The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-30
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AT HOME NEWS

The Typhoid Fly.
Winter lays its garments by:
Here we come, the Spring ana l.
Let me introduce myself
Gentlemen, the Fly
Busy agent of our firm,
Ready for the summer term,
Let me introduce my pal
Gentlemen the Germi
Let us enter, if you please;
Well deliver. at our ease.
Our supreme commodity
zen Kansas State Board of Health.
Mrs. NJ. L. Hicks, matron OF Beth
anv coller-e has gone to Alta Vista,
kan, for a few weeks vacation
The Lutheran Aid Society held
basket picnic at Children's park sun
day afternoon and enjoyed very
pleasant outing.
1t was stated enormously in the
state Journal Saturday evening that
Martin Lobach was connected with
the Scotch Wooden Mills.
Robert Miller, undersheriff, who
was suffering from 1O4-degree rev.
er Thursday night, was back on the
Job at the court house today.
A surprise party was given by the
G. A r., W. r. c. and twenty-elght
friends last week in honor of Com
mander and Mrs E. L. Forsyth.
Hugh Larimer, sheriff, went to Kan
sas City today to attend an annual
convention of peace officers in ses-
sion there. He is secretary OF the or
ganiZation.
The contract for a $4,000 bunga-
low. to be built by James E. Finley,
of the Beatrice Creamery company, at
Seventeenth and Lane streets, was let
last week. The contract went to j.
W. Harrison.
j. i'll Kelley. George Godfrey
Moore and E. L. Overton left Satur-
day night for an overland trip to
Omaha They attended a special en-
tertainment of the Ak-Sar-Ben and
will return Tuesday afternoon.
The Rev. ]. P. Hicks. of the Sec
ond Presbyterian church, was called
to Knoxville, Tenn, Saturday night
by the illness of his mother. No
services were held at his church Sun
day.
Fire Saturday evening caused
$1,000 damage to the home of Mrs.
j. L. Stanton, 1911 Western avenue.
Defective wiring is given as the cause.
One side of the roof was burned be-
fore the fire companies extingulshed
the flames. Glenn w. Pratt, a room
er, discovered the blaze and turred in
the alarm.
a 24O horse power motor train
made it's first trip over the Union
Pacific Marysville branch Saturday.
The motor train will take the place
of the small locomotive which for
merly made the trip. The motor
branch will be known as train num-
Der SIT and will leave Topeka at
BIAS o'clock in the afternoon
Sarah ]. Hill filed a petition for a
divorce today with the clerk of the
district court asking that she be re
lieved of all further obligations to j.
W. Hill, to whom she states she was
married September IS. 1888. She
charges him with extreme cruelty. She
specifies that he has a vicious and I'M
governable temper, that he quarrels
with her and curses her
There is an unknown Mexican at
the city Jail with a body full of knife
wounds which ne says negro v oman
inflicted. He is being treated and
will recover. He was brought to the
Jail early Sunday evening. He doesn't
know the name of the negro woman,
but he gave a good description and
the police officers expect to make a
pickup some time today. The Mexi-
can says he came to Topeka from
Wichita.
Robert L. Henderson, editor of the
! Northern Star at Admire, Kansas. lost
/ his Ford the day Ringing Bros, cir
| Gus was at Emporia. 1t was taken
while standing within a block of the
tent. 1t was a 1915 model with a
| 1917 Kansas license No. 81, 140. The
speedometer. a Stewart, registered
| 1,450 miles when the car disappeared.
! The car had coil spring shock alb
| sorbers and the third leaf in rear
spring had been replaced by one that
| bulged. There was a long scratch on
one rear door and the front door was
hard to close. Henderson offers re-
ward.
While Topeka dairymen at a meet
| ing at the Chamber of Commerce
didn't agree. collectively, to increase
| the price of milk from 10 to II cents
4 a quart. it was understood that each,
| individually. will inform his custom
ers of d hike. At the same meeting a
men was formed. Ira RomiF was
elected president; T. V. Crawford
vice president; John Griffin, treasurer
and Walter A. Smith, secretary The
heat threatening to cause a failure
of the corn crop. coupled with the al
| ready skyrocketing price of corr
chops are given as reasons for the ex-
pected increase in the price of milk
Adam Desch and a lot of pickets
roughly jerked from the fence of one
| Jake Beresch Sunday are at the city
Jail. Desch is being held for trial or
the charge of an assault and the pick
etj are being held as evidence Pc.
I lice officers say there was one big
! Tight between Desch and Bersch a.
the home of the latter in Little Russia
II Is charged that Desch visited the
Beresch home and engaged in a com
pat with Mrs. Beresch and that he wa.
| beating her up when Beresch returned
nome. Desch met the head of the
household half way and they mixed
me picket fence was near by and the,
stripped it for several feet while OBJ
tanning weapons Beresch was not ar
rested.
Max Sabel, the German trick ride
arrested last Wednesday night befor,
the Ringling circus left Topeka, wa!
removed to Fort Leavenworth Sun
day by c. c. Jackson, deputy Unite,
states marshal. Sabel was arrested
Tor violating the law prohibiting aliel
enemies within certain zone districts
me Ialr grounds, where the circu
was held, is one of the prohibited
zones Sabel not only admitted hi
nationality but talked freely of tn
kaiser and Germany adr,ittinr ii