The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-28
SNAP SHOTS
Holcraft-Flowers.-Adv.
AT HOME NEWS

open Decoration Day.-Adv.
The fire department answered a
false alarm at 1901 West Eleventh
street at 1895 o'clock today.
Let me make you a Royal Tailored
suit from $500 to $50. Chas F1gg
with the New Toggery-Adv.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
Commissioner Robert D. McGiffert
will deliver a Memorial Day address
at Harveyville Monday afternoon.
The American Legion Drum and
Trumpet corps will meet at the hall
tonight for practice and meet Monday
at o'clock for parade.-Adv.
At the Memorial Day ceremonies to
be held at Marysville Monday, May 80,
Justice Judson S. West, of the state
supreme court, and Capt. w. P. Mac
Lean, of the Boys Industrial school,
will be speakers.
The members of the Spanish War
Veterans and the Ladies Auxiliary
will meet at the armory, 112-114> East
Seventh street, at 1 O'Clock Monday
afternoon, according to orders issued
by the commander.
Topeka police have received word
from Holton authorities to be on the
lookout for Mrs. Helen Simmons, who
is alleged to have run away from her
ticket to Topeka, it was stated.
Bert Chamberlain and his wife,
Anna Chamberlain, negroes, were ar
rested by the police here Friday on
the request of st. Joseph authorities.
They had in their possession two good
trunks and several valises, officers
said.
The Trinity Methodist church base
ball team defeated the Westminster
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Friday afternoon by a score of IL to 5.
The Trinity boys have issued a chal-
lenge to any church baseball team in
the city.
Asserting that after he married his
second wife he discovered that he was
not properly divorced from his first,
Marvin N. Bartlett Friday filed suit
in the district court for divorce from
Susan Bartlett. The suit is friendly
one, attorneys said.
Only three of nineteen alleged traf-
fic violators were dismissed in police
court Friday afternoon. Fines of from
SIS to SO were assessed most of them
being forfeitures. The charges includ-
ing driving with one light, no lights,
no tail light, speeding and jay driving.
Alyranda Torrez, IA, and Andrea
Torrez. IL, Mexican orphans. were
taken to st. Vincent Catholic school
at Atchison Friday on an order of the
the county detention home since the
death of their father from pneumonia
April %.
The Rev Clifton Merritt Gray. min
lister of the First Unitarian church. 914
Topeka avenue, will deliver Sunday
morning at IL o'clock the second of
his series of six sermons announced
for the presentation of some funda-
mental beliefs The subject tomor-
row will be MAN Not Fallen But
Rising"
Mail delivery to residents of Bos-
well, Jewell and Plass avenues be-
tween Fifteen and Sixteenth streets
will begin in about two weeks, accord
ing to Postmaster w. o. R1gby. A
survey of the territory showed that it
comes up to the requirements of the
postoffice department to receive the
service. it was said
Price reductions on Buick motor
cars have been announced. On June
1, Buick prices will come down from
5000 to $500 on different models. The
price of Velie automobiles has been
guaranteed from the present time until
October 1, present purchasers to re-
ceive refund If the price drops be
were reduced in October, 1920.
A large sales and display room is
being constructed on the second floor
| of the building occupied by the w. w.
Mills company. Partitions between
several offices have been removed, and
the entire floor is being refinished.
Repairs and improvements on the
lower floor will be made as soon as
| the second floor work is finished,
about July 1.
A suit, brought by Benjamin P.
| Davidson, of Kansas City, to collect
damages from the government for in
! iuries he sustained while working for
| the Union Pacific railroad company
while it was under government con-
| troll was transferred to the federal
court here today from the Wyandotte
! county district court, where it was
originally filed.
No statutory provision exists under
which a rural high school district and
| an ordinary school district may join
for the construction of a single build
ing, the supreme court held in a spe-
| cial decision handed down today re-
versing the Doniphan county district
court in a mandamus suit. The action
was brought by A. T. Stewart, tax
payer, against C. H. Gish and others
| Fred Lynn, 426 Chandler street, was
! dismissed in police court Friday after
noon where he was brought to answer
to a charge of disturbing the peace OF
, Mrs. C. Corwin, 430 Chandler. 1t was
alleged that he habitually parked his
car in front of Mrs. Corwin's home
and sang songs she thought were in
tended to make fun of her. Lynn said
his vocal selections were not intended
for Mrs. Corwin's ears.
| Alumnae and friends of Baker uni
versity will meet for a dinner tonight
at Pelletiers' tea room, together with
the members of the glee club who are
| in the city for the concert tonight.
Coach E. S. Liston of the university
will be present and will suggest plans
for financing a special fund for the
school to provide cinder race track
Baker will furnish $4,000 of the
amount, but alumnae or the school are
planning to assist
The Jordan Patterson Post of the
American Legion will hold elaborate
Memorial Day ceremonies at the Sec
ond Baptist church in North Topeka
Sunday afternoon. The program will
| include addresses by Prof. L. G. Wat
kins, B. F. Payne, w. H. Jamison and
1 Courtney Rutzler. The services will