The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-21

detected for many blocks. The shade
trees are bailooned in Il touch of green
and the lawns are undergoing their
first combat with the mowers.
Gust Peterson, a Swede. is booked at
the police station on a charge of
drunkenness. When arrested Tuesday
night Peterson was unable to tell his
own name and was at that time
booked as John Doe. He was fined
SIS by Judge Yates this morning.
]. j. Carlin will succeed j. A. zook
as superintendent of the Topeka dis
trict of the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance company. Zook, who has been
here for two years, has been trans
ferred to the Kansas City office of the
company. He has made good record
| in Topeka.
| Mayor House appears excited over
! the State Journals ha-ha attitude on
the recent appointment qualifications.
| The genial mayor-has- for years con-
Quoted a non-combatable. ha-ha news
paper column. He shouldn't resent
goodnatured criticism now that he is
| in public office.
A recent map issued by the Bell
Telephone company shows Europe
with the outline of the United States
across the face of the foreign nations.
Where is Kansas? Yep, you guessed
it, Kansas is located right over the
! zone where the heaviest fighting is in
progress. Just like Kansas!
The following births were reported
at the office of the city clerk today:
William Wilson and wife, R. F. D. No.
S, April 10, boy; J. S. Reedy and wife,
| 2814 Madison street. April II, boy:
]. H. Mitchell and wife, 219 West Cor
don street, April 20, girl Robert Bruce
Smith and wife, 1903 Taylor street.
April 15, girl.
]. L. Hackenberry was booked at
the county Jail today as a United
States prisoner on a charge of violat-
| ing the federal liquor laws. More ar
rests of similar nature are expected
in the next few days as a large num-
Der of liquor indictments were ground
out by the grand jury which convened
in Topeka last week.
Abandonment and that the defend
ant is living at Tulsa, Okla, under an
assumed name, are allegations made
in the petition for divorce filed in the
Shawnee county district court by Met
! ia Murrell against James Murrell.
The couple were married in 1912 and
are the parents of one child, Mervin
| Murre1. The plaintiff asks a divorce
| and the custody of the child.
An intoxicated we'll dressed middle
aged man was staggering down Ninth
street just off Kansas avenue about
1880 o'clock this morning Good
morning." a cheerful citizen Flooding
to work said to him. The drunk man
stopped, wheeled on one foot, glared
at the happy laborer and growled-
Good morning, eh-hic hic-good
The current issue of the South
western Telephone News" published
! in st. Louis and edited by c. A. Cain,
formerly of Topeka, contains an arti-
Gle on The Brave Blind Girl and the
Telephone" in reference to the late
Pearl Alice Ladd of Topeka. The
magazine also prints picture of the
two children of Lineman H. J. Con-
way of the Bell Telephone company
of this city.
Jesse Shaw, superintendent of the
city water department. and Frank
Newland, city commissioner of that
department. should come to an under
standing. Shaw was asked how soon
sprinkling rates would be put in eff
feet for the present season. He re-
piled that he thought It would be only
a few days. A few minutes later New
land was asked the same question.
..Oh, probably not until July L. was
his answer.
81 have just returned from a shop
ping trip to Kansas City," an unknown
woman telephoned to the State Jour
nal this afternoon. II want to warn
the ladies of Topeka who think they
must go to a larger city to buy-don't
leave Topeka. 1 came back from my
for the Topeka stores. 1 bought my
| lunch, box of candy, railway ticket
and jitney fare-that is all left be-
hind me in Kansas City
Rev. A J. Ross of the First Ger
man NJ. r. church has left Topeka to
attend the district conference of the
Kansas City district at Carder, Mo-
He viii be home to occupy the pulpit
Sunday. A paper will be read by Rev.
Ross: THE Sabbath Question The
Deutsche Verein of Washburn college
will attend the services at the First
German NJ E church, corner Tyler
and West Fifth streets. this Sunday
evening Special sermon and music
Lee SidweIl. who for Is months was