The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-03

electrocuted while at work near Car
den City were drilling on the farm of
Mrs. E. B. Snyder, of Topeka, at the
time they met their death. Mrs. Sny-
der has the farm leased to a Garden
City man.
The last of the preliminary
declamatory contests in the high
school will be held Friday night at
the high school building. The winners
Of the contest will meet the cham
pions of the Atcnison and Leaven-
worth high schools next week.
A suit for $3.50 was filed Mon
day in the district court against the
Union Pacific by Moses Barber, ne
gro, who alleged that he was injured
by a moving crane while working IN
the material yard of the company.
His injuries were such that he is I'M
able to continue his work.
The firemen of Topeka had a chance
Monday to use their gas helmets. An
ammonia pipe in st. Francis hospital
sprung a leak and the fumes of the
ammonia forced the employees in the ice
plant to run for open air. Several of
the patients on the first floor were
chased to the porch. The firemen
were called and were able to shut off
the supply.
Suit for damages brought against
the Thomas Page Milling company by
| the Aines Brokerage commission COM
pany, of Ell Paso, for the loss of
commission caused by the fail
ure of the company mill to deliver
flour to them, was heard in the dis
| trict court Monday. Judge Whitcomb
took the case under advisement to rem
der judgment next week.
A Topeka branch of the Insurance
| Federation of Kansas will be organ
| lied Monday, April 16. The fedora
ton consists entirely of agents and is
| independent of the companies, proper.
There are 500 insurance agents in To-
| peka and fully 800 are expected to
| join the branch of the federation. J.
N. Do1ley, F. B. Bonebrake and w.
L. Gardner are working out a program
for the meeting Monday evening at the
Chamber of Commerce.
| The Extraordinarily innen Elec-
trio and Manufacturing company is
moving to Topeka and will soon be
esta blished at 423 Jackson street. P
L. DwinneIl. secretary and treasurer
is already on deck and others of the
company will report here soon. Sew
era1 of the employees have already
moved here and several more will
have to be hired. Their speciality is
a small light storage battery suitable
for farm use and for small towns.
DR.. Mary Noble of Colorado Springs
will talk at the high school audi
torium at AIS, April 9, 10 and IL.
Mothers of the students are especial
ly invited to the open meeting Tues
day night. DR.. Noble will talk on
Social Morality" She will speak to
the girls at 2:30 o'clock, April 10, IL
and II; to business girls at o'clock,
April 9, 10 and IL, at the Y. w. c. A.
East side gatherings will be held in
the evenings of April 10, 1 and IL.
Jacobs S. Marts, veteran resident of
Kansas, who died here March "a, came
to Kansas in 1872 and settled on a
farm near Chapman, Kansas. He came
to Topeka in 1912 and lived here until
his death. His body was taken to
Chapman, Kansas. for burial in In
diana Hill cemetery. He is survived
by wife, four daughters, Misses Ber-
tina and Majel Marts, Mrs. Frank
Thorpe, and Mrs. Anthony Martin, and
three sons, William, Thomas and Sam |
uel.
On Wednesday, April 4, the Modern
Woodmen of America camps of Shaw
nee county will meet at Woodman hall |
in the Bates building. 123 West Sixth |
avenue, to select delegates to the
state camp, which meets later in the
month. The meeting will be called to
order at o'clock by Gen. NJ. w. Sax
on, clerk of Sunf1ower Camp 536 ]
About 100 delegates will be in attend
ance, including those from the Topeka |
camps and the organizations from
Rossvil1e, Silver Lake, Elmont, Wat
son, Richland, Auburn, Wakarusa and
Dover