The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-07


Topeka boulevard 4 number of books
| which the members of the club have
read were discussed.
The ladies' night dinner, dance and
entertainment of the Topeka Builders
club is to be held at the Chamber of
Commerce this evening. The mem
bers of the club, their wives and wo-
men friends will enjoy the affair.
! The Aid Association for Lutherans
met Tuesday night and reelected all
the present officers. The officers
! are: w. F. Weber, president; Otto L.
Rain, vice president; George Klein,
secretary, and Joseph H. Smith, treas
urer.
Miss Donzella Cross, a lecturer with
| the educational department of a well
ture in all the city school next week
| on musical appreciation. She recent
! " closed a similar lecture series in
the schools of Omaha.
1.-The Light of Day" a Christmas
cantata will be given by the students
| of Topeka high school and the ele-
mentary schools December 20. One
hundred and fifty persons will sing.
This will be the annual Christmas
cantata given by the city schools.
The reporting periods at Topeka
| high school Viii be heightened thirty
| minutes the remainder of this week
| in order that the students and their
advisers may plan their program for
next semester. All enrollments for the
spring semester must be in the office
before Christmas.
Plans for Y. NJ. C. A.-Y. w. C. A.
| Mixer, which will be held Thursday
/ evening at the Y. NJ. c. A. were COM
pleted at meeting of the social COM
mittee, held Tuesday night. The
| members of the committee are: Ralph
| Jencks, K. 3. Hobbs, J. W. Taylor, r.
R. Baer and r. D. Palmer.
w. L. Harrison, treasurer and man
ager of the Universal Crusher COM
pany, Cedar Rapids, Ia, manufactur-
| ers of rock crushing machinery, is in
! Topeka today on business. The Uni
versaI company is represented in Kan
| sas by the Road Supply & Metal COM
pany
A. W. Long of Manhattan, president
and manager of the Long Oil company,
with service and distributing stations
| thruout the state, was in Topeka today
| on business. He was the guest at
| luncheon of the Chamber of Com
merce, of P. A. Fairbank, representa-
| tive of the company in Topeka.
The Mems Sunday afternoon mass
\ meetings which were held last spring
under the direction of the social-work
| committee of the Y. NJ. c. A. Will be
| continued, according to n. w. Ben
| ming of the Central Y. NJ. c. A. The
first meeting of the new series will be
! held Sunday, January 8, at the Or
pheum theater.
| P. S. Wilder, formerly third trick
| operator at the Union Pacific station,
| is back at his old job again after hay
| ing served as agent at Menoken for
| the last three months. The COM
pany's latest REDUCTION IN forces
| brought about the change, priority
! rules giving the Menoken job to an
older employee.
| Because two motor cars attempted
| to turn west on Sixth avenue at the
| same moment, traffic was blocked for
a time at the corner of Sixth and Kan
saS avenues late Tuesday afternoon.
The cars, hooked together in some
manner, stopped squarely on the street
car tracks, and it was with consider
able difficulty that they were pFied
| loose.
Three new cases of diphtheria were
reported to the city health department.
today before noon. Only one case was
reported Tuesday. There were eleven
releases from quarantine Tuesday. DR.
Earle G. Brown, city health officer,
believes that diphtheria, while it will
be present in Topeka all winter, will
present decrease to a point below the
epidemic stage.
The weekly meeting of the finance
committee of the First Methodist
church was held at the Chamber of
Commerce at noon today. E. L. Cope
Reports were made on the progress of
the campaign for funds for rebuilding
the church with encourag ing results.
Plans for the continuation of the cam
paign were made.
Miss Amy A. Spaulding, one of the
four divisional directors of Americani-
cation work for the Women's Chris
| tan Temperance union, is to speak at
the Chamber of Commerce at the
| luncheon hour Tuesday, December ID,
Miss Spaulding is in charge of the
Americanization work of the union in
| the north central states of the Union,
Her appearance in Topeka. is in con-
nection with some general meetings OF
| the organization here.
The American Legion in Kansas has
| passed the mark set by the Missouri
| Legion in membership. The Kansas
| department now has 24,419 members.
At the time of the last national con-
vention there were 23,320 legiona1res
| in MissOuri-more than there were in
Kansas. The state is now second on
| the list of departments with paid up
| 1922 memberships Kansas has 9Ol
| members paid up for next year. Hi
nois, the only state ahead of Kansas,
| has 1912.
| Five carloads of celery, consigned to
! Topeka dealers, have been received
| over the Union Pacific in the last two
| weeks, all of it coming from Idaho.
In past years most of the celery
| brought to Topeka has been grown in
| Wisconsin, according to c. L. Sleeper,
local Union Pacific agent, but the
Idaho variety is said to be of better
| quality. Celery is shipped much like
| hay It is tied in big bundles or bales,
| and because of its bulk, is packed into
| cars to the roof.
Shawnee Encampment No. 5, 7. o.
| o. F., will confer the Patriarchal,
| Golden Rule and Royal Purple de-
grees Thursday night, beginning at
| O'Clock, at PenwelI Hall IN the Odd
| Fellows Temple III West Sixth ave-
nue.. Twenty-one candidates, includ-
| ing five from Silver Lake, compose
the class. Visitors from encampments
at Atchison, Kansas City. Kan, En-
poria and Manhattan are expected.
| At 10 o'clock adjournment will be
| taken to the banquet hall and work