The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-19
Local Mention

Il Local Mentor,
Some folks compare prices. other
folks compare merchandise and prices.
We can't always sell the first men
toned, but we do sell most of those
discriminating buyers who demand
smart, well made merchandise. priced
to sell and give satisfaction. You will
find such merchandise at the Courtney
Millinery parlors.-Adv.
Raymond Chiropodist. orpheum Bldg.-Adv.
F. H Liittjohan, contractor, re-
ceived the contract for the construc-
ton of nearly $4,000 square feet OF
sidewalks IN Topeka, awarded by the
| city commission today. His bid was
20.5 cents per square foot. Bidding
on the sidewalks was unusually close
with Roy Din bidding 20.s cents and
Edward ]. Jordan 20.7 cents. The
| estimate, on the work was % cents.
Thirty-four residents of Euclid
Park have signed a remonstrance pc
tftion against being included in an adj
dition to the city recommended by the
city planning board and being consid--
cred by the city commission. Rea-
sons given by the signers-for their pc
| tttion is that they object to the in
creased taxation that would follow an
neXation to the city. They state, also,
that school taxes would be heavy for
their school district now is so crowd
ed that school building will have to
be erected in their community. They
point out that many residents of the
Euclid Park district are heavily in
debt now in the process of buying
homes and do not want added bur-
| dens.
Razor Blades Resharpened; 25c-35c
per dozen. Tromp Annex.-Adv.
Formal complaint of attempted
larceny from dwelling was made to-
day against Alexander Hamilton. SO
years old, colored, who was arrested
Saturday night by Sheriff Robert
Miller after it had been reported that
he had been caught ransacking the
home of F. w. Phillips. near hte Boys
Industrial school The negro, SO it is
charged, was in the act of opening a
dresser dra wer when apprehended by
Mrs. Phillips. He ran and hid in a
cornfield where he was found later.
According to Tfnkham Veale, prose-
cutting attorney, Hamilton had served
three sentences in the penitentiary,
having been sent up twice from Shaw
nee county.
son Classify, 222 West street. was
| stolen from in front of the Novelty
theater Monday night, according to e.
report made to the police. The wheel
has been used only a few months.
De Frees business mems volley ball
team defeated Burkes team by a
score of ~ to 81 at the Central Y.
M. c. A. this noon.
The Epworth League of the Tyler
street Methodist church will give its
annual ice cream social on the church
lawn at Fifth and Tyler streets We'd
nesday evening. An additional fea-
| ture this year will be music by the
Boys Industrial School band.
A party of Rock Island officials
from the Ell Paso division is in To-
peka today, comforting with the time
card department relative to changes in
| p. Greenough, division superintendent
H. E. McMullen, trainmaster with
| headquarters at FL Paso, and j. S.
| Irwin. trainmaster with headquarters
at Pratt. It is said that the proposed
changes probably will not affect the
time card on the Kansas division.
Cash for Liberty Bonds. Kleinhans.-Adv.
i Robert Prichard, charged with
grand larceny. was bound over for
| trial in district court today, following
his preliminary hearing in the court
| of Topeka before Judge Paul Heinz.
| Prichard is accused of taking grip,
belonging to L. w. Leach, jr., of Okla
homa City, from a Pullman on Santa
Fe train No. IL, at this place, June 80.
Leach, who is Oklahoma manager for
the Kansas City Paper company, left
| the train for few minutes to buy a
| newspaper. When he returned his
| grip was gone and he testified at the
hearing that today was the first time
he had seen the grip since. Prichard
was arrested by special officers for
the Santa Fe. He is being held at the
county Jail in default of $1,000 bond.
John G. Williamson of Washing
ton, D. c., secretary of the National
Taxicab owners association. spoke
before the city commission today on
the subject of organizing a safety
council in Topeka. Such a council.
would be composed of all persons in
terested in safety measures, particu-
larly with regard to traffic He was
i introduced by Roy Payne of the local
taxicab company. Payne said that in
| Chicago the yellow Cab company is
employing a safety first man at the
lrate of $4,000 a year to educate the
, public in such measures.
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