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May 20, 2025 ~ WOMEN'S REFORMATORY IDEAS.

May 20, 2025

WOMEN'S REFORMATORY IDEAS.

Suggestions From the East to Be Included in Plans Here.

L. A. Halbert, superintendent of the board of public welfare, returned yesterday from the national conference of social workers at Indianapolis. He brought back many suggestions regarding features to be tried out in the proposed new women's reformatory on which plans are to be definitely made this week.

Mr. Halbert says that great care has been taken in the Indianapolis institution to eliminate the atmosphere of a prison. Even the bars on the windows are sent into the glass in such a way as to have the appearance of fancy window panes and are painted white. Each woman is given a room to herself and the furniture is neatly enameled in white. There is a rug on the floor of the room, pictures on the wall and a fine mirror.

"I consider that the humanest item of all, giving them a mirror," said Mr. Halbert. "A woman always wants a chance to know how she looks and personally I believe in the mirror as a preserver of self-respect even more so than vanity."

A discussion was also held of the possibility of interesting the government in carrying part of the burden of ill, degenerate or incompetent humanity now shouldered by the state and municipal philanthropic bodies.

May 16, 2025 ~ STUDY MODERN BUSINESS.

May 16, 2025

STUDY MODERN BUSINESS.

Girl Students Make Comparisons With Ancient Methods.

Forty girl pupils of the Westport high school made an automobile tour of the city yesterday afternoon to compare modern methods of business with those of ancient times, which the girls are now studying. They inspected the General hospital, the kitchens of the Hotel Muehlbach, the city hall, the court house, board of trade and Second street and Troost avenue, where a trading post was maintained in the early days of Kansas City.

The girls were accompanied by three of their teachers, Mrs. Ada J. MacLaughlin and the Misses Ida B. Lilly and Ann Shire.

May 9, 2025 ~ SOCIETY WOMEN GO TO VISIT BURGLAR.

May 9, 2025

SOCIETY WOMEN GO TO VISIT BURGLAR.

Polite Crook Entertains His Victims With Reminiscences.

A young burglar spent yesterday afternoon receiving return calls from his "clientele." He did not forget once to be gentle and courteous.

"Yes, this is Peter Sutton, the burglar," he said. "What are your names, please?" They told him. His guests, who were entertained in the detectives' room of police headquarters, were Mrs. H. H. McCluer, club woman, 3224 Highland avenue; Mrs. J. W. Lemke, 448 Bellefontaine avenue; Mrs. H. A. Spencer, 307 Bellefontaine avenue; Mrs. J. Philbreck, 426 Prospect boulevard, and others who were there to identify property stolen from their homes about March 1.

"Oh, yes, I was out to your home, Mrs. McCluer," Sutton admitted pleasantly. "I got a pair of silk stockings, among other things. You did not happen to be home at the time."

"What did you do with the fourteen pairs of silk stockings you got from my home?" demanded Mrs. Philbreck, the wife of a jeweler, who lost more than $300 worth of property.

"Gone -- all gone, long ago," replied the burglar.

"Did you rob my house?" asked Mrs. Spencer.

"Yes, I was there. Got a pair of opera glasses. You were out, too."

"Did you ever find a woman in the houses you robbed?"

Sutton laughed a care free, hearty laugh.

"One time, on Tracy avenue," said he. "I entered the door with a jimmy and was just ransacking the house when I heard a splash in the bath room. I peeked and found a woman taking a bath. I of course apologized and withdrew without taking anything."

The women appeared to be impressed with the police manners of the burglar. They all shook hands with him when they left and advised him to turn over a new leaf. Only Mrs. Philbreck found some of her stolen goods. She was able to identify a string of beads and a watch chain.

May 8, 2025 ~ WOMEN FAINT IN TABERNACLE HEAT.

May 8, 2025

WOMEN FAINT IN TABERNACLE HEAT.

Hospital Room Fails to Care for All Those Who Are Overcome.

The excessive heat of yesterday had its effect on worshipers at the Billy Sunday tabernacle. At least seven women fainted in the crowded pews. The emergency hospital room, fitted up with modern equipment, in the north-east corner of the building appeared to be overcrowded, for some cause, with people who were not ill, and many who needed medical attention were placed in automobiles and taken elsewhere.

"A great many women who fainted on last Thursday night would not come near us," one of the attendants said. Although the attendant asserted only seven women were overcome by the heat yesterday morning, he refused to show the books in which the records are kept and it was believed by some of the ushers that his estimate was much too small.

Billy Sunday, before beginning his afternoon sermon, indicated that he would take measures today to further cool the building. Boards will be pulled away from the outside walls, he said, quadrupling the ventilation facilities. He believes this arrangement will prevent a recurrence of the "epidemic" of heat prostrations.

