The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
| Co. $50 Kansas ayenae--Ads.
Alfred Docking of Manhattan is in
| Topeka for few days visit. He is the
newly elected state senator from his
district.
! The Lowman Memorial church
raised s505.77 for the Woman's Home
morning service, after a goal had been
set for $500.
A ladies' minstrel show by thirty
girls of the Security Benefit associa-
| ton will be a special entertainment at
! the regular meeting of the Elks' club
wednesday night.
| The annual budget figures for the
Santa Fe are being submitted to~the
| general manager by the heads of dez
partment, in preparation for the PLAN
| ming of next years expenditures.
| It was enormously stated in Satur-
days Journal that Mrs. Amanda S1o-
cum, 1856 Lane street, had filed a Pc
tition for divorce. The suit was for
separate maintenance, instead of for
| a divorce.
The annual cleaning and repainting
| OF the waiting room and station quar-
tiers of the Union Pacific started to-
| day. The painters and repair men
will probably be busy with the job for
| at least a week.
Two sets of brand new billiard balls
have been stolen from the milliard
room of the Chamber of Commerce.
The balls are valued at about $1g5.
and reward of s25 for their return
| has been offered.
Archie williams. formerly of To-
peka. has been elected county attorney
for Butler county on the Republican
of To- t. = l.
mer attorney general for the Union
Pacific. Archie Williams, Sr.
A defective draw bar on an east
bound Santa Fe freight resulted short
lily after midnight Saturday night in the
derailment of five cars, and tied up
traffic for several hours, several pas
| senger trains having to be detoured
thru Emporia.
The Women's Foreign Missionary
society of the First NJ. E. church will
meet at 2:S0 O'Clock Thursday after
noon in the church parlors. DR.. Frank
Heron Smith, who spent fifteen years
| in missionary work in Japan, will ad-
dress the meeting.
Miss Emma Elizabeth Mas and Ed
ward Ruch, of Council Grove, were
married at noon today at the home of
Maj. and Mrs. Carl r. White 1915
Western avenue. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Edmund J. Kulp,
pastor of the First Methodist cherch.
Joe Burge, a K. S. A. C. student,
was arrested Saturday afternoon at
Sixth and Kansas avenues by Marvin
iBurge, patrolman, for reckless driving
1.-The policeman said he is distantly re-
lated to the boy, but not intimately
lacquaint9d with him.
j. N. Van der Vries, of Chicago, sec
rotary of the central district of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
will speak at the noon luncheon at the
Topeka Chamber of Commerce Tues
day on the functions of a modern
chamber of commerce. Mr.. Van der
Vries will speak at Hutchinson We'd
nesday.
Il A heavy program of building, which
has been delayed on account of the
high prices of labor and material, will
probably be launched next year by the
Santa Fe, according to Ed Harrison
lof Chicago, system architect for the
Santa Fe, who has been in Topeka
consulting with the local engineering
force.
There were sold In Topeka during
October $500 war savings stamps, ac-
cording to W. o. Rigby. Topeka post
master. The war savings stamps have
cut heavily into the business of the
postal savings bank, because there is
, a per cent dividend on the stamps,
, whereas the savings bank pays but 2
per cent.
A night school deXlCanS OIL all
ages who desire to learn to read and
5 write English will be opened tonight
) at the Branner school with Mrs. C. j
Evans as instructor. The board of ed
ucation arranged for the night school
: after a petition from Mexicans asking
for the opportunity was presented te
the board.
Nearly $50 candidates for degrees
will be in attendance at the Scottish
/ Rite reunion in Topeka which open:
, Tuesday. OF this number, $50 are
new candidates for degrees, and near.
I ly 200 are present members of the or
. der who are to be advanced. The re
e union will continue from Tuesday til
L Friday of this week.
Self-sacrifice as a part of heroisn
e was emphasized by DR.. John Well
+ Rahill of the Central Congregations
church Sunday. night in sermon OF
Heroes and SHero Worship" H
leuIogized soldiers who had given thei
lives in the world war. Jesus Chris
r was the greatest hero of history, h
!, said, and the greatest opportunity 10
: heroism is in the Christian church
II Twenty-Five Kansas agents of tn
Q Peoria Life Insurance company, visit
a ing Topeka, were the guests of the To
peka Life Underwriters association
Il Saturday at the noon luncheon of tn
= club. Speakers included prominen
. Kansas and Missouri insurance men
3, and officers of the Peoria company
= Prof. w J. Morgan. of Washburn. de
- llivered another of his series of lecture
r. on Psychology in Salesmanship."
: While w. M. johnson, 1914 Blu
; tchanan street, was trying to find GU
n Ito whom a little boy who came to hi
n house belonged, the boys parents, Nj
. land Mrs. W. H. Maxwell 1875 Blu
q chanan street, were anxiously searchin
q for him. johnson called the polio
J. land the 4-year-old lad was taken I
. 1.-THE detention home. A man VIII
# CHANGED to hear both sides of the stor
a told the father where his son ceui
!. be located.
If Ben H. Abels, assistant cashier {
II 1.-THE Topeka State bank, has purchase
- an interest in the First National ban
j. of Havensville, and will be cashier c
that bank, leaving Topeka at the en-
lie of the present month. Abels has bee
e, with the Topeka State bank for tn
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