The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-25
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AT HOME NEWS

Dance every night-Steinbergs .-Adv.
The Elks will hold their regular dance
Friday, June 25-Adv.
A marriage license was issued in Kansas
City Thursday to Alvin A. Strange, 81, and
Mary f. Simpson, %, both of Topeka
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 5S4 Kansas avenue--Adv.
The most tremendous price cutting sale
now going on at The New Toggery, cor
ner Eighth and Kansas Ave.-Adv.
Elmer Chubb, of Highland Park, has
withdrawn his candidacy for township
posed on the Republican ticket.
| Dean and Mrs. J. 2. deb. Kaye and chill
dren, Margaret, Philip and barbara Kaye
ern Wisconsin to spend the remainder of
| the summer.
The Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Wood, 1905 West
Seventeenth street, announce Tl the birth OF
The Rev. Wood is pastor of the Euclid
Avenue Methodist church.
Santa Fe handbook containing the
official list of officers, stations, agents,
| station numbers and other inside informa-
ton for the enlightenment of railroad EN-
ployes. will be off the press and distributed
| Immediately
Those who plan to attend the annual
parish picnic of Grace Cathedral at Vine
| wood Park Saturday will take the O'Clock
car and will be taken from California ave
| nue. to VinewOod in motor ears. Two hum
bred members of the parish are expected
/ to attend.
chair cars" yells Frank L. Sturges of the
general passenger office of the Santa Fe.
| ed next week in order to round up all avail
| able chair cars for the Fourth of July.
People, have a mania for travelling on
| hook extra coaches on every train.
| Two men giving their names as Leo Nc
| eabe. 26, and Vance Kellar, %, were picked
| up in the Rock Island yards Thursday
night by special railroad agents. is
! caliber revolver was found on each man.
They were placed under arrest charged
with carry concealed weapons, to which
$500 bond they were placed in the county
! jail pending trial June 20.
| Maggie Dougan today filed a petition in
the district court asking a divorce from
John h. Dougan. said now to be in Penns-
| vile, Ohio. She charges she was compelled
to leave home in August. 1916. because he
| their two minor children. Since August,
| 1917, he has contributed nothing to their
support. and she has had to work to sup
port herself and the little girls, she says.
Plans were discussed at the meeting of
| the entertainment committee at the Cham
Der of Commerce today noon, for the enter
| tainment of Kansas teachers at the meet
| ings of the associations here in October.
No definite action was taken, but the
members all agreed that better form of
amusement and entertainment must be aft
| fOrded the teachers at their meeting this
year than was Offered last fall. One i'm
| portant function will be the Chamber of
| Commerce reception.
Special service will be held in the Saliva
| ton Army hall Saturday and Sunday in
| honor of Brigadier and Mrs. H. Roberts.
! of Kansas City. chief officers in the
Kansas division of the army. The Robertses
have been engaged in Salvation work for
! six or seven years in Kansas and Missouri
| and this will be their farewell meeting in
| Kansas. They will leave for another post
In the near future altho they do not know
where they will go.
The Santa Fe railroad one of the largest
J railways In the country, is not busy and
heartless but that it has time to look after
its employees. as is shown by the case of
| a male clerk in the offices who is suffering
from tuberculosis and who will be sent
to a better climate by the railroad to be
cured. The clerk has no money to finance
his recovery and after asking department
head If he could be transferred to a south
ern climate and being told that it WAS i'm
possible the clerk was game and decided
! to stay. The department head, however.
was not satisfied and devoted large part
of his time for several days gong thru with
| the arrangements for the employees cure
After a life giving. high and dry climate
was prescribed by the Santa Fe physicians,
plans were Immediately started by the off,
! Gals to send the clerk to a high climate
| Immediately and keep him there until a
! position can be obtained somewhere In
the same climate.