The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-11
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1.-The Oriole," home built airplane,
| is to be taken to Norton. Kan. on a
| flying arrangement Friday. The ship
will be returned to Topeka Saturday.
The fire department made a boot
I less trip to Topeka boulevard at s:19
O'Clock Wednesday evening in answer
to a fire alarm which turned out to
be false.
Dudley 3. johnson of the firm of
johnson & Beck. is i'll at his home,
1926 Harrison street, with pneumonia.
He was reported this morning as
being improved.
Several members of the Topeka Club
of Printing House Craftsmen will at
tend the national convention of the
Mass, August % to September ..
A motion picture entitled, ct. Havi-
land Hicks" will be presented at
o'clock Friday evening at Redden
chapel. There will also be a comedy
reel and travelogue reel on the pro-
gram.
Round Table chapter No. of the
order of De Molay will hold open house
for the relatives of the members on
the evening OF Tuesday, May 16. The
"Kitchenette band" of the First
Methodist church will furnish enter
tainment.
There is to be a conference of boy
scout executives from several middle
western states at Lincoln, Neb., next
week to discuss summer activities for
the scouts. John B. Floyd, boy scout
executive for Topeka, will attend the
conference.
Today is the eleventh anniversary
of the opening of the Diment & Klein
clothing store, 602 Kansas avenue.
The store was IS by rs feet when it
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,604 Kansas avenue was added. Now
the store occupies both floors of both
buildings.
A meeting of the Frank c. Arm
strong post of the United Spanish
War veterans, will be held at 627 Kan
sas avenue this evening. Plans are to
be made for the posts participation in
the Memorial day exercises and the
post will also elect delegates to the
state meeting of the organization at
Hutchinson.
The owner of the pop corn and pea
nut stand near the state house grounds
at Eighth avenue and Jackson street,
is making further improvements. He
is now building a shelter house for his
ice cream and coca cola customers.
1t appears that the state house Gus
todian gave the pop corn man au-
thority to erect his structure on the
state house grounds. In any event it
is being built with a view of retain
ditions
It's Mark Twain day in two Topeka
book stores Thursday. Beginning
Thursday morning, Zerchers and
Halls Book Stores. on Kansas avenue, !
will give free with each Mark Twain |
book sold, one ticket to the showing |
of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Ar !
thurs Court" which opens Monday i
matinee. May Is, at the Grand. BY |
perfected between Ter !
cheers, Halls and the management of |
the Grand. there are no IestuctiOns on /
the sale as to the titles of the books, |
so long as Mark Twain is the author I
nor as to price or number of books |
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Two motor cars were damaged late |
Wednesday afternoon when an auto !
mobile driven by Nesbit Fink, young
high school student, and the son of
Homer B. Fink, cashier of the Santa
Fe railway. crashed into a parked car
belonging to B. G. Briggs, 1911 Plass
avenue, in front of the Briggs home.
IN the car with young Fink were his
mother and three high school stu
tents. The driver hit a dip in the
paving at Fifteenth and Plass and
urned to see if his passengers were
'afe when he lost control and ran into
he Briggs car at the curbing. The
link car then ran into the curbing,