The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
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AT HOME NEWS

school will have their annual picnic Fri
day afternoon at Gage park
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 5S4 Kansas avenue--Adv.
Miss Ruth Palmer, who is employed in
the office of the Kansas Construction News,
has returned from 4 two weeks vacation in
Colorado.
Carter were appointed as property APP
praisers for sewer district No. ) by the
city commissioners today.
The city commission today approved the
petition of the Wessen Coal company for
a 390-foot spur track from the Missouri Pa
cific and Instructed the city attorney to
draw up an ordinance granting 1t.
Mrs. Jennie Croft, of the Unity School
Mo-, will speak to the local Unity class and
all others interested at the \. W. l. A
Friday afternoon at 2:3O o'clock
Another wave of burglarizing seems to
have hit Topeka; are you protected in case
they visit your home. We write burglar
insurance. Topeka Mortgage & Inv Co.,
Glenn w. Pratt. Phone 1096.-Inv.
Mrs. A. X. Longren, wife of Topeka $
aircraft manufacturer and inventor, took
her first ride in a plane Monday afternoon
when she went up with Aviator E b. Lopp,
chief pilot for the Longren concern.
A permit to erect 1000 addition TO the
Blue Line Milling Co. has been issued TO
W. ]. Rickenbacher, president. The addi-
ton will be used as a store room and en-
CINE room. The company is incorporated
at $500
At the annual stag picnic of the Inter
works park the chief amusement was n
game between the "heavies" and lights
of the club, pitching, horseshoes and con-
Stunning buttermilk.
The Arc Steamer, a new type of car
which will be on the market next month is
establishing an agency in Topeka, accord
ing to c. l. Young, state manager, who is
in Topeka looking for suitable location. The
steamer is manufactured at Gulfport, Miss,
by the Richard Carter company.
A Republican rally will be held at Wash
ington school July 10 by the Republican
per and Charles Curtis will speak. Music
will be furnished by the Knights of Tabor
band and the Harding Coolidge" quartet
Another meeting will be held August 2
Seventy five motorcycles, motor trucks
and motor cars, all a part of the 11Oth
Signal Battalion, stopped over night in
Ripley park last night eq route to Camp
Funston from Ft. Leavenworth. They will
proceed on their way today to join the
18th division with which they are con-
nected.
Ray Miller 81, accused of breaking into
the Red Cross building at Camp Funston,
was taken to the federal prison at Leav-
enworth Monday TO await trial after his
Commissioner White He was unable to
furnish the $500 bond demanded by the
government.
The Topeka Business and Professional
Women's club has decided to send a dele
gate to the next national political con-
vention, after hearing Mrs. W. A. McCar-
ter's account of the Republican national
convention at Chicago and the considerate
treatment given women who attended, at a
meeting of the club at the Y. W. C. A.
last night.
A committee of three, composed of Com
missioners Hancock Stanfield and McGif-
fert, was appointed by Mayor Corwine to-
day to investigate the proposed Rock Is
land switch on Crane street, cutting off a
corner of City park The ordinance has
been drawn mp by City Attorney Brana-
man and will be presented to the committee
and to the legal department of the railroad
for their approval.
Square Circle club members and theil
wives decided to become big brothers
and sisters" to the boys of the Industrial
school last night after attending a picnic
at the school. Each member and his wife
will choose one or more of the boys of tht
school to whom to show especial kindness
A delightful entertainment was given by
the boys, and drills, songs, dancing and
calisthenics were given.
Thomas Farley, who was being held al
! the city jail pending Investigation, was
identified Monday thru the finger print
system J. Middendorf. an escaped con.
Wet from the federal prison where he was
serving a term for burglary. 1t was found
farm, according to the police witch /.
1 maintained for the treatment Of drug ad
| diets. He was arrested here under sus
/ nici0n of stpalinp silverware