The Arma Record from Arma, Kansas • 2

THE ARMA RECORD TO HONOR JOHN P. ST. JOHN COMMANDEFTOF ITALY'S ARMIES FLOOD RUINS CROP Some of Those Who Need Reforming. "How iitae it would be," mordacious-ly remarked J. Fuller Gloom of Sniffles, "If the village drunkard, the oldest inhabitant, the town gossip, the life of the party, the glee club, the woman who comes of a fine old fam- 4y Plans for a Memorial Building at Olathe Announced by the Committee in Charge.

Hundreds of Acres of Potatoes Along Kaw Valley are Total Loss, A'J .111 liil. ral-born humorist, the local poet, the dramatic reciter, the preacher who tries to get down to the masses, the lady who is greatly troubled over our lack of culture, and several others whom I could name, would experience a change of heart and reform'." Kansas City Star. INSANE FROM HIS INJURIES DOG ATTACKS SHAVEN BOSS Captain Loses Beard and Causes Consternation and Excitement Aboard Ship. Baltimore. That tonsorial changes may get a man in trouble was the experience of Capt O.

C. Hedstrom of the Swedish steamer Liguria, which has arrived from Gothenburg. When the ship entered the capes Captain Hedstrom wore a fine beard, and an idea struck him that he would remove It. While the ship was in charge of the pilot he made his sacrifice and when morning appeared he went on deck. At once he was attacked by his pet dog, which had to be subdued to keep him from biting its master.

Then the officer on deck was puzzled when the captain walked on the bridge, and an explanation followed. Word was passed through the ship that if a strange man was seen asking questions either in engine room or on deck not to be rude to him, as it was Captain Hedstrom with his whiskers off. Independence Boy's Guardian Files Suit Against Pipe Line Company for $55,000 Damages. -jTSSSU: i fi Mm if tj Hundreds of acres of potatoes and other crops in the Kaw Valley from Kansas City, to Topeka have been ruined by the latest overflow. While the Kaw at its mouth did not The committee of Olathe citizens interested in obtaining a suitable memorial in commenmoration of the services rendered the cause ot prohibition and the state of Kansas by ex-Go v.

John P. St. John have announced their plans. The committee, composed of some of the oldest citizens of the city, includes: J. L.

Pettyjohn, Frank Hodges, Dr. Jessie Thomas-Orr, C. H. Hyer and Mrs. C.

A. Stevenson. Mr. Pettyjohn is president and Mrs. Stevenson is treasurer.

The committee is incorporated by the state of Kansas as a charitable institution, and members all are under bond. According to the articles of incorporation the members of the committee serve without pay, and in case of a vacancy by death, the membership is perpetuated by an election. In order to finance the memorial contributions will be solicited throughout the United States. The committee expects to raise a fund of $100,000. Of this $50,000 will be used for the construction of the building and the remainder placed in securities bearing at least per cent interest.

This will give the memorial an annual income of $3,000, which will be used for upkeep and for improving the grounds about the WHAT TO DO FOR YOUR ITCHING SKIN Eczema, ringworm and. other itching, burning skin eruptions are so easily made worse by improper treatment that one has to be very careful. There is one method, however, that you need not hesitate to use, even on a baby's tender skin that is the resinol treatment Resinol is the prescription of a Baltimore doctor, put up in the form of resinol ointment and resinol soap. This proved so remarkably successful that thousands of other physicians have' been prescribing it constantly for 20 years. Resinol stops itching instantly, and almost always heals the eruption Quickly and at little cost Resinol ointment and resinol soap can be bought at any druggist's and are not at ell expensive.

Great for sunburn. Adv. reach the height of the crest two weeks ago more water came down the stream and the river was higher than two weeks ago at all points west of Kansas City. The current of the Kaw "was shooting half way across the Mis- eouri while two weeks ago the Big Muddy was forcing backwater up the smaller streams. J.

