The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-04

ditions. He was accompanied to To-
peka by President w IN Jardlne,
I president of the Kansas state Agrl-
cultural college, Manhattan. where he
delivered an address to the students.
Mrs. Henry w. Peabody of Boston,
J chairman of the committee to raise
I funds for buildings and equipment for
4 the seven Women's Union Christian
colleges in the Orient. delivered an
address before the Missionary Fedora
/ ton of Topeka at a meeting WedneS-
! day afternoon at the Y. W. Q. A She
4 emphasized the vital need of colleges
/ for the new womanhood of the east.
The members of the graduating
class of Quincy school will present a
play entitled, "Billy's Aunt Jane" Fri
| day night in the auditorium of the
school. A play. "Old Colony Days"
will be presented Friday night at
class. Lyle Patterson and Miss Ollie
: Duree have the leading parts. The
eighth grade class of Sumner school
will present the play, 'Hiawatha," at
the high school auditorium on May q.
A few hours after he had been re-
leased on bond after his arrest on a
liquor charge, Chester Hatton, negro,
was arrested again by government
agents Wednesday afternoon when he
was found with whisky in his posses
sion. In the morning he had been ar
rested when officers found liquor in
! his Studebaker car, which was stand
| ing in front of the Throop hotel. A
charge of being a persistent violator
will probably be placed against him,
according to authorities.
Citizens of Shawnee county who feel
that they are being unjustly taxed for
the year 1922 will have chance to
explain their grievances to the county
commissioners, who will sit as board
of equalization at the court house
Monday. May Is. Persons feeling
themselves aggrieved may appear at
that time and have all errors in as
SeSSment corrected and may also have
a hearing relative to any unjust or
excessive valuation which may have
| been assessed and returned for taxa
ton against real or personal property
for the year.
Mrs. Joanna Sherburne, 1908 North
Van Buren, street, has been awarded
one of the forty prizes of So each in
the calendar contest of the save the
surface campaign of Philadelphia, for
the best titles to a picture by Norman
Rockwell which was reproduced in
number of national magazines. The
directors of the contest received over
900 titles from the United States,
Canada and. foreign countries. The
campaign was a nationwide coop
erative movement conducted by paint.
varnish and allied interests to arouse
interest in their products.
Mrs. Eta D. Bracket today filed
a petition in the district court asking
charging him with extreme cruelty.
They were married in the state of
Washington in May, 1920. Mrs.
Bracket declares she left her hus-
band and came to Kansas to escape
his cruelty, but that he followed her
and promised he would treat her bet
ter if she would live him again. She
said she gave him another trial but
that he soon reverted to his old ways.
The only cash he ever gave her was
So. and she has had to work to sup
port herself. she asserts.
c. E. Green, who was picked up by
officers here a few days sgo at the
request of Texas authorities, lost hope
in a habeas corpus suit today when. he
was identified by an officer from Tex
as as the man wanted there. on a for
gerry charge. Five men were brought
from the upper cage in the Shawnee
county Jail and placed in Green's cell.
The Texas officer-was then allowed TO
enter and Immediately picked out
Green as the man wanted. He will
probably be returned this afternoon, it
was said Green had brought a habeas
corpus suit in the district court, claim.
ing his name was Jones and that he
was not the man wanted in Texas.