The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-23
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Morton AIbaugh went to Kansas
City Sunday to spend several days.
Irwin Snattinger and Don Billings
will play the fifth match of the Y. NJ
c. A. handball tournament tonight
Don't fail to visit the Life o. Wheat
booth at the Midwinter. We want to
meet you.-Kaw Milling Co.-Adv-
Dr. and Mrs. Anton Rupin. 1912
Van Buren, street, announce the BIRTH
of daughter. born Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs D. W. Morse of 1929
Fillmore street, announce the birth OF
a BOY, born January 10, at Stormont
hospital
County Superintendent John F. Eby
Will hold an examination for teachers
certificates Friday and Saturday of
this week
The Rhode Island Insurance COM
pany of Providence, will make formal
application to do business in Kansas.
peka.
Monday E. C. Winters of 100 Har-
rison street was awarded damages by
the city commission amounting to S34
for damages sustained by his car in a
collision with the police auto.
An examination for teachers certi-
ficates will be held in the office of
on Friday and Saturday. The eXami-
nation will begin at a. m. and close
at $3.50 p. m.
E. C. Roxbury, general agent of the
Denver & Rio Grande r. r. company,
and the Western Pacific Railway COM
pany, has been in Topeka this week
on business. His headquarters are in
Kansas City, Mo.
J. $. Dad Wear, S2-year-old eIe-
vator boy in the city hall, who is seri-
ously i'll at his home, 1914 Quincy
street, was somewhat improved this
morning, according to reports around
the city hall.
Ella Doty has sued her husband,
Edwin E. Doty. North Topeka black
smith, for divorce alleging extreme
cruelty, gross neglect of duty and
drunkenness in her petition filed in
the office of Mrs. Mary Chaplin, clerk
of the district court.
Officials in the postoffice building
do not know from day to day during
the cold snap whether or not they
will have enough coal to keep them
from freezing. Only enough is being
delivered by the contra etors for imme-
date use
The county mmisSionerS so far
have not seen their way clear to pay
more than $50 a month for a woman
probation officer. Judge Cav has ask
ed that such an office be created. He
requested lnat a salary OF $40 month
be allowed for the job.
Registration for the city election
will start February 3. and Miss Eta
Covell, city clerk, is at work devising
ways and means to meet the rush. The
city clerk and her assistants during
the heavy period toward the close of
registration are forced to stay at the
counter from early in the morning
until 10 o'clock at night.
The Topeka Railway Co is making
rapid progress on the installation of
the Oakland electric lighting system,
which will be completed very shortly.
Now is the time to get your house
wired for electric lights. See your
electric contractor now and get the
wiring done so that you will have light
when the current is turned on.-Adv.
]. B. Billiard, prominent miller and
former mayor of Topeka, has been
projected into the mayoralty race by
his friends who have rented space in
the auditorium and put in place a
big banner with the words, u. B.
Billiard for Mayor in 1917-1S." Mr.
Billiard said today lie had not heard
of the banner but declined to say he
would not be a candidate.
Officer Cook is minus his star and
some shiny brass buttons as the re-
suit of an attack made upon him by
Ethel Brown, a colored woman. Cook
was making 4 raid on East Fourth
street and as he entered room, the
Brown woman showed the door in his
face. AS Cook entered the room the
woman scratched him, pulled off his
star and a number of brass buttons
/ Sylvester Clark. 16-year-old high
/ school youth shot accidentally in the
mouth Sunday with a revolver, is re-
/ Governing rapidly at Stormont hospi-
/ tai According to the statement of
! Clarks parents, the lad was acct
! dentallV shot bV Chester Rur1ick a
playmate. Young Clark had loaded
the gun without his companion know
/ ing about it and did not have time to
warn him.
The Topeka Railway company an
/ nounces today that half hour service
/ will be maintained from Eighth ave-
/ nue. and Summit street to Gage park
thruout the day, starting Thursday.
After that date cars will leave the
each hour from $40 in the morning
+ to 11:45 at night. Melrose cars leav-
! ing Eighth and Kansas avenues at
fifteen and ) minutes after each hour
/ viii connect with Gage park cars.
Judge Rad Lee in the city court to-
/ day awarded E. c. Gibson. father of
Theodore Gibson. judgment for $500
against T C. Roe. a Topeka piano
salesman. Roe was sued for $500 for
injuries received by Theodore Gibson,
nire years old, when he fell in front
/ of Roe's automobile last summer. The
accident occurred near she Kansas
avenue bridge. The lad was riding on
the rear of a street car and it seems
that he didn't see the approaching ma
chine as he dropped from the car and
Roe didn't see the lad.
I Sink a swedish Steamship.
London. Jan 23.-Lloyd's report the