The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-01

arrangements for the schedule for the
new. term. The school hours have
been shortened fifteen minutes in the
forenoon and the afternoon hours
Thru this method teachers can devote
three-fourth of the day to academic
subjects without interruption.
The next regular meeting of the city
planning board is to be held at noon
Thursday, at the Chamber of Com
merce, at which time L. D. eTiiton. a
lthorofare expert on the staff of Har-
land Bartholomew, city pIanner, will
be in Topeka and will meet with the
board. 1t is probable that a report
of the local boards thorofare- COM
mittee, of which Charles p. Adams is
| chairman, will be made at that time.
A new course is to be added to the
instruction in journalism offered at
Washburn college during the semes-
ter just opening. The course is to ne
called Ethics of Journalism and
will be taught by Prof. A. 7. Burch
head of the Journalism department.
The class will meet for one hour, twice
a week. Special students and persons
not students at Washburn college will
be permitted to make special arrange
ments to enter the course.
Rufe King. formerly of Maple Hill,
was arrested by the police late Tuesday
afternoon on a charge of having liquor
custody in a room at 610 Kansas
avenue, upstairs, whers>a pint OF
whisky was found, according to the
pQllces He was released on $1,000
bond to appear in police court Friday.
King is now under $4,000 bond pend
ing his appeal to the supreme court
from the decision of the Usage county
district court where he was found
guilty Of the murder of John Woody
at Maple Hill in 1905.
The officers of the Central Congre-
gational church for the coming year
are; Trustees, Charles P. Adams, J.
NJ Averill, D. o. Coe, S. L. Cox, r. G.
Fuller, E. C. Gunter, r. E. Mayhem.
]. N. Quail, E. E. Stanley. P. P. Wolfe,
Mrs. L. F. Day and Mrs. ]. D. Gossett;
deacons, r. j. LOOMS, j. A. Aldrich,
o. d. Booth, L. M. Jones, J. A. Lem
ons E. E. Peak, o. T. Rees, G. D.
Walp, A. B. Whiting; deaconesses, MRS.
w. Ell. Stanley, Mrs. Clara Boyd, Mrs
J. A. Crabb, Mrs. r. H. DoWnes. Mrs.
G. C. Wheeler, Mrs. E. c. Wise and
Mrs w. H. Sloo, honorary.
Charles Peterson of Kansas City,
Kan, today filed an action in the
United States district court at Topeka
against the Milwaukee ACorrugating
company charging infringement upon
a patent which he says he obtained on
January 27, 1914, the subject matter
of which was a brace or support for
roof cutters. During the past two
years he charges that the company
has been manufacturing his product
by the thousands and selling them at
a large profit. Peterson asks for 5000
damages for the alleged infringement
upon his patent, and for the profits
the company has made according to
an accounting under the direction of
the court.
4 All attractive pro~ram consisting of
book reviews has been arranged by
the Sunday Evening Reading club of
the Central Congregational church for
this month and March. The program
includes More That Must Be Told"
Man for the Ages" by Miss Ruth Hunt
on February IL; 'Lillom," by Miss
Ruth Rooster on February 10: %Cler-
ambault,'' by Dean P. S. Zampierre of
Washburn college, February 20;
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him."
by Prof. Will A. Irwin on March 6;
arch Dorm by George P. Morehouse,
on March 10; a review by Prof. E.
D. Schonberger on March 20; ''Fhe Sea
and Sardinia" by Prof Elrick B.
Davis, on March 81.
Alleging that she bad conspired sue-
cessfully with her son by a former
marriage to get possession of his for
mula for a blood tonic, together with
his agents and the entire business, and
then left him, blind and helpless to
shift for himself L. P. Grayson today
filed in the. district court an answer
to the divorce petition of his wife,
Anna Grayson. filed last August.
Grayson asks that a restraining order
be issued to prevent her from selling
the tonic, alleging that she is running
the bsuiness because she is not ia
nliliar with the best way to make the
medicine. In her petition Mrs. Gray
son claimed the formula was discov-
cred by herself and that her husband