The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-18

. -Cir-Cingle.
E. C. Gunter formerly of the Pelie-
tiers stores, is the new manager for
Emrichs Booterie. Gunter was with
the old -dills store for four years.
Members of Topeka Relief Corps
No. "a will meet tomorrow afternoon
at the K of P hall. A short patriotic
program will be given after the regu-
lar meeting.
The ST cond of the series of garden
ing lectures will be given at the high
school auditorium tonight at 1880
o'clock. The lectures are in charge of
an expert gardener.
A civil service examination for gov
eminent clerks will be held in Topeka.
March 9. by Leroy Powell at the To-
peka postoffice. Inquiries may be di-
rected to Mr.. Powell.
Clyde Bowler. 312 Van Buren, street.
has asked for a divorce from Marjorie
Bowler. He charges she has aban-
doned him and her daughter, Helen,
who was born May "a. 1917.
Buying whisky. and getting what
you pay for is getting to be risky bust
ness< Negroes sold coffee in whisky
bottles for whisky Saturday night to
soldiers, it is declared, charging $3.50
a pint for it.
At the city commission meeting to-
day the city clerk was instructed to
advertise for bids for charging the
offices of the city clerk and treasurer.
Bids, accompanied by certified
check of $50, must be in by Feb
ruary %.
John Billings, connected with the
police department of the city for the
past two years, rendered his resigna-
ton to Chief Harbaugh Saturday.
Billings will be connected with the
Bechtelheimer horse. and mule mar
ket in North Topeka.
The justices of the supreme court
will address the Sons and Daughters
Of Justice at the dedication of the
clubs servic. flag tomorrow night at
o'clock. A large class of candidates
Will be initiated at the meeting. Light
refreshments will be. served.
A quilt on a bed at the Chesterfield
hotel caught fire this morning A
soldier from Camp Funston was oc-
cupying the room and INDUCING in a
before breakfast cigaret. He called
the ONCE but before anyone reached
the room, the blaze was extinguished.
A key of Dick Bros. bee is in the
cellar at police headquarters 1t was
found by the police in a jitney car
driven by Walter Hollwick n ear the
Shawnee mill on Third street. Hou-
wick didn't care to tell who owned the
beer. He was arrested and released
on bond.
ing Private Chris johnson, a soldier,
from rooning house at Fourth street
ana Kansas avenue, to police head
quarters. johnson put up a fight that
would do anything but make his pros
pcctive boche enemies happy. He was
charged with being drunk
Twenty pints of Shawhan whisky
were found by the police in the home
of Ella Buckner, colored, 121 West
Railroad street. When the police
raidCd the house, the Ruckner woman
was entertaining B. Anderson, a me-
gro, and ]. /. 'Lightfoot, an Indian.
All three were locked up in the city
ajil.
Joe 1ngenthorn, known to the police
as a bootlegger. drank a quantity of
his own goods and then celebrated on
East Crane street. Patrolman God
frey had considerable difficulty in get
ting Insenthorn to dispense with a
bottle of whisky he had on his person
in any manner excepting down his
throat. Finally, Ingenthorn was re-
iieved Of the whisky and taken to
police headquarters.
George T. Mohrbacher a prominent
Mason of Marysvilie, is in Topeka in
attendance at the meetings of the
grand lodge. He says there are two
statewide meetings he never misses,
tie Masonic grand lodge and the State
Firemen's association. He has large
glad when either of these meetings
is held in the capital city He is
treasurer of the State Firemen's asso-
citation and has held this office for
several years.
The regular meeting of the Coop
erative club will be held at Pelletier's
tea room tomorrow evening at $50
O'Clock. This is the regular ladies'
come-along meeting of the club. Ar
engagements have been made for a line
party at the Novelty theater after the
dinner. 1t is asked that each member
notify the secretary of the number of
plates required. and is also asked to
remember that only those who reserve
plates for the dinner will be provided
for at the theater.
Action was taken in the court of
Topeka in releasing James A Dunno
gan, a North side business man, from
a charge of assisting William johnson,
a 16-year-oId boy in stealing. The
johnson lad following his arrest con-
fessed to stealing coal and grain and
implicated Dunnegan- On the witness
stand he admitted that in complicatins
Dunnegan he had worked on his i'm
agination. Dunnegan has been a we'll
known citizen in Topeka for years and
has host of friends.
Noble Brown. a negro, is in the
hands of government authorities
charged with obtaining liquor for SOL
diers. He was arrested near the Rock
Island depot by Patrolrnan Godfrey
as he was preparing to deliver, a pint
of liquor to Ralph O. Brown. a soldier
in the 341st field artillery at Camp
Funston. E. T. SAVER. member of
the same battery, and Brown made
affidavits stating that the negro had
been given SO to get liquor for them.
Brown will appear before the United
States commissioner.
. Word has been received in Topeka
that Capt. H. c. Ericsson. @. NJ. C. A.
f. F.. is slowly recovering from an
injury. received in an accident in De-
cember. He is in a French war hos
pitsl. The wore was received by Mrs.
H. c.. Ericsson o. Ala Underwood ave-
nue.. In his letter Captain Ericsson
states his admiration for the French
people, and gives some dispara ging
comments on the well known habits