G. Groves, a negro, known as "Potato King" of the Kaw Valley, said that there was more water at Ed- CUPID BROKE UP A CLUB Gen. Luigi Caneva, commander in -chief of the armies of Italy. wardsville than two weeks ago, but that only about fifty acres of the potato crop on the north side of the river at that place was inundated. But across the river there was a different story.

The Santa Fe depot at Holiday was flooded. West of the station acres and acres of land were inundated. The same was true at Lin-wood, Loring, Wilder and other towns and farming communities upstream. The water covered the lowlands first on one side of the river and then the QUIZ UNIVERSITY FACULTY Board of Administration Seeks to Curb Feeling of Unrest at Big State School. St.

Paul Bachelor Girls' Club Is Now a Name Only Dances Out of Existence. St. Paul. The Bachelor Girls' club of St. Paul danced itself out of existence at the Armory, Sixth and Exchange streets, after ten of the original thirteen members had fallen before the marksmanship of Dan Cupid.

It was the twelfth and last dance given by the club, and at the stroke of one a few mornings ago the last vestige of the club as an vanished like Cinderella under the spell of the fairy. The club was organized five years ago and the members, bound by solemn oaths of bachelorhood, remained intact for a time. Cupid battered at the ramparts and one after another the members capitulated until five alone were left. Suddenly two of these fell and a double wedding announcement carried dismay to the hearts of the remaining three. JOY FOLLOWS GRIEF How It Happened.

"It was this way," said the tattooed man to his circle of interested listeners, was marooned on an island in the South Pacific and captured by a band of savages. They demanded a thousand dollars for my release. I was In a terrible predicament all my mon-iy was in a New York bank, and I hadn't a cent with me." "What did you do?" asked one of the listeners as the tattooed man paused for breath. "I told them to draw on me, and they did." Gay Season Follows Mourning Year in Japan. steamship companies, tourists' bureaus, hotels and celebration committees are all making special arrangements to offer every facility in their power.

Many of those American travelers will go to China as well, as the new republic of Asia is arousing the Increasing Interest of Its trans-Pacific neighbor. WINS TOOTH-BRUSH STRIFE DOG DEVOURS "EXHIBIT other. William Martin, guardian for Henderson Hickcox, minor, has filed suit at Independence for $55,000 against the Prairie Pipe Line Company, because of injuries received by Hickcox February 9, 1915, while in the employ of the company, that resulted in the Joss of his mind. Hickcox, assistant engineer at the company's pumping 'plant at Caney, was sent into the condenser pit to start an engine. The engine started suddenly and Hickcox was struck by a blast of steam and iiot water.

He was thrown with great Violence against the cement base of Lhe engine, it is alleged, and his skull crushed and lie was also badly scalded. He is now in the state hospital or the insane. An Added Bit of Realism. While watching an educational film a little girl's sympathy was aroused through the affection a handsome dog was showing his maBter. "Why doesn't he love the pretty doggy, mamma?" she asked.

returned the parent. "He is scenting a polecat." "Oh," answered the child. "I never saw a polecat before, but I've smelled them." White Calf's Red Ear Oid Not Appear in Theft Case in California. San Francisco. Elmer Norgard, son of a wealthy rancher, did not steal from the Round Valley (Cal.) Indian reservation one white calf with red ears, a jury In the United States district court found here a few days ago.

The calf's value was placed at $25 The case cost the government $15,000, it was said. A notched calf's ear that was to have figured as "Exhibit did not appear in the case. Daniel Deram, forest ranger, said his dog ate it. BOOM DAYS IN PITTSBURG One of the Two. He Have your folks decided yet where you are all going to spend the summer? She Not quite.

Ma says it's at the White mountains, but pa declares it'll be at the poorhouse. Boston Evening Transcript. Cld Smelters are Busy and New Plants are Contemplated Because of Zinc Demand. A it DECIDES TO DIE A REDHEAD The Borrower. "Mr.

