The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-19


For your course of instruction Pleases"
Cir-Ctngle.
We buy liberty bonds. Shawnee Invest
ment Co., 534 Kansas Ave. Phone 50J0.-Adv.
The washburn volunteers will have
First BAPTIST Church Thursday evening.
The pulpit committee will have a report
| to make.
| The Long Oil Co. Manhattan. has pur-
chased the two lots OH the southwest cor
! ner of Topeka avenue and Tenth, of Mrs
MILAN Davis and vii tb tear down or the
| begin the construction of modern new
building to be used as filling station.
of Fred If0g 1 q kee
street, caused fire at II :45 O'Clock this
morning. In the high wind the fire spread
very rapidly. However, fire companies ar
rived in time to prevent more serious
| damage than hole about ten feet square
| in the roof. The building is owned by
Robert Buckner.
Asa Crawford. manager of. the Washburn
| Dramatic club, says that sufficient money
| is assured toward the Greek theater pro-
! ject. to plan to lay the cornerstone of the
! building late in the summer. 1t will be
of ancient Athens. The building will cost
| about 5000, and will be asset to Topeka
as well as to Washburn.
At the annual convention of the Kansas
Retail Shoe Dealers association in Kansas
| City Tuesday, A. Il. Springer, Topeka. was
elected etary-treasurer. Other officers
dent; A. c. Coolidge, Smith Center, Arthur
Holm. Marysville and Joe Rosenthal, Cha
mute, vice president, and Harry Campbell,
Hutchinson, sergeant-at-arms.
The last of the basket ball games in the
! series being played by the Sunday school
played tonight at O'Clock by the following
teams: Junior league, Walnut Grove
Methodist against the First Baptist:
First Baptist, and First United Brethren
against Walnut Grove Methodist.
The meeting of the presbytery of To-
| ri
April s, is expected to develop many new
ideas along the line of the New Era move
terrain churches all over the country. Their
program calls for the expenditure of
| which will be used TO increase the salaries
| of their pastors.
| The big stores of Topeka will raise the
+, curtains of their windows simultaneously
Thursday at noon, to show the public what
| the spring has to offer in fashion and
beauty; 1t Is expected to arouse much en-
exhibitions twice yearly. The Topeka Re-
tail Merchants association is backing the
| tains will be raised in all windows at Il
! O'Clock sharp.
Unique. novel and fearsome costumes
ttacky party given. for Marshairs band
| by the ladies' auxiliary to the band Tues
Ra Mrs Charles was CHAPMAN at a fhf
Alfred Kushera won the first prizes offered
for the best costumes. The ladies' auxiliary
and it is announced that "doin' s. for the
| members of the band will be frequent in
the future.
Fred Crossley. private secretary to Sena-
! tor Chas. Curtis, has arrived from Wash
ington: after an absence Of eighteen
Central National bank building. in the
rooms occupied by the Republican state
central fo COMMITTEE S which will be headquar-
! from Washington. According to CrossIey.
it is officially believed in Washington that
al 1f a
about May 1.
| The Classical association of Kansas and
western Missouri teachers will be held in
| Topeka April % and &c. There will be
banquet and an interesting program for
every session Harold 7; Chase and Prof.
Sf tha heTe6o oti~ are both to speak at one
| the Topeka senior and Junior high schools,
Washburn college. the Catholic high
ing Tuesday to perfect arrangements. Prof.
Roy Towne of Washburn presided at the
| meeting.
Ed Bass, who has greenhouse East
Fifteenth street, near the ball park, has
had to pay 81 an hour to have the water
greenhouse After the hard rain last SAT-
grday night the water was over five feet
impossible to have fire. The only pump
he had was a small inch and quarter
ren OF b12ro and he unable to buy
house was without heat from Saturday
night until O'Clock this morning. Con-
l
| by coal dust and mildew.
II J. Corwine. candidate for mayor was
| the principal speaker at the Cooperative
club dinner given at the Elk club Tuesday
| night. He told the members of the club
| that he was not the candidate of any lodge,
| church, or labor organization, but of the
fair minded citizens. DIR. and Mrs. Chas.
| X. Scovflle. who were in Topeka their
way from Camp Funston to Chicago. were
guests of the club. and contributed to the
program, DIR. ScOviile with talk on the
problems of today, and his wife, with sew
| eral vocal solos \. l.. Johnson repre-
| sentative from Norton county, Representa-
tive Gilman of Leaven worth, and II. Breid-
enthal, were also guests of the club
Topeka Rotarians will be enlightened
as to the true labor situation in America
| at the regular meeting of the club at the
Chamber of Commerce at u 10 O'Clock to-
morrow noon. o. +. Wright, local manager
for the International Harvester company.
is to make the principal talk of the day.
The International Harvester company is
one of the largest employers of labor in
statistics which it distributes among its
managers in all parts of the world
Wright's talk tomorrow will be based on
recent statistics of the company showing
the labor situation as it is today II. O.
West will give a short history of the life
of O. T.. Wright, and Ferdinand Funk will
give the Rotary talk
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