The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-07

the persistent and occasional violators
of the eighteenth amendment. Doctor
Landrith is noted as a convincing and
forcefuI speaker.
Peter Scarcey. negro, in whose house
at 900 West Railroad street, a quantity
of home brew was found last Sunday,
was discharged by Judge Rad Lee in
police court Friday afternoon when
George Lacenberry, negro now in the
county Jail on a charge of stealing
prunes and sugar from a railroad car,
admitted the ownership of the liquor.
Rita Patterson, accused of empting
the bottles to destroy the evidence,
was also discharged.
Officers elected at the annual bust
ness meeting of the bowman Epworth
league Friday night were Graydon
Randall, president; Edward Binger,
first vice-president; Miss Dorothy Lux
ton, second Vice-president; Miss Doro-
thy Stark, third vice-president; Miss
Bernice Long, fourth vice-president;
Miss Marguerite Shearer. secretary,
and Miss Mabel Olson, treasurer. A
| banquet preceded the business meet
! ing.
Mothers Day will be celebrated by
! Zionist district of Topeka with a pro-
! grain at the Jewish Community center.
! Attorney General Richard j. Hopkins
will speak. Other items on the pro-
gram will include a solo by Rebecca
Katz; an address on Mothers Day
/ by 1. Gilberg; a recitation by Grace
| Scrinopski, and the presentation of
! flowers to mothers in the audience by
Lillian Blacker.
| George o. Foster, registrar of Kan
sas university, will be the guest of
honor and main speaker at a dinner
at the First Christian church Thurs
day evening at GAS O'Clock. The
meeting is to plan future arrange
/ Co. - ~.
paign. A letter is being sent out, in
viting men to attend the dinner, and
| bring their friends. F. E. Iserman,
f. V. King and Roscoe c. Ellis are on
the committee to make plans for the
dinner.
given by the Kansas Industrial and
Educational institute at the city audi
| forum Friday night was attended by
! about 700 people. The program was
unique, and kept the interest of the
| audience The coiored Y. NJ. c. A.,
the Santa Fe quatet and Jackson's
Twenty-third Regiment band assisted
| in the entertainment. Boxing, wrest-
/ ling, military and physical drills by
boys and girls made up the greater
| part of the program.
Specifications will be drawn, and
submitted to Topeka billboard men
with requests for bids on the bill
/ boards which will be erected in the
very near future by the Topeka Mer-
chants association. it was decided to-
day noon at a meeting of the board of
directors of that organization. The
association will erect $50 billboards
! over the trade territory of Topeka and
as soon as the bids are in, and decided
! upon the work will begin, according
to Milton Tabor, secretary of the or
ganization.
Caught by police officers as he was
carrying an electric light globe from
the court house and booked first on a
charge of petty larceny, Dave Gregg,
local attorney. was discharged by
| Judge Rad Lee in police court Friday
afternoon when the charge was
changed to vagrancy. There was no
proof that Gregg did not have means
of support. He admitted that he had
not had a case in court for some time,
but that he settled many cases out of
court. Electric light bulbs had been
missing from the court house from
| time to time for more than a year and
their disappearance was a complete
! mystery. Gregg threw the bulb in the
grass when he saw a policeman ap-
preaching.
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