The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-27

( Mary. Mary quite contrary.
/ How does your garden grow
| It's doing just fine
! I've a bean on my vine,
And one ear of corn in each row.
Little Jack Horner.
\ Who thought he'd a corner,
ON sugar and spuds by the peck,
/ Is beginning to wonder
If Hoover by thunder
! Is getting astride of his neck.
Dancing tonight School Is p. M /;
/ Social 6 p. m.)-Kellam Hall.-Adv.
Locker keys were issued Wednesday
to the students at the Topeka high
school.
L. NJ. Penwell went to Gridley
Tuesday night to address the Coffey
/ county Odd Fellows.
! Sergt Dan Smith, of the First field
/ artillery band. has left on furlough
/ for a short visit to his home in Leb-
/ anon.
The heavy rain which fell Wednes-
day in the Kaw Valley, damaged 25
1 cables of the Southwestern Bell Tele-
! phone company.
! w. d. Boughton, of the Washburn
| college music department. will leave
/ for Chicago Friday. He will motor
back to Topeka next month
We are making some low prices on
building material See us before plac-
! ing your order. j. B. Whelan &
| Co., 713 E. 4th. Phone S65.-Adv.
! Ida K Prescott today filed a suit
/ for a divorce from Norman ]. Pres
colt. She charges abandonment for
more than a year without reason and
failure to support. She asks for the
| custody of their 11-year old son,
George.
| The Parent-Teachers' association of
Lafayette school will hold a meeting
Friday evening at O'Clock at the
Methodist church. at Seventh AMI
Lime streets Miss Ward will give
/ and also will give demonstrations of
food substitutes for meat.
New work that will be tried out
| on the Independent Order of Red
Men," who are to visit Topeka the
first of October is the excuse given
for a meeting of the Ake-Pot-Ster-
! Boos scheduled for tonight at 8
o'clock at Hamilton hall. 'Impor-
! tant business is a second reason for
| the meeting.
| The federation of churches of the
city will have a representative at the
national convention to be held in Pitts
| burg, Pa. early next month, provided
! plans of the organization are APP
proved by the local churches. A
| meeting of the local federation was
! held Wednesday at the Central Y NJ.
c. A.
The stevedore corps, made up of
| colored soldiers from many states, will
not be without Topeka men in the or
ganization. In the last two weeks
seven negroes have been sent to the
| jefferson Barracks at st. Louis. Soon
they will be transferred to Newport
News, Va, where they will receive
assignments for service.
Because he had answered the "call
| to his country in the war of democ-
| r6
was refunded his $25 plumbers ii
| cense fee which he had paid to the
| city. The recommendation including
=. the "call to his country" etc, was
made by Commissioner Porter, who
was not present during this morning S
! commission meeting.
Too much other work this morning
| kept the campaign teams of the
Chamber of Commerce from working
on the $4,000 Knights and Ladies
of Security home and hospital cam
| paign. Only five men of the twenty
| reported for work. They were Frank
! 2. MacLennan, J. Will Kelley, e. H.
| Crosby, Charles Elliott and o. E.
| Walker Collections on the campaign
totaled $21, 800 at noon today.
Bonds were approved and authority
| to sign the contracts for extending
water mains was granted this morn
| ing for the following locations: Bos-
well avenue, from Tenth to Eleventh
| street; Fifteenth street. from Mac
/ Vicar avenue Ito PIass avenue and
MacVicar, from Fifteenth to Sixteenth
| street; Lime street, from Sixth to Sew
enth street; and Nineteenth, from
| Fillmore to Western.
| Ray Harries, formerly city passenger
agent for the Union Pacific railroad
| in Topeka, and now in the real estate
I business in Omaha, stopped in Topeka
| for a short time today while on his
way to Kansas City. There is a great
| demand for rural real estate. Harries
| asserts. Dry farming land in western
! Nebraska that could be bought for SIS
and $40 an acre before the war now
/ brings a price of 500 an acre easily,
/ he said.
And still the bills from the Consum-
ers Light and Heat company come to
/ the city hall. In spite of the franchise
agreement that the city building is to
have its light free of charge. At the
morning meeting of the city commits
sioners the bill was presented to the
body and placed on file. The bills
have been coming to the city offices
! since the company went into the hands
| of the receiver. The latest bill totals
| $375.17 for the year.
Five men convicted in the police
court have appealed to the district
| court. They are: John Hoffman, fined
So for speeding; Oscar Williams, fined
SIS for violating the garbage ordin-
ance; Dick Hoffman. fined IS for oper-
| ating a jitney in a reckless manner;
Ed Davis, fined $500 and sentenced
to six months in Jail for importing in
IS for being drunk and fighting
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