The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-23

4 hick, who lives here in Shawnee,
Took a fling at night-life in Kay See;
| They knocked on his nude
! And lifted his Doodle
A much wiser man row is he.
w. ". Drummond.
| All issues OF Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv. .. ~,
The repairs being made by the First
NJ. E. church on the church building
and on the organ will cost about
$4,000.
Paul Stark seeley. c. S. B., win de-
liver lecture on Christian Science at
the Grand opera house Sunday after
noon at 3 o'clock.
! The Triangle a Washburn Y. w
c. A. publication. has made, its initial
| appearance. 1t supports the big sis
! ter movement and ID helpful to new
! girls in the college. Miss Ruth Marsh
/ is editor.
Charles Anderson and Clarence
Briggs got into a fight Wednesday
morning. They staged the fight in
the front yard of the home of A. Alba,
city detective, and Alba was at home.
Anderson is still in jail. Briggs was
| released on $40 bond.
Pvt. George Ewing, Sixth sanitary
train, Camp Grant, ILL.,, is being held
in the county Jail here awaiting
the arrival of authorities from Camp
u
from his post for three months, gave
himself up here Saturday.
Spiritual healing missions will be
conducted at Grace cathedral every
two weeks, beginning Sunday after
noon. October 8, Dean James B. Deb.
Kaye announced today. Canon Nc
Kinstry will assist Dean Kaye. Sun
day morning. October 3, Dean Hayes
sermon will be on spiritual healing.
| The Rev. A. L. Wood, who resigned
! as pastor of the Euclid Avenue Metho-
1 dist Episcopal church because of poor
J. H. Sutton, of Whiting. Kan. The
Rev Mr.. Sutton will come to the local
church October 3. The Rev. Mr..
Wood and family have gone to Road
house, Ill.
Ethel Davis. wife of the late Ed
Davis, who was shot to death two
weeks ago by Felix Dotson in front of
the Dotson home in the bottoms"
was arrested Wednesday by the police
on charge of selling morphine. The
warrant charging Ed Davis and his
wife with this offense was issued sew
eraI weeks ago.
| One of the finest dahlia gardens he
has ever raised in his fifteen years of
| fruit and flower culture is the garden
grown by w. L. Lux, Seventeenth and
Highland. The garden, which covers
four acres. is a mile from Wash burn
college. Lux has fifty varieties of
dahlias. grows seventy kinds of peonies
and fifty kinds OF iris.
The Keenan, Farm Dairy, four miles
west of Topeka on the Seventeenth
street road, was awarded first prize
in the milk contest at the Free Fair,
according to Ford Robinette. proprie-
tor. The milk was judged as to rich
ness and cleanliness. Robinette is a
new man at the dairy business, hav-
ing been an office man for twenty
years prior to opening his dairy a year
ago. He has graded Holsteins. Jer-
seys and GuernSeys and specializes in
baby milk.
Eight cases of scarlet fever have
been reported to DR.. Earle Brown, city
health officer. within the last few
days. Some of the cases are mild and
may be termed scarlatina. Doctor
Brown advises parents to watch care
fully any symptoms of the disease.
Complications of scarlet fever fire.
Cuently cause kidney, heart or ear
trouble, he says. No cases of typhoid
fever have been reported for a week.
The better condition of city water will
decrease danger of typhoid.
The trial of the Rev. Robert Ora
ham, negro minister, charged with a
statutory offense against Myrtle Bran
don, 16-year-old negro girl, resulted in
a hung jury in Judge James A. Nc
Cures division of the district court.
The Brandon girl refuted testimony
given in sworn affidavits previous. to
the trial. She was arrested on a war
rant charging her with perjury and
was tried before Judge Ralph H. Cav
Itenced her to the Girls Industrial
school at Beloit. a.
With the object of doubling the
membership of the Loyal Order of
Moose in Topeka, the local organiza-
ton has begun a drive, with the as
- Z E@C-
burg. Kan, deputy supervision for the
supreme lodge. McCracken has estab-
lished headquarters in the Moose hall
in the Masonic temple. Officers OF
the local lodge are: c. C. McCarter,
dictator; DR.. r. o. Smith, vice direc.
tor; w. w. Bracket. prelate; E. L.
Moon, past DICTATOR c. c. Mathews,
secretary, and Harry F. Guthrie, treas
urer. The trustees are; E. A Wall.
Lawrence Barnett and William Bow
ers.
When Francisco Bustus went to his
home at 225 Klein street Wednesday
afternoon he walked into the face of a
revolver held by his wife who was
jealous of her husbands attentions to
Maria Soto, another Mexican woman:
|Bustus sprang forward and wrenched
the revolver from her hand. The jeal-
Gus woman turned to a knife on the
table, stabbing him once in the hand
and once in the side, inflicting slight
wounds She stabbed herself in the
arm while he was graphing with her.
Mrs. Bustus was taken to the home of
Detective A. Alba where Alba and his
wife talked her out Of the intention
of committing suicide. Several days
|ago Mrs. Bustus was arrested charged
with an assault on Maria Soto and was
released on bond. She attacked the
Soto woman when she found her IN
house at 21S Klein street with her
husband.