The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-02


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A total of 23S arrests were made
| by the police during August as COM
pared with 243 in July. Current and
back fines totaled $716-
An automobile was struck by the
street car Sunday night on Kansas
teenth street. Five or six soldiers
were riding in the machine when the
accident occurred. No one was hurt,
and the damage to the machine was
| slight.
Percy Atkins, head of the Y. NJ. C.
A. personnel bureau for Kansas, spent
Sunday in Coffeyville, and made an
address Sunday night before a union
mass meeting, explaining the need of
men for Y. NJ c. A. service. He hopes
to recruit number of Coffeyville men
for the service.
Eight boys were arrested early Sun
day when the police raided a crap
game at 329 Quincy street. The names
given by the boys were: c. o. Brooks,
A. Bowen. H. O'Day. L. H. Nish, w.
Wallace, Pete Peterson, Lloyd Con-
way and Elmer Day. They were re-
| leased on, bond to appear in police
court Tuesday afternoon.
A new Overland motor car driven
and owned by w. G. Bailey, of Grove.
Kan.,f was damaged Sunday night
whep it collided with a telephone
Sachs greenhouse. Sheriff Hugh Lar
inner and Undersheriff Bob Miller
placed the driver, who was uninjured,
in the county Jail on charge of be-
| ing drunk.
A war lecture will be given by
Harry G. Larimer, Tuesday evening
on the lawn of the ]. G. Wood home,
Larimer will be illuminated with cleo
| trio lights. The address is the second
| of a series of war lectures that Lari-
mer is giving. His subject will be
| THE Great War on the Seas" The
public is invited and no charge is
made.
Mrs. C. C. Bailey, head of the To-
peka Public Health Nursing associa-
ton. announces that the baby clinics
at the city hall will be continued in
definitely. Clinics are held every
Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. The
attendance now averages about fif-
teen mothers with babies at a meet
ing. An even larger number is ex-
pected with the coming of the cooler
| weather.
| Sunday night the Rev. Robert Cor
don, pastor of the First Baptist church,
left for Camp Dodge, Des Moines. Ia,
where he will deliver a series of four
teen lectures to the soldiers. The
| topic of the lectures, which are under
the auspices of the Y. M. c. A, Will
| be ITO Berlin by Way of England =
Doctor Gordon had recently returned
from Camp Funston where he gave
| the same series of lectures.
An automobile, driven by G. A. Al
Ien of 1411 Buchanan street, and a
motorcycle ridden by w. w. Sloan, of
SIS East Eighth street, collfded at the
corner of Fourth and Crane streets
Saturday night about 8 O'Clock.
Sloan's injuries consisted of a frac-
| ture of one leg, and some bruises He
was taken to the Santa Fe hospital.
! Allen was unhurt- Bystanders report
that Allen was driving on the wrong
side of the street.
A fire damaged to considerable ex-
tent a motorcycle belonging to j. E.
Leach, of 112 Cherokee street, Satur-
day night at 10 o'clock. The fire
caught from gasoline that had been
spilled on the light tank while the
machine was standing in front of
the West Motor Car Co. shop, at Tenth
and Kansas avenue. For fear the
flames would spead to the gasoline
tanks of the shop, fire alarm was
turned in, and the fire company soon
extinguished the blaze.
Can't L. V Sans has left for Fort
Riley to enter the medical officers
training camp in preparation for an
| assignment to active service in the
medical department of the army. Doc
tor Sans has been practicing medicine
in Topeka for ten years. He is a past
president of the Shawnee County
Medical society, a tllirty-second degree
Scottish Rite Mason and a member OF
the Abdallah Shrine. He graduated
from the medical department Of KAN
sas university in. 1903, and practiced
medicine at Rock Creek until 1905
On account of the rain. the union
service of the downtown churcnes
Sunday night was held at the First
Baptist church, instead of on the state
house steps. DR.. w. w. Burks, vol
unteer for the overseas Y, M. c. A.
and former pastor of the First Chr1s-
tan church of Topeka, preached on
The Glorious Gospel" 4 song serv-
ice was given, led by n. w. Benning,
secretary of the Central 7. NJ. C. "A
The office of local draft board No
2 has been moved from the quarters
of Fire Chief Hanlon &c a room across
the hall from the office of the fire de-
partment.
1t was a shameful way to treat a
customer. They struck him in the
face with a glass lamp and otherwise
made him sorry that he had called
It happened to Char.as Anderson Sat
house in the bottoms next door to thas
urday nikht when he called at q
occupied by Johanna Adams, notori-
GUS police character. to buy some Ii
qIor, The mans forehead and face
were badly cut and DR.. W. B. Steward
city and county physician, who was
called to attend him. had to take sew
eral stitches. Anderson wandered Ut
to the Rock Island depot after his ex-
perience and WIS there picked up by
the police. AS no complaint was
made. no one was arrested and An
iderson's assailants are unknown both