The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-23
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AT HOME NEWS

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Co. 534 Kansas avenue.--Adv
Judge J. S. West of the supreme
court of Kansas spoke at the First
Baptist church Sunday evening on the
subject of The Five Story Man.
A pair of wooden blankets were
stolen from the porch of the Clifford
Shorthan home. 1441 Van Buren,
to the police.
About twelve pairs of overalls were
stolen Saturday from a showcase in
the store at S15 North Kansas avenue.
They belonged to the Eagle Shoe &
Clothing company.
The regular dinner and meeting of
the Cooperative club is to be held at
the Elks' club Tuesday evening at 6:15
o'clock. The program is in charge of
William Rigby and Oscar Bennett.
The offices of the city waterworks
department on the ground floor of the
city hall have been refinished. The
painting of the offices in a new lighter
color was started Saturday afternoon
and will be completed by tonight.
A demonstration in the use of fire
fighting equipment. to be staged by
the Foamite Firefoam company of
Kansas City, is scheduled for 2:30
waterworks drive north of the state
hospital.
At the meeting of the Topeka chap
ter of De- Mclay, to be held Wednes-
day night. Clark Kelley. a member of
the grand council of the state organ
ization of the order. will attend. max
ing advance arrangements for the in
stallation ceremonies of June 4.
The Mems club banquet of the Eu-
cid Avenue Methodist church, Sew
enteenth and Lane STREETS, will be held
tonight. At least eighty men are eX-
pected to be present. Governor Henry
]. Allen, S. D. Flora, ]. E. Findley and
George 1. Brown will be the speakers.
The Kansas National Guard has re-
ceived ninety-six horses from the re-
mount depot at Camp Pike, Ark, for
the use of artillery units of the state
troops. The artillery batteries at
Sabetha, Hiawatha and Troy will re-
ceive the horses. thirty-two to each
battery.
Charles Spencer of Arkansas City,
editor of the Arkansas CITY Daily
News and United Press correspondent
at that point, is in Topeka today, with
a delegation of other business men of
the city to attend a hearing before the
public utilities commission on a pro-
posed increase in telephone rates
there.
Harry johnson, Harold Simpson,
Jack Forest and Fred Anderson were
arrested Sunday afternoon by Detec-
tfves John Billings and Paul Murphy,
patrol driver, who found them shoot
ing craps in an automobile between
Eighth and Ninth on Kansas avenue,
they said. The men were released on
$40 bonds.
The Topeka Gun club is planning
a two-day shoot on the local grounds,
to be held Sunday and Monday, May
20 and 80. The first days program
will be at 100 targets and the second
targets each. The shoot will be open
to the public and a large crowd is ex-
pected to attend.
Fred Martin. negro, 1905 Quincy
street, was arrested Sunday by Santa
Fe special agents on a charge of steal
ing a grip belonging to George w. Nc
Clelland, 301 East Tenth street. The
cred. The grip was stolen a few days
ago when McClelland was on his way
to Hutchinson to attend a convention
of the Knights Templar.
Baker University Glee club will
make it's third annual visit to Topeka
next Saturday and Sunday under the
auspices of the Lowman EpWorth
league for a concert in the Lowman
Memorial church. The club has re-
Gently returned from three weeks
trip thru Kansas and Missouri. Paul
and Harold Hotter and Glen Foster
are Topeka boys in the club.
The tennies doubles championship.
which was carried over from the state
meet at Emporia last week, will be
played off Thursday afternoon on the
courts at Washburn college. Armin
Weiskirch and G. Hamilton will rep
resent Washburn, and play against
Laury and Schonfeldt, of Baker. Both
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finals for the state championship.
DR.. e. ]. Kulp, pastor of the First
Methodist church, has five addresses
scheduled for this week, before grade
school and high school graduating
classes at Effingham. Reading, Man
haitian and Miltonvale. He will also
address the Manhattan Rotary club
Thursday and will be at the Mother
and Daughter banquet to be held at
his church in Topeka Wednesday
night.
An automobile training class will be
conducted at Seaman high school
Wednesday afternoon at 1880 o'clock
for all women who drive their own
cars and wish to know more about it.
The class will be instructed by Mrs.
Julia Kiene, home demonstration
agent for the Shawnee county farm
bureau All women of Topeka and
the surrounding country are invited
10 atlenu.
Lee wykoff, who was farmed out to
a smaller club after trying to make
the pitching staff of the Oklahoma
City baseball team of the Western
league, is back in Topeka after an alb
sence of one month. Wykoff intends
to make up his back work in Wash
burn during the summer months. he
must make up this work in order TO
be eligible for football next fall with
the Ichabods.
An error was made in announcing
that speakers from the G. A h, sons
of Veterans and auxiliary. Topeka
Relief corps. Lincoln Post No. l ana
Lincoln Circle No. / would be on the
program at Quincy, Grant and Mck1n-
lev schools this week. The members
of Blue Post No. $50 and Blue Relief
corps No. 8 have charge of the pro-
grams at these schools and have Sc
lected the speakers for the program.
A new temple is being planned by
the colored fraternal orders of the
United Brothers of Friendship and the
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