The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-01

Lost-Female Airedale. Phone 5ioi j.
Adv.
We buy liberty bonds. Inland Mfg. Co..
Col East Fourth St--Adv.
The Business Mems Bible class will meet
at noon Wednesday at the Central \. M
c. A. The class will be led by the Rev
Il. A. SchelI.
The Rota club will hold its regular
meeting Wednesday, a luncheon at the
Chamber Oh Commerce, followed by bust
ness.
recently underwent serious surgical
operation at Stormont hospital. is critically
iii. His son. Robert Ripley. st. Louis, has
been sent for.
The Rota club wishes every girl who
held a guest card during the time that
the club giving parties for the sol.
diers, to meet with the japanese group Of
the community show at the Y. w: C. A.
Thursday evening at Z 80 O'Clock
The old Bradford Miller home, between
Topeka and Dover, has been transferred
Emma w. Davis for consideration of
ST.. goo. according to the warranty deed
recorded in the register OF deeds office
today
The Renker Hotel company, which asked
for permission to sell stock to build hotel
at Tenth and Kansas avenues. having been
refused by the unanimous action of the
blue sky board, has filed a petition in the
district court asking that the order of the
i blue sky board be set aside and the per-
mission granted.
Mrs. Virginia s. Davis, until Monday an
emplOye in the office of the governor, has
resigned TO go to- caITfn,a t ana M Ta,Se
day night another emplOye placed a small
bag on her desk. 1t contained so from
employees in the office. Mrs. Davis was
advised to use the money as a NEST egg"
in her poultry farming.
An Investigation of all sand companies
obtaining their product from the, stree
of Kansas is being conducted by Fred
Knapp. state auditor, in view of collecting
the 10 per cent royalty from the concerns
ell has also passed resolution to the
effect that when companies fail to m:fke
royalty reports every ninety days their
contracts with the state to obtain sand
will be Cancelled.
A. II. Young. formerly city engineer for
Topeka. is being urged for the office of
state highway, commissioner to succeed
Capt. W. S. Ge3rhart, who resigned Monday
after a years leave of absence in the army.
Young. who is Kansas man. and gradu-
ate of Kansas university. is now in the en-
plOy of n firm in Kansas City. He has
made several contributions to eastern engi-
neerng journals and superintendent some of
the. largest sewer and paving construction
jobs In Topeka in years.
Cecil Wilson, colored. plead guilty be-
fore Judge Rad Lee in the court of Topeka
Monday to Stealing n diamond ring from
Frank Allen while confined In the city Jail
and was sentenced to serve 90 days in the
county jail, According to the police, VII,
| clothes from an old lady and the same
night Allen appeared at the Jail for lodg-
Ms A~s went 10 steep ana "iieH he Wohe
| up, discovered that his ring was gone from
| his finger. 1t was later found in Wilson
| shoe, the officers say.
The police made 161 arrests in the month
of March, according to the monthly report
made up today. Current and back fines
collected tOtalled S44710.
| Charging that he makes $500 a month
| at his work in the oil fields but refused to
/ support her, Jessie f. Eberhart today flied
petition in the office of the district court
asking a divorce from Robert D. Eberhart
who she says abandoned her in May
| 1917. She wants alimony and n share IN
her husbands property, which she says
| consists of a fourth interest in $50 acre
/ farm in Wichita county and some tow
| property In Keene. Kan. The were mar
1 ried In February 1900.