The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-24

farewell sermon of the Rev. T. A.
Bowers.
Topeka lodge No. 524. L. o. o. NJ.
is taking part in the international
membership campaign OF the Moose
lodge. The membership of the local
lodge is $50 and it is expected to in
crease it to 1900 by Thanksgiving,
when the James J. Davis class will be
initiated. The members of the local
campaign committee are: George
Heron, G.. w. Hill, G. c. McCarter
and H. T. Ulrich.
The Rev J. E. Moody, a missionary
of Bilaspur, India; the. Rev. Hugh
! LomaX, of Cotner college. Lincoln,
Neb., and the Rev. E. T. MacFarlard.
OF Lawrence, will address the all-day
rally of the Christian church of To-
peka, which is being held at the First
occupied the pulpits of the Christian
churches in Topeka Sunday. Miss
Alma E. Moore of Topeka spoke at q
meeting for women this afternoon.
The Kaw Valley Laundry company
has been organized bye. H. Rigby, G.
C. DyaI and H. E. Rigby, and will
be located at 6O4 to sos North Kansas
avenue. This is the only laundry plant
in North Topeka and will open for
business in November. A lease of five
years has been secured by the pro-
prietors and the room which is to
i1OuSO the new pant Will D0 iOA4U 1GOls
Considerable new machinery is already
installed.
One of the features of the ladies'
night party of the Cooperative club,
which will be held Tuesday evening
at the Pelletier tea room, will be the
second reading from the Book of
Fate" Napoleon's famous oracle. The
first reading was given by DR.. S. T.
Willard at the meeting of the club last
Tuesday night. The new members
will be introduced by a special recep-
ton committee. The members of the
committee are; George w. Stansfield.
DR.. Chester B. Reed, Frank Parr and
w. r. Faulkner.
A free trip to Washington. D. c.,
and $500 has been offered as first
prize to grade school teachers of Kan
sas and other states for the best series
of lessons which will teach children
safety on highways. The national
highway transport educational COM
mittee Of Washington, which inaugu-
rated the contest. will offer a num-
Der of other prizes. The lesson NAV
be in the form Of recitations, games,
playlets, lectures or an integral part
of any other lessons. such as arith-
metic. grammar, history and geog-
raphy.
The opening of permanent branch
in Topeka. with offices in the Males
tic theater building, has been an
nounced by the Anti-Automobile Thief
Association of America. with head
quarters in Wichita. The organiza-
ton already has more than 800 mem
bers in Topeka. George G. Hannah.
former chief of police, has been ap-
pointed local manager and is laying
plans for organization work in twenty
northeastern Kansas counties. It is
expected to have more than 100 en-
ployes working out of the Topeka ter
ritory within the next sixty days.
-Four alarms were answered by the
Tops ka fire department Sunday. A
burning trash barrel at RABIES meat
market, 10 East Sixth avenue, was
the first aIarm and was turned in st
the noon hour. A grass fire at Thir-
teen:h and Clay streets oceasIoned the
second call. and a small fire caused by
gasoline leaking from defective gas
tank on motorcycle called the fire
department to the Rock Island OK
press office. The fourth alarm came
in when another burning trash box
was discovered in an alley between
Kansas avenue and Quincy street