The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-03
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

.ty Will denver an ADDRESS on SiiA
coblems'' this evening at 6:15 o'clock
the Chamber of Commerce, before
meeting of the Kiwanis club.
Jackson's Twenty-third Regimental
and gave a municipal concert at the
city auditorium Sunday afternoon.
Three hundred persons attended. 1t
was the last municipal concert of the
season.
Speed F. Hughes has resigned as
ASHER of the Bank of Topeka. He
mas been succeeded by Harry D.
Wolf, formerly assistant cashier.
Hughes has not yet announced his
plans for the future.
Two additional teIlers' windows are
being installed at the Merchants Ma
tional bank. Growth of the banks
business makes the additional facili-
ties necessary, according to F. M
Bonebrake, vice-president.
A marked decrease in arrests and
fines in Topeka during the month of
September is shown in the monthly
police report. Arrests totaled 3O8,
with $1,628 in fines, as compared
with 40 arrests and $3,06S in fines
in August.
The entire membership of the
Chamber of Commerce is invited to
a forum meeting, which will be held
in the Chamber of Commerce rooms
at 1915 o'clock Tuesday noon. Ben
Blow of San Francis will be the
speaker. His subject is The Victory
Highway as a Memorial"
For the benefit of the William NAL
lory invention, a five-day fair and
carnival will be held at Metropolitan
hall beginning today. A special pro-
gram has been arranged for each
night. Mallory, who has invented
combination hot water and hot air
furnace, will be introduced Friday
evening.
THAT Something" is the title of the
motion picture film which was shown
at the Central Congregational church
Sunday evening. Nine hundred people
were present. The Seattle Rotary club
dedicated the film to the International
Rotary clubs of the world. The mem
bers of the Topeka Rotary club were
guests at the service.
According to Fred VoiIand, of the
Voiland- Engel Clothing company. who
has just returned from a business
trip to New York and other eastern
points, the clothing industry is again
at full production and operating on
thoroly sound basis. The price of
clothing, Voiland says, is almost so
per cent cheaper than it was two
years ago.
After the Sunday morning service
at the Unitarian church, the minister,
the Rev. Clifton Merritt Gray, left for
Detroit, where he will spend the week
attending the meetings of the General
Conference of Unitarian churchs of
tho United States and Canada, which
will close on Friday evening. The
Rev. Mr.. Gray will return to Topeka
in time to conduct the usual services
of the church here next Sunday.
John H. Armstrong of the Univer-
sity of Illinois VIII be in Topeka Octo-
Der SIS to take charge of preliminary
organization work among alumni for
the Illinois Memorial Stadium cam
paign which will start November 1.
The Illini Stadium, the largest in
America, will be dedicated to heroes
of the state and university who fought
in the world war. Students have al
ready pledged 100000 to the fund.
Leonard Allen, of Topeka, who was
arrested here and returned at the re-
quest of Iowa authorities several
weeks ago, has been convicted of rob-
bling shoe store there and sentenced
to a term of not more than ten years
in the penitentiary, according to
word received here. While under ar
rest here Allen exhausted every means
of obtaining his release by habeas
corpus proceedings without success.
James NJ. kirkpatrick, national
president of the Security Benefit as
ISOLATION, failed in his attempt to
break the will of his father, the late
W. B. Kirkpatrick, when Judge
George H. Whitconb sustained a de-
murrer filed by the defendants and
the case was thrown out of court.
Kirkpatrick, who inherited only 81,
questioned the validity of the will and
made his brothers and sisters de-
PENDANT in case to set it aside.
The young peoples work of the Sal
walton Army is progressing as well in
Topeka as in any city in this division,
according to Commandant Frank
oil TrTfT,O Eld OH IF E11o Col
ton Army services Sunday. Genge
stated that there were 400 young men
and women in the training colleges
of the Salvation Army this year as
compared with only ESQ last year.
Theodore Hamilton and Mary Morris
two Topeka young people, are attend
ing the training school of the army at
Chicago.
Final plans for the representation
of Capitol Post No. 1 of the American
Legion at the national convention at
Kansas City, october 81 and Novem-
Der 1 and 2, will be made at the regu-
lar meeting OF the post Thursday eve
ming. Every member who desires to
attend the convention should be pres
ent at the meeting Thursday evening
in order to arrange for reduced rail-
road fare. The final list of members
OF the drum and bugle corps who will
go to Kansas City will be made at that
time.
Roy Payne of the Payne Taxicab
company knows nothing. he says, of a
strike among his employees and the
formation of another taxicab company
under the name of the Union Taxicab
& Baggage company. "a reporter for
a morning newspaper told me some
thing about 1t the other evening" said
Payne, but that's all I know about
this other company" Payne admitted
that he was forced to discharge three
of his men for inefficiency and that
several others quit, saying they were
dissatisfied.
The Rev. R. A. Scheu began his
fourth year as pastor of the First
Christian church Sunday and in a re-
view of the work accomplished by the
church in the last three years, he gave
his congregation an outline of the vari-
Gus projects undertaken and some
thing of the success in each depart
Imept. The records show that the church