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UNIVERSITY MISSOURIAN EIGHTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1916 NUMBER 123 1 i W.E.HARSHE.RETIRED IT, IS DEAD Known to Hundreds of Former Students as Bookstore Proprietor. CAME HERE IN 1894 Traveled Many Years for St. Louis Hou.se Was Native of Pennsylvania. William Edgar Harshe. Known to hundreds of former students of the Universit through his connection with the old llaishe bookstore, died of nerous disability his home on Stewart road at noon today Mr Harshe was horn at Monongahe-la City.

Pa, September 16, 1S47. In 1S19 he moved to Louisiana, Mo, in 18C3 to St. l.ouis, and in January, 1S94, he became a dealer in books and stationer in Columbia He managed a bookstore from that time until 1911, W. E. llarshc wlien he retired from actie business.

Previous to coming to Columbia Mr. Harshe was a commercial traveler for twent-threo ears seventeen jears for one house. It. 1). Patterson and Company of St.

l.ouis, now the Buxton Skinner Company. For five jears he was a member of the board of trustees of the North Missouri Institute, at Salisbury. On September 1S77, he married Miss Emma Robinson of Salisbury. He is survived by his wife, who is president of the Women's Civic League of Columbia, and one son, Robert B. Harshe, an alumnus of the University, now director of the fine arts museum of Oakland, Cal.

Mr. Harshe had two hobbies his books and fishing. He was a book-lover as well as book-seller, and his whole heart went into the business that he built up here. Every student of a generation ago knew Harshe's store and the proprietor. Each summer Mr.

Harshe used to go north on a fishing trip, and lie always came back not only with wonderful fish stories in which his friends delighted, but with -visible evidence of his prowess with the rod and line. In his store were many pictures of fishing scenes which rivalled his books in his affections. Mr. Harshe was a member of the Iiaptist Church and a Democrat. The burial will be at Salisbury, but no definite funeral arrangements have been made.

TWO THEATERS COMI'INED Annex Mill He Merged With Broadway Odeon l) IV. Gage. The Annex Theater has been combined with the Broadway Odeon by the owner of both theaters, W. B. Gage.

It has been closed and is now being dismantled. The Odeon is being enlarged and fitted with chairs in place of the benches it formerly contained It will reopen Friday. Gage said today that he combined the two theaters because the labor of running the Anne, the Odeon and the Walnut Street Theater was too much for him. WILL SEND OTE TO Tl'KKEY Sultan Will He Asked for Information on Sinking of Persia. United Press.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 24. The State Department, following the denial of Austra in the Persia affair, is preparing a note to the Turkish government, asking what information it can give concerning the sinking of the liner. THEY SAY "It is a shame that a state with the wealth and prosperity of Missouri does not have better accommodations for Its University women," said President James M.

Wood of Stephens College. "Tlie Universit women should be provided with dormitories by tin' state, and they should have a building that would be the center of women's ac tivities in the Universit. This building should have ample gvmnasiuiu facilities and shou'd be located on a women's quadrangle. "Columbia is particular! fortunate In that it lias no railroad trunk line connecting immediately with St luis and Kansas City, for if such were the case the smaller city would be in danger of domination by the larger centers "Since we have no direct connection with the larger cities we have a unity of purpose and a desirable University atmosphere. "Lawrence, Kan, for instance, is located on three trunk lines.

Its interests are largely dominated by Kansas City. The relation of the town and the University, as indicated by the circulation of the Daily Kansan, the olhcial oigan of the School of Journalism of the University of Kansas, is not nearly so close as the relation of the town of Columbia and the Universit of Missouri, as indicated by the circulation of the University Mis-sourian." STIEHM IN FIGHTIM; MOOD Coach Ordered Two of Athletic Board Out of His House. LINCOLN, Neb Jan. 24. There has been a fresh break between Coach "Jumbo" Stiehm and the members of the University of Nebraska athletic board, which culminated in Stiehm's ordering Athletic Director Gu H.

Reed and Dr. R. 0. Clapp out of his home. It is charged that Stielim took some of the correspondence, records and other data collected during the five ears that he was in charge of football at Nebraska.

