The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-02
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Co. 534 Kansas avenue.-AdV.
The weekly luncheon of the Topeka
alumni club of Phi Delta Theta will
be held at the Chamber of Commerce
Friday noon.
Miss Mary Neiswanger was elected
secretary of the point system of the
Topeka high school for next year at a
meeting of the student council on
Wednesday.
Mrs Laura Kiene has accepted a
position as stenographer and book
keeper in the city board of health.
Mrs. Kiene was formerly employed in
the office of the Security Benefit as
ISOLATION.
There will be a shortage of Satur-
day Evening Posts this week Car
riers of the Post in Topeka have been
notified that because of the printers
strike, the edition Of this week will
be limited.
The Y. w c. A. swimming pool was
open all day Wednesday. and for the
remainder of the summer will be open
during the entire day. During the
spring months the pool was open only
in the afternoons and evenings.
Burglars who entered the home of
Charles Stewart, 1045 Central avenue
by unlocking the door with a skeleton
key Wednesday night got away with a
valuable mink fur and a pocketbook
containing some change, according to
report to the police.
One of the first of the recently
awarded paving contracts to be under
execution is the paving of Adams
street between Fourth and Fifth
streets. The next paving to be begun
will be Lane street between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth streets, Com
missioner W. S. Hancock said today.
A storm sewer thirty-six inches in
diameter is under construction at To-
peka avenue and Euclid street. Such
sewer has long been needed to care
for heavy drainage that has been car
ried away in an open ditch. The sewer
will provide ample drainage, Commits
sioner W. S. Hancock said today.
Summer time has heraIded itself in
unpoetc form in the city park depart
ment. 1t is weeds that have already
emphasized the arrived of summer
time by their obnoxious growth, and
the park department has issued its
first orders for cutting of weeds, ac-
cording to Frances Lowe, chief clerk
in the department.
Miss Lorraine Randle, stenographer
in the office of the valuation engineer
of the Santa Fe at Chicago, has been
chosen as the most beautiful girl in
the employ of the system in the
beauty contest carried on by the Santa
Fe Magazine. The announcement of
the result or the contest was made in
the current issue of the magazine. =
The international president of the
Pressmens union, George L. Perry, of
RodgervilIe, Tenn, is coming to To-
pekt to investigate the conditions at
tending the local strike of pressmen
and printers. Perry will be the guest
of the local union when he arrives
Saturday. Several Topeka shops are
operating under the open shop plan or
are operating under their old agree
ments, pending future settlement of
their difficulties.
A millinery department is to be
added to le store of Berkson
brothers. Kansas avenue, and the
building is ICING remodeled to pro-
vide quarters for the new branch.
The millinery department is to be To-
Gated in the front of the second floor.
An elevator is to be installed and GER
tain changes made on the ground
floor. George Senne is in charge of
the work, which is expected to be
finished in August.
The other day a farmer wrote to a
Topeka friend asking him to secure
two hands to help out on the summer
work. The friend went to an employ
ment agency which had a bunch of
men loafing in front of it. and in
CURED if a couple of them did not
want a good job in the country for a
few weeks. rs it an eight hour-day
job?' inquired several of the men.
mo, it's a ten-hour job replied the
farmers friend. Let him do his own
work then" said the erstwhile seek
ers for employment.
Charles Sessions formerly manag-
ing editor of the Topeka Daily Capt.
tai, who took the helm of the Kansas
City Kansan on the establishment of
that paper, has been appointed execu-
tive editor of both the Capital and
the Kansan, and will make his head
quarters in Topeka in the future.
Carl F. White, of the Kansan staff,
has been appointed managing editor
of the Kansan. The Kansan staff
gave a farewell party in Kansas City
in honor of Sessions. when he left
there to come to Topeka.