The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-09

spending his vacation. During his alb
sence Sleeper is being relieved of his
duties with the Union Pacific by w.
A. Hockensmith, relief agent.
A musicale viii lbe given at $3.50
\ o'clock Tuesday night at the Quinton
Heights Baptist church, Twenty
fourth and Lincoln streets. Mr..
Imrie, a Scotch baritone, will sing.
He is a singer of ability, and Will be
assisted by Mrs. Imrie and local talent
The advance car of Ringing Broth
ers and Barnum & Bailey circus,
with a crew of about twenty-five men,
is in Topeka, today, tic plaster the
town with posters advertising the cir
Gus which is coming here september
/ %. The advance car goes from here
! to St. Joseph, Mo.
The Dooley Lightning Rod COM
pany is now located in its new build
!. ing at 514 West Third street, having
moved there a few days ago from 217
West Fifth street. where it was locat-
| ed for fifteen years. Growth or the
business forced the company to secure
new and larger quarters, it's owners
say.
John ]. Jones and ]. E. Rogers. of
| Quinter, Kan, doing business under
| the firm name of JoneS-Rogers,
4, Thursday filed a suit in the Shawnee
county district court against the
Union Pacific Railroad company ask
! ing for $626.74, which they allege Is
! due them for wheat which they claim
| the railroad company lost in transit.
Clyde E. Partridge. a graduate of
! Washburn college and former prin-
cipal of Oakland high school, is
spending his vacation with his parents
| during the month of September. Part
| ridge has been attending Rush Medi-
cal school in Chicago and has been
pledged to the Phi Chi fraternity. He
| will resume his medical studies at Chi
cago university october 3.
Deputy Sheriff O. S. Perkins left
Thursday night for Hutchinson with a
warrant for Lewis Sample. who is
wanted here to answer to charge
| of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses Sample was arrested by the
authorities at Hutchinson at the re-
quest of the sheriff's office here. Per
kins and his prisoner are expected to
return to Topeka this afternoon.
Miss Barbara FARRELL, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank FARRELL. has re-
turned from Mallett's Bay, VT, where
she has been editing a weekly paper
for a girls summer camp. Miss Jar
rell has been away from Topeka for
lege, Roanoke, Va. but will attend
Washburn college this year. She is a
graduate of the Topeka high school
The board of county commissioners
has received a petition signed by a
number of residents in the vicinity of
| Fourth and Harrison streets who ask
| that the county either move or ADAM
don the detention home located at 400
Harrison. That the home often houses
undesirable persons who are unfit ito
associate with the children of the
neighborhood is the basis of the petit
ton.
w. H. Cushing, superintendent of
the state free employment bureau, re-
ports that the demand for competent
farm help now exceeds the supply.
| Farmers are now cutting corn for
silos and are also engaged in getting
their land ready for the fall wheat
sowing and are needing help badly.
Good wages are being offered but
there seems to be few competent men
| available.
I Topeka bank clearings for the week
ending Thursday noon showed a neat
gain over those of the week before
and also for the corresponding week
of a year ago, according to Theodore
Mueller, manager of the local clear
| week just ended were SO, 140, 229.71 as
compared with $3.50, 1858 the week
before, and $2,170,02155, for the same
week in 1920.
Chief of Police Guy Swallow walked
into the police station this morning
armed with a gun and club and ap-
piled for a place on the force. Within
two minutes he jumped into his car
and acted as driver on a police call
The chief returned home Thursday
from a motor car trip to Wyoming
where he owns a ranch. He was alb
sent about two weeks.
J. D. Zimmerman. director of re-
ligious education for the Christian
churches of Kansas, will leave Satur-
day for Vining, Kan, where he will
attend the picnic and basket lunch OF
the Christian church to be held al
that place Sunday. Zimmerman will
speak at the picnic Sunday afternoon
From Vining he will go to Concordia
to speak at the Concordia Christian
church Sunday night. He will return
to Topeka Monday.
If the Topeka high school decides
to put on an entertainment next June
or even in several Junes to follow, II
need only to change the name of the
play it gave on June IT, this year, anC
the street advertising it put out Al
that time will do. In advertising 1t.
last June play. the students used white
paint on the street paving instead Of
the customary whitewash. AS result