The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-15
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All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
| Co., 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
After ten years service as a mis-
sionary in Egypt, c. A. owen is visit
ing his father, ]. w. owen, 2021 Clay
street He expects to spend two
months vacation in Topeka before
returning to his work in Egypt
| The Kansas State Teachers asso-
citation has increased its actlvltles TO
such an extent that five large office
rooms are occupied instead of two as
originally. The association publishes
The Kansas Teacher, a monthly maya
, zine, and also conducts a teachers
placement bureau.
| The Boy Scouts who have been
swimming every Tuesday at the Cen
trail Y. NJ. c: A viii be allowed 10
swim every Monday and Friday for
the rest of the summer. starting to-
day. The boys who work during the
| day will take their swims on Monday
and Friday evenings.
| A school for patrol leaders has been
| started by Troop 2 of the Topeka Boy
Scouts. The school will be held on
the third Saturday Of each month, be-
ginning Saturday, July 16. The school
| will be open not only to the patrol
leaders, but to the other members OF
the troop. 1t will be held at O'CLOCK
in the evening.
| The state house has been compare
lively quiet this week with two OF
the busiest state officials absent. Both
Governor Allen and Clyde M. Reed,
chairman of the public utilities COM
I mission, are representing Kansas on
the Canadian United States inspec-
| ton trip of the Great Lakes-St. Law
renee Tidewater association.
The 1922 automobile license tags.
contract for which has just been let
| by L. J. Pettijohn, secretary of state,
will be just the reverse of the color
scheme in the tags now being issued
| for the last six months OF 1921. the
1922 tag will have a black background
with orange numerals, while the cur
rent tag has an orange background
with black numerals.
| Alleging that she has had to sup
port herself since her marriage
month ago, Mrs. HiIdred Tanner, PA
East Fourth avenue, today filed a Pc
tition in the district court asking a
divorce from Rudolph ]. Tanner. She
wants $50 a month alimony, attorneys
fees and the restoration of her maiden
name of Hildred Duncan. A restrain
| ing order was issued to enjoin him
from coming to her home.
A cigar or cigaret butt thrown from
an upper window of the building in
which the Chamber of Commerce is
located landed on a pile of sacks. ly-
| ing on a table in the inner court of
the building Thursday night. The
sacks were still smoldering and the
table had caught fire when workers
in the building reported this morning.
A little more progress of the fire
would have endangered the entire
building.
Oliver Wilson, of Peoria. Ill, was
| the principal speaker at a meeting of
| the Shawnee County Pomona grange,
held at the Highland Park school
| Thursday night. Wilson, who IS a past
master of the national grange, is maxi
| ing a tour of the state with B. Need
man. state master. He spoke of the
| probability of the national grange
coming to Kansas next year, touched
upon legislative matters and said that
the grange should do more community
1 building.
Figuring that they can save money,
many Topeka industrial plants are
| turning to oil for fuel purposes. Oil
| is cheaper than coal and besides the
latter is scheduled to take another in
crease soon. Some of the institutions
preparing to use oil are the Willis
| Norton mills, Topeka laundry, Sey-
mour Packing and Wolff Packing
| companies, Mutual Ice company, To-
peka Edison company and the Ismert-
Hincke Milling company. The Edison
company is spending about $4,000 in
changing its equipment.
Frank L. Pinet, secretary of the
Kansas State Teachers association.
| left Friday night for Parsons, Kan.
From Parsons he will go to Erie.
where he will attend the Neosho coun-
ty teachers institute. He will return
| to Topeka the latter part of next week.
w. A. Billy will be the prin
speaker at the mass meeting of the
National Association for the Advance
| ment of CoIored People to be. IBID at
st. Johns A. NJ. E. church at 50 cT0ck
Sunday afternoon. Delegates to the
national conference at Detroit will
make reports at the meeting.
W. H lines has been elected presi-
dent of the Topeka Merchants asso
citation, succeeding w. E. Brelsford,
who resigned a few days ago. Brels-
ford who is now in Colorado, sent his
resignation to the directors of the
/ association by mail and gave i'll health
as the reason for wishing to give up
| the place. 1t is said that het later ex-
poets to take medical treatment at the
Mayo hospital at Rochester, Mimi,
| and it was only thru consideration
| for his own welfare that his resigna-
| ton was accepted. He and lines
| change places with the association, as
| Brelsford will act as vice president,
the office formerly held by lines.