The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-19
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


| light ?"-Adv.
The Security Benefit band will give
a municipal concert at Edgewood park
at O'Clock this evening.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 5s4 Kansas ayenna--AdY.
The Topeka Medocs, famous local
musical organization, Will hold get
1 together party at the hall on West
Sixth avenue Monday evening.
Water in the Y. w. C. A. swimming
| pool is meeting an requirements of
the city board of health, according to
Miss Nell Stringfellow, physical direc-
| tor of the Y. w. g, A.
| Miss Anna G. Erickson, private sec
rotary to E. l. Copeland, secretary and
treasurer of the Santa Fe, has gone to
Lake Minnetonka, Mimi, where she
will spend couple of weeks on a
vacation.
The Christian Endeayer society of
the Central Congregational church
held a picnic at Gage park Thurs
! day evening A picnic supper was
served at $50 o'clock and the re-
maindeF of the evening was devoted
to games of various sorts.
The telegraph operators of the city,
and their families, will join in a big
picnic at Gage park next Sunday after
noon, starting at $40 o'clock. There
will be games and contests leading UP
| to a basket dinner at o'clock. 1t is
expected that about $50 photographers
will be present
| Raymond Blackburn, who was ar
rested by the police on a charge of
stealing d bicycle from w. T. Carpen-
| ter, local insurance man, confessed
that he is a deserter from the army,
according to Officers. Carpenter said
| he would swear out warrant chaFg-
ing Blackburn with petty larceny II
| it turns out that he is not deserter.
| There are 1000 pounds of water
melons in the cold storage room of the
| Beatrice Creamery company awaiting
| the big feast at the Masonic temple
I this evening. Orient Ledge No. al,
A. F. & A. NJ, is giving the feast s.
| D. Flora, master, said that he expect
ed all the 800 members to turn out
and each person will be allowed ten
pounds.
At a meeting held Thursday after
noon at the Y. NJ. c. A. the boys
work committee of the Y. NJ. C. A.
discussed the winters program for
boys activities. The committee re
ported favorably on the project to es-
tablish a boys camp near Topeka.
Members of the committee who were
kpresent yesterday were Frank Parker,
chairman; Q, W: Hascall. Ralph
Ayrault and Rad NJ Lee.
| 1t was evidently not with the hope
tended the Salvation Army services at
Sixth and Kansas avenues Thursday
night. They removed S125 from the
pocket of ID. H. Williams, 915 West
the music and preaching. Williams
did not discover the loss until some
time later, when he reported it to the
police. The thief has not been caught.
The sound of burglars saving
their way into the S. W. High grocery
store in North Topeka during the early
morning hours led passerby to call
the police. When the house was well
surrounded by bluecoats, who adj
vanced bravely to the charge, it was
discovered that the noise was caused
| by dogs chain. one end of which was
attached to a clothes line and made a
grating sound as the animal walked
back and forth.
| Two more arrests were made in the
silk theft Thursday afternoon. Theo
Jones and Oliver Thompson were
| taken into custody when deputy sher-
ifs found some silk underwear aid
den in Jones's bed at 400 East First
avenue. Minnie Jones, a negro woman
! thought to be from Kansas City, was
arrested Tuesday when some silks
were found at the house. The prop
| erty was identified by representatives
of the Pelletier's Store company
Thursday.
| When Everett ParneH, 1916 North
Topeka avenue, returned to his home
\ about 11:40 o'clock Thursday night,
after an absence of several hours, he
saw a negro leaving by way of the
! front door, he reported to the police.
Parnell hurried into the house, ex-
! pecting to find that it had been
! robbed. Nothing was missing, how
| ever. His wife was asleep and had
not heard the intruder. Her watch
and jewelry, which she had left lying
! q a c
said.
1 A new oo1ored business directory
/ has just been published in Topeka.
The directory contains the city traffic
rules and guide to the city streets
| and places of interest, in addition to
the business directory. The directory
| contains the names of colored bust
ness and professional men. A supple
| ment to the present directory will be
published in a week or ten days. This
supplement will contain a list of the
! coiored laboFerS in the city. The di-
reetory was compiled and published
by the Waterman Publishing COM
pany, 119 West 9Th street.
A suit to collect S3,0ee from Odessa
p. Bfckelhaupt and wife, who are said
now to be residing in Texas, was filed
in the district court today by Mrs.
Emma J. Ware, 1920 Harrison street.
/ Mrs. Ware says she purchased a farm
from the Bickelhaupts, who repre-
scented that their title was absolute
and that the land was free from all
encumbrances, except an $4,000 mort
tgage. After the transa ction, says Mrs.
| Ware, she discovered that Arthur
Anderson, negro who sued Biekel-
1 haupt for damages as a result of in
/ juries he sustained when his motor
cycle was struck by Bickelhaupt's car
on the Silver Lake road more than a
year ago, held a $2,50O judgment
against it. On August 10, the petition
states, the court issued an order to
sell the land to satisfy the judgment
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