indipo dye, and will not pall oat in the seama. Newest Norfolk models, t to 18 yeara; conta bottom faced full cut. full lined kntckera and an extra pair of pants witn erery siu With bine aenres "aoaring you should not tall to boy one of theae Suits, with extra pants, at our special price. Big Values in Boys' Suits, 0'Coats Mackinaw, $5 Won i kerf si II iirtncit of Boys' M;H'kinaw Coats in. new plaids sad fancy mixtures; aiaes fi to IS years; biff Tarity of Boys Orert-oata l in tne most pop 4 11 lr frint snil double- breasted models, both plain and belt ed, ia all sizes from 2 to IS yeiira, sad a chol-e seTe"fton of boy' Nor-. folk Knl'ker b e k r Suits, many with ex tra pair of faTl lined penrs matrh. sfeea 9 to IS years. It will pay luothers' to anticipate thetr needs fa m while there's six-b a treaaendona V. aaanrtmeat and such apieodid aj J Talues to choose from at Little Tots' Fancy Suits. $5 Including- silk reJTet, Tel vet corduroy, blue serge a ad Scotch mixtures, in Hoasian etoa. Tommy Twker asd duplex models with detach able pique col lars and cuffs J. made with the little straight T- rrtaiera, full lined, sixes from 2 to 10 years at this special pries "Little Shavers" Overcoats at $5 The pHe Is way be low what the coats are wort h it's as low ss it I bmnw we had the coats made from si ill em Is of this season's smnrt ft b rU s we bought them way be low ralue we're aWt- tn a; them tue wuy. Ail slws from 2 1'.!. smoerh and rrS(5- finish fabrics, plain colors and fn- mixtnree. Vs may have these routs in onrertible collar models, skeleton Used snd but- fam ton to neck L moiHs WajF tiMlar. Xmas Gifts for Boys mm n mm l.lttto FrtU Tly Kulu-TowlKiy. lu.li.n. Military, l'nllrviuau. 4 to M ami baseball nnlfonB. 1 years; pt11 t ua and IUf.' WliM Caiw: aiaula mt Mariuaaw SI rlotli. fact-y over-Mitlua. auui sill: )ln'l. oni ttan lull CU dowB inbamla; liaJ T.Iura. "Ut B.,. silk Nwkanr, apWatdld rt nM-at of fuur-tn-banila. Wimiaor ud mh!pnt: p-Ul at aJV n r.k.ns mm aiuitlta. Ms tyvc "W- snd.. OEDEB BT MAIL ..rtniMt to rllixa, Irooi a- tra bis alu toUay. i ami V nln cood "'ST an.t aerrUtraule. irriiya. nlxn M to PI 3; ir-bjl T7lll at V-- Littte Frtlowa- wr Caaita. with raps B.l lrrlB- to- match ff-l CfJ jwcial at Sl-it and JX.JJ Boy tmontU Fur blavaa. aavral tal nea .Sa tarda j, CI I1JO .ml Bayr JamtM Kat Sweater Caata. axtra nrtal raloaa at IWtV anr Mik MaffW. Iriixl au4 dota. apeclal. Hovi' Battai barhlaa wklrh yaat n have mouogramjue! syelal val- Rfitm ew 55c i i it i S

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1916 SEEMS EVERYONE i HEARD ABOUT IT Ail Want to Try Now Drug That Uries l'i Corns So They IJft Out. Good nws spreads rapidly and drugKists here are kept busy dispens es (reezone, the recent discovery of or Wncinnati man. which is said to loosen any corn so it lifts out with the fingers. A quarter of an ounce costs very little at any pharmacy, but is said to Ce sufficient to rid one's feet on every gird or soft com or callus. You apply just a few drops on the tender, aching corn and instantly the aftreness is relieved, and soon the corn 1 so, shriveled that it lifts out with-it pain. It is a stleky substance xrhich dries when applied and never inflames or even irritates the adjoin ing tissue. This discovery will prevent thou sands of deaths annually from lockjaw arid infection heretofore resulting from Che suicidal habit of cutting corns. Advertisement. Try State Jurnal Wants for results. SWAMPED WITH TAXES

County Treasurer's Office Working Hay and Night Taking in Money. After wading thru a lot of letters from impatient taxpayers today K. A. Campbell, county treasurer, issued this statement: "It will be some time before all the people who are paying their taxes by mail will receive their receipts, but I AN EXPERT GN COLDS Comparatively few people realize that a cold is a signal of physical weakness. To treat a cold with weakening physics, alcoholic syrups or drugged pills, may smotherthe cold but they also reduce the body powers still further and invite more serious sickness. Scott's Emulsion has always been an expert on colds.'because it peculiarly enriches the blood, quickly tones up the forces and strengthens both throat and chest. Try Scott's. Refuse Substitutes. Scott Bowne. Bloomficld. N. J. 16-27 Apology Cures No Faults and Wins No Esteem DO YOU APOLOGIZE FOR YOLK flAIMO Complete happiness comes from owning the one Piano that needs no apology. 1 THE STEINWAY ing with brain, heart and soul, for the attainment of the r ideal, have achieved akt ts&xvau huhaiiu-ln. The Supreme Christmas Gift Those who are satisfied only with the best must have the Steinway, STANDARD OF THE WORLD. Comfortable Terms Lowest Prices in the United States. TO SorfsTtOsicCa 714 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kansas Doctor Tells How To Strengthen Eyesight 50 per cent In One Week's Time In Many Instances A Free Iresi-lption Yon Can Have Filled and Use at Home. I Philadelphia, Pa. Do you wear glasses? Are you a victim of eye strain or other eye weaknesses? If so, you will he glad to know that according to Dr. Lewis there is real hope for you. Many whose eyes were failing say they have had their eyes restored through he principle of this wonderful free prescription. One man says, after try ftsg it: 'I was almost blind; could not Ifee to read at all. Now I can read everything without any glasses and my yes do not water any more. At night they would pain dreadfully; now they jel fine all the time. It was like a Spiracle to me." A lady who used it rvs: "The atmosphere seemed hazy with or without glasses, but after us ing this prescription for fifteen days Everything seems clear. I ca n even ppad fine print without glasses." It is pelieved that thousands who wear glasses can now discard them in a reasonable time and multitudes more jvill be able to strengthen their eyes no as to be spared the trouble and ex- pensef ever getting glasses. Eye troubles of many descriptions ittay be wonderfully benefited by following the simple rules.- Here is the prescription: Go to any active drug store and get a bottle of Bon-Opto tablets. Drop one Bon-Opto tablet in a fourth of a glass of water and allow to dissolve. With this liquid bathe the eyes two to four times daily. You should notice your eyes clear up perceptibly right from the start and inflammation will quick ly disappear. If your eyes are bother ing you, even a little, take steps to save them now before it is too late. Many hopelessly blind might have been saved if they had cared for their eyes in time. Note Another prominent Phynlnlnn to whom the above article wns submitted, sairt "Bon-Opto Is a very remnrkable remedy. It constituent ingrelienta are well known to eminent eye specialists nnd widely proscribed by them. The manufac turers guarantee it to strengthen eyesipht r0 per cent in one week's time In many in stances or refund the money. It can be obtained from any good druggist and is one of the very few preparations I feel should be kept on hand for regular nse In almost every family." Advertisement. Reports from Kansas City, Kas. Results of Tests of Vap-O-Rub C The "External" Treatment for Croup and Cold Troubles That Re s' places Internal Dosing Vapor Lamps And Flannel Jackets. You Can Let the Children Run Outdoors In All Weathers And Get Their Needed Fresh Air And Exercise. Comes in Salve Form Relieves By In halation and Absorption. Can Be Used A Freely On "Baby" With Perfect Safety. Usually the worst colds go fc OVER NIGHT GROUP IN FIF TEEN MINUTES. ram the Kansss City Post Last win ter Vlck's Vap-O-Rub Salve was In troduced In Kansas City, Kas., for the first time. In order that their customers might try out thi South ern method of treating colds exter nally, the local druggists presented a few of their customers with com plimentary jars, requesting that this preparation be given a thorough trial, and the results reported. By kind permission, we give a few of i- these reports bciow, J; In the South Vick's Vap-O-Rub Salve sts universally used in place ot Internal tnedicinea for all forms of cold troubles, fro-n head colds, catarrh and asthmatic troubles, down to deep chest colds, sore throat, bronchitis or incipient pneumonia, you Just apply It over throat and cheet and cover ,with a warm flannel cloth. Leave the (foveriug loose around the neck, as at be body heat releases the Ingredients In the form of vapors. These vapors 'are breathed in all night long. loosen Jjns the phlegm and clearing the air passages. In addition, Vap-O-Rub is absorbed through and stimulates the skin, aiding the vapors inhaled to re lieve the congestion. 2. Mrs. Anna Gaston, 2523 N. 8th street "'I hare used Vlck's Vap-O-Rub for catarrh and find it simply fine the best I have ever used." Mrs. Ida Thomas, 921 S. Forest "I have used your Vap-O-Rub Salve on my little girl for bronchitis, and think it is Just fine. She was very bad would cough all night and I had her doctored by several doctors, and none did her any good; but the second application of Vap-O-Rub gave her relief." Mrs. Nellie Beth, 22 N. Baltimore Ave. "I have used your salve for the past six months, and have tried it for colds on the lungs, and found it of great service, giving almost instant relief." Mrs. M. J. Bailey, 635 Georgia Ave. "Last winter my children had severe colds on the lungs that it seemed I could not reach. I rubbed them well with Vick's Vap-O-Rub, applying it over the throat and chest, and cover ing with a warm flannel cloth, and I also gave them a small piece to swal low. It gave them relief the first night. My husband thinks there is i nothing that can equal it for tooth ache or neuralgic pains. Mothers who try Vap-O-Rub Just once will al ways use it afterwards." Mrs. J. O. Dobbins, 2049 N. 4th St "I have used Vick's Vap-O-Rub for a severe case of croup Just by rubbing it i ver the throat and chest and cov ering with hot flannels, and found it relieved in a little while. It is much better than internal medicines for small children." Three siies. 25c, 50c or $1.00. or we will gladly send a sample on request. The Vick Chemical Company. Greens- Doro, u hope they will be patient. We can work here only all day and about six hours at night. We will get the re ceipts out as quickly as possible." The penalty goes on after December 20. Taxes must be paid the first half by that date or the taxpayer will be required to pay additional. GREECEJCCEPTS Nation Again Concedes to Al lies' Ultimatum. New Demand at Once to Stop Troop Moves. Athen, Dec. 15. That the allies ultimatum in the Greek situation will prove acceptable to the Greek govern ment in principle, was indicated today, following a meeting of the cabinet and crown council at which King Constan time presided. Paris, Pec. 15. The allies are about to hand new categorical demands to the Athens cabinet, according to the Petit Parisien. The principal object of these demands is to stop the move ment of troops ordered by King Con stantine, with a view to sending of im portant forces into Thessaly. Encounters are reported between Royalist troops and a French detach ment near Katerina but no confirma tion has been received. LODGE HOMESTURN K. of P. and Eagles Buildings in Ruins Flames Create $250,000 Loss. Oskaloosa, la., Dec. 15. Fire which gutted the K. of P. and Eagles lodge buildings in the heart of the town to day was believed under control at 9 a .m. after burning fiercely for nearly six hours and doing upwards of $250, 000 property damage. FIRM ON NEUTRALITY Swiss's New President Announces Re lations to Belligerents. Paris. Dec. 15. Edmund Schulthess. the new president of Switzerland, af firms the intention of his country to maintain strict neutrality, in an inter view with the Berne correspondent of the Petit Journal. COAST GUARD A H ERO Bravery of Sailor Results in Rescue of 17. S. Submarine Crew. Eureka, Calif., Dec. 15. The sub marine H-3, in which 25 enlisted men and two officers of the United States navy were imprisoned for hours vesterday while she pounded, disabled in the heavy surf on the beach near Eureka, was still intact as to hull early today, as far as could be seen from the shore. The crew was taken off in a breeches buoy last night. Werner Sweins, coast guardsman of the Eureka life saving station, loomed up today as the hero of the rescue. While the navy men were still bottled up in the diver, a coast guard cutter with eight men pulled alongside with a lead line for a breeches buoy. When" the cutter was dashed away by a giant wave. Sweins leaped, aboard the diver and made fast thjtxJi.. Washed overboard he clasped a straggling line and hauled himself to safety only to be forced to repeat his life or death struggle a moment later. The conning tower hatch was opened to him when the men inside became aware of his presence thru his lusty kicks and a little later Sweins and members of the crew were able to haul the buoy tackle aboard. Only On "BROMO QFIXINE" To get t lie gen 11 i ne, ca 1 1 for f u 1 1 nnmp, LAXATIVE IWtOMO QI'ININK. Look for signature of E. W. OHOVE. Cures a cold ia One 1h Jm Adv. WARM AT LAST (Continued from Pflge One.) tonight and Saturday; warmer Satur day and in the western part of Kansas tonight. The .ind was in the north west this morning making 15 miles an hour. It is expected to shift to the southwest or south by tomorrow morning, and the sun will shine all day Saturday. DAILY WEATHER REPORT. Furnished by the weather bureau office at Topeka, Kan., for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. Fridav. Stations. Hlgh."L,ow. Prec. W'ther. Boston, Mass 3-4 i O Oloudv Buffalo, N. Y 20 12 .54 Cloudy Calgary, Alb 40 24 0 Fair Chicago. IU 0 0 0 Cloudy Cincinnati, 0 24 4 .12 Clear Concordia. Kan... 12 6 0 Clear Corpus Christ! 7S 32 0 Fair Denver, Colo 28 26 0 Clear Des Moines, Io 6 -4.0 Clear Podge City. Kan.. 22 10 0 Clear Duluth. Minn -2 -8 T Cloudy Kl Paso. Tex .16 24 0 Clear Ft. Worth, Tex 42 18 0 Clear Galveston, Tex 70 "2 .02 Clear Havre, Mont 32 18 0 Fair Jacksonville. Fla.. 60 00 .08 Rain Kansas City, Mo. 14 4 0 Clear Little Rock. Ark.. 26 12 .18 Clear Los Angeles, Cal.. 72 54 0 Clear New Orleans, La.. 68 34 1.52 Cloudy New York, N. Y. 32 22 .06 Snow N. Platte, Neb 28 10 0 cloudy Oklahoma City 24 10 .02 Cleur Phoenix, Arir. 60 28 0 Clear Pittsburg, fa 22 IS .10 Snow Portland. Ore 44 30 0 Foggy St. Joseph. Mo 12 6 0 Fair St. Louis, Mo 18 2 .06 Clondy St. Paul, Minn -2 -4 o Clear Salt Lake. Utah... 28 is o clear San Frnncis'-o 60 46 0 Clear Sault Ste. Marie... 12 Seattle, Wash 40 32 0 Cloudy Sheridan, Wyo 32 26 0 Fair Spokane. Wash 28 12 0 Foggy Swift Current, Sas. 28 12 0 Cloudy Tampa. Fla 70 60 T Rain Toledo. 0 16 o 0 Fair TOPEKA. KAN... 25 2 0 Clondy Washington. D. C. 32 28 .06 Snow Wichita. Kan 16 8 .01 Clear Winnipeg. Man -6 -20 .10 Clear TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago, Pee. 15. WHEAT German's latest peace proposals swept wheat values more sensationally down grade today than did the first peace offer from Berlin three days ago. A wild rush of selling began this morning rs soon as the market opened. The immediate incentive was the announce ment from the German ambassy at Wash ington that universal limited disarmament would be discussed at any peace conference seeking to end existing hostilities. The effect of the breaks in the New York stock market and the current reports that Great Britain and her allies at least would not reject peace offers outright left the wheat bulls with no supiort. Despite some ral lies on the way down May wheat fell to $1.56 as compared with S1.66V4 to $1.66 at yesterday's finish. The market as a whole oi ened 34e to 9c lower, with Mav at $1.579 to fl.Si and July at l.:i to $1.39 ami fluctuated wildly for more thau an hour. Some strength developed Inter owing to a reduction lu the government estimated yield of corn. Nevertheless, the close was naervous at 1C to 2sc net decline. ILverpool Grain Market Liverpool. LHau 15. WHEAT Spot No. 2 hard winter, lGs lld No. 1 Manitoba, not COKNr-Spot, American mixed, new, 13 Chicago firain Mc.-ket (The range of prices for grain rmures on The Chicago Hoard of Trade as re ported by Thos. J. Myers. Ilruker Colum bian Bldg.J Chicago, Dec. 13. High Low Today Yt WHEAT Dec. May July CORN 1 ec. May July OATS Dec. May July Pint K Dec. Jau. May Open. .1.T0 160 S8ti Ml ss 47 52 48 .26.60 .27.1.") .2U.o 150 138 Ms 88 89 48 02 4! 27.80 27.: 15 27.87 142 15-Wj l.viv, iias"i iai l:i2Vi 142Vj 87 u. 885 SSVs 87 S!H4 80 80 4t 46i 40T4 SOVj 50-4 53 48 48 50 27.60 27.80 26.70 27.05 27.05 26.85 20.75 20.75 26.32 higher. Receipts 4.003 tubs. Creamery ex tras, 37c: extra firsts, 36fe37c; firsts, 33Vifi:t5e: seconds. 32fa.'!3e. EGS Market unchanged. POTATOES Market unchanged. POULTRY Chickens, unchanged; tur keys, higher; alive, 23c; dressed, 20(29c. New York 8uKar Market New York. Dec. 15. SlGAIt Raw, steady; centrifugal, 5.27; molasses, 4.40; re fined, dull fine granulated, 7.15. New York Produce Market New York. Dec. 15. BUTTER Market firm. Creamery, higher than extras, 4U 41c. F.OGS Market firm. Fresh gathered ex tra firsts. 