The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

The. Co-Operatives club dinner and
meeting is to be held at the Eiks club
Tuesday evening at 6:15 o'clock. The
program IS to be in charge of ]. H. Lee
and Emmett. Rqwen-
Fifty new. church members were the
result of a three weeks evangelistic
service at the West Side Christian
church ended Sunday night. The
services were conducted by the Rev.
]. S. BEEN of Fremont, Neb.
The regular meeting of the Inter-
Service club will be held at the Elks
club tonight. with an address on the
present and understanding of the air
|reserrtatiye of the sLongren Aircraft
corporation. as the chief feature of the
program.
Two hundred members of the Kan
sas Master Plumbers association are
expected ito attend the convention in
Topeka. March IA and Is. at the Cham
Der of Commerce. The principal topic
of discussion will be the sanitary code.
which was rejected by the legislature
now in session.
Charters have been granted by the
state charter board to the three fol-
lowing companies: The Minneapolis
Ice & Cold Storage company, at Min
neapoHs, capital stock $4,000; The
Kan-Mex Oil company. of Rosalia,
Butler county. and the Mid Oil & Dis
tributing company, of Clay Center.
II the people knew how little Of
their taxes go to the state. they would
MT howl so about the state appropria-
lions, ]. H. Mercer, secretary of the
State Livestock association. believes.
printed on the tax receipts, state
ment of the portion OF the tax paid,
which will go to the state. =
Men sentenced to the federal peni-
Tertiary under the old liquor laws
after the .Volstead act went into effect.
cannot be legally held, was the opin-
ion of Judge John C. Pollock. of the
habeas corpus petitions of thirty-six
prisoners came before him last week.
All the prisoners were released.
The annual membership drive of the
Shawnee county farm bureau will be
held the week beginning March 81.
according to F. o. Biecha. county
farm agent. Five hundred new MEM
bers will be sought. "barnstorm-
ing" campaign the week preceding
the drive will be in charge of George
Tucker, Eureka banker and stockman.
The annual Holstein sale of the
Holstein-F resian Association of Kan
sas will be held at the fair grounds
banquet will be held at the Cham
Der of, Commerce in the evening.
More than 100 head of Holstein cattle
will be sold, it is expected. The as
ISOLATION has about 400 members in
the state.
Arthur Walker, uncle of Brownie
Burns, young negro recently SEN
fenced for highway robbery, Joined
his nephew in Jail Sunday when he
called to give the younger man some
morphine, according to county Off
GERS. When he was refused permits
sion to see Burns, he asked that an
envelope be presented to the prisoner.
1t was found to contain "dope" it was
said, and Walker was locked up.
Deaf persons understood the sermon
given at the First Christian church
Sunday night by the Rev. RsaA. Scheil.
with Cyrus E. White. state repr essential
tive, making sign interpretations for
the benefit Of the deaf persons. Rep
resentative White was formerly super
iDtendent CT the School for the Deaf
at Olathe. More than twenty deaf
persons were present. The plan will
be carried out again next SUNDAY
night.
The supreme court has been called
upon to hear a case involving the
power of the industriakcourt to order
the prevention and punishment of
strikes. on April 5. Jerry Scott, q
switchman, OF Kansas City. Kan, has
6ppedlSu 10 The 81 ptcllc court dllCI
having been prosecuted by the indus
trial court on the charge of agitating
discomfort among switchmen and help
ing to call the strike which caused
serious trouble in the transportation
field last summer.
A three-day rally service will be held
at Trinity Methodist church beginning
Sunday. March IS, according to the
Rev W. E. Blackstock, pastor. DR..
w. E. J. Gatz, life work secretary for
lal1 Methodism, will lead the rally serv-
ices. He has particular appeal for
young people and members of the To-
peka District Epworth League Will
have a special part in the rally. A
council of Epworth League members
will be held Monday evening, March
"A. at the church.
The change which makes the fiscal
year for the state begin on January 1
instead of July 1, will result in the col
lection of automobile registrationf fees
for only six months in advance, on
June 80 of this year. New licenses
will again be issued on January A.
1922, the beginning of the new fiscal
year The contract for 800, 600 new
license tags will be let by the office of
the secretary of state, on March II.
Specifications and advertisements for
the manufacture of the tags have been
sent out
Members of the Shawnee County
Shorthorn Breeders association made
plans for the organization of boys
calf club, to be affiliated with the as
ISOLATION, at a meeting in the Shawnee
county farm bureau office Saturday
afternoon The club is to have twen-
ty-five members. The annual sale OF
the association will be postponed until
fall on account of financial conditions,
It was decided. Plans were made TO
tour the state in June, visiting farms
where shorthorns are raised and IN
specting the herds.
That the Bible IL a real mans book
land should be-carried by everyone was
urged by Fred &. Goodman. member
of the International committee OF the
/ Y. NJ c. A. at the First Presbyterian
church Sunday night His subject was
la Mans Bible" He has gone TO
Omaha, after spending several days in
tTopeka as one of the leaders Of the
life Work conference held AT the Cen
| trail Y. NJ. A Goodman addressed
the ministerial association at a dinner