The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-16
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Permission was given the Union Pa
cific railroad to place its switch tracks
from the Forbes mill across Van
Buren, street in an easterly direction,
by the city commission today. grant
ing a request made by R. w. Blair,
general agent.
Fred L. Buckley. wanted here on a
charge of passing forged checks was
returned from Detroit Monday after
noon by Tom Hurley. marshal of the
the county jail in default of 500 bond
and his preliminary hearing set Tor
August 80.
The short street near Quinton boule-
ward which has always been without
a name, was christened Harvey street
by a committee of the city commission
and formally given that name in the
city commission meeting today. Har-
vey was chosen as the name as the
street is in Harvey's addition.
No one may turn his motor car on
Kansas avenue between Railroad and
Norris streets on penalty of a fine of
from IS to $50, according to an ordi-
nance passed today by the city COM
mission. The danger of motor cars
making turns on the railroad tracks
prompted the commission to pass the
ordinance.
A suit to collect s1O,137.5O from
Roy Payne, of the Payne Taxi-cab
and Baggage company, was filed in
the district court Monday afternoon
by Silas H. Fleming, SIG North To-
peka avenue. Fleming claims to have
iy1i1 ifz collision
of a. taxicab and his horse and wagon
on the Melan bridge last October.
Ralph Glenn. master councillor of
the local chapter. of the De Molay
will attend the initiation which will
be put on by the Kansas City, Mo,
chapter August 20 at Kansas City.
The Kansas City chapter is the
mother chapter of the De Molay and
Glenn will attend for the purpose Of
improving the work of the local
chapter.
Frank and Susie Carter, negroes,
arrested Monday night by the police,
were identified today by w. E. Rock,
215 Huntoon street, as the couple who
held him up at the south end of the
Melan bridge Saturday night and rob-
bed him of $3.50. A state warrant
will probably be issued charging the
negroes with highway robbery. Off
GERS said
MIS-. NUN "A 0I6SS, OI INOSSNlI1e. TO-
day filed a petition in the district
court asking a divorce from Archie R.
Chess. who she claims has failed to
provide her with a home and proper
clothing. She also alleges that he is cold
and Indifferent in his demeanor
toward her and that he frequently
leaves her alone nights. She asks for
alimony and the restoration of her
maiden name, Ruth Dawson.
f. R. Rutley a former proprietor
of the Rendezvous. sos Kansas ave-
nue., was fined 5000 in the district
court Tuesday afternoon when he en-
tered a plea of guilty to selling home
brew A. L. Proctor, his partner,
against whom the state had only one
count, was fined $500. Both were pa
rolled from serving a further jail SEN
tence, having been in Jail for ten
days. Both were out on bond follow
ing the raid on the Rendezvous sew
eral months ago and were rearrested
recently when it was suspected that
they were going to Jump their
bonds.
Several Topekans are promoted
thru changes recently made in the dis
trict offices of the Standard Oil COM
pany. John G. Stevenson, chief clerk
of the district office here, has been
made local manager at Emporia; c.
w. Kelley, who has been connected
with the Topeka office for several
years, goes to Parsons as manager of
the company's branch there; c. S.
Kelley, formerly manager at Parsons,
becomes district manager at the same
place; Chester Johnson. local cashier,
has been appointed service station su-
perintendent; P. o. Sherman becomes
local cashier; J. W. White succeeds
John G. Stevenson as chief clerk in
the local office. and R. L. Sproul, for
merly with the Rock Island, succeeds
White to a position as clerk in the
district office here