The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-06
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Builders club was held at the Cham
Der of Commerce at noon today.
Governor Allen has appointed two
deputy game wardens for Shawnee
county. They are Henry Ogee and
Thomas C. Powell
of Senator Paul H. Kimball, has been
appointed by H. H. Motter as deputy
state oil inspector.
The regular meeting of the P. S.
club, made up of printing statesmen
was held at the Chamber of Com
merce at noon today
The city of Osborne has been given
authority by the public utilities com
mission to make $4,000 worth OF I'M
provements in its water plant
The regular meeting of Armstrong
Auxiliary, United Spanish War Veter-
ans. will be held Thursday afternoon,
July 7, at o'clock in the Royal Ar
canum hall
A meeting of the directors of the
Shawnee Golf club will be held
Thursday evening at 1880 O'Clock in
fhe lounge room of the Central Ma
tional bank.
Bishop James Wise. of the Kansas
diocese of the Episcopal church. is
spending his summer vacation in Can
ada, and will return to Topeka about
September /
H. c. Brown. 1903 Monroe street.
reported to the police that burglars
had entered his house and stolen two
revolvers, a pair of trousers and a
silver mesh bag.
The fifteen Topeka boys who were
sent to the state Y. NJ. c. A. camp at
Elmdale. Kan, by the Topeka Rotary
club for a ten day vacation, returned
to Topeka Tuesday.
Jesse w Greenleaf, member of the
public utilities commission, is suffer-
ing from an infected hand and is now
in a hospital in Hutchinson. He will
be unable to attend commission hear
ings this week.
George Bell, night station master at
the Rock Island station. was taken to
a local hospital Tuesday, after suffer-
ing a stroke of partial paralysis. He
is IS years of age, and has been with
the Rock Island for many years.
The Trinity n. E. church baseball
team will play the team from the
United Brethren church tonight at
Washburn field. The game will be
called at Sis o'clock. This game will
be one of the Organized Sunday
School baseball league games.
The members of Topeka w. R. c.
No. "a will give a social party at the
home of Mrs. Joe Whitmer, 1907 Kan
sas avenue, Thursday evening, at 1880
and of the G.. A. r. are invited to at
tend. Refreshments will be served.
The annual inspection of the Union
Pacific is in progress. The inspecting
party, including W. M. F. letters.
general manager; r. B. Robinson.
chief engineer, and H. J. Plumhof.
general superintendent, with head
quarters at Kansas City, passed thru
Topeka Tuesday.
G.. I. Brown, traffic policeman, is
spending a two weeks vacation work
ing on a second edition of his city
guide book. He intends to add an
other map and fifteen pages more of
information. The book has filled
great need in Topeka and has en-
joyed big sale.
Walter H. Chappell of Chanute has
appealed to the court of industrial re-
lations for assistance in marketing his
rhubarb crop. Presiding Judge Hug
authority extends only to the manu-
facture and not the production of
food products.
Mrs. Bernice Hay, 1897 West street,
filed a petition in the district court to-
day asking a divorce from Leo Hay.
whom she charges remained away
from home most of the time and
year-old daughter. They were mar
ried in Illinois in April, 1914.
The Highland Park community pic
mic which was postponed owing to the
rain the Fourth, will be held Thurs
day at the Moffitt grove. The games
and races for the women and chill
dren will be held in the afternoon
after o'clock. A picnic supper will
be served in the evening, following
which will be the mems races.
All the new wheat which has been
purchased thus far by the Derby
Grain company in Topeka has tested
sixty pounds or better to the bushel.
The wheat has been coming from the
western and northwestern portions of
the state in the past few years, in con-
siderable quantities. The price has
lowered at or near 81 per bushel.
Three telephone companies obtained
temporary injunctions in the district
court Tuesday to prevent the public
utilities commission from interfering
with raise in rates. They had been
denied hikes by the commission. They
are the Shawnee Independent Tele-
phone company, Liberal telephone
company and Claflin Telephone COM
pany.
The Seventh street bridge over the
shunganunga is closed for traffic
while repair work is in progress. Ma
terial for repairing the bridge, which
broke under a heavy truck, arrived
Tuesday from Kansas City, and is be-
ing placed today. ]. F. Snyder, super
| intendent of streets, stated today that
he expected the work to be completed
this week.
Six persons were arrested by the
police Tuesday night in a raid on the
rooming house operated by Myrtle
Owens at 81 Madison street. The
place was alleged to be disorderly.
| Those arrested were: Grace Gordon,
waitress; Harry Ebbert, driver; Barb
Kelly, waiter; James Spencer, laborer;
Henry Klass, laborer. and Myrtle
! Owens.
The appointment of Tom Thomas,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Thomas.
| 1851 Topeka avenue, to the United
States naval academy. has been an
nounced. Thomas will leave Thursday
! for the, Great Lakes Naval Training
station, where he will take a physical
examination for the service. Follow
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