The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-03

tionaI Institute. spoke on racial prog
ress. The Rev. J. S. Williams gave
the closing address. He spoke on tho
work and advancement of the colored
people.
The First Christian, Third Christian
and North Topeka Christian churches
of Topeka have been recognized as
having standard Sunday schools by the
Kansas Christian Missionary society,
the state organization of the denomi
nation in Kansas according to J. D.
Zimmerman, Bible school secretary of
the society. Forty-two churches have
been placed on the list.
o. J. Dutton, general agent for the
Union Central Life Insurance COM
pany, with offices at 500 Kansas ave
nue., left this afternoon for Cincinnati.
O., where he will attend the annual
convention of Union Central agents
which will be held there January 5,
and 7. Dutton was accompanied by
his son, Robert D. Dutton, who became
a member of the company's agency
club the past year.
The free municipal nutrition and
baby clinics which were abandoned
during the diphtheria epidemic, are to
be resumed this week The nutrition
clinic, under the charge of DR.. R. j.
Miller, will be held Wednesday after
noon between the hours of o'clock
and 5 O'Clock. The first baby clinic.
under the charge of DR.. P. E. Belk-
nap. will be held between the hours
of 2 O'Clock and o clock-both in
the clinic room at the city hall.
The roof OF the Polk school house
caught fire shortly after O'Clock
Monday evening, and was slightly
damaged. The roof caught fire from
sparks dropping from the chimney.
Two other alarms were answered.
Monday evening by the fire depart
ment One was from a grass fire be-
tween Munson and Plass avenues or
Wayne street, and the other false
alarm from Eleventh street and Nor
ris avenue.
An ordinance passed this morning
by the city commission provided for
the vacating of a strip along the east
side of Madison street from Crane
street to the right of way of the Santa
Fe, which is needed in the construction
of a new packing plant at the foot OF
the street. Madison street at that
| point is not used, and is 100 feet wide
Under the ordinance, the eighteen-foot
strip may now be used by the packing
| plant for the construction of quarters
for its ice COMPRISING machinery.
| Clarence V. Nelson, of Waterville,
Kan, d farmer, today filed petition
| in voluntary bankruptcy in tederal
/ court, placing his liabilities at $Z5,-
ZD.3f
wife, Matilda Nelson, started s1millar
proceedings at the same time, naming
! Joint liabilities with her husband TO
! the amount of SIS, S50.86, and no as
sets except an inchoate right as
| the wife of Nelson to certain property
and real estate, the value of which she
! states she is unable to determine.
George Lawson. negro, was arrested
this morning by the police on charge
of assault and battery made by Henry
Jones, another negro, following a
| fight in the basement of the First
Methodist church building, Sixth ave
nue. and Harrison street. Jones, 1t
was said, had been discharged, but
i persisted in lettering about the place.
He is alleged to have gone down into
the basement where Lawson WIZ
working and started a quarrel. A fight
| ensued, which resulted in Jones
swearing out the warrant, it was said.
Lawson was imme diately released on
bond.
| Mrs Edith E. Liggett, 1103 East
Sixth avenue. has filed a petition in
| the district court asking a divorce
from John H. Liggett. J. H. Ensmin-
/ ger, Mrs. Liggett's attorney. removed
| the petition from the district clerks
/ office as soon as it was filed and re-
/ fused to reveal it. Ensminger admit
ted that he renewed the petition for
| the purpose of keeping the case out
| or the newspapers, saying the parties
were opposed to any publicity It is
understood that Mrs. Liggett charged
| her husband with haying a high tenn
| per and surly disposition, and alleged
/ that her husbands affections had
/ cooled.
| With a murder case scheduled for
trial, a special venire OF thirty petit
! jurors has been drawn for the term of
FEDERAL court which will convene at
Kansas City, Kan. January g. The
| case is that in which Leander Martin.
negro. is charged with having shot
and killed another negro at Fort Riley
last June. Both men were soldiers at
| the time. Judging from past expert
ences with murder cases. court Off
Gals first made a proposal to draw
sixty additional jurors, but the num-
Der was cut in half by Judge John C.
Pollock. With the regular panel of
! thirty there viii be sixty jurors for the
term, but court officials say that usu-
ally in murder cases from seventy to
one hundred jurors are required be-