The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-01

NiA-NAA6AN-
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
Ernest Chamberlin, Of Fort Scott, is in
Topeka on account of the Illness OF his
mother Mrs. Z. c. Chamberlain, 81 Clay
street.
The young mems Bible class of the Cen
trail Park Christian church Will give an
oyster supper Tuesday evening, March =,
| at o'clock at the church.
George Hughes will be the speaker before
the Jayhawker club following n dinner a
the Chamber of Commerce at 80 O'Clock
this evening. His topic will be The Non
partisan League"
Local banks cleared $14.37o, 1855 during
February according to Theodore c. Muel-
Ter, secretary of the Topeka clearing house
This is an increase of $1,2OO,191-s1 over
February, 1918.
one of the hardest bills to meet is the
coal bill. Join our Coal savings club ane
coal is in the bin and paid for before win
ter sets in. Some system. Topeka Goa
Company.-Adv.
The Cooperative club will hold its reg
ulsr meeting at the Elks' club, Tuesday
evening March .. at o'clock. W. o..
Rigby, postmaster, will talk on the amount
of mail passing thru his office and the
manner in which it is handled.
Charles II. Bates of Crescent, Oklahoma,
who has been visiting In Topeka for the
last few days declares that there are now
in history The pecan crop there this last
fall exceeded all previous records.
The annual state meeting of the National
Farm and Garden association will be held
at the Chamber of Commerce March 50
according to Mrs. Theodore Saxon of To-
peka, state president. One of the principal
speakers will be Mrs. Fanny NJ klinck,
OF Iowa, president of the Farm Women $
, congress.
Shawnee County w. C T. u workers are
anxious 10 obtain sufficient pledges by
March 20 to complete the county's quota
, in the w. c. T. L million dollar jubilee
drive. Notice has been sent 10 county
members by Mrs. Clara Baker county presl-
l. dent. asking them to remit pledges to Mrs
j ohm Marshall. 1877 Greenwood avenue.
Miss Dorothy Levers, who has been ac-
tive in the state Y. w c. A. campaign for
several months, Will go to Hutchinson to-
morrow TO become secretary for the girls
club in the Hutchinson association. Miss
Levers has been organizing committees in
Kansas to work in the interests of the Y.
W. c. A. world service campaign
Word has been received in Topeka that
Edward G. auckland. trustee of Washburn
college and one of the oldest living grad
yates, who has been manager of the New
York, New Haven & Hardtford railroad
under federal ownership, will return to his
former position as vice president and coun-
sci for the road, when it reverts to pri-
waite ownership.
When a negro boy will take a plunge
, into Shunganunga creek on n winters day
he is scared beyond all question of a doubt.
Two boys of ebony hue performed this feat
Sunday afternoon when 4 police squad
banks of the creek near East Eighth
avenue. Vernal Abbott and Johnny Cole
man preferred jail to the icy water Of the
creek. They gave bond for their appear
ance in police court. The other two -dived
into the icy waters of the Shunganunga.
Members OF MarshallE band, their fam
lies and friends enjoyed banquet at the
I3Iks' club Saturday evening at 6 O'clock
The dinner was followed by a musical pro-
gram In which CLYDE. lunches, Charles
I Zoo hn IInr HTnr
v. Harshbereer and II. d. Wadleigh took
| part. with the titles of King. 1rd High
Executioner. High Prime Minister. High
I High Supreme Secretary and Prince of
4 Jollles. respectively. The performance was
/ said to have continued until all partici-
/ pants are either killed or wounded by the
audience"
crap game in the rear OF grocery
store Mt Fifteenth and Lane streets was
! rudely interrupted at noon Sunday by the
| police. The boys participating were high
| school and Washburn students, the police
say. Motorcycle Policeman r. o. Garrod
! Leonard and Detectives Mitchell Bundy and
! George Frost cut off the escape of the
, Rnmesters. The boys when arrested gave
| Eachron, L. Fl. White. NJ. Arthur, Carl
Hoover, Harry LOOMS, Oscar Johnson and
J Albert Bishop. A cash bond of s. each
was put up by the boys for their appear
! ance in police court.
The exhibition of oil paintings by New
| York. Boston and Philadelphia artists sent
I out by the American Federation of Art
| Washington. =. c., which was held at
| Washburn college during the past two
weeks. closed Sunday evening. The pictures
! will be shipped to Norman. Oklahoma, to
| day, where they will be used this week in
! the dedication Of a new 81, 900. 900 fine arts
building at the State university there. The
| attendance at the exhibition while the pic
I lures were In Topeka was most gratifying
| to the Topeka Art Guild and the WashburIi
Fine Arts Department under whose Joint
| auspices 1t was held. The total attendance
during the two weeks was 2,200 persons
More than 400 saw the paintings yesterday.