Among the papers, it is said, were scouting notes and records of the football plaers. Stiehm declared that the papers were his personal property. According to Doctor Clapp. Stiehm gave them three minutes to get out of his house Stiehm is feet inches tall. Doctor Clapp and Director Reed are of moderate height and of slender build.

Both men admit they left within the time limit. L. G. HOOD TO MINNESOTA Missouri Man Mill Be Instructor In Journalism. L.

who has been a student assistant in the School of Journalism during the last semester, will leave tonight for Minneapolis, where he will become a member of the journalism faculty of the University of Minnesota. Mr. Hood will rank as instructor and will have charge of courses in news and copy reading. Minnesota is making a start this year toward building up a separate school of journalism, similar to that at the University of Missouri. The head of the school is W.

P. Kirkwood, a former Minneapolis newspaper man widely known as a writer on agricultural topics. He plans to give a course next semester in agricultural journalism. Mr. Kirkwood was in Columbia a year ago to inspect the work of the Missouri school.

JESSE ARMSTRONG IS BDRIED Funeral of 74-Tear-Old Columbian at Fairvlew Methodist Church. The funeral of Jesse Armstrong, 213 West Ash street, who died at 3 o'clock Sunday morning, was held this afternoon at the Fairview Methodist Church, three miles south of Columbia. Burial was in the church cemetery. Mr. Armstrong was 74 years old He is survived by his widow; two daughters, Mrs.

Price Turner of near Columbia and Mrs. Mary Todd of Columbia, and one son, J. T. Armstrong of Columbia. in Texas" Banquet Planned.

A "Made in Texas" banquet is now being planned by the School of Journalism of the University of Texas, to be held during Newspaper Week in Austin, March 20 to 23. The first of the state banquets, which have become popular, was the "made In Missouri" banquet held in Rothwell Gymnasium last ear during Journalism Week. ft a tfm FAMOUS PIANIST WHO WILL PLAY HERE mLF i K1 ft IVI BSE5S5S5SSSEE9I ARM! ITS END Montenegrin Forces Are Pre paring for Last Stand Against Austrians. ISy United Tress Jan 21. The Montenegrin arm is in daiiRei of annihilation, dispatches hero toda The Austrian forces have otctlliied Duliigno and are marching the captured troops with their army to prevent them from attempting to escape to Scutari.

At Scutari the Serbian and Albanian irregulars arc joining forces with the Montenegrins for a last stard against the army of Austria. The report that King Nicholas of Montenegro signed the peace armistice with Austria as a ruse to gain time to collect his forces and allow his army to retreat to stronger positions has been confirmed. "MCK" MAKES 000D AS COICH Former V. Track Star Receives Favorable 'oticc at Scvvanee. John Patrick Nicholson, former student and track star and captain of the University, is proving a success as an athletic director He is in charge of basketball and track at the University of the South at Scvvanee, Tenn.

Nicholson also has charge of the early training and conditioning of the baseball team. That he is well thought of at Sewanee is shown by the following from the Sewanee Purple of January 20. "The Universit took a step in the right direction when it engaged the services of Mr. Nicholson of the University of Missouri. His presence means that Sewanee will enter a track team In the Southern Inter-scholastic Athletic Association meet for the first time in several ears.

He is also proving a great success as a basketball coach." Nicholson was a member of the University track team for three jears. He was also on the American team at the 01mpic Games in 1912. WEIR GROCERY STOOK ASSIfiXED Failure of Trade lo (Jo Throtiirh Is Given as Reason. An assignment of the grocery stock of W. Weir, owner of the Pure Food Grocery at 71S West Broadway, was filed in the Circuit Court today.

W. W. Pane is assignee under a bond of $1,100 with U. Price, and A. G.

Spencer as sureties. R. L. Vandi-ver and Louis Dysart were appointed appraisers. "The assignment of my business was due to the fact that a trade which had been made with certain Columbia men was not carried out," said Mr.

Weir today. "They failed to fulfill their part of the contract." llofinaiiii THREE CASES IN POLICE COl'lll' AH I'lead Guilt ninl I'i'ncil the S.imc, $5 Three cases were disposed of in Judge M. Kdwards' police iourt this morning. Merle t'oonfare pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace of his vife, Mrs. Minnie t'oonfare, and was fined $." and costs, amounting in all to $13 23 Frank Fcrree pleaded guilt to a charge of disturbing the peace, preferred A Fn ikndall, and was fined Jake Samuels, a negro, pleaded guilty to stealing a pair of shoes worth i from Russell Monroe.

