The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-24
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Holcraft-Flowers.-
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue Adv
The regular meeting of the Square
Circle club is to be held at $50 O'Clock
tonight at the Elks' club.
A roof fire at 121 West Curtis street
called out the fire department short
ly after s o'clock Sunday night. Lit
tie damage was done
The regular meeting of the Inter-
Service club is to be held at 6:lo
O'Clock tonight at the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce.
The annual Lincoln Day club ban
ouet will be held February IL at Met
ropolitan hall. Arrangements for the
banquet were made at a meeting IN
the office of Elisha Scott
A meeting of the Kaw Valley Potato
Growers association has been called
for February 4 by E. H. Adams, tenn
-, porary chairman, to ratify the work OF
the initial meeting of the ASSOCIATION
at Lawrence last week.
The largest attendance for several
years was present at the First Metho-
dist Sunday school Sunday morning,
with a pre-War total of 73S persons.
The Sunday school hopes to have an
attendance of 800 by spring.
Three soldiers who had tired of
army life were picked up in Topeka
Saturday by the police. Lester John
son and OrVille Tibbits were from
Camp Meade, Md. Corp. John L. VIII
liams was A. w. o. L. from Fort Bliss,
Tex.
A double-header basketball game will
he pIayed at the Y. w. c. A. gymna-
SUM tonight with the Orioles sched-
uled to meet the Red Sox and the
Santa Fe to play the Hubs. The
games are a part of the special basket
ball league.
Girls are organizing gymnasium
classes at the First Methodist church
under the direction of Mrs. NJ. Rowe,
who was formerly a physical director
at Baker university. The boys have
classes directed by Lee Wykoff, Wash
burn athlete.
Next Sunday the First Methodist
church will canvass for its budget OF
$4,000, of which $4,000 is for gem
eral expenses and $4,000 for the CEN
tenary fund for 1921. The canvass
ing committee, composed of 100 men,
will meet Immediately after the morn
ing service to begin the canvass.
The high cost of getting drunk in
Topeka is not confined to the cost OF
liquor. Chief Frank Leech has raised
the bonds from SIS to $40, and if the
prisoner has a bottle on him at the
time of his arrest, a charge of $40 will
be made to get out of Jail pending
trial. Several persons have alreadJ
been affected by the increase.
The business sessions and round
table meetings of the Kansas Authors
club, which is to hold its annual meet
ing at Topeka Thursday of this week,
will be held at the Y. w. c. A. The
banquet and evening program are to
be held in the rooms of the Chamber
of Commerce. A large number OF
Kansas authors are expected to attend
the meeting.
The entire ownership and manage
ment of the Topeka Candy Kitchen is
now in the hands of George T. and
Thomas T. Recklites. who have pur-
chased the interest formerly held by
the Paraskeoas brothers and the Ko-
nomos brothers. The Paraskeoas
brothers have a confectionery store IN
Fredonia, and the Konomos brothers
a store in Kansas City, which are re-
curing their undivided attention.
More than 100 candidates are al.
ready registered for the next busy
mans reunion" of the Topeka Scottish
Rite consistory. The registration for
the reunion will close Wednesday
morning. The reunion will occupy
only three days-Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday of this week. During
that time the degrees from the fourth
to the thirty-second are to be con-
ferred on men who find it inconven-
lent to take longer time from their
duties,
What is to be known as the Topeka
school for religious education will
open Monday evening, February Z, in
a place to be announced later. under
the auspices of the Shawnee County
Sunday School association. The school
is the result of the feeling among
church leaders and teachers that the
religious education of school pupils
was being neglected. DIR. Edmund ].
Kulp, the Rev. c. H. Mathews, Supt.
A. J. Stout and the Rev. F. G. Richard
will be on the faculty. and Prof. H. w.
Jones, Sunday school specialist, will
be director of the school,