The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-20
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AT HOME NEWS

ler's Topeka Business College. Night
school Wednesday.-Adv-
The lecture which was to have been
} given at the First United Brethren
church by Rev. E. w. Clark this even
! ing has been postponed indefinitely.
| L. o. Anderson was nominated dis
| tator of Topeka lodge No. 254 of the
L. o. o. NJ. at a meeting of the lodge
Monday evening. The election will be
held September &c. E. a. Wall, past
distator, resigned two weeks ago.
Don Henry, income tax specialist,
spoke at the Kiwanis club meeting at
the Chamber OF Commerce Monday
night on income tax laws. An address
in the interest of the Near East relief
was delivered by Hugh T. Fisher.
| NJ. A. Hutchinson, who lives on
farm nine miles west of Topeka and
has been in loca1 hospital for three
months, has returned to his home.
Hutchinson has been suffering from
fractured leg, caused by mule step
ping on him..
]. o. Abrahamson has been ap-
pointed Santa Fe roadmaster at To-
peka, succeeding Gilbert Siusher, who
| Is retiring after fifty years of service
transferred here from Lexington
Junction, Mo.
An attempt was made to rob the
French Harness company, on East
Sixth avenue, some time Monday night,
the police believe. The glass in q rear
window was found to be broken TINS
morning but entrance to the store was
blocked by bars on the inside of the
window.
A report on the flowers exhibited
at the Kansas Free Fair will be made
this afternoon at the meeting of the
house and garden class at the home
of E. F. A. Reinisch. superintendent
Of city parks. Mrs. Saxon will give
the report. Reinisch will speak on
Flowers To Bloom This Month
The Luther league will meet at
Lawrence September 80 to October 2,
according to the Rev. Ernest G. Sib-
berson, of the First English Lutheran
church, who will have charge of the
services the first night OF the ses-
sion. The league is a boys organ
ization in connection with the Luth
eran churches of Kansas.
w. B. Collinson. president of the
Santa Fe Dinner club, is now plan
ming a s-ogram for a series of dinners
which tie club will hold this fall and
winter, and is promising some real
features This club is composed of
supervisory positions. and has a men,
bership of about 800. No dinners or
meetings were held by the club dur
ing the hot weather.
Three new hot houses which the
Hubbard Gardens company has under
construction in North Topeka, will be
completed within sixty days, and the
facilities will be doubled within a
year, according to ~Arlo Hubbard.
president of the company. The three
hot houses are being built under con-
tract by the American Greenhouse
company of Chicago, and will cost
$4,000. Each building is 40 by lao
feet in size. Has
A number of clergymen and laymen
Of the Episcopal church are in To-
peka today to attend the meeting OF
the diocesan committee at Grace ca
are: The Rev. R. K. Pooiey, Leaven-
worth; the Rev. E. H. Edwards, Law
renee; the Rev. Carl Nau, Emporia;
the Rev. Jas. P. de Bevers Kaye, To-
peka; o. D. Hardcastle, Emporia; e.
E. Murphy, Leavenworth; John Anes,
Arkansas City, and D. w. Nellis, To-
peka.
The new location of the knights of
Columbus will be in the second story
Of the building at ia East Sixth
avenue, where the Foust Variety store
is located. An announcement was
made that the organization would
move into its new quarters about Oc-
tober 1. The club has been located
at the Assumption high school during
the summer. The new club rooms
have been remodsled and refurnished
and more space is available than at
the old location.
The office of City License Collector
George T. Mattingly is being visiteo
frequently by jitney drivers. A re-
cent ordinance requires jitney drivers
to pay a license fee of $50 a year.
double the amount that had formerly
been asked. The drivers who already
had paid SIS fees must pay the addf-
tional amount or abandon their bust
ness Fifty jitney drivers were al
lowed to operate during fair week
without a city license fee in order to
accommodate Free Fair crowds.
Mrs. Isaac SeweIl, state superin-
tendent of the children's division; Miss
Bonita Ferguson, state superintendent
Of the young peoples division; Frank
G. Richards. general secretary, all of
the Kansas Sunday School association.
and John D. Zimmerman, director
OF religious education of Christian
churches, are on the program of the
Wyandotte county Sunday school con-
vention which is in session today at
Kansas City. Kan. Richards and
Mrs. Sewell are also on the program
of the Jefferson county Sunday school
convention which will be held at Oska-
loosa the latter part of the week.
Four young colored lads, who were
picked up Saturday in the Santa Fe
yards after cumming their way from
Kansas City. made their escape from
the county detention home on Harrison
street, Monday night, T. D. williams,
probation officer, reported to the po-
lice this morning. The boys were
William Reed, IS; George James, ~;
Alfonso Vance, ~, and Ray Vance. IA.
Later it was learned that three boys
answering the description of those who
escaped boarded a west-bound Rock
Island freight train. Authorities at
Mcfarland were notified to detain
them there. II the trio belongs to the
group officers say they are confident
the fourth member also managed to
board the same train.
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