The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-10

be let on competitive bids. The big
increase in the price of white paper
is expected to make some difference
in the cost of the ballots It will take
$4,000 ballots to cover Shawnee
county.
Edwin E. Locke preach Sunday eve
ring in the first of the community
services to be held on the Central
Park school grounds. The five lead
ling churches of the College Hill dis
,,trict are participating in the services
Seats for but 500 have been pro-
vided but several hundred additional
heard the sermon from their autos or
stood up The Rev. Ralph Ward, pas
tor of the Westminster Presbyterian
church, will preach next Sunday.
+ Nearly $500 for the purpose of
maintaining beds in French hospitals
for the soldiers of France has been
subscmribed by Topekans, according to
Mrs Thos. Page, trustee for the fund
The movement has been on foot
a month, having been started May 81
at a meeting in the home of Mrs
Thomas Page, 1000 West Sixth avenue.
Contributions are still coming In, ac-
cording to Mrs. Page. The promoters
of the movement hope to secure at
least 900 before the end of the sum-
Richard Wilson tomorrow becomes
membership secretary of the Topeka
Commercial club. With the accept
ance of this position, Mr.. Wilson an
nounces that membership campaigns
may become thing of the past The
new aim of the Commercial club will
be 1000 members" said Mr.. Wilson
| today Every business and profess
sional man in the city, and we have
| 1000 of them, should get behind the
| Commercial club and help make To-
peka one of the Invest and best cities in
/ the west"
Paul Rankin, an assistant in the Of
! flee of w. r. Smith, state printer, and
! former Salina newspaper man, re
turned today to his duties at the state
plant after answering an S. o. S. call
| from the owner of the Lawrence Jour-
! nal-World The call made by Uncle
| Sam for guardsmen depopulated the
Lawrence newspaper office OF about
I everything except boss and an off1ce
lcat On the day the Lawrence COM
| NAMES went to Fort Riley to mobilize,
| Mr.. Rankin went to Lawrence. where
/ he acted as editor, advertising mana
ger and reporter until a new force
| could be obtained.
L. L. Kiene. sheriff, will leave for
Canada Tuesday to bring back Lite
! Lane, negro wanted Tor forgery.
Lane was convicted of giving ba d
/ check in payment for a horse he pur-
chased at Wakarusa. While he was
ont on a $500 bond waiting for SEN
! tence he left Topeka. Later he was
( located in Canada and Sheriff kiene
secured extradition papers for him.
Just before noon today the police
raided a crap game in progress in the
l Phil Myers barber shop in North To-
/ peka and brought in five men The
/ charge IS gambling and drinking
Every man in the crowd is white
/ Those arrested are Fate Carter, j. NJ.
HURLEY, VIM. J. Carter, w. H. Ready,
/ George Newberry-
IL A.-W Altman sheriff of Trego
county. brought two prisoners, mem
1abers of the 1. W. w, to Topeka last
night and placed them in the Shawnee
! county Jail. He told L. L. Kiene; sher-
if, they were ringleaders of the gang
! of l. w WIS who have been naking
trouble ct Wakeeney. Following trou-
BILE at Wakeeney arrests had been
made by the sheriff and the prisoners
placed in the county Jail. Members of
/ the gang raided the jail and released
| the prisoners. While they were doing
that the sheriff arrested two more
land took no. chances with them. He
4 brought them to Topeka.