The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-08
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The city is alive with bright and
shiny motor cars today. Tuesdays
beating rain did the work
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 534 Kansas avenue&Adv.
A marriage license was issued in
Kansas City Tuesday to Albert c.
Patch, Sc. Topeka, and Cora e. HEINZ
! Ter, SO, Topeka.
Outdoor graduation affairs at WASH
burn, Bethany and Chrfsts hospital
have been held partly responsible for
the condition of the weather.
Ford car belonging to William E.
Brown was stolen from his place near
! Granville Monday night, according to
a report to the police this morning.
Mrs. William Jacobs. Jr., little
daughter Wilma, and mother, Mrs. ].
H. McCahan, have returned from six
weeks visit in Los Angeles and sur
rounding points.
| A Navajo rug was stolen from the
front porch of the home OF M. A. SUI.
| livan, 712 jackson street, about
| o'clock Tuesday night, according to a
report to the police
Joe Reann, editor of the High School
World; James Kearney, athlete, and
| Arlo Stewart, assistant editor of the
| in Junior high schools Tuesday on the
value of the high school education.
Governor Allen today granted an
extradition requested by Governor
Robertson OF Oklahoma for Roy Ma
| son, who is now under arrest at Wich-
tia. Mason is wanted on charge of
grand larceny at Pawhuska, Okla.
The Joint picnic of the Mems Bible
class and the Mazpah class of the Sun
day school of the First Presbyterian
church, which was scheduled to have
been held Thursday evening at Gage
park, has been indefinitely postponed,
waiting more favorable weather.
There has been filed with the sec
rotary of state a map and application
for~regist-ation of the Victory Trans
continental highway. The applica-
ton was made by George w. STAINS
ffield. president of the Victory High
way association, and Joe Nickel, sec
rotary.
A wild rumor to the effect that the
southwestern section of the city was
struck by a cyclone Tuesday afternoon
caused considerable concern in Topeka
last night. The State Journal tele-
phones rang into late due to the in
quiris of residents in other parts of
the city.
Felix Justice, an electrician, was re-
turned from Detroit Tuesday by a
deputy sheriff to face a charge of
forgery. - He said he would plead
guilty Justice said he forged about
| 5000 worth of checks in order to get
money to get to Boston, where his
wife lives.
The meeting of the members of the
ladies' union of the Central Park
Christian church, which was to have
| been held Tuesday night, will be held
at the church at 7:45 o'clock tonight.
The meeting was postponed on ac-
count of the heavy rain. An interesting
program has been arranged.
The billiard tables at the Chamber
| of Commerce are to be refinished, &C
Ecording to George w. Stansfield. chair
man of the billiard room up-keep COM
mittee. Three new sets of ivory balls
| are to be purchased and one of the
| SIX pool tables is to be remodeled to
| billiard table. The work is expected to
be completed in two or three weeks.
A special effort is being made. by
| the sales force of Pelletier's store, to
secure at least 5000 more accounts
for the store during the month of
June. The~names of cash customers
are to be secured by the clerks, and
charge accounts are to be opened for
| the use OF the cash customers, after
| investigation by the credit department
of the store.
The smells of the packing house,
s Whefs me to os smeis around m his
| home. No. Franklin avenue. He
was arrested on charge of allowing
a sink to drain upon the ground,
which was unsanitary. according to
| the city sanitary inspector. Judge Rad
Lee fined him S25, but granted a stay
| of execution if he would clean up his
premises.
Mrs. Della Foley of Perry has re-
ported to Topeka officers that her Is
year-old daughter, Opal Foley, disap-
| peared two weeks ago. She is de-
scribed as being five feet tall, with
| scar on her left cheek and in appear
ance slightly older than her age. She
| had dark brown hair and black ewes
and when she left home wore a blue
dress with dark brown slippers and
stockings.
There will be big representation
| OF the Topeka Cooperative club at
the first annual meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Cooperative
| clubs, which is to be held at Kansas
| City, June 81, it was decided at the
regular meeting of the Topeka organi-
cation Tuesday night. The Co-Ops
voted to cooperate in every possible
way with the Red Cross for the relief
| or flood sufferers in Colorado.
A Christian Endeavor conference
of young people of the Congregational
church will be held in Topeka June
Is to 10, according to announcement
of Miss Madeline Carter, secretary of
the Kansas Christian Endeavor union.
Other e; E. conferences of the sum-
mer will be the Presbyterian meet
ing at Emporia June Is to 10, the
Friends conference at Argonia Au-
gust to Z, and the Epworth League
institute at Kingman this week.
The investigation into the matter of
the dismissal of Prof. J. T. Kirk
| patrick from Washburn college two
years ago will be dropped insofar as
the college alumni are concerned, ac-
cording to action taken at the annual
| meeting of the alumni Tuesday after
noon. A report. regarding the Kirk
patrick trouble made by a committee
composed of Mrs. Mary s. Smith and
Paul B. Sweet, and unfavorable to
further Investigation, twas adopted