The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-15

(For l just have a bunch,
She'll have lot for me to do,
If l go home for lunch.)
-NELS YINGLE.
Monye to loan-repayab1e monthly.
Capital Building & Loan Assn.-Adv.
Ike Barnum. who underwent an op-
Grafton for appendicitis Monday, is re-
ported to be improving rapidly.
The fraternal brotherhood will give
a free entertainment musical and
dance at Moose hall next Wednesday
evening.
The work of laying the water main
on Scotland avenue, has been COM
pleted and residents on that street are
today being notified by the city water
department that they may now tap
the main at any time
The state board of examiners in
optometry consisting of f. w. Hunt,
Burlingame; j. S, Johnson, Leroy, and
w. j. Lewis, Topeka; will hold their
semi-annual examination in Topeka,
beginning Monday morning.
Making Good for Cod will be the
subject of DR.. Crockett's sermon at
10:45 o'clock Sunday morning at the
Third Christian church, Third and
Lake streets. In the evening the men
will have charge of the service and
will deliver short addresses.
Services will be held Sunday after
Assembly, Twiss and Seward avenues
c. E. Foster, the pastor, will preach at
3 and o'clock. An all night prayer
meeting will be held Tuesday night.
Special meetings begin Thursday eve
ming.
w. c. Markham, editor of the Bald
win Ledger, has been in Topeka a few
days porting over newspaper files in
Memorial hall in preparation for the
big historical pageant to be staged at
Baldwin on July 4. Mr. Markham is
preparing copy" for the pageant. Mr..
Markham was a guest at the big ban
quet of the Kansas Authors club.
Under the title His Fatal Gift of
Beauty" the Lawrence Journal-World
says: Looking at the pictures in the
Topeka Capital of the Kansas club
women, we glanced at one and in
voluntarily there came the thought,
What noble looking woman is this? 90
A moment later we read underneath
the portrait, Mayor j. Z. House"
On account of illness in the family
of u. G. Balderson. secretary of the
State Laundry Owners association, de-
lay has been Occasioned in preparing
a program for the annual convention
to be held April 27-2S and 20. Mr..
Balderson is expected to arrive in the
| city in the next few days and make
make arrangements with local laun-
drymen for a program
A new district high school for
Berryton to cost $4,000 was decided
! on at the annual meeting of the pa
irons of the school. A large majority
of the 125 present voted in favor Of
/ the new building. A date for a gen
eral election to vote bonds for the new
( building will be set at the next school
board meeting. The building will be
/ of brick and will be known as the
| Berryton rural district high school
! Students from an area of six square
miles can attend without paying tut
| ton.
| Charging that he obtained money
under false pretenses, c. R. Jones, a
money lender, told in the district court
/ how Charles Baker, a negro, borrowed
| two teams and a wagon to impress
/ him with his financial standing in on
| der to get a loan. Jones testified thai
/ Baker came to him to borrow money
/ and when informed that he must have
security Baker stated he had two
teams. The next day, Jones said
/ Baker drove one team down Kansas
/ avenue and led another, thereby Sc
curing the loan. Jones now claims the
teams did not belong to Baker, that
! he borrowed them for the occasion