The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-02


exhibit of pet stock at the State Free
Fair will be discussed.
DIR. w. J. Robb of Topeka has been
reappointed as a member of the state
chiropraetic board. The governor has
oalso appointed F. H Stannard of OF
tawa as a member of the state ento-
mological commission.
Will j. Russell, grand secretary of
the 1. o. o. F., went to kansas City to-
day where he will attend the Greater
Kansas City conclave which is In ses-
sion today and Saturday. He Will re-
turn Saturday evening.
b V. Edworthy, the new. boys work
secretary of the state Y. M. c. A, ar
rived in Topeka Thursday, and VIII
take up his newt duties today Ed
worthy succeeds Grover ]. Little, who
resigned to take a position in Des
Moines, Iowa, August Is.
The thoro cleaning and redeeorat-
| ing at the Y. w. c. A. is completed
and has resulted in many attractive
| improvements. The floors and walls
have been refinished, the carpets
| frightened by cleaning and some of
| the furniture has been re-upholstered.
Two new cases of diphtheria were
reported to the city health department
| today, and with the four cases report
| ed on Thursday. make a total of six
cases for the first two days of Sep
| TENDER. There were fifty cases re-
ported in the last three weeks of Aug
| ust.
Clifford Baugh, 1913 College ave-
| nue.. waived his preliminary hearing
| today when he was arraigned in the
1 court of Topeka on a charge of at
| tempting a criminal assault on Gypsy
| Brooks, 19year-old girl, and was
bound over to the district court for
| trial. His bond was set at $500.
The swimming pool at the Y. w C..
1 will he fnY-
5. The pool will open for the winter
term October 1. After that date no
one will be allowed in the pool with
out first having had a physical exam
ination, according to Miss Nell String
fellow, physical director of the Y. w.
c. A.
| Dwight Olander has been selected to
succeed Lyman King as acting boy
scout executive of Topeka. King, who
recently resigned from the position of
acting executive will leave Saturday for
| a short vacation in Colorado. When
he returns from his vacation he will
assist his father, E. V. King, in his
Photographic studio.
The purchase of a dozen new foot
| balls, eighty-four suits and other
| equipment for the Washburn football
squad is announced by Coach Dwight
T. Ream. and the athletic field is
rapidly being put in condition for the
Iopening of the season. Weeds, grass
and other trash have been removed
| from the gridiron, and the north sec
ton of bIeachers has been rebuilt.
| The John H Harlin Clothing com
| pany, 706 Kansas avenue, which was
declared to be insolvent in July, was
sold Thursday by R. L. Thomas, trus-
tee, to Earl E. Shell, of Arkansas City,
who will conduct the business under
| the name of the Shell Clothing COM
pany. The sale was made in the bank
/ he
company was one of the best firms of
| its kind in Topeka and has always
handled high grade merchandise.
]. H. johnson is now sole owner of
the Franklin Motor company, 2O6
West Sixth street, having purchased
the interest of his partner, U. A. Raj
ston. The two men have been assoc
ciated together since last spring. An
other price cut, ranging from $3.50 to
$3.50, on Franklin cars has been an
nounced by Johnson. The new prices
Il. o. b. Syracuse, New York, are:
Touring car, $3.50; sedan. $780,;
brougham, $4,000; two passenger
roadster, $4,000; deni-coupe, $3.50;
Idemi-sedan, $2,750; touring Limousine,
$4,000.
The state Y. NJ. c. A has obtained
space for a booth at the fair grounds
during the Kansas Free Fair. The
booth will be situated on the porch of
the Agricultural building, near the en-
trance to the fair grounds. A field
man for the Y. M. G. A. Will nave
charge of the booth and will explain
the work of the organization to all
who are interested. Free pamphlets;
containing an outline of the field work
and the educational and industrial
program being carried out by the state
Y. NJ c. A. will be distributed from
the booth.
Many focal Odd Fellows and Re-
TOW
Kansas City conclave of Odd Fellows
which began today, and will be held
Saturday and Sunday. The conclave
is being held in Convention hall, KAN
sas City, Mo. Reduced rates have
been secured on all railroads in Ar
kansas. Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Me-
braska and Oklahoma for the mem
bers of the order and their families.
The conclave will close Sunday night
with the production of The Shepherd
of Bethlehem under the direction
of Frederick H. Wilson, the author.
The public utilities commission,
which usually gets walloped when its
cases go into the courts, won out this
week when Judge George H. Wnlt-
comb, in the district court, decided
against the Peoples Home Ielepnone
company of Leavenworth, which
sought to substitute toll rates in
nearby towns for the flat rates which
had previously been in effect. This
is the first case the utilities commas
sion has won in the district court since
it was divorced from the industrial
court. About thirty-seven other cases
are pending against it in the district
court.
Miss Marie Wolff lies on a hospital
bed in Kansas City with a small por-
ton of bone removed from one of her
legs. a sacrifice she has made for her
small brother Henry, who has been
cripple owing to the fact that one of
his legs was shorter than the other.
BY the aid he is getting from his SIS
ter, doctors say that Henry's leg
should become normal within a few
months and allow him to scamper
about as. other children do. Marie
and Henry are the children of Mr.. and
Mrs A. P Wolff, 929 Madison street,
who are at Kansas City with them.