The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-31
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All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
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The annual picnic of the Maccabee
Ladies' Progressive Review. No. IS.
will be held at Gage park tonight at
o'clock.
C. A Martin is the new assistant to
City Engineer W. Z. Baldry, succeed
ing Walter Finch, Baldry announced
Tuesday.
The Rev. John Wells Rahill. pastor
of the Central Congregational church.
has returned from Chicago, where he
spent a months vacation.
The Shriners will hold picnic La
Dor Day at Shrine park, Leavenworth.
Kan. All blue lodge Masons. Eastern
Star members, De Molay members and
their families are invited \
c. S. Elliott, president of the Capitol
Building and Loan association, is ex-
peeted to return home next week after
an extensive tour of Colorado and the
Yellowstone park region.
The Harding Wheel company moved
Tuesday from 116 East Sixth avenue
to new quarters at 217 West Fifth
street The new quarters of the COM
pany were recently remodeled.
A night blooming cereus attracted
considerable attention at the home of
Mrs. E. H. Wells, on East Sixth ave-
nue., about 10 o'clock Tuesday night.
The plant was in bloom for about two
hours.
A group of twenty young people,
members OF the Sunday school of the
Swedish Bethel church. will go to Con-
cordia Thursday to attend the three
day session of the Baptist Young Peo-
pies conference.
A jitney driven by Oscar White was
considerably damaged Tuesday at
Seventh and Kansas avenue when it
struck a street car. No one was in
jured and the street car was not
damaged, it was said.
The state auditor, Norton A. Turner.
has approved the $269,151.47 in gen.
erai Improvement bonds issued by the
city of Topeka. They will be stamped
with the seal of kans IS, labeled with
the necessary signatures and returned
to the city finance department.
Monday Of next week. which is
Labor day. will be a holiday at the
city hall, but will not be pay day,
which customarily is on the fifth of
every month for the city employees.
Pay checks will be given September s,
according to Miss Eta Covell, city
clerk.
Augustin Alba, former detective for
the city police force in Little Mex
ico," will open a restaurant and chile
parlor at 400 Monroe street. Alba OPP
Grated a restaurant before he became
a member of the police force. He will
erect a building for the restaurant at
a cost of $1,000, and will open the lat
ter part of September.
While in Topeka Tuesday afternoon.
Al F. Williams, United States district
attorney. said he did not know yet
where his office would be located.
The investigators report has been fin
ished and sent to Washington and,
altho Williams did not see it, he said
it was his understanding that it is not
adverse to having the office moved
back to Topeka.
Fifty suits of clothing, several over
coats, suitcases, silk shirts and hand
bags were taken Tuesday by burglars
who entered the r. E. Burne store at
Waterviile, Kan. according to re-
port to local police. The thieves are
believed to be travelling in a Ford car
bearing license No. 2377s and engine
No. 3525598, said to have been stolen
from Charles Hernon, of Belleville.
Harold w. Poort, Washburn basket
ball star. left today for Asheryille.
Kan, having been engaged as Coach
of athletics of the high school OF that
place. Poort, who graduated from
Washburn with the 1921 class, played
four years on the basketball team and
has ever turned out. He is also q
graduate of the Oakland high school.
The next meeting OF the board of
directors of the Topeka Chamber of
Commerce has been set for Monday,
September 5, when several routine
matters will come up for conssdera-
ton. The directors have not been
holding regular meetings during the
past month on account of the heat and
the absence of several members of the
board from the city on their vacations
Longer hours will be the program
at most of the clothing and depart
ment stores commencing Thursday.
Stores that have been closing during
July and August at $50 O'Clock will
remain open until o'clock. and most
OF them will open at s o'clock IN the
morning, altho some of the depart
ment stores announce they VIII con-
tinue to observe the $50 o'clock rule.
An application for a writ of habeas
corpus to obtain his release from the
county jail was filed in the district
court Tuesday by Forest Bialock. who
was sentenced to serve 120 days for
passing bad checks. Blalock was SEM
fenced on three counts, but claims MS
sentences ran concurrently as it was
not otherwise specified. The four
months was up August rs and he
asserts he should now be given his
liberty.
The contract for the steam ash con-
veyor for the city filtration plant was
awarded to the NJ. H. DERRICK COM
pany of Chicago at a special meeting
Of the city commission Tuesday after
noon. The contract for the valves and
fittings was awarded to the Ulrich
Supply company of Kansas City The
total cost of the equipment contracts
is S4361.14. The commission has adj
vertised for bids on pipes and fittings
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