The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-15
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Dancing Saturday afternoon $3.50 at
Steinberg's.-Ady.
All issues of Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 1874 Kansas avenue ADV.
List your property with the Shaw
nee Investment Company. Phone $3.50.
ADV.
Superintendents of local Sunday
schools will meet at 6:15 O'Clock this
evening at the Central Y. M. c. A.
Robert D. McG.ffert. city commits
sioner of parks and public property,
has gone to Chicago to spend several
days.
An all-day meeting will be held next
Sunday at the United Brethren church
to be known as Stewardship Sunday"
Dinner will be served at the church.
S. F. Hughes and Paul Huycke re-
turned today from Dewey, Okla.s
where they attended a meeting OF the
board of directors OF the Dewey Port
land Cement company.
Mrs. ]. B. Goff. 1918 East Sixth
street, reported to the police that
burglars entered the basement of her
home Thursday night and got away
with ten quarts of fruit. No arrests
have been made.
The jury in the case OF Mrs. Mary
Z. Kotterman. who sued the city for
$1,000 for injuries she claims to have
received when she stepped in a hole in
the sidewalk. failed to agree, Thurs
day after several hours of delibera-
ton.
Members of the Farmers union and
the farm bureau will picnic at Gage
park Saturday A basket dinner will
be served at noon. and the progra m
will include a discussion of the war"
between farmers and the wheat specu-
lators.
A suit for $500 damages was filed
in the district court Thursday by
Charles Rodgers, 10. against Jesse H.
alleges Critics struck him on the head
with a piece of gas pipe during
quarrel.
The Monarch Cement, company of
Humboldt, one of a number of COM
panies charged by the attorney gen.
eral with having conspired to fix
prices and otherwise violate the law
Thursday filed answer to the antitrust
suit, in the supreme court.
The Shawnee County Grange will
elect delegates to the Kansas State
Grange meeting at a local meeting of
the Y. w. c. A. this afternoon. The
state grange meeting will be held in.
| from. fifteen Kansas oranges will at
tend.
Representatives of missionary socie-
ties of many United Brethren churches
in northeastern Kansas are meeting in
Topeka today at the First United
Brethren church for annual district in
stitute gathering. Miss Florence Chip
pinger of Dayton, O., field worker, is
the principal speaker on the program.
Ernest Straub, IS and blind, fell
from the barn loft at his home, 1925
North Kansas avenue, and suffered a
broken hip. He is in st. Francis hos
pital. His injuries are serious but he
reports. Straub was postmaster at
Wanamaker until that station was
| abandoned.
| All members of the Inter-Service
| club are asked to turn out for a
| special luncheon at the Chamber of
| Commerce tomorrow noon. The meet
| ing is called by p. A. Fafrbank, presi-
| dent 1t is urgently requested that
| every member make a special and
| direct effort to attend the meeting as
business of unusual Importance is to
be brought up.
| Residents of the Central Y. NJ. C. A.
organized a dormitory club to be
known as the Cliff Dwellers' club at
the association building Thursday
night. Meetings will be held every
| Thursday evening at Sis o'clock. Of
ficers of the club are: Raymond
Richardson, president; E. E. Emer-
son, vice president; H. l. Armstrong,
secretary and R. F. Steiner, pianist
| The new Santa Fe train which is to
make its first run November IA from
| Chicago to San Francisco will be
known as the Chicago Limited on its
eastbound trip. it has been announced
The name San Francisco Limited
will stick to the train for its westward
run. The Chicago Limited Will not
pass thru Topeka on its eastward jour
ney. The San Francisco Limited Will
reach here at 1:40 a. m.
Tickets for the Rota club pageant
| to be given October 21 and % at the
city auditorium are now on sale at
Pelletier's, Crosby Brothers, Warren
M. Crosby's. Santa Fe Watch company,
Zercher's Book store. Sullivan's Art
store, Campbelfs Drug store. Rowley'
Drug store and Klingaman's Drug
store. In North Topeka tickets are
being sold at the Austin-Snedikcr
Mercantile company. Petros Drug
store and Campbelfs Drug store.
Oscar Carlson. deputy sheriff. TO-
day took possession of a steamer trunk
containing two quarts of whisky and
lseveral broken liquor bottles at the
Missouri Pacific depot. The trunk had
been shipped from New York to To-
identify it. The liquor was contained
in a tin box on the inside. around
(which was stuffed packing. The trunk
had no other contents, Carlson said!
A motion picture film exploded al
the Crystal theater Thursday night
lcausing a rush of the movie fans 10
the door of the theater. The fire was
slight and quickly extinguished by the
fire department. The only other fire
reported in the city Thursday resulted
from lightning striking the roof of the
E. E. Woodland home. 1882 Morris
avenue during the storm in the after
noon. Only slight damage was done
Business men and farmers alike
favor the good roads amendment
which is pending, according to w. C.
Markham. secretary of the state high
way commission, who returned Thurs
day from a trip in the interests of the
amendment. which covered Lawrence
Pittsburg. Winfield. Wellington WITCH
tia and Kansas City. He will attend