The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-31
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Income tax returns prepared. r. E.
Mcintosh. 632 New England Building,
Phone 5s34.-Adv.
/ All issues of Liberty Bends bought
and SOLD. The Shawnee Investment;
Co. 534 Kansas avenue ADV
The Square Circle club will hold its
regular meeting and dinner at the
Elks' club at CHS o'clock tonight.
The House and Garden class meets
Tuesday evening at O'Clock lat the
Rosery, lis East Seventh. r. B. Kreis
speaks on the subject, "Cryptogamous
plants"
George kristufek, who was leader
of the Isis orchestra for nearly two
years previous to last October, has re-
turned to Topeka and has taken charge
again of the musicians at this theater
A bright. 9-year-old boy. whose
mother is dead and whose father-a
travelling mans away most of the
time, wants a home on farm. He
is at present under the protection of
T. d. Williams. probation officer.
The mems club meeting at the First
Methodist church Tuesday evening
will be addressed by Prof. w. A.
Harshbarger of Washburn college.
His subject will be THE Laws of
Heredity.''
An additional order for 10000 tons
of steel rails. on top of the 40,0OO-ton
order recently placed, has been an
nounced by the Santa Fe, the steel
to be used in relaying and improving
track. Much repair and improvement
work is now being done on the shops
at Albuquerque
Those who have dinner at the Y.
W. C. A Tuesday evening will be Civ
ing the price of the meal to the relief
of starving children in Europe. The
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is being carried out by the Y. W. c. A.
mall parts of the United States. and
is known as Invisible Guest Day
Matters-of particular interest to ru--
raj life will be discussed at a farmers
institute to be held at Berryton Friday
and Saturday. The speakers will be:
o. NJ. Leppert, C. d. Foster, ]. r. Bur-
row, A. G. CARRIER. R. c. Obrecht. Mrs
Ida Migliario. F. c. Caldwell, DR.. Flor
ence Brown Sherbon, ]. H. Mercer, c.
E. Frizen and j. E. Crawford.
Dairy cows not only prefer mangels
to sorghum silage, but produce more
| milk when fed on them, according
to experiments made at the Kansas
| Educational and Industrial institute.
The mangels also showed the greatest
yield per acre. 1886 pounds being
produced on two-thirds of an acre OF
ground.
The Social Service club met Satur-
citation with Miss Virginia Campbell.
secretary. as leader of the meeting. The
subject concerned the normal life of
ian individual. which Miss Campbell
divided into five phases. health. edu-
cation, employment, recreation and
spiritual growth
Because lightning struck the smoke
| stack of the city crematory after in
surGnce men had told him the CHM
lney was lightning proof. Commissioner
Nv. S. Hancock OF the street depart
ment is planning to collect insurance
| for the accident. He has discovered
that the department carries insurance
| on the crematory. The damage to the
smokestack is estimated at $500.
| The last of the 1920 tax receipts will
| be mailed out by T. B. Boyd. county
treasurer, within the next few days.
| mailed. Shortage of clerks on account
| of insufficient salaries is responsible
| for the delay in the work, according
| to Boyd. The present clerical force
| has been working nights and Sun
days to get caught up with the work.
| Corn whisky makes a hand tremble
and that is probably why George, Seitz.
| $40 Sardou avenue, is alive today.
Five shots fired at him by Pete and
| George Dagan, when they called at
| his home Saturday night after they
| had loaded up on liquor. went wild
|
! for the police. The Dagan brothers
were allowed to reflect on their sins
in the city Jail.
| George T. McDermott addressed the
members of the Monday Lunch club,
an organization of insurance men, to-
day noon at their regular weekly
meeting at the Chamber of Commerce.
! He urged all members of the club,
who were not members of the Cham
| Der of Commerce to declare their in
| tentions of joining the Chamber. and
pointed out the advantag esa both to
| them and to the Chamber.
+ The salary trouble has struck Uncle
Sam, according to w. Fl. Jacoby, sec
rotary of the local association of fed
eral employees. The scientific bureaus
of the department of agriculture, es-
pecially. he said, are losing employees
| faster than new ones can be obtained
to fill their places. The meat inspec-
ton work of the bureau of animal in
dustry last year lost one-fourth of ali
its employees. it is declared.
A number of prominent speakers
spoke Sunday night before the stu
dents and faculty of the Kansas In
dustrial and Educational institute
Addresses were made by Dean Charles
Carpenter of Washburn college. Miss
Willrine Wood of Washburn, Miss
IAnnabel Sawyer of Kansas State Nor
NAL, Miss Mamie Turner of Fish Uni
verSity, NJ. W. Freeman, of Kansas
University, and Miss Anna Brown of
| Pittsburg Normal.
Students who have been issued
| basket ball suits are the only ones who
| Will be admitted to the locker room
/ at Washburn gymnasium in the flu
| ture, according to a rule made by
| Coach Dwight Ream. The drastic
measure was adopted because of sew
| eral petty thefts from the gym. it was
said. Other athletes will be admitted
| only after applying at Ream's office
\ Other students are requested not to
| ask admittance.
! New bunk houses for the boys Y.
NJ. C. A. camp at Elmdale, Kan, is the
reason for a new financial campaign
begun by high school boys in Y. Nj
C. A. in all parts of Kansas. The To-
] peka Hi-Y is endeavoring to raise