The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-24
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AT HOME NEWS

There amt 10 use a tryin'.
I'm filled with deep despair,
l keep a spendin' money,
! And can't make 1t anywhere.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co., 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
You are sure Of your next winters coal
if you belong to Pepp's Coal Saving Plan
Topeka Coal Co, Elks Bldg Phone
4S2.-Ady.
The steinberg Dancing academy has
added a new feature to its orchestra equip
ment-a Chickering grand piano. And
| Charlie" makes it talk
The play, An Evening e. Japan" which
was to have been given Thursday ~. night n
Johns A. NJ Z. church has been postponed
until Wednesday, March 81.
Plans for an open house Chamber of
Commerce party. are being made. Mem
and business women will be invited. The
party will be held soon. No dale has been
set.
| Delegates to the regular meeting of the
Topeka Industrial council tonlgnt VIII pc
given a report on the controversy between
| iinemen and the Topeka Edison company,
the first case appealed to the new Kansas
| industrial court.
The usual daily" run TO the Kramer
street viaduct by fire companies was re-
peated twice Tuesday. Cigaret stubs care
iessly tossed away were responsible for
igniting the rosin soaked timbers it was
reported. No damage resulted
Joe Flynn "a. charged with stealing a
/ bottle of milk from a Topeka Pure MIX
| company wagon near the Rock Island sta
ton, promised Police Judge Hugh Mac.
| Farland that he would leave the city If
released The judge released him.
John Getty, negro, was sentenced to
| twenty days in the city Jail for stealing a
purse from an automobile. Getty told
| Judge Hugh Mcfarland that he was broke
| and that his rib was broken, the result of
| a kick from a mare.
Prior to the war, Topeka paved five
miles of streets annually. Since prices be
| one mile year, according to W. >
| Hancock, street commissioner. At the pres
| ent rate, he said it will take thirty years
| to hard surface Topekas unpaved streets.
| Ninety dollars in fines were melted ont
| by Judge Hugh MacFarland in police court
Tuesday afternoon to persons charged with
violating motor traffic ordinances. Speed
| ing, using spot lights, driving trucks on
| Topeka avenue and parking within the
safety zones were included among the Of
lenses In most cases the prisoners
| pleaded ignorance of the law.
The story of the growth of the Topeka
Tent and Awning company was told mem
| bers of the Cooperative club, by F. A.
Anton. president, at the club dinner Tues
with a small factory. the company now oc-
cupies a large new building with machinery
for manufacturing awnings and canvas
products, Anton said.
The motor transport corps has been re-
opened for enlistment, according to Capt.
Earl Landreth, of the local recruiting Of
flee. White men only will be accepted for
the service. There are only 5000 vacancies
in this branch. Men will be sent to Camp
Jessup, Ga, Camp Holabird, Md. for a
course in mechanics. Stations will be as
signed upon completion of the course As
near as possible, enlisted men will be
given choice of stations.
During the Illness of Miss Gertrude
| Loudenback, physical director of the y. W.
c. A; Miss Katispe Moore, physical in
structor at Washburn college, will con-
duct the Y. w. c. A. gymnasium classes
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, and
aesthetic dancing classes on Friday even
ming instructor. will lead the gymnasium
| classes on Monday. Tuesday and Wednes-
he in charge of the childrens classes on
| Saturday morning.
"The Regeneration of Aunt Mary" the
comedy to be presented by the .Washburn
O'clock is the interesting story Of Aunt
Mary's" going to the city to rescue her
wild and reckless nephew. She falls in
love with city life. in spite of her horror
| of it, and returns to her village home ad-
hitting that her city visit rejuvenated her.
Ruth Swenson will play Aunt Mary, and
Dana Brown will have the role of Jack,
the nephew. Lois Romig, as Betty, is both
a comfort and a trouble to Jack.
Mrs. n. J. Upton. widow. won in her
| suit against Mrs. A. L. J. Pendry, man
ager of the Victoria Hotel, and was granted
the furnishings by jury in the second
| division of the district court. The Pen
drys were original lessees of the hotel sit
uated at lis West Eighth street, and
| claimed 81 900 damages for loss of the fur
| nishings under orders of the court of $40
| peka, and for alleged mistreatment by Mrs.
| Upton's attorneys and officers of the law
Mrs. Upton is now manager of the dining
| room at the state hospital for the insane.
Separate maintenance and the custody
| of their I-year-old daughter, is asked in
| an answer and cross petition filed in the
/ district court today by Henrietta Beeler.
102 Lawrence street. against Clarence
Beeler 726 Locust street. Beeler recently
| filed suit for divorce from his wife charg-
ing she had abandoned him month after
| their marriage in 1919. NJ. Beeler says
| she was living with her husband and his
mother, that they moved from the house
and forbid her to accompany them. She
says Beeler is employed by the Capital
| Iron Works company.
G. C. Adams. 81 was knocked thru a
plate glass window at the Merchants
lunch, 10i Kansas avenue. Tuesday night
in free-for-all fight in front of the
the face and shoulders which were sewed
J. Helm, 81. and Minor Smith. 80, were
| arrested for participation in the fight.
| Later W. G. Yost also was arrested for
| taking part in the free-f or-aIl The police
say all of them had been drinking. Adams
| was carrying a blackjack loaded with a
said.
A new Oakland limousine. driven by
Dr. Fl; B. Hogeboom, was slightly dam
| Whiteker Brothers delivery wagon ran
| away on East Sixth street, turned north
on Kansas avenue and ran into the rear
pierced the back of the Oakland and the
| horses were halted.
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