Brown called today and returned that umbrella he borrowed from you a year ago." "Huh! I suppose he's heard I've bought a new one." The Kansas university board of administration conducted a quiz of members of the faculty the other day from which all reporters and observers were barred. Every man present was questioned as to whether he was satisfied with conditions at the university. While some members of the faculty said they had heard of nothing wrong, there were many who hac some criticism of the university management for the last two years. The report of the university board of alumni visitors which was made at the annual' alumni meet on Tuesday aroused the board to question the faculty In an effort to learn real conditions, it was generally admitted at the meeting that there is a feeling of unrest at the school, which most of the faculty members said has been caused in a large part by the board taking action over the head of Chancellor Strong. The cases in which this was done were claimed by, President Hackney to be very few and there was a virtual promise to the faculty that the practice would be discontinued entirely.

The report of the alumni visitors charged that the board was meddling and that politics had crept into the university and that the morale of faculty and students was affected. Killed by Live Wire. George Wend-ling, a member of the firm of Wirby Wendling, ice manufacturers of Frankfort, was electrocized by contact with 'a live wire at the Ice plant. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Sophie Wendling, and several brothers and sisters.

Bees Stung Helpless Man. Dave Beatty, police judge at Atchison, climbed into a tfee to capture a swarm of bees. He lost his balance and in falling his head wedged in a fork of the tree. The bees stung him in dozens of places. He was in a dangerous condition when finally rescued by neighbors.

Killed In a Mill. Clay M. Gibson was killed by a shaft while putting on- a belt at the mill in Moline. Ha leaves a widow and three small children. Move Big Glass Factory.

The dismantling of the glass factory at Ponca City, is being carried forward rapidly, and it is expected that it will be In operation at Augusta, its new home, by July 1. The move Is made to get the plant closer to Wichita, where the United Sasb and Door Factory, which owns the plant, is located. The big glass tank, which has not cooled from the last output a week ago, will be the last of the plant taken. Club Woman Dead. Mrs.

Minnie I I Lucky. "I hear your old flame, Maud', is a widow." "I always was lucky. Just think, if I'd married her I'd be dead now." Life Looked Black to Blond Youth Who Became Auburn Through Oyeing Process. Memphis, Tenn. After dyeing bis hair red in hopes of concealing his identity, Winiford Dickerson, clerk of North Fifth street, wandered to Overton Park, crawled under a clump of bushes near the zoo and swallowed so much poison phynlcians at the City hospital say he cannot live.

The man was found by park policeman Ferguson. He was unconscious. The virtues of some men are never apparent until brought out by the criminal lawyers who defend fhem. The old smelter days are back in Pittsburg. The zinc boom in the Jop-lin district has been followed by a revival of the industry which gave Pittsburg its standing as an industrial center twenty-fiv3 years ago.

Smelter men who moved to the gas belt fifteen years ago are returning to the Pittsburg district, i lants, long Idle, again are running seven days a week. The Joplin Ore and Spelter Company opened the old North smelters at Pittsburg several weeks ago under a lease. The plant had not been operated fuinine years. One hundred and fifty men are employed there, and eight furnaces are being added. The Pittsburg Zinc Company resumed operations of its smelter plant several weeks ago.

Work is in progress on additional blocks of furnaces there. The smelter at Bruce, near Cherokee, also was opened a few weeks ago. The construction of two or three new smelter plants immediately is anticipated. Coal operators and coal miners are enthusiastic over the prospects. The demand for coal has been slow and the mines have been working irregularly.

Worry knocks more men out than overwork. This picture shows one of the chil dren who won the first prize awarded in the big tooth-brush drill competition in' which thousands of school children participated in New York recently. Tooth brush drills are now important features of the routine In the New York public schools, and the importance of the tooth-brush in preventing diseases of the teeth and mouth is being practically impressed on the pupils, especially in the lower grades. MRS. JOHN JACOB AST0R Coronation at Kyoto In November Will Be Culmination of Succession of Festivals Tokyo Society Busy With Functions.

