The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-09
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G. A. Bradley viii erect an addition
to his dwelling at 701 Lime street.
George E. Clark, secretary of the
Kansas State Fair association. u in
Kansas City.
A total Of 21s .srade school pupils
have. enrolled for work in the high
school next fall
George Jackson has taken out q
permit to build a dwelling at sol
Roosevelt avenue.
The June meeting of the board of
directors of the Topeka Commercial
club was held t. day.
w. H. Kemper has taken out a per-
init to erect an addition to the dwell
ing at 71S-721 Topeka avenue.
There were several wagons of vege-
tables at the city market today-and
the produce was Of good quality.
A meeting of the directors of the
Topeka Provident association will be
held at the Commercial club quarters
Wednesday noon.
There was q surplus OF California
cantaIoupes in Topeka today. The
cantaloupes were sold from wagons at
five cents each. although the prices
at the grocery stores ranged some
what higher.
Up to noon today a total of 1880
persons had attended tie social sur
vey exhibit in the Security building
since it opened two weeks ago. There
is no admission fee and the general
public is invited to inspect the panels.
The court Of Topeka yesterday
bound Fred Verify over to the district
court under $500 bond for trial on a
charge of purloining 1904 from the
Chesterfield hotel where he was en-
plOyed as painter and repair man.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Funeral Directors association will be
held at Topeka June 1918. Between
three and four hundred persons are
expected to attend the meeting. For
seventeen years L. M. Penwel1 has
been secretary of this organization.
The Socialists of the city will hold a
picnic at Garfield park June IL. In
the afternoon Miss Ethel Whitehead
will speak on Woman and the Race
A picnic supper will be served at Z
o'clock in the evening. Afterwards
Prof. George Kleihege will deliver an
address.
A building permit in the sum of
$45, 200 has been issued to the board
addition of the high school building.
The addition will be of brick material
to harmonic with the present build
ing. The roof will be of slate. The
size Of the addition will be 1896
feet.
Joseph F. Reisner. physical director
of the Central YIN. C. A.. will leave
neva, Wis.,, where he will spend a
month. He will attend a conference
Of the International Y. M. C: A. Ply
steal Directors association, which will
begin June %. He will attend an en-
ployed officers conference that will
follow. nsU
A. c. Bartel, clerk Of the court of
Topeka, has invested in an automobile,
with which he EXPECTS to pursue po-
liticaI aspirations up and down the
country roads this summer. The car
has been stripped and Is SO light that
Bartel believes that by 1equipping 1t
with wings he could learn to fly over
the bad places ii county roads and
make far better Tunning time than
the average candidate.
Sheriff L. L. KfAne has just trans
ferred two sentenced prisoners from
the county Jail to the penitentiary at
Lansing. They are Jim Dunford, SEN
fenced for the shooting Of Joseph
Drake in 1912. and Louis Wisdom.
generally known as skunk" a per-
sistent violator of the prohibitory law.
Wisdom is sentenced to a year on each
of three counts, while Dunford's term
years. His victim was a street car
conductor.
The Central Y. NJ. c. A. Pentathlon
meet-open to all tmembers-Will be
held in the fair grounds beginning at
six O'Clock Friday evening. These
will be the events: 1OO-yard dash,
high jump, shot put, pole vault and
mile run. A perfect score will be 500
points. The persons coming nearest
to having a perfect score will be
awarded handsome Y. NJ C. A. gold
medal. and the persons winning sec
ond honors will receive silver medal.
Suit to recover land belonging to q
Kickapoo Indian woman named
Shum -ka-quo, who formerly lived on
ground adjoining the city of Horton
will be brought by United States Dis
trict Attorney Fred Robertson on be-
half of her relatives against A. J.
Thompson. a real estate dealer, who
holds quit claim deed to the prop
erty. The action will be based on the
incompetency of an Indian to sell
lands without the approval of the in
terror department.