The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-22

lives at lTexarkana, Tex. He filled the
pulpit at the First Christian church
Sunday morning.
a course in the free night school of
thes Knights of Columbus is I'M
like any other offered in a free school
| called an electro.motive auton1obife
! electrics course. Its purpose is to
teach the complete knowledge of an
| electrical motor car appliances.
With the change in schedule which
/ became effective at midnight Sunday
night, Rock Island train No. 8. the
! Golden State Limited gets more
1 limited than ever-quite exclusive in
fact. No. now makes only two pas
| senger stops between Kansas City and
/ Ell /Pasot Tex, one al Topeka, and the
other al Hutchinson.
The regular open meeting of the
Kaw Valley Grange will be held at
! the grange hall in Granville Friday
! night Mrs. Ray Kiene, county home
! demonstrate agent for the Shawnee
county farm bureau, and Mrs Char
! ence Smith, will present papers, and
there will be discussion of the forma-
I ton of county shippers association.
A suit to collect $3.50 damages
from Swift & Company, originally filed
in the Wyandotte county district court.
has been transferred to the federal
court here. L. E. Taylor. of Kansas
4 lily Nall. lS the Uranium ne eSSSA 70
that he contracted la grippe while
working in a refrigerator car and that
the ailment resulted in paralysis of his
lower limbs.
Topeka German Americans. or
Americans with friends and relatives
in Germany, are seeking to assist those
in the Vaterland by sending them
packages of food, clothing, and other
necessities thru the United States mail.
Several articles of food are forbidden
to be sent to Germany, by the postal
regulations and there is limit on the
size and weight of the. packages.
The labor question isn't disturbing
the postmaster at Topeka any. The
applicants for the jobs at the local
postoffice are sufficient in number to
meet all the demands of the situation
and there are no vacancies, for the
/ first time in some months. Many of
this ex-soIdiers from the small towns.
dissatisfie with life there, have APP
piled for positions under the civil
service in the postal department.
Prizes of $50 and $25 in cash have
been offered to the men who rank
first and second in the Moose member
= ship campaign, if 800 or more mem
bers are brought into the lodge by De-
cember l. There are now 100 new
members on the roll of the lodge as a
result of the campaign. Jack Wilson
and c. c. Mathews are now tied for
first place in the contest. with seven
new members to the credit of each.
Large shipments of ash and spruce
some of the former purchased from
the stores of the United States govern
ineft,- have been received recently by
the Iongren Aircraft company. and
will be used in the. manufacture of
their planes. w. d. Wallace, secre-
tary and treasurer of the corporation,
piloted by ]. n. TinIer. made a bust
ness trip to Kensingron Friday in the
! model plane which is used by the Of
ficers of the company.
Ira Romig & Sons have cow in
their herd which stands a chance to
set new state record in milk produc
ton, according to the tests which have
been made by Miss Louise Krigbaum,
supervisor of the Shawnee County Cow
, Testing association, who tested 1855
COWS last month. The candidate for
bovine honors is Pa-Da-Ra, Second,
who during October gave 2,0f9 pounds
of milk, of which 62.58 pounds was
butter fat The average production
i.of the herd of Ronig & Sons last
month was the highest in the associa-
tion.- -
The fund for the Girl Scouts of TC-
pekas has reached nearly S1,500, ac-
cording to Mrs. O. w. Hascall, local
Girl Scout commissioner. The Girl
Scout campaign ended Saturday with a
parade in the afternoon and a supper
at the Y. w c.. A. in the evening.
Near1v one hundred Girls took pa TT