The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-03

The devil and deep sea-"
Karl Krapf of Wichita. Kan. has Joined
the sales force of the Paige Motor Co
The central w. c. T. L. will meet Mon
day afternoon at . 80 o'clock at the y. W
{. A.
The first century of the liberal movement
in religion will be celebrated Sunday at the
Unitarian church.
Judge John Dawson will read a paper
tonight on Engiands and eIerm aia, ;
club.
At 3 80 o'clock this morning fire COM
panies were called to $40 Van Buren, to a
warehouse owned by Emahizer & Spielman.
where a short circuit had started blaze
No damage was reported.
Charles l. Martin, adjutant general; Gen.
Wilder s. Metcaf. of Lawrence, and Gen
7. NJ Hoisington, of Newton, will repre-
sent Kansas at the national guard con-
vention in st. Louis Monday.
According to the report of Miss Annetta
Nicon, city bacteriologist, the highes,
score for clean diaries for April was won
by Scott Brothers. with grade of ~. J.
w. Bigger, with score OF SD was second,
and c. Waddel and {. Il. Carson tied on
grade OF 10.
Thru error in the Frank Furniture
advertisement in last evenings State
Journal, buffet was advertised at $16.Io;
this was a mistake, as the Frank store has
completely sold out all these low priced
buffets and should read $50 solid oak
buffet for $3.50.
Peter Charowhas, n Greek and owner of
the Palace of Sweets 522 Kansas avenue,
was arrested Friday on statutory charge.
The father of 17-year-o1d Bernice Dillio, 12O
East Fourth street, Is the complaining wit
ness. Charowhas is % years of age and
married. He pleaded not guilty and was
released on a $500 bond.
A total of S321. 600 worth of bonds were
registered in the office of Fred w. Knapp.
Friday these
were by the property owners in the Cot
tonwood valley drainage district in Marion
April was $35S, GG027. and was almost
equalled in the registrations of the first
| two days of May.
Major s. T. Willard, 303 Green street.
has returned home after seventeen months
spent overseas. He was met at st. Louis
by Mrs. Willard and little daughter. who
| resume his practice Immediately, but will
| rest several months before taking up his
work again He was with the First army
corps in the office of the chief surgeon.
| The Fordson Tractor agency has been
changed from the Overland Wierenga Co.
! to the Trefry Motor company. This tractor
is built by Henry Ford d Son and es
pecially designed farm implements are
! built to be used in connection with it.
| Builders of road machinery are building
| special implements to be drawn by the
Fordson tractor in building and dragging
roads.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Calihan of 921 Lin
coin street, received a telegram this morn
| ing telling of the arrival of their son. Ray
| is member of the 32:srd field signal bat
| talon. The telegram addressed to
Mrs. Calihan.' But there were two Mrs.
| Calihans a. the RESIDENCE, for the soldier s
| wife also lives there. But they didn't argue
! about whom it was for because, according
| to Mrs. ]. L. Calihan, they were too happy
! to arbitrate.
The poor quality of the badges and but
| tons produced by the manufacturers has
held up the arrival of the insignia for Red
Cross workers in Topeka who have quail
| fled for them. according to q statement
made by the committee on awards of st
Louis. All Red Cross workers who have
| devoted 500 hours to their work en-
| titled to wear one of these badges. Ac-
| cording to Horace Hall, president of the
! local chapter, ITO women have made appli-
| cation for them and about $50 more have
| Qualified who have made no applications
| The time in which applications could be
made closed February rs.
| 1t is rather an expensive fad to call
out the fire department just to see the
| pretty rcd wagons and the brave firemen
| come charging up the street. But that is
| what seems to be going on in Topeka
Friday at 10 O'Clock the alarm box at
College avenue and Seventeenth street was
| sprung Wagons that made the run found
no fire. 1t is expensive to the big
motor fire trucks to the edge of town just
because life has become dull in the neigh
| borhood. If a real big fire should occur in
another part of the city while lot of the
| equipment was out chasing down some
ones idea of II joke it might prove dis
| astrous.
/ Fred Matthews alias Roy Slack whe was
arrested April 10 at Ottawa on the charge
| of having dynamite in his possession, will
| be turned over to the state. it an
! nounced by federal authorities. 1t IS
| thought that Slack will be made to serve
| the term to which he was sentenced fol
participating in the robbery of a brake
| man and conductor on a Frisco train neal
| Olathe few years ago. 1t is also posi-
| bic that he will he triad anOfbar oh
| as 1t is alleged that he slugged a guard
| when he made his escape while being
taken to the reformatory. No state war.
rant has yet been issued for Slack County
| Attorney Fisher said today. explaining
| that the case had not yet been called t.
his attention.