The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16

Without any fears. :, Il
TUT ~ SCir-Cingle
Dance tonight. Special music. KEEL
lam Hall.-Adv.
S. D. Flora, state meteorolcgist left
today on ar inspection tour OF Inc
western Kansas stations.
White canvas shoes and straw hats
can be seen on certain members OF lhe
male sex on Kansas avenue TO-DAY.
East Ind:anola women will meet
Wednesday afternoon at O'Clock at
the Shorey 4. o. u. w. hall 20 engage
in Red Cross word.
DR.. H. o. Hotter pastor of the Low
man Memorial church, will speak at
the Walnut Grove M. Z. churcn 70
night at 8 o'clock on THE Man
Place in the Church. Special music
has been arranged for the m eeting-
The prevention of fires in all places
and especially in food warehouses Is
one of the essentials to winning ~e
war, according to talk by l.. L nus
sew, state fire marshal to the Current
Tonic club at the Central Y. M. Q. A
Monday night.
A Foru machine belonging to c. F.
Baer was stolen from in front of the
First Methodist church Sunday night
1t was found the next morning IN
front of his home, 1921 Central ave-
nue., where the machine had been
abandoned by joyriders who had run
out of gasoline
Capt. Perie B. Hamlins state guard
organization received forty recruits
Monday night. Altogether more than
100 men were out for the drill Pre-
variations were made at the drill for
the general inspection ar muster IN
of the company next Monday night at
/ the auditorium.
There is one woman who has at
tended every racy trial in topeka In
the last two years. She WASH apsent
day and in the morning sat inside tie
rail with the witnesses For some
reason, which the judge may explain,
she was found back in the spectators
seats at the afternoon session.
Topeka public health nurses, it is
announced, following a meeting of the
association directors. are to receive a
monthly wage increase of SIS each.
The high cost of living, it was ex-
planned, made the increase necessary.
At the same time the directors adopt
ed a resolution raising the charges for
| hourly nursing service given those
able to pay for it. The new charge
will be 81 an hour or fraction thereof.
An explosion of an electrical switch
attached to one of the instruments in
the Crosby Brothers beauty parlors
Monday resulted in painful burns to
the left hand of Miss Mary Summers
1923 North Monroe street. Miss
Summers is one of the beauty special
/, lists in the parlors. A popularity OF
| the accident was the R1elting of a ring
on one of Miss Summers's fingers by
/ the heat of the current. r4fg
The high cost of living will not
touch the feeding of prisoners at the
city Jail, according to a bid submitted
| keeper, for the contract for 1918.
johnson offered to feed the prisoners
for 20 cents, meal and the menu
looks good. Hot cakes and syrup or
| eggs and breakfast food for breakfast;
| meat, potatoes and vegetables for din
| supper is on the fare. Included in ev-
cry meal is bread and coffee.
| The last river gauge station de-
! signed to warn Topeka and other cities
| in the lower Kansas river valley of
approaching high water is to be in
stalled at Randolph, Kan, soon. There
are about thirtyfive stations along
the river and increasing high water
at any point will be Immediately tele-
graphed to Topeka and communities
endangered by possible floods will be
notified. S. D. Flora and R. c. Rice
of the Kansas water commission are
| responsible for the installation of the
gauges.
Shipfitter A. W. Hierholtzer ac-
cepted nine recruits for the navy Mon
day. They are: John E. Henley, 81
| West Seventh, apprentice seaman;
George F. croft. 1888 Tyler seaman,
second class Everett n. Stan-ey. 1908
| Gordon, carpenters division: Frank J.
Resets, Usage City, apprentice sea-
man; William Towle, Scranton, sea-
man. second class; Jacob Heer, Valley
Falls, musician; Ralph A. Harrison.
| Circleville, seaman. second class; Jay
Hill, Circleville. carpenters division.
and Edward Rafferty,. 221 Oakland
| avenue, apprentice seaman.
J. F. E. Ruhlman, former Topekan,
found guilty Fast week of impersonat-
ing a government employe with intent
to defraud, was sentenced Monday aft
ernoon by Federal Judge John c. Pol
lock to four months in the Wyandotte
! county jail. A $500 fine was attached
Oscar Donahue, found guilty of rob-
bling the mails while mail carrier at
Atchison. was given a fine of $4,000
, and a year and a day in the federal
J prison at Leavenworth. Noble Brown
a Topeka negro who pleaded guilty to
selling liquor to an Indian. was given
thirty days in the Shawnee county jail
and 500 fine.
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