The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-22
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o'clock at the hall, SCI Quincy street
We recommend Barreled Sunlight as
the best and most economical finish
for bath rooms and all light wood
work. c. NJ. Hill & Son, S26 Kan.
! Ave.-Ady-
Miss Sarah Gardner, private sec
rotary to DR.. Earle G. Brown, left this
afternoon for a short visit with friends
in Kansas City, Mo. -
National umbrella week will be held
| October % to 20. A number of To-
peka merchants will observe it with
special window displays
where Should Smith Go to
! Church," The Rev. Clifton Merritt
Gray will speak on this subject, by re-
quest, at the IL O'Clock service tomor-
row morning at the Unitarian church
| GA Topeka boulevard.
The Harvest Moon banquet of the
| Kansas Reserve Building & Loan as
ISOLATION will be held at the Elks' club
next Friday evening. All permanent
shareholders in the association VIII re-
| ceive invitations to attend. The IN
citations are signed by the president.
w. c. Roger, charged with passing
| a worthless check for $22.69 on the
| TODeka Steam Boiler works last Au-
| gust. was arrested Friday afternoon
at his home, five miles northwest OF
| BurIingame, by Oscar Carlson, under
! +. a
| G.. B. Merriam was unanimously
elected president of the city library
board at a meeting of the board Fri
day. He will succeed the late M. A.
| Low. The board recommended to the
! MAYOR the appointment OF a. D. Gray
as a member of the board to succeed
Low.
A L. Oliger. manager of the Auto
mobile Trades Association of Kansas.
| left today for New Orleans, where he
will attend the seventeenth annual
convention of the National Association
| of Commercial Organization EXecu-
tives Eighteen other Kansas secre-
taries will make the trip with Oliger.
| Oliger will return october 27.
The De Molay football team de-
| feated the Topeka high school second
| team by a score of 10 to 0 in a game
played Friday afternoon at western
! League park. Two of the De Molay's
touchdowns were by intercepted
| passes Christman and Boyd played
well for the De Molay team, while
Edmundston starred the high school
team.
o. L. Carlson was elected assistant
cashier of the Merchants National
bank at a meeting of the board of di-
rectors Friday. He will be in charge
merly connected with the Olsburg
State bank and the Bank of Randolph,
Kan. He has been connected with the
Merchants National bank since March
l, 1913.
Cyril Beard, Edwin Maudy and
Donald Webb, who were arrested at
Silver Lake a few days ago by Rob-
ert Pendleton. deputy sheriff, on a
charge of stealing a Ford car from
Ellis, Kan, were returned to Ellis
Friday afternoon by Sheriff Robert
Miller, who took the car back to its
| owner. The three men, officers said,
confessed that they had stolen the
car.
Circling around a fire truck that
was responding to an alarm from 1921
Harrison street Thursday resulted in
a $40 fine and orders not to drive
again for month for Moley Thomp-
son when his case was called in police
court Friday afternoon. Judge Rad
| Lee informed him that if he violates
his parole by driving within that
| length of time that he will have to
| serve thirty days in jail.
During the next six months Ned Nc
Daniel, Is, and Harold Webb, IT, who
We're caught joy riding in a motor car
belonging to L. F. Clearinghouse. must
| not drive car or enter a pool room.
| They must also observe all city ordi =
nances These are the terms of a
parole granted them by Judge Rad
Lee in police court Friday afternoon.
six months in Jail for them, they were
| informed
Preliminary organization of a Kan
sas chapter of the National Society of
| Civil Engineers was made at a meet
| ing at the Chamber of Commerce to-
day. L. z. Conrad, professor of civil
| engineering at K. S. A. c., is president
of the chapter; c. c. Williams, pro-
! fessor of civil engineering at Kansas
university, vice president, and F. S.
| Altman, Topeka, is secretary-treasurer.
| The annual meeting of the chapter will
| be held here December s. Quarterly
meetings will be held thereafter.
| A sudden increase in the numbe of
chattel mortgages in Topeka has been
noticed in the office of Oran Layton,
register of deeds, during the last few
days. The chattel mortgages filed
| suddenly leaped from fourteen or fit =
teen, as they had been running, to
ninety-three Thursday and seventy
! two this morning. Seventy eight were
filed on the thirteenth and eighty
eight on the fifth day of this month.
A majority of the chattel mortgages
appear to have been given to secure
payments on furniture purchases.
] Topeka alumni of Washburn college
! are planning a big reunion for for
! mer Missionaries among the teachers
who will attend the Kansas State
! Teachers convention here in Novem-
| Der. The principal event will be a
| dinner at the Chamber of Commerce
| at o'clock the evening of Friday.
| November 4. The next morning the
| Washburn grads will be entertained
| by an automobile ride over thu city
| and a tea at the home Of the president
| at which Mrs. P. p. Womer will be
| hostess. The college will have a
| booth at the state house, where the
teachers will register on arriving in
| Topeka, and special arrangements will
| be made there for the entertainment
| OF the Washburn grads.
The Helianthus Literary society of
| Washburn college elected twenty-six
new members Friday. Sixteen men