The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-26
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City Loans; see Davis Welcome
Mtg. Co.-Adv.
H L. Wilson & Son, Wall Papering
and Decorating. Phone 3605.-Adv.
A A Remington of the state Y. II.
C. A, is travelling in western Kansas.
| List your property with the Shaw
nee Investment Company. Phone $3.50.
ADV.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 534 Kansas avenue--Adv.
( Miss Kate Nevill Unity field lecturer
from Kansas City, Mo, will lecture to-
night at the Unity church on Topeka
avenue.
! The Shawnee County Horticultural
! society will meet at the Chamber of
! Commerce at 2 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon.
The Shawnee County horticultural
! society will meet Wednesday after
noon at O'Clock at the Chamber of
Commerce.
Frank P Wilson, son of H. L. Will
son. 1851 Boswell, will hereafter be as
sociated with his father in the deco
rating business.-Adv.
Mrs. Dora Whitaker, $50 Oakland.
will be hostess to the Oakland w. C.
T. U. Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
O'Clock.
A boxing class which will meet at
| the Central Y. M. c. A. Wednesday
evening for the first time will be in
structed by c. j. Maunsell.
| r. E. Ferguson, manager of the To-
peka branch of the Standard Oil COM
pany, spoke at the meeting of the
Square Circle club Monday night.
The class in public speaking organ
| lied at the Railroad Y. M. c. A. will
I,
E. D. Schoenberger of Washburn col
| lege.
Twenty-Five cases of measules. and
nineteen cases of scarlet fever in active
condition in Topeka were reported to-
day by DR.. Earle G. Brown, city health
officer.
Election returns will be given at
thru special wiring for the purpose be-
! ing arranged this week with the West
ern Union.
o. w. Hascall, boys work secretary
of the Central Y. NJ. c. A, talked be-
fore the boys of the Washburn high
school this morning to interest them in
establishing a Washburn Hi Y.
| The offices of the United States
marshal and the clerk of the federal
court in Topeka were closed this morn
| ing during the funeral of B. F. Elem
niken, formerly a deputy United States
marshal in Topeka.
Boy Scouts who have been in serv-
ice for five years are being organized
| into a veteran" boy scout troop by
Chief Scout Executive John H. Frazel.
Later the men who Joined the scouts
ten years ago may be organized into a
| troop.
]. H. McCracken, deputy from the
supreme lodge of the Moose, was
among those who conducted an initia-
| ton service at the Topeka lodge Mon
/ day night. A large class was initiated.
! Friday night the Midnight Sun degree
will be conferred on a large class.
! In order to give the Santa Fe en-
| p1oyes and others a chance to vote
| before they go to work, it was decided
| Monday by the county commissioners
to open the polls in Topeka township
at O'Clock a. M instead of at
o'clock. The polls will close at s
O'Clock in the evening. The early open
ing will include Oakland.
Topeka officers are puzzled about a
shooting which Bonner Springs thinks
took place in the railroad yards here
last night A wire to the chief OF
police this morning asked for details
of the shooting of Luther Fish and
Lonnie WOODROW, and came froms VIII
| liam Fish of Bonner Springs. The po-
lice have made inquiry of the county
officials and the railroad officers with
no results.
Robert Merrell Gage, well known
sculptor, formerly of Topeka, is work
| ing on a Kansas City memorial statue
to Kansas City policemen who have
| died in police service. The memorial
| of red Missouri granite will stand fiji
teen feet high, and will be figure of
patrolman holding small child on
his shoulder. Gage made the statue
| of Abraham Lincoln which stands on
the state house grounds.
| A conference of property owners of
| North Topeka and officials of the
county will be held at the meeting of
| the North Topeka Civic club at the
community house, Laurent and Jack
son, tonight. Among the guests of the
club will be the county commissioners
and Harry Wright, manager of the
Kansas Good Roads association. Sub
jects under discussion will be paving
| on North Harrison street, extension of
| the city water service in North Topeka,
proposed improvements on Calhoun
| bluffs on the old Granville road, and
| the suggested interlocking system be-
tween the Union Pacific, Santa Fe and
| Rock Island railways.
A caterer or restaurant man who
! feeds !, 900, 600 customers year, man
aging a staff of thirty-three stewards,
| 125 cooks and 165 walters, has some
| job on his hands. Particularly when
| he has to adjust his service and his
menus to suit the taste of the wealthy
tourist on a transcontinentaI trip and
the farmer who wants a sandwich on
a trip across the state. T. A. Demp-
| sey, superintendent of dining cars on
the Rock Island, has that little job.
And in the past eight years his BUSH
ness has Increased 10 per cent. Demp-
sey passed thru Topeka Monday on an
| inspection trip over the entire system.
Dempsey's service is making good with
the patrons of the road
| During the summer needy families
of Topeka found it easy to do without
| carpets and stoves but with the COM
/ ing of chilly uuaa her and the 1uinfar