4rn50c. CHKKSK Market Irregular. State spec ials, 24c. POULTRY Dressed, firm; alive, strong. ;F dU'JfiueS taoin taoiu taoul tuolnaoin $9.7010.15: heavy. 10.00i 10.20: packers and butchers. $a010.15: light, $9.50 10.00: pigs. tS.00S9m CATTLE Receipts 700. Market steady. Prime fed steers. $10.50(812.00: dressed beef steers, $7.50U1C.50; western steers, $6.50 10.50: southern steers. $0.00faS.75; cows. $3.25(3)8.50: heifers. $6.50410.50; itockers and feeders. $(i.iKgS-50; bulls, $5.25&7.25: calves. $0.50(511.25. SHEEP Receipts 2.000. Market steady to strong. Lambs. $12 00(213.10; stockers and feeders. $6.0012.00. Kansas City t.raln Market iT'ie range of prices for grain futures on The Kansas City Board of Trade as re ported by Thos J. Myers. Broker. Colum bian lildg.) Kansas City, Dec. 15. Open High Low Today tea. WHEAT Dec. ..136 156 131 151 163 May ..160 loo 151 15Hi 103 nouL"W" li5 1 yJS 14u Dec. 80 87- 85 80 88 May 8S 88 86 86 88 July 87 87 80 86 88 Chicago Grain Market Chicago. Dec. 15. WHEAT Close: De cember S1 41A Mn 1 ..ti r-l r-.. $1...144ft7 l.JJ1. ggVc December, 8c; May, 89cj July. t OATS December, 40e; May.5030c Julv, 484c. PORK Jnn., $27.05; Mav. $26.75. jjf-Al'D Dec., $16.80; Jan., $15.30; May, SHORT RIBS Jan., $14.00; May, $14.37. Grali Gossip. r By special wire to T. .1. Myers, Columbian Buildiag.l A Minneapolis wheat stocks have increased 540.000 bushels thus far this-week. Final estimates of the grain crops of the United States will be amtounced today at 11:30 a. ni. -by the department of agri culture. Elevator stocks of wheat In Kansas Citv have decreased 12.816 bushels thus far this week nnd corn stocks increased 38.203 bushels. Exports from the United States and Can ada, yesterday were 3(H.0OO bushels of wheat; 20.000 barrels of flour, uo corn, 372, (00 bushels of oats wheat and flour com bined. 435.000 bsshels. Estimated Sh' ments of wheat from Argentina this week are 1.000.000 bushels, compared with 1.228.000 bushels m'tually exported last week and 20S.0O0 bushels a year ago. Estimated corn shipments are 2 million bushels. Finn! estimate of the Iowa corn crop is 340 million bushels. 22t- million less than the government's preliminary figures, and 43 milliou more than last year's fiual gov ernment estimate. The oats crop, accord ing to state figures, is 184 milliou bush els. 21-i. million less than the government preliminary figure. A weekly International Wheat Review yesterday said: "The market this week has been under the influence of increasing exports. hich lias resulted in a greatly improved outlook for consumers. Reeeut estimates of the amount for export from the Uni:ed States appear rediculously small, as primary receipts are still liberal and visrble stocks are large. Any short age in North America and Argentina is easily counterbalanced by heavy holdings iu Austruiin and other wheat countries. We feel certain that exporters can furnish the world 468 million bushels of wheat, which will be sufficient to fill the needs of all importers, allowing of course, for economics resulting from high prices and increased milling percentage of admixture. The tonnage sltur.tion continues important, and much depeuds on the ability ft uiore Australian and Indian grain. The co?h market has turned weak, owing ,to tle political situation, after liberal purchases. America and Argentina shipmeuts are ex pected to iucrease." "Knnsns City Produce Market Kansas City, Dec. 15. WHEAT Cash Market 8c to 9c lower. No. 2 hard, $1.02Cqi 1.62; No. 3. $l.r6(i 1.61 No. 2 red, $1.58(8 1.61: No. $1.53!l.5S. CORN Mnrket lc to lV.c lower. No. 2 mixed, 86S7V:c: No, 3. 85f87c: No. 2 white. 87c; No. 3. 86c; No. 2 yellow, 87 (is, 88c: No. 3. 87S7V.c. OATS Market Vjc to lc lower. No. 2 white. 53u.C54c: No. 2 mixed, 53&;34c. RYE $1.2sr 1.30. KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE $106Q2.05. HAY Market unchanged. BRAN $1.28611.30. SHORTS $1.40Ca 153. WHEAT Recipts 71 cars. BUTTER Creamery. 39c; firsts, 37c; seconds, :!5c packing, 27VC. EGGS Firsts. 37c. POULTRY Heils, 16c roosters. 12e turkeys. 24c. CLOSE: WHEAT December, $1.51; Jnlv. $1.2Sfttl.2!l. CORN December, 85c; May, S0 80c; July, 86c. Chicago Produce Mnrket Chicago, Dec. 15. BUTTE It Market Don't Be Blue Over Pimples Stuart's Calcium Wafers Will Soon Put the Stamp of Beauty on Your Cheeks. Cheer Up. No matter how bad your skin may be, Stuart's Calcium Wafers will quickly work wonders with it. It's good-bye to blackheads, pimples, acne, boils, rash, eczema and a muddy "fiil-ed-up" complexion. New York Stock Market Wall St., New York, Dec. 15. STOCKS Rallies of 1 to 3 poiuts in. the first hour were only temporary, prices breaking sharply again ou the greater pressure ex erted by fresh lequidation and further short selling. Steel was offered in innum erable lots of 1.000 to 8,000 down from 114 to 100V4. Bethlehem Steel lost 32 points, all owing for its per cent divi dend, other issues, mainly those which fig; nred prominently in recent reversals were 5 to 12 points under yesterday's close. The chief features of weakness included Indus trial Alcohol, Marines Atlantic Gulf and West Indies, Interuational Paper and Cen tral Leather. Selling of the war and semi-war specialties was renewed at the outset of today's trad ing but rulls and other representative is sues were steady to strong. United States Steel recorded a maximum decline of 1 poiuts on its first transaction of 20.000 shares at 112 to 1134 recessions of 2 to 4 points were made by Lackawanna Steel, Utah Copper, American Zinc. Continental Can. leading shipping shares and New Y'nrfc Airbrake. Secondary prices were ir regular, some stocks making further de clines, while others, notably Steel, were firmer. Kansas CUv l.lv Stock Sales. The following sales were made this morn ing st the Stock Yards. Kansas City and reporte 1 over long distance telephone di rect to the State J.mrnal by Clay Robin sou a: Co.. live stock commission mer chants. Kansas City, Dec. 15. CATTLE Re ceipts 700 head. Market steady. HOGS Receipts 5.000 head. Mnrket 5c to 10c higher. Hulk of sales, $'J.0O(n 10.10 top, $l".'-o. SHEEP Receipts 3,000 head. Market steady. KILLING STEERS Vn Wf Pricr.lNo. Wt. Pr'ce. 36. 1050 $7.85 30..... 063 $7.65 .'8 VI iifcll'i "S 1 1130 1... 3. .1020 .1210 ..1170 .4 870 740 500 200 ISO ISO 120 7.00 4.85 5.25 1. 3. 11. 1.. 1.. 1.. 3.. 6. 4S. S3.. 600 I 5. 0.00 I 42. CALVES. 1. 4.. 5.. .1120 .1100 241 203 7.00 10.30 9.50 5.00 u; LLS. 5.25 I 3. 4.80 1.. 0.00 I i'OGS 10.15 I 82.. 10.00 60.. 10.05 I 65.. 8S0 ...1070 ...1200 KEEKKRS. 810 ...1031 330 2.30 300 6.5!) 5.25 5.25 6.85 6.63 7.83 6.00 10.00 7.50 880 .1410 215 236 197 X40 6.50 10.00 10.10 9.93 Kansas City Live Stock Market Kansas City, Dec. 15. HOGS Receipts 5.000. Market 10c higher. Bulk of sales. A TALBOT D d rwx Llvl vw v v Chicago Un Stock Market Chicago. Dec. 15. HOGS Receipts 38.000. Market slow to higher. Bulk of sales. $9.65 (if 10.10; light. $il.20fu!)95: mixed. $0.454 $10.15 :heavy. $9.00& 10.00 rough,$9.G0(ig,aC75 pigs. $7.25(-f9.10. CATTLE Receipts 3.000. Market steady. Native beef cattle, $7.00j 12.00 western steers. $6.U0Cu 10.25 stockers and feeders. 4.75(U8.00; cows and heifers. $3.S5kl0.10 calves. $8.50(i12.25. SHEEP Receipts 9,000. Market strong. Wethers. $S.75fe 10.00; lumbs, $11.00(313.35. TOPEKA MARKETS. (Prices furnished by oWlff Packing Co. 1 Topeka, Kan., Dec. 15. Hogs i MIXED AND BUTCHERS $8.00(89.80 HEAVY 8.00W9.S5 LIGHT 8.00((9.65 PIGS (under 150 lbs.) 0.50I&7.OO Butter and Eggs I (Furnished by the Beatrice Creamery Co., j Topeka, aKu.) j Topeka. Kan., Dec. 15. I CHICAGO EGGS 37 38c. NEW YORK EGGS 46&47c. I CREAMERY BUTTER Chicago 36c:1 New York. 3939e; Elgin, 37c; Topeka I wholesale, 37c. Poultry. Eggs and nBtter (Furnished by the Topeka Packing Com pany, coruer Laurent and Madison.) Topeka. Kan.. Dec. 15. HENS 3 lbs. and over, 14e: under 3 lbs., 12c; springs, over 2 lbs., 15c; ducks, 9c; geese, 10c; broilers. 2 lbs. aud uuder, 18c; stagy young roosters, 13c. Topeka Hay Market (Furnished by T. A. Beck, 12-14 East 6th.) Topeka, Kan., Dec. 15. PRARIK HAY $0.00. ALFAFLA $17.00. 1 Topeka Grain Market (Furnished by T. J. Billard, corner Kansas Ave. and Curtis t.) Topeka, Kuu.. Dec. 15. WHEAT $1.K6L00. CO R N 88c. OATS 50r,(4c. JNCW. ForaFtfCOLLARS are curve cut to fit the. shoulders perfectly Cluett, feabody fiCCorlncfMakcrs LET THis MiGM CRAPE PORTABLE VICTROLA PLAY YOUR DANCE M05IC.OR SUPPLY VOL! WITH AN ENDLEJ5 VARIETV of wholesome enTerTai nm ejJT in your (40me 3ou w?6e satisfied- fcIkoLA Service AJSI1 TONIGHT THE GREAT GRIFFITH SHOWS With l.OOO Laughs 10-20-30c GRAND sIf Dec. 16 "Believe Me, I Am Glad Those Pim ple Are Gone." They contain no poisonous drug: of any kind, are perfectly harmless and can be taken with absolute freedom, and they work almost like magic. Calcium Sulphide, their principal in gredient, is the greatest blood-cleanser known to science. So don't be blue, don't despair, get a 50-cent box of Stuart's Calcium Wafers today at any drug store in the United States and soon you will have as beautiful a complexion as you ever wished for. Kill out the coupon for a free trial package. Free Trial Coupon V. A. Stirart Co., 345 Stuart Bid,. Mnrwhall, Mich. Send me at once, by return mnil. a free trial package of Stuart's Calclu-a Wafers. Same Street City State. NIGHTS 33c to 9i. Mat. 25c to 1 Seats at Rowley MAIL ORDERS NOW THE BIG, CLASSY SHOW T SEASON PATHE NEWS GRAND xigIht DEC- 20 CIRTAIX AT 8 P. M SHARP AMERICA'S FAVOR ITE DRAMA DAILY MATS. AT P. M. 10c HMCvnMlHwBMH Hoar the Hawaiian Singers and Play ers. Mail Orders Now. Seats Monday PRICES S1.50. $1.00. 75e. 5!)e. 25c UVELT TONIGHT 23 Two New Lines of Wool Coats On Sale Here Saturday J one at the other at 0 Reduced in price from higher priced line3 for Sat urday selling. There are some Wooltex Coats among them and you are familiar with the quali ties of their manufacture. TheW mi ills Company For jattwBma Get the Round Package Used for V3 Century. V Caution (JC 3 MALTED Mil Ask For and GET X Lira'! Mum THE ORIGINAL ALTED MELK Made from clean, rich milk with the ex tract of select malted grain, malted in our own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. infant and children thrive on it Agree with the iveahemt mtomaeh c the invalid or the aged. Needm no cooking nor addition o miUu Nourishes and sub tains more than tea, coffee, etc Should be kept at home or when traveling A nu tritious tood-drink may he pr .pared in a moment. A glassful boc before retiring induces refreshing; sleep. Also in lunch tablet form tot business men. Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price Take s Package Home NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE FLOUR Master millers equipped with the most sanitary, modern mill produce "I-H" Flour fro mclean, plump, hard winter wheat. Hard winter wheat contains more gluten than any of the other varie ties of wheat from which flour is made. Bread, biscuits and cake made of "I-H" Flour are, therefore, more palatable and valuable as food. And for the rea son that hard winter wheat will absorb more water than any other variety, "I-H" Flour is the most economical. Ismert-Hincke Milling- Co., Topeka, Kansas Sc wxwww lOc I illinium s Today and Tomorrow EE Theda Bara jfW i S in "The Vixen" EE While Theda Bara had por- i EE trayed many unpleasant femi- nine characters, always with the same startling finesse, there was one left at least of which she had not exploited i tlte rileness of. This one will Es be found In "The Vixen," and EE i SS It would Indeed be difficult to EE 1 locate a more despicable type EE of femininity. I imimiiiiiinim.'iiiiiiiiiiniiiniMiii ORPHEUM TODAY TOMORROW CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG in the 8-Part Superfeature "THE COMMON LAW" Shown Under the Title "Hfs Lawflll ife" This Play Ran Two Weeks in the Willis Wood gPECIAjr MUSIC FREE LIST SUSPENDED EBJaSlSg cwTLf fz SHOWS Matinee Evening 1 and 3 .7 and 9 PRICES Matmce Any Scat Kvenincl ower Floor-Ralcony .15c-. 2.c .13c .A 1

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THE TQPEKA DAIT "r STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1916 lbs.SUGAR S Place Your Order for Sugar NOW. 1 121b.Ham$2.04 Per lb. 17c. or 48 lbs. Flour $2.00 Your choice of any of the 3-Big Specials with 4 order. KAISER ADDRESSES TROOPS "IT They Haven't Had Enough," Em peror Says They'll Get That Scon. Berlin. Dec. 15. Germany express ed a willingness to enter peace nego tiations because she i now fullv vic torious. Kaiser Wilhelm told German troops in Alsace, in an address. "We proposed to mediate to the Your Choir of Perfection. We Banquet. White Lonf or I H. BIG MONEY SAVERS FOR THURSDAY ONLY SAl H.WiE I'ure pork urnl .ii..nl!ii. lb Vfcc ILUIK The Keir.il. 4s-lb. sni-k K-ls OKAX.KS l-iiM' y t'nliforuiii Navel. 4b- size. elm. SOe; "IV- size, .loz. .ic SIIIK PICKLES vialL.tl SOc Kree lelivrry. Mail Order Promptly Filled. OVERCOAT Weather Is Here! We are showing an exception ally strong value line at m complexion I EVER be 1 ll!tnttf Capt. Donald Thompson's GREATEST PICTURES Seven Reels of Thrills WAR AS IT REALLY IS Don't be discouraged My face was even worse than yours till I found that 1 .esmo clears pimply skins Just wash your face with Resinol Soap and hot water, dry and apply gently a little Resinol Ointment. Let this stay on for ten minutes, then wash off with more Resinol Soap. In a few days pimples, redness and roughness simply vanish! I know that sounds too good to be true but it is true. Try it and see I All dragrists "H Rrsiool Ointment nd Resinol Soap. For a free sample of each, write to Dept. b-R, Resinol. Baltimore. Nf d. t'jr Rtsutoi Soafiforhaby, enemy," the kaiser was quoted as saying- 'The outcome is unknown, but if the war continues, the blame lies with the enemy. If they think they have not had enough, then I know you'll and here the kaiser con cluded with a bit of soldiers' slang that caused his troops to smile grimly. WILSON WILL NOT BUTT IN No Action on Peace Proposal Until After Lloyd-George Speech. Washington, Iec. 15. President Wilson probably will not finally deter mine on any formal steps in connec tion with the peace proposals of the central powers until after David Lloyd George, the British prime minister has spoken in the house of commons Tues day. SUICIDE WITH KEROSENE San Antomcr Woman's Charred Body Found Near Her Home. San Antonio, Dec. 15. The badly burned body of Miss Julia Rabe, post graduate student at the University of Texas, was found early this morning near the home of her brot jer. the Rev. Charles M. Rabe, in West end. Miss Rabe had left the house in the night, taking with her a gallon of kerosene. She saturated her clothing and a heavy bed quilt she had wrap ped about herself. A match had been applied and the clothing completely burned from her body. Miss Rabe was 38 years old and the daughter of the Rev. J. A. G- Rabe of this city. Her health had been bad. Dismiss Injunction. St. Louis, Dec. 1 5. The suit to enjoin the sale of the bonds of the San Antonio. Uvalde Gulf railway to John T. Milliken for $785,000. was dismissed in the federal district court today. The bonds have a face value of $3, 467.000 and were held by the National Bank of Commerce of St. Louis as v T W ft; ry j J- V. LI 1 1 V" A You owe it to Yourself and to vcur Children to SEE HISTORY IN THE MAK- LXG., SEND THE CHILDREN TO THE MATINEE MRS. DONALD C. THOMPSON will describe the scenes, as the pictures are shown THE MODOC CLUB WILL SING AND IT'S ALL FOR CHARITY MANAGEMENT TILE TOPEKA PRESS CUB 5i0 seats reserved at 25c General admission 10c; School children umier 15 years, 5e Matinee Only. SATURDAY ONLY, 2:308:15 AUDITORIUM, TOPEKA 1 Special Sale m Books of Fiction $1.35, $1.25 and '$Pt$ yg.-j $1.00 Editions j ift ffl ZERCHER ;BOOK J- M H STATIONERY CO. Sfh Ijj 52 f Kansas Ave. W 1 Why Not Give HER What She Wants? You will not look further after seeing our lamps Electric Portable, Floor, Table and Desk Lamps Could Any Gift Be More Useful? Could Any Gift Be More Welcome? Free instructions in the making of Silk Lamp Shades this is a per manent department and -will be maintained for the benefit of our patrons. So4 '-KANSAS STXXTflSE- ZSJ T security for notes given by. the Bank ers Trust company, now in receiver ship. Counsel for the Xational Bank of Commerce said anyone willing to pay m6re for the bonds than Mr. Milliken offered, could have them. Hold fp Men in Own Doorway. Kansas City, Mo.. Dec. li. H. C. Spencer, street car conductor, stopped in a doorway on his way to work this morning to light a cigarette. One holdup man held a gun on Spencer while another went thru his pockets after 3 and a $55 watch. President Nixon Sinking. St. Louis, Dec. 15. W. C. Xixon, president of the St. Louis San Fran cisco railway, who is critically ill at his home here, was gradually sinking today. Physicians give little hope of his recovery. I Extra Dividend by Prairie Pipe. j Independence, Kan.. Dec 15. The! Prairie Pipe Line company today de- j 1 clared a Quarterly dividend of S 5 a share, and an extra dividend of $5. payable January 31 to stockholders of j record December 30. I nAioc This is a man's store JLvfttCCo rue Get HIS Gift here Confirm Mexie Killing. I El Pano, Dec. 15- An American who ar- i rived here from Santa Rosalia. Mexico. hiwiivht M.nflrm'.Hnn nt tTt kiMlncr nt Jr C H. Fisher at Santa Rosalia, an unknown I foreigner at Jimiuea and Howard Gray at 1 1 f arrai. We Give S. H. it- Green Stamps S J 614 Kansas Ave. Mmll. a FINE i 5 ti R Here Is An fi f If i .S THE LEAD.NG WATCH I The Kansas State R-J I j U mW V fV Henry B- Wood fc- f j (Q) Christmas Saving j 1 i kl Hpre's somethinff NEW. Join a Here's something NEW. Join a Christmas club and get from 2 to 10 percent interest on your money. Next December we will make out your check. Use it where you want to, pay taxes, buy gifts, anything you wish. You don't have to buy anything of us. WE WILL PAY YOU 2 PER CENT ON YOUR CHRISTMAS CLUB MONEY. If the check is applied toward the purchase of a watch, diamond or jewelry, we will pay you 10 PER CENT ON YOUR CHRISTMAS CLUB MONEY. Your money will be deposited by us in any bank you desire. Just the same as any other Christmas club is conducted. TAKE OUT AS MANY MEMBERSHIPS AS DESIRED. HERE ARE THE PAYMENT PLANS YOU CAN DRAW THE MONEY YOU HAVE DEPOSITED ANY TIME YOU WANT IT 5 Cents rp CLASS C pay 5c 1st week pay 10c 2nd week pay 15c 3d week and increase deposits 5c each week until December 14. 