The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-16
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Miss Nora SIler, a returned mission
airy from Porto Rico. will speak at the
First Christian church Sunday morn
ing at IL o'clock.
The city hall baseball team will
play the fire department team in Gar
field park this afternoon. The game
was called at $3.50 O'Clock.
Twelve persons attended the free
tuberculosis clinic at the city board
of health Friday afternoon Five of
the applicants for examination were
children.
Mrs. NJ. G. Reed and son. Irwin.
who have been visiting Mrs. Reeds
sister, Miss May Owen, 1O4 East
Seventh street. returned to their home
at Soldier. Kan. today.
Ben H. Abels. who was with the
Topeka State bank for eight years and
who left last fall to become cashier
of a. country bank, is again with the
Topeka State bank as assistant CASH
Ter.
DIR. Homer Collins has returned
from a vacation spent in Canada and
will be in charge of the regular free
skin disease clinic at the city board
of health Monday afternoon from to
5 o'clock.
Miss Louise McNeak has been ap-
pointed temporary secretary of the
state travelling Libraries to succeed
the late Mrs. Adrian D. Green. The
appointment was made by the su-
preme court.
Towns of Upton and Hunter, in
Mitchell county, have filed protests
with the public utilities commission
alleging discrimination in electric
rates charged by the United Light &
Power company.
A. A. Remington, state secretary of
the Y. NJ. C. A, will leave next week
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tend the summer session of the Y. NJ.
c. A training school. He will return
to Topeka about August 1.
The Missouri Pacific has filed with
| the public utilities commission a
schedule for reduced freight rates on
gas-oil petroleum, amounting to one
half cent. The rate applies between
Arkansas City and Neodesha only.
The Kinsley Electric Light & Power
company, which has been granting a
10 per cent reduction in service
charges, has applied to the public
utilities commission for permission to
make a further reduction of 10 per
cent.
Nelson Benning, general secretary of
Sunday for Estes Park, Colo. where
he will attend the Y. NJ. C. A. sum-
mer school. Benning also intends to
spend his vacation at Estes Park with
about September 1.
Elisha Scott, local colored attorney,
left Friday night for Tulsa. Okla,
where he has been engaged by the
relief board of the colored people of
that place to assist them in their ef-
fort to recover damages resulting from
| the loss of life and property in the
race riots at Tulsa recently. Claims
! for $5,000,000 will probably be filed
against insurance companies for loss
of property.
DR.. w. w. Billings has located in
Topeka and will be associated with his
| brother. DIR. A. E. Billings, in room
230 in the Flew England building. The
latter is the national medical director
for the Security Benefit association.
DIR. ". w. Billings is living at 439
Laurel avenue. He has been practic-
| ing in st. Louis for the past year. His
wife, son and daughter will arrive in
Topeka, Monday.
A special sale, beginning July %
and lasting for a period of two weeks.
will mark the tnirty-sixth anniversary
of the founding of the W. E. Culver
Hardware company. 829 Kansas ave
nue.. This store was one of the first
business institutions to be located
south of Eighth avenue and was
founded in 1885 by w. E. Culver and
M M Bailey. The present manager is
w. W. Culver, a son of w. E. Culver.
| Miss Frances KaIlstedt, a national
field secretary of the Woman's Home
Missionary society of the Methodist
church, will be guest of honor at a
banquet given at Lowman church, Fri
day evening, July %. All Queen
young women of the city will be
guests At 4 o'clock a "get ac-
quainted" party will be held. followed
by banquet at o'clock. At 8
o'clock Miss Kallstedt will speak.
| An abnormal number of prisoners
! for the summer months are confined
in the county Jail, according to Charles
Hixon. jailer. The inmates now num-
/ Der forty, all of whom are men,
charged chiefly with petty crimes. A
few days ago the number was up to
! fifty. The abnormal figures have pre-
vailed all spring and summer, Hixon
said. 1t is the largest number for the
summer months Hixon has known
since his seven years connection with
/ the Jail. he said.
| This is the prime season of the year
for complaining. according to Aaron
series of complaints for Green.
When the telephone rings in the san
| itary department Green said he did
not know whether the complaint was
to be about weeds. garbage, trash,
ashes, pigs. goats, chicken pens or nu-
merouS Other causes citizens have, but
that 1t was sure to be a complaint.
/ Warm weather does not improve dis
positions or develop patience" Green
observed.
Feeling that the second hand auto
mobile show, which will open Monday
morning, will not be complete without
it, the members of. the Motor Car
| Dealers association have been bring
| ing strong pressure upon Vernon E.
Bundy, assistant secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce. to display his
famous Metz. model 1774, horn, cur
tains. squeaks. chain drive n'every-
thing. AS all cars to be displayed are
to be for sale, Bundy is manfully hold
ing out. fearing that some collector
of antiques would insist on buying the
Metz, and he doesn't want to part
with it.
The second annual convention of
the Woman's Auxiliary of the United