The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-29

tory crime against Geneva Jackson. q
negro girl. Elmer Wilson, a negro.
was bound over in the district court
today under bond by Judge hugh
Fisher in the court of Topeka. Rad
Lee, deputy county attorney, prose
cuted the case.
Word was received today by the
sheriff's office that U. S. Price, ne
gro, wanted by local officials for nom
support of his two minor children, Is
being held by the Kansas City police.
This evening Deputy Sheriff J. ]. Hol-
man will leave for Kansas City to
bring Price back to Topeka.
At the weekly Current Topic club
meeting last night Hampton Steele told
of the Ford peace expedition. He re-
less internal dissension and more re-
suits if the peace delegates had been
eliminated and only the newspaper
men taken. The dinner was well a.
tended.
Owing to the sickness of several of
the twenty workers in the Y. y. 9. A
financial campaign scheduled to close
last Saturday night, the campaign will
| be continued for two days later in the
week. The amount that was to have
been raised was $3,730.90. Up to 6
/ o'clock saturday $2.995.5O had been
subscribed. This leaves $737.40 yet to
/ be raised.
! The Amusement Syndicate COM
/ pany, L. M. Crawford and L. A. Bow
! ers. are made defendants in a suit filed
with Charles Bowers, clerk of the dis
/ trict court, by the Brunswick-Balke-
Collender company of Chicago and
Delaware, The suit involves the sale
of bowling alley fixtures valued at
| $40 to Bowers.
! A 10 year old negro boy is being
held at the Detention home under the
care of Mrs. Bundy, matron. The
| boy was picked up by Provident as
ISOLATION officials Monday afternoon.
| Asa didn't like the accommodations,
| however, at the Provident association
and he walked away. Then the police
found him and turned him over to
Probation Officer Dawdy.
! Richard B. Harrison of Chicago, a
| leading colored dramatist, recited
| Damon and Pythias'' before a large
audience at the Second Baptist church,
Third and Quincy streets. last even
ing. Resolutions We're adopted at the
close of the recital thanking the Rev.
Robert Gordon of the First Baptist
church for a tribute paid to the COL
ored race Sunday evening.
The ladies of Grace Cathedral Guild
will give a parcels" post social at
the guild parlors this evening, COM
mencing at O'Clock. Elaborate prep
arations for a good time are being
made. and all the members of the par
ish and their friends are earnestly
! asked to attend. The proceeds of the
entertainment are to go into the or
gan fund for the new cathedral.
c. f. Winton of Goodland was Il To-
peka visitor yesterday and stated that
the wheat is in exceptionally good en-
dit;rn in the western part of the state.
THE covering of ice which threatened
wheat in the central part did net even
touch the western part said Mr.. Win
ton. "At a majority of places they
nj lot 1Ir
however, and there is no danger CT a
short yield as yet from lack CT
MOISTURE
The Spanish club will meet Wednes-
day evening at Gemmell hall. Y. NJ,
c. A, under the auspices of the insti-
tuition. The club is open to all speak
ing, or interested in the Spanish lam
guage. The meetings of the club have
been held in the room of the secretary.
John Bog gs, but on account Of the
increase and interest, at the sugges-
ton of George Hoyes, general secre-
tary of the Y. NJ. c. A, the change
.Pentioned was made.
The closing number of the National
Y. W. c. A. Jubilee month will be given
March at the Presbyterian church at
4 o'clock. DR.. Anna L. Brown, ma
tiona1 secretary of the Y. w. C. A. will
be the principal speaker. Special sec
tions have been reserved for the Col
lege Y. w. c. a. and the different
ciuDS or the Central Y. W. Inc mu-
steal program is to be furnished by
Washburn college and the Topeka high
school Y. w. organizations.
To begin the sixty days active serv-
ice which the government furnishes
members of the naval reserve, Carl
Freeman, age 20, will leave this after
noon for Puget Sound where he will
board cruiser. Freeman lives a 406
Monroe street and is an employee of
the Wolff Packing company. He IS
the fourth man in Topeka to enlis. in
the naval reserve. Others who have
enlisted are Cliff Hileman, Frank =.
Howe and James Truelove.
j. c. Mohler, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, will speak be-
fore The Merchants association at Abb
lene Thursday. The Abilene associa-
ton viz take under consideration sew
eral suggestions for the towns i'm
rrovement ]. w. Howe, secretary of
tile heard of control will accompany
Secretary Mohler. Abilene is Iowc's
home town. He is still owner and
editor of the Dickinson County News,
one of the leading Democratic week
lies IN the state there.