The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-13


ministers do.
No reports of mad dogs have been
received by Commissioner w l. Por-
ter since Friday and except for the
fact that there has been a raid on
every concern handling dog muzzles
there is little doing in the mad dog
situation. Since Porter issued the
muzzle order Friday night there has
been a grand rush on for muzzles.
Keeping Topeka clean is the job of
City Sanitary Sergeant j. A Ramsey
and the barrels of waste paper thrown
away on Kansas avenue every day
bothers him considera bly,. He is
planning to ask the city commission
to purchase an ornamental trash re-
ceptacle to be placed on one of the
principal corners as an experiment.
A Father and Son dinner will be
served at the First Presbyterian
church Friday evening, December IT.
at o'clock. A personal invitation
has been extended for every father in
the church to bring his sons and at
tend. A program will follow the ban
quet. J. B. Larimer. John T. Shaw
and Frank M. Wright are in charge.
Application was made to the city
commission today for permission to
erect a steel awning over the sidewalk
in front of proposed new theater
building at sos and sos Kansas ave-
nue.. There is a city ordinance prohib-
iting the construction of awnings over
the sidewalks but the petition was re-
ferred to Commissioner w. L. Porter
and City Attorney George Hayden.
The house of Roy Tate, 1913 North
Adams street, was raided by Detectives
Morgan, Woodland and Summers Of
ficers Jack johnson and Furgason and
Patrol Driver Richardson Sunday
evening. Seventeen of the crowd that
was in the place were arrested. Ac-
cordirg to the cops a "dog walk
n 11 FIJI ILL
too much disturbance in the neighbour
hood.
A large number of Y. w. C. A. MEM
bers pra cticed the Christmas carols at
the building Sunday afternoon. A
Christmas pageant will be given next
the girls sung were, tHark the Herald
Angels Sing" -'It Came Upon a Mid
night Clear" "A Little Town in Beth
lehem;" There's a Song in the Air."
ANGELS From the Realm of Glory
while Shepherds Watched Their
F1ocks," and others.
A stray dog found in the barn of
R. c. Tippin at 1854 Mulvane street
was shot by Earl Harne, who is do
ing special work during the mad dog
scare Eleanor, the 9-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. Tippin, went to the barn
for bucket of coal and discovered
the dog. He snapped at her and she
was badly frightened. Mr.. Tippin
telephoned for Harne and he killed
the dog. 1t is not known that it was
suffering from hydrophobia.
Telegrams received by Albert T.
Reid, Panama-Pacific fair commits
s1oner announced the accidental kill
ing of the mother and sister of John
Ferriter, general superintendent of the
Kansas building at San Francisco. The
two women were killed in an automo-
bile accident in Indianapolis. Ferriter
1lQUa
Ferriter is a real estate broker in
Wichita and has been in charge of the
exhibits at the Kansas fair building.
A playlet was given at the First
Christian church last night represent
ing the expenditures of America. I'm |
presentations of the various materials !
for which the expenditures are made |
we're given by members of the church. |
People appearing in the program were
Miss Nanon Herren, Miss Gertrude |
Clinkenbeard, Miss Florence McCord, |
Miss Ada Rice, Miss May Roberts, Mrs. |
E. M. Drake, Miss Marie DeArmond, |
Miss Pearl Hensley, Miss Florence |
Cook, Louie BagIey and Miss Wilma |
Wells.
Central and Railroad Y. M. C. AS |
will bowl at the Central building to-
morrow evening for the "Y'' bowling
title. The contest will commence at
ions for men and women have been
prepared On the Central team are
3lenkarn, EShe, David Smith, G. ]. /
smith, C. A. Menninger and Luer. For
he railroaders Carmain, Herring,
Renanderm, Reich and Starcel will |
,owl. The captain of the railroad
cam, G. H. Helwig, will not enter the
match unless one of his men is dis
bled.
Suit for 1875 rent money was filed
n the Shawnee county district court
oday by L. P. He'll and J. w. Schae-
er against P. Kissing and twenty-one
theirs. The defendants organized a
ompany in 1913 to manufacture a
musical instrument called the dol I
ette. The plaintiffs state that the
ompany rented the rooms at Sixth
nd Jackson to be used for the manu-
acture of the instruments, but that
he company quit the manufacture
nd quit paying rent. The plaintiffs
SIX that the company be required to
ay the rent to the amount of $675.
The second trial before a jury in
he personal damage suit of Irene
ILLS for s3,03S against the Topeka
treet Railway company began be-
ore Judge Dana in the district court
his afternoon. The case was tried
ast term, but a hung jury was the
esult. The plaintiff claims in her
etition that on April II, 1914. when
he went to get off one of the de-
andant companys street cars at
Iinth and Madison streets, the car
-as started with a jerk and without
-arning. She says she was thrown
} the pavement and sustained among
Their injuries a strained back and
ruised hip. II
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