The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-01

and topeka boulevard. Practice Will
be held at o'clock every Saturday
afternoon hereafter. At present there
are twenty-five candidates for the
team and several more expected to
try out. A schedule of inter-associa-
ton games will be arranged later.
| A. J. Stout. superintendent of
schools, announced Monday afternoon
at the meeting of the various ward
school principals of the city that the
| public schools have not been and will
mot be stopping places for agents or
any other kinds of sales people. If
| they wish to interview the pupils and
! teachers, they may do so at their
| homes. The schools are for education
and not for free advertising for agents
| of any kind, Superintendent Stout said.
R. X Hinkson, of Topeka, one of
| the secretaries of the Poster Adver-
| Using association, an organization in
| Guiding nearly all the advertising COM
panies of the United States, won the
silver cup offered by the president of
| the association for efficient secretarial
| work Hinkson was in competition
with eighteen other secretaries. His
| territory includes Nebraska, Missouri,
and Kansas. The prize was awarded
| at the last convention of the associa-
| ton, held in Detroit
| The Volstead act hasn't done much
! for Phillips county, according to let
| tiers sent to the state department. It
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national drouth every one began MAX
| ing their own. Now there is more
| drinking than the community has
| known in years. There is more
| drinking than there has been in
| years" says a letter, land men who
| would let the stuff alone ordinarily
| are being dragged down to ruin be-
| lore the very eyes of their friends"
| Selling articles which were short
weight resulted in a fine for G. E.
| Majors, manager of the Public mar
| ket, 527 Kansas avenue, in the city
| court this morning. Majors, it was
| said, sold a pail of lard to w. NJ
| Green, representing it as two pounds.
The actual weight, however, was only
| twenty-siX ounces according to the
! complaint. The matter was investi-
| gated by George V. Denton, city food
| inspector, who signed the complaint.
Majors entered a plea of guilty and
was fined $40 and costs, making
| $3.50 in all.
! On Friday, November II the Red
Cross of Topeka will begin its annual
roll call. The membership fee is 81;
contributing membership, IS and the
| sustaining $40. Heretofore all but
fifty cents of the contributing and sus-
tanning memberships have gone to the
national Red Cross chapter, but this
year only fifty cents will be sent away
| from homesan the remainder of the
contributing and sustaining member
ships will be kept for use in Topeka,
and the county. Contributions may
be sent to the Red Cross, 231 New
England building.
The Rotary clubs of the United
States are to use poster advertising
as a means of conveying a reconstruc-
| ton message to the people of the
country. Advertising space valued at
S1,300,000 has been offered by the
| Poster Advertising association, includ-
ne nf ADVERTISING firms #
the entire country, to be used during
December. January and February.
Forty-eight cities and towns in To-
peka's territory will be covered thru
the Hinkson- Crawford advertising
service with these posters, which are
being furnished by the Rotarians. The
New York Rotary club has already
underwritten the cost of producing
| the posters.
A dinner and dance for the en-
ployes of the neutrality-suspicious. fur
niture store. their wives and friends,
is to be given at the store tonight.
There will be between ESQ and 500
persons present. Dinner is to be served
at 1850 o'clock in the hardware de-
partment. Following the dinner there
will be dancing and other forms of
entertainment in the carpet and rug
department on the second floor. An
eight-piece orchestra is to furnish
music for the dancing. It is planned
to have a series of such social occa-
SionS for the employees of the firm, |
during the winter, for the promotion
of sociability, acquaintance and friend
ship among them.
The Trinity Methodist church will
celebrate the first anniversary of the
completion and dedication of the new
church edifice at Sixteenth and Harri
son streets from November % to De-
cember q. A program was arranged
by the official church board Monday
evening. One evening has been set
aside as athletic night. A fellowship
supper will be held Friday evening,
December .. The annual musicale
given under the direction of the
Brotherhood of the church will also
be held during the anniversary cele-
bration- This will be the seventh an
nual musicale and is looked forward
to with pleasure by large number of
Topekans. A prominent speaker will
be secured for the services Sunday,
December 4.
The 1922 budget of the Topeka |
chapter of the American Red Cross |
provides for the support of a fulI-time |
nurse at the tubercular hospital whose |
work will be exclusively for ex-service |
men; for a full-time baby welfare |
nurse; for continuation of the Red |
Cross visiting housekeeper; for contin- |
uation of the county school nurse. The |
membership campaign to raise funds |
to supply the budget will begin No
vember IL and continue until Thanks |
giving day. In this period every per- !
son in Topeka will be asked to renew !
membership or to take out a new one. |
A special effort will be made to in |
crease the number of contributing |
members and sustaining members |
The membership fee for contributing
members is SIS per year, of which sum |
$3.50 is retained by the local chapter. |
The sustaining membership fee is |
$40 per year of which $3.50 is retained I
BY Topeka. In each case the extra |
so cents goes to the national chapter |
of the Red Cross.
at is estimated that 10000 of the |
10000 persons who die of cancer in
the United States each year could be !
saved if taught to consult physicians |
as soon as any suspicious symptoms
ar,1,aa,.,, Il1. Earle @ Brown city /