May 3, 2025 KICKING OF POODLE STARTS FUSILLADE.

May 3, 2025

KICKING OF POODLE STARTS FUSILLADE.

Woman Empties Gun at man She Says Abused Pet, Then Hit Her.

The resounding kick on the ribs of a small poodle dog, owned by Mrs. Hazel Baker, 705 Oak street, was the indirect cause, it is said, of a shower of bullets which sang about the ears of Thomas Stevens, a chauffeur, believed by Mrs. Baker to be the one who administered the kick. In the presence of 100 or more speculators Mrs. Baker emptied her revolver at Stevens.

"I was sitting on the porch with a neighbor," Mrs. Baker said. "My pet poodle was trotting about on the sidewalk below. Two men came along and when the dog got in their way they kicked him off of the sidewalk. The kick resulted in a resounding thump and the dog ran yelping and limping away. It made me mad."

" 'I'd as soon you'd kick me," I said. One of the men growled something and ran up on the porch. I asked him what he meant by doing that. I had never seen him before. He evidently had been drinking. He grabbed me by the wrist and commenced to beat me with his umbrella. You can see the mark here on my neck and wrist. He also hit me on the head. I jerked away and ran into my home. I was already mad over the way he kicked my dog and hitting me didn't make it any better. I got my husband's pistol and ran out on the porch and commenced shooting at him.

After the second shot, witnesses say, the man stopped, cursed Mrs. Baker, and walked deliberately away. The first shot brought a crowd of curious spectators, but the shots that followed quickly scattered them. Bullets lodged in houses along the west side of the street. hearing shots and seeing a man running, Joseph Halvey, a detective on his way to supper, got off a street car and stopped the fugitive, who attempted to resist. Bystanders, who did not understand the situation, and did not see why a man should be arrested for being shot at, attempted to interfere. Two special officers in plain clothes assisted Halvey in holding his prisoner. At police headquarters the man gave the name Thomas Stevens. He said he is 25 years old, a chauffeur, and that he lives at 1312 Main street. He declared the shooting was unprovoked.

Believing that she had wounded the man, Miss Baker fled to a wholesale liquor house near Sixth and Walnut street, where her husband, H. C. Baker, is employed. He told her to go to police headquarters and give herself up. She did so and learned that the supposed victim had not been hit. She told her story to Captain Anderson and was released.

"I'm awfully glad I didn't kill him," she said. "While he deserved some punishment, I don't want such a deed on my head.

Some of the neighbors corroborated her statements. She was ordered to report to Chief Ghent of the detective department pending further investigation of the case.

May 3, 2025 ~ NEGRO GIRLS' SCHOOL READY.

May 3, 2025

NEGRO GIRLS' SCHOOL READY.

Mrs. William's Institution Will Be Open for Visitors Tomorrow

The Mrs. V. J. Williams Domestic Training School for Negro Girls, 1322 Jackson avenue, will be open for public inspection Thursday and visitors will be entertained at a reception between the hours of 2 and six in the afternoon. The forty negro girl pupils of Mrs. Williams will serve refreshments and give an exhibition of their cooking.

The purpose of the school, which has the unqualified indorsement of the women's clubs and occupies a building provided and equipped by the board of education, is to train negro girls to become useful and efficient servants, cooks, and housekeepers. The advisory board is made up of prominent club women. The members are: Mrs. I. M. Ridge, Mrs. J. K. Henderson, Mrs. Henry C. Flower, Mrs. Whitefield Samis, Mrs. Paul Paquin, Mrs. A. E. Raymond, mrs. A. W. Byers, Mrs. C. T. Neal, Mrs. George A. Addison, Mrs. Fred Trigg, Mrs. John Thatcher and Mrs. H. H. McClure.

All women interested in solving the servant problem are invited to visit the school next Thursday afternoon.

April 28, 2025 ~ WOMAN DETECTIVE IS GAME.

April 28, 2025

WOMAN DETECTIVE IS GAME.

Slugged, She Pursues and Captures Alleged Shoplifter.

A young woman detective of the Jones Store Company, after being struck twice yesterday by a man she declares is a shoplifter, chased him out of the store and down an alley, capturing him single-handed in an abandoned building at Thirteenth and Main streets.

Miss Lena Eshelman, the detective, was making her rounds yesterday at noon when, she says, the actions of a man in the hosiery department awakened her suspicions. She says that while she watched him he stealthily took two pairs of women's hosiery from a counter and slipped them under his coat. Miss Eshelman walked up to the man and placed her arm on his shoulder.

"You are under arrest," she told him. "I am a detective. I have caught you red-handed."

Employes of the store say the man did not tarry to argue, but doubled his fist, and struck the woman, knocking her against the wall. Miss Eshelman seized him a second time and again he struck her. The man ran out the door and the detective followed.

