The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-19

George Franklin, Tip" Upton, NJ.
Mating. Clarence Gray, James Brown
and William McCarty. All were re-
leased on bond.
Ray Harshbarger, heralded by the
members of the program committee
as the worlds greatest legerdemain
artist" is the headliner for the enter
ment program of the Cooperative
club Tuesday evening. Dinner will be
/! served at 6:15 o'clock. o. T. Croppec
and E. A. Thrill are in charge of the
Coop. program.
Charged with beating and choking
his wife at their home on Highland
avenue Saturday night. NJ. J. Port was
arrested Sunday morning by Sheriff
Robert Miller and locked up in the
county Jail. Mrs. Port told the officers
that she was compelled to spend the
night with a neighbor after her hus-
band had beaten her up.
After breaking up the dishes, mir
rors and furniture i'll the home of Mrs.
Emma McLain, sos East Thirteenth
street, Andrew Kelly, negro, went to
his own home across the street and
broke up all his own furniture Sat
urday afternoon He was arrested
by the police and locked up the city
jail Too much corn whisky was given
as the cause of Kelly's destructive in
clinatiOns.
The Rev. L. C. Cutler. who has been
filling the pulpits OF the Methodist
Episcopal churches in this district, has
been appointed pastor of the First
Methodist church, of BellevilIe. Kan,
and will take up his new duties, jan
uAry l. He was formerly pastor of the
Methodist church at Smith Center,
Kan. Mrs. Cutler is a daughter of DR..
and Mrs. A. L. Harrison, 1171 Null
vane street
Marjorie Lawson, 126 Adams street,
was arrested Saturday night by police
who raided her home and confiscated
a small quantity of home brew, wine
and whisky. A small jug of vinegar
was confiscated under the Supposition
that it was liquor. The officers did
not notice the mistake until the jug
was opened at police headquarters.
Topeka has the third largest free
night school for ex-service men of all
the schools conducted by the Knights
of Columbus in the midwestern terri
tory, including schools at Omaha, Den
yer. Houston, Fort Worth, San Antonio
and Oklahoma City. -Four hundred
and twelve students We're enrolled in
the school during the month of
October.
The chorus of the First Methodist
church, consisting of seventy voices,
and assisted by several soloists gave a
cantata entitled "Messiah's Advent, !"
by Adam Gabriel, at the high school
auditorium Sunday evening. The SOLO
lists were: Miss Inez Tiffany, soprano;
Miss Juanita Mcdowell, contralto;
Mano Morris, tenor, and Nels Nelson,
bass. The ladies' trio. consisting of
Miss Tiffany, Miss Helen Malmstrom
and Miss Lillian Malmstrom, sang spe-
cial parts of the cantata.
A civil service examination for three
government jobs will be held at the
Topeka postoffice January 10, accord
ing to Leroy Powell, local secretary of
the United States civil service bureau.
The places to be filled are: assistant
to the chief, children's bureau, depart
ment of labor. with a salary of $4,000
to $500; photographic transferer in
the weather bureau, salary 81, 200; tex
tile assistant, qualified as knitter,
salary $1,000 to $500. An examina-
ton for medical interns at St. Eliza
beth's hospital. Washington, D. c., will
also be held March l.
W. z. Coy, formerly assistant to the
president of the National Reserve Life
Insurance company has been ap-
pointed superintendent of agent for