The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-22

The truest love the heart can know.
If fastened by thread.
1t may endure, aye many things,
Then suddenly be dead.
If you possess the priceless gift
OF one whose love is true.
Beware lest in your thoughtlessness,
You snap that thread in two.
-Nels Yingle.
The Inter Service club will hold it's
regular meeting at 80 this evening at
the Chamber of Commerce. s
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold The Shawnee Investment
Co, 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
Mrs. r. n Davis, sos FlIrmore street.
who underwent Il serious operation at st.
Francis hospital Saturday, is slightly i'm
proved.
Right to park on the north side of the
RowIey drug store corner was today grant
ed f. j. Phillips, a jitney operator, by
Chas. W. Hodgson.
The executive committee Of the American
Legion will meet tonight at THE legion
will be a solution of the financial problem,
according to John Bergen, adjutant.
Members of the state mercantile board
today were hearing arguments of employees
in all mercantile establishments with coun
ter arguments by employers for keeping
open on saturday nights after that hour.
Scarcity of material and prevailing high
prices have INDUCED property owners of
Topeka to rebuild old sidewalks rather
than lay new ones, according to w. S.
Hancock, street commi Missioner. Only where
new houses are being built are new walks
laid, be declared.
A. J. Kull who has been in charge
of the local office of II. q. Dun & Go ,
has been promoted to assistant mana grr-
ship Of the st. Joseph office. He left for
sas City. is to assume control of t.e local
office Kull has been in the young men S
section of the Chamber of Cominerce.
| Robert Miller, undersheriff. @oturned Sat
urday from Kentucky, whtl@ he failed to
obtain custody of +. Z. Kitchen. son of
Carter county's most wealthy and iDflu-
entail citizen, wanted in Topeka for sell
ing mortgaged property. Miller asserted
that apparently the whole eastern part of
Kentucky Is owned by the Kitchens and
that the governor refused to eXtradite the
man at the hearing.
Due either to unusual amount of
traftic or to an unusual number OF Dummies
4 with an overwhelming desire to cross the
road, 4 startling mortality in the rabbit
driving to Gage park by the way of the
Asylum hill. Within space of half mile
/ mangled bodies of five Dummies of the
| species known as the Jack rabbit.
The day nursery at the Provident as
/ ISOLATION needs a music box That is the
nursery club. In caring for and amusing
the twenty children cared for daily at the
| nursery V1ctrola or other Eelf-pro-
| a great help. The nursery club has
| been trying to trade or sell an old fash
/ toned piano now in the nursery for a music
box. The piano case is of valuable wood
which might be converted into other artl-
cles of furniture.
An ANNUAL will be published this sprin z
by the Washburn high school. the first to
be issued by the school since it was found
ed more than forty years ago. as Wash
burn. academy. The staff includes Willis
| POpenoe, editor; Vera aHndley. associate
| editor; Mildred BOggs, Dorothy Lukert
| and Edmund Westlund. assistant editors
| Ellis Sumey, business manager The an
nuaI will be published in May. The regu-
| lar college annual comes out as usual in
May.
| Henry Bauman. custodian of the city
| jail. has accepted a job as cook with :
man was found by Pete Schoenfeldt, last
| fall, just as he was about to throw a hedge
| ball thru window. He was taken to the
station but refused to answer questions
He was convicted of vagrnHcy and after
his sentence expired, asked to remain per
manently ut the city jail. His ability and
! Willingness to work led Chief G. G. Hannah
! to grant his request.
Topeka tire dealers are grinning with JOY
| at the prospects of big increase in bust
| ness. Tires do not improve with age a.
many Topekaus discovered Sunday wheI
they took the .old bus out of barn and gar
! age where it had been all winter and wen
for the first real Sunday outing in months
| Blow-outS were the order of the day. On'
motorist reported that between Topeka am
| Silver Lake, Sunday afternoon he countef
| seventeen cars standing beside the road
the owners making tire changes and re
pairs.
L One OF the most unusual sales ever hell
in Topeka will be conducted this week b.
when old clothes left in her custody bl
Delinquent Eirls Y n be auctioned. Mis-