The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-23

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4 is glad to see them come,
And turn his handsome furniture
Into a horse or drum
And no one ever cares to talk,
They'd always i,s,,a rather nEat,i near
OF mothers little dear.
So don't correct your children,
And soon you'll find it true,
That they do not need correcting,
For they'll be correcting you; x,,n,.
l. The civil service commission will ex-
anime candidates for positions TINS aIt-
.ernoon at o'clock at the city nall.
3 Lincoln circle, literary and sewing
society, will hold an all-day meeting
Tuesday at Lincoln Post hall. Lunch
con will be served.
w. J. Lewis, Topeka optemerist, has
been reappointed to the state board
of examiners of optemery by Governor
ECapper. His term is three years.
]. Frank Smith, president of the
Kansas Good Roads association, Will
address the cooperative club at its
luncheon Tuesday at the Elks' club.
Two boxes for a quarter was the
lprice of the second car of strawberries
received in Topeka last Saturday. This
was really the first run of the fruit
this season.
| Fourteen pupils of the East In
dianola school waged a cleanup cru
SADIE Saturday. Farmers in the vicin-
| ity helped by lending the children
their teams.
The members of Shawnee council,
No 3, of the knights and Ladies of
Security, will hold an open meeting
land entertainment Tuesday night at
1000 North Kansas avenue.
| H. w. McAfee has announced the
appointment of the Shawnee county
committee of the state defense coun-
Weightman, Scott Kelsey, Kenneth
Raub George Whiteker j. NJ. Meade
and E. H. Crosby
The William Sherwood restaurant
was broken into Saturday morning,
but nothing of value was stolen The
robbery was discovered by North
Topeka policeman when he found
box containing some store papers in
the Union Pacific yards.
May 16, meetings will be held by
members of Oak grange, southwest of
Topeka, and Mission Center grange, to
take up the problem of conservation
and increased production of food
stuffs, in accordance with the pro-
gram outlined by the national defense
council.
Elaborate services for the COM
memoration of the building of their
new church and laying the corner
stone were held Sunday in the base
ment of the First Evangelical church
The Rev. B. H. Hobbs, assisted by the
Rev. NJ. Manshardt and the Rev. c.
Linge, conducted the services.
The Nebraska Epworth assembly
has arranged to conduct classes in
shorthand at its annual session. to be
! held in Lincoln, Neb., August 1 to 9.
George E. Dougherty of the Dough-
erty Business college of Topeka will
be- the instructor. He will conduct one
class for children and one for adults.
o. K. Swayze, formerly county
clerk for Shawnee county and now ed
itor of the Kansas Official will be the
principal speaker the closing day of
the County Treasurers' association at
Dodge City, May 10. Overton Hick
man, Hutchinson; Nettie Popkin,
Greenburg. and ]. E. Missimer, Rus
sell, will also speak.
Sunny Saturday with moisture was
written on the records of the police
department of Topeka Saturday. Three
arrests were made on the b. D. charge.
Even the back room of a livery barn
in North Topeka patronized by Andrew
bottled sunshine. Then two trespass-
eds, Earl Tucker and Dick Cunning
ham, were caught celebrating near the
f., Rock Island depot.
Eighteen extra teamsters started
| work at o'clock this morning gath
ering trash in alleys following clean
up week. 1t is expected it will take
two weeks to gather the rubbish raked
from Topeka's yards. The men have
been instructed to collect just the gar
bage found in the alleys. Last year
they made grievous error in picking
up two barrels of dishes, packed and
placed near the alley line, and also,
either by mistake or design, loaded the
wagon with two cases of beer standing
near a barn.
| Arrangements have been completed
| by the Rock Island railway to furnish
ltelegraphic reports on all major league
/ baseball games to passengers on all
fast trains, it was announced here to-
day. Trains which will have this serv-
ice include the Golden State limited
the Californian, between Chicago and
California. the Rocky Mountain linn
and the Colorado Flyer, between KAN
sas City and Colorado. All the trains
pass thru Topeka
The first annual field day of the
knights Templars will call nearly $50
Topeka Knights to Lawrence to-
morrow A special train has been
chartered for the trip. The program
! calls for drills by the various COM
manderies and will close with dress
parade and grand review at O'Clock
The Topeka Knights. of No. 5, will
form in marching line at o'clock
Tuesday morning at Sixth and Jackson
street, and will then march to the
Santa Fe station, where they will en-
| train for Lawrence.
Another oil boom for Shawnee
county has been sprung by the city
waterworks employees, who claim that
in test well driven recently a sprink-
ling of crude oil was found. The well
was plugged by the driIlers for fear
it would ruin other test wells driven
| by the Layne & Bowler Construction
company in an endeavor to locate a
well suitable for use by the water
WORKS plant to supply Topeka when
the otner wells are drained too heav-
ny 80 TAR the finding of the crude
oil has aroused no excitement amon.-
| Topeka oil SPECTATORS