The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

General Wilder S. Metealf is to be the
speaker of the evening at reception for
returned soldiers to be given in Alma Sat
urday night.
w A Winfrey is a new examiner IN
the Topeka office of the United States En-
ployment service. lie was transferred here
from Wichita.
A $1,000 garage will be erected by the
Topeka Transfer & Storage company on
the company property, ,, at TOT t - Adams
The last grist of bills for the house hop
per must be fed in today. introduction
time expires with adjournment tonight.
Committee bills are exempt from the ruling.
Kaw Valley and Lyman high schools in
troduced midwinter baseball to Topeka in
a game at Garfield park Wednesday after
noon Kaw Valley took the long end Of IA
Amity Temple No. los, Pythian Sisters,
will hold an entertainment and meeting
Friday evening at the X. of L. hall, BOO
Kansas avenue. An attractive program has
been arranged.
A regular old fashioned revival meeting
vii be held at the Haired Tread y p M: e a
Owens, pastor of the First United Brethren
church, will be in charge.
Thomas Ashley and John Day, arrested
at Junction City and arraigned there last
night a charge of destroying govern
ment property, waived preliminary near
ing and were released on BOND to appear
before the grand jury in Topeka in April
Petitions for hard surface road between
Topeka and Silver Lake will be circulated
at a good roads. meeting. to be held at
Menoken school house this evening at 8
o'clock. The petitions are in favor OF the
| road known to Topekans as the Upper
Silver Lake road"
Ross Barnes and Roy Pendleton, two
youths charged with stealing bicycles,
pleaded guilty in the court of Topeka We'd
nesday afternoon before Judge. Rad Lee
and promised never to repeat the crime
They were given severe lecture and SEN
tence was deferred for two weeks.
bullet from an unknown source came
ind of fhn ma
court library Wednesday noon. As no one
digging in the tones at the time there
sole evidence of the bullets Journey into
the room is a neat round hole in the
window pane.
| Clyde walker and Ira Ahart, the two
| youths who were arrested Oh charge of
robbng the Santa Fe agent at Pauline
| Wednesday, We're bound over to the district
in the court of Topeka. They were COM
mitted to the county Jail in default of a
| $1,000 bond each.
/ Five pairs of Shoes two fancy lap robes
Sesaria Torrez led the police to arrest her
| Wednesday afternoon on the suspicion that
however. that she had purchased them from
! local department store during a sale and
! that she intended to resell them.
! Some sideslights on friendship might be
| Bright. who have filed suit in the district
court to recover $500 from Peter Pete an and Mary
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borrowed the amount from them some time
ago. saying they wanted to apply it on a
home they had purchased at 541 Scotland
! avenue. The Brights loaned the money, &C
| cording to the petition, feeling secure in
4 the promise of their friends to return the
Longs not only denied the obligation, but
4 would admit only very casual acquaint-
ance with the plaintiffs.
An attempt to pass check for $40 4G
| drawn in favor of the Ideal Bakery ended
| disastrously for Wayne Padgett, who was
arrested Wednesday afternoon by OFFICERS
Tim Donovan and Joe Williams on the
| ing the check from the bakery, but In
| sited that he took it in the daytime while
! there several persons in the store.
| The officers inclined to doubt this,
however, believing he forced an entrance
i to the place after dark. He Is charged
| morning in the court of Topeka and was
| committed to the county Jail until he could
furnish bond to wait preliminary hear
| ing.
A Claude Harkins fund has been started
| in Topeka for the crippled boy who looks
out of Lis window at the passersby and
dreams of the day when he too had control
| of all his faculties and was able to walk
| and run with his fellows. The contribu-
i lions are being received by the Topeka
has the case in charge. Harkins is p years
| old and on account of the amputation of
/ both legs and the loss of the use of one
| arm is utterly fncapacitated His other
arm is partially paralyzed. as is his neck.
! His sole amusement while lying in his bed
! is watching. wistfully, the passersby on
| the street. Harkins lives at 124 North JEFF
! ferson street.