The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-22

3f course said d the client lent sadly.
The Motor Service Co.. 113 West Tenth
street, have the one-half. three quarters and
ole ton Vim trucks on their floor now.
Members of fire station No. 1 were called
out to 923 West Sixth avenue, last night
A chimney was burning out, but no dam
age was done.
Rev. J. II. Anderson, pastor of the Cen
trail Avenue Christian church. who has been
confined to his home on account of i'll
ness, is recovering.
The women's bowling. teams will play
tonight from I to o'clock at the Y. NJ
C. A. instead of Thursday night. the
usual evening for the women's games
David J. August of the Jewish Armenian
committee received today a SO check from
! the Loyal Order of Moose. Topeka. as an
unsolicited donation to the local campaign.
Paul Edgar. clerk of the court of Topeka,
taken i'll with influenza Tuesday
night. Douglas Graham. former clerk. has
taken charge of the office during Edgars
absence.
Hiram Sturm, police sergeant, his wife
and five children have been confined in a
local hospital for about two weeks as the
result of an attack of influenza. All mem
bers of the family are reported to be i'm
proving in health.
J. b. Buffum, of Long Beach. Cal, has
returned home, after being called to To-
peka by the death of his daughter, Mrs.
| lived in Kansas for fifty years and is one
of the oldest Gideons in the state. He
makes his home with his daughter, MIS-.
L. A. ZieSler, Of Long Beach.
Three women and one man who have
been picked up by the police for medical
examinations and who have been found
diseased, taken to Lansing today by
Chief of Police Frank Harbaugh: The man
is W. l.. Walker. age %, soldier The
! 10, and Alberta Jordan, colored, II.
Fred A. Seaman, county superintendent,
| is determined to see that children shall be
| replaced in the schools, and that all chill
school
With the ending of the war, and the re
turn of soldiers. he says that the help of
boys and girls on the farms and at other
occupations, is no longer necessary, and
that steps are to be taken to see that chill
dren are returned to school,
Edgar Zinn. formerly with the State
journal. of Mr. and Mrs. John linn,
COL East Eighth street, mas arrived in New
York from France and has sent to his
parents his war-worn helmet and gas
| mask. Zinn enlisted in April. 1917, was
sent to San Francisco for training and
sailed for France on Christmas day, 1917.
He has been with the Fourth battery anti
aircraft artillery on the western front
The next cnse to come before a jury in
the second division of the district court
will be that of Earl Reeder, charged with
burglary and larceny 1t is alleged that
Gallagher's grocery store at Eighth and
Clay streets, one night last summer. James
Morand was arrested with Reeder at the
same time, but both men jumped their
bonds. according to the officers Reader
was rearrested at Tulsa. but Morand has
the officers. at the scene of the crime at
the time Reeder and Morar1d were arrested,
it is said.
A fight between John o. Shaunasy, an
East Fourth street grocer and l.. d. Rosen-
berry. nearby restaurant keeper, was in
terrupted Tuesday afternoon by Officers
Charles Ferguson and Joseph Williams
When the police arrived at the scene of the
alteration, which took place in the alley
at the rear of 31G East Fourth street, Will
liams is said TO have had Rosenberry down,
while the latter was attempting to get
to police headquarters, where they were
booked for fighting. and Rosenberg with
carrying gun The trouble Is said to
have arisen over children.
Miss Bertha Babcock. a missionary to
Japan. who has spent the past few months
in Topeka, left today for Seattle. Wash.
She will sail from there for japan. Miss
Babcock has been in the States for some
| time on furlo, having served at an Epis-
remote parts of Japan, where her work
Was on the outposts of Christian mission
her furlo in this country, and for the past
few months she has been taking kinder
garten course in the College of the Sisters
| of Bethany, In order to introduce kinder
garten. work in her mission school.
The hard-fought case. Of the Bennett
Commission company. of Topeka. against
]. c. Rule, of Clayton. Kan, was resumed
today in the first division of the district
$1.O15 which he is alleged 20 have paid
Rule for car load of corn to be shipped
to a grain company at Shady Bend, Kan.
When the corn arrived 1t was said to be
wet and mouldy, and the grain company
refused to accept it. Among other things,
Bennett is attempting to prove that the
car in which the grain was shipped was
leaky and that two days rain while it
was in transit ruined the corn.
The Boy Scouts of Topeka want n band
of their own, and all that is lacking tn
make the organization of a band practfca1,is
are already assured. The boys want to
play for entertainments and parades, and
does not expect to accept pay for Its ser
vices. In the various war drives that
have been held in the past year and half,
the boys have been among the most willing
| assistants in the town. In the last drive
| for the sale of bonds, they marched up
bugies, as the best substitute they could
| provide for real band. In case the boys
are able to finance the concern. their band
will be the first boy scout band in Kansas,
and one of the few in the west.
campaign for club membership being
conducted by the Elks club will culminate
| February p, when 100 candidates are to
| initiation services in the history of the
( club will he put A dinner and recep
| ton for the new members Will be given
Just before the initiation The personnel
of the membership committee is as follows:
Team l, W. Q. Anderson and II. A. Perry;
| team :, William Brelsford and W r. Falk-
! liner; team (. George Godfrey Moore and
! f. L. Overton: team 5. H. l.. Peppmeyer
and DIR. 4. r. Jeffrey: team G. Byron Davis
and s. L. Courtney; team 4. Fred Cole and
Joseph Duncan; team s. Walter Wilson and
! Charles Sessions; team 0, Robert Maxwell
/ and Carl Chandler.
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