For half a block east on Twelfth street the chase continued and a crowd of nearly 300 men joined in pursuit of the fugitive, who turned south in the alley between Walnut and Main streets. He ran into a vacant building back of the Globe theater, with Miss Eshelman at his heels. She followed him into the basement of the building, groping in the dark and stumbling over discarded boxes and lumber. The man ran upstairs again and was trying to unlock a door at the head of the stairway when his persistent pursuer seized him for the third time.

S. H. Tilfree, Pinkerton detective, was in advance of the crowd which joined in the chase and he assisted Miss Eshelman in subduing the man, who was taken to police headquarters. He said his name is William Ward, 25 years old, and that he came here from St. Louis. Ten pairs of hosiery, valued at $1 a pair, were found in his pockets.

April 27, 2025 ~ CITY TO GET COSTLY COLLECTION OF ART.

April 27, 2025

CITY TO GET COSTLY COLLECTION OF ART.

Mrs. W. B. Thayer Tells of Intention to Form Museum Nucleus.

Pending the selection of an adequate fireproof storeroom or exhibition room for her valuable art collection, Mrs. W. B. Thayer has announced that it will be given to Kansas City, as a nucleus for an art museum to the contemplated Mary Adkins institute. For the present it will be considered a gift to the Fine Arts Institute, and has been accepted by President Samuel Moore. A meeting will be held by the directors within the next week to select a proper place of storage.

The collection is valued somewhere between $75,000 and $100,000 and includes paintings, textiles, potteries, precious art novelties of all sorts, prints, basketry and bits of sculpture.

"In a recent trip to San Francisco I tried to find some more to add to my collection," said Mrs. Thayer, "but anything on par with mine were absolutely prohibitive in price. There are articles especially, in the textile line in what I have assembled, that cannot be duplicated elsewhere. And such collections are steadily going up in value. All museums are attempting to assemble collections, especially private collections of them. I want mine to stay here in Kansas City."

Mrs. Thayer is planning a display of her fine collection of textiles in her residence, 4600 Warwick boulevard, next week, beginning Tuesday. The hours will be from 3 till 5 o'clock each day for the week, with a small admission fee charge.

Mrs. Thayer has just returned from Guatemala, where she "picked up" the best samples of embroidery and lace in ecclesiastic vestments. One robe, dating from the fifteenth century, was the property of a cardinal of the ancient Italian family, the Sagredo branch, well known in Venetian history. The reverend gentleman, who wore the robe, was cardinal of the Apostolic church in Venice. She also obtained the elaborate christening robe of a Spanish duke. One point lace robe to be shown is worth $2,500, and some Coptic embroideries she bought in Cairo, Egypt, and Constantinople are priceless. her list of quaint old samplers is also interesting.

April 13, 2025 K. C. SUFFRAGISTS MEET EASTERNERS. ~ Speakers at Union Station Meeting Tell Purposes of Campaign.

April 13, 2025

K. C. SUFFRAGISTS MEET EASTERNERS.

Speakers at Union Station Meeting Tell Purposes of Campaign.

One of the most distinguished assemblages of women which thus far has graced the new Union station yesterday met on the plaza in the cause of equal suffrage. A committee of twenty-five Kansas City suffragists, led by Mrs. Henry N. Ess and Mrs. H. B. Leavens, met the "Suffrage Special" as it passed through Kansas City on its way to carry the suffrage campaign into the heart of the West. With-an automobile as the "platform," the women held a suffrage meeting in front of the station between trains.

Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, president of the Political Equality Association, and millionaire society leader and philanthropist of New York City, was absent on account of illness, but with Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, attorney and advocate of "proposals" by women, will join the party later.

Some of the members of the party were: Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pioneer suffragist; Miss Ella Riegel of Bryn Mawr college, manager of the special; Miss Lucy Burns, national vice chairman; Mrs. Robert Baker of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles, daughter of Thomas F. Bayard, former secretary of state. All wore suffragist colors of yellow, purple and while ribbon.

"We are going into Kansas to free the women of Missouri, and into the West to free the women of the East," Mrs. Blatch said. "We will eventually force congress to adopt the Susan B. Anthony suffrage resolution, which will at one stroke give women equal rights."

The special stopped only half an hour on its way to Topeka. Many of the women declared that they will take up residence in Kansas, so that they can vote and help through this means to obtain the ballot for women in the states where they cannot now vote. All declared that a federal act is the only satisfactory remedy and that "piecemeal" state legislation at best is unsatisfactory.

April 10, 2025 ~ WOMEN AWAKENED BY WAIL OF BABY. ~Hour-Old Infant Is Found Between Houses on Benton Boulevard.

April 10, 2025

WOMEN AWAKENED BY WAIL OF BABY.

Hour-Old Infant Is Found Between Houses on Benton Boulevard.

