The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-24

An when the light comes in again
I'm goin' to say my prayers
The girls of the East Indianola
district ret this afternoon at the
school to organize a sewing club.
The Rev. C. Yasuda, a native pastor
of Kyoto. Japan, will speak at the
First United Brethren church Sunday
morning.
A marriage license was issued from
the office of the probate judge today
to Grover Adams, Topeka, age 80, and
Opal Bond, Topeka, age 10.
The woman's branch alliance of
the Unitarian church will meet with
Mrs. H A Sternberg Friday afternoon
at o'clock, at her home, 373 Oakland
avenue.
Floyd G.. Hart, electrician with the
Topeka Edison company, enlisted IN
the electrician service of the navy
Wednesday. He went to Kansas City
to be sworn into service Wednesday
afternoon.
Alvia Frazier, of Wakeeney, held
here since Sunday on an insanity
charge, was adjudged insane Wednes-
day after a hearing before Probate
Judge Ralph Cav. He Will be sent 10
the state hospital.
Residents of Topeka avenue, which
is soon to be resurfaced with asphaltlc
concrete, are asking that all houses
tear up their old and rusted gas and
water service pipes and lay new ones
The Boulevard association hopes that
it will be years before the hard sur
face will be broken to repair mains
and service pipes.
The Third regiment supply COM
pany received three more enlistments
Wednesday, but still needs ten more,
according to Sergt. Don Thorne. The
recruits are Joseph E. Dubreui1 of
r
Newton and William Garland of To-
peka. The company will be mustered
into federal service Monday night, ac-
cording to Sergeant Thorne.
J. c. Emahizer, president of the
Emahizer- Spielman Furniture COM
pany was slightly injured, Tuesday ev-
ening, when he was coming down the
steps of the Bank of Topeka. He
stumbled, caught the railing and held
himself up but in doing SO he twisted
his left knee. He is now unable to
walk and will probably remain> at
home for several days.
Two hundred and fifty tomato
plants and forty dozen cabbage plants.
all free!i This was the word sent
out this morning by the city park
department. The plants will be dis
tributed by the city thru w. L. Por-
hall. Today is the day, according to
the information given out All you
have to do is to drop IN the office, take
off your hat and say thank you
Robert Miller and Joe Holman, dep
uty sheriffs, found a sack of candy,
cigars ard tobacco, buried in the floor
of a henhouSe near Twenty-seventh
and Kentucky Wednesday afternoon
and Gilbert Arthur, a 17-year- old boy.
was arrested on a warrant charging
him with stealing it The complaint
was sworn to by S. z. Frost, who runs
a grocery in Highland Park. He sus-
pected Arthur and the officers made a
search, finding the candy and tobacco
in the chicken house. Arthur ad-
mitted the charge and will be turned
over to the juvenile officers.
Trips into the country by Topeka
business men, members of the Navy
league, will be a feature of the cam
! paign for sailors now in progress in
Shawnee county. A committee to ac-
company recruiting officers to the
country to call on farm lads, known
to wish to join the navy. was appoint
ed at a meeting of the Navy league
Wednesday night. Frank Whitney,
Rodgers and David Bowie are mem
| bers of the auto committee. Ar
rangementS also were made to decor
ate the recruiting station, SOC Kansas
avenue, with the flags of the allies.
There are 1850 immune hogs u
| each branded with a hole in the left
ear, on one farm in Shawnee county
They belong to r. l. Miller, who has
place three and one-half miles
north of Topeka, and they were mort
gagged for S19,333.50 by Miller to the
Southwest Commerce Loan & Realty
company of Kansas City. The size OF
the mortgage is unusual, for a chattel
mortgage ip this county and the herd
i is probably the largest in Shawnee
county. The mortgage has been re-
corded with Ralph Squires, register of
deeds.