The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-26
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Halloween Masquerade. Monday,
, Oct. 81, at Steinberg's.
The board of education will meet
this evening at 1880 o'clock at the
! high school building.
! All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
! Co.. 534 Kansas avenue--Adv.
Mary Letuks. age SO, and Robert X.
! Lawton, age 43, were issued a. mar
riage license Wednesday in Kansas
! City, Mo.
!. The teachers of the eighth gra,t- in
I the various ward schools of the city
will meet at the high school at 4: 80
: O'Clock this afternoon.
i At meeting to be held at the First
/ Baptist church tonight, the remainder
| of the church constitution will be
adopted. All members are urged to
attend.
| A. A. Golf was granted a license o
| operate taxi in Topeka by the city
commissioners this morning. Golf will
| take care of the employees of the War
rem NJ Crosby store, he says.
/ A. d. Gray, assistant treasurer of
| the Santa Fe, was appointed a MEM
Der of the city library board at a
| meeting of the city commissioners this
morning. His term will expire in 1925
| Topeka lodge No. 204, B. p. o. E,
will initiate a class of seventy-fiVe
members Friday evening. Following
| a short entertainment program. A buff
| fet supper will be served in the grill
room.
The city commissioners this morn
ling decided to let a contract for an ex-
tension to the water main on Huntoon
street from the alley between Boswell
and Jewell to the west line of Jewell
| and Huntoon.
The members of the city Cradle Roll
| federation will meet at 2:SO O'CLOCK
Thursday afternoon at the residence
OF Mrs. C. w. Schwartz, 1710 West
Tenth avenue. The women are asked
to bring needles and thimbles.
The Business Mems Advertising
| club will hold meeting at 1880
O'Clock this evening in the lounge
room of the Central Trust company.
| Topeka AS an Educational Center
/ will be the topic of the meeting to-
night.
Mrs. F. L. Howe of Topeka was
| elected president of the Women's Re
| lief Corps at the eighteenth annual
First district convention which was
| held at Hiawatha Monday and Tues
day. Miss Hazel Kline was elected
| district secretary. The 1922 conven-
ton will be held in Topeka.
Orhan R. Coblentz was elected pres
! ident of the Topeka high school Cham
| Der of Commerce at a meeting held
| Tesday afternoon at the high school.
Other officers elected were: Albert
S. Dyal. vice president: Herbert Alb
meyer, secretary, and William Ware.
| treasurer.
Apparel merchants of Topeka
| those who cater to men or women or
| both-have arranged for an apparel
exposition to be held on a cooperative
| basis November 14-15-16. Decision
| was reached at a meeting of the ap-
parel division of the Topeka Mer-
chants association in their rooms at
| the Chamber of Commerce today.
| Word has been received of the seri-
Gus injury of Miss Frances Barton, of
Kansas City, Mo, who was struck by
an automobile while waiting for a
street car in Kansas City, Kan. She
was taken to Bethany hospital Sunday
night and is in a critical condition.
Miss Barton was formerly a resident
of Topeka, and is well known here.
Plans for the new Methodist church,
Sixth avenue and Harrison street,
were explained to more than 200 mem
| bers of the mems club of the church at
a dinner at the Chamber of Commerce
| Tuesday evening. Motion pictures OF
| Boy Scout activities, the bankers con-
vention in Los Angeles, and of the
were also shown.
Ben Blow, manager of the Victory
highway; 6. c. Sickler. secretary of
| the Chamber of Commerce, and L. w,
| Rowles will speak before the Junction
| City Chamber of Commerce tomorrow
| noon and before the Salina. Chamber
| of Commerce at o'clock tomorrow
| evening They are to speak before
| the womens federation of Salina at
| 10 o'clock Friday morning.
The Round Table chapter De Mo-
! lay, will hold a Halloween party from
| 8 to IL o'clock Friday night at the
| Chamber of Commerce for members
and their friends. Those who have
| applied for membership in the lodge
are also invited. Billiards. cards and
! dancing will feature the entertain
ment. The De Molay orchestra. led by
Bethel Gross, will furnish the music
Special Union Pacific trains SEIZED.
uled to pass thru Topeka carrying
members of the American Legion to
| the international convention in Kansas
! City, Mo, next week include one
| which win leave Ellis, Kan, October
80 in the morning and will arrive il
Topeka at 2:40 o'clock in the after
noon. This train will run just ahead
of the regular passenger train. An