The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-13

Y. w. c. A, which serves as clear
ing house for charity workers of the
city, will be discontinued May Is, and
will be- reopened September /. The
| exchange, which was established main
ly through the efforts of the public
! welfare committee of the Commercial
club under A. A. GODDARD and which
has been maintained at the expense OF
the city, has been a success.
On a charge of n'istreating Eva
| Barnes, his 13 year old Stepdaughter,
Ward Bergen, an employee of a local
transfer company, was bound over for
trial in the district court, following
preliminary examination in the court
of. Topeka before Judge Fisher this
morning. On the witness stand the
little girl told a fairly clear story of
Bergen's alleged mistreatment. Ber-
gen was arrested Sunday afternoon by
| Chief Parsons.
| Dr. Clarence True Wilson. who was
stricken with appendicitis while visit
| ing conferences in the east few
weeks ago, is in a hospital at Port
| land, Ore, recovering from an opera
ton. DR.. Wilson rallied after his first
attack, but concluded to have the in
evitable operation performed. He is
recovering rapidly and expects to be
removed from the hospital within two
weeks of the date of his operation.
The following births were reported
at the Office of the city clerk today:
John P. Hawkins and wife, 6S Oak
street, May I, boy: John Schmahl and
wife, R. F. D. No. 2, girl: Joseph Gay
lord and wife, 1913 Fillmore street,
May 3, girl. Barnard Montgomery
Dewey and wife, GA Tyler street, May
+ 9, girl; Charles Henry Lingo and wife,
23S Oakland avenue, May II, boy;
Arthur B1andon Bland and wife, 1O2
Woodruff avenue, May u, girl.
Poultry fanciers of Topeka and vi
cinity, together with the ladies, will
attend a reception at the Commercial
club quarters tonight in honor of Mr..
and Mrs. A. T. Modlin, who have
Here they will continue their extern
sive poultry business. The Modlin
birds have won prizes at the biggest
poultry shows in the country. All
poultry fancfers are invited to attend.
Lawrence Gazette: MarshalPs band
of Topeka gave fine open air concert
last evening in front of the auditorium
on Massachusetts, street, where hum
dreds of Lawrence people gathered to
listen to the fine music. The band
was a great feature of the Knights
TempIars gathering, and whenever it
and admiration, and sustained fully it's
nationwide reputation as musical or
ganization of the very highest class
THE Little Ford Runs Right
Along" says sign in local photog-
rapher's display case. and under the
sign is group or pictures, one show
ing the hole in the wall at the AS
sumption school that was made by
Ford; another shows D. l.. f.
jammed between two other cars, with
a front wheel smashed and badly dam
aged in other ways The other shows
another Ford which has been caught
in ar accident and almost totally de-
molished
That all of the Workman carnival
attractions are not "just for fun" is
hu he q
miniature of the Panama canal which
will be one sof the sixteen shows on
the Workman midway the week of
May "a. 1t is in reality a marvellous
piece. of mechanism, being in detail a /
replica of the canal itself. Ships are
taken from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and the workings of the different
locks in the actual canal can be un-
derstood after seeing the miniatures.
A report on the progress of cooper
alton and cooperative business in |