The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-19
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

ELECTROMAGNETIC
Timothy Long is seriously ill at his
home, 221 Taylor street.
All kinds of electrical appliances at
Overton's, 522 Jackson--Adv.
All issues or Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment;
Co. 534 Kansas avenue--Adv-
Hanging baskets, potted plants and
boxes of flowers, the prettiest of the
season are at Mrs. Lords flower room.
ADV.
Permit for construction of the addi-
ton to the boiler room at the city
waterworks was issued by City Fire
Marshal Joseph Hanlon on Wednesday
to ]. NJ. Leeper, contractor. The cost
of the addition will be S17,5O0-
The teachers of Branner school will
entertain $50 grade school teachers
Saturday at Ripley park at a picnic.
Tennis doubles, baseball games and
other athletic events are scheduled
Supper will be served at o'clock at
the Community house.
Dave Gregg. a local attorney, plead
ed not guilty when arraigned in the
city court Wednesday on charge of
stealing s23.4S worth of electric light
bulbs from the city electric light
plant, and was placed in the county
Jail in default of $500 bond His near
ing was set for next Tuesday
Work has been resumed after
shutdown on the Lyndon oil well
owned by the Elmhurst Investment
company of Topeka. A recent ac-
cident stopped the work just after
traces of oil had been found. The
drilling tools were stuck in the cas-
ing. which had to be removed.
Robert Mcclure will not contest the
divorce case of his wife. Rosa Mcclure.
A stipulation attached to the petition
filed in the district court today, pro
vides that the case may be tried in his
absence and a divorce granted her II
she can show sufficient cause. She
charges Mcclure with gross neglect OF
duty
The Professional and Business Mems
Dancing club closed its series OF
dances last evening at kellam hall AS
a remembrance of their seventeenth
H Lee were presented with tokens
Mrs. Lee was given a large handsome
bouquet of roses, while Mr.. Lee was
given a verse card framed.
The Washburn Y. w. c. A. cabinet
will entertain with an Oriental tea for
college girls Friday afternoon IN Bos-
well hall The hostesses, who will be
Miss Isabel Whitcomb, Miss Viola
Van Nice Miss Mabel Taylor. and Miss
Louise Griest. will be in Oriental cos
tune, and there will be display OF
Oriental eurios from the national Y
W. Z. A headquarters.
The statement that the recent visit
of H. L. Reed. general manager of the
second district of the Rock Island, to
Topeka had a connection with the
possible 1ouble-tracking of the Rock
Island from Topeka to Mcfarland, has
been denied by local officials OF the
road. "Of course the line will be
double tracked to Mcfarland some
day" one Rock Island man said But
this Is certainly no time to be talking
about it,
Berryton High school graduated
class of eight members "Wednesday
night with DR.. Edmund James kulp
of the First Methodist church as com
mencement speaker. The Rev j. w.
Stiverson gave the bacca1aureate ser
mon to the class last Sunday night
Mem bers of the class are June Zlrkle,
Seville Tevis, Mabel Breeding. Floyd
Breeding, William Howey. Pauline
Bessette Mildred Fahrbach and Ross
Anderson.
Two members of the washburn
| faculty who will not be at the college
next year are Prof. Edward Chapman
and Mrs. Roscoe Graves. Professor
/ Chapm has resigned. but has an
| nounced no future plans Mrs Graves
will go to Emporia, where her hus-
| band is practicing law Both instruc-
| tors are in the history department
| Prof A NJ. Hyde. formerly of the his
tory department, viii return to Wash
| burn next year He has been on the
/ faculty at Michigan university.
There are SOS names in the new
membership directory of the Kansas
/ State Grain Dealers association.
which has Just been issued Eight
l Topeka firms are members of the as
sociation-the Topeka Graia COM
pany, the Topeka Flour Mills COM
pany, the Golden Belt Grain and Eie-
vator company. the Thomas Page Mil
| ling company, the United Elevator
company. the Kaw Milling conpa nv.
the Derby Grain company, and the