The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12

day. A few of the trains were late,
ranging from a half hour to an hour
behind time.
| A farmer from Willard stated this
afternoon that he had already planted
his corn twice, and will have to re-
plant Much alfalfa has been ruined,
he said Wheat is fairly good in the
lowlands considering the amount of
rain that has fallen and the fact that
many Of the fields have been flooded.
Wheat on the higher ground is in ex-
cellent condition.
The INSTRUMENTATION Holiness
campmeeting, which is going on now
at the fair grounds, is the best camp
ever held by this association, accord
ing to Rev. A. S. Clark, the general
superintendent services VIII be held
Sunday in the Art hall Rev. Bud
Robinson of Pasadena, Cal, breaches
at each service.
Louis Pitros, a Greek, is being ex-
amined in the probate court on an in
sanity complaint. Pitros has been
confined for a number of days in the
county Jail, where he has caused con-
siderable disturbance among the pris-
oners by manifestations of his alleged
dementia As he is not naturalized
citizen question has been raised as to
his eligibility to treatment in the state
hospital
The Business Mems Bible class of
the First Methodist church will dis
Sunday morning at $3.50 O'Clock. The
lesson will be taught by DR.. E. S.
Pettyjohn. The class will celebrate
flag dag. A member of the Betsy
Ross association will give the origin
and history of the Stars and Stripes.
All members of the class will wear
the colors. Men are cordially in
vited.
The members of the Kansas state
board of examiners in optometry, F.
. ToI
son, Leroy and w. ]. Lewis of To-
peka, attended the Missouri State As
ISOLATION of Optometrists held in Kan
sas City this week The fact that the
Kansas state board attended the meet
ing of their next door neighbors, as
body, was an innovation which was
favorab bly, mentioned by many of the
Missouri optometrists.
The board of education will dispose
of $4,000 of it's more than half mil
lion dollar bonded Indebtedness, July
1. Fifty thousand dollars in bonds
will be taken up at that time. This
will be the first big step on the part
of the school board looking towards
wiping out the bonded indebtedness.
The school board has been paying
enough money out in interest to build
strictly modern school building
every two or three years.
The junior high school departments
at the Quincy and Sumner buildings
will include the first year of high
school work next fall. In the last
school year they included the sew
enth and eighth grades only. All
seventh and eighth grade pupils of
the North side attended the Quincy
school, and the pupils who would
otherwise have gone to Harrison and
Potwin schools for their seventh and
eighth grade work went to Sumner.
A complaint has been issued for the
arrest of Theodore Brahmst. an insur-
ance man, who formerly made head
quarters here, on bigamy charge.
Mrs. Lizzie Brahmst of 407 Monroe
street swore to the complaint, alleg-
ing that on May 80 her husband was
married to Grace Keplinger of Ell
dorado. Brahmst has been missing
for several days but Sheriff L. l.
Kiene stated today that he believed
the man had been located at Kansas
City.
The corn and wheat bulletin issued
today from the office of the local
weather bureau says that the Kaw
river should take a rapid drop in
the next few days. 1t reads: "Only
a comparatively few scattered show
ers have fallen in Kansas in the past
"a hours, and at seven o'clock this
morning the sky was almost entirely
clear in all parts of the state. The
Kansas river IS falling this morning