The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-19
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Co.. 554 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
The Round About club, an auxiliary
of St. Johns A. NJ. z. church, has
secured the Apex theater. Thursday,
January 90. and have for moving
! picture known as "Sambo."
A truck belonging to S. E. Rich
mond, driver for the Frank Furniture
company. was slightly damaged by
fire in an alley at SIS Quincy street
| today. The top and seat were burned
and the paint scorched.
Thomas ID. Williams has been APP
pointed probation officer of the tuve-
nile court and truancy officer for the
board of education. He has been
physical director of the Railroad Z. NJ:
C. A. for two years. He viii hoio
office for the remainder of the school
year.
The question of confederating with
the national farm bureau. an organ
ixation with 100000 members de-
signed to promote agricultural inter
ests thrueut the nation, will come up
at the annual meeting of the Shawnee
county farm bureau at the Chamber
of Comm cree January "a. The county
| farm bureaus in Kansas have MEM
bership of $4,000.
A two weeks series of gospel meet
| ings is being held at the United Pres
| of the Rev. NJ. G. Mum. The topics
for this week have been announced as
| follows: Monday, 1.-The Holy Spirit.
His Personality and Work." Tuesday.
THE Holy Spirit and sThreefoid
Peril" Wednesday. Friends to Whom
gion;" Friday, "a Vain Concealment.
Hurled fifty feet thru the air. B, J.
Yengling, a member of threshing
crew, escaped with only slight bruises
when his engine blew up on the farm
| of E. j. ssmaIley, near Pauline. Satur-
/ day afternoon. Five other men were
\ knocked down but not injured. The
| and were pulling their engine into the
yard when the explosion, believed to
have been caused by low water In the
boiler, occurred.
F! A. s. Blair, of Abilene, was elected
vice president of the Farmers, Ma
| tional bank at directors meeting
| held Saturday. He will move to To-
peka with his family at an early date.
/ Fer a number of years he has owned
the controlling interest in the Com
mercial State bank at Abilene. All
other officers of the bank were re-
elected as follows: Herbert g. West
presidnt: F. F. Ginger. cashier; Glen
w. Shimeal and Hugh A. Smith. as
sistant cashiers.
| NJ r. Swarner was arrested Sunday
| at Greensboro, Kan, on the charge or
passing worthless checks in Topeka.
| Swarner was first traced to Kansas
i City and then to Coldwater, where his
| relatives live.< He was brought to To-
! peka Sunday and will be prosecuted
| officials said, on the charge of-passins
a. worthless check for s1S5, drawn on
| the Coldwater National bank. 1t was
made payable to Walter Eshe and in
dorsed on the back with that name.
| 1t was signed with the name of Jones
| Swarner.
In recognition of this being Life In
surance Day, o. T. Chopper spoke
briefly about life insurance at tne
| Chamber of Commerce. today noon.
He brought to business men the idea
| that they had learned how difficult 1t
was to take any stated sum of money,
keep it together and keep it working,
vet many of them virtually planned to
turn over money to their wives who
had no experience in business He
pointed out the value of the monthly
! income policy in obviating this diff
Guilty.
The girls triangular debate be-
| tween washbufnf Ottawa and Kansas
State Agricultural college, postponed
December 10 because of the coal
shortage which necessitated ire CLOS
ing down of Washburn and Ottawa,
Will be held Saturday, February T..
The question is. Resolved, That the
United States should establish a pro-
tectorate over Mexico" The schedule
Of debates will be as follows: Wash
burn, affirmative. VS.. Ottawa, mega
tive, at Topeka; Washburn, negative,
vs. K. s. A. c., aft NATIVE, at Man
haitian, and X. s. A. c., negative, vs..
Ottawa at Ottawa.
washburn college has recently re-
ceived 23S books, most of which are
works on hist Dry and English litera-
ture from John L. Norton, who is
changing his residence from 1900
Tyler street to the Topeka club house.
There are also several rugs. a number
of large framed pictures and col
lection of vases The rugs. pictures
and vases have been placed in the
fine arts department. This depart
ment has also received a gift from
Cornelius NJ. Hoult, of Baltimore, Md.
which is two large new rugs for the
art exhibit in Boswell hall. Mr.. Hoult
is Mr.. Norton's brother-in-law.
An old dispute was reopened today
when engineers from the state high
way commission called on W. S. Han
cock, city commissioner of streets and
public works, and w. E. Baldry. city
engineer, about the East Sixth street
culverts, which the state highway
commission had put In under super
vision of the county to take care of
the county water flowing into the city.
At the time the culverts were being
built, the city objected to their loca-
ton, on the grounds that they would
carry the county water onto property
owned by citizens of the. city abutting
Sixth street A change in location
was made and bill presented to the
city for 500. Commissioner Hancock
does not feel that the city is liable for
this debt The matter has been re-
ferred to him and City Attorney
Branaman.
THE Unitarian church has been
called exclusive and self-centered."
stated the Rev. Mark Mohler at the
Unitarian services>yesterday afternoon,
'-and it has also been charged against
US that we do not believe anything in
particular. This feeling has been
rather general and undoubtedly
where there is much smoke there is
some fire. In the beginning of the