The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-28
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Easter ball tonight-Special music
Steinberg' s.-Adv.
At Lowman Memorial Methodist
church, Sunday morning, there were
COS Sunday school pupils and the col
lection totalled S109.21.
Easter services eat the FRS. Metho-
dist church were attended by more
than 300 persons. The special music
given was Christ, the Victor
The Monday Lunch club held its
! regular weekly luncheon today noon
at the Chamber of Commerce. Twenty
members attended.
The Alpha Delta fraternity of
washburn college held its regular
weekly luncheon and meeting today
noon at the Chamber of Commerce.
A grip containing surgical instru-
James G.. Stewart in front of the Elks'
club Sunday night, according to re-
port to the police.
Owing to the death Sunday of
Harry Wardin the Cooperative club
| has postponed the Ladies Night
party scheduled for Tuesday evening
| at Pelletier's Tea room. Wardin was
a member of the club.
| William (Jitney) Wallace pleaded
not guilty to a charge of stealing
| $50 overcoat from John j. McDon-
ough this morning when he was ar
raigned in the city court. He was
committed to Jail in default of $500
bond.
A new general merchandise store,
to be operated on a cash basis in the
sale of groceries and clothing and for
the purchase of produce, is shortly to
be opened at Hoyt by Charles F. Flick.
proprietor of the Antlers barber shop,
| at 1874 Kansas avenue.
knight of Columbus will initiate a
class of fifty candidates next Sunday
afternoon at 1. o. o. f. hall. SCI
Quincy street. A banquet at the Elks'
club will precede the initiation. with
Father Frances Orr of Lawrence as
the principal speaker.
| A new scale for unskilled laborers,
! applica bic to those hereafter en-
| ployed by the Beatrice Creamery COM
pany in Topeka of 40 cents an hour,
| has been announced. The old scale of
45 cents an hour will still be paid to
the employees now on the pay roll.
A Paige car belonging to Robert
! Thompson and an Overland belonging
| to Clyde Haskin were slightly dam
| aged Sunday night in a collision a the
| corner of Ash street and the river
road. south of the Sardou bridge. No
one was injured.
| Rodney E. Walker and Laura
| Thornton, negroes, and Eulie Wern-
| son, all of Lawrence, were bound
over to the April term of the United
States district court Saturday on
| charges of violating the federal mar
] cotic laws. They are being held in
| the county Jail.
Miss Mary MacSwiney. sister of the
late Terrence MacSwiney. lord mayor
| of Cork, who made an address in To-
| peka recently, sent Easter greetings to
to the local organization of the Amer
| lean Association for the Recognition
of the Irish Republic. The message
was addressed to P. H. Coney.
new ruling by the postoffice de-
o. D. packages will be held only thirty
days, instead of sixty, after which
| they will be returned to the sender
and postage collected. Packages not
| properly wrapped will be subject to
indemnity charges in case of loss or
| damage.
| A panel in the rear door of a negro
church on the corner of Kious and
Madison streets. in North Topeka, was
| broken Sunday night. according to a
report to the police. The officers
were advised that young people were
using the church as resort for i'm
moral purposes. Authorities were asked
to investigate.
Roger C. Rice. shead of the United
States geological survey, operating
here in Cooperation with the Kansas
| water commission, has been trans
ferred to the Arizona office. The To-
peka office. in the federal building,
probably wR be filled by E. L. Will
liams, now with the commission in
| Washington, d. C. Rice has been
here since June I. 1917.
Peter Plummer, Union Pacific
flagman. was knocked down and
slightly injured Saturday on the Kan
by J. V. McMillen, 1901 Quincy street.
A switch engine was approaching and
McMillen, said he did not see Plum
mer's signal to stop. He was ar
rested, booked on a charge of careless
driving and released on $25 bond.
Florence Layton, the 13-year-old
daughter of Oran Layton, register of
deeds. sustained a broken collar bone
Saturday evening while playing with
several other children at the home of
G. P. Adams. 124 Greenwood avenue.
She was getting along nicely today, ac-
playing "crack the whip" and the lit
tie girl was thrown to the ground.
Tuesday evening at 6:45 o'clock the
Euclid Mems club will hold it's month
ly meeting for the men and boys in
the community adjacent to the Eu-
cid Avenue Methodist church, Seven
teenth and Lane streets. A banquet
will be served, accompanied by an en-
tertaining program. Five minute talks
will be given by J. H. Benson, E. L.
Buck, DIR. J. H. McNaughton, H. J.
Bascom and ]. H. Engle, state presi-
dent of the Sunday School association
Engle will talk of his trip to the world
Sunday school convention in Japan.
The story of the Resurrection was
told at the First Baptist church Sun
day evening by the pastor. the organ
and the choir. The regular choir was
! reinforced by seven additional voices
and sang the Easter cantata From
Sepulchre to Throne" by Shepard
The solos were taken by N W. Ben
: ming and Harold n. Rankin. At the
: close of the cantata the large audi
ence stood while Mrs. ARA ]. Clark
played the "Halleluiah Chorus from
Handels Messiah. Ten persons were
: baptized and a number of others re-
ceived into the church