The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-30

can i forget:
Can aught repay
The gift Of self,
IN for day?
Now thou hast grieved,
Hast given pain,
AS thorns,
Which in the tender flesh remain,
And | remembering,
As oyster, in his watery bed,
Shall strive at length,
To give thee back,
A pearl instead.
-Nels Yinglc.
O. F. wessen is in Stormont hospital.
where he underwent an operation for APP
pendicitis last week. rsr
Miss Dorothy Levers. girls work sec
retary of the Hutchinson Y. W. c. A, is in
the city for short visit.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co., 5S4 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
You are sure of your next winters coal
il you belong to Pepps Coal Savings Plan
Topeka Coal Co, Elks Bldg. Phone 4S2.
ADV.
DIR. H. C. suess, formerly of Topeka is
planning to establish at Laverne. Calf d
national sanatorium for the poor and
needy.
Miss Helen shirk. state director for the
Y. W. c. A, has gone TO Peabody. Kan,
TO spend few days in the work of the
state campaign.
The city commissioners today passed an
ordinance providing for the extension of a
water main on Lane street from Nineteenth
to Twentieth street.
Upon recommendation of Mayor Corwinc.
u. NJ Cockreli L. NJ Carter and f. h.
White we're named rand appraisers to fig
ure paving approximations during 1920.
L. NJ PenweH, president of the Topeka
board of education, will return tomorrow
from San Diego, CalA where he has spent
the last month resting. His health is much
improved.
There will be injecting of the board of
directors of the Kansas Free Fair associa-
ton Thursday afternoon at O'Clock i'll the
board room OF the Central National bank to
hear the report of the grandstand com
mittee.
Mrs. Pansy Milton. who is assisting in
turned from Dodge City, where s275 was
pledged to the fund last week. The
amount was secured with the aid of high
set aside as tag day"
W. e. Bacon today filed suit in the dis
trict court to collect $45424 from the Mu-
tual Laundry company for injuries he
claims his Chandler car sustained when
il was struck by one of the laundry COM
pany's truck driven by David Fleming at
Third and Fillmore street month ago.
Changes in the salary ordinance passed
by the city COMM ssioners this morning
provide for an increase in the salaryNo the
florist of the park department from 800 to
$40 per month. The assistant superinten-
SIS per month for maintenance of a motor
car, and the meter repair man SO for
maintenance Of car.
When he saw a man trying to get into
ing, J. W Swartz. 40 Fairchild street.
fired at him thru the panel of door with
a shotgun, Swartz told the police. He
said the man had been providing around his
house for several nights. He expressed the
belief that he hit the man in the foot, altho
the latter got away after the shot was
fired.
The difference between plain stealing
and burglary in the night time is about
$500. Leonard Smith. clerk of the court
Of topeka demanded $1,000 bond of
sSoe pf5 So Te@ %lth eaG 1e2ne
company, 40T Kansas avenue Paul Lewis,
charged with stealing Buick automobile
worth $500, was released last week on
$500 bond.
A suit TO collect S29.1Jo damages from F.
J. RumolI Dickinson county, was filed to
day in the federal court by c. H. Lockhart,
of Amarillo. Tex. Lockhart says he con-
tracted with Rumold to sell him 200 head
of steers in February. but that the latter
backed down on the contract and refused to
accept Them. Lockhart says he was left
with the steers on his hand and damaged
In the amount asked
Joe Collins negro. charged with slash
ing Katherine Jaco, negro girl. with a
knife last January. has been captured In
Lawrence and returned to Topeka. He
was turned over to the county. The Jaco
girl told the police that Collins had asked
her to make money for him and when she
refused. cut her up with a pocket knife.
He caught an outbound freight train and
escaped when officers attempted to arrest
him.
Officers Of the Lake View Fishing and
Prof. F. J. Hunter. Lawrence. president
!. Frank Jones. Lawrence. vice president
Frank ssGEses Topeka secretary r,
rectors are. W. G. Dickie Topeka: DR.