The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-04

! church a Sunday night reading club
has been formed. Prof Elrick E.
Davis, professor of English at Wash
bum college, will give a review of the
Drumming Cup at the next meeting
! Sunday evening.
The Rev. P. c. Nelson, who was to
/ have spoken at the Swedish Baptist
church this evening, was unable to
come to Topeka today. The meeting
| has been postponed until Sunday. The
Rev. Mr.. Nelson will speak Sunday
afternoon at the city auditorium.
The Topeka Osteopathic Women's
club was organized Monday night with
DR.. Geneyra E. Leader, president. and
Mrs. w. S. Briscoe, secretary treasurer.
Others present at the meeting were:
DR.. Mary E. Alspach, DR.. Nancy j.
Godfrey, Mrs. E. c. Smith. Mrs. D. A.
Bragg and Mrs. R. q. Tilley.
A Sunday school basketball league
was organized at the Central Y. NJ. c.
A. Monday evening, There will be
a junior and senior league. The sea-
son will start November l. The Of
ffcerS elected for the coming year are:
Guy Wilma, president; L. P. Yelton.
vice president; A. R. Mulholland. sec
rotary.
William NJ. Jardine, president of the
Kansas State Agricultural college, ad-
| dressed the mems open forum at the
! Central Congregat church Mon
day evening. One hundred men were
present He urged the city business
men to get back of the movement for
mature rural leadership and cooper
| ate with the farmers.
Til Westminster Presbyterian
church made record in the service
Sunday morning. Out of a resident
| membership of $50, a total of 315 were
! in attendance, 83 were unavoidably de-
| tanned at home, 6 were out of the city
and six were not accounted for. At
T,r11k
$50 members were present.
The Rev. E. o. Allison gave an ad-
| dress on the industrial qualities of a
man, Monday evening, at the home
coming program put on by the Low
man Memorial Methodist church. A
| mems dinner club banquet will be
served at the church tonight. The
Rev. George r. Lewellin and Neil
| Branstetter are on the program.
Reports today from Christ's hospi-
tai stated that L. ]. Pettijohn, secre-
| tary of state. is recovering from an at
| the hospital last week. Statements
from the hospital today We're to the
effect that the secretary of state would
probably be able to return to his office
next week.
A suit to collect 1920 damages
from the Union Pacific Railroad COM
pany was filed in the federal. court
| Monday afternoon by T. J. O Brien of
Plainville, Kan. He alleges that he
ordered four cars to move his wheat
on July 81, 1920, when it was selling
for s2.46 a bushel, but that the COM
pany failed to furnish them, altho
liable to do so, until some time later,
when the market had dropped to
SIPS.
Prof. William A McKeever of Kan
sas university addressed the Kiwanis
club at the Chamber of Commerce
Monday evening on the subject, THE
Girl Problem" He made an appeal
for the members to take an interest
in the welfare of young girls in To-
peka. He outlined plan whereby he
thought the work could be carried on
successfully. Plans for making the
Victory highway a transcontinental
highway were outlined by Ben Blow,
manager. Blow told a story of the
development of the highways of Cali
fornia and of the value of drawing
traffic to a town.
The state board of embalmers held
its semi-annual examination in Topeka
today. Twenty-siX applicants took the
examination in order to secure a
license. The applicants We're from all
parts of the state and one was from
Oklahoma. The officers of the board
are Joe S. johnson OsaWatonie, presf-
dent; ]. H. Boice, Galena, vice presi-
dent; NJ. A. Cheatun, Salina, secretary,
and Abram Troup, Logan, treasurer.
in charge of Cheatum, was conducted
at the Odd Fellows hall, and the oral
examination was conducted by John
son at Penwell's underta king parlors.
Court house employees donated the
money to buy the license; Henry Nc
Afee, justice of the peace in Mission
township, performed the ceremony
free of charge and the wedding guests
furnished their own smokes when AL
bert Logan and Doretha S. Grimes,
both colored, were married Monday
afternoon. Logan was in Jail charged
with q statutory offense against the
girl who is IT years old. Officers con-
scented to let him enter upon the mat
rimonial sea as a means of stunning
prison walls. He had no money to buy
a license, but Elisha Scott. negro attor-
ney started the collection with a 81
bill and the amount was soon raised.
Logan was then presented with a pa
role which provided that he must
work steadily. take good care of his
wife and refrain from using liquor.
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