The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-05
LOCAL MENTION.

LOCAL MENTION.
R. F. Click, a young banker from
Summerfield, Kan, is spending few
and may come here to enter business.
III. D. Driscoll, commissioner for the
topeka Traffic association, has re-
turned from Omaha where he went
Tor a refrigeration case. ]. F. Has
kell, vice president of the Beatrice
Creamery company, was in Omaha,
also.
The Anti-Commission Form league
of the city will meet at the Throop
hotel tonight at o'clock.
Convex Glass, Goes Shop, s2s K A.
ADV.
A meeting of the Oakland Forestry
club will be held this evening at the
home of Rev. Mr. Hanna, 22S Michi-
gan avenue.
A suit to quiet title on real estate
has been filed in the Shawnee county
district court by Miriam Steele against
n. F. Carter and others According to
the petition the real estate consists of
losts No. 1887 Union avenue, 7S9
Clay and 2414-6-S Fillmore.
Suit to cancel real estate contract
was filed this morning in the district
court by Annie NJ. Greenwood against
Frank NJ. Phipps and others.
Virgil Brassfield has filed petition
for divorce in the district court from
Anna Brassfield The couple were
married at Lexington Mo, May a.
1912. In his petition the plaintiff al
leges abandonment on the part of the
defendant
The preliminary hearing of Ray
Bussey, charged with assault with in
tent to kill James Foy with revolver
January 10 at AIS Quincy street, con-
sumed today's proceedings in the court
of Topeka before Judge Fisher.
The county commissioners and the
poor commissioners office has been
swamped with pleas for help from the
county's poor in the last two months.
In February more than $500 was ex-
pended by the county for the poor
and in January the amount was
$S45.05.
Jessie Harris was bound over for
trial in the district court from the
court of Topeka this morning by
Judge Fisher on charge of assault
ing and stealing $16.5O from Oscar
Heidbrader.
| Oscar Swayze, county clerk, con-
! tinues to received numerous queries
as to the truth of the statement that
| 90,062 gallons of liquor was shipped
| into Topeka during 1913. In answer
| ing a query of this nature this morn
| ing from Paul Cromwell, a Kansas
City attorney, Swayze refused to vouch
that the statement was official.
The Endeavor society of Redden
| chapel held business meeting and
social last night in the basement of
| the chapel, on the corner of Second
and Monroe streets. The following Of
| fiCPrS of the society olRcte0:
President, Miss Lena NORM; vice
president, jeanette Young; secretary,
! George DELPHI; chairman of the prayer
meeting committee, Mrs. G. Fox;
chairman of the social committee, Mrs.
J. E. Petit: chairman of membership
/ committee, D. L. Williams; chairman
of missionary committee, George
! Woodrow; assist amt pianists, Mrs.
| George Fox and Mrs. William F'1uke.
Preceding the electionSof officers Rev.
made an address,
! ]. NJ. Bond ofAthe Sterling %Bulletin
is a visitor to the legislature and To-
peka newspa perEoffices today.
According to state officials, no new
cases of the foot and mouth disease
have been reported in the state since
ElDorado. Federal and state experts
continue to supervise the southern ter
ritory under quarantine.
Suit for S1,294.75 which the plain
! tiff claims IS due him for services
rendered the Knights and Ladies of
the Orient as medical examiner, was
filed this afternoon in the Shawnee
county district court by DR.. w. E.
Jackson of Topeka against the
knights and Ladies of the Orient
lodge and the National Industrial In
surance company. The Knights and
/ Ladies' Of the Orient has
been taken over by the National In
dustrial Insurance company.
| The trial of Henry Bauman, charged
with the embezzlement of $40 from
the Topeka Fruit and Produce COM
pany. consumed today's proceedings in
the fecond division of the district
court Late this afternoon attorneys
| for Bauman We're attempting to get
! the case dismissed on grounds that the
information filed against him was
/ faulty. Bauman was employed as a
| driver by the fruit and produce COM
pany. In the prosecution the state at
| tempted to prove that Bauman COL
| lected $40 from grocers and failed to
turn the money over to his employer.
The members of the Pentecostal
members of other denominations,
delightful surprise at the home of
Brother and Sister Gottshalk last
night The pastor and his wife were
invited to the home mentioned for
supper. After the meal was finished
and a few minutes spent in cOnVerSa-