The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-18

interstate commerce commission Tues
! day. The hearing on grain rates in
the lower Mississippi Valley has been
postponed from April 20 to April Is.
Hogueland said before leaving.
Sunday school in the afternoons
man Memorial Methodist Episcopal
church as feature of the observance
of Children's Week. Sunday school
sessions will be held every afternoon
this week from AIS to 500 O'Clock
in the Epworth League rooms of the
church. DR.. George E. Satterlee, pas
tor, will conduct the school. Next
Sunday a rally day service will end
| the Children's week, with a special
sermon for children and parents by
DIR. Satterlee.
| G. NJ. Brassfield of Hiawatha would
make a good commander for the Kan
| sas state department of the G. A. r.,
| the members of the Lincoln Post No.
| 1, G.. A. R., of Topeka, believe. At
| their last regular meeting the mem
! bers of the post passed a resolution in
/ dorsing the candidacy of the Hiawa-
tina veteran. Brassfield was at one
time post commander of the Lincoln
| Post, and has been adjutant general
! of the state. More than twenty other
posts of the organization have passed
resolutions supporting him as head of
/ the state department.
The Sunday school of the Second
| Presbyterian church is asking for the
loan of cradles which may be in
stalled in the nursery being opened at
| the church at Jackson and Gordon
streets in North Topeka. The nur-
sery will be a place in which the
babies may be Checked in the care
of capable attendants while their
mothers attend services. Cradles which
are not in use will be gratefully re-
| ceived by the Sunday school. F. O..
Morns, superintendent of the primary
| department, will make arrangements
for securing them if he is notified
Money will be easier near the end
| of the present year, John Moody,
financier and writer on financial sub
/ ject, forecast in an address before
the Bond Mems club of Kansas City,
which was attended by several Topeka
bankers. Moody declared that the re-
tail merchants are not willing to take
their share of the general loss, in pro-
portion to the deficit which is being
suffered by the wholesalers and the
manufacturers. Moody suggested that
the best thing for the retail merchants
was to make the price reduction more
rapid at the present time, in order to
forestaIl a severe and sudden break
later.
The Wa-Peka Oil & Gas company
and J. J. Crawford, dril1er, were both
denied damages for breach of contract
when the case was heard by Judge
L
Saturday afternoon. The company
sued Crawford for $4,000, alleging
that he had failed to fulfill his con-
tract in drilling a we'll. Crawford. or
a cross petition, asked for $2.755,
which he said the company had failed
to pay him for the drilling. Judge
Pollock held that Crawford had full
filled the agreement, but that he was
not entitled to pay for drilling deeper
than the agreement called for.
At the West Side Christian church
i Sunday evening. talks on How to
Make a Greater Topeka were given
by W. s. Proudfit ]. F. Roose. NJ. E.
: Harding, and Theodore Westerfelt.
! Proudfit spoke on keeping the boys
/ busy after school hours with manual
training work, Harding on the need
of Interesting the entire community
in music, Roose on building fireproof
buildings, Westerfelt on beautifying
the city by having more flowers in
every part of town. including the
yards of the homes. Many other sug-