The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
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The Y. NJ c. A. "aeroplane'' contest
| Is scheduled for April 1922.
| A civil service examination for city
positions win be held Saturday morn
| ing at 9 o'clock.
There is much interest being shown
in the coming fashion week, because if
/ will be something UNIQUE.
w. w. Bowman was chosen as super
| intendent of the Sunday school of the
First Presbyterian church, but declin-
! ed the office.
| The match which will decide the city
| championship in basketball will be
played Friday evening at the Central
Y. M. c. A.
c. s. Bishop. general secretary of the
Kansas City Y. M. G. A, will be the
| speaker at a membership banquet in
Gemmell hall next Monday night.
The Prohibition Situation in Kan
sas,' is the subject Of an address
the Central Y. NJ. c. A. by John Mar
shall
Dr. Raymond A. Schwegler. of the
state university, will speak before the
! teachers of the city schools Friday af-
ternoon on THE Real of the Sub
conscious
B. f. Flenniken, deputy United Stat es
marshal, returned this morning from
Wichita, where he has been attending
the session of the United States district
court and the special session of the cir
cult court.
AS soon as the plans for the addition
to the federal building are approved,
A. w. Smith, custodian of the building,
will ask for bids. An effort will be
made to have the work on the addition
started by June 1.
! McCabe Moore. assistant United
| States district attorney, returned this
morning from a several days business
| trip to Kansas City. Harry J. Bone,
district attorney, is at his home il
Ashland. looking after business affair.
The attendance at the Harrison
night school has dropped off slightly,
| due tOthe factthat some of the members
of the classes have left the city. How
ever the classes are doing excellent
work and there is much enthusiasm
| displayed.
James G. Cannon, president of the
Men and Religion" movement will be
/ in Topeka May II. A rally of some
kind will be arranged for the occasion.
Mr.. Cannon is a wealthy banker OF
New York and does his travelling in a
! private car.
| Next Friday afternoon Charley Lolley
will be given hearing on the alleged
charge of selling liquor. 1t will then
be a fitting time to bury all recollec-
tons of the alleged attempt to find the
murderer of Benjamin Platt, the North
| Topeka merchant.
VIM H. Mackey, United States mar
shall has gone to Leavenworth with
! Templeton and Earl, convicted of post
office robberfes at the recent session of
: the federal court. He also took Mrs
! Sarah Wilks, alias Mrs. ]. W. Jump, to
Kansas City, where she is under tndict-
ment for violations of the anti-pass
law.
Several Topeka peace officers have
complained because the governor did
not offer a reward in the Platt murder
| case. They declare that the governor
! contingent fund, which was short at
| the time, was never so low that he
could not pay a weekly stipend of SIS
for collecting evidence against violators
| of the prohibitory law.
The good secretaries of the Y. NJ.
c. A. when they arrived this morning
to perform their duties at the central
| building were Mortified to observe that
empty beer bottles had been placed at
regular intervals along the edge of the
! sidewalk in front of the association
| home. Some one must, after having
| INDUCED in the sparkling beverage have
| gotten a distorted idea of the proper
| Interpretation of a practical joke.
Miss Bowes, the North Topeka girl
| who sued a Union Pacific official for
| $4,000 for breach of promise, returned
today to her home in Topeka. The jury
| was unable to agree. AT the former
trial MISS BOWeS broke down on the
| witness stand and the case was post
poned until the March term. The trial
was held in the Saline county district
| court and it is claimed that Miss
I Bowes' attorneys furnished the funds
to prosecute the case.
| The glory of a 50 a day job for one
| day has a telling effect on the impor-
lance of some persons. At several OF
the precincts last night the election
| judges and clerks refused to give news
| paper representatives election returns.
| By withholding the Information the
election officials no doubt believed they
| would stop the bulletining of returns at
the newspaper offices and cause the
/ public to wait for the official count in
order to secure primary news.
] The little Branner street family, for
| whom the State Journal recently asked
| aid, is now well located in their new
home. I'VE have everything we need"
said the little mother. land we just
don't know how to thank the people