The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-12
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List your property with the Shaws
nee Investment Company. Phone $685.
ADV.
| Al issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
| and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv. =
The state charter board has ap-
proved the charter application of the
| Producers Consolidated OIL company
of Kansas City, Kan. The company is
capitalized for 100000. ,
| The Doreas society of the Trinity
Methodist church will meet at the
home of Mrs. Frank weiton, 1894
Harrison street, Wednesday afternoon
esses will be Mrs Will Bassett, Mrs,
| Arthur Bassett, Mrs. S. w. Comfort
and Mrs. ]. H. Mills. &
| Mr.. and Mrs Harry E. Gavitt and
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Parr. who have
returned from 4O0-mile automobile
tkTiPs thru the Kansassoii district, report
Increasingly rapid development in the
Marion counties. Eighteen of the
wells they saw are bringing in from
five to twenty million cubic feet daily.
Three small fires Monday afternoon
are reported by the city fire depart
nsentE Careless smokers started fires
IN dry grass along the Union Pacific
tracks near East Gordon street and in
the yard of the home of Robert Cow
drey, Sal College avenue The third
fire came from spontaneous combus-
tion in a dump pile at the foot of Har-
rison street.
DR.. Stephen S. Estey, recently re-
turned from a trip to Europe, will be
the principal speaker at the meeting
of the Mems club OF the First Metho-
dist church tonight at 6 o'clock. Doc.
tor Estey will talk on the subject, The
Battlefields of France and Belgium,
Il Immediately following the dinner Spe.
fetal music has been arranged. The bal
[eony of the church is open to anyone
interested. and; the women of tht
i church are especially invited to BIZ
present. r-t-r. yrx z.- 9
l.. Mrs. Irna Stewart, 1157 College
tavenue, today filed petition in the
Edistrict court ASKING divorce from L
c.. Stewart, of the Stewart Poulary
company. 524 North Kansas avenue
She alleges that for the last two
months he has failed to support hel
and that he has been in the habit Of
staying out nights and associating with
bad company. Their property. she
says, has been divided satisfactorily
she wants the custody OF their two
i small. children
the Jubilee singers from Fisk univer,
!! sity, Nashville, Tenn, at the Topeka
Il Industrial and Educational institute
Monday night was heard by nearly
five hundred persons On the, pro
fgra m were negro folk songs and read
4 filgs by the Rev James A. Myers. Thu
Rev. Mr.. Myers gave a short talk Oh
1.-The gratifying progress of the negrt
lraee. Preceding The program ths
isfngers gave a short concert at tn
home of Governor Allen.
| The Santa Fe Magazine has circu
!. lation which doesn't end with EN-
Iployes, officials and friends of tn
} road in the United States. Walker D
Hines. formerly a director and ais
4 formerly director general of railroad
: IN the United States. has acknowledge
/ tne receipt of a copy of the ma ga Yin
lat his headquarters in Paris Raflroa'
officials, organizations and trade publ
! cations in Europe are on the circula
ton list of the magazine.
: .Elijah's mantle settled BACK to cart
: when it's owner took the air in tn
Biblical conception of a passenger
l. carrying airplane. The; procedure wa
, reversed Monday with modification
: fer the Rev. Henry King, pastor o
the st. Johns A. NJ. E church. At tn
e corner of Fifth street and Kansa
e avenue the pastors hat suddenl
!. started heavenward without its owner
|; But it stopped to rest ION top of tn
Federal building, and janitor brough
i it'back to earth and the reverend.
= sForty-nine persons died in Topeka
:. in September. Thirty-two were won
en- or girls, and thirteen were childre
of pre-school age, according to the re
port issued by Dir. Earle Brown, cit
health officer. Forty-four of the de
ceased persons were white, three col
= ored and six Mexican. Six of Their
=. Were non-residents of Topeka. Ninety
t one children were born, of whoT
I forty-eight were boys and forty-thre
e were girls. Eleven of the babies weT
i colored and eight were Mexican.
t A feature of the program after tn
: dinner of the Business and Profes
e tsional Women's club. held at 6:5
io'clock Monday night -at Pelletier
: Tea room, was an address by Judg
: John S. Dawson on "Women's Proper
= ty Rights" Musical numbers on tn
n program were a vocal solo by Mis-
o Ora Penny and a piano solo by Mis-
: Inez Horner. The club has a member
: iship of more than two hundred bust
e fness and professional women. 1t we
organized with forty charter member
last spring. The next event on it
calendar will be a Halloween costum
party at the Y. w. c. A. on the eve
lining OF october rs.