The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-20
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! Christ's hospital will be visited by
Boy Scouts Friday night. under the
supervision of h. c. Richmond. scout
executive.
I Governor Allen is spending the day
in the office of his newspaper, the
| Wichita Daily Beacon. He will re-
turn to Topeka Thursday
4 meeting of the city planning
board will be held at the Chamber of
/ Commerce Friday noon of this week,
lit is announced by Robert Pierce,
/ president
Mrs. ]. F. Roose and fifteen young
I lady members of her Sunday school
class of the West Side Christian
/ church went to Tecumseh Tuesday
/ evening on picnic.
( will leave Friday for a several weeks
trip thru western states. He will at
tend the annual conference of secre-
taries of state to be held next month
| in Helena, Mont.
George Bell, who suffered a slight
paralytic stroke two weeks ago. is able
( to walk around but unable to return
4 to his duties as night station master
| for the Rock Island. His place is
being filled by A W. Lungren.
| Miss Elisabeth Edison, stenographer
( in the office of DR.. Florence 3. Sher-
bon. chief of the division of child by
giene of the state board of health, will
/ leave Monday for a three weeks yaca-
ton which she will spend largely at
Lake View.
improvements to be made soon at
the 7 w. c. A. will include repaint-
i ing and redecoratipg OF the lobby, par
lor and reading rooms of the associa-
ton building. The walls will be in a
light color, rather than in green, the
present color.
Claude Root and George Noble.
under arrest in Great Bend, Barton
county, will be taken to Buchanan
county. Mo, for trial on a robbery
charge. 1t is alleged that the men
held up and robbed Harry Morgan, a
resident of the Missouri county.
The police spoiled a crap game late
youths who spent the night IN the city
ian. They were Roy Price, H B.
Thompson, p. P. De Mott and Lewis
Skinner. All had given bond of $40
each at noon, today, with the excep-
ton of Price.
E. B. CockreIl. George A. Adamson
and A A. Raub were appointed by the
city commission to be appraisers of
the property abutting on the proposed
alley between Western and Fillmore,
King and Twelfth streets, to make as
sessments to pay for the cost of open
ing the alley.
In The State Journal account,
Monday, of the shooting of a negro by
Feasie Jones, which occurred late Sat
Larson was given as 100 Lawrence
street. A member of the family tele-
phoned and said the correct address
vas EOS Adams street.
Topeka chapter No. 5, Royal Arch
Masons. will confer the most excel
lent degree on 200 candidates on Sep
TENDER 20 This will be the largest
class that ever took the degree in
Kansas, according to S D. Flora
George f, Rees, the high priest of the
lodge, Will be in charge of the work
Hodgeman county today made ap-
plication to the state highway COM
mission for $4,000 federal aid and an
equal amount OF state ald LOT con-
struction of a fourteen mile strip OF
hard surface road between Jetmore
and Dodge City. The road will be
surfaced with gravel, macadam or
gypsum rock
DR.. B. K. KiIbourne. of the state
board of health, was in Lawrence to-
day where he gave lecture on trans
missible diseases and exhibited four
reels of motion pictures to women stu
dents of the University of Kansas
Doctor Kilbourne lectured on request
4 of DR.. Florence B. Sherbon, chief OF
the child hygiene division of the board
of health. who is an instructor in the
university summer session.
! W. Z. Collins, 1113 Kansas avenue.
received a crushed thumb about 8
! o'clock Tuesday evening when he ran
his motorcycle into Ford roadster
driven by B. J. Miller, 1877 Van
Buren, street. Miller was driving
south on Kansas avenue and IS said
to have stopped his machine sudden
| Iy and Collins. who was following
close behind. did not have time to
avoid a crash. Neither machine was
damaged to any extent.
| According to the American Con-
| tractor, Topeka building showed an
/ increase of 81 per cent in June. 1921,
over the same month last year. The
| figures given are $192,660 and
$119. 365, respectively. OF a number
OF cities shown. Sioux City had the
/ largest gain, showing $50 per cent in
crease. st. Joseph was second with
l 80 per cent and Topeka occupied
third place with a gain of 81 per cent.
Both Kansas City and Omaha showed
1 losses.
Topeka's new ordinance limiting
| the time for motor parking on the
main thorofares to sixty minutes is
not unusual. 1t is similar to the Or
I FINANCES IN many OCher cities accord
/ ing to Mayor Herbert J. Corwine. who
/ has sent queries to various cities to
\ learn how they handle the problem.
/ Time limits from ten minutes to two
hours in length are in force in cities
over the country, the mayor said.
after having received a number of re-
/ plies TO his queries.
Among the prisoners at the city jail
I suspected of being dope peddlers is
! one Walter Brown, colored. and if he
isn't peddler he must be on unusually
friendly terms with some of the drug
, addicts here. When Brown was picked
up by the police and searched he was
I found to be carrying twenty-four
/ packages of dope He had twenty OF
I them concealed in the lower extremity
of his shirt, commonly called the
tail" and the other four packages
were tied up in a handkerchief
Nine and one-half cases of Ear
rested" mustard are occupying cor
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