The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


held at the church at 1890 o'clock this
evening.
Charles B. Griffith, Republican
nominee for attorney general, is the
principal speaker today at reunion
and picnic in Morganville
A marriage license was issued IN
Kansas City Wednesday, to Dorothea
Z. Trembly. 10. of Topeka. and Char
les P. Dunbar. %, of Kansas City.
There's nothing stirring in these
offices but a cool breeze" w. X Etter.
general manager of the eastern lines
of the Santa Fe, announced this morn
ing.
Mrs NJ. Bedison has become head
of the millinery department of the
Edwards Cloak company, sos Kansas
avenue. She succeeds Mrs. Ethel
Brooks.
No smallpox cases have been re-
ported in Topeka since April. accord
ing to Dr. Earle g. Rrc - ~ = -
officer. There are only two cases Of
typhoid fever. Decor - o..lI $50,
E. ]. Turner of Los Angeles is visit
ing friends in Topeka. Turner was at
one time congressman from the Sixth
district. This is his first trip to the
old home state in nearly twenty-five
years.
Mrs. A o. Beach, Miss Nadine
Beach and Junior Beach left today for
Baldwin, Kan, where they will make
their home during the school year.
Miss Beach will attend Baker univer-
s.ty this fall.
Following filing of custer suit seek
ing removal of c. r. Teeters as sheriff
Of Sherman county, the supreme court
issued an order suspending the Of
ficer from service. The suspension
order will be In force until the case Is
determined.
w. w. Mcconnell. principal of Win
field high school. Winfield, Kan, has
been appointed secretary of the KAN
sas State High School Athletic asso-
citation to succeed Will French, super
intendentS of the Winfield schools,
who resigned.
NJ. w Watson, state highway engi-
neer addressed the regular meeting of
the Topeka Lions club at the Elks at
noon today. Watson talked to the
Lions on good roads, and the means Of
on their construction.
The "Howdy Tent of the Topeka
Chamber of Commerce is being erect
| ed today on the grounds of the Kansas
Free Fair. The Chamber of Com
merce tent will house an information
| for the holding OF group and organiza-
| ton meetings during the fair.
w. c. Markham of Baldwin, former
secretary of the state highway COM
mission. has been appointed to a posi-
ton with the bureau of roads in the
federal department of agriculture.
For some time Markham has repre-
| scented the state highway commissions
| in lobby work before congress.
A warrant was sworn out today by
the United States attorney for Allen
| White, a colored soldier now held in
custody at Fort Riley. White is
charged with forging four government
4 vI-fI
toned at Fort Benning, Ga. He Is
alleged to have cashed these four
regular allotment checks made out to
his wife, Carrie White.
/ The trial docket of the district court
Of the United States for the district of
Kansas, second division, converting at
| Wichita September rs, has been re-
| ceived by F. L. Campbell, clerk of the
United States district court in Topeka.
A total Of 151 cases are listed. OF
these, eighteen are criminal. six
bankruptcy. seventy-two law cases,
and fit five equity cases.
The of teaching pupils of the
| Topeka -hools thrift by having them
make savings deposits regularly thru
| the school year will be continued this
year, according to H. F. Guthrie, cash
| Ter of the Kansas Reserve State bank.
Guthrie believes that 5000 Topeka
| school children will become depositors
in the bank this year. He says that
| 79 per cent of all those enrolled last
| year had savings accounts with the
| bank.
The operation of the Checker Cab
and Baggage bus line between Topeka
| and Lawrence and between Topeka
and St. Marys has been taken over
by o. NJ. Estes. The local business
| of the Checker company remains in
the possession of NJ. Hicks. Guy Helm,
A. H. Shaw, Harrison Graham. Pat
rick Reynolds and James McRoberts,
| according to an announcement made
! today. NJ. Hicks is manager of the
company.
I Fred E. Gates, superintendent of the
department of business and organiZa-
ton of the Kansas Sunday School as
ISOLATION, will resume his duties the
! latter part of this week. He has spent
the summer in chautauQua work. Miss
Bonita Ferguson, superintendent OF
the young peoples division of the as
ISOLATION, will return to Topeka this
week from Mount Morrison, Colo,
where she spent the summer in young
peoples work.
A meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the organization of former
Pennsylvanians who are now residents
of Shawnee county, was held at the
Chamber of Commerce at noon today,
and 1t was determined to hold the an
nual picnic of the association on Sep
TENDER 81, on the grounds of the Boys
Industrial school, under the super
vision of Major w. P. MacLean, super
intendent. The committee on enter
tainment is headed by DR.. e. J. Kulp.
Sunday school workers of Shawnee
county will hold a meeting at 1880
o'clock Friday evening at the Y.W.C.A
to discuss the work of the Shawnee
County Sunday School association
Plans will be made for the presenta-
ton of a drama, "Pilgrim's Progress
in Topeka. November 9. 10 and IL