The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30
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Holcraft-Flowers.-
Dance tonight-SpeciaI orchestra of
six pieces-Steinberg's
Joe Haskins, of the Middleton &
Haskins tailoring company, is in Chi
cago on buying trip.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment,
Co. 534 Kansas ayenue.-Adv.
The members of the Topeka Central
W. c. T. Z. will hold a meeting Mon
day afternoon at 1880 o'clock at the
Y. W. c. A.
The First Baptist church is conduct
ing its every member canvass this
week, with a goal of $4,000. A total
of nearly $4,000 already has been
raised. committee of 100 members
is making the canvass.
Miss Evelyn Hansen, who is with
the Ross Crane lecture party, lectured
to the employees of the Warren NJ.
Crosby store last night The lecture
was illustrated. A number of invited
guests were present.
Cider containing 31.9 per cent alco-
hol is Intoxicating liquor, Rad Lee,
police judge, held Friday afternoon in
convicting Frank Demboski, proprie-
tor of a restaurant at 314 Kansas ave-
nue.. He was fined 500 and sentenced
to thirty days in Jail for having liquor
in his possession.
The Topeka Industrial and Educa-
tional Institute, the colored Y. NJ. C. A.
and some of the colored schools have
arranged an indoor track meet to be
given at the city auditorium. May 6.
The affair is to be held for the bene-
| fit of the Y. NJ C. A, newly organized
/ by young colored men.
Announcement has been made that
the boys of the Industrial school are
to be an additional attraction in a Is
| minute between-the-acts stunt, at the
| American Legion show Monday and
/ Tuesday nights at the Grand theater.
| Tho boys have several acts, ranging
| from boxing and tumbling, to clog
dancing, which they will display at the
minstrel show.
| Because of the numerous robberies
! of the United States mail recently
special instructions have been issued to
| the effect that railway mail clerks are
to use additional vigilance in guarding
their badges. The intent of the order
is to diminish the possibility of I'M
authorized persons securing the badges
and posing as railway mail clerks in
| order to accomplish or assist in rob-
| berry of the mails.
Only s471.S3 had been paid today
| by property owners in sewer district
| No. so, near Washburn, toward the
the fund for the sewer, which is to cost
more than $1,000. Today was the
/ last day for payment of the property
owners share in the cost. The sewer
will be built by bond issue and the
cost thereof will be levied gainst the
property to be paid within the next
ten years when regular taxes are paid
/ A branch office of the Middleton
Brokerage company of Salina, dealers
in fruits and vegetables, has beer
established in Topeka. c. c. Green il
in charge of the offices, which are
located in the building of the Capito
Building &, Loan association. The Mid
delton company is the third to estab
lish a fruit and produce brokerage
business here. the others being D. Z,
Parks, 1928 Kansas avenue, and c. w
Page.
The boiler for the new addition tt
the boiler room at the waterwork!
and electric power plant is on the way
| according to w. A. Stanfield, water
tower for the new plant is ready tC
be shipped and will be sent for as sooT
as local conditions permit their install
| lation. The Ventura meter for the
new plant will be furnished by the
Simplex Valve and Meter company o.
Philadelphia, at a cost of $4,000.
Increasing numbers of complaints t.
the postoffice department relative t.
the damaging of eggs shipped il
thirty dozen cases, has led to the ISSUE
of a new rule from the office of tn,
second assistant postmaster general
instructing postmasters to refuse t
accept shipments of eggs in case!
which are not properly and strongl!
constructed, so that the bottoms will
not drop out in transit. Excelsior
pads. or other suitable material, should
be placed on both bottoms and top
of the crates to protect the eggs thu
rule states.
A former Topeka boy accomplished
an unusual feat and won notoriety IL
a San Diego newspaper. The boy il
Franklin Custenborden, 10, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Custenborden, formerly
of this city. The family recently
| moved to San Diego. The feat &C
complished by Franklin was killing 6
wild cat. The San Diego Sun says
THE lad proved his prowess in the
pursuit and capture of a maraudinl
wild cat, which had invaded the pri
vacy of one of the chicken houses
He ran into the house, grabbed a rifle
and trailed the animal two miles bacl
into the hills finally killing it "