The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-13
LOCAL MENTION.

LOCAL MENTION.
Double election board provisions as
incorporated in a law enacted by the
1915 legislature do not apply to pri-
maries and city elections. That was
the text of an opinion today by S. M.
Brewster. attorney general.
Sons and Daughters will have no
meeting Tuesday evening. A St. Pat
rick's dance will be given for men,
bers and friends at Kirkpatrick hall.
sanford B. Kurtz brought suit in
the district court this morning against
Cathar ine NJ. Herman on a promis-
sorry note secured by a mortgage. He
states that the defendant gave him a
promissory note for $3.50 March l,
1915, secured by mortgage on lots
on Morris avenue, and that she has
since failed to pay the principal, in
terest and taxes on the lots. He asks
for judgment for a total of $740.45
and costs of the action.
Dr. L. w. RowIes, city food inspect
or, filed a complaint with the police
today against Jack Hammel of 215
Adams street. charging him with
butchering and selling a beef without
a permit and without inspection. The
specific charge is that Hammel butch
cred a COW Saturday night and sold
the meat: that he has no permit to
butcher in Topeka and that the meat
sold had not been inspected by the
city food inspector.
Economy Express Co. Phone 1860.
Adv.
Resolutions were adopted by two To-
cal Spiritualist societies Sunday night
of q
cialist party of Topeka in their refus-
al to endorse a vote for bonds for the
building of a new auditorium unless
an appropriation is made for a mu-
nicipa1 lodging house. The societies
adopting the resolutions are the Psy-
chic Research society and the Spirit
ual Temple Builders.
S. NJ. Brewster, attorney general,
left this afternoon for Fort Scott,
where he will investigate evidence in
connection with the Nellie Byers muir
der case in Grant county. Archibald
Sweet, now in the Dodge City Jail.
cha rged with the murder of the school
teacher, formerly lived in Fort Scott.
Glass. Glazing and Paint. Miller &
Gillespie, sSS <. A Phone 955.-Adv.
A broken trolley wire on Kansas
avenue between Seventh street and
Eighth avenue today slightly inter-
fered with street car traffic. The
hot wire dangled in the streets for
a few minutes but was closely guard
ed by street car men until the emer-
gency car arrived.
Mrs. w. F. Meyer and son, Walter,
of 1874 Fillmore street are visiting
with Mrs. Meyers sisters at Salina and
Ellis for a week.
Call meeting of the Ladies of Lin
coin Circle will be held at Lincoln
Post hall Wednesday afternoon at
$3.50 to meet the national president,
Del Lacy Roche, and other national Of
ficers. Moilie Hunter, President, Mar
garet R. Conwell, Secretary.-Adv.
DR.. Benjamin Young and his wife
will leave tomorrow morning to at
tend the Kansas NJ. E. conference at
independence.
new bulletin board has been in
stalled at the high school.
There will be a meeting of the high
school this afternoon.
Dr. Roy Guild addressed the high
school students this morning at a spe-
cial assembly. His subject was The
Use of the Unusued-"
The Frances Willard branch of the
w. c. T. U. will meet with Mrs. Olive
Kingman at 1922 Mulvane street, to-
morrow afternoon.
Dr. William Shaw, of Boston, gen.
eral secretary of the United Society
of Christian Endeavor, who is making
a tour through Kansas in the interest
of Christian Endeavor work will ad-
! dress a young peoples rally at the
First Baptist church on March Is, at
8 p. m.
The Social Service club will meet
with Miss Grace Koonts, 1914 To-
peka avenue, this afternoon. This is
the last meeting of the year.
Rev. H. A. OFT, missionary superin-
tendent of the Lutheran Synod of
Kansas, returned this morning from
Norcatur, where he has been conduct
ing a 17-day membership campaign
in pastorless church.
A petition for a sanitary sewer was
filed with the city commission this
afternoon by residents living in the
extreme eastern part of the city. The
of Swigart's addition between Division
and Swigart and between Sixth and
the north line of lots IA and 81.
The city commission received a pc
tition today asking for a sidewalk on
the north and south sides of Thir-
tenth street from Mulvane to Col
llege.
Dr. Walter B. Sutton. associate pro-
fessor of surgery in the University of
Kansas. will lecture Friday night at
the First Presbyterian church on
Personal Experiences and Observa-