The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-11

Twas Ever Thus.
"Russia's sound at the CORE" dispatches
But these changing times of war
It's more than likely she'll declare.
There amt goin' to be no core!,
The fire department answered two
calls Monday: one at 205 Tyler street
and one at 6o7 West Second street
Both fires were attributed to flying
sparks> from the Beatrice Creamery
company. Damage was slight in each
case. zz
, Tne Cooks and Walters union has
volunteered its services at the ice
cream social to be given in City Park
next Monday night The social Is
given to raise money for the Meat
Cutters and Butchers union which is
out on a strike for higher wages.
F. T. c. Butler, former solicitor for the
A, T. & SUI. railroad at Salt Lake
city, has BEEN appointed examiner In
the federal employment office in To-
by c. H. 'Danner, federal labor agent.
Land owners wishing to- side step
the N PERCENT interest to beg added
to the special paving assessment, for
the paving of the alley between Ninth
and Tenth streats and Kansas avenue
and Quincy have until Juns 20 to
make theirfpayments.
/ Inc -duHudl IHcStla8 VI NhS oOaeAA0
western Car Mems association will be
held in Kansas City June ID. Isaiah
Hale. safety commissioner for the
Santa Fe railroad, will make a pa
triotic talk on safety. The meeting
will be held in the assembly room on
the sixth floor of the union depot.
c. F. Mattingly, city license collec-
| tor, announced this morning that he
| had issued a license to the Barnum
and Bailey shows to give a perform
ance and street parade here July "a.
| The circus will be given at the fair
grounds. 1t will cost the company
$500 for the privilege of showing in
Topeka.
| Chris Hopper, a wealthy German
living at Nortonville, Kan. was
| brought before o. T. Wood. United
States marshal, to tell why he hadn't
registered as an enemy alien. Attic
! he was eloquent in his argument, he
! was not only made to affix his name
| to government papers, but ordered TO
| buy $4,000 worth of 4fberty bonds and
| donate 5000 to the Red Cross.
Some agitation is being started in
South Topeka looking to the erection
| of Danger signs in Shunganunga
creek where the small boys of the
neighborhood are accustomed to wade
The creek in some Of the favorite
wading spots is rather treacherous
L
cause of the movement was the recen,
drowning of the son of William Nal
lery.
| Indications, brought about by a
trench postcard received by H. l.
| Cowgirl from his brother, David M
Cowgirl today, are that the 210th en-
! gineers are at the front. These boys
were enlisted from Washburn college
and Topeka. They have been in
France probably a month now. Young
Cowgirl writes that he is well. That
| is nearly all that can be written or
the regulation front card.
| Hickory Jones. who lives near the
Topeka avenue road south of the city,
was found sleeping Monday night in
l a motor CIR which also contained si1
cases OF whisky and one case of beer
Hugh Larimer sheriff. made the dis
covery following Joness arrest las,
/ week on a charge of having liquor ir
his possession. Jones was released
Monday night on $500 bond. He was
also released on bond last week.
Isaiah Hale, commissioner of <safet,
for the Santa Fe railway system. ha'
been appointed a member of an -ad
| visory committee to confer with gov
eminent officials on safety matters a.
| applied to government railroads. Tn
/ appointment came from H. w. Bel
nap. manager of the safety division, o
administration. Hale is the only mem
Der Of the committee from the west
ern and southwestern states, othe
members having been selected from
the safety departments of eastern lines
1t was rumored in Topeka toda.
that Harwood, Benton, son of Otis L
Benton of Oberlin and a graduate o
the trenches in France. No confirma