The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-16
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AT HOME NEWS


Tax exempt Kansas bonds. Shaw
nee Investment Co. 5S4 Kansas Ave.
Phone 5050.-Adv.
The Washburn Dramatic club will
present Miss Lulu Belts at the Grand
theater on Wednesday evening. April 5.
Diebold Safes and Filing Safes are
of real fire proof construction. Jos.
c. Wilson & Co, 525 Kansas Ave.
ADV.
A box supper will be given by the
Sons of Veterans auxiliary at the Roy
al Arcanum hall, 627 Kansas avenue,
at 8 clock tonight.
Robert d. McGiffert, city park COM
missioner, has ordered 100 new park
benches for the various city parks, to
be used during the summer.
w. H. Doorley, 327 CORTLAND ave-
nue. superintendent of the Adams
Brothers printing plant, has been
elected to the board of directors of
the company.
Sparks from "a chimney caused a
roof fire at 11:47 O'Clock this morn
ing at the home of r. B. Stevenson,
1921 North Jefferson street. The
damage was slight.
J. NJ. Kess1er, secretary of the state
taxpayers league. will tell of work of
the state convention in Topeka last
week when he talks to members of
the Farmers Union at Seabrook Fri
day night.
Dr. w. J. johnson of St Paul,
Mimi, associate secretary of the Pres
byterian board of temperance and
moral welfare, will speak at the West
minister Presbyterian church in To-
peka, Friday night, March 81.
When a four-inch steam line at the
city waterworks burst Wednesday,,
Elmer Short. an employe at the plant,
was severely scalded about the legs by
the escaping steam. He will be I'M
able to work for several weeks, it is
said.
The Central Y. NJ. c. A is planning
to give supper Wednesday evening,
March %, complimentary to the new
members of the organization. Invi-
tationS 70 the supper were mailed out
Wednesday by F. E. Breithaupt, Sec
rotary of the social and membership
department.
The members of the Loyal Workers
Sunday school class of the Central
Park Christian church held their
n onthly busin ess-sociaI meeting Tues
day evening at the home of Mrs. Laura
Nonken, West Sixteenth street. Thirty
three mem berS and friends were pres
ent. Hostesses were Mrs. c. L. Brit,
Mrs. c. r. Horner and Mrs. Nonken.
Mrs. Rosie S. MCGUIRE today filed
a petition in district court asking a
divorce from Willie NJ. Mcclure. She
asserts that May %, 1920, MCGUIRE
struck her over the head with a re-
volver and that when the police got on
his trail he left the city and has not
been heard from since. From that
date. she says, he has not contributed
a cent to her support. They were
married at Wichita in June, 1919.
J. w. Watkins. real estate man and
former mayor of Quenemo, Kan, has
been indicted by the grand jury at
Wichita on charges of using the mails
to defraud, according to AL F. Will
liams, United States district attorney.
He is alleged to have made certain
misrepresentation to obtain loans
from the Railroad Mems Building &
Loan association, of Newton. A first
degree forgery charge is also pending
against Watkins in the Shawnee coun-
ty district court as a result of his al
legged operations in this county.
The teams having the negative side
of the question of whether the Philip
pines should be granted their imme-
date independence had the best of it
in the debate Tuesday night between
the Washburn rural high school and
the Berryton high school. The mega
tive teams won at both places, 2 to /.
Final decision as to which of the
schools won the debate will be made
by combining the percentage grades
OF the two teams, and the winner will
meet the Seaman high school next
week. Oakland and Highland Park
Will debate tonight.
Contracts for furnishing material
for the new dormitory at Washburn
nave been let to several Topeka firms
by the Rand Construction company. of
Concordia, who secured the general
contract Mill work, lime, plaster and
lumber to the extent of 100000 will
be furnished by the w. I. Miller Lum-
Der company; cement to the cost of
$1,000 by the Thomas Lumber COM
pany; structural, steel, reinforcing
steel. floor pans and miscellaneous
iron work to the value of $1,000 by
the Topeka Iron & Foundry company:
cut stone from the Senne Construction
company to the value of $4,000.
A spelling contest was held We'd
nesday night at the Seaman rural
high school. with three classes of con-
testants entered. ]. W. Cochran, presi-
dent of the board of education of the
Seaman rural high school district,
won first place in the adult class,
defeating his son, V. r. Cochran, in
the final contest. Cochran received a
leather bill fold as a prize. The grade |
school class winner was Dorothy
Gallagher, who defeated Eliza beth
Robinson, and was awarded an auto |
graph album. These two girls missed
the same word but inasmuch as Miss
Robinson misspelled the word first. |
Miss Gala CHER was declared the win
ner. In the same manner. Miss Eva |
French. of the Topeka high school.
won in that class over GLADYS Taylor