The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
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Chancellor E. H. Lindley of Kansas
university spoke this morning at the
Topeka high school assembly.
Miss Abigail McElroy, instructor in
botany at the Topeka high school, un-
derwent an operation for appendicitis
Monday. Her condition is reported as
satisfactory.
Miss Blanche Weir, elevator opera
tor at the city hall, is i'll at st. Francis
hospital. Miss Weir has been ill for
two weeks and was thought to have
typhoid fever.
An information charging the Rock
Island company with violating the
safety appliance act was filed in the
federal court here today by the gov
eminent. 1t is claimed a coal car
hauled from Topeka to an eastern
point had a defective brake.
MyIa Stack, is. wanted in Detroit,
Mich, where he ran away from de-
tention home, was picked up in Ross
Vile Sunday by Robert Pendleton,
deputy sheriff The boy was bum
ming" his way thru the country, and
was without any money, Pendleton
said.
o. B Cutler left today for Empnria.
where the funeral of his brotaer-in-
aw. James Kelsey, is to be held We'd
nesday. Following the funeral at En-
poria Wednesday morning, the body
will be taken to Lawrence in the after
noon for burial in the Brookhill ceme-
terry.
F. L. Carter, sos North Van Buren,
street, was arrested by the police Mon
day afternoon on a charge of having
liquor in his possession. In Carter S
cellar the officers found small home
brew outfit, four cases OF home brew
and three large jars containing brew
in the process of fermentation.
A 2O-gallon key of home brew was
confiscated by Sheriff Robert Miller,
Oscar Perkins and Robert Pendleton,
attorney, in a raid on the home of
Frank Medley, 421 East Fourth street,
this morning. Neeley and his wife
were arrested and locked up in the
county Jail.
Two carloads of flour left Topeka
today for shipment to Manchester.
England, via the Rock Island to New
Orleans. The ocean freight rate on
today's shipment was "a cents per
hundred pounds, which is higher by
11k cents a hundred pounds than the
rates which have been in effect on
previous shipments.
C. w. Parson, farmer living
eighteen miles southwest OF Topeka;
C. E. Raser, and J. C. Wells were ar
rested by the police Monday night on
a charge OF fighting. The disturbance
occurred at the Brundage carnival,
which opened here Monday. Several
others in the fight escaped. it was
said The trio were released on $40
bond to appear in police court today.
A. G. Batchelder, one of the seven
victims of the aero-ambuiance crash
at Indian Head, Md, Saturday night,
was well known here, having been a
frequent visitor in Topeka in the past
few years. He was executive chair
man of the American Automobile as
ISOLATION and well acquainted with To-
cal automobile men. At different
times while visiting here he was the
guest of Charles Barnes and w, w
Webb.
None of the four bids of Topeka
contractors was low enough to war
rant the award of the contract for the
new Central Park Christian church,
according to Mrs. S. L. Wilson, chair
man of the church construction COM
mittee. Bids will be received until
June Is, it is announced, In order to
try to get lower estimates on the work
The church auditorium, to be con-
structed first, will be IS by 70 feet,
with the Sunday school to be built
later. The new church is to be built
next to the old building on Central
Park avenue.