The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-17
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and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue Adv.
Feature dancing, reading and music
are on the program of entertainment
at the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. tonight, to
be furnished by the Adele Foster com
pany.
Boy Scouts and their fathers will
have a banquet tonight at the First
| Presbyterian church. K Richmond,
scoutmaster, and Eagle scout, will be
| POSTMASTER.
| Commissioner w. A. Stanfield and
Fred Painter of the water department
have gone to Kansas City for a con-
ference with Black & Veatch. consult
ing engineers
! The annual dinner and election of
Officers of Orient lodge No. 81, A. F.
& A. NJ, will be held at $50 O'Clock
tonight. A program in honor of DR..
! c. E. Joss. the retiring master of the
/ lodge, will be given.
The enthusiasm of high school
| students in giving to the fund for foot
| ball team sweaters brought $231.75,
more than is necessary to pay for the
/ sweaters. The surplus amount will go
into the same kind of a fund next
year.
| The fourth annual Letter Carriers
Ball" to be staged by the city mail
carriers of Topeka, will be held in the
Steinberg hall on the night of Monday.
December 81. The ball will be open to
the general public. An admission 81
per couple will be charged
| Arrested on a charge of stealing an
| overcoat and passing a worthless
check. Harvey Mitchell has turned out
to be deserter from an army officers
school at Norman. Okla, according to
the police. He left July 1 because he
did not like the camp. officers said he
confessed.
/ Childless homes where children are
| longed for, particularly at Christmas
time, have the privilege of borrowing
a child, it is announced by D. F.
Shirk, superintendent of the Kansas
Childrens Home Finding society. Ere
! quently the society loans children
for the holidays.
Officers elected at the meeting OF
FSiloam lodge No. 225. A. F. and A NJ.
| Thursday night were Samuel Alex
ander, master; William C. Cartilage
Fsenior warden; Homer A. Claussen
! junior warden; Homer A. Fink. sen OF
deacon; Blake o. Baird. junior deacon;
| William A. Tinker secretary, and
James Nelson, treasurer.
The literature distributed by the
1 agricultural department of the Santa
Fe has been employed as a boosting
lagency for the farm tenantry scheme
which has been worked out in Cali
hfornia, and the road is cooperating
with the tenantry commission of the
Estate whenever possible, in getting the
Ischeme into working order.
The Chamber of Commerce commit
fee which is planning the inaugural
| ceremonies to take place January 10
1 Ia T.
tee, to be appointed by the executive
council of the state officers in the Of
1 flee of the adjutant general Monday
afternoon at 4 o'clock. when the final
inaugural plans will be laid.
To urge law enforcement in Kan
| sps, particularly of the anti cigaret
law, F. L. Crabbe, superintendent of
the AntiSaloon League of Kansas
| will conduct a meeting Sunday, De-
| Gambler IS. in Garden City. Kan. He
will be aided in the meeting by Attor-
ney General Richard J. Hopkins.
| Similar meetings will be held in vari-
GUS parts of the state after the holt
ays.
| A new firm to help the struggling
| payers of income tax figures out just
how deep they are nicked, has been
fofmed by George Young and F. A.
| Mccoy, of the local federal revenue
| office. The firm will open quarters in
room 35 of the Columbian building
about January /. The two men have
been employed for the past two and
a half years in the office of the federal
revenue office at Topeka.
The ranks of the marine corps are
being filled so rapidly that the COM
mandant has issued a special call for
a number of additional cooks and
bakers to aid in preparing the annual
Christmas dinner for the twenty thou
sand "leatherneckS'' now in the corps
according to word received from the
Kansas City marine recruiting office
by Commissioner Robert D. McGiffert
an ex-marine man. A number OF
clerks and nOn-commissioned officers
are also needed to take care of the re-
cruits now at the training stations.
How to care for plants kept in the
house will be taught free of charge tc
lTopeka women, according to plans
made by the Oakland Forestry cluI
and the Women's Farm and Garden
association. Meetings for such in
struction are to be held at the RoserJ
flower shop, with the first meeting
scheduled for Tuesday evening, Janu-
airy 4. The knowledge will not be-
given in a scientific manner, but a.
practical information for the laymaI
in the care of plants. The fact tina
so many plants given as Christina!
gifts die for lack of proper care in
spired the unique plan.