1917, when cheek for $03.75 will be given yon with Interest at 2Ci If a diamond, a watch or some jewelry article is desired and the check is to be applied on such purchase we will pay lOc interest to each Christmas club membership. Ask Us About Our Club Membership Ready to Issue Dec. 23 Think What You Can Buy Next Christmas With That Extra Money 2 Cents l"p CLASS A pay 2c 1st week par 4c 2nd week pay rW' 3d week and increase each deposit 2 cents each week nntit December 14, 1917 when check -for S25.50 will be given you with interest at 294 2 Cents Down CLASS B pay $1.00 1st week pay 88c 2nd week pay 96c 3d week and decrease the deposits 2c each week until December 14. 1917. when cheek for $25.50 will be given you with interest at 2 5 Cents Down CLASS D pay $2.50 1st week' pay $2.45 2nd week pay $2.40 3d week until December 14. 1917, when check for $6.1.75 ill be given you with Interest at 2 1 Where Our Club Surpasses All Others We pay interest on Christmas club savings; other clubs do not. You can withdraw your money at any time; others do not pro vide for this. Jewelers who are now buying diamonds in the open market will ask you $35 or more for this1 little beauty. Our price Before war prices will never prevail again when our present stock of Diamonds is ex hausted. The Diamond we are selling today at Will sell for one-third more in the regular way. There is not the same advance in prices of diamonds of Vz to carat size but our sparkler at cannot be duplicated today for the money. When that gift is to be a fine diamond like -the one we sell at It. is just like giving the loved one a gold bond at 10 per cent interest. $24.75 $48.50 C69.25 $98.50 We pay 2 on all checks, regardless of how you use the money. We pay 10 interest on all checks applied on Watch, Diamond or Jewelry purchase. A Santa Fe Special Watch For Everybody Payments Arranged to Suit Your Convenience

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-8 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL--FRIDAY EVENING. DECEMBr 15, 1916 TURKEY TO BE 40 CTS. Christmas Fonls Will Come High to Topckans. Dealers Assert. 'Forty-cent turkeys for Christmas" Do You IH-ink the Best Coffee ill tin- Worlil'.' KAVANAUGH'S COFFEE S5( per lb. Try a Pound and Ho Convinced. Four checks Riven with every pound sold at the store Saturday. With checks procured with Kavatiatmh Coffee many beautiful Christ ians presents may be ot t.'iined. THE UNION PACIFIC TEA CO. 113 I". Sixth St. Phone 1317 YV. V.. GUY, Manager. Don't Miss This f It's the bluest meat bar- 71 gain we trvcr uucicu O PRIME RIB ROASTS. flf fa Cut from native Steer Eeef, usually retails at 20c to 22c a iiound. 'i Our lric for Thi Sale Only C 15e Pound y. I jf Sale lupins Saturday niort:t.s f E.S f Jiiimtity is Limited. Canned Vegetables O All kinds of canned vee- jf tnll-s. in our ortinion. are j 1 soi-, to advMnce in price iu K.S the very near future, that is jf j ff when i resent stocks that i were lionght etrly by retail- W I ers are exhausted. We be- jl lieve c!isumers can save big v nioney oy antictpatinir their '4 j J requirements for at least six months ;ihead and supplying themselves now. Wo are offering a Red Sal- j f iron in No. ran.s at 1 It can. i cr Sl. li! that would V f ont t buy lrom jobbers to- tf5 6 uy- tu'"x o OOur reuuhir Pnturrlay spec- j i ImI sale ol hiKhRKt jrratle ma- i 0 chine ulu'ed lirenkfast Kacon j JL nt pound will ho on on f i C-J Saturday. jj I Snidor's Oitsup has stood .i M nt the head of the market as to inality and flavor for over 5 thirtv years, if consumers c 1 could realize that when they 6.5 lny the lar?e bottle from us 1 f at 1.m- thy are buyina: it at 1 nrrlv r."1"; below regular Vr jf, prii e they would buy a year's a ondense ittn that is iat is beini? sold by the ca n at jobber's price, K-9 "n for small and tiU can for j Now tlie time Ut fill Your stainp Hook a o 9 o o o a o FYTR A V SI AMP COUPON Tills Coupon if presented tomorrow. lcc. 18. IIB. xlien makhic n piircliase f SI or more, not Ktigar, will initio bolder ti leu extra S. ii II. stniM, fsxl in any liook. Only one cou wm to n Mrs4m. Wm. Green Son PVAl.lTy- CA8H-CHDCF. P 5 Tomor row Special Beef Chuck Roasts, 1 o per lb 1ZC Pork Loin Roasts or ir Chops, per lb IDC Celery Jumbo stalk Grape Fruit each 6c 5c Regular Prices Good Every Day Pancake Flour, Pkjr...l0c Pancake Flour, Sack... 25c Jonathan Apples, peck. 50c Macaroni, 3 Pkgs 25c Monarch Catsup, large bottle 15c Mixed Nuts, pound.... 13c k Phone 4190 MORNS MYERS 900 North Kan. Ave. is the direful prophecy of Topeka gro cers and food sellers. "Unless some unknown turkey center floods the market there is no escape from paying 40 cents," asserts one prominent To peka grocer. "Turkey raisers around Topeka are sending their birds to Kan sas City, receiving a price that guar nntees such a figure." The Topeka Packing company tins week sent its entire supply to the j Kansas Citv markets. receiving 2 cents a Dound for them with heads and feet etill on the fowls. When they are drawn and dressed and feet and heads removed, the cost will figure about 3 4 or 35 cents a pound to the Kansas City buyers. Add a cent a pound for the freight which the Kansas City men have to pay and then add wholesaler's and retailer's profits and you have the 40-cent turkey, declare Topeka gro cers. The price of the Christmas goose will be tame this season, is the com forting prophecy of the meat men. There is a large supply of geese avail able locally and the eventual price will probably be about 22 cents a pound for the Christmas market. Discontinue P. O. Tube Service. Washington, Dec. 15. The honse postal committee today voted nine to five to discontinue the pneumatic mail I service at St. Louis, Chicago, Philadel phia and Boston and to authorize the postoffice department to close the New York tubes within six months. I 1 f I look uver These Prices and compare them with what you have been paying on a credit basis, or at any credit, Free-Delivery store! Most of theiX items are our everyday prices. WHITE MAMMOTH CELERY Extra fine c LARGE LOOSE RAISINS Fine, New Muscatels, lb. 9V4c WHITE HOrSE I IX) I K None Better, 48 lbs $2.23 FIXE GRANCIiATED SUGAR. 34 lbs 25c IIANCY HALL SWEET POTATOES Fine, peck 29c PVRE MAPLE SYRUP Quart can, extra 40c CHRISTMAS CANDIES We have the finest line of pure, delicious candies sold In Topeka today, yet our prices are ve. close for the Holidays. See our price list first of the week. BLEACHED SEEDLESS RAISINS 20c value, lb.....': 15c EVAPORATED PEARS Fine, new, lb 15c MATCHES Special, 2 large boxes 5c PORK LOIN OR CHOPS Pound 16c RYE BREAD Every Friday P. M. and Sat urday A. M., big loaf 10c DRY SALT PLATES 3 to 6-lb. piece, lb 6c FANCY BULK OLIVES Queens, qt 29c FANCY NORT .N CABBAGE Elsewhei 1 now 6j, lb 5c ALUMINUM GRIDDLES Last a life time 85c VAN CAMP SANS 10c can 8e; 15c an 12c 26c can 20c EXTRA FANC5 PINEAPPLE Large 25c can 20c PET OR CARNATION MILK Large 10c; sm.xU 5c FINE STORAGE EGGS Dozen 32c Scores of other items at bar gain prices. i fir 9 STORES I 11 '"Mmm npiio-wmiii MMiMMiiijBiLmiiimjf iini irau" i 1 ri! SNAPS For Tomorro w Cream of Rice, 15c value Tomorrow, pkg lie Mukes Kielit Lbs. of Food. Queen Olives, large sine, quart 23c ClirlKtnms Candles and Nuts Fine Quality Candies, 15c val ue, tomorrow, lb..., 12 'jc Fancy Mixed Nuts, 28c value, tomorrow, lb 18c Also l-lill Line of Christmas Trees, Holly, cU Our Every Day Prices Are .lust As Snappy. Corn, Sweet Suaar. UC Peas, Early m .lune, can Pet or C arnation Milk liarge cans 10c Small cans 5c FLOUR White Lily, 48 lb. sack $2.25 2 I lb. sack SI. 13 Every Sack Guaranteed. MEATS Chuck Roasts, lb 12'4e Chuck Steak 15c Hound Steak, lb 25c Homo Made Sausage, lb. .He Wolff's Bacon, Sugar Cured. lb 20c Strip or Half Strip. FREE DELIVERY Exchange Grocery Phones 310-S789 122 E. 6th St. I SUGGESTIONS FOR PRACTICAL GIFTS I Exceptional Coat Values Here The Handkerchief Shop Offers the following items. Handkerchiefs are always wel come gifts and you'll have no trouble finding what you want in our immense assortments. Men's 50c Silk Handkerchiefs in the newest colorings and de signs, priced at each 85c or 3 for SI. (10. Men's All I,lnpn Initial Hand kerchiefs, hemstitched, with U inch hems and white or colored initial Regular 20c values, spec ial at, each 15c A Special Lot of Men's Soft Finish Handkerchiefs with long initial done in white. Regular 10c Handkerchiefs done up in packages of six and priced at a. package for 35c A Splendid Assortment of Women's Handkerchiefs in a great variety of styles rolled hems, hemstitched hems, embroidered, printed, French hems, crossbar, floral designs, conventional designs, stripes, checks, etc. They are made of all linen, mercerized cotton and the finest and sheerest of cot ton goods. Priced at each. .15c Children's Silk Handkerchiefs as cute as can be, priced at each 15c Also splendid assortments of children's handkerchiefs, either boxed or separate, priced most reasonably. Christmas Books, Cards, Stationery and Bibles (First fuHif south aisle) We are showing the largest assortment of juvenile books that we ha.ve ever shown, priced .at from 10c to $1.50 Painting and Drawing Books at 10c, 25c and 50c Boys' and Girls' Books embrac ing 25 series priced at 25c, 50c Henty and Alger Books, each 19c Populur Novels by Holmes, Southworth and many other authors at each 25c Popular Fiction, each 60c Christmas Engraved Cards with envelopes at the following prices: 2 He each or a dozen for. ,25c 6c each or a dozen for. 50o 10c each or a dozen for. .$1.00 15c each or a dozen for. .$1.65 25c each or a dozen for. .$2.50 ChriHtmas Seals and Enclosure Cards, assorted packages: 4 pkgs. for 5c 2 pkgs. for 5c Christmas Cord for tying pack ages, 20 yds. for 7c Holly and Poinsettia Utility Boxes: Small sizes, 2 for 5c Medium sizes at, eadh ..5c Large sizes at, each 10c Christmas Garland, red and green, large size, 5-yard colls for. 10c Medium size, 6-yard coils... loc Bundle of 60 yards, large size. .'.$1.00 Bundle of 60 yards, medium size 90c Stationery Fancy Christmas Boxes filled with 1 to 4 quires of paper and envelopes tied with silk ribbon at 25e up to $3.50 a box Kodak Albums. .15c up to $1.25 Oxford Bibles. .50c up to $3.00 Oxford Testaments. 19c to 5c Otherwise Why Should We Sell So Many? Warm, practical coats in the wanted materials with big fur collars or without fur, which ever way you want them. Reinforcements Have Arrived from New York for Tomorrow's Choosing featur ing the two leading cloak fabrics of the season. Seal Plush and Wool Velour u nsurpassed Assort ments of Luxurious Plush Coats at $16.50, $19.50, $22.50, $24.75 up to $45.00 Either self-trimmed or fur trimmed. The furs used are Natural Raccoon, Blue Fox, Moufflon, Red Fox, River Mink, Mole, Beaver, etc. When yo i feel the wonderfully soft texture of these Coats and see their full sweep, their beautiful drape and, trying them on before a mirror, realize their wonderful becomingness, you will know why there has been such a tremendous de mand for them. The most popular Coats of the season some think they are. They're Warm, They're Dressy And Quite the Correct Thing Because they are equally suitable for Street or for Evening Wear. Carpet Sweepers $1.50 ea. (Third Floor) "Nothing could be more appro priate for wife's or mother's Xmas gift." Guaranteed to give satisfaction, made with metal box and equipped with furniture protector, runs easily yet does very efficient work. "The Warren M. Crosby" sweep er an unusual 'value at ea.$1.50 Turkish Towel Sets, 69 (Linen Dept.) One large towel and two -ash cloths comprise the set colors t blue, pink and yellow woven in white. Each neatly packed in a box and tied with ribbon. .69c Cotton Blankets $1.50 and $2.25 Fine German finish blankets vert and warm, yet serviceable. Plnin Blankets with colored bor ders, sizes 64x76, pair $1.50 Plaid Blankets in a nice assort ment of colors, size 64x80, pair $2.25 Umbrellas Make gifts tiiat are sure to be appreciated. We mention the following as examples: Men's and Women's Black Umbrellas, 26 and 2 8 -inch sizes. Covers are of heavy weight silk and linen mixed and the assort ment embraces a wide variety of plain or fancy handles in either long Mission style for women or the short Prince of Wales style for men. Values up to J8.00 for.... $4. 85 Values up to $10.00 for. 6.00 Men's and Women's Umbrel las, 26 and 28-inch sizes. Covers are half silk and half linen and there are a wide variety of plain or carved handles to select from. Priced at each $2.23 AH Engraving Done Free of Charge. Just Arrived Chocolate Brown Kid Gloves A very popular color which we've been out of for a short time. Tour choice of either black or self stitching. We have your size. 39c Fancy Ribbon, 25 39c Fancy Ribbon in light and dark colors rose, pattern, Persian effects and stripes, 5 hi to Ihi inches wide; special at. a yard 25c Christmas Ribbon for tying Christmas packages, priced special at, a 5-yd. piece for 10c .po wonaerrui v aiues at .iiire or A Sale of Quality 100 Waists Formerly selling at $5.95 and $6.50 this season's models in light and dark colored taffeta, crepe de chine and Georgette crepe. Your choice at 4 4 Dozen Waists Formerly selling at $3.50 and $3.95 this season's models in flesh and white crepe de chine and tub silk. Your choice at $1.95 If you see them you're certain to buy one or two and possibly more. The values are so remark able and so plainly apparent. Complete Assortments of Wool Velour Coats at $14.85, $17.50, $19.50, $24.75 to $35.00 Either self-trimmed or fur trimmed. This assortment embraces some of the handsomest coats we have yet as you see the prices are most moderate. What Wonderful, vr i r l l PRICE Women are more enthusiastic about this sale of suits than almost any other offering in our big garment section. And it's really no wonder you know, because it is a mighty unusual lot of suits to be selling at one-half of their original prices SERGE POPLIN GABERDINE are the fine materials used in these suits Waists Garments that are cor rectly styled in every parti cular and made of splendid materials, taken from regu lar stock and arranged in two remarkable price groups as follows: ro.5U J Give Your Wife, or Mother, or Sister a Dress Pattern of Silk and Wool Be enganne the most serviceable material one can secure. We are offer ing a $2.60 quality at a yd. $1.95 in the following colors Jfavy Wsteria Military Bine Reseda and Havana Grey (In attractive Christmas boxes If desired.) Two Very Sr7rial Values in Dress Velvets Seven Pieces of 35-Inch $3.50 Paon Silk Velvet at a yard $2.50 in a beautiful quality, suitable for coats, dresses and suits. The colors are Seal Brown Military Blue Navy Myrtle Wisteria Black Taupe $5.50 and $6.00 Velvets, $3.75 We are offering our entire stock of these beautiful all silk chiffon velvets that were origi nally $5.5t and $6 at a yd. $3.75 We still have a good selection of the best colors and would ad vise early buying as they can not last long at this price. Remnants of Silk j and Vz Off the Regular Prices Three tables of desirable silk remnants await your inspection in our silk section. There are silks for waists, separate skirts, dresses, and silks for the chil dren. These are from our own regular stock and were not bought for this occasion. At their present prices they are at tracting quite a bit of attention. J..jke it a point to see them to morrow. New Wash Silks $1.00 Our new wash silks for spring are meeting with great success. Many of our patrons tell us that our assortment is the prettiest in town. The quality of these silks is far superior to anything we've ever shown before at $1.00. There are 40 pieces to select from in neat stripes of va rious colors suitable for men's shirts, women's blouses, chil dren's dresses and general house wear. See them tomorrow.

