The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-29
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


| high school.
Topeka lodge No. 2O4, B. P. o. E.,
initiated a class of fifty-five candidates
| Friday night. A class of fifty candi-
| dates will he initiated the latter part
| of November.
Two suits of clothes and a pair of
shoes were obtained by burglars who
broke into the residence, at 1920 Lin
coin street Friday night, the police
were informed.
Burglars Friday night entered the
| home of H. S. Spencer, Hi Park ave
nue. but were frightened away before
/ they had stolen anything, according to
a report to the police.
The Cooperative club and Kiwanls
club will hold a joint meeting at the
Chamber of Commerce Monday eve
ming at 6:15 o'clock to celebrate the
| Victory highway campaign
The Helianthus Literary society of
Washburn college held a masquerade
Hallowe en- party Friday night at Bos-
well hall. Spooky entertainment was
provided and refreshments were
| served.
The Moline Iron Works. of Moline.
Ill, today filed suit in the district
court to collect $4S,13S. on promis-
sorry notes from o. A. Simmons.
of Atchison.
! Samuel J. Friedman, Watertown,
Wis, a nationally known apiarist,
will speak before a meeting of the
/ Eastern Kansas Beekeepers' associa-
ton at the Chamber of Commerce
| Tuesday evening.
Round Table chapter, De Molay,
held a Halloween party and dance Fri
, day night at the Chamber of Com
merce Tor it's members and their
guests. Music was furnished by the
De Molay Jazz orchestra.
Chairs have been ordered for the
| assembly room at Lincoln junior high
school, There have been no assem-
( blies recently on account of the lack
| of seating capacity. With the new
chairs the seating capacity will be $50.
L. o. Sanderson, dictator of Topeka
lodge No. 524, L. o. o. NJ, returned
to Topeka Friday from a visit to
Moosehart, Ill. According to Sander
son the Moose lodge membership cam
paign is meeting success all over the
| country.
Charged with committing statutory
offenses against his two daughters,
Mary, IT and Anna, II, Charles Schick,
a. farmer living near Wakarusa, was
bound over to the district court for
trial, following his preliminary hear
ings in the city court Friday after
noon.
The City Federation of Colored wo-
mems clubs instituted egg day Friday.
| Forty-five dozen eggs were collected
and were given to the tuberculosis
hospital. The gift was very much APP
preciated on account of the high price
! of eggs and due to the fact that many
/ of the patients diet on eggs.
The Jordan Patterson post, Ameri-
can Legion, will celebrate Armistice
day, November s, with a special pro-
gram at the post hall, .42O Kansas
avenue. Walter H. White, post ad
jutant, will be in charge. An address
will be delivered by Clarence ]. Hardy,
! post commander.
Halloween activities have been re-
| ported in various parts of the city for
the last several nights and the police
have been called on a number of oc-
casions. Friday night several chairs
and other equipment were taken from
/ the Lowman Hill school house and the
street blocked with them.
A mass meeting of all Santa Fe
| shop crafts will be held at 2 O'Clock
Sunday afternoon at the auditorium.
J. p. Ryan of Chicago, general chair
man of the shop crafts, will address
the assembly on the application of
shop rules. Tom Huntington, local
chairman, will preside at the assembly.
The Gamma Sigma and Alethean lit
erary societies held a joint Halloween
party Friday night in the historic
haunted house at SIT West Tenth ave
tied the house. Prof. Robert King
man and Mrs. Kingman, Howard jack
son and Miss Katisue Moore chaper-
Oned.
Jack Miller, an employee of the Sey-
mour Packing company, today was
made defendant in a divorce SUIT filed
in the district court by his wife, Flor
ence NJ. Miller. She alleges that he
has failed to support her and their
five-months-old child and that he
abandoned her soon after their mar
riage.
Who Is the most beautiful burlar in
Topeka? That's who the police are
looking for. Someone Friday night
robbed a showcase in the Scruggs
Marinello shop, s3S Kansas avenue,
taking q number of toilet articles, in
Guiding lip sticks, nail files, rouge and
face powder
A complaint charging Dan c. Mich
olson, shipping clerk in the local store
of the Jewell Tea company, with steal
ing merchandise from the company,
has been issued by the county attor-
ney's office. An investigation resulted
that Nicholson has been stealing from
the company for q year, it was de-
clared.
The Santa Fe Watch company build
ing probably will have an entire new
front designed by expert jewelry store
architects. according to A. S. Thomas,
owner. The building now has mar
BILE front but it is planned to change
it. The inside equipment also is to be
refinished so that all fixtures will be
in mahogany.
The Women's auxiliary of MarshalPs
band held its annual Halloween party
, for the members Of the band at the
headquarters, 234 Kansas avenue. Fri
day night. The program was started
by the "rube'' band heading a parade
} on Kansas avenue in masquerade cos
) tune. The remainder of the evening
was devoted to Halloween games and
dancing.
Charles Ray will be in Topeka for
ten minutes Thursday, November II,
when he passes thru the city on the
Santa Fe's California limited. He will
{ go to New York and talk over bust
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