The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-04
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and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue--Adv.
J. Monroe Trotter. editor of the
Boston Guardian, will deliver his ia
nous lecture on his trip to France and
how he arrived there, without pass
port, this evening at o'clock at the
Baptist church at Third and Quincy
streets.
That 500 is too much to pay for
telephone installation is the complaint
of F. A. Perkins of Coldwater. Per-
kins has filed his complaint with the
Industrial court. He says he is willing
to pay the phone Tentah2but objects to
payment of 500 for equipment.
j. C. Barton, who was for several
years a train dispatcher at Topeka.
has been appointed superintendent of
the Panhandle division of the Santa
Fe, with headquarters at Wellington.
Kan. Barton entered the service of
the Santa Fe in 1899 as a telegraph
operator.
1t looked like a fire. but It was only
a demonstration of a newly patented
kerosene burner for a steam autono-
bile at the Curry-Lyman Steam Mo-
tors company, 706 Jackson street. Sum
day evening Some one passing on
West Seventh street turned in the
false alarm to the fire department.
Several washburn co-eds from the
school of Journalism covered" police
court for the first time Saturday.
They wanted to experience the sensa-
ton of being locked in jail and Jailer
William Kelly obliged them, then mis-
| laid the keys. 1t was not until Chief
G.. G. Hannah returned half an hour
later than the students could be re-
leased.
Washburn college is conducting a Y.
W. C. A. membership drive, which will
continue until October 6. Miss Caro-
line Goforth, student-secretary from
Denver will come October 3 to assist
in the campaign. Mrs. Ethel Fiske
Moore, formerly general secretary of
the local Y. w. c. A.. is assisting in
the Washburn campaign.
With a view to ascertaining the best
fertilizer for wheat in Shawnee coun-
ty, F. o. Blecha, county farm agent.
is conducting a series of experiments
on seven plots of ground of one-tenth
of an acre. each on the farm of Theo-
dore Kreipe, near Tecunseh. The
tests also are expected to show wheth-
er nitrogen, potassium or phosphorus
is lacking in the soil.
In case he is not convicted on the
federal charge of driving stolen car
from one state to another, Harry
Stamm. now being held in the Shaw
nee county. jail, will probably be re-
turned to the state reformatory for
violating his parole. according to Off
GERS. He was sentenced for steaung
a car some time ago and since his re-
lease has confesscd-to stealing seven
other cars. it was said.
F. o. Blecha, Shawnee county farm
agent, warns that now is the time for
farmers to treat wheat against smut
The best preventive, he says, is a mix
ture of forma1dehyde solution with
water in the ratio of zone pint of for
A gallon of liquid Is sufficient to treat
a bushel of wheat. The wheat. after
being treated, should be covered with
blankets for about four hours.
Harold Brown. 15-year-old negro
boy, was arrested Saturday morning
and sentenced to the boys industrial
school on charge. of atten pting 70
steal a carsfron the NJ & S. Tire COM
pany on East Sixth avenue Monday
He admitted his guilt. according to
officials. 8 He was arrested in Wichita
ON a similar charge some time ago
and paroled upon his promise to OBJ
tain work in in Topekaaszzs..s.sr.
T. W. Roberts Of Haysville. Kan.
for whom Sheriff Hugh Larirner re-
covered a stolen car. has forwarded
the check for 500 he wrote as a re-
ward and then stopped payment on.
Sheriff Larimer had paid out $75 OF
the money to men who assisted him
in catching the thief before he learned
that Roberts had stopped payment on
the check. 1t was not until the coun-
ty attorney threatened TO bring action
against Roberts that the latter re-
leased the check.
Revival services, with two meetings
daily, are being conducted at the Sal
walton Army Memorial building. Fifth
Owens of Alabama is evangelist and
Rev. and Mrs! John f. Speaks are in
charge of the singing. The time of
the services is 1880 in the afternoon
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ings, held under the auspices of the
Kansas Holiness association. and with
the cooperation of several Topeka
churches. will continue until Octo-
Der 10.
Among the prominent speakers the
Central Congregational church will
bring to Topeka soon will be DIR.
Charles F. Aked. pastor of the First
Congregational church of Kansas City,
Mo, who delivered the commencement
address at Washburn college in June.
Doctor Aked will speak Monday even
ing, October IL. on "Americanism and
America" DIR. E. H. Lindley and
cellor of the state university. and DR..
D. w. Kurtz, president of Mcpherson
college, will speak at later meetings.
The Rocky Ford Milling & Power
company. of Abilene. Kan, today filed
suit in the district court asking that
an order of the industrial court re-
curing II 10 rerouIe It's leAephone lines
because of interference with the lines
of the Wamego Telephone Company,
be declared null and void. The order
was made September 9 upon the COM
plain of the Wamego company. The
Rocky Ford company claims the or
der is confiscatory in that it will cost
$4,000 to reroute the lines. 1t claims
its lines are such as are approved by
law and modern science. The Wa,
mego company says the Rocky Ford
lines are of the transmission kind and
of such high voltage and in such close
proximity to its own that they are in
terfering with Wamego company serv-5
ice. The Rocky Ford company claims
the Wamego company's lines are of
the grounded system and are now OBJ
solete in modern telephony.