The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

SPoi ts, the taste n;;a of things we eat
OF the awful price of meat.
The board of directors of the Y.
NJ. C. A. will hold it's regular monthly
meeting, Friday night.
H NJ. Wolfe, district manager of
the Brotherhood of American Yeomen,
is conducting a membership campaign
for the local branch in Louisville,
Kentucky
| AL G. Field and his company were
entertained Wednesday night by $50
| Shriners of Topeka. Governor Capper,
Al Field and L. H. Wood were amons
the speakers.
Two of the post season games of the
Y. NJ. C. A. basketball league were
played Wednesday night Team A
defeated team NJ by a score of rs to
IT and c beat Y, SO to %.
Initiation and other important bust
ness is on the program for the reg
uIar meeting of the Knights of Column
bus. which is to be held tonight at
their hall, at POI East Eighth street.
Rev M. ]. Robey of the Second
| United Presbyterian church. will con-
duct gospel meeting Friday morn
ing at 10:45 o'clock at the Santa Fe
telegraph school. Mrs. w. F. Girley
will sing.
Two forfeited games Wednesday
night in the Y. NJ. C. A. volleyball
| league closed the season for teams
5, 2, 1 and f. Games were won by
teams 5 and / by default from teams
2 and 4. The final games will be
| played when teams 8 and will play
8 and Z.
The annual conference banquet of
Baker university has been announced
for Friday evening at $50 o'clock.
More than $50 plates have been re-
served by alumni, former students
and friends of the college. The ban
quet will be held in the Sunday
school temple of the First Methodist
Episcopal church.
The R. H. Knowles building at $40
Kansas avenue, until recently occupied
| by the HoSsfeld Trunk factory, has
been purchased by E. Scrinopski for
a cash consideration of $4,000. The
building was badly damaged by fire
kmore than month ago when the
stock of the trunk company burned
The new owner will have the place re-
modelled thruout and made into a
modern store building.
Petitions are being circulated
among the student body of Wash
burn for the abolition of the present
system of grading class work. The
objection offered is that a student
can not know just exactly what kind
of work the professor thinks he is
doing. The system of grading now
in use is So of the letter system aG S.
good; M for medium; IT, for
intermediate" and "F'" for failure
The system suggested is the old per
cent system, using 100 per cent as
perfect
James Jones, a negro squatter lived
on little eighteen-acre piece of
ground along the Kaw river bank near
DeSoto for years and everyone sup
posed he owned it. He died. Then
someone discovered that he had not
ma do finn FL o;4;
Zens of DeSoto are falling over each
other trying to get the land. J. E.
Barrett, receiver, and H. C. Green, reg
lister, of the local land office, hold that
the heirs of Jones have a right to make
application for final proof but it is said
that some of the anxious ones are try
ing to take the matter over their
heads.
A short circuit in the wiring of the
fire alarm mixed things up consid-
erabIy Wednesday afternoon. An
alarm was turned in when a barn at
1925 Buchanan caught on fire. The
blaze was not discovered until it had
made considerable Roadway and the
alarm was turned in to central who
was forced to call the central fire
station by private telephone line.
The other fire companies were notified
the same way. The barn at 1925
Buchanan, in which the fire started,
was a total loss and other barns in
the neighborhood were slightly dam
aged The estimated loss amounts to
$125. The origin of the fire is not
: known.
The big Buiek-Six stolen from DR.
j. p. Raster while it stood in front of
: the Elks Club Wednesday night was
found abandoned about four miles
from Manhattan today and by a pc
culiar coincidence Buddie Moore, al
legged chicken thief. wanted in To-
peka, will be brought back to Topeka
Raster q al
but not abandoned, at Manhattan.
/ but not abandoned, at Manhattan The
car is in good condition and will
be brought back by Hugh Larimer
sheriff. The Riley county sheriff. in
communicating with him stated that
: he had also arrested "Buddie" Moore
upon the description furnished and
Larlmer will drive the car and haul
Moore back on the same trip
Wednesday was an unusual day in
the office of Ralph Cav, probate
judge. Three couples were married
py MN and licenses were issued to
Two more. The average has been
about one license a day for two weeks
red letter day. Two sisters-twins-
were among those married Claris
mite married John William Brown
. ana F1oris White married Everett
TTIleVens. Ihey were all from Mayetta
!, / me w mite sisters are 20 years of age
Glowing them We're two minors ho+t
orphans Paul w. Juneau 10 Yea rs
OF age, sought to marry Edith MT
cry, II years of age. Paul brought
me written consent of his mother and
MISS Edith had the written consent OF
an aunt They were married Ii.
censes were also issued to Ralnb n
sever age %, of Lawrence, and Res-
sie l.. WIcken, age 21, of Kansas CITY.
! aiso TO Albert Schoen, AZ years old. al
Oronque, and Eta Matthews aeehe
of st. Louis ~
Leroy Powell, civil service clerk in
charse OF examinations in Topeka, has
announced the following, xaminations
10 be heId in Topeka in the mnnth nj