The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-07
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All issues. OF Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue Adv.
The regular meeting and dinner of
the Inter- Service club is to be held at
6:15 o'clock tonight at the Elks' club.
Miss Loura Dale Perry, sister of
Dr. NJ. L. Perry, superintendent of the
| Topeka state hospital, is seriously ill
! at her home in Topeka
The convention of the United Com
mercial Travellers will be held in To-
peka February 10. Several prominent
speakers will be brought here and an
elaborate banquet will be served.
| In giving an account of the prepara-
| ton of a real estate map of the city
| occurred in the address of Mr.. Parr
! business office. 1t should have read
| 116 West Sixth street instead of 116
West Fifth street.
| The pipe organ at the First NJ. e.
church will be operated by electricity.
according to plans of those making
the church budget. The choir loft
will be remodeled and sixty new
chairs added. Nearly all of a fund of
$4,000 will be needed for organ and
choir loft remodeling.
| Not more than seven years in the
|
upon VIII Porter, a negro, by Judge
George Whitcomb in the district court.
Porter pleaded guilty to stealing a
1O0-pound sack of corn meal from
Rock Island freight car.
Mrs. A. ]. Davidson and small son,
Preston Marshall, have returned to
Topeka, after spending the winter in
| Louisville, KY. with relatives. Mrs.
Davidson's mother. who has been quite
| i'll, is now much improved. DR..
Davidson is a staff physician at the
state hospital.
Measles held high score in diseases
/ attacking Topeka in the week ending
today. with twenty-eight cases. Scar
| let fever is second with eight cases.
other diseases reported for the week
are mumps, three cases; influenza,
one; chickenpox, two; whooping
cough, one; social diseases, nine.
All but about $4,000 of the money
needed to erect the new dormitory at
the Security Benefit associations
home and hospital project has been
raised thru the sale of blocks, doors
and windows, thru the Security Bene-
fit News. About $4,000 has been
raised in this manner. it is announced.
Two fire alarms Sunday came from
the home of C. w. Kelley, PIT Lau-
rel and from Eighth and Morris ave-
nue.. An overheated register caused
$500 damage at the Kelley home, with
the loss partly covered by insurance.
No damage resulted from the Chin
ney fire which brought the alarm
from Eighth and Morris.
The regular meeting and dinner of
the Cooperative club is to be held
at the Elks' club Tuesday evening at
o'clock. half an hour earlier than
usual. THE Guthrie-Dickie combina-
ton will be in charge" the announce
ments of the meeting say S. J.
deyin nd al Can1nhPn
new members of the club.
The grand chapter meeting of the
Kansas Eastern Star will be held in
Wichita this year, rather than in OF
tawa, as previously announced, accord
ing to- word received from Mrs. IRA
grand matron. The new Masonic
temple in Ottawa will not be COM
pleted in time for the meeting in May
The dissipation of fathers and
mothers is largely responsible for
crimes among children, according TO
the Rev. Frank T. Pate of Kansas
City, Mo. member of the Gideon band
who led the mems meeting at the Or
pheum theater Sunday afternoon. The
glee club of the Boys Industrial
school furnished excellent music.
Noon day entertainment is furnished
men at the Santa Fe shops thru plan
of the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. Every
secretary of the association, arranges
for a half hours entertainment for the
men. Last Tuesday Miss Jane Carey
and the shop quartet gave the pro
gram. Miss Agnes Hannigan will be
on the next program.
Fulchrum oats-a new variety
guaranteed to yield ten bushels more
to the acre than any other kind
will be raised in Shawnee county this
year by four of the largest growers.
F. o. Blecha, county farm agent. has
received ten bushels from the State
Agricultural college, which expert
mented with them for five years and
distributed them to the farmers. The
crop will be sold for seed.
The annual Lincoln Day club ban
quet, to be held next Saturday night at
$50 o'clock at Metropolitan hall will
be attended by three hundred colored
people from various parts of the state.
Dorsey Green of Kansas City, Kan,
is president of the club. T. w. Troupe
of Topeka, is secretary. On the pro-
gram for the banquet will be music
by Jackson's Twenty-Third Regi-
mental band and the glee club from
the Kansas Industrial and Educational
institute. James H. Guy will be
master of ceremonies.
Eighteen boys are members of the
new Boy Scout troop No. rs. organ
lied at the Third Presbyterian church.
L. PETERSON Is
Thomas D. Williams is assistant
scoutmaster. and P. w. Griggs. John
B. Norton and ]. H. Ellenberger are
members of the executive committee.
New scoutmasters elected by other
troops in the city are Dave L. Hart
zell. No. Is: Ralph QUAINT, No. IT;
Floyd Cossman, No. 20;~ H. Warren
Wellington. No. 10; William Edward
Evans. assistant scoutmaster. No. Fl.
Three fires kept the fire department
busy before 10 o'clock this morning.
Defective heating arrangements
caused the three fires, none of which |
had serious results. At 7:43 o'clock |
the alarm was sent in from 232 Mon |
roe street, where sparks from the |
chimney had set afire the roof. At
1853 o'clock w. r. Gilmore, 1901 Polk |
street. sent in the alarm for the de- |
partment to come to a flue fire at !
his home. T. W. Price of 502 East |
Fifth street sent in an alarm at 1855 |