The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-13
I'M NORTH TOPEKA
Robert Harrison Is Found Dead
by His Daughter. a
The Coroner Decides Death
Was Due to ApOplexy.

Robert Harrison, age 10, express
driver who lived at 713 Morse street.
was found dead Wednesday evening
by his 13-year-old daughter in a va
cant lot along the Rock Island right
of-way west of the Davis elevator. His
death was caused by apoplexy super
induced by the heat. ~-.ss-s -.
Mr.. Harrison had been In good; ~
health, and was making preparation
for an evening drive with his family.
He had finished his evenings choresac
and was returning from the lot where
he had lariated cow. A short cash
was made on his head. when he fell
striking stake DIR. O.. P. Davis was 4
called by the family, but seeing the
man was dead called the coroner DIR.
Narcotic. He decided death was due
to apoplexy, brought on by the heat
to which he was subjected in his work.
No autopsy was made. sts
He is survived by his wife, daugh-t
ter ,Mura, and a step-daughter. Missarf
Madeline Parvis. Funeral arrauge~sue
ments will not be completed until word saa
is received from relatives in OklahomS
and Colorado sso1
New Plan to Get Liquor.
+ A new way of obtaining the now
prohibited in Kansas" is in use onsHs
the north side. Several druggists re-eds
Gently have been asked to fill pre-
lscriptions, said to be needed in veter-
mary work. The formula of the most
of them contains only alcohol and gin- 81
ger, and about an even mixture OF -
each. The prescriptions are made ups1l
| by registered veterinary who travels =.
over the country The new scheme Is
probably one of the many being USED
over the state. and introduced py 2.
members of the l. W. w. sSnt
1. w. w. Member Is Muzzied. s5e
The efforts of member of the 1. W. =
w. to obtain new members among a. n
/ crowd of men clad in overalls at the
Union Pacific station Wednesday after-sse
noon were fruitless. The man was irf@7s
the midst of an explanation in regard y
| to the treatment that the 1nternationaf -
Workers of the World are being givefI
| on farms in the western part of the
state, when officer Cook interrupted =
: the meeting with the advice to the
speaker that if he kept his senti- =
ments to himself it might save him a r
short talk with the judge of the police $.
/ court. -
| Notes and Personals. -
]. S Baldwin, who for several years
has been sales manager of the kawo =
Milling company. has resigned his po,7a1
sition with that company and will 10
assume the management of the Shaw "a
nee mills, filling the place left vecantc.
by Mr.. Goodrich, who will go to Ar
kansas.
Tracey Doane has returned to his
home, 1928 Quincy street. after an ex-9s
tended visit to his mother in Kansas =
| City. nl1t
The restaurant at S07 Kansas ave.
nue. is under new management. Bud r.:
Spangler is the new owner. He tookr5
possession Wednesday. tae
4, Miss Myrtle Hoffer, 1927 Quincy~|
street left Wednesday for Los Ange- "a
les. Calf, to visit her brother, W:llHr
Hoffer, a former resident of the North q
side. 81
M. A. Hutchinson of Kiro spentec
"Wednesday in North Topeka on bush ~
ness.
Union prayer meeting will be held 2.
this evening at the Central Avenues
Christian church. s3f
A. M. Petro, druggist.-Adv. 900
o. d. Crofut, ticket agent at the e
Union Pacific station. left today for n
Manhattan on a business trip.
The Ladies' Aid society of Indians I'd
ola met this Afternoon with Mrs. Clar- 4
ence Holcomb, at her home north ofo5
Indianola. III