The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-29
Holcraft-Fiowers.-Adv.


Holcraft-Fiowers.-A
All issues OF Liberty Bends bought
and sold The Shawnee Investment
Co. 53{ Kansas avenue-Adv.
The Square Circle club will give a
stag party at 11s East Sixth avenue
tonight.
A dinner and business meeting of
the Inter-service club is to be held
at the Chamber of Commerce at Sis
o'clock tonight
Richard H. Pierce. Of Coffeyville.
and L4ilburn Lee, of Usage City. en-
listed in the coast artillery corps at
the army recruiting station in Topeka
last week.
George II. Travis, an Indian was ar
rested on a drunk charge Saturday for
the third time within q week. He
claimed to have been robbed of $500
by a negro near the Rock Island depot
Friday night.
Construction on a four-flat apart
ment house, to be built by C. B. Win
gett, has commenced. The building.
| located at Huntoon and Tyler streets.
| is to be of frame construction. Charles
D. Cuthbert is the architect.
William Kelley. jailer, has succeed
ed Carl Golf, who died last week. as
police clerk and docket man. George
IL. y r.
nan, will act in HKieley's place as jailer
| temporarily. John L. Pugh has sue
ceeded Ed Nedeau. who resigned q
week ago, as 1ailer.
A meeting of the Topeka Poultry
Breeders association Is to be held at
o'clock tonight at the Chamber OF
Commerce. Members and nonmen-
bers will attend, aHd plans for the state
poultry show to be held in Topeka
during the second week in January
will be discussed.
Numbers from Shepard's THE Word
Made Flesh will be given under the
auspices of the music department OF
the Woman club at the Y. w. G. A,
Thursday. December 2. The double
under the direction of Mrs. ARA
Clark, will give the program.
| Steel has arrived for the addition to
the Warren NJ. Crosby store. and the
excavation is practically complete. F.
| NJ. Spencer & Sons are the contractors
| in charge of the work. Frank c.
| Squires, the architect. Is also in charge
of the plans for a s250.0oO court house
at Stockton and a $4,000 rural high
school at Woodston.
Speed governors have been applied
to the elevator cars in the Santa Fe
! building. The governors operate to
automatically stop the cages, when
they exceed the speed limit, about 45O
| feet per minute. Since it is only 10
feet from the top of the elevator shaft
| to the bottom, the cages can make the
entire trip in about eighteen seconds.
/ Employees OF the state hospital have
| organized a literary society among
| their number, and the first meeting of
the society, with program to be
| givens=by the members. will be held
/ Tuesday evening. A feature of the
/ Do IN ha =
which Guy Putty, head chef at one of
| the hospital kitchens, is TO be defend
ant on the charge of having neglected
10 wash the coffee pot
The Santa Fe boasts the longest
| simplex circuit in the world-the
Simplex being circuit over. which
| both telephone and telegraph mes
sages can be transmitted simuitane-
ously. When the units are connected,
the circuit extends from Chicago to
Los Angeles, and from Topeka to the
Gulf Coast. The telephone system is
used for train dispatching. and the
Telegraph for the transmission Of mes
sages.
i The student body of the Topeka
high school includes two 12-year-old
! prodigies, and a 24-year-old-yeteran
of the world war, who had two years
service in France. The youngest stu
dent in the high school is Inez Gar
diner, who entered the high school
this fall at the age of 2 years. Virgil
| Anderson, now a senior in the Topeka
high, entered the Silver Lake high
i school at the age of IL years, coming
| to Topeka in his sophomore year.
The manuscript. for the history of
the aH-Kansas 353rd regiment, a Kan
sas infantry regiment OF the Eighty
ninth division, is to go to the printer
this month. The printing of the his
Etory will be in charge of the Rev, Otis
IGrey of Wichita. who was chaplain of
the regiment. Only a limited edition
will be published. and advance sub
scriptions for the book will be received
by Chaplain Greyfat postoffice box No.
20, Wichita.
Members of the Shawnee county
farm bureau voluntarily decided to
raise the membership fee of $3.50 a
year to $40 year, the better to en-
able the organization to carry out the
purposes for which it has been
formed. The decision was taken at a
meeting of the bureau held at the
court house Saturday afternoon.
Ralph H. Snyder, of Oskaloosa, presi-
dent of the state farm bureau, was
present at the meeting Of the county
I Organization.