The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-04
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t raft-Flowers.-Adv.
Free seeds at State Savings bank
Adv.
A. E. Blyth, tax agent for the Santa
Fe, living at pol Huntoon street, is
seriously i'll at his home.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bough:
and sold. The Shawnee Investment;
| Co. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
The Rotary clubs meeting will be
| held Tuesday instead of Thursday,
| this week, due to the Wichita conven-
ton later in the week.
| TIE Rev E. w. Harrison will address
the Topeka Community Training
school at the First Methodist church
tonight
The brotherhood class of the Cen
trail Congregational church will have
a banquet at the church tonight
! George T. McDermott will speak to
the class on THE Life of John Mar
| shall.
The Rev. John Wells Rahill, of the
| Central Congregational church, was
presented with a Ford coupe Sunday
morning as a. birthday gift of his con-
! gregation. The car was given to him
i Immediately. after he concluded his
Sunday morning sermon.
/ A dinner, entertainment and dance
are scheduled for the members of the
Inter-Service club and their wives and
women friends, to be held at the
| Chamber of Commerce tonight. The
dinner will be served at 6:15 o'clock,
and there will be no business session
tonight.
The Santa Fe auditors defeated the
freight and passenger team of the gen.
eraI offices in a baseball game at Gar
| field park Saturday afternoon by the
score of 10 to o. P. Price, twirling
for the auditors. got sixteen strikeouts,
the feature of the game.
lected in March were $347.56, accord
ing to report of George T. Mattingly,
| license collector. In March of last
year $249.97 was collected. Mattingly
| has collected more than s250,000 in
| license money in twelve years he has
been collector.
| There will be a banquet for the
members of the Topeka Chapter No.
| 5. Royal Arch Masons, tonight, with
Charles G. West, high priest of the
i Royal Arch Masons of the United
States, as the guest Of honor. Supper
will be served at $50 o'clock tonight
at the Masonic hall.
| Christopher c. Cole, a prisoner in
| the federal penitentiary at Leaven-
worth, today filed an application in
the federal court asking a writ OF
habeas corpus to obtain his release.
! He was committed from Tucson, Ariz.,
and claims his confinement is illegal
/ because the federal court there had
no jurisdiction of his case.
| The First Presbyterian church
plans to raise the amount needed for
its 1921 work Sunday, April 10.
! Members are asked to attend all
| services of the day. Pledges toward
! the budget will be made at the! morn
| ing service. In the afternoonl MEM
| bers not present will be called upon
| to give their assistance to the ichurch
work. n
The attitude of present day ciyiliza-
| ton toward Christ, if he should appear
| today, as given in Brothers of
| karam'' by the Russian author, Feo-
dore Gostorevsky. was presented by the
| Rev. John Wells Rahill in a SERMON att
] the Central Congregational church
| Sunday night. Costorevsky Has the
! greatest mind Russia has produced,
Doctor Rahill said.
The united missionary societies of
the Christian churches of the city will
| hold an all-day meeting at the Oak
| land Christian church Friday. Mrs
S L. Wilson will open the meeting and
| Mrs. F. G. Dreaming, president of the
| union, will preside. Among those on
the days program will be Mrs. S. A.
| Maxwell, Mrs. J. W. Owens, Mrs. C. H.
Hamilton and Mrs. I. A. Wilson.
| The automobile is being blamed-or
| credited-with reduction in the
| number of ''boes'" who toured the
| country in or under side door Pull
| mans, a few years ago. The number
| of transients has been reduced, and 1t
| is stated by the men who deal with
| that class, that it is easier for the
boes to get lift in a motor car along
| the country road than to ride the rods
or the blinds.
Mrs. Hazel E. Price, SCI Madison
| street, today filed a petition in the dis
trict court asking a divorce from
oliver S. Price. She claims her hus-
| band was IN the habit of coming home
| drunk He had struck and beat her
and threatened to kill her, she alleges.
A restraining order was issued to pre-
vent Price from going to her home or
molesting her. The Prices were mar
ried in July, 1908.
The fund for the club house for the
| Topeka Woman'S club was increased
by $1,000 as a result of the two-day
i bazaar held in the city auditorium,
closing Saturday night with a dance
on the auditorium floor. Among the
chief money making features were the
| Woman's Club cook book. which
melted $3.50, and the luncheons served
on both Friday and Saturday when
nearly 700 persons were served.
/ Contributions continue to come to
Boy Fund" which now totals about
$40. The Public Health Nursing as
sociation will use the money to pro-
S, vide an artificial leg for a boy at
IChrist's hospital, who was not able to
afford the purchase of the leg himself.
The latest contributors to the fund
are T. NJ. Wherry. Sabetha, Kan,
s1.00; and the Small Boys class of the
First Presbyterian church, $500.
Mrs. Eva Morley Murphy of Good
land, Kan, president of the Women's
Kansas Day club. is sending word over
Kansas that all Kansas women are
eligible to join the club any time be-
fore January 20, 1922. Dues for the
club are only rs cents a year. Those
desiring to join should send dues to
Mrs. o. L. Moore, 1921 Tyler street,
Topeka. Membership entities the
women to attend the annual banquet
of the Women's Kansas Day club on
January 29, with the additional cost of