The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-07
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All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold The Shawnee Investment;
Co. 5S4 Kansas avenue.--Adv
Hanging baskets, ported plants. and
boxes of flowers, the prettlest OF the
season are at Mrs. Lords flower room.
Adv.
We do house wiring and sell the
right fixtures for your home. See
Overton at 522 Jackson. Phone 922.
ADV.
Electrical publication apparatus
has been installed in the plant of the
Topeka Pure Water company on West
S xth avenue to replace the distilla-
ton process. Bacteria in the water
are eliminated by oxidation under the
new process, and the taste of the
water is not changed.
Otto L. Rain and y. P. McComas,
delegates from Topeka Local No. SO of
the American Federation of Musicians,
will leave Topeka tonight for St. Paul,
Mimi, where they will attend the
twenty sixth annual convention of the
national organization. Rain is preSi-
dent of the local union.
Sam Friedberg and Abe Jacobson
will leave this evening for st. Louis
as delegates from Topeka to the ma
tional convention of the :. o. o. 3.
lodge. Arrangements will be made at
this convention for the construction
of an 100000 home at Memphis,
Tenn, for aged members of the or
ganization.
The city will once more buy meals
for prisoners in the city Jail at 20 cents
each as a result of the contract let
by the city commissioners Friday to
Dick johnson. Mike Douris has been
furnishing the meals at Is cents each.
johnson had the contract before that
for many years. The prisoners get
but two meals a cay.
The motor truck belonging to Com
pany H, Kansas National Guard, sta
toned at Topeka. is being used on a
regular schedule of weekend trips
from Topeka to Maple Hill for men,
bers of the company who are able to
make the trip. The truck leaves the
armory at l o'clock Saturday after
noon and returns Sunday evening.
The Shawnee County Wool Grow
ers' association will pool about $4,000
pounds of wool this year. according to
statements made a a meeting in the
office of F. o. Blecha, county farm
agent, Friday. This is about 5000
pounds under the production last year,
it was said. The wool will be as
sembled for shipment at the fair
grounds June 1.
All trainnien on the Santa Fe are
now required to carry standard, in
spected watches. The order was ex-
tended to include the firemen, porters
and brakemen at a recent conference
between R. D. Montgomery, chief of
the time service rules, and general Of
ficers of the company. Santa Fe EN-
ployes' watches will be inspected semi
monthly instead of weekly, in the
future.
Police have four bicycles and three
bicycle frames at headquarters which
had been stolen but whose owners
have not been found. There is APP
parently an organized gang of boys in
Topeka, according to the police, who
are stealing bicycles, taking them
apart and putting different parts to-
gether so they cannot be recognized.
Hardly a day passes that bicycle is
not reported stolen.
DR.. Ira Landrith, a popular Chau-
tauqua and convention speaker, will
speak at the First Presbyterian church.
Sunday morning at IL O'Clock. His
subject will be "Bolshevism With a
Haircut" Doctor Landrith will also
administer an unmerciful flaying to