The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-28
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Eolcraft-FIowers.-Adv.

EOlcraft--tlOWefS.
Elks' dance, Friday night. Mem
bers only, Crawford quartette.-Adv.
All issues OF Liberty Bends bought
and sold The Shawnee Investment;
Co. 534 Kansas avenuez--Adv.
Rev. ]. s. BEEN, an evangelist well
known in the west. will begin a re-
vival meeting at the West Side Chris
tan church February 10.
Hubert H. Clark. formerly with the
W. A. L. Thompson Hardware com
pany has been appointed general
manager of the Piersen Manufactur-
ing company.
When some paint boiled over and
caused fire at the Knoll Wall Paper
and Paint store $50 Kansas avenue,
this morning about 8 o'clock, the fire
department reached the store before
the fire did any damage.
Alleged intimacy with other wo-
men, neglect and cruelty are the
grounds upon which Mrs. Nellie NJ.
Greenleaf asks divorce from Rock
Greenleaf in a petition filed today in
the district court. She asks the res
toration of her maiden name of Nellie
NJ. Smith. The Greeh:eafs were mar
ried in Idaho in October, 1920.
A s1,753 fine imposed by the federal
court upon Louis Osterweiss, son of a.
wealthy Connecticut man, has been re-
ce.ved by the clerk of the federal
court here. Osterweiss was convicted
of implication in the making of coun-
terfeit federal currency in the discip-
linary barracks at Fort LeaVenworth
about a year ago.
A banquet for ex-soldiers who are
not American Legion members will be
given at the Masonic temple next
Wednesday, by the local American Lee
gion post. Every member is requested
to bring three non-memberS to the
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Legion posts and state officers of the
Legion will be present.
A SO per cent semi-annua1 dividend
was declared by the Long Oil company
at the meeting of directors in Manhat-
tan Tuesday. Officers of the company
are A. w. Long, president; P. M
Bushong, secretary: Joseph Florsch,
treasurer. These officers. together
with Mrs. A. w. Long and P. A. Fair
banks, comprise the board of directors.
Jackson's Twenty-third Regimental
band will make its first appearance in
new uniforms at the city auditorium,
Monday evening, January 81. One of
the best musical critics of the city was
present at the rehearsal recently to
hear some of the late selections ar
ranged for the concert Monday eve
ming and he says Jackson IS a won
derful band director and deserves
much credit for the splendid program
to be presented.
Mrs. Mary T. Erickson entertained
a number of guests members of Re-
view No. IA, the Ladies of the Mac
cabees, at dinner Thursday at her
home, PA Tyler street. Those pres
ent were: Mrs. Mary Schultz, Mrs.
Mary Barton, Mrs. Rosa Geiger, Mrs.
w. E. Seguine, Mrs. Grace Holmes,
Mrs. Mollie Myers, Mrs. T. J. Bowers,
| Mrs. Lola Goodwin. Mrs. Electa Gil
bert, Mrs. Ida Pratt, Mrs. Elizabeth
Mills, Mrs. Hattie Covill.
Habeas corpus proceedings begun in
| the district court by Will G. Reed to
| obtain his release from the city prison,
probably will be dismissed. Reed was
| released this morning when officials
i from Hutchinson failed to recognize
| him as a man wanted by the govern
ment. Reed, it was stated, answered
the description of a prisoner who es-
| capped from a United States officer in
| New Mexico. He was picked up here
! January "a and held for Identification.