The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-10
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS
acknowledgements.


The Retail Credit Mems association
met today noon at the Chamber of
Commerce for luncheon and business
discussion.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue--Adv
The Scottish Rite Masons of Topeka
will hold a stated meeting in the Ma
sonic temple Friday evening at 1880
O'Clock.
A committee from the Topeka Ro-
tary club met today noon at the
Chamber of Commerce to discuss pro-
posed entertainments and leftover
business.
Hanging baskets. potted plants and
boxes of flowers, the prettiest of the
season are at Mrs. Lords flower room.
ADV.
E. N. Heeren today filed petition
in the district court asking divorce
, from Augusta N. Heeren. who he says
abandoned him in July, 1915 The
Heerens were married in February,
1895.
Today is the last day for receiving
the ballots in the final election of d.
rectors for the Chamber of Commerce.
The ballots must be in the hands of
the election committee of the chamber
by o'clock tonight. in order to be
counted.
Roscoe Browne. a1l-state fullback
of the 1920 football season of Friends
univ rrslty IL vienna, Will assist
Coach A. F. Elfrinck of Friends in
coaching the Quaker team next year.
This decision was reached at a recent
meeting of the Friends athletic board.
The Rev. P. c. Nelson, noted evan
gelist who has just closed a six weeks
| campaign in the churches of Wichita,
where he has had great interest and
success, will begin a meeting at the
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Fourth and Fillmore streets, evening
| May II.
Passenger locomotives on the Santa
Fee running from Kansas City to New
ton and from Newton to Purcell, Okla,
are being converted from coal burners
to oil burners in the shops on the Kan
sas division. Twenty-one have. already
been converted, and fifteen are now in
| the shops.
1t was enormously stated in The
State Journal of Monday evening that
Miss Ruth Burgitt had won the first
place in the Shawnee county deciama-
ton contest, held at Washburn college
Friday night. The winner of first
place in the contest was Miss Gene
We've Rhoades of Highland Park
school.
| Phil W. johnson, formerly travel
ing passenger agent for the Kansas di-
vision of the Rock Island with head
quarters at Topeka, lately district pas
| senger agent for the road at Wichita
| has been promoted to be general agent
] for the passenger department at Des
Moines, Ia Johnson has been in the
passenger service of the Rock Island
/ in Kansas and Missouri for the past
seventeen years.
improvements on the target range
belonging to Company H, of Topeka,
Kansas National Guard, have been
authorized by the militia bureau in
Washington, D. c., to cost $500. The
| range is located near the Boys in
dustrial school, and is 500 yards long.
Annual target practice for the com
pany will commence May Is, and each
member is required to spend three
| days on the range.
Send us your bills and bad checks
if you want your money. We collect
and investigate anywhere on earth
Globe Detective Agency, 220 New Eng
land Building. G. G. Hannah, general
manager.-Adv.
The Clarence L.. Scott restaurant at
427 Kansas avenue will close, tenn
porarily, tonight, for refinishing oper-
atoms. The interior of the restaurant
is to be redecorated and new furnish
ings installed. The rooms on the sec
ond floor, above the restaurant, have
already been finished. The restaurant
will be closed for about one week,
Scott believes.
|
Island tracks at the foot of Kansa S
avenue was resumed today. The work
of installing the new crossing there
has not been completed, but the tracks
are in condition to be used by the
street cars.
A watch, coat and a pair of pants
= were stolen Monday night by a man
who obtained a room Saturday night
at SOL Madison street, according to a
report to the police. Monday night
the roomer disappeared, taking the
watch and clothes with him, it was
said.
/ Monday nights storm wrought
of class of new members into-the
Moose lodge. Only two of the candi-
dates were able to make their way to
the lodge rooms on Kansas avenue.
The weekly limitations on Monday
nights will be continued, however.
!. turnout the sixty-day drive for new
members which is being carried on by
the local lodge.
Select your fixtures from the largest
stock in Topeka. Overton Electrical
Shop, 522 Jackson. Phone 922.-Adv
w. D. Vawter, 1926 Western avenue
has a New Zealand rabbit to which
J the doctrine that the economic diff
culties of the United States today are
due to over production, does not ap-
peal. Production is the rabbits dish
On April 4 the aforesaid rabbit be-
came the mother of eight baby rab-
bits, and on May s another family OF
. nine, making seventeen new members
of the rabbit world in thirty-foui
| days.
The parking between the sidewalk
, and the pavement on the Fifth street
side of the court house is being re-
moved in order to extend the paving
| to the sidewalk. This will make the
street about nine feet wider. At pres
ent, when a large number of cars are
parked in front of the court house
there is hardly room for two cars tc
!. pass. owing to the narrowness of the
street.