The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-09
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All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue ADV
The Builders club of Topeka occu-
pied q table today noon at the Cham
| Der of Commerce.
The banks of the city will be closed
! all day Saturday to observe Lincoln's
birthday, a legal holiday.
| The Mems Baraca class of the First
Baptist church will meet tonight for
dinner at six o'clock at the church.
The P. S. club. an organization of
printing statesmen. held its regular
weekly meeting today noon at the
| Chamber of Commerce.
The monthly meeting of the Y. w.
C. A. board of directors will be held
| Thursday noon, beginning with a
luncheon in the 7. w. c. A. cafeteria.
Frank Crane. president of Crane &
Co., printers and stationers, is report
ed resting easily at his home today.
He is suffering from a light attack of
smallpox.
The Chamber of Commerce aviation
committee met today noon for the
purpose of making final arrangements
concerning the aviation bill which
will be introduced in the house some
time this week.
The regular weekly luncheon of the
Phi Delta Theta Alumni club of To-
peka will be held at the Chamber of
of this Greek letter fraternity in the
city are invited to attend.
A Topekan writes from New York
that the best chocolate candy is being
sold in Gotham for 60 cents a pound.
Topeka Valentine anticipators are hop
ing that the low price candy wave will
lap on the shores of the Kaw.
Two young Topekans, a son and
daughter of prominent families. sat in
a limousine on East Eighth avenue
Tuesday afternoon and carried on a
love- making affair that was witnessed
by office building employees for
quarter of an hour. 1t was one of the
many proofs that "love is blind
Parsons will be the meeting place
of the Kansas Federation of Womens
clubs April 81, % and %. it is an
nounced by Mrs. Rebecca Wells Tay-
Ior. The election of president of the
state organization will be held at that
time. Mrs. r. r. Bittman of Indepen-
dence is prominently mentioned for
the honor.
G. f. Hobbs of the Daily Capital
collided with a swinging door at the
Chamber of Commerce at noon today
over his right eye while he ate his
luncheon. Many members of the
chamber have been hit with this dan
gerous kitchen door but Hobbs is the
first casualty.
Two young couples of prominent
Topeka families were stalled in the
mud in a motor car several miles from
the city one night recently. AS Rob-
ert w. Chambers would say: 1T was
a glowing sunrise that beamed across
the distant sky and welcomed the ro-
nance of John and Jane and Reginald
and Anice.'
r. E. Lee and James T. Lyon were
brought from Great Bend Tuesday by
federal officers to face a charge of
rance, Kan. They deny any knowl-
edge of the crime. They said they
were stopping at Hoisington to get
their car repaired when the town mar
shall saw their revolvers, suspected
them of being robbers and placed
them under arrest.
r. E. Marling, manager of the Har-
ris-Goar store here, has returned from
a ten-day buying trip in the east Mar
ling visited Philadelphia, Chicago and
New York. His trip was for the pur
pose of buying goods for the four Har-
ris-Goar stores located in Topeka,
Kansas City, Wichita and Oklahoma
CityA Delay in obtaining material to
finish the interior of their new store
here has necessitated the postpone
ment of a formal opening.
Giving an hour a week to learning
how to best serve others has become
to many Topeka women
and girls, evidenced in the number
the weekly social service
classes at the Provident association.
Any one interested in social service
is welcome to attend the classes each
Friday afternoon at the association
building a. Fourth and Jackson streets
from $3.50 to $3.50 o'clock Forty-two
women attended the class last Friday
All girls between the ages of ten
and twenty and their mothers may at
tend the free lecture by DR.. Marie
Greene, sex hygiene specialist, at the
Y. W. C. A. Thursday afternoon at
4:45 O'Clock. Girl Scouts of the city
are especially invited. Doctor Greene
has started series of lectures open to
girls and women every Wednesday
afternoon and evening at the Y. w.
C. A. Lectures for men are given by
Doctor Greene at the Central Y. M.
c. A. on Thursday evenings.