The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co., 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv-
The annual picnic of Orient lodge
No. 81, A. F. & A. M, will be held on
the grounds of the boys Industrial
school on June rs.
Columbia Council No. SO will enter
tain all members of S. B. A. and their
children Friday evening, June 18th. at
521 Quincy street.-Adv.
The girls quartet from ottawa uni
versity will sing at the First Baptist
church Sunday. member of the
university faculty will conduct the
service.
The regular free tuberculosis clinic
at the city board of health on Friday
afternoon will not be held this week
because of the absence of DIR. Forrest
L. Loveland from the city.
The membership campaign, which
has been staged by the local lodge of
the Moose Order, has resulted in the
lodge. The initiation fee. which was
reduced to ten dollars during the cam
paign. will be twenty-five dollars after
July 1.
Santa Fe train No. 3. the California
Limited. finished the month of May
with the record of having been on
time at each of it's seven division
points on every trip during the month.
Four other trains with shorter runs
also made perfect time records for
the month, according to the passenger
department of the Santa Fe.
After waiting twenty-five years for
her return, John H. Canon, 1880 Lo-
gan street, today filed a petition in
the district court asking a divorce
says abandoned him in 1899. The
Canons were married at Chicago in
1890. No little howitzers are men
toned in the petition.
A steam train of one baggage and
two passenger cars has been installed
on the Marysville branch of the Union
Pacific, in place of the gasoline motor
car which formerly made the run,
leaving Topeka at 3:40 o'clock in the
afternoon and returning in the morn
ing from Marysville. The motor car
has been transferred to the Leaven-
worth branch.
Only twelve members of the Topeka
Real Estate board were present at the
dinner of that body at the Chamber
of Commerce at $50 o'clock Wednes-
day night. The most important bust
ness which was to have come before
the board was deferred on account of
the small attendance. Music was fur
nished by Miss Louise Dawson, daugh-
ter of w. T. Dawson. president of the
board, and by Scoville Davidson.
A new airplane is being assembled
in the workshop Of William A. Kop-
sekar. 911-917 East Sixth avenue, and
will be ready for commercial flying
about July /. kopseker assisted In
the construction of the first plane
which flew over Topeka. in 1911. The
new plane will be piloted by William
H. Copnor, formerly an airman with
the Twenty-eighth pursuit squadron
of the air forces in the A. E. F.
In two churches in Topeka religious
training will be intensified this sum-
mer rather than decreased, as is usual
in the summer. At the Westminster
Presbyterian church and the First
Baptist church daily Bible schools for
instruction of children from to IL
years old are being conducted for four
weeks. Children of all denominations
More than 100 children are enrolled
in each school.
new secretary added to the Cen
trail. Y. M. c. A. staff is Ralph E
Ayrault, of ottawa, Kan, to be known
as boys building secretary. He will
work with o. W. Hascall, secretary of
the boys work department. Two sec
retaries are necessary for boys work.
so great has been the growth of the
activities, according to N. w. Benning,
ated from Ottawa university this
spring. In college he was active in
Y. M. c. A. work and athletics.
A bulletin of the class of 1918 Of
Washburn college. edited by Edwin A.
Menninger. of New York City, has
reached Topeka The bulletin was
published at the time of the reunion of
the class at the college. Prominently
featured IS a letter from Prof. S. G.
Heffelbower. for many years on the
faculty of Washburn college and now
in Chicago, Ill. Menninger is son of
DR.. c. F. Menninger, of Topeka, and
is on the staff of the New York
Tribune.
At the formal opening of Vinewood
cottage which will be held Saturday
evening, the officers of the Girls
Friendly society assisted by Mrs. J. G.
Leopold will receive the guests. Miss
Phyllis McKimens with her committee
of hostesses will assist thru the rooms
Mrs. Leopold is in charge of the sup
per management. Robert Services or
chestra will furnish music for the
dancing. Autos will meet the High
land Park street cars at the end of the
line between o'clock and 500.
Asserting that he had a violent
temper and has been cruel and abusive
to her, Mrs. Joanna Amann. 1920 East
Sixth street, today filed a petition in
the district court asking divorce
from Clarence F. Amann, an employee
of the Topeka Flour Mills. The wife
declares Amann has struck and beat
her and that while they were living in
Salina last year he induced her to sell
her home and that he then abandoned
her and went to Kansas City. taking
the money with him. He returned in
a month, but has never explained what
he did with the money, she asserts
The need of home missionary work
was stressed at the Congregational
young peoples conference Wednesday
night by the Rev. Malcolm NJ. Dana of
New York City. secretary of rural
work in the Congregational churches
IN the country. Too many workers
are anxious to go abroad in the mis-
sion field rather than to put their ef-
forts into service at home DELEGATES
10 the conference were taken to Wash
burn observatory following the meet
ing to enjoy astronomical views. The
training school will continue thru this
week.