The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-31

That our hopes go down ca-thud
When hear the farmers guessing
That they're frozen in the bud!
! -Nels Iingle.
DIR. c. C. LuIl has been called out of
the city by the illness of his father.
DIR. o. L. Erickson has moved from
627 Kansas avenue to 621 Kansas ave-
| nue..
Don't fail to visit the Life o. Wheat
booth at the Midwinter. We want to
meet you.-Kaw Milling Co.-Adv.
Mrs Jonathan Thomas is ill at
Stormont hospital as the result of an
operation. She was resting well to-
day.
You can buy a home made lunch at
the Women's Rota Club Exchange, S25
! Kansas avenue, in the Wolcott Art
! store.-Adv.
Rotarians will meet tomorrow noon
at the Elks club. Invitations for the
dinner were issued today by George
/ Hart, secretary.
shoe stock of the Gerstley Shoe com
pany sold by the referee. The stock
| is said to invoice at about $4,000.
! Money in OIL See me before Sat
urday night; have a special PROPOSE
ton for small Investment {. I. Guyot,
Agent, 7O1 jackson street, at office of
+. @. Lagerstrom.-Adv.
! Postmaster Rigby announces that
the No. postoffice, which has been
located at Robbins grocery, will be
changed to Keene's drug store at 1900
| Seward avenue after February l.
An examination for postoffice clerks
and carriers will be held in Topeka
April 7. Application and information
| forms may be had by addressing Lee
| Roy Powell, local secretary, Topeka.
]. C. Steincamp has been appointed
manager of the Woolworth ten cent
store succeeding J. A. Wesley, who
has been transferred. Steincamp
comes to Topeka from Muskogee,
| Okla.
William Malloy of 1929 Madison
| street, a lineman for the Bell Tele-
phone company. fell from a pole on
which he was working Tuesday after
noon, on Willow avenue, and sus-
tanned severe injuries.
B. c. Redgraves and T. B. Gran
fill have moved the Standard oil drill
ing outfit at Quenemo to the farm of
| George Mel two miles west of Waka-
rusa. Oil prospects are good, and
drilling operations will begin imme-
diately. Mel lives at 1851 Fillmore
street. Topeka.
Richard L. Thomas was appointed
trustee of the Eli Ulamperl stock
Tuesday afternoon. The stock in
voiced at $4,000. was sold to Louis
Loewenstein of Kansas City for So
$50 1t will be closed out at the pres
ent location. Liabilities are said to
be near $37 900.
The Topeka Grocers' association
will be the hosts at banquet given
to the grocer and merchant members
of the legislature at the Chamber of
| Commerce tonight. The principal
speaker will be E. H. Cogan of On
aha More than 100 are expected to
attend the banquet.
Friends of George S. Badders, form
err Topeka business man, now serv-
ing time in the federal prison at
Leavenworth are in receipt of multi
graph letters from Badders. He asks
them to write to President Wilson in
his behalf but requests that the let
tiers first go to him at the federal pris-
on, LeaVenwOrth.
A warrant charging Jack Humison
with selling liquor was issued today
by Robert d. Carver. county attorney.
At a trial of another case Tuesday,
testimony was suddenly introduced in
dicating that HumiSOn had sold liquor
to both the plaintiff and defendant
in the case and the warrant was is
sued on the strength of this testimony.
The following electrical contractors
will close their business houses Thurs
day afternono out of respect to E. P.
Jordan, one of the pioneer contra ctors
of the city: Keele Electrical COM
pdny, IL b. howard electrical COM
pany, Machinists' Electrical company,
Robbins Electrical company. Topeka
Electrical company. Tucker Electrical
company.
John Howard is out of the city
Jail on a $50 bond. He has been held
by the police since January Is, on an
investigation charge and Tuesday a
Topeka attorney applied to the dis
trict for a release for Howard on
writ of habeas corpus. The police
switched the charge to vagrancy and
Howard was released on a $50 bond.
The police believed he was deserter
from the army but have been unable
to prove their suspicious true.
If it can be proven that Charlie
Estes, jr., didn't take a dog by its
hind legs and dash it's brains out
against rock and then drive blind
horse to death over 14-foot embank-
ment, then a motion filed in the, city
court today by Douglas Mote to set
aside an order revoking the parole of
Estes will carry. Estes was taken