The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-03

and sold. The Shawnee Investment;
Co. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv
The boys and girls glee clubs OF
Washburn high school will give con-
cert in MacVicar chapel this after
noon for the benefit of the high school
photograph fund.
membership contest is being held
by the Baracas and Phiiatheas classes
of the First Evangelical Sunday
school. The Barracks class, composed
Of girls, is leading the Philatheans,
who are boys, by zoo points.
Another big wolf drive will be made
by the Pauline Farmers union Satur-
day. The territory covered will be
four miles square and the roundup
will take place in William Kneil's pas
ture seven miles south of Topeka on
the Burlingame road.
All aspirants for city offices should
have their nomination paper filed by
March II, according to Miss Eta Co
veil, city clerk. Not all nomination
papers have been filed as yet, she said.
Registration books for the city cleo
ton will close at ten o'clock at night,
March II.
A suit to collect 100000 damages
was filed in the federal court today by
Margaret Hanks, of Kansas City,
against the Yellow Cab and Baggage
company and K. & NJ. -Taxicab COM
pany of Kansas City. She claims she
was injured in a collision between two
cabs of the two companies.
Special evangelistic meetings will
be held at the Tyler Street Methodist
church, corner West Fifth and Tyler
streets, beginning Sunday evening, and
will continue for two weeks under the
leadership of the Rev. Frederick H.
Ream, of the nter-Denominationa
and Midwest Evangelistic associations.
Jake Sacks, a Russian, was arrested
Wednesday by Sheriff Robert Miller
and Deputies Robert Pendleton and
Oscar Perkins in cooperation with
Chief Frank Leech, on charge of
having liquor in his possession. The
officers found a small quantity of
liquor when they raided Sacks home.
Sixty-seven Kansans attended the
two day session of the Association of
the National Council of State Depart
ments of Education held at Atlantic
City. Miss l.. E. Wooster, president
of the association, has returned to To-
peka. A. j. Stout and r. r. Cook of
Topeka high echool are still in the
east.
Two more voluntary petitions in
bankruptcy were filed in the federal
court here today. William G. Hazie-
wood, a Kansas City sheep buyer,
listed his liabilities at $4,000, with no
property, except his homestead,
claimed as exempt. J. r. Meredith, a
Leavenworth county farmer, listed liza
bilities totaling $40, 500, with no assets.
Sixteen more applications for
habeas corpus writs to obtain their re-
lease from the federal prison were
filed in the federal district court here
Wednesday afternoon by men con-
victed of violating the federal liquor
laws. They allege their restraint to
be Illegal because they were sentenced
under an old law after the Volstead
act had gone into effect.
Complaints against chickens run
ming at large are received. at police
headquarters almost every day. Some
times a wandering COW or horse is
complained of. But the officers set
new precedent today when they in
structed one man to keep up his pet
rabbits, which neighborS complained
were running at large and eating the
green stuff in their early gardens as
fast as it comes up.
Henry Yoder gave a five-minute
talk on the definition and qualifica-
tons OF Rotarian, at todays Rotary
meeting and announced that the talks
would be regular feature of the
weekly Rotary meetings, dealing with
the ideal of. Rotary. Cecil Howes, sec
fetary+ of the club, gave a report on
the recent business of the club, and
the members entered into a discussion
on the membership qualifications.
in Topeka tonight at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Knox on Harrison
street. Among the guests at the house
warming will be Mr.. and Mrs. w. l..
Porter and Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. b. Pin
ney. That the party will be successful
is assured with the including of Porter
and Pinney as guests. The house may
be warmed a trifle too much, it is pre-
dicted, as both the men are candidates
for the office of mayor.
Walter Whitson, superintendent of
the Provident association of Kansas
City, Mo, will address the social
service class at the Provident associa-
ton Friday afternoon. Any one in
terested in social service is welcome
to attend. Whitson has had extern
sive experience in social work. He
will discuss cases of family social
service. During the war Whitson
, served In the American Red Cross.
Boys of the industrial school filed
| into the Y. w. c.. A. gymnasium to-
| day, with one of them carrying little
lamb and another carrying a shep-
part of that used in a Mother Goose
pageant the boys gave before the edu-
cational department of the Woman
| club today. A gfee club composed OF
| the boys added to the entertainment
Mrs. J. H Luxton is chairman of the
educational department of the club.
| Secretary Guy c. Seeker OF the
Chamber of Commerce has received a
| letter from the chairman of the Ma
| tional Midland Trail association, w
w. Melworth Of Beloit, asking him to
attend a meeting of the association al
Manhattan on March 16. The letter
says that business of remarking the
trail, and possible changes in the rout-
| ing will be considered. The Midland
, trail is one of the largest in the coun-
! try. reaching from Washington, d. c.,
I to San Francisco.