Tokyo. The year's period of national mourning expired on April 11, and the printers and dyers were busily engaged in removing black, the sanctuary of the late empress dowager was transferred to the "Hall of Imperial Spirits" in the palace grounds from the temporary shrine at Aoyama, and the coronation commission has been organized with H. I. II. Prince FushimI as honorary president and Prince Takatsukaea as chief commissioner.

The latter represents one of the five noble families, whose heads alone were eligible to the post of the emperor's prime minister In former days. The height of the cherry season and the first anniversary of the formation of the Okuma cabinet tend to keep Tokyo society busy with garden parties and convivial meetings, while the stock market showed a few days ago the biggest sign of returning prosperity since the boom after the Russian war. April 17 being the tercentenary of the death of the founder of the Toku-gawa Sbogunate and of the City of Tokyo, an elaborate program for commemoration is prepared in Tokyo, at his birth place, Okazaki, at Shi-dzuoka, where be had retired, and at Kunozan and Nlkko, where his memory is ept sacred in gorgeous temples. A Daimyo procession Is reproduced for three days in the Imperial capital. The feudal chieftain in his palanquin, carried on the shoulders of tall bearers, "shakespears," bowmen, gunners, horses and grooms, a retinue of servants and porters of the personal effects of his lordship all In authentic costuming and conventional manners, will parade to the Shlba park, where the Tokugawa temples stand, from three different entrances to the city on three successive days.

The foreign community and tourists are particularly anxious to see this display, for it is only the third time that feudalism Is made visible in the metropolis. The first occasion of the kind was to celebrate the thirtieth year of the Imperial residence In Tokyo, and the second to entertain Prince Arthur of Connaught, who came to Japan on the Garter mission, after the Anglo-Japanese alliance had been first formed. At Okazaki, on April 18, a parade of Impersonated Mikawa Samurai, a body of single-minded and simple-living warriors who fought under the first Shogun, Iyeyasu, to create a reign of peace out of the chaos and constant strife of the middle ages, will attract crowds of spectators, both Japanese and foreign. The grand finale of this year's events, however, will come off in the month of November, in the shape of the coronation rites by the emperor In his ancestral capital, Kyoto. The coronation in Japan is somewhat different in nature from that of Europe, and Instead of being a purely religious ceremony the sovereign solemnly proclaims his coming to the throne, to the imperial spirits and the people on the one hand, and on the other offers new rice to the deities of heaven and earth and partakes of It himself on the spot.

The proclamation and the accompanying state banquet will comprise some modern features, while the ancestral worship and the shrines for that purpose will closely follow the example of primitive simplicity set by the earliest rulers over two thousand years ago. These functions are calculated to bring unusually large numbers of visitors to Japanese shores from the San Francisco exposition, so that BLIND MAN IS A LAWYER A It -'H Mother and Child Burned. Mrs. John Tolliver, wife of a miner living three miles southwest of Pittsburg, and her 1 -year-old baby were burned fatally In a fire that destroyed the Tolliver home the other day. Mrs.

Tolliver was about 30 years old. It is believed she was using gasoline to start a fire. Sister Read Rlackstone to Him Passes Examination for Admission to the Bar. Pierre, S. D.

Among the successful applicants for admission to the bar at the recent examination before the supreme court was Ole H. Flow, a native of the Black Hills, who has worked under the handicap of blindness from birth. For years he made his way in the world as a piano tuner, but aspired to the law, and securing a copy of Black-stone, had his sister read the work to him. At the examinations the questions were read to Flow by one of the court stenographers, and his answers were written out on an ordinary typewriter, he never having recourse to the machines arranged especially for the blind. Veteran Printer Dead.

Dan S. Llnd- 'i j. 1 sey, one of the best known printers in Kansas, is dead at his home in i Wichita, For thirty-five years he was an assistant of former Gov. E. Tloch in the publication of the Marion Sponsler, wife of A.

