The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-28
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nee Investment Co, 5S4 Kansas Ave.
Phone 5050.-Adv.
DR.. A E. Gregory's Community
Bible class held a meeting at the Y.
w. c. A. this afternoon. The subject
of the meeting was 1.-THE Boyhood of
Jesus"
Jackson's Twenty-third regimental
band will give a benefit concert for its
leader, G.. w. Jackson, at o'clock this
eveningat Metropolitan hall, 4O4 Kan
sas avenue.
The four Hi-Y clubs of Topeka and
vicinity, WaShburn, Seaman, Topeka,
and colored Hi-Y clubs, will hold a
joint meeting Monday night at the
Central Y. NJ. c. A.
Six Topeka families need blankets
and are suffering as a result OF the
cold weather, according to Miss Nir-
ginia Campbell, secretary of the To-
peka Provident association.
Warren Hankins, of Atchison, presi-
dent of the Christian Endeavor union
of the northeast Kansas district, held
a conference with officers of the Kan
sas Sunday School association Monday
The city commission this morning
granted petition for the paving or
Brooks avenue from Eighth avenue to
Tenth avenue, and passed, on first
reading, a resolution providing for the
paving.
Ralph Z. Funk, 1892 Jackson street,
and William W. Mason, 219 East
| Eleventh street, graduates of the Hi
nois College of Photography, have re-
Photographic work.
The Topeka Chamber of Commerce
today telegraphed to the president OF
the Kansas jewelers. association, now
| in annual convention at Wichita, an
invitation to hold the 1928 Convention
!
Mrs. Rose Gladys Burr today filed
petition in the district court asking
divorce from Charles F. Burr, who
she says has abandoned her. They
were married at Basin, Wyo., in April,
1917, according to the petition.
E. V. King. topeka photographer.
! has been appointed a member of the
council of the International Photo
graphic association. The association
| is to hold an international convention
at Kansas City, May l to 5, of this
year.
| Beginning Wednesday evening at
| 1880 o'clock the Rev. Clifton Merritt
Gray. minister of the First Unitarian
| church, GA Topeka boulevard, Will
conduct in the church parlors a series
| of discussions on Modern Interpreta-
lions of Religion"
John Glover pleaded guilty in the
district court Monday to charge of
\ maintaining a nuisance and having
| liquor in his possession. Milton Miner
The sentences of both men were de-
ferred until March IA.
Mrs. Eva Lauman today filed a pc
! tition in the district court asking a
| divorce from George 1auman, charg-
ing that he has abandoned her. They
were married in May, 1915. She also
asks that her maiden name, Eva Har-
rOld be restored to her.
A suit to collect S1,41O.29 balance
on a $4,953.54 account which it claims
/ it holds against the Midwest Tire
| company, of Topeka, for tires, was
filed in the district court Monday
afternoon by the India Tire & Rubber
company, of Mogadore, o.
The death toll in Topeka during
the month of February may yet reach
the mark of eighty eight set in Janu-
airy. At noon today only eighty-two
deaths had been reported for the
/ month, but DR.. Earle G. Brown, city
ports will reach his office in the next
few days.
Tom Powell, who lives at the corner
of Fifth and Fillmore streets, at
tempted to clean the snow from his
| sidewalks with a vacuum cleaner this
morning. The scheme worked beautI-
fully for about three feet from the
porch steps-then the cleaner became
| grounded" and the electric current
| burned out the cord.
Attendance from Kansas at the next
national convention of the National
Association of Commercial Secretaries
to be held at Chicago in November
will be managed by Guy c. Sickler
secretary of the Topeka Chamber OF
Commerce. Seeker has been named
a member of the attendance commit
tee of the national organization.
Mrs. Laura Parks Miller, of Evan
| ston, Ill, national director of the de-
partment of women in industry of the
w. c. T. u, and Mrs. Elizabeth A.
Perkins. national director of the de-
partment of child welfare of the w
c. T. u. will attend the conference of
state officials of the organization
which Will be held here Thursday and
Friday.
A suit to collect s5,eoS.s5 from the
I McCord-Kistler Mercantile company
was filed in the district court today
by John NJ. Leeper He claims that
the sum is due him for money adj
vanced the company for paying labor
and material charges and also as a
fee for experimenting the construc-
ton of warehouses and other buildings
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