The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-10
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


A brush fire at the foot of Tyler
street near the Rock Island tracks
caused a fire alarm Tuesday morning.
United Spanish War Veterans. Arm
strong Auxiliary No. 2, will have a
picnic at Gage park Thursday after
noon and evening, with supper at z
O'Clock.
Armstrong Auxiliary No. 2, United
SPANISH War Veterans, will have their
picnic at Gage park Thursday after
noon and evening. Supper VIII be
served at 7 o'clock.
Anthony Hamilton. a negro charged
with burgIarizing the home of w. r.
Phillips, a farmer living near the
| bows Industrial school, was bound
over to the district court after pre-
liminary hearing in the court of To-
peka Tuesday.
The Ladies' Aid of the Spiritualist
| Church of Divine Truth will hold a
lawn social at the home of Mrs. Clary,
I12IO West Fifth street, Friday eve
| ming, August II. Messages by the In
dian and other mediums. Refresh
ments. Motorists welcome.-Adv.
J. H. Anderson and family of Kan
sas City returned home this afternoon
after spending a two weeks vacation
! in Topeka. Anderson. who is pastor
of the Grandview Christian church at
Kansas City, was formerly the minister
of the North Side Christian church
here.
MarshaIrs band will give a concert
| on the Quincy school ground Wednes--
day evening. August 10, for the bene-
fit OF the tuberculosis porch fund. un-
der the auspices of the ladies of The
! Eastern Star. Ice cream and cake will
be served. The public is urged to
attend.-Adv.
William A. Johnston, chief Justice
of the Kansas supreme court, will
leave tonight for an extended vacation
| in Michigan. The court is in recess
until October. Justices Marshall and
West are still at their offices while
Justices Burch, Mason. Porter and
Dawson are out of the city.
Milton r. Mclean, assistant adju-
| tant general, is in Sterling, Kan. in
specting a field artillery combat
train, newly organized unit of the
Kansas National Guard, consisting of
fifty or sixty men. The organization
is to be inspected Thursday for ac-
ceptance into the federal service.
The contract for the new ESQ horse
power water tube boiler for the city
was let to the firm of Walsh & Weld
ner of Chattanooga, Tenn. at a cost
of 1915, as a result of the decision
] of the city commission in conference
Tuesday afternoon. Boiler. stoker and
SCOT blower are included in the con-
tract.
Charles Kouns, son of the late c.
W. Kouns. formerly general manager
of the eastern lines of the Santa Fe
system. left TO-DAY for Fort Worth,
Tex, after a short visit with friends
here. He stopped off here on his way
home from New York where he has
been visiting his sisters, Misses Sara
and Nellie Kouns.
Governor Allen today issued a requi-
~ Cali
fornia for Charley Bunch, who escaped
from the Hutchinson reformatory in
September, 1920 Bunch is now in
custody at Redding, Cal The state
desires to bring him back to complete
his sentence for grand larceny, under
u conviction in Barton county.
The local office of the state Y. NJ.
C. A is planning to have a booth in
one of the buildings at the Kansas
Free Fair in September. Pamphlets
explaining the work that is being done
by the Y. NJ. c. A. will be given away.
A clay model has been made of the
Y. NJ. c. A. camp at Elmdale, Kan,
and will be exhibited at the booth
Charles Garretson of Emporia, who
violated the terms of his parole and
fled to Redlands, Calf, will Be re-
turned to Kansas to serve sentence of
from two to four years in the state
penitentiary at Lansing for wife and
child desertion. Governor Allen to-
day issued a requisition on Governor
Stephens of California for Garretson.
A party of eighteen persons from
Wakarusa, who were en- route to Sar-
atoga, Wyo., in four motor cars, visit
ed the rural rest room at the city hall
Monday. Those in the party were:
Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. RobbinS and fam
Mrs. z. L. Blood. Miss Jessie Blood,
Mrs. F. F. Blood, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Robb, Dwight Robb, Louise Robb and
Lola Robb.
]. S. Warner, who already has eight
garages in the city which he rents
out, is constructing fourteen moro on
the west side of Quincy street, be-
tween Eighth avenue and Ninth street,
for the same purpose. The fourteen
new ones will be placed in a double
row, seven on a side, and will be COW
cred by the same roof. The garages
are being constructed of cement
blocks.
A group of eight boy scouts, mem
bers of troop 16 of the Central Park
Christian church, were the guests of
the Telephone company, Tuesday
night on a sight seeing tour of the
local telephone exchange. Ray Smith,
scoutmaster of the troop, accompanied
the boys. Two employees of the Tele-
phone company. acted as guides, TAX
ing the party Inru the building ana
explaining the working of the ex-
change.
D. Y. Donaldson, who was formerly
the pastor of the Christian church at
Emporia, has been elected secretary
of the Oklahoma Christian Missionary
society. He will succeed J. Fred
Jones, who resigned recently. The
Rev. Donaldson for the past year has
been the chief prohibition enforce
ment officer for Porto Rico. He has
had wide experience as a pastor.
evangelist and field secretary for the
Christian churches in Kansas and is
widely known by members of the
Christian church all over the state.
Miss Rose Taylor of Plains, Kan,
IS the Kansas winner of a prize essay
contest in the ship by Truck" cam
paign conducted by the Firestone Tire
q Rubber company. Judges in the
contest were: NJ. w. Watson, state
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