The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-02
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Co.. 5S4 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
City officials and clerks are making joy
Gus holiday plan for the Fourth of July
for in the course Of calendar events pay pay
| rather than Monday.
Little Richard Crawford, $50 Tyler street,
came rushing to The State Journal office
today and in broken breathing spells, ex
EN-. Wallace, you can Reid; You tell EN-,
Bryant, you go to Washburn.
Bills and payrolls of the city of Topeka
for the month of June totalled $64 ,361 %.
T. Mattingly, licence collector, reporting
| 81 032 90 for the month. | Dog taxes en-
riched the city's treasury to the amount of
suit in the district court Thursday asking
divorce from Morris Drake. whom she
charges with beating her He has also
father and burn the house where she is Iiv-
ing, she declares.
After having been deserted for nineteen
years.
day filed suit in the district court asking
q divorce from David Hassler. whom she
married in DecembeR 1902 Their honey
NOM lasted only three weeks, she says,
when Hassler left her.
The congregation of the First English
Lutheran church. Fifth and Harrison street,
has bought parsonage for the new pastor,
the Rev. F. c. Sibberson. who came here
from Loveland Colo. He was installed last
Sunday. The Rev. Mr.. Sibberson is living
at 1105 Western avenue.
The appointment of nine new employees
as the local postoffice has been announced.
They are Paul H. Crisman, H. c. Hickman.
William H. Illston, McLin Lines; John A.
A. Foster, clerks, and Chester C. Moore
and George L. Birmingham, carriers.
"a new issue of city ponds is going like
hot cakes City. Finance Commissioner W.
fourth ao Of the s41 600 issued in bonds has
| been taken" The bonds issued seminar
nually for pavement improving and other
| funds pay four and three-fourts per cent
interest.
Judge S. NJ. Brewster will give the ad-
dress Sunday evening at the union serv-
ices conducted by the churches in the
| is held in front of the Central Park school
in the evening at :45. There will be spe,
Van Ness.
A. L. Oliger. secretary OF the Chamber of
Commerce, will leave soon on his vacation
western methods of operating chambers of
commerce. directing especial attention to
the San Francisco and Los Angeles Cham
bers of Commerce.
With bank clearing averages falling $516.-
121 below last week and closed stores
Monday July >, the reports and indications
seem to point to a slump in the banking
returns. according to Theodore Mueller.
house SO sns as s Ine to5qi tor f
S. 3S017S40 the week before and $2I61,
5T1.7S a year ago.
John H Crawford, state labor commits
sioner has received phone call from Paul
C. Palmer. a member of the American Lee
gion at Kingman, Kan, in which he tells
Crawford that the five harvest hands who
around Kingman were attempting to jew
them down, we're telling fa Is;
are paying the agreed price.
If eggs are handled properly they will
be exposed to a great deal OF fresh air,
ccS to GeFTg often s6o becn
| they are packed into air tight crates as fast
as they are gathered and stored in warm
| or buckets that the air can circulate
among them in cooler places. Denton is
| instructing grocers to candle eggs proper
ly.
Because Of the extensive work of the
city of Topeka in maintaining pavements,
THE Kansas Engineer" has requested W.
on Maintenance of Pavements'' for the
| September issue of the magazine which
/ VIII De the munlclpaI NUMBER Inc letter
| to Baldry requesting the article said that
many Kansas towns were interested in
| Topeka's methods of keeping pavement in
repair.
The Topeka delegates to the First dis
1 trict convention of the American Legion
| at Atchison will be chosen tonight at a
| meeting at the Legion hail, 210 West Sixth
| street. The meeting has been called by
| Glenn Logan, post adjutant, at the order
| of the executive committee. Every mem
Der of Capital Post No. l.. is urged to be
/ present. this will be the real begin
| ming of the fight to retain state head
quarters in Topeka.
The telephone cables which connect
| North Topeka telephone patrons with the
beneath the east sidewalk of the Meian
| bridge to make room for necessary repair
| work. The cables will be sunk in the
| edge OF the street, 1t was decided at Il
| meeting of W. s Hancock. commissioner
! of streets representative Of the Bell Tele-
! phone and w S. Fulton, contractor. The
cables will be left permanently in the edge
of the street, it was decided.
/ New elevators, new bins, and good deal
I OF wheat being stacked, is the report
Z made by F c. Fox. general manager of
/ the Santa Fe, who has just returned from
wheat country In Kansas. Fox reports
that the headers are working as far east
/ as Lyon county. The reapers are in the
I Nebraska fields Fox says. condition al
most unprecedented. because the. normal
time for ripentng in northern Kansas and
munity exchange Of work is another com
mendable thing" said Fox. "and there is
scarcely any shortage of labor. Many
/ tractors are seer to be working"
Allies Agree on Disarmament.