$1.25 Cap and Sc?rf Sets in a number of handsome colors, specially priced at a set. .$1.00 Warm Sleeping Garments for the Kiddies Those warmer sleeping garments for the little ones have you selected them? Whatever your wish nightgown, night draw ers or pajamas, the gar ment is on the shelf here waiting for you. Babies White Outing Flannel Nightgowns, soft as down for the tender little body 35c, 50c, 59c for 2, 4 and 6 year Tots, out ing flannel gowns in soft, deli cate pink and blue stripes.. 50c Outing Flannel Xlcbt Dresses with feet so the kiddies won't catch cold if they kick the clothes off. Pink and blue and white stripes. 2 to 7 year sizes for 59c Ir. Denton's Sleeping Gar ments, sizes 2 to 7 years, (best style with drop seat. Arnold Knit Sleeping Gar ments, 2 to 7 years. Many a cold comes like a thief In the night better get the warmer sleeping g-armcnts NOW. Second Floor. Cute Coats for Cute Little Folks at Reduced Prices For Saturday "or little girls of 2 to 7 years the Infants' Wear department on econd floor has a mighty fine showing of both single and double ..,-sted models. Made of corduroy, chinchilla, zibeline, v'-ur, Meritex and astra chan. Their reguln- -rices have been 5.95 to $6.50. For tomorrow we have priced thei t, each $4.95 Colors are brown, grey, black, Copenhagen, tan, green, navy and red. Customers tell us that we have the largest and best assortment of Children's Plush Coats (2 to 7 years.) In the city. Priced at from Boys Storm Boots $3.50 and $4.00 Chrome tan calf; lace style, with one buckle: heavy welt eole. Will stand many hard knocks and much .wear. In sures dry and warm feet; sizes 1 to 134. Pair $3.50; sizes 1 to 6, pair $4.00. Hosiery for Gifts Women's Pure Silk Hose of "Onyx" quality, full fashioned, some with double lisle tope or pure silk tops, of heavy weight and in all sizes. As there are samples and were purchased at a price concession, we are able to offex them as follows: $1.00 Qualities. 79c $1.25 Qualities $1.00 $1.60 Qualities $1.25 Men's Silk Plaited Hose Heavy or light weight, with double heels, tes and soles and high heels. A sock that we rec immend for satisfactory lp service at, a pair f. Or 3 pairs for $1.00 Just Arrived Knitted Petticoats We are pleased to announce that the shipment of knitted petticoats for which we as well as so many of our customers have been eagerly waiting has at last arrived. We are now able to show you full assortments at 59c,$1.25,$1.50, $1.95 and $2.50 We advise an early selection because the shipment was not as large as we expected. The mill not being able to ship all that we ordered. A Good Gift for a Man A Four-in-Hand Tie and pair of Hose or A Four-in-Hand Tie and Silk Handkerchief, attractively boxed in Christmas boxes and priced at a set S5c Mens Shirts Men's Fine Shirts made of percales and fancy striped shirt ings, colors guaranteed abso lutely fast, with either soft or laundered cuffs. These would be good value at $1.50 each and are therefore specially de- Qp sirable at, each Here is a gift that any man would appreciate. Kiddies Need the Warm Robes N ow They can't wait till Christmas the warmth and comfort of these cozy bath robes are needed right away. An ounce of preven tion you know. Fiittlc Robes of fleecy eider down in white with 1 aby pink or blue bound round with satin for 2 and 3-year tots. .$1.50 and lip Kiddies Blanket Holies in rose and grey. Copenhasen and tan. red and navy, blue and grey, tsn and brown, grey and riink and many other colors. Their chief charm lies in the fart that they are just like Mother's and Dad's pocket, collar, cord and all. $1.50, $1.95 and up. For the Wee Baby there are 'robes of cashmere or crepella some beautifully embroidered. White with baby pink or blue at $1.25 and up. I .J ?8.75 to $15.00

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, DECKMBER 15. 1916 PRACTICAL GIFTS FOR WOMEN Suits $15.00 Suits at 9.98 25.00 Suits at 15.00 45.00 Suits at 25.0O 59.50 Suits at 39.50 Coats $10.00, $15.0O, $17.50 and up. Dresses Serge Frocks reduced to $10.00 and $15.00 Silk Dresses and Party Gowns y4 to H OFF Blouses Think of it your choice of c QQ Blouses worth $7.50, $5.98 Q $5, until they are all gone, only Jr Here is a Itia; Snap New Blouses Manufacturer's stock bought at 50c on the dollar. We are selling them at this same sacrifice price. Improve this opportunity to select splendid gifts at these low- clearance allies. These blouses are in Georgette Crepes, heavy Crepe de Chines, Laces and Nets, in all colors and sizes. $3.98 Blouses Now $2.98 $2.50 Blouses Now $1.98 Furs Coney Barrel Muffs $3.98. S5, Petticoats Taffeta Silks $2.98 Satine all iL 733 Kansas Avenue colors' 98c The KDM Aloha ThtR Ht1 rf Washburn college will give a dancing party tonight at Kellam hall. The af fair will he a Christmas party. The hall will be adorned with one large Christmas tree and two small trees, and the ceiling lights will be shaded in red. The girls will wear tarlatan cos tumes in the rainbow colors. The company will include: Mr. and Mrs. De Buckaelear, Mrs. McCaslin and Miss Charlotte Leavitt. who will be chaperones, and Miss Violet Crura- j bine, Miss Ruth Koester, Miss Ruth Larimer, Miss Gertrude Gray, Miss Majel Langhart. Miss Helen Welty, Miss Jane Alexander, Miss Genevieve McMillan. Mias Ruth Thompson, Miss Christina Ward. Miss Teresa Tucker. Miss Telline Evans, Miss Sara Robin son, Miss Marjorie Lyle of Glen Elder, is. Miss Beatrice Shakeshaft, Miss Doro thy Wahle, Miss Dorothy Crane, Miss Elisabeth Edson, Miss Margaret Suy dam. Miss Katherine Harrison. Miss Ester eJnson. Miss Katherine Knowles. Miss Katherine Conkling, Miss Helen Himter. Miss Marjorie Herrig, Miss Laura Xeiswanger, Miss Marguerite Thrapp, Miss Elsie Cuth- Some one wants that which you do not. A small ad in the State Journal want columns sat isfies both. L M. PENWELL Funeral Director ROBERT STEELE. Assistant Phone 2. 608-MO Qulncy St tare $10.75 Some Time Between Now and Christmas you're going to think seriously of furni- as, after all, the most reasonable for some one on your list. If you come here now to select for that one. you'll save yourself a lot of trouble; you'll not only find the gift you are looking tor, but you 11 find gifts for all the rest or your list, young and old of both sexes. Starting with the young high chairs, youths' chairs, easy chairs, etc., and going on up you'll find such thinss as sewing tables, card tables, smoking tables, dressing tables, tea tables, muffin stands, hall clocks, fireside chairs, easy lounging chairs, can dlesticks, etc., etc., from $1 up. (ioods bought here will be delivered promptly and satis notion Is guaran teed to you and to the one to whom the gift goes. Here are some suggestions and prices: Jiorris uiairs ICockers Iavcn ports Parlor Suites T 1 1. I luuin ?4.65 to Parlor Tables $1.75 to Sewing Tables and Cabinets $1.85 to Writing Desks $3.95 to Reading Lamps $2.50 to Chiffonier Wardrobes $18.73 to Hall and Purlor Mirrors. $5.95 to Collarettes $18.75 to Smoking stands and Humidors. $1.50 to Dressing Tables $8.75 to $125.00 Piano Benches $8.95 to $35.25 Music Cabinets $6.75 to $48.25 Extraordinary RUG BARGAINS for GIFTS .17.96 for WUton Velvet Rugs, 9x12 ft. size; seamless, all wool quality. Splendid patterns. Especially good for hard service. 26.50 1 H AST value for only Al.fU 1.69 for Velvet Rugs, 27x54-lnch, wool faced, assorted colors "I Q and patterns, 2.25 value, only Vacuum Cleaner Bargains 6.95 Vacuum Cleaner and Sweeper, fair- 6.95 $5.75 to $38.75 75 to $75.00 .$14.75 to $125.00 .$16.50 to $175.00 $85.00 $58.73 $46.50 $74.50 $38.75 $48.50 $38.75 $48.50 $18.75 S19.50 13.95 for Seamless Brussels Sm. 9xl2-ft. size, allover designs, strict ly all wool, splendid colors. Splen did 18.75 Rug, priced spe- 19 Q"f cial for only J.OW 18.95 Axminster Rugs, 9xl2-ft size: in small allover and mottled patterns. Rich, heavy pile insures years of service 27.50 Q Q!C value, special for only. ,XO. 22.75 Klectirtc Vacuum Cleaner, powerful motor, fully guaranteed. Regularly $30.00. Special 22 75 powerful hand oower suction, ly "eats the dirt." 9.50 value, only. This Store Will Be Open Tonight Till Nine SHOES SHOES SHOES SHOES Men's, Women's, Boys' and Girls' Almost Every Pair at Cost or at Today's Leather Prices OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL CHRISTMAS Less THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY SHOE SALE IT IS A PROPOSITION WHERE Emrich's Shoe Store THE BOOTERIE Most Raise T IT? .oooy It Must Be Done Quickly In order to maintain the standard of high quality shoes at our popular prices we must discount our bills. We pre pared for an extremely heavy season but were disappoint ed on account of unseasonable weather that caused a slump in business in November and December that forces us to do this. J The foregoing, with the fact that we must have space for the spring shoes that will begin to arrive in January and February, make it necessary to CUT AND SLASH SHOE PRICES To Protect Our Credit Every shoe in our store, as everyone knows, is always priced less than anywhere else and we have cut them to the last notch. WOMEN'S SHOES USUALLY SOLD AT $2.50 TO $7.00 in this sale $1.85, $2.15, $2.35, $2.65, $2.85, $3.35, $3.65, $4.35, $4.65. Boys' and Girls' Shoes at proportionate prices. MEN'S SHOES SIMILARLY PRICED Christmas Slippers, Evening Slippers, Nurses' Shoes, Work Shoes No telephone orders No C. O. D. During the Sale Emrich's Shoe THE BOOTERIE No Shoes exchanged or money refunded during' this Sale 823 Kansas Ave. SCCCKSSOR TO KOBISOX 823 Kansas Ave. i m a n m bert. Miss Roxy Vanct!. Miss Ruth Kaster, Miss Sue Louise Bell, Mr. Har wood Benton. Mr. John Kaster, Mr. Glen Kasselbaum, Mr. George Barrett, Mr. Vincent Kerns. Mr. Kenneth Alex ander, Mr. Forrest Rice, Mr. Preston Palmer, Mr. Philip Lorman. Mr. Ralph Pettis, Mr. John Troxell. Mr. Ralph Moore, Mr. FTed Beerbohm. Mr. Ew:ng Fergus, Mr. Elwin Olander. Mr. Geo. Rourke,. Mr. Jim Allison, Mr. Lau rence Chapman. Mr. Arch McKeever, Mr. Edmund Wilkinson, Mr. John Parkinson. Mr. Harold Smythe, Mr. Leland Willits, Mr. Harry Welty, Mr. Glen Hussey, Mr. Ralph Oman, Mr. Arthur Champeny. Mr. Fred Worley, Mr. Russell Swiler, Mr. Paul Bush. Mr. Jirr. Perry, Mr. Ford and Mr. Jones. Mrs. George M. Crawford enter tained the Duplicate Whist club to day. Mrs. Schuyler Nichols and Mrs. Arch Catlin were among those who played tor absent members. The most fashionable evening party of the season was the ball given Thurs day night by Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wear, at Kellam hall. Nearly every woman present wore a new gown, and the music was "topping." The hall was arranged with decorations in the Christmas colors, green and scarlet. The upper walls were festooned with loops of evergreen fern, from which hung pendants between the windows, of hoops of scarlet, adorned with scar let ribbon bows. Mr. and Mrs. Wear received without attendants. The hostess wore a charm ing new gown with a foundation of cloth of gold, and an overdress of metal tissue in the two tones of gold and green, which formed a drapery for the bodice and a long tunic. The gown was made with jewelled trimming,- which adorned the bodice and edged the tunic. The metal tissue was used to form the long, hanging sleeves, which fell to the bottom of the skirt and were edged with the jewelled Dands. The corsage bouquet was of yellow roses to harmonize with the gown. Mr. and Mrs. Wear's daughter, Mrs. y-iarence Jordan, wore midnight blue velvet, with lower bodice and skirt drapery of silver lace. Mrs. Marie ifr Wa,? eowned In pink satin, with white tulle scarf, and a trimming in panmer effect of silver embroidered An out-of-town guest at the party OkVMwi E; N- Allen of McAlH8ter ykla., who is visiting her sister, Mrs. wnT- Nic'lols- M. Allen was gowned in white satin, with an eve- t5 "r wmte embroidered silk, o:," ,m Kin ore a sown of soft elyret- combined with Georgette crepe. Mrs. Joe Morgan was gowned J?!1"88. -,pmk clarmeuse, with a J .uf Sllver- Mrs- Fra"k Burrow, ht He Popular young matrons who ath" recently come to Topeka and has received a warm welcome by tin1''' wore a sown of blue satin, veiled in st r,.v,D ,.t i ered net. Ornaments of iridescent I blue set off the costume. Mto BeX Johnson, of Atchison, who" is visiting ?rJ ank Grigg8' was on of the I attractive guests. She was attired in i erfen t"lle- over a foundation of green uuuto, irom the shoulders to the girdle, was fashione of silver lace. Miss Clyde Bonebrake wore a gown of gold colored -satin, with a self lone silk stripe running thru the ma terial. The skirt was draped, and the bodice was adnrneH with i Miss Eva Smith was gowned in peach colored satin combined with white 'ace. Mrs. Edwin Kistler wore an at tractive evening gown of black tulle i ana satin. The drapery was edmd with bands of jet trimming. Mrs. Leslie Guild, one of the sea son's good- looking brides, wore a gown of pale blue satin, with draped bodice and overskirt of blue tulle. Mrs. C. B. Merriam wore a ball gown of bright blue tulle and satin. Mrs Jack Campbell, whose fairness makes her stunning in black, wore a black gown of tulle an 1 satin, with a touch of color in the corsage bouquet of lavender chrysanthemums. Mrs. Fred Freeman wore a handsome gown of green and black. Mrs. W. S. McClintock, one of the smart and popular society women of Topeka, who has lately moved to Kan sas City to live, was among the guests. She wore a gown of blue satin with an elaborate overdress of lace and em broidery. Mrs. Frank Grigjrs wore pink satin, with a fall or tulle over the shoulders, and a girdle of lace. A group of the young debutantes, as dainty as fairies, wire among the guests: Miss Ariel Nichols In a gown of pink Georgette and satin, with trimming of opalescence. Miss Mildred Fuller in vivid green satin and tulle; Miss Ernestine Kline with pink satin and Georgette; Miss Nannie Zahner also in a filmy pink gown over a foun dation of satin, and Miss Elizabeth Mills. In pink tulle. Miss 'Helen To der, one of the season's additions to the young smart set, ore black Georg ette and satin. Mrs. Jack Dillon wore a handsome gown of pink velvet, with fitted bodice and tunic of silver lace. Mrs. David W. Mulvane's gown was in one of the new soft tones of shimmering blue sat in, embroidered in conventional motifs of gold threads. The btue of the gown was combined with cream Georgette crepe, which formed the front of the bodice and a wide pannel in the skirt, f The girdle was of satin, and at each side of the skirt panel was a strand of gold ribbon. Miss Altha Watson wore white satin and Georgette. The satin was figured in bouquets in Dresden colors. She carried a fan shaped corsage of roses and sweet peas. Mrs. J. E. House wore a stunning gown of green tulle and satin, with wide girdle and shoulder trimming of irrid quins, in shades of green and blue. i Three men from out of town were j guests. They were Mr. Sam Horton of Toledo, Ohio, Mr. Frank Groves of j Kansas City, and Mr. James Waddell i of Kansas City. Mr. Waddell win make his home in Topeka. and will be engaged in business with Mr. Clarence Jordan. Mr. Horton also expects to be in business in Topeka. Mr. ami Mrs. Otis Alleo hud a dinner Thursday nijrht for their son, Stephen who celebrated his second birthday anniver sary. overs were ilar-el for Jndjre and Mrs. 8. H. Allen. Mr. (ieorce Allen. Mr. and Mrs. E. 1 Wlnrers I m I w i.. Stephen AUeu ami Mr. and Mrs. Otis Allen. it ie Mrs. William A. Johnston nnl Mn jraa tus Foster have been invited to attend the legislative (onferenie called by Mrs. Georire K. Hone, of Kansas OtT. president of the 1 he newlv electeil Keimr,r nn.l r... L tattres are aske.l to be present. The pur- i ,ur v,uintrii-e i nj tais over leg- i islatire measures for which the conacll 1 will work this winter. I The Monday Whist club will meet next Monday afternoon with Mrs. A. E. Herbat. I I Miss Effie Graham, vice president of the j Kansas Council of Women, will be acting president of the organization, on n,-,.i,n. of the illness of lr. Alberta Corbin, who is in Simmons hospital in Lawrence. i The home economics department of the Woman's club had a meeting Thursday mornirg at the high school cafeteria. Mrs. J. 1. McFarland talked on Domestic Science Training. Mrs. I. O. Coe. chairman of the department. has onranbted it into cir cles to be headed by the fololwing women: Where shall you buy it, and what shall it be? Here is a tip for you: A man buys everything, at a man's store. The TOGGERY has been preparing for several months for this holiday business. It now has one of the smartest, snappiest and most beautiful arrays of Christmas gifts it has ever shown. Beautiful Combination Sets In Handsome Christmas Boxes Mesco Pull-proof Tie, pocketbook and pencil. Aiesco t-uu-prooi ue, ana r our. tain ren. Mesco Pull-proof Tie, belt and silk hand kerchief. Handkerchief, belt and watch fob. Garter and arm band set. Priced 35c to $1.50 S Other Suggestions Belt and Garters Mesco Suspend Ideal House Coats Ideal Ixranging Robes Collar Bags Cuff Links ers Mesco Gloves Mesco Mufflers Ideal Shirts Mesco Sweater Coats Mesco Hose Give a box of these guaranteed Hose, they are good for six months' wear $1.00 and $1.50 i If Headquarters for Ideal Shirts I. S. GALITZKY Mrs. C. E. Bair, Mrs. M. Gasin, Mra. John M. Kinkle, Mrs. A. T. Lucas, Mrs. W. Morrison. Mrs. J. A. Stoner and Mrs. Mutt Weight man, jr. The girls who live at the Y. W. C. A. will pWe a partv tonight at the Association building, at 7:45 o'clock.