The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-04
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AT HOME NEWS

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Tasks in Hours of Insight Willed,
May be Thru Hours of Gloom Full
filled" This is the Unitarian Way
side Pulpit" message, at 914 Topeka
boulevard.
Festus Foster, former member of
the state movie censorship board, is
seriously sick in Spokane, Wash. Mrs.
Foster mas gone to Spokane to be near
her husband.
The automobile of f. Kelly was
slightly damaged by fire caused by a
short circuit Thursday night The
fire department answered the call for
aid at Fourteenth and Jackson streets.
Building permits issued in Topeka
during the month of October, totalled
$173,S40 as against $120,090 for the
same period last year. Thirty eight
new buildings exclusive of garages. are
included in the permits issued last
month. total of 121 permits were
allowed for all classes of construction.
City planners told members of the
West Side Forestry club what the aims
of the commission are in regard to
controlling the future growth of To-
peka at a meeting of the club at the
home of Mrs. Thomas Page, West
Sixth street. last night. The club
members had as special guests their
husbands and the members of the city
planning commission.
A meeting of the Esperanto club
will be held at the Central Y. NJ c.
A Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
Another meeting will be held at the Y
at o'clock al which time DR.. Elmer
E, Haynes of Madison and E. ]. Arm
strong of Wichita, will speak. Stereop-
ticon views showing the progress be-
ing made by the Esperanto clubs over
the country will be shown.
The Warren NJ. Crosbs company,
which offered a $25 cash prize for an
appropriate name for its new tea
room, has been unable to make a
selection out of the hundreds of names
submitted. The store has decided to
continue the name THE Warren M.
Crosby Tea Room" and instead of the
SIS going to some individual, the
money has been given to the Topeka
Orphans home.
More than $4,000 changed hands
Thursday at the shorthorn stock sale
at the Kansas Free Fair grounds Ten
bulls sold for an average price OF SOS.
three of the number topping the sales
list with prices of more than $40O
each. The highest price realized from
the sale of a COW was SAILS, on an
animal sold to William Sells, Maple
Hill by Harry Forbes, Topeka. Breed
ers from all parts of the state at
tended the sale.
The First Presbyterian church
school of religious education held its
first meeting of the fall term, We'd
nesday evening beginning with dinner
at the church at 6:15 o'clock. There
are three classes, one for the men
taught by DIR. S. S. Estey, the wom-
ems class taught by Mrs. George
Whitcomb and the children's class, of
which Mrs Edgar Martin is the in
structor. About IT'S persons were
present on wednesday evening.
Twelve hundred stills have been
wiped out in Kansas since January 1,
according to F. L. Crabbe, superin-
tendent of the Kansas Anti-Saloon
league. Almost all the federal, county
and city officers are working in CO.
operation to stamp out the manufac-
ture of booze. An injunction may be
issued in the near future that will act
against specific firms which are en-
gagged in the manufacture of stills and
various parts used in making still.
Poppies in memory of the American
soldiers who died in France will be
sold on the streets of Topeka Satur-
day. Every citizen is expected to buy
and wear one. The sale will be con-
Quoted by the girls of the Y. w. c. A.
acting under the direction of Mrs.
Edith Supple and Mrs. Martha Fitz-
gerald. The money raised will go
towards a. $5.000,0O0 fund being raised
for the establishment of a national
university to be a memorial to the
fallen in the world war