The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-18

If he had swatted those two "cooties"
As they marched into the ark,
Open evenings until Christmas. Harris
Goar Jewelry Co.-Adv.
Liberty bonds accepted for face value on
Co.-Adv.
Topeka branch No. o91 of the Aid As
ISOLATION for Lutherans elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year: w. f.
Weber, president; Otto l.. Rain, vice presi-
dent; Geo. Klein, secretary, and Joe Smith,
treasurer.
Today Hallock Hill, who is employed in
Commissioner Porter's department as
fumigator and who has been in the en-
is "a years old. He figures that at IL
o'clock today he will have lived 2I.O1O days.
A warning was issued today by Kenneth
Raub, county clerk, to all township and
county officers select, to deposit their bonds
with his office for ultimate approval.
Neglect of this important duty, provided
elected candidates their jobs, he points out.
Ward Scott, 81 years old, was arrested
this morning by the police at the request OF
the marshal of the city court OF Wichita'
who wants him on a charge of forgery, ac-
cording to telegram received here. Scott
was picked up by Officer William T. Ford
at the Seymour company, where he mad oD-
tanned employment.
A letter to Justice and Mrs. Rousseau A.
Burch states that their son. Lieut.. Angelus
Burch, who was wounded in battle was not
seriously hurt, and has recovered. The
letter. written by Edwin Menninger, of
New York. states that Lieut.. Burch had
written him that ne had just finished an
eight mile walk, going on the hike with
HARDWOOD Benton.
A month ago r. T. Darby, local real
estate man. filed petition in the office Of
$2I5 against z. II. Forbes, Topeka attor-
ney. for damages sustained when the auto
mobiles of the two men collided on the
North General avenue road September Is.
Today Forbes filed an answer and cross pc
tition, laying the blame for the accident
upon Darby and demanding 5000 dam
ages.
week to sell milk in Topeka. four are one
cow diaries. The following men were
granted licenses II. L. Hall, 1156 North
Kansas avenue, who will milk one COW; j.
NJ Samuelson, 1918 North Madison, one cow !;
I;uford Ii. White, rural route 1. two cows
A. 7. Finley, rural route 1, eight cows; u.
Garrett, 1928 West, one COW; and j. L.
Brstow, 329 Davis, two cows.
Mr. and Mrs II. 2. Summers, of $40 Elm
wood avenue, had telegram from New
York Tuesday, stating that their son, Wade
III. Summers, had arrived In New York
did not know that their son had gone
abroad, but until they received the wire.
they supposed he was in New York, await,
| ing orders to go overseas. He enlisted
| August 0, 1915 and was sent to the Great
| Lakes naval training station,and from there
to philadelphia. Later he went to New
Nora Cooper, the 14-year-old girl who
| was shot accidentally last Sunday at her
| home, 229 Adams street, was reported by
DIR. VI. u. Steward, county physician, to be
| gaining strength this afternoon following
an operation in which the bullet was eN-
tracted from her wrist. She is at st. Fran
| els hospital. Charles Cunningham, IL
year-old boy who was visiting the Cooper
family, picked up loaded revolver from a
| bed it is said, and he did SO the gun
was discharged, the bullet passing thru
| the Cooper girls right thigh and lodging
| in her wrist. The gun was an automatic
| and was prevented from further discharges
| it is said, by the empty shell becoming
| stuck in the ejector. Police who made ar
investigation reported that the shooting
| was accidental.