- The entertain ment for the evening is being kept a sec ret as a sum rise to the truest. Those In charge of the party are Miss (iertrnde Hulter. Miss" r.rnet .vermgnam, aiiss aiaoei naiioc& ana Miss Syvester Kettering1. Note and Personal Mention. Mr. Marshall Crawford, who is a student in the Michigau university at Ann Arbor, will arrive Friday of next week for a holi day visit to bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mar shall Crawford. Mrs. Viola Lyon left today for James town, N. Y., and before returning home slip will vltit Nw York and Itonton. Miss Reulah Tulley who in a student in Ottawa university, will arrive tonight to j spend the holidava with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. II. I'uHey of Potwin Place. Mrs. W. S. McClintock of Kannas City, Is the guest of Topeka friends for a few j days. She enrae to attend the Wear party Thursday night. Mis Beatrice Johnson of Atchison, will return home tonight, after a visit to Mrs. Frnuk Griggs. Mrs. E. N. Allen of McAllister, Okla.. is J visiting her sister, Mrs. Schuyler Nichols. j Miss Ma urine Stevenson of Washburn college, went to Saliua today for a holiday visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin. Stevenson. Miss Nellie Allen, who teaches in Oswego college, arrived today to visit her parents. Judge and Mrs. S. II. Allen. Mrs. Charles Irew, formerly Miss Emily Allen, and Mr. Irew and their children, will arrive from -Hugoton. Kan., for a holiday visit to Judge ond Mrs. Allen. Mrs. Wlllard Hall has returned from Kansas City where she visited her daugu- ter. Mrs. John Hamilton. Mrs. L. B. McClintot-k and Mra. Dorr i Norton will visit Mrs. Harry Weaver of 1 Kansas City, next week. J Miss Frances lrote of Harvey ville, is I visiting Miss Hazel Ruck-r. Mtw Gro'e is i the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Grote, and the family recently moved to Ilarvey ville from Topeka. Mrs. Frank Merriam will go to Ienver Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs. Arthur M- rHntn'-k You Could'nt Spend Your Christmas Money More Appropriately FELT SLIPPERS Goodnight Corns! We Use 'Gets-It!'" 3 Drops i 2. Seconds. That's All. "GETS-IT" Does the Rest. Never Fails. "Really. 1 nver conM see how 90m. few people use the most difficult an! pttiu ful way thej- cn fiml to set rid of corns. They'll wrap their toes up with bandages into a packiipe that fills their shoes fuil of feet ani make corns so painful they've sot The Pleasing Practical Gift SHE Will Use and Enjoy On Sale Here for A Dollar A Pair Two styles pictured above are representative or the Pretty and Iaint- SlIpiK-r Patterns ottered then consider they are offer ed in various colors of red. wine, (tray brown, black and bine; some bound with black fur. others lower cut with fancy Pon Pon Bow. Leather or Klkskin Holes. Ch oice 00 a Pair This Big Shoe Store ia filled with wonderful variety of useful Gifts for men, women and children this year above all Foot wear is most acceptable. THE BIG "SHOE STORC 75 CAWS AS AVE. r to walk sideways and wrinkle np their faces. Or they use salves that eat right into the toe and make it raw and sore, or they'll use plasters thrtt make the corns bulge, or Dick and eouse at their corns and uu fee the toes bleed. Funuy. Isn't it? "GETS-IT" is the simple, modern wonder' for corns. Just put n drops on. It dries lustantlv. No pain, fuss or tronfele. The corn, callus or wart loosens and voines off. Millions use nothing etee. "(JETS IT" is sold and recommended by druggists everywhere. "J5c a bottie. or sent on receipt of price, by E. Lawrence Co.. Chicago. 111. Sold In Topeka and recommended as the world's best corn remedy by Klad Bros.. A. C. Ktiiirnmnn Jtr Va. Th RnirUi Iim Co., A. W. Lacey. Special for Saturday Humana Cigars 5 for 25c The buyinjf power of 8.Q00 P.exall Stores enables us to offer this regular S for 25c cigar, at 5 for 2Ac. We want every smoker in Topeka to know the extra quality of Humana Cigars. Pletora Cigars Regular 10c Porto Rican stock. We feature this Jn cigar at Klnth amd 1st Ave. This is an excellent op portunity to buy your Christmas cigars.

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10 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMP 15, 1916 In The Final Rush of Christmas Buying Come to this "live" men's store where you can choose quickly just what you want get served expediately and be on your way, with a feeling of complete satisfaction with your purchase, our service, our prices, your store Overcoats of Surpassing Style in full, loo3e flowing models or the newest Broadway hit the close fitting Pinch Back the coat for the nifty dresser. 15, 20, 25, $30 Conservative Coats in Oxford greys and blacks, full silk lined, $25 and $30. Winter Suit Styles Designed and tailored by the high est paid craftsmen in the world. New models in rich, warm weaves for cold weather $15, $20, $25 Hickey-Freeman Quality Suits, $25, $30, $35. Our guarantee of satisfaction is back of every garment. I House Coats and Dressing Gowns Beautiful hand-tailored gar ments in rich, dark hues with contrasting lapels silk trimmed 1 $5.00 to $20.00 Perrin's Gloves In Pique Kids, Capes, Mochas, Chamois and Buck colors, grey, tan, black and buff. Lined and unlined. Embroid ered backs $1.50 to $2.50 Rope Weave Sweater Coats In "V" necks or large shawl collars from the best makers in America new Color Combinations $1.50 to $10.00 Fine Silk Mufflers In stripes, greys, blacks and two-tone effects. They are always useful and acceptable 50c to $6.50 Angora Mufflers, $1.00 and $1.50. Initial and Plain 'Kerchiefs Initials plain or in colors, hand embroidered, unique designs. In boxes of three 75c to $1.00 a Box Plain Kerchiefs in boxes of six, $1.00. Plain Irish Linens, 50c each. Manhattan Silk Shirts $3.50 to $5.00 Arrow Full Dress Shirts $1.50 to $2.00 Christmas Neckwear From the looms of the world's foremost silk weavers. Nowhere west of Chicago will you find such values as we are offering in Xmas neck wear at 50c to $2.50 Larger Shapes better silks than elsewhere. Dunlap Silk Hats $7.50 and $8.00 Full Dress Accessories of all kinds Und erwear Sale Cooper's Closed Crotch Union Suits. Regular $1.50 winter weights Now $1.15 Phone us and let U3 send it out for your approval We can help you to make Xmas shop ping a pleasure. ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF COLLEGE HILL PLUMBING CO. 1108 West 15th St. B. F. Sumey, Proprietor. Phone 1401. Who Will Specialize in Repair Work This concern wants your business and will merit it by giving you better service than you have been able to get heretofore in Topeka. It has its own motor truck service fully equipped with modern Plumbing Apparatus and is able to get to a job and have it half finished while the other fellow is waiting on a street car. A trial will convince you that our 16 years of experience has taught us the meaning of the word SERVICE. We Guarantee No Overcharge Our Telephone Number Is 1401 smoked AT LIVING PRICES Whole Lamb Hindquarters, lb IOC No. 10 pail. Pure 1 Qfr Hos Lard JP-L.OO Fancy Native Chuck Roast, lb No. 1 Hams, lb No. 1 Calif. Hams, shoulders, Tb Round Steak, lb Veal Steak. lb Fresh Pig Hams, lb Fresh Pork Shoulders, It) Fresh Side Pork, lb Veal Stew lb Specials for Saturday 12c 20c 16c 17V2c 20c 17c 15c 18 c i'2c Sirloin Steak. lb Spare Ribs, lb Pork Loin Roast, lb Pork Chops, lb Breakfast Bacon, lb Veal Roast, lb Meadow Gold Butter, lb Plain Wrapped Butter lb Parkdale Process, ib DUTCH READY FOR WAR Holland iiv Constant Fear of Being Dragged Into Maelstrom. London, ec. 15. Premier Corfvan Der Linden, addressing the lower house of the Dutch parliament yes terday, said that the Dutch govern ment still believes that there is dan ger of Holland being dragged into the war according to a dispatch to Reut ers from The Hague. The premier was speaking on the budget and said that the country's munitions supply had considerably increased and was daily increasing and that, in view of the international situation it was un avoidable that sufficient military forces.be kept at the immediate dis posal of the government. INTERSTATE MEETING The sessions of the twenty-sixth annual convention of the Interstate Literary association will be held De cember 27-29 in the Shiloh Baptist i church. Twenty-five years ago the organization was formed in this city and in honor of 4he quarter century of profitable work, it will banquet the delegates and ex-presidents, plates being provided for 150 persons. The committee of the Business Men's league having to do with the entertain ment of the association met in the office of the chairman of the ex ecutive committee, J. H. Guy, 410 Kan sas avenue, Thursray evening. The committee on homes, of which H. I. Monroe is chairman, met at the same time and place. Addresses of welcome by Governor Arthur Capper and others are on the program. They will be responded to by George W. Gross of the office of the secretary of state of Colorado. Cubs Buy Fred Mitchell. New York, Dec. 15. Percy Haugh ton, owner of the Boston National league baseball club, has announced the sale of Fred Mitchell to the Chi cago club of the same league for Out fielder Kelley and a cash considera tion. It is assumed Mitchell will act as manager of the Chicago team. DROPSY TREATED FREE By Dr. MIIm, the Urent Sperlal.Kt, Who Send $3.75 Trial Treatment Free. Many Report Cared After Others Failed. IVJi lii ATS I 18c 12c 15c 16c 22c i2y2c 39c 38c 36c Butterine, 35c; also -lb. roll 20, 21, 25c All Kinrlc nf TTrpcfi Fieri onrl HvcfAM mm va. m. vjoiao j White House Meat Market WWWWWBMHBH 433 Raman Avenn. BnHRNHHnHH Everybody Read the State Journal Superior Service All-Steel Trains To KANSAS CITY DOUBLE TRACK L.T. Topeka 4:15 a. m. 5 :55 a. m. 9:40 a. m. til p. m. S:5 p. m. K r M p. a, T:5 p. m. :&0 p. m. Ar. Kan. City :Z5 a. m. 7 :4-S a. m. 9 :35 a. m. S 10 p. m. 6:15 p. ai. 7 :S p. m. :33 p. m. 10:40 p. m. NO -STOPS C. E. BASCOM, C. P. PboM 4030 I.t. Kn. City Ar. Topeka 7:55 a.m. :45 a. m. 10: to a. m. It :te p. a. 10 :S5 a. m. IS :4 p. m. 11 :00 a. m. IS :AO p. m. :S0 p. a. 8:15 p. a. 7:45 p.m. .M p. m. 10:00p.m. 11:55p.m. 11 :40 p. m. 1 lOm a. m. At first no disease is apparently more harmless than dropsy: a little swelling of the eyelids, hand, feet, ankles or ab domen. Finally there is great shortness of breath, cough, faint spells, some times nausea and vomiting, even bursting of the limbs and a lingering ami wretched death if the dropsy is not removed. Or. Miles has been known as a leading specialist in these diseases for :i0 rears. His liberal offer of a $3.75 Treatment free to all sufferers, is certainly worthy of serious consideration. You may never have sm-h mi opportunity again. The Grand Dropsy Treatment consists of four dropsy remedies in one. aiso Tonic Tablets und Pura-Laxa for remov ing the water. This treatment is special ly prescribed for each patient and is three times as successful as that of most physicians. It usually relieves the first day. and removes swelling in six days in most cases. Delay is dangerous. Send for Remarkable Cures in Your State. All afflicted readers may have Book. Kxamination Chart. Opinion. Advice, and a Two-Pound Trial Treatment free. Write at ouce. Describe vour case. Ad dress. Dr. Franklin Miles. Dept. DA., 51S to Fraukliu St., Elkhart, Ind. Advertisement. Si 91 That P Holiday Candies Are Pure and Wholesome Give h r a box of our deliciou. Home Ma'e Candy. It will please h.-. SPECIAL From now until Christmas Tour choice of one or more varieties of our regular 30c nd 35c lb. Candies. 2 lbs 25c Peanut Canilv "nffy Sliced Cocoa 11 lit. Choc He Fudge, Cream Coeoanut, Peanut Brittle. Maple Fudge ltcgu!ai 30c an" r-.c lb 2 His. ft r"am Coeoanut, I r i I jl 17 JiXi t in"ii'. i IT7t Maple Fudge J Ut'j W PALACE yfW noons, regular S'J.uO va lues. sell for, a set $2.00 Knives and Fo.ks. set of six each, reg ular $0.00 values, we sell for 6.00 Dessert S -oons, regular 4.00 value, we sell for" $3.00 1 Less M Wil ft L mm lilies o HUNDREDS OF PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR GIFTS OF PERMANENCE AND BEAUTY ARE SHOWN HERE AT A WONDERFUL SAVING IN PRICE. COMMON ITy PLATE At Nearly Wholesale Prices (A 50-Year Guarantee poos with every piece of Community Silver.) The late Patricia., patterns are shown here. They make useful as well as beautiful gifts. The dignity and gracefulness of this design is enhanced by modern workmanship the guarantee is unlimited. Orange Spoons, set of six, $3.00 values. we sell f.-r 2.00 Individual Butter Spreaders, set of six, regular $'!.50 values, we sell for ttf.00 Oyster Forks, ret of six, regular $3.00 values, we sell for $2.50 Table Simons, regular $4.00 values, we sell for S-50 Other Articles of Hllver Too Numerous to Mention, ALL at Economy Prices. 5rnw Ladles. $1.50 values, at $1.00 Individual IMe Forks, sets, $1.50 values, we sell for 3.H $2.00 Up Parisian Ivory V Off We went into the market early enough to get the advantage of right prices and we are offering it to you the same way. Our exquisite line is marked with a touch of elegane that you can't see just everywhere. Here yon will flml a number of IdcaB in real I'arlsian Ivory priced at from 25 to 30 per cent lower tlian any in Topeka: Nothinp is mofe elegant for a plft tlmn a rinff especinllv a (liamontl rinjr but we bave them in all kinds of settings from 2.00 op. Cut piacg in a. remarkable variety and VUI Vlliiaa at a price you Want to pay we sell nothing -but the better grade, must see our ine to appreciate it. Wrist Watches The prevailing style in Ladies' Watches is the Wrist Watch. We have endeavored to offer our customers only such watches as we know will give them entire satisfaction. Our guarantee goes with every watch we sell as well as the manufacturer's. We do not allow ourselves to be undersold, priced from $10.00 to $50.00 ClOCkS make very acceptable gifts. We have them in every possible style all priced right. WE HAVE A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES -ON WHICH WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. EAR SCREWS MESH BAGS OT7FF LINKS LAVALLIERES SILVER DORINE TIE CLASPS BROOCHES SCARF PINS WATCH CHAINS. ETC. FOUNTAIN PENS MONOGRAM BELT BUCKLES Our prices are always the lowest.. We positively will not be undersold Besides, we guarantee every purchase made here. 724 KANSAS AVE. OPEN EVERY EVENING 1

