The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-06

| after she left the car and entered her
home they began to throw bottles and
other missiles at the house The bonn
/ bardment was the outgrowth or an
argument. she said. Ella then fired
several shots OF them. according to
/ the officers, and they got away before
the police arrived.
A call for a meeting of the taxpay-
ers' league of Oakland has been issued
by J. H. Lathrop, chairman, for Tues
day evening at 1880 O'Clock at the
Oakland school house. The purpose
of the meeting will be the selection OF
delegate to the state meeting which
will be held in the city auditorium on
Thursday.
The pupils who have made perfect
records in the music memory contest
being conducted in the city schools
are: Potwin. Sarah Louise Gossett;
Monroe, A1tha Hickman, Elizabeth
Wilson, Minnie Martin, Hortense Ha-
gan: POLK, Katherine Glasscook; La
fayette. James Kelly, Donald johnson,
Opal Hughes.
The Rev. Fred De weerd of Fair
mount, Ind, who is conducting evan
gelistic services at the Wesleyan
Methodist church, will speak at 1880
O'Clock Tonight on the subject, Mis-
SONS" He will tell of his missionary
experiences in Africa Ten CONVEX
sions were reported at the Sunday
evening service.
Mrs. Isaac Seweu and Miss Bonita
Ferguson of the Kansas Sunday
School association, will attend the
Neosho county institute for Sunday
school workers, which will be held at
Chanute Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mrs. SewelI will also attend a chill
dren's division institute at Parsons
on Thursday and Coffeyville Friday.
y more than five years in the
state penitentiary was the sentence
received in the district court Saturday
afternoon by James Ankeny. who was
convicted of felonious assault on Will
liam Kopseker, 400 Clay street An
keny slashed kopsekerS throat with
a razor as the latter was leaving his
airplane shop on East Sixth avenue
last Halloween night.
Jose Ma Hernandez, 100 Klein street,
and Angel Sanchez, 800 East Third
street, Were arrested by the police
Saturday on warrants charging them
with Strengthening animals within the
city limits. Hernandez was arrested
after he sold two pounds of pork to
Harry L. Burger, city bacteriolOgist.
The carcass of a hog was found in
men were released on bond.
Twelve cases of pneum onia, four
cases of tuberculosis, five cases of
chickenpox, one case of smallpox, five
cases of diphtheria and three cases ,e OF
social disease were reported to the city
health department during the week
which ended Saturday. Two new cases
of diphtherla have been reported this
week Vaccination of pupils at the
Topeka high school is continuing to-
day, in accordance with an order OF
the state board of health, due to the
discovery of a case of smallpox in the
nigh school.
Subscriptions to the building fund
of rhe new Methodist church have
averaged nearly $4,000 per week since
the campaign was started With sub
scriptions of $500 the past week the
total amount raised is $161, 900, it was
announced at the services Sunday
This includes the insurance collected
on the old church.. In the. meantime
the church has raised its current bud
get amounting to $14,600 and the GEN.
tenary fund of $11,165 has been con-
tinued. Work is progressing rapidly
on the new building.
The arrest of several persons for
driving cars with 1921 license tags has
begun to get results. A long line of
motorists filed thru the office of T. B.
Boyd, county treasurer. this morning
to make application for the 1922 tags,
which were supposed to have been
procured by February 1. About fif-
teen persons have been arrested and
to put up S25 cash bonds
for their appearance in police court.
The arrests will continue until every
one has procured a 1929 license, &C