A low, quavering wail early yesterday morning awoke Mrs. A. W. Buford, 903 Benton boulevard. She listened and decided that her ears had not deceived her. There was no baby in the apartment house, but still the wail continued. She knocked at the door of Mrs. Anna E. Smith. Mrs. Smith listened, too. There wasn't any question about the wail. It came from a very young baby.

The two women went downstairs. Armed with a lighted candle and a grate poker, they went out on to the front porch. They listened some more. They followed the sound around the corner of the house. Fifty feet back from the street in the 15-foot areaway between the houses at 903 and 906 Benton boulevard they found a new-born infant boy, unclothed, shivering and wailing plaintively.

The women called police headquarters. The call was answered by two big, blue-coated patrolmen, Tom Lewis and A. G. Mitchell. When it came to a matter of caring for an hour-old, undressed, wailing infant they were more at a loss than the infant's original discoverers.

"We ought to give it some milk," Lewis suggested.

"It looks to me like it needs clothes more than anything else," Mitchell said, "but I don't see where we are going to get any at this time of night that will fit it."

Mrs. Buford and Mrs. Smith said baby clothes don't have to fit and provided plenty of nice warm wraps. The policemen decided to take the baby to Mercy hospital, where there are nurses who know just what to do in such cases. The baby has dark h air and blue eyes. At the hospital it quickly gained strength and seemed to be perfectly sound and healthy.

Mrs. Buford reported to the police later that while she and Mrs. Smith were tracing the sound of the wails and were taking the child into the house they noticed a man loitering on the street outside. When they went in the house the man got on a street car and left. They thought he seemed to be watching to see what disposition was made of the child. The man was tall and slender and appeared to be about 30 years old. It is thought that the child must have been born a short distance of the place where it was found, and that the man may have waited to see that it was cared for by someone nearby. There is absolutely no clue upon which the police can work.

April 9, 2025 SAYS 'HELLO' GIRLS MAKE GOOD WIVES.

April 9, 2025

SAYS 'HELLO' GIRLS MAKE GOOD WIVES.

Miss Eagan, Chief at Bell Co., Tells How Few Fail to Wed.

16 IS AGE TO START.

Company Treats Empolyes Well and Seldom Discharges Anyone.

After twenty years of employing and supervising "hello" girls, Miss Katie Eagan has reached the conclusion that she obtains the best results for her comp;any if she tries to train them to be good wives.

Miss Eagan was the guest of honor the other night at a banquet given to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of her first service with the Bell Telephone Company. She is chief operator at the main exchange, a place she has held for thirteen years. For four years she was chief operator at the Grand exchange, and for two years at the South exchange. Until recently she personally employed all of the Bell's central girls.

Her other duties have multiplied until now she no longer employs the girls, but after they have passed th rough the school the become her charges.

AVERAGE TERM 23 MONTHS

"Why not train the girls to be good wives?" Miss Egan said last night. "The average term of service is thirty-three months, and nearly all of our operators leave to be married. It is my life ambition now so to mold the girls at the switchboard that no man who marries one will be disappointed.

"I much prefer young girls. Sixteen is the best age for a girl to begin as an operator. She has been used to going to school and she does not think our efforts to instruct her in her work are nagging. She learns quickly, because she has been in the habit of studying and knows how to apply her mind, and she remains with us several years after she has become competent.

Eighteen is a little too old, because a girl who comes to us at that age is apt to get married so soon it scarcely is worth while to train her. When a new operator who is as old as 23 enters our employ I know that she will be very difficult to teach, unless she is an exceptional girl."

Miss Eagan declared that her twenty years will the Bell company have shown her that much of the criticism of corporations as being "soulless" is unfounded.

EMPLOYES WELL TREATED.

"No concern could treat its employes better," she said. "It is very rarely that an operator is discharged and our whole attention is centered to making them efficient and holding their services. The company has now instituted a system of sick and death benefits, which is entirely without charge. formerly we would lose many girls who enter the services of some large business house to operate a private branch exchange. But that sort of raids on our ranks has almost ceased to be successful. The girls learned that elsewhere they were likely to lose their places because some head of a department happened to be in a bad temper, while here their places were secure as long as they did their work.

At the old South exchange, Miss Eagan was the night operator. Her mother would go into the office with her, and when the daughter slept Mrs. Eagan would listen for calls.

"Listen is the correct word," said Miss Eagan. "For in those days the boards were so arranged that at night a bell would ring when a call came in."

USED TO HEAR BUZZING.

"Instead of showing a light on the board, a call would then cause a hinged metal plate to drop down. sometimes the drops would stick, and if we heard a slight buzzing we would have to try all of our numbers until we came to the right one."

