The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-31
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS
SociabiIity or safety First:"
If a body meet a body
With bit o. rye
And a body take a toddy
VIII a body die?
Welt Dr1rmrnor,1

VIII body dteE
Walt Drummond.
t-Flowers.-Adv.
Big noise dance tonight at Kellam,
9 to 1.-Ady.
Dance New Years afternoon and
Steinberg'
Heavy L. S. Army Blankets, Goats,
Shoes, Underwear for sale at 531
Kansas Ave.-Adv-
All issues OF Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
A song and prayer service will be
held by the Swedish Lutheran church
under the auspices of the Lutheran
league tonight.
Mrs Nora Morris of Topeka has
been made principal of the Tecumseh
Miss Hazel Wilcoxen of Meriden.
Hams are to be awarded as prizes
at the annual ham shoot of the To-
peka Gun club at o'clock Saturday
afternoon. There will be fifty targets
for the shoot.
The annual meeting OF the directors
of the Shawnee County Farm bureau
will be held at 2 o'clock Monday after
noon at the headquarters of the
bureau in the court house.
Tho Red Cross county chapter
offices have been moved from room
227. the New England building. to
room 2s1 in the same building. The
office will be open only during the
afternoon after Jan. 1.
Wires of the burglar alarm in the
Berkson Brothers store. 707 Kansas
avenue, became crossed, automatically
sending an alarm to the Western
Union Thursday. Police hurried to
the scene only to find the alarm was
false.
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held by the Order of Red Men and
the Degree of PocahontaS at the
Royal Arcanum hall, 627 Kansas ave-
nue., tonight. There will be several
new members of each order to be mi
tiated.
President Phil Eastman of the
Shawnee Golf club has called a meet
ing of the officers and directors for
Tuesday evening at s o'clock at the
office of E. E. Sallee in the Mulvane
building.
All members of the I. O. o. F. are
requested by Will ]. Russell, secretary,
to attend the funeral of ]. S. Langston.
who died Wednesday night. The ser
vices will be held from the residence.
517 East Eighth street, at L o'clock
Saturday afternoon.
Three applications for membership
in the Chamber of Commerce were ap-
proved at the meeting of the board of
directors at noon today. The appli-
cants were: Brier and Rice, insurance
firm; kirkpatrick Trustees, and Paul
S. Grady, consulting engineer
The annual business meeting and
dinner for members and friends of the
Central Park Christian church. will be
held at the church, corner Sixteenth
street and Central Park avenue, to-
morrow. The business meeting will
be held at o'clock, following the New
Years dinner.
A fire alarm was turned in from
the Johnston apartment house, S13
Tyler, Thursday night when a bucket
full of trash caught fire from care
lessly thrown match. By the time the
fire engines reached the apartment
house one of the tenants had removed
the fire danger.
The contract for the payment OF
$500 toward the expenses of the 1921
convention of the Kansas State Teach
ers' association, and to furnish meet
ing places ana door keepers for the
convention, was approved by the board
of directors of the chamber of COM
merce at their meeting at noon today.
Shawnee county's part in the state
wide campaign to support the better
sires movement will begin jan Hip,
according to F. o. Blecha, county
agent. The campaign is being planned
by the farm bureau. One of the
features Will De d mass 1neelnS 10 De
held in Topeka at which Ex-Governor
w. r. Stubbs is to be a speaker.
The stomach pump was used by DR..
r. J. Miller. city physician, on two
MeXicans who had imbibed freely of
homo brew Thursday night. They
were found unconscious near the
Santa Fe bridge and it was feared the
drink contained wood alcohol. After
a little treatment, however, they i'm
proved and spent the night in Jail.
The Christian Endeavor society of
the First United Brethren church has
arranged for a watch night party to
be held in the church parlor tonight,
beginning at $3.50 o'clock. An inter-
esting program has been arranged
Refreshments win be served.
One of the best informed lecturers
on Russian topics in the United States
Madam n. n. Selianova, will lecture
in Topeka at the high school audi
forum Friday evening. Jan. Z. The
lecture will be free to the public. The
lecture will not be of peda gogical ma
ture. according to Supt A J. Stout
but will be of vital interest to anyone
who cares to be informed on world
affairs Madam Selivanova is a native
Russian. Her subject will be Rus
sian Women and Their Problems in
Meeting Bolshevism" or Life in
Soviet Russia She was educated in
Russia. Italy and Switzerland, did Red
Cross work in Vladivostok and has
thoroly studied Russian government
and bolshevism.
Dance the Old Year Out, New Year
In! tonight-Steinberg'
New York stock Market.
Wall St. New York. Dec. 31.-sToCKs-l
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