The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-04
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| Sixty-six building permits for new
garages in Topeka were issued by the
city fire marshal in July. The mum
| Der of garage permits exceeds the total
of all other permits.
Some chewing gum, candy and one
| dollar in pennies were taken early
| Sunday morning from the Santa Fe
cigar store, 9l5 Kansas avenue, &C
cording to a report to the police.
F. L.Crabbe, superintendent, and H.
| s. Condit, assistant superintendent, of
the kanass Antt-Saloon league. left
| Sunday for ST. John and Stafford,
Kan. They will be gone three or
four days.
The Rev. John Wells Rahill, pastor
of the Central Congregational church,
will go to Chicago late in July. He
will attend Chicago university and will
! be substitute pastor in communities
near Chicago.
| The Cairo baseball team was de-
feated by a score of 9 to by the
Gage Park team at Gage park Sun
day. Frey, of Cairo, struck out nine
men, while Carr, Cargo Park twirler,
famed fourteen batters. Gage Park
will play Richland next Sunday.
New officers of the Christian En-
deavor of the Quinton Heights Baptist
church are B. w. Taylor, president;
Miss stella Hedges. vice president;
Bennett Hornsby, secretary-treasurer
Miss Ruth Hornsby, corresponding
secretary. and Miss Iva Kistler. pianist.
| Many college students are among the
203 students enrolled at Strickler's
Business college this summer, accord
ing to S. ]. Shook, manager. Students
from Washburn college, Kansas uni
versity, the Kansas State Agricultural
college. and other schools are enrolled
Thirty-seven persons took county
| teachers examinations in the office of
Josiah Jordan, county superintendent,
Saturday, Only four were boys.
Among those who took the exanina-
tons were four sisters, Sadie, Theresa
| Crescentia and Beringa Seitz, all of St
Marys.
A suit to collect $4,000 damages
| from DIR. Galen Crook has been filed
! in the district court by Mrs. Ella NJ.
! Hamilton. Sixth and Horne streets,
who claims to have received severe
injuries when she was struck by Doc
tor Crooks car near her homo De-
cember "a, 1920.
Miss Bonita Ferguson, superintend-
| ent of young peoples work in Kansas
for the State Sunday School associa-
ton, and Miss Helen Steele, Miss Min
ME McCauley and Miss Hazel Flan-
nagan, all of Topeka, will go to Lake
| Geneva, Wis, to attend the Interna-
tional Sunday School association
July 26.
Nelson Benning, general secretary
of the Central Y. NJ. c. A. returned
Sunday from Lake Geneva. Wis,
where he attended a conference of the
| y. NJ. G. A. workers of North America.
! Benning said that it was the largest
conference that he ever attended and
rhta tat there were $50 registered dele
gates from allparts of North America
present att he conference.
Bible study, craft and manual work
and lectures are on the program of
the summer school to be opened by
the Third Presbyterian church for
children from to IA years old. The
school will open Tuesday, July 5.
Nearly one hundred children are ex-
pected to enroll. The Rev. o. F. Ogle
will be in charge of the school.
A big Fourth of July picnic was
held today at Indian Creek Grange
hal. A basket dinner was served at
noon and a baseball game between Ell
mont and Indian Creek was scheduled
for this afternoon. Music was fur
nished by Pollom's band. Flmont
Sunbeam and Pleasant Hill Sunday
school took part in the picnic.
Frank G. Richard. state secretary of
the Kansas Sunday School association,
will conduct a course of instruction in
church school administration at the
training school for Sunday School as
ISOLATION officers, to be held at Lake
Geneva, Wis, starting July IL. Miss
Ollie Abels, Mrs. Isaac Sewell and Miss
May Horn of Topeka will attend the
convention.
In order to facilitate sorting and
! dispatching of mail. W. o. Rigby,
! postmaster, has written letters to
Topeka business men asking them to
mail their letters. when nossihIe