The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-11
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

A permit was issued by the city to-
day to David Page. sol Underwood,
for the erection of new garage.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. ,534 Kansas ayenue--Adv.
List your property with the Shaw
nee Investment Company. Phone $3.50.
ADV.
The city hose company No. 1 was
called out to put out a fire at tho Cur
tbs and Tyler street dump at $3.50
o'clock this morning
Falling down stairs resulted in a
broken arm for Mrs. Anna Schultz 4 5
Kansas avenue. Saturday. She was
taken to st. Francis hospital.
The regular weekly luncheon of the
| Monday Luncheon club, composed of
insurance men, was held at the Cham
Der of Commerce at noon today. Ed
Shultice, of Kansas City, an independ-
ent adjuster, was a guest of the club.
The Mems club of the First Metho-
dist church VIII have a 6 o'clock din
ner Tuesday night in the basement of
the church. Dr.. S. S. Estey will give
an address on The Battlefields of
France and Belgium"
Falling out of truck at Fourteenth
and Kansas avenues Saturday resulted
in internal injuries for Mrs. Lena
Boettcher, 1903 Kansas avenue. She
was taken to her home She will re-
cover, according to DIR. o. F. Narcotic,
who was called to attend her.
Charged with forging his name to
a postal money order, Ambroscia
Velasguez, a 15-year-old Mexican boy.
was arrested Sunday at Horton by fed
eraI authorities and brought to the
Shawnee county jail. His case will be
presented to the grand jury this win
ter, it was said.
TT, III.
was awarded the first prize at the
Wichita wheat show, according to
word received by the Shawnee county
farm bureau. The team, which took
first prize at the Kansas Free Fair,
is composed of Hazel Layman, Daisy
Osborn and Alice Board.
Registration should reach 100 per-
sons daily during the next two weeks,
according to Miss Alice Peyton, regis
tration clerk at the city hall. Books
are open from today until October p,
inclusive, from o'clock in the morn
ing to 10 o'clock at night. Fifty per-
sons registered last week.
Books and magazines are most vel
come at city fire stations, as the fire
men have read all on hand and time
drags heavily for them without some
thing to read. Any one having books
or magazines to donate to the fire
mems enjoyment is asked to leave
The check for $4,000 reported lost
between the city hall and the Mer-
chants National bank was found at
the bank, c. c. Knowlton, city auditor,
reported today. The check was drawn
on the Citizens State bank and was
payable to the Merchants National
bank.
The Florence Crittenton Home is in
need of a watch dog. Recently the
home was entered by a colored man,
who cut a screen door in the night,
and a number of the inmates were
badly frightened. The gift of watch
dog for the home would be much ap-
preciated.
The case of the Midwest National
Bank & Trust company against Mrs.
Opal C. Merritt, wife of R. B. Merritt,
missing Grove State bank cashier, was
concluded in the district court Saturday
when a verdict was returned in favor
Of the plaintiff. This was one of the
several suits resulting from Merritts
disappearance.
Harry X. Allen, employed in the
law offices of Wheeler, Brewster &
Hunt in the Columbian building, was
married Thursday to Miss Florence B.
Smith of Topeka. The couple were
married in Lawrence and will make
this city. Mrs. Allen is a daughter
of James Daugherty, 1247 Clay street
Another good idea lost-all because
she was afraid to talk" is often said
when women try public speaking
Such difficulty may be overcome by
joining the public speaking class at
the Y w. c. A. The class members
are required to present three minute
speech at each class, without commit
ting it to memory. Miss Mabel Ell
more is teacher of the class.
Rev. ]. Francis Robinson of Boston.
Mass. field secretary of the National
Baptist convention (regular) and who
is one of the most widely known cler-
gymen of the colored race. will speak
Tuesday night at o'clock at the Cal
vary Baptist church, Third and Quincy
streets. His subject will be did Our
Boys Die In Vain?" The speaker has
Travelled extensively thrq the United
The Topeka branch of the Women's
Foreign Missionary society meeting in
Salina. voted to meet next year at
Kearney, Neb. Mrs. J. F. Boeye, Uni
versity Place, Neb., was elected presi-
dent of the organization. Mrs. Ben
son NJ. Powell of Topeka was made
vice president, and Mrs. BENJAMIN NJ.
Davies of Topeka was elected treas
urer4 Nearly four hundred women at
tended the meeting.
The Famous Fisk Jubilee singers
will give concert at the Kansas In
dustrial and Educational institute at
8 o'clock tonight. They come here
from an engagement at the Wheat
Show at Wichita. This organization
has Travelled extensively. having put
on programs in England, Scotland.
Germany, New Zealand and other
countries. They also will sing at Gov
ernor Aliens home tonight.
Members OF the Thirty-fifth division
will wear battle clasp on their vic
tory medals for the participation of the
division in the st. Mihiel offensive
The clasp was authorized by the war
department in a communication to the
adjutant generals office Saturday.
The division was under fire and suf-
fered casualties during the st. Mihiel
drive, tho they were technically in re-
serve Application for permission to
wear the clasp was recently made by
the division.
Miss Ethel z. Under of Topeka,
employe of the Santa Fe store de-