The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-29
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Tax exempt Kansas bonds. Shaw
nee Investment Co. 534 Kansas Ave.
Phone s050.-Adv.
The Sundstrand Adding Machine is
the pioneer portable adding machine.
JOS c. Wilson & Co, 525 Kansas ave.
| ADV.
The ladies' of division / 8, Holy Name
Guild. will meet Thursday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. NJ. A. Hefner,
1907 West street.
Round Table chapter No. .. order
of De Molly. will hold its banquet and
stunt nigh at $50 o'clock this eve
ming at tho Masonic temple.
Frank C. Richards, general secre-
tary OF the Kansas Sunday School as
sociation, left Wednesday for a tour
covering southeastern Kansas. He
will stop at the following cities: lola,
Pittsburg, Chanute and Olathe.
The Round Table Lenten class con-
Quoted by the Rev. Clifton Merritt
Gray. minister of the First Unitarian
church, will discuss Conversion and
salvation" at the meeting in the
church parlors at 1880 O'Clock this
evening.
Ed Willis. a widely known restaur-
ant man, has purchased the Don
Shaffer cafe, 121 West Sixth avenue.
Willis, who was formerly connected
with the Chesterfield and Rodgers
cafes, Will take possession Of the Shaf-
fer cafe at once.
-Four persons were arrested Tues
day night when police raided the
rooms upstairs over 1904 East Sixth
avenue. Doc Cook and Gertrude
Wright We're arrested on charges of
having liquor in their possession. H.
Z. Piper and W. II. Toedte were
booked for being found in
More volunteer seamstresses are
needed for the ProYident association
sewing club, which met at 9 O'clock
this morning at the Provident asso-
cha ton. The society also needs the
use of two sewing machines. Altho
seventy yards of cloth was received
from the Mistletoe club, more cloth
is needed
Mr.. and Mrs. George Reuter-, 1125
Harrison street, viii leave early IN
Nav for visit to Germany, the land
Of his birth. They have been in this
country forty-one years. Reuter- came
to Topeka and went to work as a cob
bier, in 1883. He was in business in
Topeka for thirty-seven years, selling
his business eventually to Joseph j.
DeKrell.
Russell Grimes. local billiard ex-
pert will meet a. A. Sharpe of Sa-
lima, Kansas champion for the 1S.2
inch baik line, in match for the
state championship. April 10 and IL
Five hundred points win be played in
Topeka at the Tromp & Cole parlors
on April 10 and five hundred points
will be played at Salina on April IL.
The winner will be awarded prize of
500. ..-
The FACULTY Guild of Topeka high
school will hold its annual election of
officers at a meeting at 3 o'clock Fri
day afternoon at the high school The
present officers of the guild are: AL
bert H. Winter, president: Miss Carmie
Wolfe, first vice president; Miss Alma
Calvert, second vice president; Miss
Jean Robertson, recording secretary;
Miss Minnie Z. Jones. corresponding
secretary; Miss Edna c Austin, treas
urer, and William H. Greider, sergeant
at arms.
The sEIennen hotel. Twelfth street
and Baltimore avenue, Kansas City,
Mo, has been purchased by the
Mostly Brothers, owners OF the Ma
tional hotel in Topeka. Charles
Mosby will manage the new acquisi-
ton of the two brothers while James
Mosby will manage the National in
Topeka. The Glennon has 100 rooms,
is modern equipped. and was remod-
eled as to interior less than two years
ago. Mosby Brothers purchased the
hotel from the Gerraughty Hotel COM
pany, OF which Eugene Gerraughty is
the head.
A matrimonial venture undertaken
by Mrs. Lpvenia S. Ferris, 10, and
Harold NJ. Ferris, 20, by the terms of
which the young man was to inherit
her property at her death. came to an
end Tuesday afternoon when Judge
James A. Mcclure in the district court
granted Mrs. Ferris a divorce and
confirmed her title to her property.
Young Ferris was the nephew of the
old lady's first husband. A pre-nup-
tial agreement provided that he would
inherit her property at her death but
this agreement was finally rescinded
and Mrs. Ferris brought the divorce
suit. alleging that he had failed to
support her Mrs Ferris testified that
on the contrary she bought all his
and paid all his bills, even his
cigaret bills. Ferris did not. appear to
contest the case and the decree was
given by default.
AIDS SMITH CENTER WHEAT.