The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-16
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AT HOME NEWS

at auditorium Saturday, Nov. 20.-Ady.
Business lot in Kansas Ave, be-
tween 9Th and 10th. 100000. See
Robert B. Kane.-Adv.
All issues OF Liberty Bends bought
ana sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. b34 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
The awnings from the windows on
the west side of the Santa Fe office
building have been removed for the
winter.
Walter A. Clark, state hotel commits
sioner. was today called TO his home in
ottawa because of the death of his
mother.
Governor Allen left Monday night
for Dayton, Ohio. where he speaks to-
night. He will talk to members of the
Kansas University press club Thurs
day night.
The members Of the Inter Service
club. at their meeting and dinner
Monday night, entertained their wives
and girl friends with a program of
music and dancing after the dinner.
Judge Clyde NJ. Reed of the court
of industrial relations is today hearing
the application of the Atchison Rail-
way, Light q Power company for an
increase in light and power rates for
Atchison.
A class in public speaking under
Prof E. d. SchoenbergeT, of Washburn
college and a class in gas engine work
under Charles Sandmeyer are offered
at the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. night
school tonight.
No efforts to identify the man killed
by Union Pacific train No. 119 in the
Union Pacific yards Wednesday night
of last week were successful and the
body was buried Monday in the pau
pers' section of Rochester cemetery.
Pupils of the Polk school were given
a half holiday Monday because of lack
of heat in the building. In the abb
sence of r. B. Carris. regular janitor,
the assistant janitor failed to make
fire in the furnace Monday morning.
Carris is at StOrmont, hospital con-
valescing from an operation.
Extra passengers to the number of
975 were carried from Kansas City to
Lawrence for the K. U.-Nebraska game
Saturday, the special service depart
ment of the Santa Fe reports. Extra
equipment was added to a regular
train to accommodate the Kansas City
IJayhawkers and Cornhuskers who
wanted to take in the battle.
A new case book is under prepara-
ton by DR.. T. W. Hughes, instructor
and formerly dean of the Washburn
school of law. The book will contain
700 pages and probably will be fin
ished before the end of the present
school year. 1t is being written at the
request of Callaghan & Co, of Chi
caGo, publishers, who have issued 9TH
er books by Dean Hughes.
Foggy weather in Kansas City has
delayed passenger trains thru Topeka
today. in some cases as much as two
hours. Navigating a. train thru the
network of tracks by the guidance of
the signal lights in the Bottoms and
thru the canyon in which the union
citation iG located calls for Slow O.
full work if safety is to be considered.
hence the lateness of the trains today.
DR.. Marie E. Greene of Kansas City
will give her regular lecture at the
Y. w. G. A. tonight at 1880 o'clock.
She will give two lectures at the Y. W.
C. A. for college girls and others on
Wednesday afternoon and a lecture
for men at the Y. NJ. C. A. Wednesday
night at 1880 o'clock. Her subject at
all lectures this week will be Person
al and Social Health Versus Disease"
dealing principally with venerea1 dis
ease.
Thomas Crawford, former Wash
burn student and well known singer
and pianist, is now a member of the
New York Glee club male quartet of
the Redpath- PETER lyceum service
He has Travelled in lyceum work for
several years and has been unusually
successful. He is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. W. Crawford of 1925 Clay
street. Hic lyceum territory is now
Iowa, Minnesota. North and South Da-
kota.
An effort is being made to SECURE
the name of every Shawnee county
settler who was living in the county
prior to 1875, and the attendance of
all the settlers at the annual banquet
and meeting OF the Shawnee County
| Old Settlers association, which is to
| be held in Topeka December T. A list
| of the names which is being secured
thru a canvass of the SCHOOLS in the
county by Josiah Jordan. secretary of
| the association, is to be added to the
records of the organization.