The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-25

Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Baltimore.
Md, will give a lecture on Bone Tu-
/ mors'' with lantern slide demonstra-
/ tons. Doctor Bloodgood is one of the
/ foremost authorities in the country
on the subject.
| a camping trip Saturday was en-
| joyed by fifty boys of the Central PARK
/ Christian church. They hiked two
! miles east of the city, accompa MED by
| dep" tment, and Ray Smith, assistant
! to call. number of such trips
ar lnned for by the boys of the
I CHI h for later in the season.
! The officers and cabinet members
/ of the high school Y. w. CA. will be
building Tuesday afternoon at
o'clock. Officers of the high school
I organization are Miss Dorothy Rose
/ brough, president; Miss Mary Neis-
wanger, vice president; Miss B1ynn
/ Corwine, treasurer, and Miss Doris
/ Gilmore, secretary.
| IngwaId Rokstad, of Seattle, Wash,
was locked in the county Jail Sunday
night when he called up police head
quarters and asked that an officer be
I sent for him. He declared he was
| losing his mind. He said he had been
/ the brain and that he had travelled
| thru the United States in an effort
/ to regain his health.
The Topeka State Journal and the
! Topeka Daily Capita have purchased
! the balcony seats for the American
Legion minstrel show which is to be
given May 2 and 3 at the Grand thea
/ er by Capitol Post no. /. The seats
1 will be given to the newsboys en-
ployed by the two papers. The mer-
chants and business men of Topeka
are supporting the minstrel show
/ generously.
! How help may be given to the col
ored people of the south was the sub
I ject OF ar address at the Colored Edu-
! cational and Industrial institute Sun
day afternoon and night by F. A
! Summer of TaIIabego college, ITALIA
! bego, Ala. Talabego college, of which
( Principal G. R. Bridgeworth of the
/ local institute is a graduate, is one OF
/ the principal colored institutions in
/ the country.
! A horse belonging to W. z. Nc
! Carter, Twenty-first and Lime streets,
was shot Sunday afternoon following
an accident on the Shunganunga
/ bridge on East Tenth avenue in
which It's leg was broken. The horse
was injured and a buggy wrecked
when they were struck by motor car
driven by Arthur Newell. Newell was
taken to police headquarters and
/ booked for reckless driving.
! Cecil Collier today filed a petition to
/ collect So. 0T5 damages from Gene Hal
Ieren for injuries he received when he
I was struck by an automobile as he
/ stepped from a street car at Seward
! avenue and Norton street two weeks
ago A man named He'll, whose first
name the pr8intiff could not ascertain.
was also made defendant in the suit.
! Collier claims the two were drunk and
driving their car in a negligent man
ner.
Neal Lynn and George C. Shaffer.
| two Topeka youths who were returned
from Amarillo, Tex. Sunday by Sheriff
+ Robert Miller on a charge of stealing
an Overland car belonging to G. L.
Hooper, Topeka theatrical manager,
waived their preliminary hearings in
the district court this morning and
were bound over to the district court.
1t is understood that they will enter
plea of guilty to the charge against
them.
The closing session OF the COM
munity training school for religious
education will be held tonight at the
First Methodist church The meeting
is the last of a series of twelve meet
ings which constitutes the school. A
similar school will be conducted next
year, it is announced by H. W. Jones,
principal. Tonight Mrs ]. Newell
Abrahams will read THE Lost Word
] before the school. Miss Juanita Nc
DoweIl will give vocal members
So efficient is the new police de-
/ payment, it seems. that burglar alarms
go off without the burglars. Late
Saturday night the burglar alarm
sounded at the Central National bank
In two or three minutes Chief Guy
! Swallow, Capt Morris Leonard and
Lieut.. Perry Brush of the police de-
/ partment appeared at the bank. prov
/ ing the prompt functioning of the de-
partment- But not a burglar was
( found. The police officers decided
I that a mouse must have caused the
I alarm to sound. >
| Rewards offered for the capture of
| the bandits who shot and killed John
Heating. Topeka boy. in a ST. Louis
/ oil filling station recently, have been
7 swelled to S1,400. The Standard Oil
company offers 1000; Keating's
] parents. 5000; John E Barrett. father
of Miss Edith Barrett Keatings
sweetheart. 500. and Phillip Brock
/ man. St. Louis police commissioner,
s100. State laws forbid Governor Al
len offering direct reward but he