The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-13
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The place to eat-Cremerie Cafe
terra, 1926 Kansas (upstairs) ADV.
Plans are being made by Topeka
Commandery No. 5 for the holding of
a picnic in the near future
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co, 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
The Eagle Shoe & Clothing com
pany is installing a new plate glass
front in the north half of the building
it occupies at SIS North Kansas ave
nue..
Work in the third degree is being
put on by Topeka Lodge No. II, A. r.
& A. NJ, this afternoon at the Masonic
temple. The work was started at L
O'Clock and will be completed this
evening.
Police today were looking for two
young white men who held up two
Mexicans on the Rock Island bridge
Tuesday night. They took South
Bend watch from Thomas Gonzales,
622 North Van Buren, street.
Mrs. Katherine Logan today filed a
petition IN the district court asking a
divorce from Hudson Logan, 1920
Lime street She charges that he has
cursed, abused, assaulted and beat her.
They were married at Lawrence in
September, 1915.
Judgment for s5.271.1O was OBJ
tanned in the district court Tuesday
afternoon by the Kilmer-Hughes stone
company, of Topeka, against the Union
Paving & Construction company Tor
materials furnished in the construction
of the West Tenth street road.
DR.. J. A. Milligan, of Garnett, and
Geo. w. Kanavel, of Sedgwick, two
former senators, were visitors at the
state house today. Senator Kanavel is
just getting over a serious illness but
he had a hard time convincing his
friends that he had been thru siege.
Topeka Relief Corps No. "a will
hold an all-day meeting at the home
Of the president, Mrs. William Fitz-
gerald, 1915 Garfield, Tuesday, July
IA All corps members are invited to
come and bring baskets of lunch. Sun
flowers will be made for the national
convention.
The fourteen members of the Rock
Island ice station crew believe they
made a record Tuesday afternoon
when they iced a train of twenty nine
cars in II minutes. The train was
behind time and every member of the
crew displayed remarkable speed.
Thirty-five tons of ice were required
to ice the train.
The Kansas court of industrial re-
lations has sent out a QUESTIONABLE to
all coal dealers in the state for the
purpose Of checking up their business
and profits since September 80, 1920.
The information gathered thru these
questionnaires will be used in connec-
ton with the investigation recently
made at Pittsburg.
The Tri-City Gas company, serving
Cherryvale. Altoona and Chelsea,
Okla, has applied to the public utili-
ties commission for permission to in
crease it's rates. The company claims
that the pipeline company from which
that it will be unable to continue to
furnish gas to consumers at the old
rate.
A new Sanitary store" is to be add
ed to Topeka's business establishments.
1t will be located at 101 West Fourth
street and will be ready for business
in about ten days. The store will be
operated by the Topeka Sanitary COM
pany, a branch of the Kansas City
Sanitary company. The company will
deal in sanitary chemicals and sup
plies and will sell to both retailers
and wholesalers.
]. R. Anspaugh. secretary of the
Kansas State Bankers association, an
nounced today that $4,000 copies of
the history of the bank depositors'
guaranty law. written by former Bank
Commissioner Walter E. Wilson, have
been sold to the banks of Kansas with
in the last few months. The booklet
gives a complete history of the guar
anty law, and answers many of the
questions about it, which are asked by
depositors. Banks are buying the
booklet and are distributing it among
their customers.
r. B. Higgins, formerly chief engi-
ncer and electrician of the Santa Fe
shops at La Junta. Colo, and for two
years assistant chief engineer at the
Edison plant, has been added to the
force of the H. B. Howard Electric &
Athletic Supply company. He will
have charge of a new department
which will be devoted to electrical and
machine shop engineering. The COM
pany recently made a survey of To-
peka and found that the city has $50
plants which are possible customers
for such a service,
Topeka probably will be included in
an official area for registration of
morbidity statistics. according to DR.
S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the state
board of health and DR.. Earle G.