The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-05
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The Topeka Central w. c. T. L. will
meet at the Y. w. c. A. Monday otter
noon at $3.50 o'clock.
All issues of Liberty Bends bought
and sold The Shawnee Investment
Co. ga Kansas avenue--Adv.
The Prudential Trust Co. is deposi-
tary for '.Pepp's Coal Savings Plan
4 per cent investment. Topeka Coal
Co, 4S2.-Adv.
We have few Kansas municipal
bonds to net per cent, tax free. See
Miss May Malone, Kansas Securities
Co., 401-3 New England Bldg. Phone
3346.-Adv.
The minstrel team of twenty MEM
bers of the Supflower camp No. $50.
Modern Woodmen of America, gave an
entertaining program at the Railroad
Y. NJ. C. A. Friday night. The assem-
bly, room of the building was crowded
for the minstrel show.
John F. Pate, of Kansas City, Mo,
and Perry L. Cross, of Abilene, Kan,
will be speakers Sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock at the Orpheum theater.
The meeting will be for men only, and
the Boys Industrial school band, OF
thirty pieces, will play. All men of
the city are invited.
Persons tampering with oil and
gasoline pumps at various Standard on
service stations in an atteapt to beat
the high cost of motoring have injured
much equipment, according to X, +.
Ferguson, local manager. Ferguson
has checked the matter up to the po--
lice for investigation.
Members of the legislature have
been invited to attend past exalted
rulers night at the Elks' club next
Wednesday night. large class OF
candidates will be initiated and Capt.
w. p. MacLeans athletic teams will
furnish several stunts for the audi
ence.
Mrs. Harland Beaver. of Sabetha.
Kan, is visiting with Rev. and Mrs.
CT. Cole on Garfield avenue and is
helping in the revival meetings at the
Seward avenue Baptist church. Mrs.
Deaver is an accomplished soloist and
! is pleasing to her audiences.
Many Topekans would like to have
o. C. Bryant's recipe for making home
brew. When a bottle was produced in
police court Friday afternoon as evil
dence against the negro, and the cap
removed, the "suds' shot all over the
court room, causing officers and
spectators alike to make a dash for
the door. Police Judge Rad Lee, how
ever, was unmoved, and caught most
of the shower upon himself. Bryant's
attorney asked for a continuance to
get the brew analysed.
Prisoners in the county Jail had to
divide themselves into shifts and watch
Chester A. Bell. adjudged insane, to
prevent him from hanging himself.
a chain. to the roof of his cage and
around his neck. but the prisoners
saved his life. Later. when no one
was watching, he tore his blanet in
two and again tried to end his life.
After that one man was detailed to
watch him while the other slept. Bell
was taken to the state hospital Friday
afternoon
Smoking will be forbidden in the
| big jitney buses as well as on street
cars thru the provisions of the city
ordinance drawn by City Attorney
Branaman, to be presented for second
reading to the city commission next
closed and often smoking becomes OBJ
noxious in them. The small 5itneys.
carrying only five or six passengers,
will not be affected by the ordinance,
Branaman said, for the small cars are
Of the open kind The fine for viola
ton of the ordinance will be from five
to twenty dollars.
A series of special meetings will be
held in the Presbyterian churches of
the city and this Presbytery. according
to arrangements made FRIDAY at the
Central Y. NJ. c. A. by the Evangelis-
tic committee of the Presbyterian
churches. DR.. Perry V. Jeness of Dem
yer was present as chairman of a fl
nancial committee for apportioning of
funds for the churches of this Pres
bytery for the coming year. DIR. s.
S. Estey, of Topeka, conferred last
week with college pastors of Kansas
University and the State Agricultural
college at Manhattan concerning the
religious work among the students.
A petition asking that the Grund
Hotel compay of Kansas City, be de-
clared bankrupt was filed in the
United States district court here to-
day by three creditors of the concern.
J. A. Holombeks and Kenneth b. Uhls
are the proprietors operating. accord
ing. to the petition, as The Grund
Hotel company. the Mid-Continent
Supply company and the Eitimiller
Hotel company. 1t is alleged that they
have committed acts of bankruptcy in
allowing judgment to be taken
against them in the Kansas City court
allowing certain property to be sold
by the city marshal and by removing
or concealing other fixtures and prop
erty. The petitions and the amount
they claim due them from the hotel
company are: william Volker COM
pany, $1,652.52: Richards & Conover.
$474.39; Weinhold Brothers Hardware