The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-15
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/ Ali issues OF Liberty Bonds Dougnt
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
/ Co. 534 Kansas avenue--AdR.
| Because farmers do not have the
special favors and comforts OF city
1 life, the young people are leaving the
farms 1t was stated by B. Needham
| of Lane before the meeting of the
state grange. The city consumer and
the Improvement of the economic
situation, according to Secretary D. r.
Thurston of the Farmers union, who
also spoke before the meeting.
The women who attend the reunion
of the Thirty-fifth division will be en-
tertained by the local chapter OF the
Military Sisterhood, 1t is announced
by Mrs. c. 1. Martin, president Plans
for their entertainment will be made
at a meeting to be held soon by the
members of the sisterhood-a Other
plans of the sisterhood under consid-
Grafton are means of helping the cx-
service men get college education.
A street car and a Chevrolet motor
car with a Missouri license coilided at
the corner of Norris and Eighth ave"
nues Tuesday evening. The four per
sons in the motor car were not injured
but the ear was damaged.
Street car service on the Lowman
line was delayed thirty minutes Tues
day evening because of broken wire
and two broken trolley poles at Mum
son and Brooks avenues
]. H. Lee, who is spending Septem-
Der in Long Beach, Cal. writes that
he is enjoying the sea breezes with
several other Topekans, including Dr.
8. J. Crumbine. Harry Pribble and
| Clyde Miller. The best crops Cali
fornia has are the tourists" writes
Lee.
when the world is good, it makes
other people good. The world stamp
I ~,
will find Hickory Jones selling near
| beer on the fair grounds. Hickory
for years was standing trial for VIOLA
| ton of the liquor laws.
b F. Smith, of Hill City, one of the
big business men of his town, is spend
friends and taking in the big state
fair. He reports Graham county in
the large crop belt of C )unties, and the
wheat yield in the zoo per cent column.
Corn is doing fine. Hill City is push
| ing to the front, and a scarcity of resi-
dence houses. I have never witnessed
so much prosperity since my resi-
dence there, he says.
Everything new in wall paper.
Doering,t sos Kansas Ave.-Adv.
william Warren. a negro. was sem
| fenced TO ten years in state prison
Tuesday by Judge James A Mcclure
| He confessed to breaking into the out
| look Ladies Furnishing store and
taking $1,000 worth of goods.
| Leon Cadu, 16. and Ferris Waff. IL.
students at Haskell institute. couldn't
resist the big Free Fair. They took
French leave from the school Tues
day and were picked up>by the police
half an hour after their arrival in
| Topeka.
| A warrant was issued Tuesday from
! the office of the county attorney for
| the arrest of r. r. Shoaf. a local
| druggist, on a charge of selling to-
! bacco to minors.
! The Y. w. c. A. will have charge
of a rest tent at the fairgrounds today,
! Thursday and Friday. Cots and easy
chairs have been arranged in the tent.
Mothers with small children particu-
larly, as well as all women, are well
come to rest in the tent. The hos
| tesses at the tent are: Mrs. David
Page, Mrs z. C. Seger. Mrs. W. E.
Bulls, Mrs. Richard Alden, Miss Sue
Louise Bell and Mrs. A. D. Gray.
The Arthur Reynolds murder trial
has been taken off the docket of the
September term of criminal court.
The change was made at the request
of the attorney for the prosecution
who told Hugh Fisher, county at
II torney, he did not have sufficient evil
dence to try the case