The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-06
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AT HOME NEWS
IIolcraft-Flowers.-Adv.

Observation-Disclosures
The Builders club occupied a table
today noon at the Chamber of Com
merce.
The Topeka Chiropractic association
met today noon at the Chamber of
Commerce.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment;
Co. 53t Kansas avenue.-Adv.
Twenty trustees of the First Pres
byterian church met today noon for
lunch at the Chamber of Commerce.
The Live Wire club of the Chamber
of Commerce met today in regular
session. for lunch and business dis
cussion.
The fire department was called to,
-Iuntoon and Tyler streets to answer
a false alarm at 1875 o'clock this
afternoon.
Armstrong Auxiliary No. Admitted
Spanish War Veterans, will meet
Thursday afternoon at o'clock at
the Royal Arcanum hall.
The new team tracks and platform
at the Santa Fe freight depot are rap
idly nearing completion. The con-
crete platform has been completed.
The Rota club. composed of women
members Of the Chamber of Com
merce, held a regular weekly meeting
merce.
DR.. n. E. Mellencamp. for many
years connected with the Santa Fe
hospital in Topeka and who left here
five years ago, was elected mayor of
Dodge City, Kan, Tuesday.
Washburni Y. M. c. A. students
were addressed this morning by w. b.
Sweet of Denver Colo, prominent
Y. NJ. c. A worker in this part of the
country. He was leader in the
Estes Park workers conference last
summer.
Henry Bennett & Sons, Topeka con-
tractors, were today awarded the con-
tract for the construction of a new
school building at Garnett, Kan.
Their bid on the building was $91, 345.
Bids were received from seven con
tractors in Kansas and in Kansas City,
Mo, on the building.
An interesting point in the deveI-
opment of the Highland Park Metho-
dist church was the burning of the
mortgage on the church by the mem
bers Tuesday night. The church
building is worth $4,000. There are
OF members. The congregation plans
to. build a parsonage for the church
in a short time.
Funds have been appropriated by
the board of education for the repair
and equipment of the high school
tennis court, in anticipation of
the need of theN soon. The high
school racquet fierids are beginning to
be restless. and are looking forward to
a successful tennis season. Several
teams will probably be organized from
a plentiful assortment OF good mater
ial
Earl Akers, school board member
elected Tuesday; Wilbur A. Stanfieid,
reelected water commissioner, and c.
B. Hypes. defeated candidates for
mayor, are the only candidates who
have filed their campaign expenses for
the primary with the city clerk. Pri-
mary campaign expenses must be filed
by April 7, ten days after the primary,
and election expenses not later than
April Is.
The semi-annual meeting of the sig
nal, maintenance and construction en-
gineeTS of the Santa Fe will open
Thursday in Galveston. Tex, and will
be attended by engineers from the de-
tenn. The convention will close Sat-
urday night. H. Hobson, district sig
nal engineer, and L, Brown and G. K.
Thomas, his assistants, left Tuesday
night to attend the convention.
Seventy-five Retariaus from Atchi-
son, Lawrence, Leavenworth and st,
Joseph, will be the guests of the To-
dancing and cards, before they join
the Topeka Rotarians who will leave
in a special train for Wichita tonight
to attend the district conference of
the Seventeenth district Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday. More than 100
persons, Rotarians and their wives,
will attend the district conference.
Charging he had come a little too
| close in seeing how near he could
come to her with his speeding motor
cycle without hitting her. Ona Barrow.
| 213 Klein street. today filed a petition
asking $1,000 damages from Harry
kLangstrom, son of Arthur Langstrom,
| POS Branner street. Phe alleged ac-
| cident occurred on Klein street in
March,; 1920, according to the petit
| ton. The plaintiff alleges that two
fingers on her right hand had to be
amputated as a result of the accident.
A long, long time ago Miss Edna
Davis, clerk of the probate court, as
| sured Clyde =. Schenck, a young To-
peka attorney. that when he got mar
ried she would sell him a license for
| 50. IS. Then she forgot all about it,
but SchenclA didn't. Tuesday after
noon he walked into the probate court.
asked for license to wed Miss Char
| lotte West, %. and reminded Miss Da-
Wis of her bargain. She fulfilled the
| agreement, paying the extra two cents
herself. Schenck, who is a graduate
| of Washburn law school, is now in
partnership with his father. John ].
Schenck. with offices in the New Eng-