The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-18
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Holcraft-Flowers.-Adv.
AT HOME NEWS

Holcraft-Flowers.-
For rent. good business room. 1o17
Kansas ave. See Robert B. Kane,
agent.-Adv.
The Aid Association for Lutheransi
viii hold social meeting tonight at
400 Harrison street.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. S34 Kansas avenue ADV
Bids for work on Lowman Hill
sewer No. SO will be advertised for
immediately. the city commission de-
cided today.
You are indangering yourself by
drinking impure water. Eat at WOODS
Cafe, where pure distilled water is
served. 113 West 5th.-Adv.
Have your collections handled by
reliable firm. Over due accounts.
notes, etc. No collection no charge.
Cossman and Smith, % Columbian
Building.-Adv.
Housing of women students at the
state schools will be the principal SUBJ
ject for consideration at the meeting
OF the Kansas Council of Women at the
Y. w. c. A. Friday morning, January
%. at 10 o'clock.
Charles Palmer, 20, a stenographer.
was arrested today by Chief of De-
tectives George Frost for investigation
relative to a check he is believed to
have forged. The check was for
about SIS and signed with the name
of Frank Middleton, Frost said.
Mrs. F. B. Barker. 619 West Cor
don, Mrs. Julia Askew. 607 West Cor
don and Mrs. Anna Alexander of that
vicinity and a number of others signed
petition of protest presented to the
city commission, against the plan to
pave Gordon street from Topeka to
Western avenue.
Rev. George D. Egner. pastor of the
Methodist church at Deadwood, S. D.,
VIII speak tonight at the naid-winter
camp meeting, being conducted by the
salvation Army at the Memorial build
ing, Fifth and Quincy streets. The
meetings, which opened Saturday, are
well attended and much interest is be-
ing shown.
Provident association will be held at
the Chamber of Commerce Wednes-
day, January 10, at 1 o'clock for cleo
ton OF officers and other business. The
public is invited to attend. Anyone
who has contributed IS or more to the
support of the association in the last
year is entitled to a vote.
A community sing will be held at
Wanamaker school house Thursday
night. After the sing, which will be
led by c. S. Atwood, homemade candy
will be served by the ladies of the
| w cluD. Inc
pupils have been taking much interest
in music this year and it is planned
to hold several sings this winter.
John F. and Lafayette Mckinley of
Burlingame were among the men who
Joined the army at the local recruiting
station at Sixth and Kansas avenues
last week. The brothers went to the
coast artillery corps at Hawaii. Homer
L. Winchester of North Topeka Joined
the engineering corps. alto Meridith.
Horton, also Joined the engineering
corps.
! Bids should be received not later
than February Is for work on the
electric department room at the city
waterworks station, the city commits
! sion decided this morning. In addi-
ton to work on the building the bids
should include installation of two Tur-
| bine generators, a 1880 horsepower
water tube boiler and one surface con-
| denser.
E. F. A. Reinisch, superintendent
of public parks, admits that he can
not cut any ice at Gage park. He says
the ice on the lake, usually cut at this
time of the year for storage and use
in the park next summer. is too thin
at present for cutting. The chief ac-
tivity at Gage park, Reinisch said, is
courts with clay.
! Donaciano Ruano, an Italian, who
| has been in trouble on numerous oc-
| casions and who was arrested by De-
| tective Augustin Alba for bigamy dur
ing the police investigation. was one
| of the veniremen drawn on the jan
uary term jury in the district court.
He was excused during the examina-
ton Monday by County Attorney Veale
because he could not speak English.
All of the several hundred children
| at Lafayette school were carefully eX-
amined this morning for any symp-
toms of scarlet fever by DR.. Earle
Brown, city health officer, and Miss
! Sarah Cellar, city contagion nurse
] The school reopened this morning
| after closing last week as a result OF
a teacher exposing the pupils to scar.
| let fever before she realized she had
/ the disease. Several children were
sent to their homes because they had
temperatures above normal. but nc
cases of scarlet fever were found this
morning.