The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-05
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A Girl Scout training class is held
every Thursday from $3.50 until $50
O'Clock at the Y. w. C. A. Anyone Is
entitled to enter the class.
| Fire destroyed a barn belonging to
| A. G. James, Route 2, Friday after
noon. Farm implements and $500
worth of hay in the barn were total
loss.
The spring issue of the Bell Tele-
phone directory goes to press April l.
, All those desiring listings or changes,
make application not later than March
! 20.-AdY.
! The regular meeting of the Jay
! hawker club will be held at the Elks
/ club, Monday. March Z, at $3.50 o'clock.
| w II. Collinson, chief clerk to the gem
| eral manager of the Santa Fe, will be
the speaker. His subject will be.
Railway Operating Problems"
D. I. Davis who was putting up at
| the Chesterfield hotel, was held up
about $50 o'clock Friday night, by
two negroes, and robbed of $40, &C
| cording to a report to the police. one
| of the negroes exhibited a gun and
another a knife when they held Davis
| up, it was said.
While Bill Biby was making an. i'm
I passioned plea for the famine suf-
! ferers at the Chinese entertainment in
the auditorium Friday night, woman
was heard to remark to her escort.
"Who is this man Biby?' why. he
| is the postmaster" was the almost
contemptuous reply.
The Salina Paper & Paint company
! and Martin Wolfe, proprietor, filed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy in
the federal court here today. The
company liabilities are listed at
s6,647.33 and assets at s6,S9S.67.
Wolfe places his own debts at
S4,3494S and his assets at s1,460.
Boy Scout troop No. IL entertained
parents and friends Friday night,
| March 4, at the Quinton Heights Bap-
tist church. o. c. Beard, scoutmas-
| ter, was in charge of the meeting, and
mem bers of the troop furnished the
| entertainment. c. Overman, himself a
Civil war veteran, and the son and
grandson of veterans. told of historic
| occasions of his personal experience.
An attractive girl about twenty,
dressed in the height of fashion and
skirts created a mild sensation on To-
pekas petticoat lane this noon when
she blew down the avenue. her
skirts Tapping dangerously high and
broad eXpanse of bare limbs showing
above the roll top stockings. She was
just one of the many sights that are
given the admirers of the latest styles,
Four private garages in North To-
peka were broken into Friday night.
The thieves broke the locks on the
son street; Joe Hill, 1918 N. Jackson
street; H. j. Kirkpatrick, 1906 N.
Jackson street, and NJ. 1. Sherburne.
1919 N. Jackson street, In each in
stance they pushed the cars out into
the alley, but did not drive them
away. Some small articles were taken
from the cars, police said.
The need of social service among
families of Topeka with investigation
into what are the special needs of the
families and what foundation the fam
lily has for rehabilitation was recon-
mended by Walter w. Whitson, super
intendent of the Kansas City Provid ent
Association, before the local social
service class at the Provident asso-
citation Friday afternoon. Every Fri
day afternoon the social service class
is addressed by some authority of such
work. In that way a group of inter-
eSted people are becoming valuable as
sistants to Miss Virginia Campbell,
secretary of the Provident association.
Another entry in the big egg COM
petition showed up at The State Jour-
nal office today. Jesse f. Cox, an en-
ploye at the state printing plant, lives
on Route 81, east of Topeka, and
raises pure bred Barred Rock chickens.
One of the pullets of his flock, in her
first laying season, and has only been
on the job since the first of the year,
has developed a habit of laying double
yolked eggs The fifth of that sort
which she has presented to her owner.
was laid on March 4, and measures s Is
inches around its longest circumfer-
ence, and inches around the shorter
circumference. TIE egg weighs close to
six ounces.