The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-10
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The fire department was called to
Huntoon and Randolph streets this
morning to put out grass fire.
Measles has attacked Rossville Sc
verely. according to Doctor C. G. Lull,
county health officer. Ten families
are under quarantine there
City water continues to be unfit for
drinking, Miss Miriam Daugherty, city
bacteriologist, reported today. City
water users should not fail to boil the
water before drinking it to observe
proper health precautions.
A thief obtained entrance to the
Boston store. SIG Kansas avenue, Sat
urday morning by smashing a panel of
the back door with a brick and un7
locking the door. A suit case, an over
coat and seven suits of clothing were
stolen from the store.
Doniciano Ruano.-who was arrested
by Detective Augustin Alba at the city
hall during the police probe, was SEN
fenced to serve sixty days in the county
Jail on an old statutory charge when
he was brought before Judge Rad Lee
in the court of Topeka.
Inc mountain ASH w elSl Male
quartet will appear at the high school
auditorium Wednesday night, Jan. ~,
under the auspices of the Business and
Professional Women's club. The quar-
tet is made up of native Welshmen and
is making tour of America.
In spite of the fact that the menu
bership fee in the Boy Scouts of Amer
were signed UP fifteen new scouts last
week J. H. Fazel. scout executive,
reports the organization of Troop No.
Is, at the North Topeka Baptist
church.
In the list of officers of the STATE
Savings bank. published in Saturdays
State Journal, the name of Horace
Mcfarland, first assistant cashier. was
omitted thru error. Two assistant
cashiers We're elected at the annual
meeting. They are Horace and Will
liam Macferran, Jr.
The largest number of measles
cases from any one community are
found in Quinton Heights school dis
trict, Miss Sarah Cellar, city conta-
gion nurse, said today. Miss cellar
carded fourteen new cases of measles
in various parts of the city today and
released eight guarantees.
Thomas Lorez, Mexican, was in soli-
tary confinement in the city Jail today
following a fight with Bill Rife, alias
Oklahoma Red" Lorez was pulling
Rifles hair and biting him on the
shoulder when the police interfered.
He had been arrested earlier in the day
on a charge of drunkenness.
There were more animals butchered
for food i'll Topeka during December,
than in any other month of 1920, the
figures of DR.. G. w. Hill, city food
inspector, show. Outside of the big
packing plants, there were slaugh-
tered during the month 1872 hogs, ten
sheep, nineteen cattle and eighty four
calves.
Forty eX-service men, applicants
for vocational training under the pro-
visions of the federal act for their care
and education, were examined and
their applications approved, at a meet
ing of special examining board, held
in Topeka Saturday. There were fifty
applicants before the board. The
claims of ten were disallowed.
Three confessed joyriders, who ad-
mitted to the Topeka police that they
had stolen and used eight motor cars
in Topeka, were Saturday sentenced by
Judge James A. Mcclure to the state
reformatory. Their applications for
paroles were denied. The boys were
Leroy n. Asher, Ernest Boedecker and
Early Roy Bray, all of Topeka.
Jobs on the postal staff, as carriers
and clerks, seem more attractive than
they did a short time ago, if an index
may be found in the fact that al the
last civil service examination, held Sat
urday, the largest number of candi-
dates for appointment examined since
the war, appeared. Forty-three men
and two women took the examination
The age limit on measles, just isn't,
according to the records of the city
health department, which show that
the youngest person to have the
4I,4 ie, dsax
old. and the oldest 70 years. The
number of cases of measles had drop
ped ito fifty-seven Saturday. when
fifty new cases were reported after an
outbreak in the Quinton Heights and
East Side neighborhoods.
r. F. Mildfelt. %. Stella Brown, %,
a waitress and Rena Buseman, 10.
were arrested by the police Saturday
in room Al, at the Fifth avenue hotel.
A charge of disorderly conduct was
placed against them. Mi1dfe1t got a
job on the police force recently, but
was discharged after few hours by
Chief G. G. Hannah, who. it is claimed.
overheard him telling friends what he
was going to do on the force.
Residents of South Topeka are anx-
ious to have completed the $4,000
drainage project, begun last spring by
the city drainage commission in short
ening the Shunganunga creek between
the Missouri Pacific and the, Santa Fe
bridges south of town. A canal con-
Meeting the two points was being made
to save the land wasted in the big
bend. A part of the canal is being
filled in and a $500 bridge built by the
city is being torn away.
Officers have been installed by To-
peka Post No. II, C. A. r., as fol-
lows: f. NJ. Van Orsdal, post COM
mander; Joseph Bowers, senior vice
commander; Edward Golf, junior vice
commander; Van Smith, adjutant; r.
A. Randlett. quartermaster; S. S. Be-
Earth, chaplain; Charles Banks. sur
geon; Sam Twigg, officer of the day:
Luther Smith, officer of the guard; ;
E. T. Wolf. patriotic instructor; D. H.
Fay. S. NJ; E. Booker. @. NJ. s., and
Van Smith, NJ. o.
Treasury certificates issued by the
savings bureau, of the treasury de-
partment this year will be in larger
and smaller denominations than those
used last year. The only treasury GER
tificates issued last year were in de-