The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-17
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Kellam tonight Best dance music.
ADV.
Social dance Tuesday. Thursday and
Saturday. Warnick's, 526-2S Quincy.
ADV.
A treat to Dancers. Again to-
nights piece augmented orchestra
Steinberg's.-Adv.
All issues Of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
The Women's Benefit association of
the Maccabees will give their annual
| bazaar Friday in Royal Arcanum hall
Kansas City, Mo, Wednesday to Carl
A. Meyer. IS, Topeka. and Mahala
Ramsey, &c, independence, Mo.
A turkey will be given away by I. A.
Silliman, district manager of the Fra
ternal Aid union, at meeting of the
local lodge this evening, 1880 O'Clock.
NJ w. Mays is to open new milk
station in the College Hill neighbor-
hood. on West Fifteenth street, De-
cember l. The plant will cost ap-
proximately $4,000.
The Unitarian "Wayside Pulpit" at
914 Topeka boulevard is carrying this
week the statement of Clemenceau:
Wealth is nothing Position is moth
ing! Fame is nothing! Manhood is
everything
More than $50 fathers of ex-service
men have Joined the Fathers club of
the American Legion. permanent
organization will be made at a meet
ing of the club at o'clock Friday
evening at Capitol post hall, 210 West
Sixth avenue.
Forty-six students attended the
stock judging contest which was held
Wednesday on the F. A Barney farm
near Silver Lake under the direction
Agricultural college. Washburn,
Silver Lake and Seaman rural high
schools were represented.
Plenty of ambition. but little nerve
marked the tactics of a hold up man
who entered the store of Joseph
Gotta, $40 East Fourth avenue, We'd
nesday night, as the latter was count
ing his days receipts. The intruder
leveled a gun at Gotta but fled when
the proprietor reached Tor his own
revolver
The first issue of 1.-The Kiwanian,"
official magazine Of the Topeka XII
wants club, made its appearance at
the Chamber of Commerce at a meet
ing of the Kiwanis directors this noon.
The first issue of the magazine con-
tains twenty-four pages. Articles
written by local Kiwanians and ad-
refreshments are the contents.
The Eastern Kansas Beekeepers as
o'clock Friday evening at the home of
J. w. Swickard, 100 Washburn
avenue. The wintering of bees will
be one Of the principal discussions. o.
A. Keene. president of the State Bee
keepers association, will read a paper
on that subject. F. +. Dean will talk
on the production of comb and ex-
tracted honey.
John Doane, county clerk of Os-
borne county, never misses the an
nuaI meetings of county officials. He
has grown to manhood in that county,
locating there in 1874. He is serving
his sixth term of twelve years in the
office. He is making a fine official.
His friends say he has held the office
long enough and they are going to
push him up several notcheS and work
to get him on the state tax commits
sion.
A. 9. Gillian, of Rocks county, is a
Topeka visitor. combining pleasure
with his official duties of county juve-
nile and truancy officer He has many
friends there, having served his county
as sheriff and member of the legisla-
ture. He is native of Kentucky. He
has lived in Rocks County since 1886.
and is a large land owner and one of
her most public spirited citizens. He
is also president of the Farmers State
bank of Stockton.
John Tromble of Beloit. vice presi-
president of the Farmers Union Live
stock Commission. besides the jobbing
association which now has a seat on
the grain exchange in Kansas City, is
representing Mitchell county in To-
peka this week at the farmers meet
ings- He couldn't stay away from the
state capital, having represented his
county in the legislative sessions of
1875. He was chosen a member
Of the board of directors.
The Fort Scott Y. NJ. c. A building
will not be sold to satisfy mortgage
holders, according to A A. Reming-
ton, state secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A.
who returned to Topeka Wednesday
from Fort Scott. He stated that much
interest was being displayed in the
y - and that 1900 persons or 10 per
cent of the population of Fort Scott,
attended a recent open house event
held at the Y. NJ. c. A. A financial
drive will be inaugurated January 1 to
place the organization on its feet.
Many pledges have been received.
T. B. Richmond, county engineer
for Rawlins county, is Topeka visitor
TINS week He is enthusiastic for the
good roads his county has built this
year. totaling 125 miles of dirt road
as good as any in northwest Kansas.
In bridges alone the county expended
about $4,000. all cement. The coun-
ty also sent four of it's officials to
S1NO4i0 liz oesAt0 iileetlhS OIL county Of
Ulcers. Among them are three lady
officials, Gertrude Hacker, treasurer;
Maggie Mettler. register of deeds;
Sophie kesselring, clerk of court, and
A. A. Olson. county clerk. The ladies
claim that Rawlins is the only county
in the state where three women are
serving in county offices. Besides
they are making good in their official
work.
Locating persons for whom unclaim-
ed mail is being held in postoffices
near chapter headquarters is a new
line of service recently undertaken by
the Red Cross chapters in the South
western division, it was announced at
the local Red Cross chapter today.
Some very valuable service to recipi-
ents of apparently lost mail has been
given already, it is stated al division
headquarters. altho the work still is
very slow. This is especially true in