The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-28
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AT HOME NEWS


All issues Of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 534 Kansas avenua.-Adv
The city board of education will
hold meeting Monday evening at the
high school.
New Years. dinner-dance Elks club,
December 81. Kindly have your reser-
walton made by noon Saturday. Com
| mittee.-Adv.
A large delegation of members of
Topeka legion NO. 10. l.. o. o. NJ. Will
go to Emporia Saturday evening to
attend the initiation and frolic which
VIII be given by the Emporia lodge.
Howard E. Thomas, merchant of
Waldo, Kan, today filed bankruptcy
proceedings in the United States dis
trict court. Thomas lists liabilities
amount to $10,7eS.11 against assets of
| $6,554.4S.
The state board of administration
has awarded the contract for INSTALL
ing new boilers at the state peniten-
| tiary, Lansing. The contract went to
the firm of Walsh & Weidner. Their
bid was $1S,60O.
The walls in the new portable
school building being erected on the
| Quincy school grounds have been
erected and the rafrers were being
placed today, according to A. ]. Stout,
superintendent of schools.
Revival services will be held at the
| Church or the Nazarene during the
entire month of January. The Rev.
n. B. Herrell, general secretary of
home missions and evangelism of the
denomination, will be in charge.
over 1000 persons used the Y. w.
c. A. swimming pool for period of
| thirty days, ending December "a.
This is an exceptionally large number
as this is the first year the pool has
/ been open during the winter season.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Mattingly, of
Pueblo. Colo,. with their two sons,
George and Harold, are in Topeka to
spend the holidays with Mr.. Mating
ly's father, George T. Mattingly, city
license collector, at I'LL Lincoln
street.
Two cases of diphtheria were, re-
ported to the city health department,
Tuesday. This makes a total of five
| cases in the past three days-a very
low average. Diphtheria as an cpl
demic has ceased to have any impor
lance in Topeka.
Lester Titus, boys work secretary
of the Central Y. M. c. A, told the
bows of the need for outstanding in
dividuality in his talk to the members
of the Hi-Y club of Topeka high SCHOOL
| at a meeting at the association build
ing Tuesday night.
The regular meeting of the Topeka
Builders club was held at the Cham
Der of Commerce at noon today. The
builders did not transact any business
but discussed their mutual problems
and the building conditions in Topeka
at the present time.
The officers of the Topeka branch
of the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, who
! have been elected to serve for the en-
suing year. will be installed at a meet
ing at SIS o'clock Tuesday evening.
! January 5, at the Mount Olive Metho-
dist church.
John A. Ryan, D. D., L. L.. D., a
member of the faculty of the Catholic
university of America at Washington,
D. c., and noted author, will address
the members of the Spaiding club at
s o'clock Thursday night at the
Church of the Holy, Name, Tenth ave-
nue. and Clay streets.
The Lerrigo fund committee of the
CensraI 7. NJ. c. A. met at noon Today
to discuss plans to complete the rails
ing OF $4,000 budget. All but $685.
of the budget has been raised. the
Central Y M c. A. supports George
Lerrig0. a former secretary, IN the y.
NJ. c. y work in China.
Dean T. w. Hughes. of Washburn
college, -las been engaged as an in
structor- of commercial law in the
Knights of Columbus night school, be-
ginning at the opening of the spring
term of the school in January. The
subjects of Corporations. and Ne
gotiable Instruments will be discussed
in his classes,
Nearly 1900 persons attended the
st. Johns day celebration of Orient
lodge No. 81, A. F. and A. NJ at the
city auditorium Tuesday night. A
play, "a Banquet ofN6ld ST." was the
feature of the program. The Rev.
John Wells Rahill, pastor of the Cen
trail Congregational church, gave the
address of the evening.
A special train from Des Moines,
Ia, passed thru Topeka Tuesday over
the Rock Island bound for Ell Paso,
Tex. 1t carried representative and
agents of the Bankers Life INSURANCE
company, of Des Moines. who were
going TO 81 Paso for their annual con-
vention. The train was operated as
second section of the Golden State
Limited.
Asa P. Hoge. of Leavenworth, has
been elected knight commander of
Topeka council No. 1, Ancient FToltec
Rite. Other officers elected were:
Miss Emma NJ. Niets. lady superior;
Mrs. Edna DibbIe, lady ciencia; Mrs.
Edna Hursh, lady nature; Mrs. Cora
W. WEIGH, lady secretary, and Mrs.
Helen B. Farnsworth, lady treasurer,
all of Topeka. The appointive Off
GERS nave not DSefl SelecIed.
Having reached an agreement with
the Santa Fe by which permission was
obtained to cross the Santa Fe's track
Running to the Wear Sand company
along the Kaw river, Rock Island Of
ficials announced today that the new
switch to the Lux Mercantile company
would be completed and ready forH
operation within q few days. The
crossing, which delayed matters for
TINA IL now installed
The Central Y. NJ. c. A. volleyball
team will journey to Atchison this
evening to play the AtchisOn y"
team. This is the second game of the
season for both teams in the North
east Kansas VoIleyball league. The
two other teams in the league, the
Leavenworth and Atch1son "Y's'', will
meet on the Lawrence court this eve
ming. The Topeka and Leavenworth
teams are leading the league.
Fred Fitzpatrick, United States
marshal, today sent word to c. B.