The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-28
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AT HOME NEWS

| Co.. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv
The regular dinner of the Kiwanis
club will be held at the Chamber of
Commerce at 6:15 o'clock this evening
The annual dance of the Odd Eel
/ low and Rebekah lodges VIII be given
/ Wednesday evening, November 80, at
their hall.
The glee club of Oriental lodge, No.
! 81, A. F. & A. M, will give minstrel
show for st. Johns day. The tenta-
tive date is December Z.
The w. T. K. club will meet Tues
| day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the
home of Miss Lucy Casebeer. 421 Blu
/ chanan street. A program will be
| given.
| The Esperanto club now has a
! membership of forty-one. Fourteen
new members were added at a meet
I ing of the club Saturday evening at
the Y. NJ. c. A.
The time of DR.. A. E. Gregory's
Community Bible class has been
changed from 2:30 o'clock until 2
! o'clock. The class is held each Tues
| day at the Y. w c. A.
An overcoat, a coat and four pairs
of trousers were taken Sunday night
by burglars who entered the room OF
J. Gartiner, SIS Kansas avenue, ac-
cording to a report to the police.
The Lowman Memorial church will
hold its annual dinner and election
of the Sunday school board at $50
O'Clock this evening at the church.
Seventy plates have been reserved.
The next regular meeting of the CO.
Operative club will be held at the
Elks club, Tuesday evening at 6:15
O'Clock, when w. r. Carrie and DR..
S. T. Willard will have charge of the
program.
c. W. Tricket has been named as
special assistant attorney general for
Wyandotte county. Tricket will in
vestigate charges of willful extrava-
gance by the board of education in
Kansas City. Kan.
The Washburn GIee club, under the
direction of Prof. Theodore Post, will
furnish the musical program at the
regular meeting of the Topeka Rotary
club Thursday at noon at the rooms of
the Chamber of Commerce.
Police and county officers Satur-
day afternoon raided the home of
Floyd Carter, Laurent and North Har-
rison streets. and confiscated two gal
Ions of whisky. Carter was arrested
and charged on two counts.
A large delegation of Topeka EIks
left at 1880 o'clock today via the
Rock Island for Harrington, where
they will attend the installation of the
new Elks' lodge this evening. The
new lodge will be known at No. 1893.
The Benjamin Franklin Council of
the American Association for the
Recognition of the Irish Republic
will hold a meeting at 1880 O'Clock
this evening at Klingaman hall, lis
East Sixth avenue. The program will
include music, refreshments and
speaking.
The Rev William Rice, of New
York, has arrived in Topeka to take
charge of Redden chapel, Second and
Monroe streets q toll
duties of the chapel left by DR.. Jay c. |
Everett, who resigned as assistant
pastor of the First Presbyterian |
church Redden chapel is a division |
OF the First Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Laura Rogers was granted a, |
dlVorce from Isaac c. Rogers in the |
district court Saturday afternoon, and |
was restored to her maiden name OF !
Laura R. O'Carolan. She charged |
Rogers with extreme cruelty. alleging |
that she was compelled to flee from |
her nome for safety. Rogers is said |
to be residing in Mcpherson, Kan.
Three fire alarms occurred Sunday, |
with no damage in either case. The |
alarms resulted from burning trash |
plle IN the rear of William Green & |
Sons grocery. S13 Kansas avenue;
sparks on the roof of the home of Mrs.
Martha Boyd. S13 Madison street, and |
a defect in the automatic sprinkling
system of the Warren NJ. Crosby store.
The local postoffice department will |
employ tWenty-seVen extra men dur
ing the Christmas holiday rush, ac-
cording to W. o. Rigby, postmaster.
Ten clerks, ten carriers five truck
drivers and two special delivery car
riers will be added to the force, Rigbv
said. The selections will be made
from the list of fifty-five persons on
the civil service reserve.
A lone highwayman who entered the
of TorIA
avenue, about IL o'clock Saturday
night, held the winning hand in
card game. It was a revolver. Com
pelling Moore and his guests to put
up their hands, he gathered up S24O
and a diamond ring, backed out of the
report to the police. He has not been
apprehended.
The new officers of the Jordan Pat
tersQn post of the American Legion
will be installed Tuesday evening at
the home of Ralph Smith, $40 West
ern avenue. The new officers are:
clarence J. Hardy, commander: Ogles
Vie, vice commander; F. G. Canon,
adtutant;' Walter H White, chaplain;
frank Butler, treasurer; Lee Hicks
historian; Festus Duke, color bearer,
and Robert Chisholm. bugIer
Topeka division No. 179. Order of
Conductors, elected officers at
a meeting held at 627 Kansas avenue
Sunday. Richard Wilson, 1920 Clay
street, was elected chief conductor for
the twelfth consecutive term; Charles
A. Horn, assistant cher conductor;
George NJ. Tilford, senior conductor;
H. A. Bankhead, junior CONDUCTOR
James O'Byrne, inside sentinel; George
outside sentinel, and W. H.
Tyler. secretary and treasurer.
Ralph Simmons, 1900 East Sixth
avenue, was wounded Saturday when
a shotgun he was holding slipped off
the edge Of the porch ana was dis
The charge entered his
right arm and the right side of his
chest, but failed to penetrate his lung.
say his condition is not
serious. He was sitting on the porch
Of the Noble farm, near Peterton,
Kan, when the accident occurred !
He was taken to st, Francis hospital.
Charging that he completed the
oaNments and that the cOmpanY owes