The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-28
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Heavy U. S. Army Blankets. Goats,
Shoes. Underwear for sale at 631
Kansas Ave.-Adv.
All ISSUES OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
| Co. 534 Kansas venue.-Adv
T. L. King, city passenger. agent for
the Santa Fe, returned Sunday night
from a two weeks vacation spent in
Florida.
Tonight is ladies' night for the Co
Operative club. The members will
entertain their wives and women
friends at dinner at Pelletier's at Z
o'clock. The arrangements for tho
meeting are in charge of H. L. Pepp-
meyer and DR.. A. B. Jeffrey.
The Rock Island has been author
lied by the interstate commerce COM
mission to pledge and repledga as
occasion arises, an issued of $1,000 900
in first and refunding gold mortgage
bonds, dated October 4, as collateral
for notes to be issued.
The entire safety department of the
Union Pacific has been reorganized,
according to information reaching the
local officials of the road. The reor-
ganization has increased the number
of men whose sole task is the elimi-
nation of danger and accidents to en-
ployes and trainmen.
The Thursday meeting of the 'Ro-
tary club will be devoted, it is stated
in the announcement sent out today,
to Rotary and the Rotary Club of To-
peka." Four new members are to be
introduced by Ray Lattner, and Ralph
McEntire is scheduled for a Rotary
lecture. The statement of the club
shows that more than $4,000 has been
handled in the last ear.
A black horse belonging to the City
Ice delivery fell on the icy pavement
near the Central Y. NJ. C. A. Monday
and it was killed, due to injuries re-
ceived. Cons. derable hardship is being
worked on the work horses of the city
by the slipperiness of the pavements,
and not even the rough shod horses are
safe from dangerous slips.
Eight men enlisted in the regular
army of the United States here last
week. They were: Henry E. Nelson,
Malta, Mont, and Ray Hoover, Sar-
gent, Tex, in the Quartermaster's
corps; Clyde L. Martin, Ames, Ia, and
artillery; Ora H. Thompson and Harry
Marrical, Topeka, in the infantry
service in Hawaii; William E. Draper,
Homestead, Kan, and John H. Big
CERT, Circleville, in the coast artillery.
The members of the Berean class of
the First Baptist Sunday school have
raised $16S.81 for the Central Euro
pean fund, and the entire Sunday
school has raised $543. This record is
the best made by any Sunday school
in the city, according to the Berean
class members Collections for the
fund will be closed Sunday, and the
Berean members hope to have their
collections well up into the $500 mark.
Another relief fund campaign will
probably be started Sunday.
Muskogee Red, a traditional figure
in the printing trade of the middle
bn fo7 nf ma
tetic printers whose name was legion
| in the earlier stages of the game,
visited in Topeka during the holidays.
Muskogee is working on the Marion
Record. Muskogee, whose real name
is Andy Redmond, in an interview
given out while in Topeka. declared
that since prohibition has been made
effective, both his clothes and his
checks are good, and he is heartily in
favor of the abolition of booze.
Plans were laid to revise the dis
| tricts of the state for territorial and
UNCONVENTIONAL representation, for the
coming year, by the executive COM
mittee of the state Sunday school con-
vention, which met Monday noon at
| the Y M. c. A. The committee is
| composed of Ralph McEntire, Rev.
]. M. Gurley, Fred Gray, i. H. Engle,
and Fred G. Richards. An effort will
| be made to see what denominations
will participate in the task of reor-
| ganizing the work of the state. The
committee will meet again at the Y.
NJ. c. A February %.
The wrong size stockings and the
| tie that even a strong constitution re-
| fuses to submit to are going back to
| the stores this week, to be exchanged
| for something which the recipient of a
misfit Christmas gift prefers. Clerks
| in local establishments are busy ex-
| changing unsuitable gifts, more than
| in selling new articles, they complain.
| Some highly unreasonable requests for
| exchanges have already been made to
| the merchants 1t will be two weeks
at least before all the people who got
| things for Christmas which they did
not like will be suited. merchants say.
| Shawnee county will hold IFS first hg
| coyote hunt of the season Saturday.
New Years day. The hunt will co. er
an area of forty square miles. The
area is bounded by a line running west
on Twenty-first street to the Bradford
| Miller corner, south along the Auburn
road to the Liberty schoolhouse, east to
the Joss farm one mile south of Pauline
and north on Topeka avenue to Twenty
first street. The final roundup will
be at Elevation schoolhouse. The hunt
will be in charge of a committee of
which o. H. Doerschlag is chairman,
with Albert Sloan. William Prem ~
Jr., and Fredolph Hanson as the other
members. A free invitation to join in
the hunt Is being issued. the partici-
pants to be armed only with shot
guns. Dogs may be brought to the
hunt at the owners risk. The coyotes
caught will be auctioned to pay for a
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