The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-09


Hurry-Up Transfer Co. Phone 226.
ADV.
Intermittent showers over the
roads entire lines in Kansas were re-
ported today by the Santa Fe.
princess Good for Nothing" high
school auditorium, Friday, October'1S.
15c, 25c.-Adv.
frieda Draper of Lawrence visited
Miss Esther Ross, teacher in the
Onaga high school, who was home
Saturday and Sunday.
DR.. C. H. Lerrigo received notice
Sunday of the death of his nephew.
William H Lerrigo, who died for his
county in France, September g." He
was fighting with the English.
Fred Tennhardt, driving a Maxwell
| car, rammed a Washburn street car at
| the corner of Fifteenth and College
| avenue Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Freida
| Schuman, who accompanied him, was
| thrown out and slightly injured. The
auto was wrecked.
DR.. Benjamin Young, pastor of the
First Methodist church, delivered his
| farewell sermon Sunday night. He
and his family will leave this week for
st. Louis, where Doctor Young be-
comes pastor of the Union Avenue
Methodist church.
Commissioner Newland smoked for
| ty years until two weeks ago Saturday.
That day a travelling man came into
his office smoking a strong, black
cigar. The smell of the smoke made
the commissioner sick and the taste
of the tobacco has made him sick ever
since.
Three Topekans are on the Friday
program of the twelfth annual con-
| ference of superintendent of schools
to be held in Emporia, October 1921.
| They are A. J. Stout, principal of the
| intendent, and H. B. Wilson, super
| intendent of the city's school system.
A combination freight and passen-
| ger station costing approximately
SIP, 900. is to be erected in Halsted
| Kan, by the Santa Fee, according to
| reports received here. The building
will have a concrete foundation, will
| be one story high and the superstruc-
ture will be of brick. 1t will be
| 139x38 feet in extent.
Topeka lodge No. 2, FraternaI Aid
Union, will hold class initiation
Tuesday evening in K p. hall. Sixth
| avenue and Quincy street. 1t was ex-
pected that the supreme lodge officers
| would be present, but important bust
ness interferes with their attendance
at this time. A lunch will be served
after the meeting. followed by dane
ing.
At the regular monthly meeting of
Marshalfs band Sunday the new Off
GERS. for the coming wear. were in
stalled and, thru L. M. Penwell, D. G.
Kline. the retiring director, was pre-
sented with specially designed gold
| ring. Thru an error the name of A.
A. Haggart was omitted from the list
recently published Of the bands mem
bership.
| Two Ford cars crashed together this
morning at Ninth and Kansas avenue.
One of the machines. jitney, was
| har1 do, ,o1r lraI
radiator and broken front wheel. 1t
was trying to dodge the other car. A
street car approaching narrowly
avoided crashing into the tangle when
the motorman slammed on The brakes.
! No one was injured.
Clarence Anderson, 10 years of age,
was arrested by the police Saturday
night charged with breaking up dishes
and furniture at SIP West First street.
Sunday afternoon his mother, Mrs.
Annie Anderson, was arrested and
| booked for drunkenness. Gus. Ander-
son, the boys father. called at the Jail
to talk with him, and the two became
so loud that the officers ran the
father out of the Jail with a broom
Joseph Goldstein,~ state manager,
| entertained the agents of the Com
| monwealth Life Insurance company of
Omaha at luncheon at the National
| hotel Saturday. A theater party fol-
| lowed in the evening. Those present
| were: Doctor Emery, actuary; Frank
Nelson, president; Tom Capsey, r. E.
Kane, Ed Mulloy, J. M. Fricker. c. w.
| Sipe, E. L. Wolverton, H. T. Whitaker,
Raymond Shideler, Richard DuFrane
and NJ. j. Tully.
The Topeka Commercial club will
not be able to move into its new quar-
| tiers in Kirkpatrick hall, Seventh and
| Quincy streets, until some time in No
vember. Such was the announcement
RI hNr ILL
| secretary of the club. Meantime the
officers of the organization are pre-
pairing for the big membership cam
paign to be held prior to moving into
the new quarters. The advance agent
| of the mem bership committee, which
will have charge of the campaign, will
arrive in Topeka in two week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Shut enter
tanned Friday evening for Mr.. Shuts
Santa F'e co-workers and their wives
Stringed music was furnished by AL
bert Shut and Frank Abilz. Those
present were: Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Ray, Mr.. and Mrs. Al Ogden, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hastings, Mr.. and Mrs. S. L.
Bechtol, Mr.. and Mrs. Manuel, Mr..
and Mrs H. Holloway, Jesse Park
hurst, Mr.. Waite, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Ingholm, Frank Abitz Albert Shut,
Miss Lou Shut, Miss Emerald Strick
Ter, Miss Isabel Shut, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bowman, Mr.. and Mrs Lou Eythe and
Miss Hilmen
The city of Topeka found itself pow
erless this morning to pass any ordin-
ances or transact any legal business.
The city commissioners had legal
+ meeting, but that's all. With Com
missioner Porter leaving this after
noon to attend the annual meeting of
| the Kansas league of municipalities at
Independence, the city can't even hold
a legal meeting next Monday unless
the commissioner returns Mayor
House is out of the city. Commission
err Tandy. chairman in the mayors
| absence, is in Oklahoma and the city
| cha rfer makes no uroVision for elect