The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-27
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AT HOME NEWS

Are never so aliurin
AS they were in the procurin'
And the more have the more we fret,
And strive for things We want more yet.
-Gussie Morrow Gage.
The Faculty club of washburn college
will have guest maid meeting Saturday
night in Boswell hall.
W. J. Herwig, superintendent of the
Anti Saloon league. will speak Sunday
morning in, the Methodist church. Baldwin.
Sunflower Camp. Modern woodmen, an
nounce their anniversary entertainment for
Wednesday, March 31.-Adv.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co., 5S4 Kansas avenue.-Adv
You are sure of your next winters coal
Topeka Coal Co, Elks Bldg. Phone
4S2.-Adv.
The Tsuneo Taxa HASH embroidery club
meets Tuesday afternoon with Mrs John
Nelson SIS Brooks avenue, instead OF with
Mrs. Arthur Miller.
Holy week services will he conducted
every evening next week, except Saturday,
by Rev. H. A. OFT, missionary superinten-
dent, at the First Lutheran church.
Strickler's Business College Alumni re-
lam hail. All students, former students
and their friends cordially invited. Call
15S2.-Adv.
One hundred guests attended a musical
recital at Mckinley school frida ,y evening ns
was assisted by Hazel Bell, Myrtle Hanks.
Marguerite Norman and Mrs. Bailey.
H s. Condit, assistant superintendent
| And-Saloon league of Kansas, will speak
| Sunday morning in the Methodist church
Washington, and at a community meeting
| at the Presbyterian church in the eve
ming.
Ten cases of smallpox and two of scarlet
| fever in Topeka were reported to the of
| flee of the city health department this
| week. This makes total of % cases OF
smallpox reported since January L Dur
| ing all last year only IS cases were re-
| ported.
| Forty seven delegates and forty seven al
I ternates TO the Democratic state conyen-
/ ton at Wichita, April %, will be elected al
/ to be held at s O'Clock Thursday evening
April 1. at Lincoln post hall, Sixth and
! Quincy streets.
| "Sando in the Dolls Picnie,'' a motion
| picture, will be featured at matinee al
the Apex theater Saturday, April ), for the
benefit of the International Kindergarten
! association. That organization is working
for the welfare Of all children, colored and
white. and the colored people of Topeka
are cooperating to make successful the
kindergarten convention TO be held in this
city April IL to IL.
A. r. Springer. crack shot in the To
| record when he registered only IS times
out of 90. Ordinarily he makes from 4;
to 40 out of 80. The shooting takes place
| Twenty-ninth street and California avenue
| Other records at the shoot this week were
]. B. Kraft % in 80; Wayne Horning 33 IL
t J. Maxwell, age Go, formerly of To
He was office manager at Warren M
| Crosby's for several years. At the time O
Oakland Y. NJ. c. A. He IS survived b.
| two sister, Mrs. o. r. CLANCY. of Lodi
Cal; Mrs. c. E. Harlan, of Seattle, Wash.
and son. Dwight c, Maxwell Dwigh
| fathers position.
| Ben COIN, for many years head of The
State Journal mailing department and fol
| the last year with the United Cigar Stores
| has been made manager of the Topeka
store of the corporation. He left the employ
of The State Journal about a year ag,
City. For the last two months he has beer
| connected with the local store. He sue
ceeds Floyd Griggs, who leaves the Topeka
| store for new position in Joplin.
| George Washington Jackson's Twenty
| third regimental band will rehearse Sunday
| afternoon at $3.50 o'clock, preparatory t.
| playing at the funeral of William ALFRED
Brooks, a former member Of the band
| which will be held Monday afternoon a
$50 o'clock. Brooks Joined the band il
1896. He. went to Cuba with the band il
| the Spanish-American war. He enlisted
| again later and took part in the Philippine
| Instruction and the Boxer trouble il
| China.
| Fifty mine men and women were placed
| in jobs by the local office of the state FREE
employment service during the week ended
i March &c. Six of those reported placed
| were women. During the week ninety -on'
men and nine women made application fol
employment, according to. the report O.
| II. c. Ericsson, examiner in charge. Sew
enty- nine men and twelve women were re
| ferred to jobs, Applications for eighty
with the office by employers.
The new oil and gasoline service station
| of the Standard Oil company, located a
| Seventeenth street and Topeka avenue df
| rectly opposite the gate to the fair grounds
| has been opened for business, according t.
r. z. Ferguson, local manager. The ssta
ton will be In charge of Harry Fraser. 1
| will be open from a.. m. to Q p. m. ever
day. Later in the sea when there Il
more motor traffic at night the station
will remain open later. Another station
| at Sixth and Buchanan streets, in eharg'
OF W. c. Morley, has been open for sew
eral weeks. Each of the stations cost ap
/ proximately 1900