The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-20

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City Finance Commissioner F. L.
Stevens this morning Introduced fog
first reading an ordinance. providing
| for the appropriation of $4,000 to
! purchase and retire city waterworks
| bonds of an old issue The money Is
to be taken from the water sinking
fund. I'VE found an opportunity to
buy and retire some old bonds. can
ceiling some interest and getting that
much nearer out of debt" Stevens
said.
The Y. NJ. c. A. building is being
! decorated for Christmas. I'VE are
| pleased very much with the number
of memberships received from par
ents who received our letter asking
/ them to buy memberships for thet.
| boys as a Christmas present" accord
/ ing to e. B. BreitEaupt, membership
secretary. The senior membership at
| present is S8. which is an increa Sc of
| SO per cent over the membership two
| years ago at this time.
| An Employed Boys brotherhood
was organized last Thursday evening
i at the Colored Y. NJ. c. A. with eight
| charter members. William Martin. an
| employe of the Santa Fe hospital, was
| elected president, and Wendell Buck
! ner was elected secretary. The next
| brotherhood meeting viii be held at
1880 o'clock Thursday evening, De-
| cember %. The object of the organi-
cation is to form a club of employed
'boys for study and recreation.
| The Municipal Welfare league and
| the Merry Makers club, both co1ored
women's clubs of Topeka, will assist
| at the reception on the afternoon
and evening of Monday, January
| 2, given by the Colored Y M. c. A.
| The members of the committee who
! are planning the reception are: Mrs.
| Robert Rollin, Mrs. Green Scales, Mrs.
| u. A. Graham, Mrs. Harry cambridge
and Mrs. Fred Buckner. The clubs
are raising money to help carry on the
] work of the "Y' and will ask a silver
offering.
Plans are rapidly Undertaking. for
! the colored children's Christmas par
| ty, financed by the Elks and under the
| mana cement of the Co1ored Women
Federation of Clubs. The party for
| the colored children will be held at
! the Metropolitan hall at $3.50 O'Clock
| Sunday afternoon. There will be a
| Christmas tree, gifts for the children,
and Santa Claus and his grandson,
Jack Claus, will be present. An en-
| tertainment program, including a c9n-
| cert by Jackson's Twenty third Regi-
ment band, is being prepared.
The last time was enough for Mrs
Caroline B. Port, 624 Highland ave-
nue.. After having her husband, NJ. j.
/ u
| ing and beating her Sunday, Mrs. Port
filed a petition in the district court
Monday afternoon asking for a di-
vorce. She asserts that he has fire.
quently struck and beat her since their
marriage at Pittsburgh, Pa. in Au-
gust 1904, and that the last beating
she received was Sunday, when he
beat and bit her, she alleges. Port
entered a plea of guilty to the assault
charge in the court of Topeka this
morning and sentence was deferred
until April 1.
The members of the Square Circle
club, at their meeting Monday night,
voted to allow the assessment of SIS
each for the two members of the club
who are on the juvenile welfare COM
mittee of the city. In order to carry
on the work of the committee, it has
been found necessary for each organ
ization represented, to pay an assess
ment of SIS for each representative.
The Square Circle will provide the
Christmas tree and party for the boys
at the state industrial school, Mon
day afternoon, December 26, at 2:30
O'clock Any Topekans who are in
terested in the school are invited to be
the guests of the Square Circle at the
party.
Can you aid a deserving little widow
with five children in paying for
COW? The children went without milk
and the mother was facing the prob
lem of buying a COW. Altho it meant
a great incision into her Scanty saw
ings, she decided she would have to
buy the COW rather than have the chill
dren suffer from lack of nourishing
food. Nothing is more nourshing for
children than milk. The mother needs
$35 to make the final payment on the
COW. Can't some Topekan raise the
money and make the milk supply
certainty for this deserving little fam
lily? And one desiring to aid this
worthy cause is asked to phone the
Provident association.
OF a group of seven midwestern
cities only one has shown a loss in
the building activities of November,
1921, as compared with November.
192O-that was st. Joseph, No, ac
cording to the American Contractor.
Topeka Showed gain of 3 per cent,
the expenditures in November, 1920,
being $69,07O, and the expenditures
during the month just past, $9f, $50.
Sioux City, Ia, leads all seven in
gains. Sioux City showed a gain of
461 per cent over the previous No
Vember Kansas City showed a gain
of SO per cent Wichita leads all cities
in Kansas, with a gain of 203 per cent.
Lincoln and Omaha, Neb., showed
gains of 196 per cent and 5S per cent,
respectively.
The Central 7. N. c. A will hold
its annual New Years open house on
Monday January 2. The men and
boys physical training classes will
give a program in the gymnasium
during the afternoon and evening.
yolleybalI and basketball will be in
, Guided on this program. The open
house will be held from 2 o'clock IN
the afternoon until 10 o'clock at night.
Music will be furnished by an orches-
ira and refreshments will be served
There will be a number of exhibits
in GemmeI1 hall. This will include a
thrift exhibit and an exhibit of the
publications put out by the association
press. Three moving picture films
will be shown They areS ct. Havi-
land Hicks" a comedy and drama;
1.-THE First Circus" a comedy, and
1.-THE Grand Canyon in Winter" an
educational film. The public is in
yifed to attend.
MOTORCYCLE COP ASKS AID.