The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-13

Topeka. The train was one which left
Topeka at 4:4O o'clock Sunday after
noon.
Deputy United States Marshals A.
A. Trobert and John Wood left sun
day for Tucson, Ariz.. taking with
them q r. Bailey, a prisoner at the
federal prison at Leavenworth, who is
wanted to testify in a case there Tues
day Bailey was brought from Leav-
enworth Saturday and spent that night
in the Shawnee county Jail Trobert
and Wood expect to return to Topeka
Thursday.
Friday, the 18th, will be a sad day
for one Bill Robertson, alias ANTE
lone" who is serving a-sentence in the
federal prison at Leavenworth for
selling dope in northern Texas. His
sentence will expire next Friday but
when he approaches the prison gate
he will be arrested on warrant
charging him with the same offense
in western Oklahoma, it was stated at
the district attorneys office today.
Armine D Weiskirch of Topeka has
been appointed as a special assistant
attorney general. He will be assigned
to special law enforcement work in
connection with liquor crusades in
several Kansas counties. Weiskirch is
a native Topekan and a graduate of
Washburn college law school He
made a record in college athletics.
He has been engaged in the practice
of law here since being admitted to
the bar.
DR.. WiIfred T. Grenfel, medical mis-
sionary of national prominence, who
has been serving the natives of Lab
rador and Newfoundland, will give
an illustrated lecture at the Topeka
high school auditorium March 1S- A
local committee will be in charge of
the lecture. The members are: DR..
s. ]. Crumbine, chairman; DR.. S. S.
Estey, Ralph McEntire. William Bow
man, D. o. Coe. Mrs. c. A. Wolf and
! Bishop James Wise.
LET the 16-year-olds have a
chance" says a columnist in a Topeka
newspaper in commenting on the con-
templated city ordinance raising the
motor driver age limit from 16 to IS.
"A chance, Good Lord, a chance %
| yeIped a Topeka business man today
| That is the trouble with the youth OF
! today-we are giving them too many
chances, and they are taking them.
Don't waste any pity on the smart
/ alecky 16-year-olds."
Mrs Emma Brant1ey, 135 North
{ Monroe street, and Helen Anderson,
| 12S North Van Buren, street, were ar
rested in raids on their homes by De-
tectives Jesse Hill and Charles Hol-
man Saturday evening and charged
! with selling narcotics Forty-two
morphine tablets were found in Mrs.
Brantley's home and two in Helen
Andersons home, officers said. They
were both released on $1,000 bonds to
appear in police court Tuesday.
The First Methodist church has only
to raise S44,550 more and the cam
paign to secure funds to replace the
church burned down last August will
have been a success. The goal is
100000 and it was announced at
Sundays services that the total
amount pledged was S155, 450 Dona-
lions during the past week amounted
to $3.50. This included subscrip-
ton of $500 by DR.. and Mrs. E. J.
Kuip, and a like amount from Miss
Bessie Boughton.
The first public radiophone concert
ever held in Topeka will be presented
at o'clock Friday evening at the
Railroad Y. NJ c. A An Edison
photograph will be placed at the
home of John Lundberg, sos West
Fifth avenue, and the music will be
sent from the apparatus there thru
an amplifier to the Railroad Y NJ. c
A. building. The Topeka Electric Co.