The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-25
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Mtg. Co--Adv<
List your property with the Shaw
nee Investment Company. Phone $3.50.
ADV.
err have returned from a hunting trip |
to Mullin, Neb.
AL issues of Liberty Bonds bought .
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue Adv
Fire did slight damage to the Steel
Fixture Manufa curing company's
rIant at Seventh and Santa Fe tracks
early Sunday morning.
Bert Nash, head of the Topeka dis
trict Epworth League. and rancis !
Stone conducted an Epworth League
service at Hoyt last night.
A convention of the eastern district
Christian Endeavor workers will be
held in the First Presbyterian churcn
in Topeka November 5. and T.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. w. Benning enter
tanned the Red Triangle club with
Halloween party at their home on
Fillmore street Saturday night
Instructor of the Business Women's
Bible class will be Mrs. W. c. Wheeler.
The club will meet for the first time
this year Tuesday evening at the Y
w. c. A.
Rose Groober today filed a petition
in the district cours asking a divorce
from Sam Groobcr, who she claims
abandoned her last June. She says
she does not know his. whereabouts
Two rlIen(who went into the army
from the local recruiting station last
week were Lawrence ~Biddiscombe,
Emporia, >wl@ went into the tank
corps. and Jerry H. Sanders. who
/ Joined the navy. :.
A number of Topeka women will go
to Hutchinson next Tuesday to attend
the state Republican women's rally
Mrs. Arthur Capper, Mrs George
Crawford and Mrs G. w. KounsA wlll
be among the speakers.
The Mothers Congress and Parent
Teachers association. Kansas branch,
viii hold a round table meeting in con-
neclion with the state teachers meet
ing on Friday. October 30. at Pelle-
| tiers tea ROOM Prof. W. D. Ross of
| Emporia is chairman
Business girls and women of the
First Baptist church will form an
auxiliary tonight at 1880 o'clock in the
! church parlors. The. committee for
organizing is composed of Mrs. N. W.
Belling, Mrs. w. E. Bulls and Mrs
]. r. Waddington. -,s.
Fallen leaves, tall grass and weeds
might cause dangerous fires, according
to Fire Chief Joseph Hanlon, and
! should be disposed of. Several ground
fires have already been started from
matches or cigaret stubs being
! dropped in dry grass. leaves or weeds
The Y. W. c. A. Bible class taught
by Mrs. NJ. F.. Troxell is growing. Five
new members were added last week
| The course of study is that used by
| Mrs c. F. Menninger for several years
| Mrs Troxell also teaches a Blbie class
in Horth Topeka on Monday after
| moons.
The Republicans of Highland Park
will hold a big meeting and campaign
lralIv at the school house Wednesday
evening. Chairman ]. n. Dolley of the
county central committee and one or
two women speakers will be on the
program, as well as some OF the Re-
lpubIican county candidates. 20
Because thru the southern and west
ern parts of the state farmers Sob-
served the fly free dates set by the
Kansas State Agricultural college, the
wheat prospects for the coming year
could not be better. according to re-
ports from the various santa re olVl-
sionaI freight agents along the santa
Fe lines.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, who
. has returned from a speaking tour
; for the Republican party in Indiana
| reports that Indiana is for Harding
by a large majority, expressing
! strong desire for a change in admin
istrations. large crowds greet the
, talks by Mrs. MeCarter. and she has
visited more than half the states IT
the union. t-rt
| Two hundred and ten places have
been reserved for the first dinner OF
= the Santa Fe club, which is to be hello
on the night of October 80, at Pelle-
, tiers. Santa Fe officials and CHIEF
. clerks are to be the guests at the din
ner, at which problems of the roae
! will be discussed. The menu Tor the
, affair will include roast turkey ahe
cranberry sauce.
owned
the Kouns sisters Miss Nellie and Mis-
Sara. was run down and killed by al
| automobile at the corner OF Ienli
street and Topeka avenue. Saturday
The dog was presented eleven year
ago to the late c. w. kouns, and wa
A. general neighborhood friend. /
\ funeral for Andrew was held at tn
I farm home of DR.. Harry Summers TO
day, and the body of the dog was con
| signed to the earth, with his fine col
| lar and other possessions
| Two hundred vacancies exist in tn
= motor trade school courses of tn
). knights of Columbus free nigh
% schools, and are to be filled in tn
= near future. The Institutional stat
:, of the schools has been increased. an
a large number of the students haF
= completed the course. The school ha
- factory instruction courses and equip
~ ment for giving the work in a manne
equal to that of any of the large auto
10 mobile trade schools of the country.
N The Sons and Daughters of Justice,
E. fraternal organization which has bee
lie in the hands of receiver has bee
taken over by another similar organ
n, ization, the Columbian Circle. of Chi
ar cago, and the receiver has been dis
IN charged by the federal court. Tn
Columbian Circle has assumed all tn
n, obligations of the defunct order an
is will settle all death claims against i
a 70 x-hn vi cit cd
e. peka in connection with the transfe
St. Patrick's day, 1921. will mar
y the fifty-first anniversary of the frs
| passenger train run south from Topek
| to Usage City. which made the ru
| on the morning of March IT, 1877
| The train was pulled by an old-fasf
! Toned engine, the &C. K. Holiday,
, with a Dane. Brit Craft, as enginet