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15.'191fi II tri 1 UHEN A MAN'S ANAN J ake This a look Christmas There Is No Book Trust and Good Books Have Not Advanced in Price The latest and best books of the year. A guide to the worth while books of recent issue. Best New Fiction By Well Known Authors ",Vhcn a Man's a Man, Harold Boll Wright $1.35 Kan of Music Mountain, Frank II. Spearman 1.35 The Iiorder Legion, Zane Grey 1.35 The Heart of Rachael, Kathlyn Norris 1.35 From the Housetops, G. B. McCutcheon 1.40 The Woman Gives, Owen Johnson 1.40 The Heritage of the Sioux, B. M. Bower 1.35 The Rising Tide, Margaret Deland 1.35 Georgina of the Rainbows, Annie Fellows Johnson 1.25 Seventeen. Booth Tarkington 1.35 Thf World for Sale, Gilbert Parker 1.35 Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1.30 Rars of Iron, Ethel M. Dell 1.50 Bijr Timber, Bertrand Sinclair 1.35 Ju?t David, Eleanor II. Porter 1.25 Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs 1.30 Michael O'Halloran, Gene Stratton Porter 1.35 Under the Country Sky, Grace S. Richmond 1.25 Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter 1 1.25 Pollyanna Grows Up, Eleanor H. Porter 1.25 Enoch Crane, F. Hopkinson Smith 1.35 Bonnie May, Louis Dodge 1.35 The Unspeakable Perk, Samuel Hopkins Adams 1.25 Somewhere in Red Gap, Harry Leon Wilson 1.35 Penrod Sam, Booth Tarkington 1.35 The Rainbow's End, Rex Beach 1.35 The Short Cut, Jackson Gregory 1.35 The Leopard Woman, Stewart E. White 1.35 The Magnificent Adventure, Emerson Hough 1 35 The Chief Legatee. Ann Katherine Green 1.35 Prudence Says So, Ethel Heuston 1.35 The Best Books of Recent Fiction Now 60c Eyes of the World Molly Make Believe Martha by the Day Overland Red Riders of Purple Sage Tarzan of the Apes Return of Tarzan Eagles Mate Daddy Long Legs Four Million Then 1 11 Come Back to You Friendly Road Penrod Queed Options Laddie 60c Per Copy The Limited Edition of JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY'S ILLUSTRATED POEMS Price, 60 cents per volume Riley Child Rhymes Riley Love Lyrics Riley Farm Rhymes Riley Songs o' Cheer Riley Songs of Sum mer Riley Song of Home Riley Songs of Friendship RILEY LOVE-LYRICS jAMt3WHHUwn.gY Books By Kansas Authors- KKMK IJItAHAM 'Aunt I.izVs Praisin' Gate" 75c "i'usxin on Party" 60c WII.I.AH1 WATTLES "Sunt'ow-rs". $1.00 The Lifst of Kansas Verse. ru. cmai:i.f-:s lerrigo The ";iUp of Cheer" $1.25 1H l.KO.V CONGDOX The FiKht for Food" $1.25 Margaret Hill "McCarter The Cornerstone 50c Peace Solomon Valley 50c Winning the Wilderness. .fiOc Wall of Men 60b Price of the Prairie 60c Master's Degree 60c Cuddy's Baby 50c Cottonwood's Story 50c In Old Quivira 50c HALT MASOX Walt Mason, His Book... $1.00 Rippling Rhymes $1.25 Uncle Walt $1.25 Wise Sayings of Uncle Walt. 40c rm. chari.es m. sheldov Of One Blod $1.25 The High, Calling -.60c WII.IjIAM ALLEN WHITE God's Puppets $1.25 Certain Rich Man 60c O. HENRY Trimmed Lump l our MiHimi iili'iaacs niil Ktny Si rictly I.m..ih-s Il;irt or the Wist Options Yob-o of the City ntU Grafters I io; litis Stones Sixes and Sevens Whirligigs Koiuls of Destiny Complete in 12 volumes. Flexible Red leather llindinti. Each $1.65 Webster's New Internationa Dictionary Revised Edition Full Sheep $12.00 Full Morrocco, India Paper $20.00 Waterman's the Standard Pen THIS IS THE LEVER THE LEVER LOCKS Price $2.50, $3.50, $4.00, $5.00, $6.00 For your own writing- comfort and business use, or as a practical gift, we recommend Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen. Eastman Kodaks for Christmas Simple, Accurate and Thoroughly Reliable. Vest Pocket Kodak Takes Pictures 1H2H, Price $6.00 No. 2 Folding Camera Takes "Pictures No. 2-A Brownie Takes Pictures Price $5.00 Price $3.00 LB:. I Mi i W-lf 4 Vy h. "A I r R- s: We Pay Postage to Any Point in Kansas 5Ssassei Mis'- S&ferXZi r- iationery Co. 623 Kansas Avenue 1 FIVE ADRIFT SIX DAYS Five of Foundered Barge Nearly l am. ished When Rescued. I Brownsville, Tex., Dec. 15. Two Americans of the- five survivors of the barge Bob, which foundered in the Gulf of Mexico during a storm a week ago, were interned in Matamoras to I day pending permission from the de facto government to move them across the Rio Grande to this city- They are Captain Joseph Sodermann and Charles Arnold. The men reached shore thirty miles south of here yesterday after being i adrift in an open boat without food j and water six days. The two Amer icans and three Mexican members of the crew were given medical attention i in Matamoras. AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SAL.ES. MICTION OP ALL KINDS OF HOUSE FURNISHING AT 402 QUIXCIT EVERY SATURDAY, AT -l'J F. IAFFERTY, Auctioneer. STALONS FEJUOTTOIRIE CO. 315 Kansas Ave. Phone 3935 OKLA. EDITORS PROTEST Have LH legate in Washington to Take Part in Print Paper lrobe. Oklahoma City, Okla., Pec. 15 Otis Weaver, editor of the News-Herald, Shaw nee, is representing the Oklahoma Press association at the important gathering in Washington, I. C, today, at which the news print paper situation is being dis cussed. Byron Norreil, editor of the Ada News, president of the state organization, got in telegraphic touch with Weaver at Washington and made the appointment. Corey May Go to the Navy. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 1 5. "Tim" Corey, retiring- captain of the Nebraska football team, may be a member of the Navy squad at Annapolis next year, according to a statement made in Navy athletic circles. Corey, it was said, had received assurance he could receive appointment as cadet if he cared to accept. You Can't Brush or Wash Out Dandruff The only sure way to get rid of dan druff is to dissolve it, then you destroy it entirely. t To do this, get about four ounces of ordinary liquid aryon; apply it at night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. Do this tonight, and by morning, most if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more ap plications will completely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it. no matter how much dan druff you may. have. You will find, too, that all Itching and digging of the scalp will stop at once, and your hair will be fluffy, lus trous, glossy, silky and soft, and look and feel a hundred times better. You can get liquid arvon at any drug store. It is inexpensive and never fails to do the work. Advertisement. rv n rm n IN LOST AND FOUSTD.' FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. est; AVEMJ EOT J WANTED FEMALE HEM. A NATIONAL White Cross Agency for .Tour town mpanfl niiuinnr mnntMv lucerne of $K) to $125 for you. No invest ment, no deposit, no bond simply energy and honesty. Government supervision. Ad dress J. e. fiarner. Western Manager. 2441 1 roost avenue, Kansas City. Mo. WANTED Neat experienced waitress for Texas, RIO month, free transportation bouse girls: women cooks; dining room girls for Topeka and Kansas towns: maids. Flir man Knnilnrmpnt Office uta Vm Krh WAXTKD at once good colored girl for i Large G rooms, 2 story home. 8 blocks general honse work with reference; good west of the Avenue, in one of the finest wages; no washing. Call after 0 in the neighborhoods in the city, large living and evening or before 8 in the morning. 20Glidng room with built in china cabinets, Kust 8th. i reception hall, large open stairway, built in conveniences in iitciieu. sweu ueurmiu, AT OXCE Ten ladies to trnvel, demon strate siul sell well established line to our dealers. Previous experience not neces sary. Good pay. Railroad fare paid. iood- r11'1? L-rr"8LV-PPt. 2S4.j0maha.Neb. WANTED Expert comptometer operator.. Prefer one who can also operate type writer. Address Comptometer, care Jour nal. YANTED Competent girl or woman for general house work; one who can stay nights preferred. Phone 12G8. WANTED MALE HELP. finely appointed .1 piece bath, lnrge airy closets, furnace, coal room and lauudry in basement. Price $3,200. Terms. SIAWH'SE ENVESTMEKT CO 534 Kansas Ave. Phone 5050. ANTED Neat young men for fry cooks in Texas, free transportation; men cooks; arm waiters; experienced brakemen corn buskers; farm hejp; boy with wheel; man and wife for telephone exchange; carpen ters, dav hotel help. Furman'i m- p-loyinent Office, 106 West 8th MEN Our illustrated catalogue explains how we teach the barber trade quickly, mailed free. Mofer Barber College, Kan aas City. Mo. WAITED- EXCHANGE FOR 10 40 acres 25 miles from Topeka, 2V4 miles small town anil shipping point In Jeffer son Co.. near Valley Falls, a acres for MOXKT. MONEY TO IOAN on rit. and 1vrm property, any amonnt. km Interest rates and most liberal terms. Call or write for our plan. W. M. Forbe& Co. MONEY TO LOAN OX AL.L KINDS O PERSONA!, PROPERTY. Horses, cattle, pianos diamonds, fenoae hold poods, librariea. typewriters, antoa. carriages; machinery, and to aat.ried peo- pje; F. S. Thomas. S19 Kan. Ave. TcL 2!W HOME money loana. best rates. Pay her. and (ret coupons. Money ready when abstract complete. Write me. R. P. March. loans and insurance. 107 W. 7th. Topeka. LOANS made on any kind of personal e curity I.. Briscoe, 623 Kansns Ave. I.FXJAI- BONDS. THOS .1. MYERS, broker. Colombian Bide Investment, securities, railroad and por ernment bonds, rraln and nrter stocks: mortgages bonpht. sold and placed. FI.K?vTS. for fresh flowers, weddinjra and funerals a specialty. Our stocks always fresh. Grown tn onr own trreenaoasea. St9 Kaa Kansns ave. Phone .177 I'NUrJtlAKINR. L. M. PITNTrrT.T,. funeral director and embnlmer First class service. EOS-alO Qnlmy at. Telephone 192. C. R HAVTf.EV CO.." nniiertnkera em bnlmina- US Enst sth Ave. Phone 27. -One ennA tnlllwriirht. Wolff Packinp Co. Chaa. WANTED TO BUT. WANT rear wheels, axle, springs, sprockets anu caains or international or other grain. 10 acres alfalfa, good orchard. 8 room house, in good condition, good base ment, barn 40x(0, smoke house, poultry house, cave, -veil, cistern. Farm ali fenced and cross fenced hog tight. Will sell for cash with $1,000 payment. TOPEKA KEALTX CO. 433 Kansas Ave. Phore 1S12. m.l.lAKl) AD lCKKT TABI.KS FOR KAf.K nilllmd tables7neivtearrnni and jocket. with complete outfit. $125 01' secoml-band tables at reduced prices: bowl ing alley supplies: easy payments, f'ltrar store, drug, delicateasen and soila fountain fixtures. THE RIJFNSWICK-BALKF.- COLI.ENPEK CO, 1329-1331 Main aU Kao- M4M chain driven car. Must be good shape and J to niBe chickens for market, one of the Pine 4 room oottaee. 4 lots, frnit. 2 cement floored chicken houses, plenty of room cheap. L. E. C care Journul. WANTED TO BUY Second hand set heavy work harness. Call SHifi Monroe. f WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. j iSTTTClNa PINKING. Plaltings of all kinds. Buttons made. Mail orders receive prompt, careful atten tion. Mrs. Mercer. 800 Topeka. WANTED Watch repairing. Main springs 75c: cleaned 75c. All work guaranteed. Armstrong Jewelry Co., 429 Kansas ave. CAIU'ET and rug weaving. 1036 Garfield. i'none iua niue. GOOD milk cows, fat cattle and veal calves W. C. A. Leitzow. Tel. 257. i"02 HASTY AUTO KXPBKSST L(ST YounHf Airedale, doff. brown. Name Fory. tMaiir -black collar. Notify Albert Metzker. lii.i"., iX-OST Friendship 'pin, Initial tL 'ward. wantki-situatj6nsl LADY, experienced, wants 'to earn room and board In good 'family about Jan. 1. Aildress WX, care Jourinii. WANTED AG KNTSfc AGENTS Fastest selling household article I on the marcet. ?tart today, i-reat. ue I mand and repeat orders, finccess assured. I Investigate at once. Interstate Supply Co., I'JIS Uoag St.. Toledo, Ohio. j $5 TC $7 daily selling New Fibre Brooms; every woman will buy. Sample by Parcel Post, .15c. Wynne Droom Co., Elmira, N. Y. WANTED Snlesmen wide awaKe clerks and salesmen to sell health and accident Insurance tn Kansns. Good commission paid. Addres Insurance, care Journal. 1 $azJ&si47 I Meat Market Phone 747. 110E. 6th St. St rictly Fresh Eggs. dozen 37 cssaasaBBBBBiEBBBHaaBEaaBHaaaaH Dressed Rabbits, 2 for 25? Link or Bulk Sausage, CaBaaHaBBBBaBEBBBHaBaasBBBaSaal 2 lbs. for 25 Pork Loin Roast. 16? Spare Rib3 12V2? Neck Bones 66 Pig Feet 8jt Pig Tails 1O0 Fresh Brains 10? Fresh Side Pork 18? Pig Snouts 10? Pig Ears .8? Choice Chuck Roast 121? Plate Roast ..10? Hamburger 12Vt Veal Roast 15 Veal Stew 12V2? Mutton Roast .12V2? Mutton Stew 10 Pure Hog Lard. 18 V4 Compound 16? Sugar Cured Bacon 2 1 Bacon Squares 18? Calif. Ham 16? Dry Salt Pork. J 16? Plain Wrapped Butter 37 Meadow Gold Butter. .38? Lily Brand Oleo .20? Snowflake Oleo 24? Hens, dressed, drawn, head and feet off.-.: .22 Spring Chicken, dressed and drawn, head and feet off ..25- Choice Celery 10? Full Cream Cheese 30? I BCSIXESS OUNCES. CNCLEAJI Oil Co. stock, sacrifice $10,000 shares. Company price 1 cent a slmre. Muke your beat bid. About dozen wells operating in well located territory. T. J. y.nirlilln. Eiiperton, Kansas. FOU RENT HOCSEi. l'OR KENT Modern 7 room cottage with .sleeping porch. 80 West 8th. newly pa pered and floors refinisned. O. J. Wood, tj!7 Tyler. Phone 6S1. lf)H HE NT 1214 N, Quinry t, S rooms, i 4111 Hnntooo .stAtcoms, 4 lots,.J; ?Q0 Jefferson Ft., 5 TOoOis modern, $:X. K. A: M. Smith, 523 Kansas, ave. ,ni Rent ii KUmiiwi' av otwin, Modern. (25.00 ne J -month. i Morrlaia jar, Bas, cement walks. lS3f Harrison. Thone lriHB. F'H KENT 120& Lane St., 7 rooms, nne condition, good bam. Phone 610or 160L FOR RENT 5-room, 1100 E. 8th. "S-room, 1110 Lime. Phone Kural :t801 N-2. SEE THIS: 5 rooms, east front, choice neighborliood. Call 5382 J. FOR KENT House 3 rooms, $1. 1004 East th ave. FOlt KENT 6 room modern house, iio Huntoon. Call lJhl. FOR RENT ROOMS. FORRlsNTigKans ed corner rooms. 2299 Blue. BOARD AND ROOMS. HOTEL VICTORIA. EUROPEAN. 11S West Sixth. 50c, 75c. 1. Steam-heated. Special monthly rates. MODERN rooms with board. $1 day, per week. Topeka Hotel. 12:1 West Hth 5 It. 14 HI.XT l-'i ItNISHKD ROOMS MODERN furnished rooms en suite or sin gle. Orpheum building. Gordon Bros. 1 1Y7Q 418 W. 7TH Modern Inrpe front room al cove, larpe nosei, mr ubui uvuo Inp. No children. most beantiful Dlaees in the neighborhood. price i.uu. tsmali cash payment, Daiance like rent. SBIAWHEE INVESTMENT CO. 534 Kansas Are. Phone 5050. TIMS F THHS $1,500 for a fine little 5 room home on the West Bide, has city water, gas, side walks, old shade, located in a well estab lished, neighborhood; on pavement, near best school in city, small cash payment balance easy terms. SEIAWNEE INVESTMENT CO. 534 Kansas Ave. Phone 5000. mPHOl aSTKR I Nfi. J. F. PKTRlCi; STS. upholstering anf manufacturers of parlor furniture. 1009 Kansas nv hp. Phone R42. MOVING. FRNIMORK MOVIXO AND STOUAiR. Y on r f u m itu r wra p o?d for tornj;e FHEK. expert packers, phone 4341. FURRIERS. JOHN PKTRZIL.EK. the only practical furrier in Kansas. 127 W. 7th. Topeka. PICTURE FRAMING. FRAMING, regildinic, mat making. mount In done hv .1 1 si r'-'-V24 W nth. Kansas, and the saH The Topeka Hallway Company, !ts snv.essors. or assigns, as k to the meanlnff of any of the terms, cob- :itions and ohUgarinna of this Ordinance. -or the operation of the same, or the viola- tion of anv of the provisions hereof hv anM Company, the matter shall ho anhrait"! to a hoard of three (3 arbitrators, op (1 of whom shMI te rhoaen hv th aaid City of Oakland. Kansas, another by the said Cismpany. and a third by tlie two so p chosen, which aald bonrd shall promptly hear the contentions of the Arties hereto 4 and npon d onsideration thereof, shall render !ts findings In writing to the City -01 Oakland, and to the said The Topeka rJiilway Company, its snccessora and as- signs, which sai l findings alial- be final and hlnulng In the matter. Section 4. The rights and privileges eon- ferred br this ordinance are granted nio the specific romiition that the actual work I of eonstrwrlng the electric lines, plant and 4 eqtiiptneTt for furnishing electric current to t City of Oakland and its inhabitanrs. g shall be commenced within tUirty-fif a davs fror the date of the pnnwat of this ordinance, and that said work "shall b J prosecuted without interruption. jnlf de- laved or pre rente by. climatic randitions. f or otlier cnoses beyond the control of tha freraon, firm or corrmration to which sr-cb. t ranchise ordlnaDcephtUi be granted. Other- wise, this rdlnanctr shall be null ati void, and shall hav no binding effect rpoo tbs City of Oakland. Kanaus. 4 Section 5 This ordinance shall take effect 4 and he (a forw thirty 430) Jav from and after its pubHcati u, and upon its accept- ance In vrltlng by Ibe Topeka lUalwaT Company, duly filed with tlx City Clerk T of the City of Oakland. Passed this 1st nay of December. A. D, 1911. s F. A. BRIOTTAM. Mayor. a Approved December 1st. W1& f Sen 1.1 Z P. A. BR1GHAM. Mayor. Attest: H. A. LEP ER, 7 City Clerk. Stats FARM LOANS. FA KM LOANS. 5 and per cent. See Nlahols Ttealty Co.. r2n Kan Avt TpI. 40 T lEVRITER8. FOR SALK OR TRADE for farm Topeka residence, G rooms and bath, all nodern and a 1 ood business property in good location. Address J. M. Read. 225 Jackson at.. Topeka. Kansas. FOU SALE OR TRADE 80 acrea within 5 miles of state house. See owner at Batman's. 720 Kansas ave. PUBLIC SALES. CLEAN' SWEEP PUBLIC SALE ON HITTLE FARM. Eight miles of Hoyt, 0 miles east of Delia. 