The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-14
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AT HOME NEWS

| 500 Topeka Ave.-Adv.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold The Shawnee Investment
| Co., 534 Kansas avenue--Adv.
Special Sale on Trunks, Suit Cases
and Travelling Bags at the Hub Bar
gain Store, $40 Kansas Ave.-Adv.
A marriage license was issued in
Kansas City Monday to Harry r.
Evans. rs, of Topeka. and Esther Hoef-
ner, rs, of Kansas City.
There will be a business meeting of
the Live Wire club of the Chamber of
Commerce at 1880 o'clock tonight in
the rooms of the Chamber.
Deane F. Mallory, Ala Jefferson
street, and John A. Anderson, 427
Mulvane street, were granted licenses
to operate taxicabs by the city COM
| mission this morning.
Mrs. Mary Hollcraft Benner, daugh-
ter of the late Mrs. M. E. Hollcraft,
has purchased the Hollcraft flower
shop from the estate of her mother,
and will manage it under the name of
"Hollcraft, Florist"
A gift of 800 for the aid Of suf-
ferers from the Pueblo flood has been
made. by the city police department
thru Chief Guy Swallow. The money
will be sent to Pueblo thru the Red
Cross and will be expended by that
organization.
Complaints of taxpayers against
assessed valuation of property for paw
ing taxes will be heard at a special
meeting of the city commission on
Friday morning at 10 o'clock. No
complaints will be heard after the
meeting on Friday.
With all the eats prepared, little
| thing like rain is not going to post
pone the picnic which was planned
for tonight by the employees of the
Pelietier store, and the picnic will be
held at Gage park. The eats will be
protected by an awning.
A new colored Methodist church will
be built at sol North Harrison street,
according to a building permit issued
to ST. Marks church by the city fire
marshal Monday. The new church, to
be completed by January 1, will be 40
by so feet, of veneer brick and will
cost $4,000.
Miss Dorothea Engle, graduate of
Kansas university this year. has been
appointed advertising manager at
Crosby Brothers store, and has taken
up her new work Miss Engle takes
a position formerly held by Miss Ruth
Rooster, now the proprietor and man
ager of Ruth AIMS shop.
A special meeting of the Topeka
Poultry Breeders association will be
held June 81, to arrange for the ex-
hibitS of the members at the. State
Free Fair this fall. The association
will be entertained at lawn social at
the home of A. T. Modlin, 1922 West
Nineteenth street, on July II.
Miss Edna Ingold will teach music
in the Sumner Junior high school next
year, Supt. A. J. Stout announced
Monday. Miss Ingold will teach both
orchestral and vocal music. Another
new teacher in the public schools next
year will be Miss Frances jones' who
will succeed Miss Dorothy Waterbury
as kindergarten teacher. Or
The sales agency for the Nash auto
mobile. as well as the service agency,
has been secured by Charles Wierenga,
of the Topeka Motors company. The
company already handles the Velie au-
tonnobile and the International Har-
vester company truck, with two Ioca-
tons in Topeka-at 92S Kansas ave-
nue., and 121 North Kansas avenue.
It has not yet been decided where the
Nash service station and agency will
be located.
Several Topeka Shriners and their
the forty-seventh meeting of the I'm
perial Council of the order at Des
Moines. Ia. sSome of them went on
the special trains leaving Leavenworth
Sunday, others went on the regular
trains. DR.. and Mrs. T. S. Morrison,
William Horley, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Rabe, c. NJ. Hill, Bert Keele, and
George Stansfield are among the
Shriners who are attending the meet
ing of the Imperial Council.
Whether pipe to be used in extend
ing and repairing water mains is con-
sidered within the extension and
Improvement" clause provided in the
waterworks bond issue of $535,000
was a question debated by the city
commission this morning. Commits
sioner w. A Stanfield requested per-
mission m rI1rohaSa 00n Worth oP
pipe, or two carloads, to pay for the
same from the bond issue fund. or re-
construction fund. No decision was
| reached by the commission. and a
committee was appointed to report on
the matter
Lost, a Chaperon," is the title of
play to be given by the members Of
Trinity church Epworth league Fri
day night at the high school audi
forum. The proceeds from the play
| will go into the Baldwin institute fund.
THOSE to have part in the play are
Martin Baker, Harold F1ickinger, Don
Welton. Melvin Booth, Arlo Stewart
Kenneth Gleason, Rachel Hurley,
Elsie Kern. Irene Purdue, Maud wiki
| inson. Vera Krause, Lillian Rose.
Elinor McElvain and Helen Thorpe
Miss Olive Owens is directing the play
Tom Comfort is business manager and
Charles Lovett is stage manager.
The second annual picnic of Aetna
| agents in Kansas is to be held at Lake
View, June 20 and 80. Invitations
have been sent out to the representa-
| tlves of the Aetna company by George
McClung, state agent. There are more
than 100 agents for the COMPANY in
the state. A program chiefly of en-
tertainment and recreation has been
arranged for the meeting, but there
VIII be a sales school in connection,
and business methods will he dis
cussed. agents whose records show a
certain amount of insurance placed
| during the year will have their ex-
penses paid to the meeting McClung
believes that nearly one-third will
nave met the requirements,