The new boards have added greatly to the efficiency of the telephone, Miss Eagan said. She declared that operators now are assigned according to the number of calls and not merely given a certain number of lines to watch, as was the former custom.

"Being an operator is the nicest work a girl can do," said Miss Eagan. "I have always liked it. Sometimes the mother of a girl will tell me that the work is wearing her out. But that is not true. If a girl will try not to be to active socially, and will keep regular hours and get enough sleep the work will make her more alert, mentally and physically, and will be good for her."

April 7, 2025 ~ COURT TELLS HOW TO AVERT DIVORCE.

April 7, 2025

COURT TELLS HOW TO AVERT DIVORCE.

Judge Bird Advises Wife to Concentrate Mind on Her Home.

WORDS FOR HUSBAND, TOO.

"Keep Thought on Job" Is Advice; Several Cases Heard.

"Broken homes, many of them, might be averted if the wife would concentrate her mind on her home and the husband keep his thoughts and ambitions on his job."

That was teh golden text for yesterday in Judge Daniel E. Bird's division of the circuit court. The judge preached a little sermon to Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Stamey, 2242 Poplar avenue, who were in court contesting a divorce suit and a cross petition. At the close of the sermon the judge admonished the couple to forget the last eight years and begin life over again, concentrating their efforts upon the welfare of their child. The divorce was denied.

COURT RULES ON FLIRTING

A woman standing at the window and waving her handkerchief at men may be indiscreet, or poor taste, or it may just be one form of the "Chautauqua Salute," but it is not flirting, much as it seemed to Thomas J. Barker, 2619 Belleview avenue, who charged that his wife thus acted. He asked a divorce yesterday partly on these grounds. But Judge Daniel E. Bird had another idea of flirting, real flirting, and he so stated. He granted the divorce from Mrs. Maggie Barker on other grounds.

DAVIS DECREE HELD UP

Judge Harris Robinson heard and took under advisement the divorce case of Mrs. Bernice Davis, 2534 Wabash avenue, against harry Davis, now in the state penitentiary serving sentence for the slaying of Al Hatch. Hatch was a saloonkeeper and was shot at Linwood boulevard and Brooklyn avenue on the night of October 18, 1912. The shooting was the result of a planned robbery. The wife met and married Davis while he was a fugitive from Kansas City. She was formerly Miss Bernice Nessly, daughter of a Wichita merchant.

A piano in the household may be a permissible evil if it came in with the permission of both husband and wife. But Horace E. Vandover, 62 years old, charged in his divorce petition, which was heard by Judge Burney, that his wife brought a piano into the home without his permission. He was granted the divorce on that and other testimony.

April 7, 2025 ACCUSED UNDER 9 HOUR LAW.

April 7, 2025

ACCUSED UNDER 9 HOUR LAW.

William Barnes, Restaurant Man, Is Charged With Violation.

A complaint against William Barnes, proprietor of the New Era restaurant, 515 East Twelfth street, accusing him of violating the nine-hour law for women, was made yesterday by Miss Birding Bright, factory inspector for the board of welfare.

The charge was made by Miss Lena Braum, 1343 Broadway, who declared taht a young woman was working in this restaurant from 5:30 in the morning until 8 at night.

April 4, 2025 ~ "WE WILL WIN" IS WATCHWORD TODAY.

April 4, 2025

"WE WILL WIN" IS WATCHWORD TODAY.

Both Sides in Mayorality Fight Work Hard to Last Minute.

EDWARDS IS FAVORITE.

Betting Odds on Republican Candidate Continue Good.

ELECTION DAY WEATHER.
Cloudy and unsettled weather is the prediction for Kansas City for today, as indicated in the official forecast of Colonel P. Connor. There will not be much change in temperature.
The campaign closed last night with Republican and Democratic meetings in nearly every ward of the city. Both sides put forward their most capable and energetic speakers who carried the final message to the voters. All of the meetings were largely attended and the greatest of enthusiasm prevailed. The issues of the campaign were set forth as viewed by the respective sides, and there was a repetition by both sides of the personalities which have figured so prominently in the last ten days. Charges and counter chargers were handed out without any attempt at restraint, and the audiences seemed to like it.

This campaign will go down in history as one of the most vituperative in many years.

"We will win," was the belief confid3ently expressed last night at the headquarters of the two political parties, but both refused to give out figures or furnish facts on which their confidence was based.

BETTING FAVORS EDWARDS.
If the betting on the result is to be taken as a criterion Edwards will win. He has been the favorite among speculators from the very outset, and there has been but little deviation in the odds. Mr. Edwards has ruled favorite right along at $100 to $80, and yesterday bets were recorded of $100 to $60 and $100 to $70 that he would win.

The prevalent odds at the leading pool rooms on Delaware street yesterday was $100 to $80, and although $10,000 was wagered at these odds, it did not in any wise reduce the ratio and at midnight the friends of Edwards were still on hand with money.

