The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-24

meeting of the National Education =,
association. Beginning today he viii
give series of four lectures at the n
Emporia State Normal institute.
Despite the heat ana the two-inch
dust, the roads in all directions from i.
Topeka were crowded with motorists
Sunday Towns in the driving terri
tory reported heavy cold drink trade
The tire repair and emergency garage
cars also were busy-but not pleasure
bent. ~
Jesse Shaw, superintendent of the
city water plant, left for Kansas City
this morning to supervise the taking
of valuation of the Quindaro pump
ing station in Kansas City, Kansas
The Quindaro station is owned by ai
Kansas City, Mo. The valuation will =.
be used for taxation purposes.
On lower Kansas avenue a man i,
who, five years ago, was worth at
least $40 a week to any commission =
man on the Row" today wanders
from one place to another, always inn.
toxicated, and receiving the pity of 3 "a
derelict. Squirrel" whisky, the in !
cendiary fire, is burning out his suc-e
cess. -
The fact that the high water Of
last summer washed out the creeks
and rivers creating many holes and
step offs" is given for the unusual .
number of deaths by drowning this.
year. The doctors say that owing to-
the heat. bathers are too anxious to-
leap into the water and do not take
the proper precautions. -
A Topeka firm dealing almost ex-
clusively in lines shipped in a car -
load of the little drink makers this
morning. Nearly half a n.illion lines
are carried in carload. These lines
are sold in Kansas, Missouri, Okla-z
homa, Nebraska. Colorado and in parts
OF Indiana. The entire state trade Ia
handled by this one Topeka firm.
A certified check for 500 as evil
dence of good faith and a bid for city
printing during the ensuing year was
received by the city commissioners to-
day from the Kansas Trades Unionist.
a labor paper published weekly. The II
commission decided city printing could
only be given daily papers and or
dered the check returned. The con-
tract for city printing will be award
ed between this date and August 1.
Because she reported only one
weeks experience in driving a motor
car, a license to operate a jitney here :
was denied Mrs. Barbara Dangerfield. !.
1924 Kansas avenue, this morning by -
the city commissioners. The commits :,
sioners pointed out that the city ordt- a
nance required jitney drivers to have
four months experience in the opera. r.
ton of a motor vehicle before Ii
cense is issued. The application of :
Mrs Dangerfield was placed on file
damage claim growing out Of the =
faulty drainage of the South side of n
the city near Shunganunga creek dur-i1i
ing the high water last August was
presented to the city commission to-
day. In it ]. P. Lucas claims dam
ages for 1928 for beehiyes, trees and. :.
other property destroyed by water
The Lucas property is located on
South Kansas avenue near the Santa
Fe railroad tracks. During the high
water ditch bordering his property 70
overflowed because it had no outlet
To properly protect themselves
fref4 la 1f f1,a
farmers of Kansas should pillow under ?
their wheat stubble and kill all vol
unteer wheat, according to George c.
Wheeler of the Kansas Farmer. This.
because the larva of the fly is found E
below a point which can DE reached ?.
by burning the wheat stGhble- Req
Gently a series of pictures were dis 81
played showing the larvae in Kansas
wheat located at a point on the Stub
bic which could be reached by burn-.F
ing the stubble.