The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-01
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ft-Flowers.-Adv.
Free seeds at State Savings bank
Adv.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bonsh:
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue---Adv.
To directors of the Provident asso-
citation of Topeka held meeting to-
day noon at the Chamber of Com
merce.
Attention-Topeka Council No.
S. B. A. A meeting of special interest
to all members will be held at SCI
Quincy, Monday night. Eats? Sure.
Come.-Adv-
The alumni club of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity chapter at Washburn
college held its regular weekly lunch
con and meeting today noon at the
Chamber of Commerce. Twenty mem
hers attended.
Lieut.. J. L. Kennedy and Paul VIII
liams. patrol driver, arrested Herman
Morris Thursday on a charge of steal
| ing a suit of clothes and beating
board bill from Walter Birch. He
| was turned over to the county.
The office of W. E. Anderson. clerk
of the district court, will be closed
Saturday afternoon to permit the
clerks to catch up with the work oc-
casioned by the new term of court
which will begin Monday, it was an
nounced-
Three more carloads of export flour
were consigned by the Topeka Flour
Mills company over the Rock Island
| today. One carload of Topeka flour
goes to London, England, and the
others to Cuba. All will be shipped
from Gulf ports.
Business picked up at police head
quarters during the month of March.
The total number of arrests was 1913,
\ 1a6
compared with 1873 arrests in Febru-J
airy, when the f fines col e ct d
amounted to $591.25.
Miss Kathryn Albaugh and Miss
Dolly Browning began their new du
ties with the industrial court today.
Miss Albaugh is secretary to Judge
John H. Crawford and Miss Browning
is the new rate clerk. Also Randall
Harvey went to work as marshal
examiner for the court.
A special reduced railroad rate of
one and one-half times the regular
| one-way fare has been authorized for.
| members Of the Odd Fellows order
Wichita, May Is. The rates apply
from all towns in Kansas and Okla
homa, and were applied for by the
Santa Fee for all roads.
The membership committee of the
Chamber of Commerce held special
meeting today noon at the Chamber
of Commerce with Jarvis Price, direc-
tor of the membership drive. The
main topic of discussion was on pros
pective members. A list of approx
mately 5000 probable members is be-
ing compiled in the offices of the cam
paign committee
Questions of the management and
organization of the Kansas National
Guard will come before a conference
OF the national guard officers of the
Seventh Corps area. which is to be
conference is called by Major General
Omar Bundy, commander of the area,
and will be attended by Adjutant Gen
eral c. 1. Martin and Col. Milton r.
Mclean.
- The ady1of~AIrs.. George M.~Pull-
man, the wife of the designer of the
Pullman car, is passing thru Kansas
today over the Santa Fe, in a special
car attached to Santa F'e train No. 2.
illinois, the son-in-law of Mrs. Pull
man, is with the party which is ac-
companying the body. Mrs. Pullman
died in San Francisco Monday. Her
body is being returned to her home in
| Chicago for burial.
= With, bullet wound in his hip,
Jose Rodriguez, 16, of 215 Hancock
| street, was taken to Christ hospital
| in Converts ambulance Thursday
night. He accused Juan Garcia, pro-
| prietor of a Mexican restaurant on
East Fourth street. of the shooting.
He said Garcia fired several other
| shots at him and that he escaped only
/ by running into house at 112 North
| Jefferson street. The trouble started
over money, it was claimed.
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