The ill-feeling engendered during the campaign may be carried to the polls today, with the consequent results of fighting and rioting. The First, Second and Fifth wards are calculated to furnish deeds of violence on account of the intense feeling against "Tom" Pendergast and his goat family, who are openly opposing the election of Jost.

In these three wards Pendergast is a power and up the the present election he never knew any opposition. But today he will have plenty of it, as Denny Costello, a former lieutenant of the "big boss," is heading the Jost supporters in the three North side wards, and is out for alderman against Pendergast's mainstay, John. P. O'Neill, for alderman in the First.

COSTELLO IS CONFIDENT.

Costello was confident last night that he would defeat O'Neill, and prevent Pendergast from carrying the First ward for Edwards.

The responsibility of wresting the Second ward from Jost has been checked up to Miles Bulger, who is running for alderman on a self-styled Home Rule ticket. The Democrats were maintaining last night that Jost will carry the Second ward by a reduced majority, and that Bulger will be kept busy if he pulls through for alderman.

Rumors were astir last night that the Pendergast faction had imported a lot of gun men from Chicago to intimidate First ward Jost men today, but the report was laughed away by those who are cognizant of the physical prowess of the Pendergast followers.

NO MARSHALS AT THE POLLS.

A report was circulated yesterday afternoon that County Marshall Martin Crowe had ordered deputy marshals to the polls today. This was emphatically denied by J. W. Scoville, deputy at the marshal's office last night. Chief Deputy harry Hoffman, also said no orders of the kind had been issued.

Marshal Crowe, who is at St. Joseph's hospital, has issued no orders whatever for several days.

POLICE GET INSTRUCTIONS

Special Order No. 279, issued day before yesterday to the police of all stations, cautions that commanding officers and the men under them in charge of the voting precincts at the city election will be held "personally responsible for the orderly quiet and fair conduct of the election."

The order warns against allowing "any intimidating, harassing, bulldozing or bribing of voters," besides allowing officers to protect challengers in the discharge of their duty. As usual, no deviation from the rule that "all persons arrested for election offenses must be sent to police headquarters as soon as the arrest is made."

Accompany these instructions is special order No. 284, in which commanding officers are charged with seeing that all saloons in their districts shall be closed and kept closed from 12 o'clock today until midnight tonight.

WOMEN WILL BE ON DUTY IN THE SIXTH
Twenty-five women workers representing the Women's Honest Election League will be on duty in the Sixth ward today during the hours of the election. That there will not be more women on the lookout for illegal voting and for violations of the election laws is due to a lack of interest displayed by the women, according to Mrs. C. F. Neal, president of the league.

Final preparations for their work at the polls today were made at a meeting of the league yesterday at the Hotel Muehlebach. Only a few women were present, the small number evidently being a great disappointment to the women who have been most active in working for clean elections.

We find that the election officials have been very lax in their duties," said Mrs. Neal yesterday. "Evidently they have made little effort to ascertain if the names on the poll books are bona fide ones. We have been able to poll only the Sixth ward, and not all of that, and a small part of the Sixteenth, but have found many gross violations of the law."

Mrs. Neal displayed a list of seventy-two names taken from the registry books of the Sixth ward which she declared were fictitious and not qualified to cast ballots today.

"Out of a total of 320 names," declared Mrs. Neal, "we found these seventy-two fraudulent ones. Some are registered from numbers where there are no houses whatever; some are of persons dead; some have moved from the city, and some could not be located at all. If we had been able to poll the other wards of the city we are confident that we would have found many times this number of illegal names on the list.

"Because of the lack of interested displayed by the women in making this election a clean one, we will have but twenty-five women watchers at the polls tomorrow. These all will be in the Sixth ward and will challenge any person who attempts to vote under any of the names on this list of the seventy-two.

As far as police protection is concerned for the women who will be at the voting places tomorrow, we do not need any. Each woman worker will be properly provided with credentials, and we anticipate no trouble whatever. Mrs. Jesse James will have charge of the women workers tomorrow."

BLANKETS FOR THE BABIES. ~ Generous Response to the Appeal for the Mercy Hospital.

February 5, 2026

BLANKETS FOR THE BABIES.

Generous Response to the Appeal for

the Mercy Hospital.

As the result of an announcement in the Journal that babies at Mercy hospital were sadly in need of blankets to keep them warm these cold nights, blankets for the babies were contributed yesterday by the following generous hearted women:

Miss Inez Wagner, 3127 Woodland avenue.
Ruth Beall Smith, 3915 Walnut street.
Mrs. John H. Leidigh, $6 in cash in lieu of blankets.
Mrs. Dreyfoos, 2101 Wabash avenue.
Miss Isidore Westheimer.
Miss Edna Stone.
Mrs. Rose A. Price, 4032 Warwick boulevard.
The Doress Circle, Independence Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.

