The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-12
Noon lunch. Cremerle Cafeteria.--Adv:


| Noon lunch. Cremerie Cafeteria.-Adr.
Topeka teachers may receive a
| general salary increase thru move
ment started by the University of Kan
sas which is mailing out Questionnaires
| to Kansas school superintendent.
| Supt. A. J. Stout received such a set
of questions to be filled out by teachers
and principals with answers relative to
pay and expenses.
| Officers of the Majestic Fire Insur-
ance company were reelected by the
board of directors. They are: Charles
Barnes, president; D. A. Ramsey.
Usage City, vice president; e. F. Nc
! Closkey, secretary; r. A. Rosenquist,
Enterprise. treasurer; Robert Stone.
general counsel. The entire board Of
| directors was also reelected. The
! Majestic is an old line company.
| Altho Nick Hasner, wanted in Col
orado for disposing of mortgaged
! property, was not under arrest or sur.
veillance by local authorities, Sheriff
o. 8. Humbertson, of Julesburg. Colo,
| declared he was going to take him
! Saturday night and Sunday he found
his man at 30S West Railroad street,
where he placed him under arrest and
| started home.
| c. G. johnson was arrested Sunday
night on a warrant issued four years
| fraudulent check for $50. He had
been away from Topeka four years
and was on his way to- Mayetta, he
| said, to settle. While passing thru the
City his wife became i'll and he had to
take her TO a hospital. This brought
| him to the attention of the authorities
and he was placed in the-county jail.
| The city water department is consid-
ering putting a two-inch meter be-
tween the city and Highland Park in
place of the present sixSinch meter.
according to w. A Stanfieid water
commissioner. Fred Painter, super
1 intendent. said he was going out to-
day to clean out the present meter and
see if it would function properly then.
If not, a bypass valve will be con-
neoted with the six-inch main and the
smaller meter attached.
| Henry Ford may get an option on
st. Peters transportation system as
the result of the theft of ''tin Lizzie
from the Poehler Mercantile Co. the
night of December If. The car has
been located in Kansas City, where it
was abandoned in badly battered
i condition, according to word received
here. AS the end of the world was
scheduled for Dec. II, the possibility
| that. some wise bird" selected a vehi-
Gle capable of taking him up ION
high" has been advanced by Poehler
| officials.
been granted a 1900 per cent wage
| increase as treasurer Of the school
4 board. Her pay was increased from
| $50 q year to $50 a month, when the
board officially elected her to the po-
sition which she has held ex-officio,
and at a salary provided for by the
state laws. The news of Miss Hale's
| salary hike was hailed with rejoicing
at the city hall. The treasurer is the
Oldest in point of service of any of the
! city employees and. altho she is res
| quired to give 100000 bond her salary
was small, less than half that paid IN
other cities of the size of Topeka. Miss
Hale has been treasurer since 1914
and before that had served as deputy
during several administrations and
had been employed in the city water
department.
1.-THE opportunity of the Unitarian
| church to help in the present unrest
| of the world and to meet the new con-
ditions- of life is greater than that of
any other church in the world, was
the statement of the Unitarian minis
mon yesterday afternoon. The great,
/ hungry heart of the world Is today
! crying out for the fundamentals of life
/ and of religion. In differences of
creed and dogma we have no interest.
| Our faith is the fatherhood OF God,
! the brotherhood of man, the. leader
ship of Jesus, salvation by character.
the progress of mankind onward and
iuDward forever. We may open our
lives and our hearts and our church
to every man and woman in the world.
on the single basis of service: and
whether we call ourselves Christian,
| or Jew, OF Mohammedan, or Spiritual
list. or whatever may be the term by
which we designate our thought, we
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