The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
The National Secretary's department
of The Security Benefit association
enjoyed an outing and picnic dinner
at Woodlawn Farm, Saturday after
noon and evening.
A permit for a two room addition
to his residence, to cost $4,000, was
secured from the city fire marshal
Saturday by G. w. NJ. Mills, 500
Greenwood avenue.
The directors of the Chamber of
Commerce will meet at noon Tuesday.
The report of the aviation committee
of the Chamber, which will meet with
the city commissioners Tuesday morn
ing. will be up for consideration.
The Memorial day service of the
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs will be
Sunday, June Is. The Rev. George
E. Satterlee, pastor of the church,
will give the address of the day.
Miss Gale Moody, a former teacher
in the city schools, who is at present
a teacher in the city schools at Berke-
ley, Calf. arrived in Topeka Sunday
afternoon. She is visiting her pa
rents. Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Moody, 302
Davies street.
Governor Allen today approved an
application for eXtradition on Cover
nor Shoup of Colorado for return to
KfIlsas of Jess Williams and Harvey
Ikrod. The men are wanted in Mont
bile stealing. They are under arrest
in Burlington, Colo.
Nelson Benning, general secretary
of the Central Y. M. c. A, will attend
a meeting of Y. NJ. c. A. secretaries to
be held at Lake Geneva, Wis, begin
This meeting is held every three years
to discuss plans of general interest to
Y. NJ. G. A. workers.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. W. Glenn and
daughter, Esther, of Wymore, Neb.;
Mrs. William Glenn and baby Of
Havelock, Neb.; Mrs. Lue Glenn of
Meriden, and Mrs. John Decker and
children of Enterprise. Kan, spent
the weekend with Mrs. Julia Glenn
on West Twelfth street, returning to
their homes Sunday.
Citizens of Kinsley, county seat of
Edwards county, want physical con-
nectionS between the Santa Fe and
Wichita & Northwestern railroads.
They filed an application with the
public utilities commission today ask
ing that an order be issued compell-
ing the two roads to provide connect
ing tracks.
Vinewood park, the summer recrea-
tional camp Of the Girls Friendly So
ciety of Grace cathedral, was opened
formally Saturday night with a din
ner-dance. An open house from 5 to
O'Clock preceded the dinner. More
than 100 persons were present. Rob-
ert Service, Miss Bernice Hemus and
Sam Wyman furnished orchestra nu-
sic.
Whether or not the Topeka branch
or the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People will
send delegates to the annual meeting
of the association will be decided at
a meeting of the local body tonight at
st. Johns A. M. E. church at SIS
o'clock. A meeting of the executive
COMMITTEES will be held after the prin-
cipal session.
Frank Pinet, secretary of the Kan
sas Teachers association. returned to-
day from Marshall county. where he
attended normal institute. Pinet
says it was one of the largest insti-
tutes he ever attended. A total of
Pinet says that the Marshall county
teachers are we'll paid, many Of them
earning from 500 to $3.50 per month
A school of instruction will be held
by the Rebekah assembly of Kansas
beginning this afternoon in Topeka at
the I. o. o. F. temple, 521 Quincy
street. Mrs. Fannie Hutcheson of
Silver Lake. president of the Rebekah
assembly of Kansas, will direct the
school. Degree work will be held in
the evening at Hamilton hall. Repre-
sentatives from the five Topeka lodges
will be present as well as Rebekahs
from Silver Lake, Dover. Auburn,
Rich1and, Hoyt and McLouth.
The regular meeting of the good
roads committee of the Chamber of
Commerce was held today noon and
plans for the ceremonial opening of
the East Sixth avenue stretch of the
Victory highway were discussed. The
members of the county commission,
in addition to the members of the
committee, were present. The civic
organizations of the city are to be
asked to appoint committees to assist
in the celebration. The next meeting
will be held at noon Monday, June 27.
r. M. johnson. of Topeka, has been
elected president of the state organi-
zation of undertakers-the Kansas
Funeral Directors association. john
son is secretary and treasurer of the
Penwell Undertaking company. The
late L. M. Penwell was head of the
association for many years. The cleo
ton of Johnson to the position for
merly held by the head of the Penwell
company was made at the state con-
vention of the Funeral Directors as
ISOLATION at Hutchinson. The conven-
ton has just been finished.
A patent on a device calculated to
prevent large proportion of the &C
cidents in aviation has been secured
by Herman c. Ericsson. TO Lane
street, who was a major in the quar-
termasters' department of the A. E. F.
during the world war. Ericcson's in
yention is a gasoline tank for planes
which will not burst into flames If
punctured, and will not explode in the
air. Ericsson started work on the de-
vice when he was in a hospital in
France. after being wounded. His In
vention, partially completed. was
adopted by the allied air forces and
used during the latter months of the
war.
More than 100 boys between the
| ages of 10 and IL years enjoyed a
swim in the pool at the Central Y. M.
c. A. this morning. Forty-five of the
boys are regular members of the Y. M.
c. A, the others were beneficiaries
| Of the free swims which are given on