The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-27
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


Have you heard of Barreled Sun
light ?"-Adv.
The place to eat-Cremerie Cafe
terra, 726 Kansas (upstairs) Adv.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co., 534 Kansas avenne.-Adv.
Boy Scouts of Troop No. 2 will in
spect the city electric power plan, Fri
day, under the direction of K. c. Rich
mond, scoutmaster-
A pile of rubbish at Fifth and Jack
son streets caught fire Tuesday night
and caused fire alarm. The fire did
not cause any damage.
Topeka w. r. C. No. "a has post
poned the picnic it planned to hold on
August 2, because several of the Off
GERS were unable to attend the picnic.
Methodist girls more than twelve
years old are eligible to attend a girls
camp at Camp Wood. Elmdale, Kan,
from July % to August Z. Home and
foreign missionaries will teach Bible
work during the camp.
In a game that was snappy and
full of pep, the First United Brethren
baseball team defeated the First Bap-
lists at Ripley park, Tuesday evening
by a. score of 8 to 5. About 200 peo-
pie witnessed the contest.
A large attendance is expected at
the Tecumseh high school when 1t
opens September .. All pupils in the
district eligible to attend high school
will be urged to enroll. Three instruc-
tors will furnish the students with all
four-year courses.
An arbitration award of $500 to the
plaintiff was approved by Judge
James A Mcclure this forenoon, in
T. e case of J. A. Long against the
Fleming Wilson Me -ntile company.
The award was made to Long for in
juries sustained while in the employ
of the company
Police raided the home of G. Will
liams in North Topeka Tuesday night
and found a still, three quarts of corn
whisky a large number of empty bot
ties and an empty beer key. Williams
was arrested and is charged with hav-
ing liquor in his possession and also
with maintaining nuisance.
A stringed orchestra will furnish
music at the Y. w. c. A. ice cream
social Saturday evening on the lawn
south of the association building. |
Miss Sally Glass and Miss Clara Pow |
ell are to be in charge of the social. |
The proceeds will be used for the
Estes Park conference fund.
o. T Wood, United States district |
marshal. received a notice this morn |
ing from the department of justice |
stating that a~reward of $50 would be |
paid for the apprehension of Louis NJ. |
Ernest, who broke Jail at Kansas City,
Kan, Sunday morning. Ernst is an |
old offender, the officers say. and is
wanted for crimes in several states.
The contract for the girder to span |
Wards creek on Roosevelt street was
by the city to Fred Lift
Johann at cost of S7,377.65, which is
s3,166.35 less than the engineers esti-
mate. The Liittjohann price is at a
pre-war rate. The unsuccessful bid
ders were Nathan Hopkins of Topeka,
$S,1GS, and the Midland Bridge COM
pany, Kansas City, $1,000.
Judge George H. Whitcomb of the
second division of the Shawnee county
district court, left today for Colorado
where he will spend a short vacation.
The Judge was to take his vaca ton
commencing the first of July but
court business. Judge James A. Nc
Clure of the first division will take
his vacation sometime in August.
judge George H. Whitcomb Tues
day afternoon overruled the motion
for a new trial in the case of William
f. Patterson, found guilty of COM
hitting a statutory offense against one
Helen McVey. Is years old, and sem
fenced Patterson to a term of five to
twenty years in the state penitentiary
at Lansing. Attorneys for the defen-
dant. however, gave notice that the
case would be appealed to the supreme
court.
That he was shot in the stomach |
and gassed while fighting in the World |
war in France and that he drank |
liquor on the recommendation of a |
physician who told him he needed |
strong stimulants, was the reason |
which Thomas Johns, a salesman gave |
in police court, Tuesday afternoon, |
for being drunk but he admitted hav-
ing over stimulated himself and |
pleaded guilty to the charge. Judge |
Rad Lee sentenced him to ten days |
in fail.
A number of boys from the boys |
department of the Central Y. M. c. A, |
will go on a hike Thursday to the old
brick yards west of the city. Maurice
Sewers, acting physical director OF
the Y. NJ. c. A, will have charge of
the boys. He will be assisted by John
Shaw and Dwight Olander. Any boy
who is not member of the z. M. C.
A. and who wishes to go on the hike