The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-01
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AT HOME NEWS


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| Adv.
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| The home and garden class to meet
at the Rosery, lis East Seventh street.
tonight will study the care of lawns.
shrubbery and shade trees Any one
interested may attend.
| The meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Central Y. NJ. C A. Wednes-
day noon viii be addressed by DR..
/ Frank H. Burt. president of Y. NJ. c.
A. college of Chicago.
| The city commission voted this
morning to pay ex-Police Judge Hugh
MacFarland $40. the sum of severa.
bad checks received by the judge on
city fines while in office.
A suit brought in the Wallace coun-
ty district court by w. E. Crumm and
| w. f. Skaer of Wichita to collect
$500 from Charles A Sarber of New
! york, on promissory note, was
transferred to the federal court here
| today at the request of the defendant.
S. Barickman, who was returned to
Topeka from Jefferson City. Mo, to
face a charge of stealing chemicals
valued at s1S1.40 from the Acme
Chemical company, pleaded not guilty
when arraigned in the city court Mon
day. His bond was set at $500 and
his preliminary hearing set for
March 10.
| Speakers before the community
| training school for religious education
| Monday night at the First Methodist
church were DR.. r. A. Schell, of the
First Christian church, and W. S.
| Greider, high school instructor in
| psychology. Nearly all of the 23S per-
| in jcf0 fro {ri.
school were present at the Monday
night meeting.
\ A comparison of building costs at
! present with such costs in 1914 is be-
ing made by the students of the So
GEOLOGY classes of the Topeka high
school, under the direction of ]. S.
kaho, instructor in economics and So
GEOLOGY. Students will have two
| months to get the information needed
from local building material dealers
and with laborers, and will then write
the papers on the subject.
Because of an error the city COM
mission decided this morning to re-
advertise for bids on the white way
| globe protectors. The protectors, de-
signed by Commissioner Stanfield of
the water department, will save the
city hundreds of dollars each year i'll
for the cost of the protectors was
S1.25 each for the smaller size and
$1.3S for the larger.
In the efficiency contest just ended
Boy Scout troop No. of Westminster
Presbyterian church won the silver
leading troops were the First Presby-
terrain troop No. 2. second with 307
points; troop 8. Westminster Presby
terrain church, third with 29S points.
and troop 81, East Side Methodist
church, fourth with 102 points. Eff
hal
months.
Mrs. Mary Young. 224 West Gordon
street. today filed a petition in the dis
trict court asking a divorce from Rad
ford Willis Young. She charges that
he has been fault-finding and spitefui
in his demeanor that he has failed to
support her and that he has struc.a
and knocked her down, treating her
with great brutality. She asks for ali
mony. the ownership of their house
hold goods and the custody of their
9-year-old son.
A long search by Mrs. Julia Kiene
home demonstration agent, for room,
In the business district to be turned
into a rest room for women, has
proved unavailing. Mrs. Kiene wants
to find a room of sufficient size that
women-especially farm women
while they go shopping. Any one
knowing of a suitable room in the
business district will oblige Mrs Kiene
by reporting to her. ..
A distributing agency for products
of the Moline Plow company will be
located in Topeka in the near future
| If present plans rnaterialize, according
| to A. E. Koch, from the company's
central office at Moline. Ill. The
branch would supply fifteen counties
| in this section of the state. with prob
able sales of s450.00O a year. Diff
Guilty in finding a suitable building Is
| at present holding up the establish
ment Of the branch. A part of the Mo-
| line line is now handled by the Raemer