The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-26

county, have been transferred to the
| United States district court, and the
three petitions were filed with the
clerk here. today. All OF the suits
cidents which occurred in 1919. The
plaintiffs are Bertha Glass. NJ. E.
Hartman, and May V. Liggett.
A lecture of interest to be given at
the Central Congregational church will
be by H. Edward Mills of Portland,
| Ore, editor of the publication Real
ization.' The subject of the lecture
will be 1.-The Highest Truth in the
Living of the Highest Life according
to announcement by the Rev. John
Wells Rahill. pastor of the church.
Mills is a brother of Mrs Edgar Lang
staff of Topeka. The lecture will be-
gin at o'clock.
A woman called the desk sergeant
at police headquarters this forenoon
and demanded that the police prevent
a, neighbours child from running a
| coaster wagon on the sidewalk in
front of her home, saying that the
noise was more than she could stand.
city ordinance against riding bicycles
on sidewalks but that insofar as the
police were concerned children have
free right on the walks with wagons,
coasters and kiddie cars.
Tinkham Vea1e, prosecuting at
torney, said today that he understood
a move was under way to bring formal
charges against Freasie Jones, who
shot and killed Wallace Turner, a
negro, the night of July 16. After
being held for several days. Jones was
released because no one made COM
plant against him. Veale says he has
heard that a complaint will now be
made and that a charge of man
slaughter against Jones probably will
result.
In an attempt to avoid collision
with another car loaded with chill
dren, Arthur Stein, a Topeka insur-
ance salesman, driving from Falls
City, Neb., to Omaha, Sunday night,
deliberately turned his car against
stone culvert- The attempt was sue
cessful but. according to reports
reaching Topeka, Stein was thrown
out of his machine and suffered three
broken ribs besides other injuries
His car was badly damaged but the
children in the other car were saved.
The eight Christian Endeavor So
cieties of the Christian churches of
Topeka will hold union meeting
Sunday, July 81. at the First Christian
church. Al the meeting Miss Madi-
line Carter, state secretary of the
Christian Endeavor societies, will give
a talk and submit a report on the
Worlds Christian Endeavor conven-
ton, held recently at New York. j.
D. Zimmerman, superintendent OF re-
ligious instruction for the Christian
churches of Kansas, will also make
short address.
The grading of the alley between
Tenth and Eleventh streets, Kansas
avenue and Quincy streets. was the
subject OF further controversy this
morning before the. city commission.
Quincy street side of the alley were
before the commission to protest
against the lowering of the grade of
the alley, stating that it causes them
great Inconvenience and lowers the
value of their property. The matter
of the grading was referred to the
committee of the commission as a
whole
J. N. Dolley, who was recently ap-
pointed receiver for the Associated
Mill and Elevator company of Kan
sas City. will within a few days start
on a motor car trip to inspect the
company's numerous elevators and
mills over the state. there being more
than thirty enterprises of this kind.
Dolley believes that the receivershi1
can place the company back on its
feet, blaming its present condition to
the low wheat market and the tight
ening of money conditions. For the
present Dolley will handle the affairs
of the company from Topeka.
The pastor of the Central Congre-
gational church, the Rev. John Wells
Rahill, will leave Friday evening for
Chicago. where he will spend the
month of August studying at the Uni
servity of Chicago. He will preach at
the First Congregational church of
La Grange, ILL.,. the Sunday mornings
OF July 81 and August Z; at winnetka
Congregational church. Winnetka, Ill,
on August FL. and at the Pilgrim Con-
gregational church. Oak Park. ILL.,. on
the Sunday mornings of August IA
and 2S. The supply ministers for the
Central Congregational church and
the dates Of their preaching during