The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

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light ?"-Ady.
All issues Of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 534 Kansas avenue.-AdY.
The "Stringolio club under the di-
rection of Prof. Albert Shut, will give
I a free concert OF the tuberculosis
Isanatorium Friday evening.
The general church picnic of the
First Christian church which was to
have been held Saturday, September
10, at Gage park has been postponed
indefinitely.
F. R. Irving obtained a building
permit from the city Wednesday after
noon to remodel the front of his build
ling located at 322 East Fifth street.
Lungren & Carlson have the contract
A. A. Remington, secretary of the
state Y. NJ. c. A, went to Hutchinson
Wednesday night. Remington will
visit the Y. NJ. c. A. at Wichita before
he returns home. He will be home
about Saturday.
The Capper Auto Supply company.
which a few days ago old its retail
department at 921 Kansas avenue to
Becker Brothers, has moved across
the avenue to 922. where the firm will
do a wholesale business exclusively.
A dinner will be given at the Elks'
club next Tuesday evening by the for
mer members of Battery B, 130th
field artillery. Twelve members of the
battery live in and about Topeka. The
majority of the members live at Law
renee.
Guilford Kearney. a 13-year-old boy
living at 1901 Madison street, fell from
a tree Monday and sprained his wrist.
Wednesday while riding his bicycle he
fell off of his wheel and broke the
wrist that he sprained in the fall
Monday.
Kansas pool and billiard hall men
will gather in Topeka November 1 for
the purpose of forming a state asso-
cation, according to announcements
made Wednesday. The meeting prob
ably will be held at the Chamber of
Commerce.
C. E. Bascom, city passenger agent
for the Rock Island, returned to To-
peka Wednesday after accompanying
a special train of naval recruits from
Kansas City to Ell Paso, Tex. The
train left Kansas City Saturday and
was bound for the Pacific coast.
w. E. Freeman, president of the
Kansas State Federation of Labor, will
speak at the picnic to be given by the
striking printers, bookbinders and
pressmen next Friday afternoon and
evening at Gage park. All union work
ers in the city are invited to attend
the picnic.
Beginning today, the weather bu-
reau will give a daily report on the
East Sixth avenue road detour, from
the end of the pavement to Lawrence.
The regular road is being paved and
is not passable. According to the
weather bureau officials the detour is
extremely hard to follow.
The Victory Highway association has
established headquarters at the Cham
Der of Commerce where Ben Blow, the
new manager, will have his office.
Plans for marking the new highway
are now being made. and the marking
crew is expected to arrive in Topeka
about the last of the month.
The Kansas public utilities commits
sion authorized a reduction in the rail-
road fare to Hutchinson for the an
nual convention of the Kansas depart
ment of the American Legion which
will be held there October 8, and 8.
The reduction granted by the commits
sion is one and one-half times the fare
one way to Hutchinson for round
trip ticket.
The American Legion and Women's
Auxiliary will hold a joint meeting
and social this evening at the post
hall. 21O West Sixth avenue. Every
member is asked to bring friend
eligible for membership. A musical
program in charge of the auxiliary
will be given. There will be plenty of
eats. Starting tonight, the legion post
will hold it's regular meeting every
Thursday night.
Mrs Hildred Duncan Tanner, who
filed suit in the Shawnee county dis
trict court few days ago asking for
a divorce from Rudolph Tanner,
whom she charged with gross neglect
of duty, was made defendant in a
cross petition filed Wednesday by her
husband. In his petition Tanner
oh his wife with infidolitV- AL
leging that she has associated with
other men and kept questionable COM
pany.
City hall employees will be given a
treat Friday afternoon at o'clock.
when several hello girls from the local
Southwest Bell Telephone office will
move over to the commission room in
the city hall and give a demonstration
of how phone calls are received, an
swered, relayed, and all the details
of the telephone exchange operations.
Bill Kercher will be in charge of the
exhibition. The entire personnel of
the city hall is invited.
E. King, who gave his address as
71S Polk street, notified the police
about 1880 o'clock Wednesday night
that he had been robbed of S110 in
cash by man who poked a gun in his
face near the north end of the Rock
Island bridge. King said the man was
of short, heavy set build and that he
was dressed in cap and overalls. Capt.
Maurice Leonard says King showed
evidence of having been drinking at
the time he made the report. and
while the police conducted an investi-
CATION of the affair, they are not in
clined to give his story full credit.
Just why he was over on the north
bank of the river in that particular
place late at night King could not ex-
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