The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-08

Noon lunch. Cremerie Cafeteria.-Adv.
Don't miss the Elks' dance. Friday
night.-Adv.
S. S. Frank, of the Frank Furniture
company. IS spending ten days in
Grand Rapids, Mich, and Chicago,
with the Syndicate Furniture Buyers
on buying expedition.
Four rules for everyday life were
mentioned at Washburn C h a Q
Wednesday by Rev. A. E. Gregory.
The rules: Once every day will stop
battle with my own sins 1 will strive
daily to add to my knowledge. Every
day will do kind deed.
Harry johnson, 35, 1925 Tyler street,
has the first case OF chickenpox af-
fecting an adult that has come under
the observation of the city health de-
partment this year. He is suffering
from an unusually severe case.
Chickenpox ordinarily affects only
children under Ia years of age.
A suit to collect s5,4sI from the
Prince johnson company, of Merriam.
Kan, was filed today in the federal
court here by Afford Bryant, also of
Merriam The plaintiff declares that
in May, 1919, while employed in one
of the company's -quarries, "A large
rock fell on him. resulting in perma-
nent disablement. The company has
refused to settle, he charges.
A suit to collect $4,000 from the
Rock Island and Union Pacific rail-
roads was filed here today in the fed
eral court by Mrs. Lucy King of st.
Francis station, Wyandotte county. as
damages for the death Of her husband,
Henry King. who was killed near that
place January when the motor car
in which he was riding was struck by
Rock Island passenger train.
The Emahizer- Furniture
company entertained its employees and
families Wednesday night with a din
Der at the store. Covers were laid for
$50 persons. A short program con-
sisting of a talk on the world war by
George Hoyes; solo dancing by Miss
Doris Patterson; vocal solos by Miss
Clara Elledge and music by the store
orchestra was followed by dancing.
The Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co. has purchased lots 217-237 Harri-
son street from L. H Kellam for a
today. The space will be used as a
storehouse for telephone poles and
cross-arms, it was stated. "A tool house
will also be erected on the ground.
No important buildings, beside the
tool house, will be constructed, it was
declared.
The American Legion is running an
but has no jobs to offer the twelve
men who applied Wednesday, accord
ing to John Bergen, adjutant of the
Topeka post. Bergen urges anyone
who can offer a job to an ex-service
man TO call Legion headquarters, tele-
phone No. 1898. He says the Legion
can furnish at any time the sort of
man wanted to fill a job.
The Washburn football team will
elect a captain for 1920 at a banquet
TO be given for the team at the Cham
Der of Commerce. January Is by the
Washburn Boosters club. Certificates
also will be given to not only the win
ners Of football Tvs" last fall. but
also football and basket ball men who
won letters during the last three years.
No certificates were given during the
war because of lack of funds. The
football sweaters will not be presented
at the banquet, because of the delay
in shipment.
The Jaeger Manufacturing company
of Des Moines today filed a suit in
the federal court here to collect ST.
1929 from the O1son-M agee COM
pany, of Kansas City. which held the
contract with the state of Kansas to
erect and complete a portion of the
administration building and college of
fine arts at Kansas university. The
Jaeger company claims the amount
to be due on mill work and glass
which it furnished the Olson Magee
company for use on the university
building, and that payment has been
refused. The United States Fidelity
& Guaranty company, of Baltimore, in
which the Kansas City firm was
bonded, is also made a party to the
suit.
Commissioner w. A. Stanfield today
wrote to six out-of-town engineering
firms asking them to submit PROPOSE
lions for a survey of Topeka's water
situation, with view to installing a
filtration plant if the conditions de-
mand it. The six companies written
to were: New York Continental Jewel,
Filtration company, at Kansas City;