The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29

\ meeting of local Boy Scout mas
tiers and the local council will be held
at the Y. NJ. c. A. Wednesday at noon.
The Watson grange fair. postponed
three time, was finally given last
week, and ended successfully saturday
night.
/ Lincoln circle No. l will. hold an
all day sewing bee at Lincoln Post
hall Tuesday. Dinner will be served
at noon.
The girls sewing class presented
playlet Saturday at the Provident as
ISOLATION, as the opening feature of
the years sewing and cooking classes
Royal Neighbor Camp, No. 14S,
will give a Halloween entertainment
for members and families Wednesday
evening, October 81, at Lincoln Post
hall.
The degree team of the knights and
Ladies of Security Capital council No
1 will drill tonight at the regular
meeting of the Triangle club of the
First Methodist church.
Miss Mary Bunker. 813 Western
avenue, is recovering from a fall down
the stairs at Lafayette school. Sus-
tanned last week. A sprained ankle,
however. will keep her indoors for
several days yet.
Two boats were stolen from the
river at the waterworks Sunday night
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d. Carlson, of 100 Walker street, and
the other was "a boat belonging to
Eugene Stotts of the state hospital.
The Red Line Oil company finished
drilling its second OVERLOOK hole
Saturday. The we'll is a success and
the officers declare. The oil in the
second hole is much superior to the
oil found in the first well drilled last
year.
Mrs. d w. rIulvane spoke before
the attendants of the Wanamaker
school fair Saturday. She reported
the fair as a booming success. The
young folks seemed to have taken as
much interest in their displays as the
older folks did in their exhibits at the
grange fairs. she declared.
A 6-cylinder, 5-passenger Buick
touring car owned by A. H. Purdy,
1915 Buchanan street, was stolen Sat-
urday night from in front of Mullins
meat market, 10 West Eighth street
The car was a 1915 model; its motor
number is 206,347 and it's license
number, 9,055.
Charles F. Pettijohn, business man
of Olathe, will speak at the church
night exercises of the First Congre-
gationaI church Thursday evening,
November l. at 1880 o'clock. Petit
john is given most of the credit for
building up the Congregational church
at Olathe.
Fred Voiland's stories are being pit
ted against the Halloween alurements
of dumping over sheds, lodging cops,
running wagons down hills and other
deviltry, the lot of the American boy
for years past. Today, an announce
ment was telephoned into the State
Journal to the. effect that Fred Voil-
and will speak to the Topeka Boy
Scouts wednesday,. Halloween eve. at
the Central Congregational church.
First Lieut.. Cliff Stratton, who has
been stationed at Camp Cody, Deming,
n. NJ. for several months has been
assigned to Company E, 136th infan-
try according to information received
in Topeka Second Lieut.. Richard
Blaisdell has been assigned to the
Fifty-ninth' Depot brigade. Stratton
and Blaisdell were Topeka newspaper
men prior to the outbreak of the war.
The body of Charles Kiser, a negro,
was found Sunday on the John Hultz
farm, five miles southeast of Law
renee. Kiser disappeared from the
viii Zerkle farm, near Richland, the
night of Saturday October 20. From
appearances of the body Kiser had
walked several miles in his stocking
feet There were no traces of violence
on the body.
That his wife has an awful temper
and longs for her home in Tennessee,
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love him and chased him out of the
house with a butcher knife, are alleg-
atoms made today in a cross petition
filed by Ted Bledsoe in the office of
Mrs. Mary Chaplin, clerk of the dis
trict court. The cross petition an
swers a petition filed by Alice Bledsoe
asking for divorce. They are negroes
and were married July Is, 1917 She
owns a farm in Tennessee and he
owns property in North Topeka. He
wants the property owned by him re-
stored to him unencumbered