He was fined $3 and costs, amounting to 510.75. 'IL'ESI)A CM'H l'LWS I'HOCRUI Mill Give JI. ('. A. Picture hv Prof.

J. S. Ankenc) 'I "morrow. The annual meeting of the Tuesday Club will be held at o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the C. A Auditorium.

Each member of the club will be allowed to invite two guest-. Among the number on the program will be. old Southern songs by the Presbjti'rijii quartet and a talk on dress Mrs. 1. Bernard.

Miss Ethel Hoiuone will show examples of standardized dresses Mrs Bowling and Mrs It. Nelson will sing a diet There will he also the presentation bv the club of one of Prof J. S. Ankene's pictures to the A. K.

C. A. C. EM'RY IlLVMv'S Indoor Meet Fihruarj if, Mill Re Hirers First 'lest. Entry blanks for the indoor meet of the Kansas Citj Athletic Club February 2C, where the 191C Tiger track team will receive its first test competition with other Missouri Valley teams, have been received here.

Other schools, among them the University of Oklahoma and the Okla homa Aggies, will be seen in the meet at Convention Hall this ear, according to Dr J. A. Heill, the club's director. Events for university, college, high school and ward school athletes are listed. RU.SSI FLEET 1 I U'hS 'I Cl'hS Torpedo Boats Sink 'I liirtj-'Ilinc Yes.

sels in One Raid. Ily United Preis. PETROGRAI), Jan 21 That Russian torpedo boats sank thirt -three Turkish sailing vessels in a raid upon the Anatolian coast was announced to-da by the war office Turkish barracks were stormed and docks damaged in the bombardment of Samson and other villages in Asia Minor, along the coast of the Black Sea. barren Snitler to Unit Here. Warren Switzler of Omaha, Neb, an alumnus of the University, was ex pected to arrive this afternoon for a short visit to his brother, Irvin Switzler, and his sister, Mrs.

J. S. Branham. THE WE VI HER I l'r ColuiiiMi inity. incri-i-liiB louillness tnnlglit.

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win re it is toltl with snow. Kist or the VIissNslppI .1, ir ski, with nt-irl stist.iiii ti mpt itun preall. I'ri-ijili itlon or the pist tnentj four hours i toiilineil the North, rn tl Ill-Ill Hill I'll Hit sJt," the nil iii Imnltr rrom VI ml lol.i wistttir.l It nip, ritiirt-t ire low 7t ro. 1 he iltprissloll uill move t-tslw iril unl will roll, mill i liljh pressure i nil the ut-ilhtr ill I'olllllihli will heiiime i 'is, ith tl with nln ir siom iml liiosdix VVtilnestl iy. I I ntul liata.

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A eir igo nln the highest tempt rature is II I the loUlst pret I. it itioli, ml The Inunue. Sun rose toilij, ts, in Vloon rist s1, i ",1 p. ni. The lempenitlires Tuilj.

Tim 21 II in 4s .1 111. VI Ill in. 41 i in in i in 'i i ST i THE CYLEMIAH. Jinuirr 27 Jntrinte eiiulnitlnns for sei on, I semester at the Unhers-ity. inuiry IS Kntrinit exnmiintlons Lll-rntrince et imln itlons .1 inuir 21! I'irst stmester examimtlons tlose Tt t'nlversity.

Jinuarj SlIteglstntlou seeonil scmeter it I'nlitrslty. I'thruirv 1 Iteglstntlon seeoml si mister it I'nivtrsity, MI.ESMEN IN HEUIMI Companies Ire After fur ct Summer's Work. Various companies plan to use over four hundred students as salesmen next tumniT. Student representatives of brush, cooking utensils, map and book companies are now busy enrolling men for work during the coming season. There are two brush companies represented here, each planning to use about seventy men.

Twent-five men are wanted to sell maps. A cooking utensil company aims to get a hundred salesmt from the Uni-versity. Four book companies are looking for a total of 220 agents. According to one representative, the greatest value students get from their 'summer's work is not the mone hut the experience. Before the men go into the field the ate given a tourse in salesmanship covering from four to 'ten wctks.

