The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-07
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AT HOME NEWS


aft-Flowers.-Adv.
Five men were enlisted in the regu-
lar army at the Topeka recruiting sta
ton last week.
All issues OF Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
A. G. Wells, vice president of the
Santa Fe and in charge of the operat-
ing department, inspected the Topeka
shops Monday.
The COOPERATIVE club will hold its
regular meeting at the Elks club to-
night. Judge w. L. Higgins will be
the chief speaker of the evening.
The home of the-R Rev. T. S. Sander
almost entirely DESTROYED by fire Mon
day afternoon. A defective fiue caused
the fire
Brotherhood of American Yeon1en
will hold a box social and give a
unique entertainment at their hall,
SIS kansas Ave, Wednesday evening.
Dec. s. All welcome.-Adv.
The firemen at station No 8 have
completed arrangements for their first
annual ball, which vii be held at
Metropolitan hail. 404 Kansas avenue,
on Tuesday night, December. i 4. The
proceeds viii go to local No. SO fire
mems relief fund. n
One of the speakers at the anti
cigaret demonstration Sunday after
noon will be DR.. D. VIZ Kurtz, presi-a
dent of Mcpherson college. The meet
ing will be held at the First Baptist
church at 8 o'clock Sunday Doctor
Kurtz will talk at the Central Congrez
gational church Monday evening. 81
DIR. A. X Owen was elected presi-
dent of the Shawnee County Medical
at 10
Monday night. DR.. l.. II. Mum was
elected treasurer and DIR. E. G.. Brown
secretary. Following the election, the
doctors and their wives banqueted at
Pelletiers. Nea 'ly 100 doctors and
their wives were present.
The semi-annual conference of the
Kansas agents of the New England
Mutual Life Insurance company is be-
ing held at the Eiks' club today.
Glover S. Hastings. superintendent of
agencies for the company. is leading
the discussions of problems. The
agents hal lunch at the E1ks today
and will dine at Pelletier's tonight.
The regular monthly meeting of the
headquarters committee of the state
Anti-Saloon League was held at the
Chamber of Commerce at noon today.
Business of a routine nature was han
died by the committee, which also dis 4
cuSsed the arrangements for the adj
dress which is to be given in Topeka 1
December 5 by Richmond p. Hobson,
hero of the Merrimac.
No one who wants Christmas tree
will be disappointed in finding one, for 3
Topeka's quota of Christmas trees isl
$4,000, or five carloads in contrast to
cording to local dealers. Prices will !
range from rs cents to 81 or IS. Holly
will be scarce because of the freeze al
Easter last year. and artificial holly
will be used. Mistletoe and smilax
are abundant.
Warren FairchiId, accused of5steal-
ing $4,000 in jewels from a Sam Fran
cisco firm, is in the Leavenworth
county Jail waiting for a deputy sheriff
from California who will return hinli
there for trial. Extraditions was apz3
proved by the governors office. FAIR
child was arrested in Boston and has
just finished serving a sentence in the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth
on a fraud charge, it was said. /
Probably one of the most versatile
motorists in the city is Charles r.
Alderman, 1909 Lincoln street, who in
become a jitney driver states that he
has had experience in handling eight
different makes of motor cars. After
stating that he has driven Cadillac, |
Stutz, Packard, Marmon, Dodge, Max
we'll and Buick cars, he is making APP
plication to become a jitney driver
with a Ford .5s1
Mrs Bertha Morton. 113 Winter
street, today filed a petition in the
district court, asking a divorce from
Walter Morton, whom she charges
with threatening her with violence and
with failure to provide. During the
week before the petition was filed, she
claims, Morton bought only two loaves
of bread. She claims that a few days
ago he threatened her with a butcher
knife and threatened to strike their
oldest child with an axe Morton is a
porter in an uptown selothing store.
Because the case was tried at the
court house, and outside of the juris- I
diction of Mission township, w. A.
Ralston and Charles F. Helm filed an
Injunction suit in the district court
Monday afternoon alleging that a
judgment rendered against them by
Henry MeAfee. justice of the peace in
Mission township, in favor of C. O.. !
Anse1 and Guy Startup, was not legal