The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-07

So he speaks to all the guys.
He bows and scrapes and tips his hat
| To everyone he meets
| You'll know he wants office
When you meet him on the streets.
| He'll have to change his face
And bear up very proudly
To dignity the place.
| He will not see the common folks
| Because his heads high
Though they will bow and tip their hats
AS he goes passing by
Ollie Baker was arrested by the
sheriffs office this afternoon charged
with selling liquor.
The members of the Musical Art
society will practice tonight at the
First Baptist church.
Take a ride in the new bort, $3.50;
it will please you. Motor Service Co.,
| 1915 West Tenth--Adv.
w H WATSON, city commissioner of
finance, gave a talk on our City's
Finances at the Y. NJ. c. A. last even
ing.
| T. A. McNeal is announced to APP
| pear in his role as a humOrist on the
Auburn lecture course next Friday
night, March 10.
The members of the Queen Esther
/
odist church will meet tonight at the
Y. NJ. c. A. rooms.
| Preparations for the annual y. NJ.
c. A. circus which will be held April
1 3 and II have already begun among
| the boys and senior classes.
| Elmer Jackson, charged with
! breaking into the McRae grocery last
week pleaded guilty in the court of
Topeka today and was sentenced to
thirty days in jail.
o. T. Wood, United States rlarshal,
went to Kansas City today 10 arrest a
counterfeiting gang. He was sure of
| landing at least one of the counter
feiters. The gang has been operating
in and around Kansas City.
Members of the district school
boards of Shawnee county Will gather
in Topeka March 8 for the annual
| 800 school board members The pro-
| gram prepared by John Eby, county
superinte ndent, will begin at 1870
o'clock in Mr.. Eby's office.
| Richard Blackburn, a 15-year-old
n gro boy. was found guilty of chick
en- stealing by a jury in the first di-
vision of the Shawnee county district
court this morning. Blackburn was
one of three boys engaged in the
chicken st aling. The other two
Sabbath DeMoss and Thad Stewart,
pleaded guilty.
|
J. A Ramsey of Topeka, former CITY
sanitary sergeant, is the father of u
boy, born March 2. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ramsey were classmates at the Kan
sas State Agricultural college. Mrs.
| Ramsey was formerly Miss Ruth Me
man of Whitewater The boy was
born on the third anniversary of their
wedding
George p. Hayden, city attorney.
listened to the arguments in the fed
eral court at Kansas City Monday in
| the case OF Daniel B. Luten, holder
of concrete bridge patents. against
the city of Newton and State En-
gineer Gearhart After listening to
the arguments Hayden is somewhat
| doubtful as TO the validity OF the
patents held by Luten-
| The county commissioners have
created d new voting precinct includ-
ing all the territory north of Tween
| ty-ninth street, west of Adams street,
east of the Santa Fe tracks to Twen-
| ty-first street and east of Monroe
street north of Twenty-first street and
south of the city limits. The precinct
was created in response to petition
signed by 200 voters in this territory.
1t will be called Pierce precinct and
| has about 400 voters.
| The Brotherhood of the Central
Congregational church will give a din
ner at the church Friday evening N
honor of DR.. Roy B. Guild, former
pastor of that congregation. 1t $ eA-
pected that about $50 people will at
| tend the dinner There will be d sep
rate table for the Boys club and one
for the Central Radio club. DR.. Guild
will occupy the pulpit at Central Con
gregational church at the Sunday
mornin~ service
| The police made a good guess when
they guessed oolworth's store, robbed
Sunday night, was robbed by boy or
boys f. +. DaWdy, probation officer,
picked up the right boy asst night, ac-
| cording to the boys own confession.
The youngsters is Arthur Nichols and
he is not unknown to the juvenile
court He admitted that he had
climbed to the roof of the building.
went through a skylight, then slid
down a pole to the floor.
Leila Dotson, a federal prisoner
was released from the Shawnee
county Jail this morning. The DOtson
woman lodged the United States
marshal for five months after he had
Eevidence that she had been selling
liquor in Topeka without a govern
ment license. He located her at En-
poria and she came to Topeka volun-
tarily and pleaded guilty. She was
fined 500 and costs Under the fed
eraI statutes she paid the fine and
costs by serving thirty days in the
county Jail
The suit of the Fruit Dispatch com
lpany against the w. o. Anderson Com
mission company of Topeka, IN the
district court of Shawnee county, was
in reality won by Anderson However,
the verdict was in favor of the Fruit
dispatch company. Anderson alleged
that the company shipped him car
load of over ripe bananas and admit
ted that in RENTING to the company
Ihe deducted from the check the
Iamcunt at which he placed his loss.
IThe company brought suit for 1897 1872.
The jury awarded verdict for $1s.6-'
Ray Carpenter of Washburn college
has been granted the scholarship that
is offered annually to one Washburn
student by the State University. The
scholarship pays $3.50 and offers a
fine chance for graduate study. There
were four candidates for the honor