With this preliminary training they go out and learn salesmanship by experience. This man thinks that any one who works all summer and sells enough books to pay his expenses during the school ear will be able to make a success when he gets out of school. Training, however, is not the only reward. Several book companies and two other companies who employed students from Missouri last ear claim that the average man who worked sixty clas made over $300 clear profit. About half of the companies guarantee their salesmen a certain profit, usual-1 over $200 for the summer, if they work full time and fail to make that amount.

All classes of students are employedfreshmen, upperclassmen, fraternity men, non-fraternit men, obscure men and prominent men. I Freshmen seem to he the pick of I some companies, chiefly because they I are easier to sign. I Another representative sums up the whole matter when he says that the firms need the students because students are good salesmen, and the stu- dents need the work because it pas better in both experience and money than any other work they can get for the vacation. sriiMiitm: i irisii waters Allen Liner Pomeranian in Trouble-May Have Recn Attacked. t'nlteil Press.

I Ql'EENSTOWN. Jan. 24 The Allen liner Pomeranian, 4,000 tons, is reported in trouble today and is return-i ing to tills port. The caue of the accident is unknown, hut a German submarine has been reported in this region lately. UILSOX TO SPEVK IX ST.

L0I1S President Expected to Stop There on Return From West. fnlteil Tress. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 President Wilson will probably address an audience in St. Louis on his return to Washington from Kansas City during the first week in February, according to an announcement made this afternoon.

f'hrNtian Endeavor Worker Here. Sam F. Burnet, field worker for the Christian Endeavor, was in Columbia jesterday and conducted two meetings Many University students attended. Mr. Burne' left for Moborly last night.

Full Organization, With Damrobch and Hofmann, Will Plav Here. MAY 9 IS THK DATK Phi Mu Alpha Offers Third Rxtra Concert in Not- ahle Series. Kreisler' P.ideri'ttskr And now the New York S.vmphonv Otehestra: Cniler the direction of the great Dainrosch, with the world-famous pianist. Josef llofnunn. the full New-York Sv mpIion Ore lustra will play in the I niversitv Auditorium on Ma) 9.

Hofmann needs no introduction. His name is s.vnemvmoas with piano perfection He was bom in the Polish eit of Cracow, where in the house-bold of his father, who conducted a conservator of music, and his mother, who was an opera singer, he assimilated music as his daily food. His first instruction on the piano he had from his rather, and two ear.s later, when he was f. jears old. he appeared at a public conceit and amaed ever one.

When he was he am.ued the mighty Itubenstein with bis rare talent, and it has been said that Hofmann was the only "wonder-child" that Ku-benstein was ever interested in. Has loured Countries. When he was 10 be filled his first professional engagement in Berlin, and then toured Denmark and Sweden under the patronage of the Queen of Denmark. Short afterward he-toured France and England and then was brought to America, where his scries of concerts created a furore not soon forgotten. "The power of personalit is the vital thing in the world of art," wrote Karlton Ilackett, or the Chicago Evening Post "It is this power, perhaps even more than his extraordinary command of the keyboard, which makes his plaing sueh a vital thing.

He understands the piano: the peculiar ciuahties of the instrument have become part of his being, and it appears impossible for him to overstep the hounds of what properly belongs to the piano. He does not seek to make it something else." 'I lie Career of Dammsrli. Dainrosch began his career at the age of His father, who was director of the Metropolitan Opera House, died suddenly and the son was literal! forced into Ins place. He was bundled off ith his father's opera company to Walter Danirusch Boston and Chicago and so satisfactory was his work that he was made permanently assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera House. The New York Sinphony Orchestra will make a transcontinental tour during March, April and May, and will come to Columbia tinder the auspices of Phi Alpha The concert will be.

the third and last Extra-serial offering of the season Season ticket holders will receive reductions. Seat sales and prices will be announced later. Dr. Webster Dead. PASADENA.

Cal Jan. 2. Dr. Webster Merrlfield, former president of the University of North Dakota, and at one time a member of the Yale faculty. Is dead at his home here.

He was ears old and had been in 111 health for several weeks..