The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-28
in NORTH TOPEKA
Police Fail to Get Alleged
Booze Vendors.
Oscar Gay Badly Beaten Up by
Unknown Men.

Two alleged bootlegging establish
ments located at 633 and 635 Bruce
street were raided by the police at
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon. 1t was
hoped to trap the proprietors Will
Wheat and Fred Wheat. in the former
but they got advance information of
the coming of the law and succeeded
in escaping.
1T would be a blessing to the city
of Topeka If VIII Wheat would leave
town-but he won't declares Patrol
man Samuel Jones We'll get him
just the same Before sis Turner
was compelled to leave town, the two
We're associated in business.
At 635, the raiders found two MeXl-
cans and two negro girls They had
bought three bottles of beer ard had
evidently paid for it. During the time
the police Were there. young woman
came in and asked what she should do
with the Change" She wondered IF
It would be all right to send it over to
the jail"
The ice chest contained five bottles
of beer and there was also bucket
containing three bottles of the stuff
well-iced. There were empty bottles
scattered all around the place. 1t was
evidently a popular rendezvous. The
MeXicans are being held, pending in
vestigation.
Beaten BY Unknown Men.
To add to the afternoons gayety.
someone got gay with Oscar Gay. of
316 East First street, near the corner
of Railroad and Van Buren, streets.
Gay was knocked down and kicked
in the jaw. He received a severe cash
rim the head. The fellows who as
saulted him got away. He could not
give an accurate description of them.
He could only say that he and they
had an alteration and that they won
the best of the argument. It is sup
posed that he haG been drinking. He
was put in taXicab and sent home.
Silver Lake Fishing Good.
A string of 60 carp. channel cat
and German carp attracted a great
deal of attention Thursday morning
at the Union Pacific depot. They were
caught Wednesday by r. L. Maggie in
Silver Lake. He says they're biting
fine and also that the wood ducks are
! coming in in considerable numbers.
The Rev. w. G. Handley, of the
North Topeka Baptist church and the
Rev. Robert Gordon of the First Bap-
fist church are on an all-day hunting
| trip today.
Mr.. and Mrs Kenneth Clark. Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Fraser and Mrs. l.. z.
Fraser were on paw paw expedition
to Tecumseh Wednesday afternoon.
They had some tire trouble on the
way home.
Avenue Methodist Episcopal church
will hold a social Friday night. 1t will
! represent a scene in the Union Sta
ton, Kansas City, including the re-
freshment stands, of course.
| Observe Willard Day.
Frances E. Willard Day" will be
observed this afternoon at the Quincy
school with the following program:
/ Song by the school. America: Adj
! dress. Origin of the Day" ID. n
| Morrow. principal; Recitation by Miss
/ F'reda Smith; Song, The Kansas Emf
grants" Whittier: Recitation, Ferdi-
nand Voiland, How Kansas Secured
/ Prohibition; What Prohibition Has
/ Done for Kansas''-prohibitio facts
| by Z pupils of the A grade; Kansas
State w. C. T. L. song.
Ike Benjamin's store will be closed
until Friday afternoon on account OF
/ the Jewish holiday.
The A. C c. of Bethel Sunday
school will give a social and short pro
gram in the Pence school house Fri
! day evening.
Twenty-four teachers of the Grant
and Quincy schools enjoyed a steak
roast in West park Wednesday night
| Charley Small fell on a tin car
| Sunday while he was working on his
automobile and hurt his side.
| Aaron SheetZ left for Leavenwortf
! Thursday morning to visit his brother
John Sheetz.
Merton Forbes of Silver Lake wa:
in North Topeka Thursday on bust
ness.
Erank stitt of Los Angeles is visit
ing his mother at S35 Kansas avenue
who recently suffered from a paralytiS
stroke. He was formerly a dealer il
/ groceries and meats here.
J. H. Hows and J. B. Trossel of the
soldiers home at Leavenworth are Wis
-
North Topeka. They return Saturday
Jake kull is exhibiting a four.
pound sweet potato in the Citizens
State bank.
/ George Wiley johnson has sold the
North Star garage to George Dilatush
Will Griffith of Elmont was il
Thursday on business
A. NJ. Retro is down at Kansas Cit,
over Sunday on business
The X. Q. X. A. class of the Sec
ond Presbyterian church will have {
tweinie roast at the north end of tn.
Brick Hill bridge Friday night. TIL,
fifteen members will ride TO the spo
in automobiles
L. G. johnson and wife of Osag.
City have been VISITING with A. V. Lin
dell. 1884 Fremont street. They lef
for Kansas City Thursday morning.
A. NJ. Petro. Druggist--Adv.
George Hundertpfund of Silvel
Lake was in NORTH Topeka Thursda,
morning on business.
Mrs. II. B. Morse has returned :,
her home in Emporia after few
days visit with her cousin, Mrs. p. r
| Morse, zoos North Van Buren, street
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Brown of Min
| neapolis, Mimi, motored to Topek.
for a visit with Mrs. P. B. Morse
1908 North Van Buren, street.
J. H. FOUGHT. Kansas pioneer foi
many years a leading hardware mer
chant of the North side yesterda,
called or his old friends and custom
ers on this side of the. river
The recent death of Z. p Harris
printer. sometimes called the hes
r-oofreader in the United States. re
minds q. F. kimbsll that his was thI
second death in Topeka during tn.
last year of New Hampshire mel