The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-30
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1 The state executive council. at q
meeting held today, awarded the state
printing contract to the Topeka Daily
Capital.
A program by the Mems G1ee club
of Tarkio college, Tarkio, Mo-, will ne
given at the United Presbyterian
church Thursday night
J. C.. Mohler. secretary Of the state
board of agriculture, will go to Man.
haitian May to deliver an address
before the Livestock Feeders conven-
ton that will be held at the state agri-
cultural c6lege.
Under the auspices of the girls of
the Washburn Y. w. c. A. Miss Susan
NJ Guild. dean of women at Wash
burn will lecture at the chapel Thurs
day night on the Oberammergau Pas
sion play. The lecture will be illus
trated.
Thirty members of the congregation
iof the Quinton Heights Baptist church
held surprise party for their pastor,
the Rev. E. L. Wright, Tuesday night.
had enjoyed social evening and re-
freshments.
The marriage of William T. Lyon.
formerly ticket agent at Topeka for
the Rock Island, and Miss Lulu Green
ough, of Topeka. has been reported,
as having occurred March IA. Lyon is
how ticket agent for the Rock Island
at Kansas City, Kan.
A E. Brown was sentenced to not
more than five years in the peni-
Tertiary Tuesday afternoon when he
pleaded guilty to obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses. He was alleged
to have purchased horse from A. III.
Bailey, Oakland, under misrepresenta-
ton.
Frank Trummer. who has just COM
pleted a sentence in the federal peni-
Tertiary, was re-arrested Tuesday by
o. T. Wood, United States marshal, on
a warrant charging him with stealing
twelve pairs of shoes in Iowa. He will
be taken back to Iowa soon, it was
said.
Twenty-Five members of Canton To-
peka, No. 3, I. o. o. F., will go to
Lawrence Wednesday to muster in
class of twenty. Lawrence members
are making preparations to make a re-
turn visit on April 26, when the big
Odd Fellow meeting will be held in
Topeka
sgd Wrightsman's Novelty dance
orchestra, on tour thru the middle
west and to the Pacific coast, will
play for several dances in Topeka next
week. The Wrightsman organization
is one of the leading dance orchestras
of the country. and has become noted
thru their work on Brunswick records
The heavy materials to be used in
the final work of the course in weld
ing at the knights of Columbus night
school for ex-service men, have been
purchased and received. The course
in welding will be finished by a num-
her of the students, at the end of the
present term.
Hiawatha lodge, No. SO. I. o. o. F.,
has volunteered to exemplify the third
degree of Odd Fellowship at the sbig
meeting here April &C.. The line now
is complete with Shawnee No. 1 for
the initiatory; Horton 33i, first; Pride
of the West, Kansas City, Kan, Sec
ond. and Hiawatha No. S3, the third.
Miss Mary Jane Corbett, of New
York city. national recruiting worker
for the. Y. W. c. A, was in Topeka
Tuesday, and addressed the girls of
Washburn college. leaving Tuesday
evening for Manhattan. where she will
continue her work of securing the i'm
terest of the co-eds in Y. U. c. A.
work.
The position Of yardmaster at the
Topeka station of the Union Pacific
has been abolished, leaving A. E. Gun
bingham, the present yardmaster, out
of a job, and putting the work which
he formerly performed on the
shoulders of E. E. Sleeper. chief
freight agent. 1t is believed that the
order is temporary and rises from the
business depression.
Not exceeding twenty-one years in
the state penitentiary was the SEN
tence imposed by Judge George Whit
comb of the district court Tuesday
afternoon upon Elmer HoIston, ac-
cused of forgery. He was alleged. to
have signed the name of George Senne
to check. The sentence was a blow
to Holston, who said he expected to
get about sixty days.
An alias warrant was issued by the
city attorney Tuesday afternoon for
j. V. McMillen, 1901 Quincy street,
when he failed to appear in police
court to answer to a charge of run
ming his car into Pete Plummer. a
Union Pacific Waterman, while the
latter was trying to get him to stop at
the Kansas avenue crossing. Plum
mer escaped with few bruises.
The new public utilities commission
is going to make it harder for rail-
roads to get into court" with appli-
cations to close stations which it is
claimed do not pay expenses An or
der has just been issued by the COM
mission requiring that certain infor-
nation giving the volume of business
the expense of operation and other de-
tails. be filed with all applications.
A meeting of all the teachers of the
Topeka city schools is to, be held this
afternoon at A o'clock at the high
school building when A. J. Stout. SUI
per1ntendent of the city schools, and
r.. B. Cook, principal of the high
school, will report on the recent meet
ing of the National Association of
Principals and Supervisors. held at
Atlantic City, which they attended
Theodore Carey. IA. All Jefferson
street, was slightly bruised Tuesday
afternoon when he was knock ed
down by a Ford car driven by
H. Ruffner, 929 Madison street. The
accident occurred at Seventh and
Madison streets. The front wheels of
the Ford are said to have passed over
his body. but he suffered no broken
bones He was taken to his home in
the police car So
The first of a series of dinners and
meetings in the interest of community
welfare was held at the Euelid Ave-