The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-19


l sing.
For I'll see them again in the violsts of
These leaves that come fluttering down.
DIR. C. H. Morrison has returned
from a trip to Chicago.
Charles McCallan, who is i'll at To-
cal hospital is improving.
Storm doors and sash. J. B. Whelan
& Co. Phone S65.-Adv.
The regular meeting of the Topeka
Central w. c. T. u. has been post
poned indefinitely.
Wanted. boys with rigs and helpers
to deliver telephone directories. Call
telephone No. 54.-Adv.
Howard Payne has returned to Kan
sas City, after spending a day in To-
peka. He is city clerk of Kansas City,
Kan.
The meeting of Beulah chapter No.
"a, Eastern Star. which was to have
been held tonight, has been Indefinite
ly postponed.
E. W. Grindle of 21S East Tenth
street, who suffered a stroke of par
alysis a week ago, is still ill, it was
announced today.
The district initiation of the knights
of Columbus, to have been held Octo-
Der 20, has been postponed Indefinite
1
Five DRINKS were arrested Friday by
the police. Most of the offenders
seemed to be under the influence of
Jamaica ginger rather than whisky.
a telegram was received by Chief
of Police Frank Harbaugh this morn
Undertaking company of Woodward,
Okla, asking him to find Mrs. H. D.
Wood and her daughter, Daisy Wood,
to advise them that r. A. Walker had
| died there.
Henry Keller Wallace is the only
kansan on the list of graduates from
the field artillery central officers
training camp at Fort Zachary Taylor
! this month. Wallace is listed from
| Fort Leavenworth, and according to
| the army bulletin, is now eligible for
commission as a second lieutenant.
| DR.. G. w. Hill. who has been con-
Quoting a veterinary hospital at 1117
Kansas avenue. has been appointed to
| fill the place left vacant by H. +.
| Dotson, in the milk inspection depart
ment. Doctor Hill is a graduate of the
veterinary department of the K. S. A.
| c. and practiced for five years in Pea
| body.
The police received telephone calls
from residents near sixth and West
| streets Friday night saying there was
a man who had been in the habit of
| lettering near a signboard in that vi
cinity and annoying girls and women
who passed that way. Officers hur-
rled to the scene but the man had dis
appeared.
A conference will be held Monday
| between the heads of the various
unions all over the Santa Fe system
and representative of the United
states railway administration who ar
rived here Friday. The meeting Mon
day for the purpose of taking up the
! difficulties between the clerks union
and the road, will probably be held
out-of- doors on account of the in
fluenza closing order.
Frank Machine, a Paxico, Kan, ne
! gro, who was arrested Friday after
noon for being drunk, told the police
of some kind friends he had made in
the river district and who relieved
him of $50 or $40 after he had spent
about $40 entertaining them. Mack
| line said he was one of the troopers
discharged from the army on account
i of their part in the Brownville, Tex,
riot last year, and that he had come
to Topeka for the express purpose of
gong on a spree
/ Charged with careless driving F. D.
Leatherman, a travelling salesman was
arrested Friday night. Leatherman
collided with Ford car owned by
the police department in which Off
GERS Guyer and Alba were riding. They
!iloIl ucteu MIN 10 report to police
headquarters. He did So But his
story did not 3ibe with that of Alba
land Guyer. He was turned loose but
when Alba and Guyer returned the
discrepancies in the story were heard
and a warrant was sworn out. He
was picked up again and put up a cash
bond for IS.
The meeting which was to have
| been held in the office of the county
superintendent of education Monday
morning to decide the Gage park and
/ Washburn rural high school problem
has been postponed for a week on &C.
count of the influenza epidemic Gage
park people were to have petition I'd
Fred "A. Seaman to have the Gage
park district taken into the city. Sea
man decided on the postponement fol-
lowing a conference with Dr. Crum-
bine, in which it was decided that as
more than twenty people would prob
ably be present. the meeting would be
violation of the state closing order
| Q. T. Chopper. state manager of the
Aetna Life Insurance company, has
received a wire stating that the Aetna
and affiliated companies have sub
scribed to the fourth liberty loan to
the amount of s12.000,0O0. In addi-
ton to this amount the companies
have purchased for their employees in
the United States and Canada, bonds
Tor which the company is being pai6
on the monthly installment plan
, This same plan was followed ddrins
the third liberty loan campaign. A
the completion of this campaign the
department handling this work haG
aver $1,000 accounts The Aetna com.
pany purchased $1,000 worth of the
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