The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-02
AT HOME NEWS

Miss Bonita BidSon, Robert Tyson
and Norman Ash were among the en-
tertainers who made an enjoyable pro-
gram at the weekly social evening at
the Railroad Y. M. c. A. Friday night
Musical numbers, comedy sketch and
acrobatic events were features of the
program.
The new public utilities commission
has issued ruling that public utilities
corporations must make extensions
and provide new service when it can
be shown that the business so pro-
Vided will bring in a gross revenue
equal to 165 per cent of the cost of
the extension.
An Advisory Campaign committee
of members of the Chamber of Com
merce, in connection with the reorgani-
cation campaign, has been formed, and
the first meeting of the committee is
to be held at o'clock Tuesday eve
ming. April 5, in the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce.
The ladies night" dinner meeting
and entertainment of the Cooperative
club is to be held at Pelletier's tea
room Tuesday evening at Z o'clock.
An interesting session is promised by
the committee in charge. At the fol-
lowing meeting a program of IRE
Yenge" has been arranged.
The Oakland Methodist church vol
ley ball team and the Trinity church
volley ball team will contest for hon
ors for the third line this season at
the Trinity gymnasium at 1880 o'clock
tonight. The lineup of each team has
been changed and a close game is ex-
pected. Trinity won both the former
earlier games.
The concert given Friday night at
the United Presbyterian church BY
the Tarkio College Glee club was we'll
attended. A. K. Stewart and G. L.
fNr-fN~ 1rH- IL.
the director was Prof. w. P. LAMAR.
The club has an itinerary in Kansas,
Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri
that embraces twelve concerts.
Two real estate firms have changed
their headquarters in the past few
days. The Mansfield Land & Loan
company has moved from No. II
Columbian building to 312 New Eng
land building, and George L. Tuer.
secretary of the real estate board, has
taken the Columbian building suite
formerly occupied by the Mansfield
company, moving from S27 Kansas
avenue.
Gates authorized by Walter E. Wilson,
state bank commissioner, are already
on sale in Topeka. The State Savings
bank in Topeka has arranged for the
printing of some of the certificates.
and is accepting deposits in payment
an issue of five year certificates. The
engraved certificates will arrive
shortly.
The birthday of Booker T. Wash
ington will be commemorated Tues
day evening, April 5, at the Calvary
Baptist church, Third and Quincy.
A program will be given at that time
by the Topeka Colored high school
Y. M. C. A, assisted by a chorus from
the Topeka Industrial and Educa-
tional institute. The program will be-
gin at o'clock. The public is in
vited. No admission is to be charged.
Thirty-four patients have been
treated at the nervous and mental dis
ease clinic conducted by Dr. Karl A.
Menninger under the direction of the
city board of health on Wednesday
afternoon of every week. The clinic
was opened March 9. Ten skin dis
ease cases have been treated at the
clinic conducted by DR.. Homer Col
Inns. Both the clinics are newly
established by the city board of
health.
A committee from the Masonic or
ders, J. E. Thomas and A. A. Rodgers,
Frank Squires and T. w. Williamson,
the architects, and F. NJ. Spencer, con-
tractor for the new Masonic temple,
Friday inspected the steel work of the
new building and approved it, The St
Louis Steel Erection company, which
had charge of the steel work, is re-
moving the equipment from the build
ing, and has sent its working force
back to st. Louis.
Dogs which are not tagged with the
1921 license tags, or Liberty Bells"
in the language of Miss Blanche Weir.
elevator operator at the city hall,
should have an eye out for Lige Ed
wards, dog catcher, who began his
official rounds Friday. The 1921 tags
are cut in the shape of bells. The
1924 collected to date by the dog IL
cense department represents only a
small part of the many Topeka dogs
whose license should be paid.
It is the slowness in movement of
building material which is keeping
freight business down, according to
railroad officials. The grain crop.
which constitutes SO large a share of
the freight business of the roads in
the middle west, has been on the in
crease during the past month and has
been greater than in the same months
OF previous years. But building ma
terials have not been moving as they
ordinarily do, and thereby the freight
business has suffered.
A meeting at the Calvary Baptist
church Friday night was held for the
purpose OF starting campaign among
colored Topekans for the release of
the sixty-one colored soldiers inn
prisoned for participating in the race
riots of Fort Sam Houston three years
ago. Petitions have been started on
behalf of the prisoners by the Topeka
branch of the American Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie. The national association is en-
deavoring to get 100,0o0 persons to
sign the petitions. .---- -----s--.