The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-14

peace Is pieced
The next vital question will be-
Are corsets for women called underwear
To be taxed as n luxury?
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vorde from %he Mason Re Was given
custody of the three children.
The Rota club will hold its regular eve
ming meeting Wednesday evening, June
IS at 6 o'clock at the Elks club. All
members are urged to come.
I. S. GnIitzky of the New Toggery, has
just returned, from Kansas city, where
he attended the Midwest Retail Merchants
and Clothiers reconstruction conference.
The members Of Lincoln Post are re-
quested to meet at the hall at Z o'clock
this evening to attend Flag day services ss
jutant.
Prof Roy Towne, of washburn college,
will lecture to his Bible class Sunday at
10 a; m, at the First Congregational
! streets. His subject will be The Death
OF Socrates
transom over the door afforded
burglars an entrance into John Baumgart-
ners tailor shop at $50 Kansas avenue
early this morning. Eleven suit patterns
and four suits awaiting alterations totaled
their loot The police were notified.
The Rota club is trying to get a num-
of frosted drop cakes for the BOY Scouts.
who are winding up their week here to-
the cakes at Mrs. Lords flower shop be-
fore p. IN. and the Rota club Will give
them to the scouts.
Mayor Herbert j. Corwine. state chair
man of the campaign committee of the
Boy Scouts, has called upon every min
lister in Kansas to aid in the Boy Scout
| to cooperate in every way possible were
sent out from state headquarters by
Mayor Corwine today.
The much needed new directory of To-
by the Polk Radges Directory company, it
has been announced by Sam Radges.
local representatiiIEe Th he,c directory G nov
out of date.
Sheepskin was found to be scarce when
an attempt was made to purchase some
A number of the sixty-six graduates were
given blank sheets Of paper, tied mp in
ribbons, because of the lack of sheePskin
dill Tomas. No one In the audience Thurs
day knew the difference. Regular diplomas
will be mailed to those who failed to get
| them.
Major Albert A. Roby. United States
army, arrived in Topeka today for short
visit with his parents. DIR. and Mrs. II. W.
| ROby. Major Roby has been in the United
States army for period of twenty five
years. During the world war he was in
| charge of assignments in the aviation see
| ton of the signal corps. Major Roby's
| 0eauQudrIeTS were IN the surgeon general
| department.
looked askance at the rain today. Il means
that the production of the great Shakes
| 10 be played indoors tonight instead Of ON
| the campus. Only late afternoon sun and
| a warm evening will permit an outdoor
production. Otherwise 1t will be given in
| the gymnasium.
Irwin Quell, IT. of Quenemo, is in the
county Jail charged with rifling the
country home of his employer. Claude Ter
rell, OF Richland Terrell claims he went
home one night this week to find the
house rifled and several dollars and a
watch missing. He drove into Richland
sheriff Hugh Larimer arrived. The sheriff
says Quell has confessed to the robbery.
The second case of typhoid fever occur
ring this year was, reported this morning
| when the city health department was noti-
| fled that Benjamin Criss, of 2215 Union ave-
nue., had contracted the disease. Many per-
sons took advantage Of the free innocula-
| tons being given at the clinic in the city
| hall this morning. Or. Earl Brown, city
| health officer, expects that a much larger
number of persons will come in during the
afternoon.
! Leonard Warner, accused of attacking
Company II, National Guard, has won
in two. courts. following his sensational
automobile trip into the midst of the
guards on Quincy street. First, Warner
| faced an assault and battery charge in
he faced a reckless driving charge in
| police court and the case against him has
| been dismissed.
In letter to A. ]. Stout, superintendent
| of school, W. H. Greider, former instruc-
| tor in Topeka high school, states that he
| is now mess officer of A. f. F. base
| hospital at Antwerp, Belgium. Greider.
| Who holds a commission in the medical
| corps, buys most of his supplies from the
| Belgium markets, except the staple articles
| obtained from the American quartermas-
| ter corps His experiences in bargaining
! with the Belgium market women for pro-
duce are interesting, he states.
Topeka is to have a new lunch house. A
five-year lease on the building at 500 Kan
sas avenue. has been obtained by the
| Labeans Lunch company, of Kansas City,
which expects to be ready for business here
about July 1. The company is installing a
was stated. The local house will be known
as the Victor Lunch company. The building
is being remodeled to accommodate the
new company which claims it is going to
| establish an eating house above the aver
| age.
Big. blue eyes and blonde hair isn't rec
ognized by the law as decisive factor in
a lawsuit. As to whether six men sitting
| on jury in the court of Topeka Monday
will be Influenced by these gifts of nature
bestowed upon Ruth Wright, proprietor of
the Cozy theater. is problematical. Ruth
Wright is accused of evading a state law
several weeks ago when she threw on the
screen of her theater picture known as
Borrowed Clothes" 1t Is claimed by the
state that the picture had been censored
by the state board Of review and that
portion of the picture showing the heroine
no 10th