The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-02
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Walt Drummond.
Holcraft-Flowers.-
Helena chapter No. 21o, o. E. S.,
will hold their stated meeting at 1880
Tuesday evening. May ADV.
All issues or Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue.---Adv.
The police made 1913 arrests during
the ,month of April Current and
back fines collected totaled $601.75.
The regular meeting of the Inter-
Service club is to be held at the
Chamber of Commerce at 6:15 o'clock
tonight.
The members of the Shawnee Golf
club will meet at the Chamber of
Commerce at o'clock this evening,
for dinner and entertainment.
The Monday Lunch club members
held their regular Monday noon lunch
con today at the Chamber of Com
merce. Twenty members attended.
A watch, a bunch of keys and a SIS
check were stolen Sunday afternoon
by burglars who entered the home of
r. w. Goodell. 213 Polk street, thru
an unlocked door. The family was
away from home at the time.
The police started the month of May
by picking up eleven buns Sunday
evening. They were given a night s
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breakfast this morning and released
and sent on their way after an in
Yesugation.
The state charter board has ap-
proved charter applications for the
Citizens Ice & Delivery company of
Wichita with a capital of $4,000, and
also for the Central States Amuse-
ment company at Wichita with a CAPT.
tai of 100000.
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bond whisky were taken from c. w.
Lewis when he was arrested at the
Santa Fe station Saturday by Patrol
man Marvin Burge. Lewis pleaded
guilty, was fined 800 and sentenced
to thirty days in jail.
Gustav Hessert, treasurer of Rand,
McNally & Co., large publishing
Tuesday, the guest of E. L. Copeland,
secretary and treasurer of the Santa
Fe. Hessert has been spending a va
cation at Santa Fe, n. Nj.
The city of Florence, Marion
county, has sent application to Gov
ernor Allen asking that it be desig-
mated as a city of the second class.
Under the law, cities with popula-
ton of 1000 are eligible to second
class designation.
The Santa Fe club of Topeka de-
feated the Santa F'e Auditors, 8 to L.
at League park Sunday afternoon.
Saffel and O'Byrne held the Auditors
to six hits. The Santa Fe team got
twelve hits, practically all in the in
field which the Auditors could not
pick up in time to retire the runners.
A long time out of work was given
by Jora Martinez, Mexican, as his rea-
son for stealing a sack full of coal
from Santa Fe freight car in the
local yards Saturday afternoon. Rail
road special officers caught him in
the act and arrested him. He asserted
that his house was cold and that he
had no money to buy fuel.
At the circus to be given at La
fayette school Friday a Tom Thumb
wedding, a baby show, Mother Goose
parade, menagerie and other enter
tainment features will be on the pro-
gram. Refreshments will be served at
the circus, and proceeds for the eve
ming will be used to buy a musical III
strument for the school.
Dave August, local clotiher, was
made defendant in a suit for 1924
damages filed in the district court Sat
urday by B. d. Sherman. Sherman
alleges that the house on Madison
street he purchased from August was
leased to Tony Click until 1925. and
that by the terms of the sale he was
entitled to imm ediate possession.
A pastor who delivered his first SER
mon in Topeka Sunday was the Rev.
Clifton NJ. Gray, new pastor of the
First Unitarian church. The Rev. Mr.
Gray has come to Topeka from
Charleston, S. c.. where he has been
in the ministry for twenty years. The
Unitarian church in Topeka has had
no regular pastor for several years.
The boys from Topeka and Shawnee
county who are attending school at
X. S. A. c. are organizing a club for
next term. The club will be called the
| Shawpeka club and only boys from
| Topeka and Shawnee county will be
| eligible for membership. A club house
has been rented and about eighteen
boys have enrolled for membership.
| Topeka is to furnish three of the
| speakers for Memorial day celebra-
| lions in Kansas, and Capt. P. H
Coney will make the chief address al
| the ceremonies III Boone, Ia. J. G
Wood is to speak at Hays on May 81
| Capt Joseph G. Waters commander