4 miles north o; Grove. Tuesday. December 19, 1010. all farm machinery, horses, cattle and feed; 900 bushels corn, 500 bushels Red Texas oats, geese and chickens, household goods. DUNLAP ROSS. C. O. ANSEL. Auctioneer. FOR SALE; COAL. COAL WOR CASE Hiawatha-Franklin Co.. 111. Pennsylvania (all sixes). Onlta Grate. Onita No. 4. Fancy Semi-Anthracite Lump. Semi-Anthracite Briquettes Cherokee Lump. Cherokee Nut. Osage City Lump. Burlingame Lamp. CAPITAL COAL CO. Phone 10S3. Railroad and Qulncy Sta. uiuiprv nuiTti for null and wife or two gentlemen furnace heat. 1018 Topeka j General Ueorge Waahiugtona family. Phone FOR SAI.K STISCELUXEOrS. FOR RALE Edison ambrolia with wooden horn and 50 cylinder records $25. Ma hogany cabinet for disc records 1 electric hot plate. 1 electric hair curler. I'hoiie 432. 801 Monroe St. FOR SALE Antique necklace of nearls and diamonda, at one time property of &2Q MOSKOE, modern room, close in. with fnrnace heatr FOK KENT Furnished room, 1251 To- pekf ave. FOlt KENT Furnished rooms home. Price reasonable. -SI" in modern E. Hth st. FOR EXCHANGE. ELHOM FOK KASHAS 1(10 acres improved, splendid rich soil, bottom land. Tillman Co.. Southwest Okla homa. 430 rash rent. 7() sram rent, ci i!io r,.m fin cotton. Price only $s.000. will take up to $10,000 farm around Shaw- j CoVtuELLCO.'. 107 EJth. Tel. 630, 340.S. TO' EXrHlTvTTilVood improVed farm of 2t acres. 4 miles- of corporation of To peka Will exchange for Topeka property, l'lmiie 42M Hlack. FIELD of standing stock fodder for sale i none in. FOR SALJv Alfalfn hay. haled or loosed W. T. Dawson. Phone 415. FOlt SALE Stove and furnace wbodT l'hone 38D1 N-4. CLAYTON cuts on patent medicines. 1019 r.usi v,i:n at. ruooe ttobo. F)It SALE One good sleigh. 300 West istn. Phone 1178 King 2. F()RSALE Diamond ring-and pin, will sacrifice for eash. Call :10C. 10K2 TTARTY ATTO T!XPTtESS" MK SAI.K Al"lMHII.ES. Storage Batteries Keiaired and Charged. PIEEST-TO-LETiE SERVICE i S1ATI0H Phone 7W SW Kan. Are. EATTEIilES repaired and recharged. Keele Electric Co 700 Jackson- Phone l'l7.l Wi!l?,rd Service Marion. OAKLAND roadster for sale cheap, nne condition. Call phone 7't. 72S ynincy. BAXK STATEMENT. Published in The Topeka State Journal, December 15, 1010. OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE NANC1AL CONDITION of the BANK OF RICHLAND, ALL MAKES for sale or rent Beat me chaucai department in the country. CHANS CO. Topets. Knn 47 Tesrs In Business (First published tn The Tofieka Journal. December 5, 1910.1 ORDINANCE NO. 145. AN OflOINANCK AlTTnORIZING Till 4 MA VOR OF OAKLAND. KANSAS. TO CONTRACT FOlt STKKET LIGHTING. Be it Orlalne1 hv the Msyor and an4 Councilmeu of the City of Oakland, Kan- sjia: t Section 1. Thst the Mayor be and he is hereby authorised and directed, to mske and siarn. for and on behalf of tha City of Oakland, a contract with The To- v peka Kallway Cmaiiy. a corporation, for the lipliUng of the streets, avenues, alley and public plscps of the CitT of Oakland. which said contract shall be iu words sod figures as follows, to wit: -A CONTRACT FOU 8TRKET LTGTITING, BRTWKKN THE CI TV OF OAKLAND, t KANSAS. AND THB TOPEKA KAIL- WAV COMPANY A CORPORATION. This agreement made and entered into t this 1st day of December. I01G, by and J between the City or onKinqa, csnawneo -County, Kansas, hereinafter referred to The Citv. and The Topeka Railway Company, a Kansns corporation, whoso ft principal office Is located nt Topeka Kau- g sua. hereinafter referred to as the "Rail way Coinpnnv." C WITNKSSRTH. Thst: L The Railway Company hereby agrees to furnish public electric llffhts to the City for liphtina; J Its streets, avenues, alleys, and public f laces pursuant to the spet-iricntlons here- nafter stated and for the consideration 4 hereinafter named, for a fterlod of ten years, cominencing n tne r irst nay ri LEGAL. (Firdt published in the Topeka State Jour nal uecemoer iuiu- ORDINANCE NO. 144. AN ORDINANCE (rranUng to the Topeka Railway Company, a corporation, us suc cessors or assigns, the right to furnish electric service to the City of Oakland, Kansas, and the inhabitant thereof, and the right to use the streets, alleys, ave nues, and public place of nid city, for the construction, installation, mainte nance, and operation, of its works, piiies, poles, wires, conduits, and all other neces sary apparatus and appliances for said purpose. RECITALS The City of Oakland. Kansas, is a City of the third class and governed by a mayor and tlve (o counciimen as provitien ny statute of the State of Kansas and is de sirous of obtaining for public use and for the nse of its inhabitants, electricity for lighting, power, and any and all purposes. The Topeka Railway Company is a cor poration organized, and existing under the laws of the State of Kansas ond is now en gaged in tho business of supplying elec tric service for all purposes its present plant and works being located principally within the City of Topeka. Kancas, and principally used for the benefit of said V. I LJ it II U DC lliUUUllHUlH lllt?rfll. Him 111" ft- nlinl mi. 'n ann,r.on m I 1 1 1,111,1 deslrons of furnishing electric service to said City of Oakland, Kansas, aud the inhabitants thereof. NOW. THEREFORE. Be It ordained fcy the Mayor and Counciimen of the City of Oakland. Kansas: U1GIJTS GRANTED: Section 1. That The Topeka Railway Company, Its successors and assigns, be and the same are hereby granted for a period of twenty (20) yearrs, from and after the taking -ffect of this ordinance, the right to enter upon the streets, avenues, alleys snd public places of the City of Oak land. Kansas, and to erect and install there in, pole and wire lines for the transmission of electricity, to and through the said City of Oakland, Kansas, and to erect and in stall works, pole and wire -es. and all other necessary apparatus and appllancesfor supplying and delivering electricity and to furnish and delivei electric current to said City of Oakland. Kansas, and the Inhabit ants thereof, for any and all purposes, upon the terms and under the conditions here inafter uained. Section 2. AH pole and wire lines and flTl other 'apparatus herein authorized to be placed In the streets, avenues, alleys, and public places of said City of Oakland. Kan sas, rhall be installed under the direction and control of the Mayor and Conncilmen of aaid Citv, or of their duly authorized representatives, and the said The Topeka Railway Company. Its successors and as signs, shall at all times hold and save harmless the srld ity of Oakland. Kansas, of and from all damages, loss or expense, caused or occasioned by the sole negligence of said The Topeka Railway Co ipany. Its successors or assigns, their agents, servants and employes, in the const ruction, main tenance and operation of the electric trans mission a nd distribution system herein authorized. The said. The Topeka Rflway Company. Its Miccesnors and assigns, shall, during the c itinuance of this grant, furnish to the City of Oakland. Kinsns. and Its Inhabit ants, reasonably sufficient and efficient ser vice. Provided, however, that said company shall not be re- ed to make extensions of it' lines to reach and serve consumers where the revenue to be derived therefrom March. 1017. and terminating on the 27ta day of February. 1027. The lights furnished nnder this agree ment shall he what is known as Mazda, Type C, Street series incaudescent lights of one hundred (100 candle power nnd shall be suspended as near as practicable over the center of street Intersections at the locations to he destegnated by the Mayor and Council f said City. 2. The Railway Comnsny shall furnish all necessary poles, wires, spans, street hoods, reflectors, and other appliances nec essary to create a first-class Incnndencent street lighting system, and shall erect snd install the same and shall furnish the nec essary enrrent for burning the snld lights from diirk nntll daylight, nil night and every night, it being contemplated that the said lights and each and all of them sha'l burn approximately four thonssnd M.onn honrs each year, during, the term of this agreement. 3. The Railway Company shall. In the original Installation of the lighting system herein prorjden for. locate the lights at a the points designated by the City. The City alia II thereafter have the right, by resolution duly passed by Its Maror and m Council, to change the location of any of ft a h the lights herein provided for. and nnon receipt or notice rrom tne ity neric wun certified copy of resolution ordering change in location or lights ntts'-he-i thereto, the Rntlv-ay Company shall, with reasonable promptness, make the changes so ordered, provided, however, that thu City shall, within thirty CW days after said changes have been completed, reim burse the Railway Company for the actual cost of making the changes so ordered. 4. AH lamps, glassware, and ref lectors which may become broken, all lamps which may ha-e burned ont, shall be repla.-ed by The Topeka Railway Company with reasonable promptness, and the Railway Company shall repair any damage to Us lint a. In. jp. attachments and appliances by re n son of storms, fires snd other csnses, and restore service if the same shall bo interrupted thereby, with the least reason able delay, and all at the sole coat snd expense of the Railway Company, it being the intent or ima ronirnci to pro vine innt the Railway Company shall st Its sole cost nnd exnense. maintain the lighting system herein provided for In Brood and sufficient condition during the term of this agree- ment. 5. The Railway Company at all times when the lights herein provided fo; srer turned on, furnish alternating current foft4 operating same, of adequate potential and volume to burn the tights up to their t: rated capacity. 6. It is mutually agreed, by and by tween the pnrties hereto that the nrlginat Installation shall consist of st least sixty (00) lights, and that the City may, by.) ordir-nce duly passed, add to and increana the number of lights as the same shalj become necessary for the needs of the City. Provided, however, that additional llghtf5 shall be ordered In multiples of f1r' 15) lights, and that If any one light shalT3" reonlre mre than six hundred and severr-" tv-five i7r) feet of additional pole uns" wire line to reach the designated locatloarfc for the same, the City shall reimburse thw Railway Company for the actual cost afc-, the pole ond wire line, over and above tho mix nunareu anu Kveuiy-iiv .oj Loans and discounts... Overdrafts, unsecured Caxh and sight exchange, legal reserve Total .$113,00fl.r2 3HU.U9 30.221.50 i r OK S.-L E Pi A X OS. PRIVATE FARTV will sacirifice good as new 88 note player piano, for cash or would i-.sfce terms on port to responsi ble purty. Address 1200 Mulvane or phone 4-1' m liiiicfc. FXU SALE OOGS. $102,008.11 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in.. Surplus fund I n tenwt $G027.if. Exchange 141.50 $6,709.15 Less current expenses, interest and taxes paid 1,504.40 Demand deposits: IndiviUueal deposits. hp Met to check Certificate of depoait. due in less than 30 duys 10.000.00 10,000.00 5,174.1 G5.471.00 61.902.30 said ttet 7. As consideration for the faithful pr forma nee by the Railway Company of thP covenants and agreements bereinhefors?" contained, the City agrees to pay and the Railway Com pi y agrees to accept, th sum of $.t0.on per lamp, per year, for thw first "fty (fiO) lamps Installed hereunder and the "sum of 27 W) per Ismp per yeaii, for the next ten (10) lamps Installed here under, and the sum of $25.00 Der lamb --i will be Insufficient to yield an adequate j per year, for all lights In excess of sixty re um on the Investment. The rat- for (AO) lights Installed hereunder. Said psyf rr1c In the Ci'v of Oaklnnd. Knnann. motita nrt to be made In twelve 12i conn" shall at all times be the same as the rates monthly Installments, to be paid on or ie ch -red by The Topeka Edison Company for? the tenth MOth) day of each months the continuance ot tnis contrac, private bank, Albert Nee sc. owner, at business on the 11th day of December. 1910. 1 for light and con torn norseons service fur- j during the crnitlnm RESOURCES. nisnetl oy sain company in ine t-iiy or in- comnienciue nu iu abltants. or as snecffical- j Ing that In which the lights are turneLi. itract; provided, however, on. Topeka Railway Company 8. The rights and privileges ronferreir" to make s ml nt mum by this ordinance sre arranted onon tlie- Total State of Kansas. Count of Shawnee. Best of breeding. Nice Christmas pres- I, Albert Neese. owner of said bank, do ents. Reasonable. F. lurant, lu? w solemnly swear that the above statement lTnh st. l'hone li4q i la true; that said bank has no liabilities, i ii in j mj m noj indorser ou any note or obliga- Evr kai v nntXLHni r rrtnnu i tfcr,r1' other than shown on the above state- Al"-?', meut tne be" of my knowledge and be- FOR SALE Real leather couch, good as j .lief So helP TfnKPT NFFSF Ownes new Flat top desk and choir; ;h;jfonler; g,lhl(crlbefl andu blfore uTe?7hls Morris rocker: other irniture. 12ul Tyler, -.J; f ri(klmh.ru 1(1rt nekn. and Its inn fy covered by con that the raid The m)i nil be allowed chnrtre of fortv f40) enta oe -nonth. or specific condition that te ame minimum price as charged In tee constructing the electric line, plant nniJ Citv of Topeka. for each meter installed equipment for furnishing electric current- proVbV J. further, that it may make a ren- to the City of Oakland shall he cnmmt'i(Li sonnble readlness-to-serve charge for Inter- within thirty-five (T15) days from the dnta, mitte?it or break-down service for s com- of the passage of this ordinance, and thajT mercinl or manufacturing load exceeding sold work shall be prosecuted wlthont In- -two horse power. The said Thi Topeka S terrnption unless delayed or prevented ofT Rnllwav Com any. Hs successors or as- j climatic conditions, or other csnses beyo!ev, signs, shall render Its customers In the Citv the control of the said The Topeka Railway of Oakland. Kansas, a bill for the nmonnt Company. due snld Company on the first day of each i To mutual compliance with each and all. moith succeeding thst In which the service of the agreements, stipulations and condU is rendered, wnicn sain mil snail ne one r tlora or the above and Toregoing agrees, ment. we. thz parties hereto, biud our selves firmly by these presents. and n"V?ih!e on or before the tenth flOfht dav of month, nnd If not nald bv the tenth 10th) day of said month shall be i subject to a fteniltv of ten per cent of fie uw,niw.ii amount ot tne om. psi tip stairs. Telephone 2Mi White. FOR SALE An extra fine milch cow, giv ing 5 to 6 gallons of milk; just fresh. Flume 3128. (SeaD WALLACE TIRRITTS. Notary l'nbilc. (Commission expires on the 14th day of January, 1017.) Correct Attest: To W. F. Benson, Bank Commissioner, Topeka, Kan, penalty. how,ver. shall In no ense be less than twentv-fiv 2S) ents. It tne snpi mil snsil remain unpaid on the tenth (lfh) day of the month, the said The Topeka Railway Com pany. Its successors or ass'gns, may. npon forty-eight 4 honrs notice to the cus tomer, oiaem nnne aervice nnn any ens- ne'n dollar for the reconnection of hts service. .;d the raid Company shall have the right to refuse to reconnect any de linquent customer until the amount due aid compauy his been paid. Section X In case of any disagreement ailslnc between the said City of Oakland, December. lino. Ry F. A. Brlgham. Mayor. Attest, n. A LEPPER City Clerk. A THE; TOPEKA RAILWAY roMPANT. mm By W. E. CIIUBIsrCK. iW Its Vice P resilient Executive, Attest: T. V. IX) It AN. Its Assttant Secretary. (Wtlnn Till nriHr.mH) tuba mf?" tome whose service Is discontinued for feet snd be In force thirty 30) dava from' non-nvmpiit of bill shall be required to and after Hs publication, snd npon- Its'- psy to r e said The Topeka Railway Com- Acceptance In writing by The Topeka RaW-tw pany Its snccesrors or assigns, a chsrge of way N mpany. duly filed with the City" Cleric or tne city or oaKiano. I'ussed this 1st day of lecember. A. D. l.tlflL F. A. BRIG HAM. Mayor. JZ Seal.) Approved December L 1011. Attest: TL A. LLP PER. City Clerk.