THOUGHT LIME DUST POISON. ~ Woman Believed Enemy Had Schemed to Kill Her.

January 28, 2026

THOUGHT LIME DUST POISON.

Woman Believed Enemy Had

Schemed to Kill Her.

Much reading of the Swope mystery stories may have been the reason Mrs. Caroline Goble believed a scheme was on foot to poison her in her home, 1837 East Seventh street.

Mrs. Goble went to the office of Daniel Hawells, assistant city attorney, yesterday, carrying with her seven samples of powder she believed to be some deadly drug, found near her water cooler.

"I am just sure an enemy I know of is trying to kill me like they say Colonel Swope was killed," she declared.

The samples or exhibits were carefully preserved by the attorney and examined by Dr. Walter M. Cross, city chemist. Dr. Cross noticed a lump of "poison" larger than the rest with some paint on it. He tasted it and found lime.

When the anxious Mrs. Goble returned to the city attorney's office to learn the result of the test she was told that the powder was only plaster dust sifted from a small hole in the kalsomine on the ceiling.

ALL GUARDED IN ONE ROOM. ~ Women Called to Mrs. Swope's Bed Each Evening, Locking Door.

January 19, 2026

ALL GUARDED IN ONE ROOM.

Women Called to Mrs. Swope's Bed

Each Evening, Locking Door.

To the general public, the Swope home in Independence continues to be the "house of mystery." None of the family has been seen on the streets of the little town since the autopsy of the physicians a week ago. Every morning two nurses, driving the Swope phaeton, are seen to leave the home and go to the market. They return immediately. But not a word as to what is happening behind the curtained windows of the Swope mansion, or the bolted doors, ever escapes their lips.

It is known, however, that Mrs. Margaret Chrisman Swope has suffered a collapse and is now in a serious condition. The revelation of the supposed plot to kill Colonel Swope and Chrisman Swope, coming as it did without a moment's warning, has shattered the woman's nerves. The family physician visits her home each day, and he declares that she is not in a critical condition.

Mrs. Swope sleeps little at night. The women in the house are called to her bed room each evening and there, behind bolted doors, and with a watchman guarding on the outside, the family pass the night in the one room.

There is little sleep for any member of the family. The wakeful hours of the night are passed in thinking of the terrible events brought to light last week, and when sleep comes to the eyes of the weary ones it is to dream of things even more horrible than what the members of the family experienced.

KANSAS CITY GIRLS FOR PICKLE FACTORY. ~ Plant Will Be Only Stage Affair, But Beauties Will Handle Real Pickles.

January 17, 2026

KANSAS CITY GIRLS

FOR PICKLE FACTORY.

Plant Will Be Only Stage Affair,

But Beauties Will Handle

Real Pickles.

"Working in a pickle factory" will no longer be a joke with a score of pretty young women from various walks of life in Kansas City who will hold forth at the Orpheum theater this week as employes of a pickle factory in Helen Grantley's sketch, "The Agitator," the top liner on the bill. They will handle real pickles and after a week's training and rehearsals and their participation in the show this week it is predicted they will have no difficulty in getting work as experts in the business, should they so desire.

The sketch is based in part on the female suffrage movement. The scene in which the young women work is one in which Miss Grantley makes her plea for a strike. Of course the girls follow their leader, the strike is called and after the usual trials and tribulations of strikers, is won. The sketch created somewhat of a sensation in New York, the play there being made more realistic by the fact that the girls who counterfeited the pickle trimmers were really striking shirt waist makers.

Miss Grantley came here with her company a week ago ahead of her billing so that she might rehearse the score of young women supers, some of whom will be carried with the company at the close of the week.

An advertisement brought half a hundred replies and out of this number Miss Grantley selected a score of girls. Among those selected were stenographers, two high school girls who were "just dying" to go on the stage even if they had to work in a "pickle factory," a telephone girl who had often wished that she might appear behind the footlights, three art students who wanted the work for the "atmosphere," later to be transferred to canvas, and a couple of girls who had not worked anywhere, but who sought this as a stepping stone to the stage.

It was an ungainly and awkward squad, as they lined up for the first rehearsal. Only one of the girls had ever been back of the scenes, and she was fairly lionized by the others. The turn was not a difficult one, and after the story of the play was told, the girls quickly appreciated the points which it was desired to emphasize.

"A trained chorus direct from New York City could not have done any better," declared Miss Grantley last evening. "They still have another rehearsal, but they are letter perfect now and I am sure that some of them will come with me when I leave the city."

ITS MOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR. ~ Girls' Industrial Home Cared for 1,927 Persons in 1909.

January 12, 2026

ITS MOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR.

