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

AL issues OF kiberry Bonds oougnk
and sold. >The Shawnee investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Logan ans
nounce the birth of a daughter, Mary
! Elizabeth, Sunday.
The regular meeting Of the Coz
Operative club will be held at the
Elks club at 6:15 O'Clock Tuesday eve.
ming.
| A total of $154ss was donated by
yesterday toward the fund for the re-
| lief of the Chinese.
The Garden class will meet Tues
day evening at 11S East Seventh street.
The Rosery. The members will dis
cuss astors and the starting of
perennials.
A test well on the property of the
Marco Morrow Oil Syndicate will be
started Tuesday. The syndicate has
forty-acre tract there. The average
depth of oil in that vicinity is 1,60el
feet
The offices of the state Sunday
| School association are now located in
street, in the rooms formerly used by
the knights of Columbus. The lodge
has deferred meetings until fall.
| A second story is being added to
the plan of the Topeka Road supply
& Metal company. The new quarters
and will be completed and fully
equipped within the next two weeks.
The Payne Taxicab company base-'
| ball team defeated the Rock Island
team at Gage park Sunday by a score
of Is to 10. Batteries were Graham,
Wilson and Ashford for Payne's, and
JONES' Peck and True for the Rock
Island.
NJ. Enoch carried away honors and
made a perfect score at the weekly
shoot of the Topeka Gun. club, sun
| day afternoon, by breaking each OF the.
! fifty targets. Other scores were; W.
| Horning, As; F. Enoch, "A: A. Scott,
So; r. Thompson, 81; E. Dustin, &C.
The loss of life in China from FAM
| inc will be nearly twice as great as the
entire loss of life in. the world war,
| which was about 100000, unless
| China is given assistance, DR. Charles
M Sheldon said in an address at West
minister Presbyterian church Sunday
night.
Mrs. Chas B. Thomas, Mrs. Tom
Frost, DR.. Forrest L. Loveland, DR..
| w. NJ. Mills and Commissioner. Rob
! ert D. McGiffert are members of the
finance committee for the Topeka
| tuberculosis sanatorium. The COM
mittee met at noon today at Pelletier's
| tea room.
The new quarters of Baer Hat shop,
at $40 Kansas avenue, will be formal
4 ly opened on Thursday. June 8. Mrs.
R. r. Baer, proprietor of the shop,
| took over the new location when II
was vacated by the James Hayes
Flower shop, and has had the rooms
remodeled and refinished.
| The annual Rose Supper of the Y.
w. c. "A will be held at the associa :
| ton cafeteria Thursday night from
! $3.50 until 6:45 o'clock. Roses will be
| nsed in the decorations. Special music
I W. Xii t. In
vited to the supper, proceeds from
which will be used in the Estes Park
| summer conference fund.
| The topeka Association of Blind
| for Service will give an entertainment
| tonight at the First Christian. church
Proceeds from the entertainment VIII
be used in establishing industrial and
vocational work for the blind to help
| them in self support. A similar en-
ktertainment will be given at the Oak
Hand high school auditorium Tuesday
! night.
The Ladies of Lincoln Circle No. 1
will meet "Wednesday morning at
| Sixth and Kansas avenues at II o'clock
to go to the Boys Industrial school.
! A truck will meet the women at the
end of the Shorey car line. They will
Ispend the day and will present pic
ture of Lincoln to the institution.
They will be the guests of the school
at luncheon.
A state warrant charging six men
with betting money on the throwing
of dice" was issued today. The men
were arrested in raid by the sheriff 5
forces about $50 O'Clock Saturday
night in house just north of Soldier
creek on the Central avenue road.
They gave their names as George An
weller, Earl Barker, Pete LaClair. w
H, Pollard, !C. L. Palmer and William
Rodgers.
/ The baccalaureate service for the
| graduates of the Seaman rural high
1 school were held Sunday morning at
the North Topeka Baptist church,
with the baccalaureate address given
by the Rev. o. L. Weir. Graduates
OF the Seaman school are: Mary
Fieisch, Hazel Mahon, Guinnievere
Button, Iona Robinson, and Elmer
/ Crooks. Four hundred persons at
tended the baccalaureate service.
w. Alex Spencer, formerly of Topeka.
has been appointed traffic manager
for the United States shipping board
at London, according to advices which
have reached Topeka. Spencer is the
son of a former city attorney of To-
peka. He served with the regular
army during the war, and was later
attached to the headquarters detach-
ment of the peace commission. He
served as division traffic manager for
the shipping board in Paris until No
vember 1, when he became assistant
to the director of operation in London,
and has been advanced to his present
position. His mother is living in Lon
don with Spencer.