The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-17
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AL issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue--Adv.
Lieut.. X. C. Richmond, clerk in the
taking his vacation at Elmdale with the
boy scouts.
Thirty Topeka boy scouts broke camp
at the state Y. NJ. c. A. camp at Elm
dale. Kan, today and were to return to
Topeka this afternoon.
Miss Ruth James, of Topeka who has
had much experience in kindergarten work,
is the new director of the Day Nursery at
the Provident association.
A marriage license was issued in Kansas
City. Kan, Wednesday 10 Jeremiah Nor
ris, 81. of Leavenworth, and Myrtle Carson,
81, of Topeka.
A. L. Oliger, secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce, is expected to return Friday
from Asheville, \. c., where he made an
address to the Business Mems association
convention.
DR.. Ralph Johnston. head surgeon of
the Santa Fe hospital at La Junta, Colo,
was called home from his visit with DR.
j. p. Raster. head of the Santa Fe hospi-
tai in Topeka, to care for the injured in the
wreck at Rene, Colo.
Repairs on the Melan bridge are going
forward. The handrails on the west side
were being painted Wednesday. Fifteen
thousand dollars has been set aside by the
city for the work, which includes new hand
rails and curbing and surfacing.
The Topeka Public Health Nursing as
ISOLATION wants a buggy and harness. 1t
already has the horse, which was donated
by L. Fl. Crosby this week. Anyone with
a buggy to spare should call Mrs. +. W.
Freeman or Mrs. Caroline Thomas Waters.
Judge James A. Mcclure today granted
divorce to Ella May Crits from Ora Crits.
Mrs. Crits charged her husband cursed and
struck her and finally went away to Wy
oming. He was a Santa Fe fireman prior
to his departure for the west, Mrs. Crits
testified.
The Decker school, south of Tecumseh
will import a teacher from Oregon for
next year. Lawrence Sims, former Shaw
nee county boy. will teach their school at
salary of $125. He has been living at
Portland at present, but could not resist
the call of Kansas"
In an effort to make the recurrence of
deaths by drowning similar ITO that of
Clinton Cuff Tuesday night impossible,
George q. Hannah, chief of police, an
nounced that in the future boys would not
be permitted to swim i'll the kaw river
inside the city limits.
Miss Effie Loder, parole officer of the
Girls Industrial school at Beloit. was in
school from Kansas City. She was ac-
eompanied by two girls of the school who
had broken their parole in Kansas City,
homes.
The William Connors Furniture Co., are
showing 4 very fine kermansha oriental
rug, beautiful in color and design. This
window. A beautiful living room suite in
mahogany upholstered in velour will be on
display in the south window. These arti-
cles will be on display for three days
Adv.
Topeka is maintaining its rapid stride
in the building OF private garages OF the
month by Fire Chief Joseph Hanlon, twelve
are for new garages or additions to old
tfons, offices and barns. The value of the
garages totals $3.50; the value of all other
building improvements is $40.
c. L. Squire, local real estate dealer has
sold his home at 1161 Grafield avenue and
will move with his family to Portland.
Ore, where he will engage in real estate
business Squire moved to Topeka from
Winfield nine years ago and has been
booster for Topeka since his arrival. Mr..
and Mrs. Squire have two daughters, Carol
f fbem Vera WIG will go to Portland with
Employees working on an excavation job
between Quincy and Kansas avenue on
Sixth avenue obtained the arrest of II.
Henry. the contractor, Wednesday night
charging that his pay checks had been
returned for lack of funds. Henry's bank
deposit totalled 81, the police said. and
tailed SIS. Henry's father deposited $40
with the police and he was released.
Six members Of the senior class of the
| Rossville high school will teach in Shaw
nee county next year. Miss Maud Smell
| Ter will teach at the Century school near
Willard, Miss Elizabeth Jackson at the
Van Week at Kingsville, Miss Lora Burks
at the James school, Miss Lettie Page at
the Mowers school and Miss Iona Lands
at the Prairie Vale school, near Grove.
Justice Rosseau A. Burch of the Kan
sas supreme court. left today for Chicago,
where he will deliver a series of lectures
on real property at the summer school of
the law department of Northwestern uni
versity. Mrs. Burch accompanied her hus-
band and they will spend the summer in
Chicago. The invita- ton to Judge Burch
was extended by Prof John II. Wigmore.
dean of the university law department,
well know legal authority.
G. L. Cleland. of Cotton Plant Miss. is
IN the city visiting his uncle. Josiah Jor-
dan, and other relatives. -Cleland, who is
a graduate of the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college. has been in the employ of
the United States agricultural department,
in charge of feeding experiments in Miss
issippi, for several years. He recently re-
IL ,000-acre ranch owned by Paul J. Rainey.
the millionaire big game hunter who was
with Roosevelt in Africa.
conflicting story is told concerning
the alleged lay-off of the icing crews who
FIJI the refrigerator cars of the Rock IS
land. r. f. Hodgins, of the Railway Ice
company, says that only two men quit
and that they were agitators who went to
the harvest fields. He also reports that
men to quit but were unsuccessful. As far
as losing the cars of cantaloupe which
were reported 10 nave stOOu on the tracks
and rotted for lack of ice. Hodgins says
that report is erroneous.
Phillip Bills, n 9-year-old negro boy, was
arrested Wednesday afternoon by T. D.
williams, probation officer. for too much
generosity in buying other boys candy
and ice cream at City park. His generos-
ity aroused the suspicious of the man at
the ice cream cone stand and he mott
fled T. d. Williams, probation officer. The
lad admitted he was spending 50 stolen
from the Owl Grocery. Williams took
him to the detention home. Fifteen min
utes after williams left the home he
learned the boy had run away. When he
was captured n second time. he was locked
IN in the matrons room at the county
jail.