The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12
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Night school7 Yes. at Dougherty's Bust
ness College. Enroll for Monday evening.
ADV.
be held at Gage Park, June 20 Phone Red
2014.-Adv.
Mrs d. e. Chamberlain. of Chicago, is i'll
at the home of her daughter, Mrs 3. NJ.
Webb, police matron.
More than $50 was gained for the Y W.
C.. A conference fund from the Rose Sup
per given Wednesday evening.
The walls of the cafeteria at the Y. NJ.
G. A. are being redecorated and other
cafeteria Improvements are being made.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 534 Kansas avenue. ADV.
Miss Dorothy He'll. who makes her home
at the Y. w. c. A, is recovering from an
operation for removal of her tonsils.
Breeders of Duroc Jersey hogs met this
afternoon at the Chamber OF Commerce to
maks plans for hog sale to be held soon
Miss Ruth Hunt instructor Of English
in the high school went to Lawrence today
to attend the reunion of her class at the
state university.
A meeting of the taxpayers of the Shun-
ganuga drainage district will be held at
Van Buren, school Monday evening, June
Il. at O'Clock.
The state printing plant will be closed
for one hour Monday during the funeral
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The Industrial court will go to Pittsburg
Tuesday to complete its Investigation OF
the coal fields. 1t is expected that two
days will complete the job.
In May there were 12,O5s persons served
at the Y. w. c. A. cafeteria, with daily
average of 463. The amount of the average
meal ticket was thirty three cents.
The Unitarian church will have only
three more sermons before closing for the
summer on the last Sunday, in June. The
three sermons will deal with democracy.
The annual Children's Day program will
be given at Trinity church Sunday morn
ing at IL O'Clock. In the evening DIR.
C. l.. Zook. district superintendent, will
preach.
The confiseation of 1928 cans of fish
flakes in the possession of the H. ID. Lee
Mercantile company Of Salina is demanded
in suit filed Friday in the United states
district court by the district attorney.
Attention Eagles Don't forget the big
night Monday evening. June Il; Entertalh-
meht' uancihg anu AZ -
The public are invited Come ana prng
your friends. The Eagles hall. 61S Kan
sas avenue. Ira NJ. Orner, chairman.-Adv.
Signal corps companies of the Kansas
National Guard will be supplied wireless
telephony equipment. according to an
nouncement by NJ. X. Mclean, assistant
from Fort Leavenworth where he studied
the work done by the signal corps of the
regular army.
The state printing plant is conducting
history, according to Imri Zumwalt, state
printer. The state is buying twentyone
cars of paper, at 1000 4 car. mostly paper
to be used in the making of the Tarr anG
McMurray Biographies which are now on
the press. Some Of the books are being
mailed.
After four day tour of Kansas. which
covered approximately 800 miles, the To-
peka truck caravan returned Friday, and
staged a Iarade on Kansas avenue i'm
mediatcly after the arrival Speeches were
made in each town visited by the caravan
and they returned via Lyndon, Scranton,
Overlook, and Richland; No attempts
were made to sell. The trip was made for
the purpose of showing the value of the
ship by truck idea.
Between dances at the Elks' club Fri
day night Sheriff Hugh Larimer looked
out the window and saw Robert Finncy,
16, apparently about to remove the spot
light from Larimers new Buick. While
his lady waited for him above, Larimer
ran down stairs and caught the youth.
who had taken the motOmeter from the
today by clyde Tresner. chief of detec-
| tives. and was undergoing an investigation
| by county officers
| Mrs. Jettie Rupp, 81 Hancock street, to-
day filed suit in the district court for di-
voree from Charles Rupp. now said to be
/ in Denver. The wife charges that Rupp
| deserted her May 49, 1919. Prior to this
| time. she said he had failed to properly
/ support her and treated her with cruelty
and used abusive language toward her
Their five children. ranging in age from
| II to 20 years, are in the custody OF MIS-
Rupp.
/ w H. Eastman and Mrs H. Harwood,
| jitney drivers were fined $40 each in police
| court Friday afternoon on the charge of
! carrying too many passengers. 1t was
| claimed that Eastman had six men in his
five passenger Ford and that Mrs Har-
! wood had eight persons in her seven pas
senger car. 1t was admitted that the cars
were standing by the curb and that the
motors we're not running. The defendants
! said they would not have started out with
more than the number allowed by ordi-
nance.
The boys department Of the Central 7
NJ. c. A is taking a decided increase in
membership since the dog-days started. ac-
cOrding to o. w. Haskell, boys work secre-
tary. Three classes are being conducted
| three times a week. on Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays for the younger boys
! who are not a vet proficient in the aquatic
| art. and on Thursday all boys who are
not members of the "Y'' are allowed to
swim from 10 to IL in the morning. Swim
| ming contests and n number of hikes will
| no conducted LITTLE Inter on in the sum