The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-02

Rev Robert Gordon is at Camp
Funston this week lecturing on the
British Isles for the educational de-
partment of the Y. NJ. c. A.
j. s. drummer. for several years
employed at the state prison at Lars-
ing. has resigned. Announcement of
Crummer's resignation was made in
Topeka today.
At 1 O'Clock today the fire depart
company, 6o9 Jackson street, to eX-
tinguish a small blaze in the shop
which is owned by F. S. Clearinghouse.
The dana ge done will amount to be-
tween 5000 and $500.
Street car traffic was tied up fifteen
minutes this afternoon when a fair
grounds car struck a Topeka Transfer
company wagon at Ninth street and
Kansas avenue. The fender and head
light of the street car were damaged.
No one was hurt.
Because he could not prove that
an amount Of silaSe had been sold him
at a fixed rate per ton instead Of in
bulk amount for a certain sum, Harry
Burge, a fSrIner, failed in his silt to
recover $500 and court costs from ].
e. Cation in the court OF Topeka
Thursday.
A meeting will be held at Labor
hall tonight of the delegates chosen
to the State Federation meeting at
Fort Scott August u, from the vari-
Gus. local unions. The delegates al to-
nights meeting will draw up a plat
form containing the measures they will
ask the convention to act upon.
Nellie Turner, 2134 Quincy street,
has filed suit for divorce from Charles
Turner of Wilson, Kan, charging
abuse and a false accusation of mis-
conduct on her part. She says that
obliged to leave him last fall. The
two were married in August, 1908.
Peter E. Wineinger. of Belleville,
who failed to register under the alien
enemy order, was arrested by o..
t. Wood, United States marshal for
Kansas. He was taken before Law
renee r. -1orris, United States COM
missioner at Junction City. and was
released onl bond of $3.50 sto appear
| before the October grand jury at Leav-
enworth.
A judgment of $3.50 was given Giles
Smith against the Santa Fe for an in
jury which occurred to Smith last fall
while he was working in the shops,
and which caused blindness in one
eye. The petition was filed Thursday
in the fir-t division of the district
court by john H. Smith, the father
of young Smith. The injured man is
only 10 years of age. The case was
: settled aS d 1110nQly SUIT.
! A meeting of the Y. NJ. c. A. per-
sonnet secretaries of the fourteen
states of the middle west division will
( be held in Chicago, August 13. Percy
Atkins, secretary for Kansas, will at
tend. F. W. Ship, who is associate
/ general secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A.
force in France, has returned to
America and will be present at the
conference. The national executive
committee of New York also will at
tend.
! Difficulties seem to be arising in
! the obtaining of judges and clerks to
I preside at the Topeka primaries next
| Tuesday. Men and women who for
4, merly have served seem to have gone
/ into war service or are candidates
/ from going into one ward in order &c
supply help to another ward has pre-
vented relief among boards where q
| lack of help exists on one side and q
superabundance on the other side
Virginia Abbott. the 2-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer a
Abbott, was painfully bruised wher
she was thrown out of the automobile
in a collision at Thirteenth and Quincy
streets Thursday night Other cccu-
pants of the car were slightly bruised
driving east on Thirteenth street wheT
a car driven by H o. Stout of Tecum-
4 sch ran into them at right angles
Mrs. Abbott says she stopped her cal
but the Stout car could not be brought
to halt in time to avert the accident
Stout was arrested and charged witt
reckless driving but released on bono
to appear in police court August 6
Neither car was badly damaged.