The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-15
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

The regular meeting Of the Rota
6:15 o'clock this evening.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.,A534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
Special Sale on Trunks. Suit Cases
and Travelling Bags at the Hub Bar
gain Store. SO Kansas Ave.-Adv.
The Woman's Benefit association of
the Maccabees hive No. Il will ini-
Thursday afternoon Refreshments
will be served following the initiation.
Tax-Free Kansas Municipal Bonds:
New list of county. city, and school
bonds. For maturities and prices.
phone 3346. Miss May Malone, Kansas
Securities Co. 4o1-3 New England
Bldg.-Adv.
The Lillian Mitchner w. C. T. U.
and the East Side w. C. T. U. will
unite in an all day institute to be held
Thursday at thesFirst United Brethren
church. Flower mission day will also
be combined with the meeting.
r. r. Hays of Osborne, a widely
known Kansan. was in Topeka today
attending to business matters and Wis
iting with old friends. He was re-
corder of the United States land Of
flee at Kirwin from 1882 to 1886 and
was state senator from his district
from 1889 to 1891.
Leslie Woods. negro, was bound over
to the district court for trial following
his preliminary hearing in the city
i court today on a charge of assaulting
his brother, Arthur Woods, with in
tent to kill He slashed Arthur with
razor, alleging that the latter was
too attentive to Mrs. Leslie Woods.
An addition has been made to the
staff of the Trapp-Meade Insurance
service in the person Of Floyd NJ.
q Soi, - TyA n Hrr,-v
football team this season, and all
state tackle. Chester Bunger has also
| Joined the staff of the company in the
! automobile insurance department,
which is headed by Lakin Meade.
New potatoes are selling in Topeka
at the present time for cents a
pound, and dealers predict that the
first of this years crop from the Kaw
valley will be on the market at cents
a pound by July 1. Old potatoes are
selling at $3.50 per 100 pounds. A
year ago new potatoes cost 5 cents
a pound, and old potatoes 10 cents
pound.
The first of the union church serv-
ices of the summer will be held Sun
day night on the east steps of the state
house with DR.. E. j. Kulp of the First
Methodist church in charge. The
the First M. E., the First Presbyter-
ian. the First CONGREGATIONAL, the
First Christian, the First Baptist, the
Evangelical association and the United
Brethren. Pastors of the respective
churches will have charge of the serv-
ices during the summer.
A further re-arrangem ent of the
Kansas division of the Rock Island
has resulted IN the elimination of the
job of ore roadmaster. H. O.. Sinsi-
has charge OF the line from st. j os
eph, Mo-, to- Herington, instead of to
McFarland.e s. P. Jones, roadma ster
at Wichita, is roadmaster of the line
from Caldwell to Herington. H: Porch.
roadmaster of the section which has
been consolidated, has been trans
ferred to the engineering department.
The Rev. John A. Bright. the widely
known Topeka minister, who has been
chaplain of the Kansas houses of rep
resentaitves for many years, received
news Tuesday of the total destruction
by hail of $50 acres of wheat which
was growing on his farm near Cam
pus in Cove county. From this same
| 100 acres the Rev. Bright harvested,
last year.. crop of volunteer wheat
ficient money to entirely pay off heavy
| mortgages on both his Cove county
| farm and on his Topeka home.
The Rock Island is using some 400,-
ooo pounds Of ice daily, In icing the
cantaloupe trains passing thru Topeka
from California to eastern markets.
Each day about ITS cars of melons
are halted in Topeka to be re-iced.
The Rock Island expects to handle at
least 10000 cars of the melons over
| the Kansas division this season.
| Twenty-four extra men have been
added to the ice plant force at Topeka,
| which is under the foremanship of
Louis Ennan, and a night shift is be-
| ing worked to keep the cantaloupe
| trains iced.
A desire for excitement led Hazel
lShartz, IS, and Lucille Marshall. IL.
| into the hands of the police Tuesday
morning. Running away from their
homes in North Topeka Monday
night, they started walking east on
! the Golden Belt road. They had with
them provisions, extra clothing, cook
| ing utensils, a long knife and a loaded
| revolver. Early Tuesday morning po-
lice found them asleep by the side of
| the road, where they had made their
/ camp for the night. After telling
several conflicting stories they admit
| ted having run away and were re-
| turned to their homes.