The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-09
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226.-Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs Lionel Whitney left to-
day for Rochester, n. Y, called by
the death of Mrs. Whitneys mother,
Mrs. Barbara A. Jones.
The Beatrice Creamery company
filed suit in the district court today
against D. R. Banta and wife asking
for judgment of $1o5.52. The
creamery company alleges that Banta
purchased a hinge door silo and failed
to pay for it.
Ernest L. Harris, consul general to
Sweden, was in Topeka Monday Mr.
Harris left Stockholm March 81, and
was fourteen days crossing the water.
He says that many American business
men are going to Sweden and from
there journey into Russia looking for
business Mr.. Harris expects to re-
main here week
A Lincoln program will be given at
the First Baptist church Friday night.
An address on the Life of Lincoln
illustrated with slides and moving pic
lures, will be given by the Rev. Robert
| Gordon. There will also be presented
an interesting film showing African
! Sea Birds. Admission will be by ticket
| only but tickets may be secured while
| they last without charge by calling at
the church office, which is open daily
from nine till noon.
Bids will be asked for the construc-
| ton of two wading pools to be built,
| one in Cnesney park and one in Rip
| ley park, by Commissioner Porter
within few days Both pools are to
be constructed of concrete and espec-
| ial care has been taken in drawing the
| plans that 10 depth be obtained which
VIII IN any manner endanger life. Both
pools will have a supply of fresh water
VI no MI hot
trees will not fall into them.
| Hundreds of taxpayers will, within
a Few days, receive notice from the
city that the street on which your
property abuts is about to be improved
| by paving and curbing, and fter such
pavement is in place no connections
to water. gas or sewer mains will be
allowed for term of years" The no
| tice further states that all such con-
nections are to be made at once al 4
| cautions property owners to make
thorough inspection of all service
pipes which are now in place
| In order that the working class may
| have an opportunity to register with
| out losing time, the office of the city
clerk will be kept open till 10 o'clock
at night beginning next Thursday.
| From that date for ten days, except
ing Sunday, the office will be kept
open during the noon hour. On Sat
urday evening, May 20, this schedule
|
until after the election is held to de-
eide the question of bonds for the new
| city Jail and auditorium.
| A reorganization of the board Of SUI
| pervisOrs of elections took place Tues
day evening. Commissioner w. J..
| Porter was made chairman, succeed
ing r. L. Cofran. w. H WATSON was
also elected a member OF the board
| The first regular me citing of the new
board will be held May %, at which
| time n revision of the registration,
| hearing appeals from the decision of
| the city clerk and for the considera-
| ton of bids of those who would fur
| nish meals to election boards for the
! special bond election to be held on
| May 81. Noon. May %, is the time
set for bids to be in.
Ida Bryant, former wife of Forty
Bryant, who is serving term in the
penltentiary for murder, has been re-
leased from the county Jail where she
has been serving time for selling
liquor She was released by order
of the county commissioners. She was
serving her second sentence and had
been in more than thirty days
At a recent meeting of representa-
tive farmers of Soldier township, Te-
cumseh, Topeka and Wakarusa, many
expressed the opinion that farm
lagent would be a good thing for
Shawnee county. A meeting will be
held later to further the organization
of the farm bureau. Two hundred
and fifty members are required to
form the bureau. The date of the
meeting will be announced later.
The widow of Neils R. Hansen, who
was killed at Perry, Ok, when a Santa
Fe train struck an automobile in
which he was riding, started suit for
damages in the district court of Shaw
nee county today. The accident, &C
cording to the petition, happened jan
uary 20 of this year. Mrs. Hansen de-
clares that Hansen was killed through
no fault of his; that he looked and
listened and that the Santa Fe train
passed through Perry without ring
ing a bell or sounding a whistle, con-
trary to the city ordinances. She asks
for damages to the amount of 1873
! for the support of herself and two IA
therless children The answer of the
Santa Fe was filed along with the pc
! tition. 1t is in the form of a genera
= denial It states that if Hansen wa.
struck and killed by a Santa Fe trair
as alleged it was due to his own negi
gence and not to the fault or negH