The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-25

ert D. .McGiffert, w B. Flowers. Joe
Nickel, Ore S. lines. J. E Morgan.
Roy Payne, Mrs. Edith Supple and
Mrs. Martha Fitzgerald.
A suit brought by Mrs. Matt Camp
bell, 500 Western avenue, to collect
$3.50 from P. E. Cook & Sons, contrac-
tors, resulted in a hung jury in Judge
James McClure's division of the dis
trict court. Following a fire at the
Campbell home Cook put a patent
roof. selected by members of the fam
lily, on the house. Mrs. Campbell
claimed it leaked. Cook claimed it
didn't The argument resulted in a
lawsuit and hung jury.
The junior-senior banquet of the
Seaman rural high school was held
Tuesday night. Girls of the home eco
quet, under the direction of their in
structor, Mrs. w. E. Kitten. George
Hughes was POSTMASTER and those
who gave toasts were Elmer Croohs,
Fred A. Seaman, principal of the
school, James Henry, Gladys Taylor,
Mildred Gooden, Ralph Carroll, ]. w.
Cochran and j. K. Andrews. e.
The annual campaign for Wash
burns May Queen is on in full swing
today Sorority sisters of the candi-
dates spent the day demanding votes
for the favorites. The following girls
sui NlNCo TIE pI NdAAI pdA
and are running in the final election:
Misses Marie Moore, Jessie Burnett,
Eunice Geiger, Helen Cramer. Each
student is entitled to one vote and IN
order to prevent a padding of the ball
lot boxes the name of each voter must
be signed on his ballot.
Nine Washburn students will COM
pete in an oratorical contest in Mac
Vicar chapel tonight to decide who
will represent the college in the state
oratorical contest next year. A cash
prize of SIS will be given the winner
tonight. Those who have signed up
for the contest tonight are Miss Ma
McCaustland, Homer Dodge, Barton
Griffith, Roy McCue. Leo Becker,
Harry Bone and Melvin Booth. Booth
represented Washburn this year, win
ming third place for the college.
Plans for next year were made at a
meeting of the Topeka high school
Hi-Y club at the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
Tuesday night Among the features
of the Hi-Y program for next fall will
be a get-together social in September
and membership campaign in Octo-
Der. Fene Olander, Joy Bulls, Dom
aid Myers, Frederick True and Rob-
ert Colville compose a committee for
making next years program. The
first meeting in the IalI will be ar
ranged by a committee composed of
Robert Myers, James Weaver, Her
bert Parker, Richard Edmiston and
Otis True.
Judge George Whitcomb in the dis
trict court Tuesday sustained the eity's
demurrer to the suit brought by
Guadalupe Padillo, Mexican, to collect
$23, 900 for personal injuries he claimed
to have sustained when a truck loaded
with Mexican workmen. fell thru the
bridge over Ward creek on Evans
street last fall. Counsel for the city
demurred on the grounds that the
state law provides that the driver OF
truck as heavy as that on which the
MeMcans were riding is required to
lay plank of certain thickness on the
bridge before crossing, that this COM
qliance' with the statute had not been
made on this occasion. 81
A circular letter has been sent out
by nine Washburn alumni to every
alumnus whose address can be found,
urging the alumni to ask for the right
to elect the trustees of the institution.
The nine alumni are enclosing blanks
which are to be signed and returned
to l.. C. Hodge, the president of the
alumni, association, who is to deliver
them to the board of trustees. In the
circular letter, a reorganization of the
college is recon mended, which will
transfer some of the power of the
trustees to the alumni themselves. The
demand for a hold on the reins of the
college government by the alumni
arose from the dismissal of DR.. J. E.
kirkpatrick, professor Of. political
science which occurred in 1919 =