The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-14
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Holcraft-F1owers--
Doctor McNaughton moved to Or
pheum Bldg. Phone 1169.-Adv.
All issues OF Liberty Bends Donght
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue--Adv.
A bundle of laundry was stolen
Wednesday from the home of Charles
Kohl. q druggist. 426 Taylor street.
The annual track contest between
Washburn and Topeka high schools
will be held tomorrow afternoon on
the Washburn track. Dope tends to
favor a victory for the Topeka high
school youngsters.
Increased orders for structural steel
are responsible for the operation of
the Topeka Foundry and Iron Works
at full time this week, after having
been running only two or three days
a week recently.
Two boxes of cigars, fifty cans and
twenty sacks of smoking tobacco and
a quantity of chewing tobacco and
candy were stolen early Wednesday
morning from a Mexican pool hall at
500 East Fifth street.
Twelve shoes of various sizes were
stolen Tuesday night from a window
of o. C. Goenour's store at $40 East
Fourth street. They were found We'd
nesday in an alley in the river dis
trict. All the shoes were shaped for
the right foot.
A Buick car stolen from Frank P.
Rude, a farmer living north of town,
at Fifteenth and Lake streets. Three
tires had been stolen and the battery
was damaged by efforts of the thieves
to remove it from the car.
The Rowley drug store. at the south
east corner of Sixth and Kansas ave-
nues, will remain in its present loca-
ton at least until May 1, its lease hav-
ing been extended to that time by the
Farm Mortgage company, which owns
the site of the building and had
planned to start construction of a new
building there April /.
Mexicans who were let out of the
employ of the Santa Fe shops are be-
ing assisted to earn their living by
jobs of cleaning up about the city.
The Provident association and the
state free employment bureau are CO.
operating in the work of finding jobs
for the Mexicans. The Mexicans are
Proyident association at the present
time, and the association is endeavor-
ing to meet it by furnishing as many
of them with odd jobs as possible.
Work on the reinforced concrete
bridge to be built across Shunganunga
creek between Fifth and Sixth on
Lake street will be begun shortly, if
the plans for the bridge as presented
by Street Commissioner w. S. Han
cock and City Engineer w. e. Baldry
are approved by the, Shunganunga
drainage board in a conference today.
Hancock and Baldry will meet the
board this afternoon. The Topeka
street railway will bear a part of the
$4,000 expense of the bridge, as its
tracks will cross the bridge.
The directors of the Bankers De-
posit> Guaranty and Surety company
met Wednesday afternoon and the
regular per cent quarterly dividend
was declared. All the officers of the
company were reelected, as follows:
r. E. Ames, Topeka, president; w. ].
Bailey. Atchison, vice-president; W. H.
Burk, Wellington, vice-president; ]. r.
Burrow, Topeka, vice-president;
George S. Murphey. Manhattan. treas
urer; John T. Morrisey, Topeka, secre-
tary; John F. Cannon, Topeka, assist
ant secretary. Reports of the officers
showed a successful half years bust