The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-07

join the camp within a day or two.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Surfer will
celebrate their fiftieth wedding an
niversary next Saturday evening, Au-
gust IA, at the home of their daugh-
ter, Mrs. c. A. Allen, at 1411 Blu
chanan street. No invitations will be
issued. All friends are invited to call
between the hours of 1880 and 1880.
Among the emergency patients
brought to the police station in the
last "a hours was James Russell. col
ored, who was picked up in the eX-
treme west end of the Union Pacific
yards with an injured leg. Russell
told the police he was riding the rods
into Topeka when spike flew up and
cut a cash in his leg.
A son, born to Mrs. Gladys Pickett
on January %, 1914, may cause her
to lose $2,775 damages against the city
which she was given in the district
court December 5, 1914. George p.
Hayden, city attorney, has asked for
new trial, claiming that the physical
condition of Mrs. Pickett was not the
result of a fall in the street but was
a natural condition.
Members of the Shawnee county
Pomona grange will march with mem
berS of labor societies in the Labor
day parade to be held in Topeka. The
membership of the Shawnee oranges
total 2,116. Request that the grang
erS be allowed to take part in the
Labor day affair was made Friday
evening at a meeting of the labor
committee. The request was granted
The nineteenth annual convention
of colored Christian churches of Kan
sas will start Thursday, August II. in
the Second Christian church. The
meeting will convene at 10 o'clock
Thursday morning. The convention
will last until Sunday night, August
Is. c. E. Terry of Emporia is presi-
dent of the organization and B. c.
Duke of Topeka is corresponding sec
rotary
John M Padgett, a member of the
reportorial staff of the morning paper
for the last year, will become asso-
ciated with the Illinois Traction COM
pany claim agent and publicity
man. His offices will be in those of
the Topeka Railway company in this
city Mr.. Padgett has been in the
newspaper game for several years and
has had newspaper experience on the
Denver Republican and with the Asso-
ciated Press.
The Provident association is ready
to accept clothing for school children. |
There is always heavy demand for ar
ticIes of clothing on the part of the |
poor prior to the opening of school, |
The association discontinued the rum /
mage sales some months ago. No |
clothing is sold at present There are, !
however, some persons who prefer do |
ing a little work for garments just as
a matter of pride.
Mrs. Jess Schrock, in order to ger
operation, mad him arrested for wife
desertion. When she saw that her
husband might have to go to the pen
itentiary she failed, purpOSely, in her
testimony, and NJ. O. Locke, judge
pro tenn of the court of Topeka, dis
missed the case, which was another
of the wife desertion cases which costs
the county money and does not ac-
complish anything.
1t Is probable that the Okla homa
State Bankers association will be rep
resented at the blue sky conference
to be held in Topeka next fall. Re
quest for information concerning the
conference has been received by Sam |
Seaton, in charge of the blue sky de-
partment of the office of secretary of !
the state bank commissioner. In an
swering the request SeatOn enclosed |
an invitation to the Oklahoma organi-
zation to send a delegate to the con-
ference.
Burglary protection to state banks
by carrying their own burglary in
surance under the Kansas interim
surance laws and the employment of
bank detectives to run down bank rob
bers and bandits is the plan inaugu-
rated by the executive committee of /
the Kansas State Bankers association /
The meeting of the committee was I
new scheme is the first of its kind to
be mapped out by the state banks in
this county.
When Harry Grumbine, a waiter in
a restaurant opposite the santa re
station, sold transient harvest hand /
{ watch he was not bothered by the
bluecoats- However when he sofa .
the hand the watch. and then accord '
ing to the police. caused the harvest fl,
hand to look upon a bottle of 'Skee
until he grew dizzy and then stole the {
watch he had sold him, the police {
thought it time to interfere. Grum- ,
bine was booked at the police station :
on charge of petit larceny. He was
fined $25 by Judge Yates this morn {
ing
Work of remodeling the building at I
Sis Kansas avenue was started this I