The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-01
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AT HOME NEWS

Have you heard OF "Barreled Sun
! light adv.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold The Shawnee Investment
| Co.. 534 Kansas avenna--Adv.
Davis Bandfield, negro. was arrested
Wednesday ON state warrant charg-
| ing with stealing $3.50 from Mrs Anna
Lloyd. He was placed in Jail in de-
fault of $500 bond.
B. V. Edworthy. who has recently
| been appointed the new boys secre-
tary of the state Y. NJ. c. A, will arr
rive in Topeka today to take up the
duties of his office.
Mrs. Ray Kiene and two daughters
and Miss Grace Wolcott returned to-
day from Estes Park, Colo, where
they spent August. Mrs. kiene is
home demonstration agent for the
Shawnee county farm bureau.
Gifts of fruit and vegetables to the
tuberculosis sanatorium are being
stored in the new cellar being built at
the hospital for the purpose. Gifts of
fruit and vegetables are useful and
appreciated during the winter
months.
Miss Mary Alexander, supervisor of
the public health nursing association,
and Miss Henrietta Alexander, of the
state library. have returned from Snow
Islands, Mich, where they have been
guests of Miss Mary MacLennan for
the past month.
The Hi-Y society of the Topeka
high school will hold a pep meeting,
September 81. Robert Myers has been
elected chairman of the publicity
committee for the occasion. Jack
Brewster is the president of the To-
peka high school Hi-Y club.
Fifty-four blocks of street paving
are to be laid in Topeka this fall, ac-
cording to w. S. Hancock. street COM
missioner. Fourteen blocks of that
paving is in North Topeka. Work on
Lane street was completed Wednes-
day. Two asphalt mixers are busy
preparing material for the work.
Two new cases of diphtheria were
reported to the city health department
today. Fifty cases of diphtheria were
reported in the last three weeks in
August. Special care in preventing
the spread of the disease will be taken
when school begins. according to DR..
Earle G. Brown, city health officer.
Enforcement of the bright light and
parking ordinances, raising of the
speeding fines. together with liquor
and cigaret fines, brought in a total OF
$3,06S at police headquarters during
the month of August This is the
twenty years. There were 470 arrests
made. In July a total of $1,6s9 was
collected and 416 arrests made.
Nelson E. Benning, general secre-
tary of the Central Y. M. c. A. and
Mrs. Benning, returned today from
Estes Park, Colo. The Bennings have
been spending a six weeks vacation
at the Y. NJ. c. A. camp and summer
school at Estes Park. Their son.
Henry Benning, who has been spend
ing his vacation with his parents at
Estes Park. will return to Topeka
some time next week.
R. NJ. Dimond of Smith Center.
Kan, has purchased the drug store at
Thomas and Forest avenues. Oakland,
from DIR. G. H. Ensign, and took &C
tive charge of the business today.
Doctor Ensign has owned the store for
more than eighteen years and now
that he is retiring he and Mrs. Ensign
will leave soon for an extended trip to
the western coast, where they expect
to remain until about the first of the
year.
A suit to collect $2,57o damages
from M. L. Christopher and Edward
Christopher, local photographers, was
filed in the district court Wednesday
afternoon by Miss Elizabeth Douglas,
who claims to have been injured in a
motor car accident at Tenth avenue
and Jackson street August 10. The
Christopher car was being driven by
Frieda Hammerli, she alleges. She
says she sustained a broken nose,
severe nervous shock, cuts and bruises.
The county commissioners Wednes-
day afternoon were made defendants
in a suit filed in the district court by
John Vardy, S12 Madison street, to
collect $4,000 damages for the death
of his wife, Mrs. Hannah Vardy, who
died as the result of injuries she re-
ceived when their car struck a pile of
rock near Pauline July 81. Vardy al
leges the commissioners were negli
gent in leaving a pile of rock and sand
in the road without lanterns to warn
Of danger. He also claims a culvert
near the scene of the accident was de-
fective.
B. G. Alexander, regional executive
of the international committee of the
Y. NJ. C. A, was in Topeka Wednes- |
day. He spent the day at the office |
of the state Y. M. G. A. at 91S Kansas
avenue, going over the reports of the |
Kansas district with A. A. Remming- !
ton, the state secretary. Alexander |
left last night for Denver. Colo, where |
he will attend the conference of the |
international secretaries of the west |
ern region This conference will be |