The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-24
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AT HOME NEWS

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Co., 534 Kansas avenue.-Ady.
We have special opening for a dis
trict manager in this state. Address
American Old Line Insurance Co., life,
accident, health. Lincoln. Neb.-Adv.
1.-THE Nu-Bone Corset shop" is to
be opened on the second floor at 919
Kansas avenue by Mrs Grace w.
Reese, who has been engaged in spe-
cial corset fitting and repair work for
several years.
Miss Nell Stringfellow, physical di-
rector of the Y. w. c. A, accompanied
by Miss Winifred Turner, will leave
Tuesday for New York city to attend
the national training school of the Y.
W. C. A. They will be gone six weeks
The municipal concert by Marshalrs
band, scheduled for tonight at Gage
park, has been postponed until FRIDAY
night, July 1. The next municipal
concert by Marshalfs band will be at
Chesney park, at o'clock Sunday aft
ernoon.
A piano recital was given Thursday
night at the Y. w. c. A. by the pupils
of Miss Winifred McKirahan. The
platform from which the recital was
a garden. 1t was decorated with
| hollyhocks and snapdragons-
John D. Zimmerman, Bible super
| intendent of the Christian churches of
Kansas, has been appointed transpor-
tation secretary for Kansas for the m
Missionary society, to be held at
Winona Lake, Ind, August 80 to Sep
| TENDER 4.
P. w. Thoren, of Dresden, Kan,
filed a petition in the federal court
Thursday asking $4,000 damages
from the Rock Island railroad for in
| juries he claims to have received when
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senger train near Kensington in No
vember, 1920.
Harry Garrett, negro. was fined $50
| in police court Thursday by T. D.
Humphreys, judge pro tenn, when he
was tried on a charge of stealing two
motometers. Garrett claimed he found
the motometers in a box with some
NJ. C. A. building. He was arrested
when he made the mistake of trying
| to sell them to Chief Swallow.
Plans will probably be adopted soon
for the remodeIing of the Bank of To-
peka building at Sixth and Kansas
| avenues. The Bank of Topeka and the
| Prudential Trust company now occupy
the entire first floor. The trust COM
| pany is to be installed in the basement
and the entire first floor devoted to
the uses of the bank. Architects are
now enga ged in working out plans for
| the remodeling.
! DR.. George Frank Butler, Chicago
physician and member of the faculties
of Rush and other medical colleges,
| is dead at his home. Doctor Butler,
| before entering Rush college. was a
\ pharmacist at Belle Plaine, Kan. He
was married in 1882 to Mamie
Blanche Porter, the sister of Justice
| Silas Porter of the state supreme
court. Justice Porter has gone to Chi
cago to attend the funeral.
The Strong-Warner Millinery COM
| pany, of St. Paul, Mimi, is to occupy
/ the north. half of the remodeled build
1 ing of the Adds jewefry store. Miss
! Addfs's store will occupy the south
| half and will be separated from the
| millinery store by an interior parti-
| ton. The repairs and refinishing on
the building, which is to have an en-
i tire new front of tapestry brick, Will
be complete in about two weeks.
Five hours after he had been ad-
mitted to the state bar, Roy McKin-
LEY Roosevelt Van Dyne, colored, filed
/ a habeas corpus petition in the dis
trict court for his first client. The
client is Willie Reed, held in the coun-
i ty Jail since February Is. according
to the habeas corpus, without charge
being placed against him. Van Dyne
lis a graduate of the Washburn law
/ school, and a brother-in-law of Elisha
Scott, local colored attorney.
i The doubles matches in the 7. w.
i c. A. tennis tournament, which were
to have been played this morning at
o'clock, after being postponed from
Thursday afternoon, were again post
poned indefinitely on account OF the
unfavorable weather. The winner IN
the finals in-the single class will be
given a silver loving cup as a prize.
Each of the winners in the doubles
contests will be presented with a gold
pin, representing a miniature tennis
racquet.
a thousand masons OF Topeka and
their families have reason to complain
about the wet weather as the picnic
of Orient Lodge No. 81, which was to
! have been held at the Boys Industrial
school, north of Topeka. Saturday. has
been postponed until Saturday, July
10. This picnic is an annual affair
with Orient lodge, which is the third
largest masonic lodge IN Kansas. This
year the lodge expects to give away
| $500 ice cream cones, and five bar
rels of lemonade to its members and
their families.
II Nine of the fifteen babies who were
taken to the weekly Red Cross baby
clintic at the city hall Thursday after
noon passed their examinations with
| flying colors.- DR.. Paul Belknap, clinic
physician, asserts that undernourish-
4 ment is the most common ailment
among the babies brought to the
clinic. Miss Margaret NJ. Kitchener Is
in charge of the clinic. In addition to
the clinic held weekly at the city hall,
a baby clinic is held on alternate Tues
days at the community house in North
| Topeka, and clinic is held at some
other town in the county every
Wednesday.
In a financial statement issued by
the National War Work council of the
Y. M. c. A for the period ending
March T. it is stated that the total
amount of money received thru war
drives and miscellaneous donations
amounted to $170,673, 914.16 and that
the total amount expended was
. $152,17o, 10S.62, leaving a balance OF
1918, sos, S05.54. This balance has been
! transferred to the trustees Of the war