J. Sponsler, secretary of the Kansas state fair, is dead SHE QUIT But It Was a Hard Pull. It is hard to believe that coffee will put a person In such a condition as it did an Ohio woman. She tells her own story: "I did not believe coffee caused my trouble, and frequently said I liked it so well I would not, and could not, quit drinking it, but I was a miserable sufferer from heart trouble and nervous prostration for four years. "I was scarcely able to be around, had no energy and did not care for anything.

Was emaciated and had a constant pain around my heart until I thought I could not endure it. "Frequently I had nervous chills and the least excitement would drive sleep away, and any little noise would upset me terribly. I was gradually getting worse until finally I asked ray-self what's the use of being sick all the time and buying medicine so that I could indulge myself In coffee? "So I got some Postum to help me quit. I made it strictly according to directions and I want to tell you that change was the greatest step in my life. It was easy to quit coffee because I now like Postum better than the coffee.

"One by one the old troubles left until now I am in splendid health, nerves steady, heart all right and the pain all gone. Never have any more nervous chills, don't take any medicine, can do all my house work and have done a great deal besides." Name given by Postum Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellvllle," In pkgs. Postum comes In two forms: Postum Cereal the original form-must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pack ages.

Instant Postum a soluble powder-dissolves quickly In a cup of hot water and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage Instantly. 30c and EOc tins. Both kinds are equally delicious and cost about the same per cup. "There's a Reason" for Postum. sold by Grocers.

at Hutchinson after a short illness. Mrs. Sponsler was well known all over the state in club circles. Her death resulted from a stroke of apoplexy. Harvest Hand Killed.

H. Clay, a harvest hand from Frederickstown, was killed recently while- riding a freight car filled with ties at Gyp sum City. He was in the end of the car and a heavy Jar of the car moved -Vtecord. They learned the printer's rade in Kentucky in 1871. Geary County Pioneer Dead.

G. Johnson, a Geary county pioneer, la dead at his home on Clark's Creek. He was 75 years oid and had lived there more than forty years. Poisoned by Mistake. Mrs.

Lewis Masters of Newkirk, mistook strychnine tablets for headache tablets the other evening and died soon afterward. Injured In Tornado. Eicht persons were injured in a tornado which swept JUrton, Russell and Osborne counties the other day. Much property dam-was done and the wind was followed by a heavy fall of rain, which in some localities reached almost cloudburst proportions. Capper Inspects State Prison.

Governor Capper made a general Inspection of the state prison at Lansing the other day, the first since his election. the tics, crushing him. GIRL MASQUERADER IS CURED "Woman's Drets Is Good Enough for Me," She Says, After Escapade. New York. "Never again," said seventeen-year-old Myra Whiting ot Baltimore to District Attorney Perkins, as she left his office with her father to return to Baltimore.

Women's dress is good enough for me In future," she added. "I wish my hair could-grow a little faster." Myra was arrested with Wllbert Mc-Kenney, also of Baltimore. She was then dressed in man's clothing, which, she said, she had put on in Washington after leading Baltimore to begin a musical career. She told Mr. Perkins that she had expected to work as a chauffeur while getting her musical' education.

Sacrifice to Sick Man. Because they did not want a river to flood the land of their sick neighbor, Del Gray, neighbors opened the levee of the river near Muscotah, allowing their own land to be Gray recently had one of his legs shot off by the acci 9 dental discharge of a shotgun. Gymnasium for Midland. The board of trustees of Midland college; In session at Atchison, has authorized the This Is the latest photograph of the young bride-widow of the late John Jacob ABtor who lost his life In the Titanic disaster. Persistent rumors are linking the name of Mrs.

Asor with that of Clarence Mackay, the cable and telegraph magnate. erection of a gymnasium to cost between $30,000 and $0,000. Work will The governor said he had to other purpose in his visit. commence at once..