The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-27
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The Square Circle club will meet at
the Elks' club at 6:15 o'clock tonight.
Heavy U. s. Army Blankets, Coats,
Shoes, Underwear for sale at SCI
Kansas Ave.-Adv.
+ The Topeka Poultry Breeders asso-
citation will meet at the Chamber of
Commerce at 8 o'clock tonight.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co 534 Kansas avenue Adv.
The annual celebration of st. Johns
day will be held by Orient Lodge No.
81 at the city auditorium tonight.
The choir of the First Presbyterian
church gave Noel" christmas can
tata, at the church Sunday night.
"A business meeting and luncheon OF
the Inter-Service club will be held at
the Chamber of Commerce at 6:15
o'clock tonight.
Children of the First Baptist church
| contributed s54s to the relief fund for
children of Europe at the Sunday
school service Sunday morning.
A small kindling fire ii the base
ment of the T. j. Lyman home brought
the fire department to the home at
midnight Sunday night in response to
the alarm.
The annual New Years dinner at
the Central Park Christian church
will be served by the women of the
church, and will be followed by the
annual business meeting of members
at o'clock on New Years day.
The basketball game played by the
Lincoln high school five from Kansas
City with the local colored Y. NJ. C.
A. Friday evening at the high school
gymnasium resulted in defeat for the
home team by a score of 80 to 9.
The Colored Shriners of Topeka
members of Oasis Shrine Temple No
90, will give a party and ball on New
Years Day, at the Metropolitan hall
ers from Kansas City and St. Joseph
as their guests.
The next semi-annual loss and dam
age conference of the Santa Fe lines
will probably be held at Oakland
Calf, according to Topeka officials OF
the road. There has been a decrease
in the number of damage claims pre-
scented since the last meeting was held
at Galveston in October.
Plans were almost ready for receiv-
| ing bids on the new building to be
added to the waterworks power plant
! City Engineer w. E. Baldry said today
The building is for accommodation OF
/ the consolidated light and power
| plants. and was provided for in the
| Der 2.
The First Presbyterian church and
Sunday school will have contributed
more than $4,000 toward European
and Asiatic relief funds when all funds
are counted, it is estimated. Metho-
dist Sunday schools, including the
First the Lowman Memorial, the Oak
| land, the Euclid Avenue, the Kansas
Avenue and Trinity, have raised 81
1858.
A proposal to pave with asphalt the
( two and a half blocks of street an
West Tenth street between where the
city and county pavements end vii
be contained in a resolution to be pre-
scented to the city commission Tuesday
morning. The unpaved section is be-
tween Washburn and Woodward ave-
nues. The city plans to effect the
pavement with the cooperation of the
county.
The year 1920 has been marked by
total absence of any fatal accident
in andustry in Topeka, according te
Irwin Snattinger. manager of the
Sherman Ellis Insurance Service. The
number of deaths and injuries result
ing from industries each year il
steadily decreasing, according to- Snat'
| finger, as a result of the increasing
recognition by employees that safety
means efficiency.
| The world will be made safe Tor the
| citys street light globes when 1864
globe protectors are provided for them
| by Commissioner w. A. Stanfield OF
| the light department. Bids are to BIZ
asked for Immediately on the protec
tors, which are devices of metal de-
| signed by Commissioner Stanfield
The lights are to be so we'll protected
, by the plan that the insurance on the
globes is to be dropped.
The services at the First congrega-
tional church were ended suddenly a
the First Congregational church Sun
day morning when smoke from tbs
building caused a fire alarm to be
! turned in by passerhy. The smoke
came srom the furnace which was be-
ling cleaned by the janitoT, and did moi
furnish a fire for the fire department
when it arrived. But church service
was ended for the morning.
A large amount of red tape and
gold seals is necessary before the city
bonds sold to the amount of 100000
recently to finance the waterworks
improvement proposition, go to their
owner, Col. John r. Dean, of the Co
lumbar Trust company. The bonds
are in denominations of $1,000 each
and bear an interest rate of II pei
cent. They must be signed by the
mayor, signed twice by Miss Eta
Covell, city clerk, and stamped twice
with the seal of the city, one of seals
gold one, and finally be signed by
] chaser receives them.