The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

All issues of Liberty Bonds bought |
and sold. The Shawnee Investment |
Co. 5S4 Kansas avenue--Adv
Lyman King, scoutmaster of troop |
No. Z, will be director of boy scout |
camp at Miltonvale, Kan, which |
opens July rs.
A business mems volley ball tourna-
ment was started Wednesday at the |
Central Y. NJ. c. A. Four teams, cap
tanned by Joe DeFrees, A. R. Mulhol- |
land. c. A. Marker and r. E. Burke,
will take part in the tournament.
An ice cream social in charge of the
Ladies' Guild of the Holy Name
Holy Name school, Tenth and Clay
streets, tonight Music will be fur
nished by the Robert Service orches-
ira.
The Topeka Builders club will hold
a picnic. a ball game and a general
frolic at Camp Daylesford Saturday
afternoon and evening. The members
of the club will take their wives and
families to the clubs summer camp
for the event.
One of the strangest fires which
ever occurred in Topeka was reported
at 900 Quincy Wednesday morning.
The fire was discovered in the re-
been placed in the cooler. Only
slight damage resulted.
Reports in Topeka are to the effect
that all the men laid off from the
Missouri Pacific shops at Osawatomie
have returned to work. 1t Is stated
that the men returned to work July l,
most of them being occupied with the
! job of keeping box cars in repair
Frank Williams. wanted in Tillman
| county. Oklahoma. on a charge of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenSeS,
will resist extradition. williams is
| now under arrest in Harper county.
Notice that he would oppose removal
to Oklahoma has been sent to Gov
ernor Allen.
| A $4,000 damage suit brought in
the Wyandotte county district court
against the Rock Island railroad by
William Chester Smith, former en-
ploye, of Kansas City, was transferred
to the federal court here Wednesday.
Smith claims a board flew from a rip
lsaw, causing him serious and perma-
nent injuries.
| A suit to collect $4,000 damages
from the Kansas City Railways COM
pany was filed in the federal court
here Wednesday by Will Williams of
Kansas City. for the death of his wife
on March Is. He alleges that as she
alighted, the car started up. throwing
! her to the pavement and inflicting in
juries from which she died.
DR.. Charles NJ. Sheldon is the au-
thor of a new book, THE Richest Man
in Kansas" which is just off the
press. The book is being distributed
by the Christian Herald, which is
| edited by Doctor Sheldon. Doctor
Sheldon is the author Of number of
| books. but it is expected that THE
| Richest Man in Kansas will be more
popular than all the others.
| The Missouri Pacific has CONSOLE
Il
sions. T. w. Collins, of the Arkansas
division, has been appointed assistant
superintendent of the consolidated
division, with headquarters at Osa-
watomie, Kan. DO. Outlet superin-
! tendent of the new division, will spend
the next two weeks in Pueblo, Colo, !
directing the repair of flood damages
there.
At a union meeting OF the mission
! airy societies of six Christian churches
| of Topeka and Oakland Friday after
nc on and evening at Edgewood park,
Miss Anna B. Henry, superintendent
of the Topeka tuberculosis Sanatorium
will give a talk on the work being
done at the sanatorium. Miss Lulu
Carton, a Kansas girl who has just
returned from India. where she has
spent several years in missionary
Luncheon will be served at $50
o'clock.
| Forty-eight students from Kansas
| high schools have submitted essays on
the subject, Good Roads-Highway
Transport" in a national contest with
| a four-year college scholarship as the
prize. The scholarship is given by the
Harvey S. Firestone company. A COM
mittee consisting of M w. Watson
\ state highway engineer; A. J. Stout
city school superintendent and w. H.
! lines, president of the Topeka Motor
Trades association, are judging the es-
| says The winner in Kansas will enter
| the Interstate competition.
band of stringed instruments,
| known as the "Stringolio' club, will
| give a free program at the dance
pavilion at Ripley park Friday night,
beginning at o'clock. Albert Shut
/ is director of the band, and plays
first mandolin and guitar. Others in
the band are: Emma Vogel, first
mandolin and piano; Kenneth Meier
ran, first and second mandolin; Helen
1 Porsch, first mandolin and guitar;
Sophia Lietzow, second mandolin;
| Howard Naylor, second mandolin;
Helen Beasley, guitar and piano;
marie Perry, guitar; Mrs. June Frisby,.
/ guitar and ukelele, and Frank Oppitz,
guitar.
| Capt. A. c. Berry, regimental adju-
tant of the 18th Field artillery. sta
toned at Scofield Barracks, Hawaii,
accompanied by his wife and son, Jack
Curtis Berry, arrived today for a sew
eral days visit with Captain Berrys
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Berry,
I615 Polk street. He has been granted
a three months leave of absence from
\ military duty. Captain Berry is widely
known here, having been born and
reared in Shawnee county. He gradu-
lated from the Kansas State Agricul-
lturaI college in 1916 and was COM
| Y1issioned in the army short time