The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-15

and fire pump recently received for
trial. At the Hossfeld Trunk factory
fire Tuesday night it emptied the
great cistern at Sixth and Kansas ave-
nue. in the course of an hour. The
pump is operated by the motor which
propels the truck.
! DR.. H. L. Clark has issued a warn
ing that those who have not been vac
cinated should do so at once. Many
persons were exposed to the disease Il
few days ago when a man suffering
I from it was on the streets of the city.
Doctor Clark is on the lookout for
the man, and in the meantime ad-
vises people to play safe.
A meeting will be held in Topeka,
March 3, to organize a Hampshire
hog breeders association for Kansas.
The meeting will be held in the office
of H. L. Peppmyer, a fancier. The
members will ask the State Fair asso-
citation to furnish a judge of fancy
porkers that can distinguish one breed
from another. They will ask for a
! Hampshire judge.
The South Side Civic club will meet
with the Parent-Teachers' associa-
ton of Van Buren, school at the
school house tomorrow night to hear
! a lecture on Australia by. w. T.
Horn. Horn, a Topeka man, is a
correspondent of the Australian Press
association and has done statistical
and colonization work for the Austria
liam government.
! An address by H. D. Yoder, pres
| ident of the Topeka board of trade,
is the chief card at the Rotary club
meeting tonight at the Chamber of
Commerce. Yoder, who has operated
on many of the principal grain mar
kets of the world, including the
| bourses of London and Paris, will dis
cuss the detail and mechanism by
which grain is marketed and prices
fixed.
| The pedestrians near Eighth and
Kansas avenues had good time
Wednesday when Albert Patten, gen
eral manager of the Topeka Railway
company, started to cut across the
street without paying any attention to
the safety zones placed there as a re-
suit of recommendations of his COM
pany, along with others. The traffic
policeman nabbed him and Patten cut
a square corner before he crossed the
street.
Fred Cunningham and Carl Under
have been arrested by the Topeka po-
lice charged with implication in the
robbery of an automobile tire from
the barn of w. F. Barber. 723 Lincoln
street, Wednesday morning. 1t is
charged that Cunningham and LindeI
! escaped in a wagon while Walter Nc
MILAN. the third member of the trio
I STAYED to do battle with Barber, who
\ gave chase to them, clad only in his
night clothes.
The East Fourth Avenue Taxpayers
association, at a meeting last night
at the Holiday hotel. made plans fol
a big cleanup day for the business
/ houses on East Fourth An effort
will be made to get the farmers east
/ of the city in town on cleanup day
and make them realize the importance
of Fourth avenue business houses
Il The association is still trying for g
bridge over the Kaw between Tecum-
sch and Granville.
February 25, Sunday afternoon
Marshalfs band will give a concert a
3 the Auditorium in the interest of the
Topeka tuberculosis sanitarium. The
program is being prepared with espe
cial care. A silver offering will bt
taken, tho no admission is charged
The patients at the sanitarium are
having hard time to get the proper