Girls' Industrial Home Cared for

1,927 Persons in 1909.

At the annual meeting of the Industrial Home for Girls Association held at the home, 2940 Highland avenue, it was stated that the year 1909 was the most successful in the seventeen years of the home's existence. During the year it has cared for 1,925 girls, one boy and one old woman.

The Industrial Home, which was formerly the Door of Hope, organized originally to care for wayward girls. A year ago it bought the premises it now occupies for $7,000, of which all but $300 is paid. the report for the year shows receipts of $4581.20 and expenses $4,347.97.

The new officers elected yesterday were:

President, Mrs. E. L. Chambliss; vice president, Mrs. John B. Stone; recording secretary, Mrs. George r. Chambers; corresponding secretary, Mrs. George E. Ragan; treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Moore; board of managers, Mrs. J. W. Stoneburner, Mrs. George A. Wood, Mrs. William Waltham, J. M. Givvons, E. R. Curry, Miss E. Ellis, Miss Ella Albright, Miss W. H. Buls, Mrs. W. Matthews, Mrs. J. Fulton and Miss Foster.

Trustees -- R. D. Middlebrook, Judge J. H. Hawthorne, J. N. Moore.

Advisory board -- I. E. Burnheimer, H. R. Farnam, Porter B. Godard, Rev. W. F. Sheridan, Judge E. E. Porterfield.

House surgeon -- Dr. H. O. Leonard.

Matron -- Mrs. S. E. Dorsey.

The retiring president, Mrs. George A. Wood, expressed her thanks to all who helped to give the girl inmates a merry Christmas.

JUDGE TAKES PART OF RUNAWAY GIRLS. ~ Homes Have Been Found for Ava Jewell and Hattie Hayes.

December 11, 2025

JUDGE TAKES PART

OF RUNAWAY GIRLS.

Homes Have Been Found for

Ava Jewell and Hattie

Hayes.

"I told them 'If you never do anything worse than sit on a rock pile and crack rock for papa you will be queens on a thrown with jewels in your crowns.' "

T. W. Jewell, 920 Cambridge avenue, Sheffield, made this statement in the juvenile court yesterday afternoon after admitting that he had required his daughter, Ava Jewell, 16 years old, and his stepdaughter, Hattie Hayes, 15 years old, to crack rock in his quarry "because they were useless to their mother in the house."

About three weeks ago both girls ran away from their rock cracking work, Ava going to Kansas City, Kas., and Hattie Hayes getting employment at a cracker factory. For the past week she had been working as a domestic in a Sheffield hotel. She was taken into the juvenile court on the request of her mother and stepfather.

"Why did you put these girls, young women, I might say, to work on a rock pile?" asked Judge E. E. Porterfield earnestly.

"It was honest labor," said Jewell, "nothin' of which they should be ashamed. They might o' done far worse. You tell him how it came about, mamma," concluded Jewell, addressing his wife.

"Well, they just wouldn't do the housework right," said Mrs. Jewell. "It kept me continually following them about doing the work over again. I knowed somethin' had to be done to keep 'em busy, so I asked papa if he could use 'em in the quarry on the rear of our lot. 'Yes,' says he, 'I can use 'em breakin' up the small stones. Then he put 'em to work down there. That's all.'

"They was there about two or three weeks," said Jewell, "not over three at the outside, and all the work they done could be did in ten to twenty hours. I built 'em a nice platform on which to work. All they had to do was gather the small rock, carry it to the platform and break it. It sells for $1 a yard, judge. It's valuable."

"You know what they done, judge?" asked Jewell in apparent surprise, "they hammered holes in their skirts and kept me busy putting handles in the stone hammers. They would strike over too far and break the handles, just for meanness. Why, there mamma used to come down there just to encourage them, you know, an' she would crack more rock in an hour than they'd crack in a whole day. Mamma liked to crack rock, didn't you mamma? All the time them girls was a complainin' and talkin' o' runnin' away, an' one day both of 'em up and run away."

"I am surprised that they waited so long," said Judge Porterfield when Jewell had finished his explanation. "They should have gone the first day you put them there. A stone quarry, using a hammer and a drill, as this girl says she had to do, is no place for young women."

It was at this point that Jewell delivered himself of the tender sentiment about "jewels in your crowns."

"That sounds nice," suggested the court, "but it doesn't go with me. Any place on earth for a girl or woman but the rock pile, whether it be for papa or in jail. I do not approve of it. this girl will be made a ward of the court and a place secured for her. Working promiscuously in hotels and factories is not the best place for her, either, so long as she is not remaining in the home."

Hattie, who was 15 in October, was turned over to Mrs. Agnes O'Dell, a juvenile court officer, who will secure a place for her in a private family. Her stepsister, Ava Jewell, has a place as a domestic in Kansas City, Kas.