The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-25
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AT HOME NEWS

and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co, 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
We have special opening for a dis
trict manager in this state. Address
American Old Line Insurance Co., life,
accident, health, Lincoln. Neb.-Adv.
The regular meeting of the Life IN
derwriters' association of Topeka was
held at the Chamber of Commerce to-
day noon. Routine business was dis
cussed by the life insurance men
present.
John G. Lyons. secretary of the
Kansas Christian Missionary society,
will leave Sunday for Horton. Kan,
where he will attend the convention
to be held by the Christian churches
of Brown county.
The physical department of the 7.
w. c. A. will hold a cake sale at the
Warren M. Crosby store. Saturday,
July 2. at 900 o'clock. The proceeds
of the sale will go to the Y. w. C. A
community conference fund.
F. L. Carter and Pete Lambrecht
were each fined 500 and sentenced to
serve thirty days in Jail in police court
Friday afternoon on charges of hav-
ing liquor in their possession. Carter
pleaded guilty and Lambrecht was
tried
The juvenile department of the Sc
curity Benefit association has been in
creased by more than 100 during the
membership campaign in Topeka
which is to continue for another
month. When the campaign ends on
July 81, pageant is to be presented
by 500 children.
A new $4,000 pumping station to re-
place the one destroyed recently by
fire, will be built by the Security Bene-
fit association on its home and hospital
grounds west of Topeka in the near
future. Several bids have been re-
ceived, but the contract has not been
let.
An automobile repair shop has been
opened at 1924 Kansas venue, in the
building formerly occupied by the
Hays Motor company, by J. Barrett
and A. L. Wells. General repair work
is done at the new shop, which also
carries a supply of parts and acces-
series.
At the horse show which is being
the benefit of the veterans of the
Spanish-Ame rican war, Boxer the Sec
ond, owned by Capt. John G. Bradley
of Topeka, is entered. Boxer the
Second is entered in walking, trot-
ting and jumping contests.
The speaker at the union church
services on the state house steps, Sun
day, July 8. will be Bishop c. J. KEEP
hart, of Kansas City, who will give a
patriotic address. The Rev. ]. W.
Stiverson, pastor of the First United
Brethren church in Topeka, is the
son-in-law of Bishop Kephart-
The single men, members of the
Brotherhood class of the First United
Brethren church. were guests Friday
night at the church at the dinner
given by the married men of the
class. The single men defeated the
married men in a baseball game, in
which the losers forfeited a dinner.
Services at the First Baptist church
Sunday morning will be in charge of
a quartette of girls from the Ottawa
university, which is a Baptist school.
Sunday is Ottawa Day." set aside for
arousing interest in the university. The
same quartette will give a concert
Monday evening at the North Topeka
Baptist church.
Adrian T. Parr, draughtsman, with
offices at 116 West Sixth avenue, has
issued a miniature map of the city OF
Topeka. The new maps are 35x27
inches and are reproduced from the
large maps issued June /. A new
shipment of the large maps has been
received by Pafr. They are made up
in both cloth and paper.
Sidewalks on more than three
miles of Topeka streets are being re-
laid and regarded. The grade of the
sidewalks is being raised. The cost of
the relaying of the sidewalk is about
$3.50 for each twenty-five foot stretch.
The city bears two-thirds of the ex-
pense. Only about 10 per cent of the
old bricks are not suitable to be re-
laid and used again.
Topeka will entertain $50 Elks and
their wives from New York, on Tues
day, July s. for two hours, when the
Elks' special train, en- route to the
national convention at Los Angeles,
halts here. The Topeka delegate to
the national convention will be w. B.
Flowers, exalted ruler of the Topeka
panied to Los Angeles by his mother,
Mrs. James Flowers.
Mrs. E. Florence Jones presented
twenty-nine of her pupils in recital
Thursday afternoon at her home, 2070
Kansas avenue. The work showed
careful training on the part of the
teacher and faithful effort of the pu-
pills. One noticeable feature was the
number of boys on the program. Rev.
Morris, pastor of the Rossville Christ
ian church, was present and urged
them to continue the study of music.
The enjoyable program consisted of
solos and a number of splendid duets.
Charles L. Mitchell, secretary and
sales manager of Crane & Company.
has returned from Kansas City. where
Wednesday he presided over a meet
ing of leading StationerS of Nebraska,
Missouri. Oklahoma, Arkansas and
Kansas as president of the midwest
division of the National Association
of Stationers and Manufacturers.
Friday he attended a meeting of
prominent printers of Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Oklahoma. These confer
ences were for the purpose of discuss
ing market conditions and problems
of printers and stationers, in this Sec
ton of the country.
A membership campaign with a
goal Of 200 new members for the local
lodge of Elks, has been inaugurated.
The initiation fee has heeO radI1ced