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T 12 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1916 I a Give a Dressing Table Floor Lamp Rocker Desk Chiffe- robe Shaving Stand Open Evenings until of Useful Gifts Why not give useful Gifts, Gifts that will be ap preciated and leave a lasting remembrance. Frank's store offers you this advantage and Frank's Buying Power makes it possible to buy useful gifts at big savings to the buyer. Give a Music Cabinet Picture Reclining Chair Dining Table Costumer Sewing Cabinet Duofold Card Table Open Evenings Until Christ- You will have l see this American Quartered Oak l.ilirurv Tahle and then ou tan judge $C QfJ how c-heap it is at our special price. .flCJiV This Mahogany Electric Stand Lamp $12.50 This handsome mahogany parlor lamp with beautiful silk shade. A beautiful Christmas present. "l O Special Saturday tpxi.w "nis beautiful Tennessee Red Cedar Chest, size 18x30. A useful Christina j present, value $10.50. CQ KQ Special price This Vacuum Sweeper Will make any housewife a use ful Christmas present and one that she will ap preciate. Only a limited number, so he early If you want one. ti Special without x C brush MA $3.50 I t With brush, $5.75 Hll Solid Oak Kitchen Cabinet Solid Quarter Sawed Oak, oil rubbed fin ish sliding metal top, sanitary flour bin. plass and metal su par bin, wire shelv ing, vermin and dust proof breadbox. Ev ery cabinet dust proof thruout. Spe cial Sale price, $22.50 This wonderful William and Mary Black Walnut Dressing Table with trip licate plate glass mirror, extra special price Satur day $20.00 Large Soldier or Nurse DoILj 24 inches long. Reg ular St .50 price special 98c Yam Yama and other Stase I'olk characters In Jolis, 14 inches long, reg ular $1.00 value; special 50 cents Wagonette Tea Wagon $5.50 This beautiful Tea Wagon, fumed oak or mahogany, rub ber tire wheels with detachable glass top Spial.... $5.50 Tlds Royal Push Button Easy Chair, upholstered In Span ish Morrocol ine. Just the present for father or mother. Sjicciul price $14.50 EXTRA CHRIST MAS SPECIAL Solid Mahogany Smoking Stand with removable glass howl, 2 cigar hold ers, .and .match stand. Special price $1.45 Mahogany Can dlesticks with shade and com plete each 50c 626 KANSAS AVENUE w This Genuine Quar tered Sawed Ouk Telephone Stand in fumed or polish ed Oak. Regular value of theie HtandH are poItive 1v KHi.OO. pecil Hale price $2.95 FOR THE KIDDIES Let the children enjoy this desk and chair; solid oak with high polish finish; special f rry price 5i.yo American Fly er Raf 1 r o a d Train, on track, with Engine, Coach and Coal Car. Special price 79c Dogs, Cats and Elephants just the thing for the kiddies; im possible to hurt themselves with them in fine silk velvet (PI $2.00 values, speci-I pJ..VU Here's a Brand New Toy the African Iodgers.. The boys will have the time of their lives trying to hit the African on the head. qq Special price OI7C FARMERS WANT ROADj Engineers Busy Laying Out Lines for C, K O. Railroad. "T 1 The engineers on the construction work of the C, K. O. in western. Kansas have devoted their energies to running two experimental lines thru the western part of the state in order to .determine which one they prefer, for the permanent location of their road. One line runs from Garden City straight south to Liberal, the other swings to the east, and heads directly for the proposed junction with the M., K. T. at Forgan, Okla. A series of meetings were held last i week. at the school houses along one' of the proposed routes, and the farm- ers and business men in that section I are reported to be boosting enthusi- j astically for the road. The crossing of i the Arkansas river has not yet been definitely located, and the surveys on j which the engineers are now at work will probably give the basis for the 1 selection of the proper site for the! bridge. HUSH CENTER "BREEZE" FAILS. Price of Paper and Machinery Too Much for Kansas Weekly. LaCrosse. Kan., Dec. 15. The Rush Center Breeze has folded its wings arid joined the "has beens." The Breeze was established fifteen years agp, when a Washington hand press and a "shirt tail" full of type was all that was necessary to establish a paper. Now the price -f all machinery and material used in the makeup of a paper is so high that unless a paper delivers the goods and receives the proper support, it cannot exist. It is estimated that next year will see the end of 2,000 weekly papers unless there is a substantial reduction in the cost of material. RUSSELL CO. RECORD SOLD. V. A. Turner Transfers His Paper to Payton and SIcrrium. Smith Center, Kan., Dec. 15. Will Payton, of Colony, and John Merriam. of Smith Center, have purchased the Russell County Record, the leading paper of Russell county, of N. A. Tur ner, and will assume charge in a few weeks. Mr. Turner becomes first as sistant to Fred Knapp, state auditor. Mr. Payton has had many years' ex perience in newspaper work, and has lately been editor of the Colony Free Press. Mr. Merriam was formerly county clerk here and for the last few years has been a traveling salesman. One Killed in Anto Wreck. A tl i I ri 11 U'.in nan r. I."" 1 II".. ters, city engineer, was instantly kill ed, and his brother Elsmere, was se- iivwty iiijuifu one ana tnree-quarters iuui5aii,iiiv mien a. r uru car they were driving to Plainville, to ucmciru w uieir uroiner, uan Walters, as a. rhrisfmno n recent ,,..n i ed turtle. The young men are sons yji. rnjL. j. u. waiters 01 ine agricul tural college. To Ward Off Winter Complexion Ills oT keep the face smooth, white and beautiful all winter, there's nothing quite so good ns ordinary uiercolized wax. Rough, chapped or discolored skin, in evitable in this weather, is gently ab sorbed by the wax and replaced by the newer, fresher skin beneath. The fare exhibits no trace of the wax, the latter being applied at bedtime and washed off mornings. Creams, powders and rouges, on the other hand, are apt to appear con spicuous at this season, because of alter nating expansion and contraction cf the skin, due to changing temiieratures. You are advised to try this simple treatment (ret an ounce of mereolized wax at itny drugstore and use like cold cream. This will help any skin at once, and in a week or so the complexion will look remarkably youthful and healthy. Winds and flying dust often cause squintinr and other contortions which make wrinkles. You can quickly get rid of every wrinkle, however proilnced, by using a harmless face bath made by dis solving one ounce powdered saxolite ia one-half pint witch hazel. Adv. MILLIONS USE RED CROSS Millions of grood housewives use Red Cross Ball Blue. Each year its sales increase. Tho old friends use it and tell others. Red Cross Ball Blue will make your old clothes look like new. Ask your grocer. Adv. Collars 2 for 25c No Advance in "Barker Brand" Fred Voiland 7th and Kansas Ave. Dr.RAYMOND The Dependable Foot Specialist Orpheum Building Phone 3960 Room 4 This fine Jarohlne Itocker, upholstered in Tapes Lry $12.50 The Farmer the real farmer is a sa f e ma n to deal with. Farm Loans negotiated by this company have be hind them safe men and stable security. THE FARM MORTGAGE CO.. TOPEKA. DOUBLE zvc STAMPS TOMORROW Uive Gl oves No matter how many pairs of gloves a woman receives on Christ mas Day, she is always elated to receive them so be not afraid of her displeasure if you duplicate the gift some other friend decided to make. Give gloves and gratify her greatly. Our holiday stock covers wom en's gloves for all occasions from novelties for dress-up affairs down to plain tan walking gloves. In Kid they run from $1.25 to $4.00 the pair. Cashmere Gloves for women at 59c and 75c. New Silk Gloves with fancy em broidered backs and double silk finger tips at $1.00 and $1.50. Yarn Mittens for women at 25c and 50c. Silk on,es at $1.00. Glove Certificates If you are not positive t.-s to the size a person wears buy one of our Glove Certificates and present it to them. Then they can make the selection for themselves. Men's Gloves Men appreciate Gloves as well as women. Men's Kid Gloves unlined at $1.25 to $2.00. Men's lined Kid Gloves at $1.00 to $4.00. Gauntlets, Driving Gloves and One-Finger Mittens, $1.25 to $4.00. Kid Mittens, $1.25 and $1.50. Tarn Mittens, 25c and 50c. Astrakhan, Jersey and Golf Gloves, 25c and 50c. For Cnild ren We have a wide variety of good Gloves and Mittens. Yarn Mittens and Golf Gloves, 15c, 25c, 35c and 50c. Kid Mittens, 50c; Kid Gloves at $1.00. Leather Gauntlets at 50c and 59c. Lined Kid Gloves at 50c to $1.75 the pair. Ribb ons At 25c, 39c and 59c the yard, we show new effects, just received in Fancy Bro cade and Jacquard Ribbons, 6 to 7 inches for camisoles, bags, aprons, and fancy novelties. Everybody Likes Comfort And everybody can be made comfortable, if they receive a pair of house slippers for a Christmas gift. In our Shoe Section we are show ing the best makes in slippers for men, women and children in both felt and leather. Children's Slippers at $1.00 and $1.25 the pair. Women's Felt Slippers for as lit tle as 69c on up to some in all colors at 11.00, with still better and fancier kinds at $1.25, $1.35. $1.50 and $1.75. Turkish flippers for women in red, pink, tan, lavender and black at pair, 29c Felt Slippers for men at 75c to $1.75 the pair. Leather Slippers for men -in many styles, $1.50 to $2.25. On Sale i omorrow Limited number of Potted Poinsettas at. Hear the Edison Diamond Disc ns Hear the Edison Diamond Disc rin gle" The JoUy Old Soul Sounds the Glad Note of Welcome Here Tomorrow UNDER whatever mythical expression we choose to use "Chris Kringle," "St. Nick," or "Santa Claus," the ancient magic still lurks in the name Christmas time. Around it cling3 the mystery of the ages lovingly, ten derly and trustingly like the ivy to the scarred old oak. No alchemist can make a crucible that endures as faith fully as the story of the dear little old man that children wait and watch for Christmas morning with such expect ancy. And they shall ever find him true to the tradition of the day. Bless him for the memories of all the yesterdays which his name keeps fresh and sacred in our hearts He has never failed this Store of The Christmas Spirit where he is as cheerfully thoughtful of gifts for the grown-ups as for the tots. To him all praise, for with him comes happiness, peace and content. He sounds the glad note of Welcome here tomorrow and the other days be tween now and Christmas a note that rings out crystal clear and loud and true Christmas Candies whether for your own use or for gifts you are anxious that they should be all that good can dies should be. Delicious, pure and wholesome. All of our candies are of that kind. You will find our assortments complete in every detail. If you have not already placed your order for Christmas Candies do it NOW Tomorrow will be none too soon, for one must remember that only one week's time for shopping remains. Visit the Basement In our Basement Store you will find a hundred and one articles that will make useful and appropriate gifts. Silver Is Always Acceptable Community Silver Plate is the nearest approach to sterling silver that has ever been produced. Our assortments are complete with knives, forks, spoons, sugar shells, etc., in exclusive designs in quali ties guaranteed for 10, 25 and 50 years wear. Cut (.lass a delayed shipment has just come in making our assortments complete with bowls, supar and creamer sets, nappies, oil and vinegar bottles, vases and water sets. Special $4.00 Cut Glass Vases $3.25 Bowls at $2.00 and up Water Sets $3.50 up Framed Pictures We have the best selected lot of pictures we have shown in years. Pastels. Sepias, Oil Paintings and Artist's proofs daintily framed in natural woods and gilt. A special ofiering Includes some copies of old masters in gold finished frames, each one in a holly box at 50c each. Others at 75c, $1.00 and $1.50. Nickel Plated Ware For the most part famous Rochester make. Trays. Casseroles, Plank Boards,. Percolators, Coffee Urns, Crumb Trays and many others. A Tray Special mahogany finished frame with embroidered center, glass covered. Felt bottom at $1.25. J18.00 Electric Coffee Machine for $12.50 14.00 Electric Chafing Dish or 10.00 12.00 Electric Coffee Percolator for 0.5O 11.00 Electric Coffee Percolator lor 8.SO Electric Irons, guaranteed kind, $2.75 and $3.50. Toys and Dolls Nothing makes Christmas seem like Christmas unless the child ren are made happy with their toys and dolls. Get the boy a train with a track for it to run on. They are here at 75c to $2.50 cacb. Flexible Sleds, something every toy wants 88c up. Desks with blackboard, hardwood, at $10 up. Erector, an educator as well as amuser for the boy at SOc-ond up. Toy Pianos at 25c np. Magic Lanterns 50c up. Life-like Baby Dolls at prices to $15X0. 1 Dressed Dolls 25c up. Kewpies. 10c up. Doll Go-Carts at 50c and up. Doll Perambulators, large size, $3.00 up. DOUBLE STAMPS TOMORROW $5.00 Bags, $3.95 Bead Bags made of light and dark color beads, several styles and shapes; regular $5.00 values, spe cial at 0 OR each p0.i7iJ Gift Jewel ewelry The amount of pleasure and sat isfaction one takes from a bit of jewelry is wonderful. You can give nothing that will please the reci pient more. We call your attention to many inexpensive articles appropriate for gifts. Every piece new. Ear Screws, 50c to $2.50. Pearl Beads at 25c to $4.00. Cuff Links 25c to $3.00. Tie Clips, 25c and 50c. Scarf Pins at 50c to S5.00. Hat Pins, two on a card for 25c and 50c. La Vallieres, gold filled with pearl and assorted stone settings, $1.00 to $3.00. Baby Jewelry Beads in pearl and coral at 75c and $1.00. Bib Holders at 50c. Baby Pins at 25c to $1.75. Locket and Chain at $1.00 to $2.50. Also an assortment of Rings and Bracelets, inexpensively priced. Inspect our large assortments of Women's Hand Bags in leath er, velvet, silk .and mesh, our complete line of Paris ian Ivory trays, manicure pieces and every thing for the toilet table. our large display of Leather Novelties. Traveling Cases, Bill Books, etc. a wonderfully complete as sortment of stylish Hair Orna ments. Stationery Eaton's Highland Linen or Crane's Linen Lawn in gift boxes has a unique advantage over many other Christmas gifts. It is a last ing momento of your affection un til the last card or sheet is gone. Let us show you our wide assort ment of good stationery. If you want Christmas Cards. Greeting Cards. Seals or Stickers, come to our Stationery cdunter, we have a wonderful variety. Perfu mes There are few people who would not appreciate a bot tle of toilet water or per fume. We have them in fancy boxes at prices running from 25c to $5.00. Tourist Cases made of cre tonne, Pullman Aprons or a Gillette Safety Razor makes a fine gift. 5 BIG TRE MAINE mm Give Books for ristmas No matter how long you may seek, you will find no Christmas gift so appropriate as a good book. And the cost is so little. There are many new popular novels one can select from at each 60c For the Children there are books of almost every kind. ABC Books, Fairy Tales. Bed Time Stories, Bible Stories, Boy Scouts, The Wireless Boys, etc., at prices beginning at 10c and goins to 50c. Potted Poinsettias at 75c.