The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-03
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

at lie, 49c and 99c. One hour sale
starts Friday morning, November 4,
at o'clock. Be there.-Adv.
If $50 delegates attend the older
boys conference which will be held at
Empor.a, November Is, 26 and 81,
they will receive reduced railroad
rates from any point in Kansas.
The new cafeteria in the r. R. Y. NJ.
c. A. will open next week. 1t is being
rebuilt from the room used for the
old gymnasium. The new room nous
ing the cafeteria will be thirty-six feet
wide and eighty feet long. The new
cafeteria will hold $50 people and
lunch and dinner will be served reg
ularly.
The orchestra, glee club. chorus and
stringed choir of the Topeka high
school will furnish a program at Il
day afternoon. They will also play
Friday afternoon at the high school
teachers meeting at the high school
auditorium. Miss Grace Wilson is in
charge.
After causing the arrest of Ernest
Yanaz, whom he accused of taking
SIS and a revolver from his pocket,
Gregario Rodriguez was himself ar
rested on a charge of carrying con-
cealed weapons. Yanaz claims that
during an argument the other MeXi-
can threatened to shoot him, and that
he hit him and took the gun away
from him.
be the subject of Harold Chase. who
will address the students of Washburn
college at chapel at 10 o'clock Mon
day morning. This address will be of
particular interest to the students OF
economics, political science and law.
Special seating arrangements will be
made for the law students who attend,
according to Dean P. S. Zampiere.
The final shot of the Salvation Army
in its 1921 budget campaign here will
be fired tomorrow when a corps of
girls from Strickler's Business college
will put on a tag day on Kansas ave-
nue.. The girls will be provided with
receiving cash donations. So far
about $4,000 of the $4,000 asked by
the Salvation Army this year has been
raised.
Two suits against~J. F. William
Renker, local hotel promoter, were
filed in the district court Wednesday
by the Bank of Topeka. One suit
asks judgment on a $500 note exc
cuted by J. B. Fields and endorsed
by Renker and the other seeks judg-
ment for the balance on a $500 note
given the bank by Renker and upon
which $165.73 has been credited, the
petition alleges.
Because there is evidence to show
that Sylvester Cermack sold some
home grown liquor, the attorney gem
erals office wants him deported. The
state department has written to AL
F. Williams, United States district at
torney, regarding the matter. Cermack
is Bohemian. He is alleged to have
given little heed to the dry laws in
Kansas or the federal eighteenth
amendment Now the state legal de-
Fpartment wants him sent back to the
old country as an undesirable citizen
The December issue of the Wash
burn college bulletin will be published
November Is. This viii be the alumni
number. 1t will be about the alumni,
for the alumni and by the alumni, ac-
cording to plans made at meeting at
the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
of the committee which was called
together to discuss the publication
The members of the committee are:
the college; A. ]. Carruth. Jr.; Ray
Yarnell, ]. Glen Logan and A. T.
Burch.
The dedicatory services for Penwell
hall, in the Odd Fellows temple were
held Wednesday night. Fred w.
Knapp, of Salina. grand master, made
the principal address of the evening.
A short program followed the services.
A motion picture comedy entitled THE
International Sneak was shown. VIII
]. Russell. grand secretary, delivered
a brief talk. PenweIl hall was named
in honor of the late Laroy NJ Pen
well, past grand master and past grand
representative of Topeka lodge No. 40,
I. o. o. F.
Organizations taking part in the
disarmament parade in Topeka Armi-
stice day are asked to confine their
banners 10 ones displaying sentiments
appropriate to the occasion. 1t is re-
quested that no banners be carried
showing the name of an organization.
Final arrangements for the parade
and for the later mass meeting at the
city auditorium will be completed at a
meeting of the general committee at
the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
evening at s O'Clock.
Drought has considerably damaged
the wheat crop in western Kansas,
eastern Colorado. and southwestern
Nebraska, according to F. A. Derby,
who has recently returned from trip
thru that country. The low prices of
wheat and corn are. stimulating the
misunderstanding activities of the
farmers in that section of the country,
Derby says. Corn is selling at from
20 to Is cents a bushel, and wheat at
from IS to SIS cents buShel, and both
grains are being released slowly. as
the farmers wait for an increase in
prices. or feed their grain to stock.
The second annual sale under the
auspices of the Shawnee County Short
horn Breeders association is being
held at the Free Fair grounds this
afternoon. Shawnee county breeders
have consigned a total of forty-six
animals-ten bulls and thirty-six cows
for the sale. The breeders include
Thomson Brother, of Dover and
Wakarusa; Harry Forbes, Harry
Holmes, James Pringle, H. E. Huber,
B. A. Christy and Frank Kingsley. The
sale will start at 1 o'clock this after
noon. Three auctiOneers will cry the
sale: Charles Crews and Ray Meyer,
of Topeka, and Col. L. G. Gross, of
Kansas City.
Figuratively speaking. John Dagan
raised the Jolly Roger Wednesday
evening. After becoming rather in
ebriated he removed a formidable
sword from the knights of Pythias
hall and started out to spread terror
in the vicinity of the Santa Fe wards