The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-17
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Howard and Harvey Carr won the
doubles in the tennis tournament of
Topeka high school by default, Tues
day afternoon
The 1922 issue of the Kaw, the
Washburn college annual will be dis
tributed next Monday. ~ Five hundred
copies have been sold
A matronly lady with a green par
rot perched on her finger watched
the circus parade from the corner of
Seventh and Quincy streets today
Six thousand. one hundred and thir-
teen school pupils are now depositing
money in the school savings bank.
The total registration in the city
schools is 1854
The state charter board today ap-
proved an application for a charter
for the Carl Leon Hotel company of
Independence. The company is CAPT
talized for $4,000
Jose Reyes pleaded not guilty when
he vas arraigned in the city court
this morning on a charge of holding
up Crescencio Romero and robbing
him Of $50 in money and a watch.
The freshman class of the Kansas
Industrial and Educational institute
gave play entitled Cinderella In
College" in the institute auditorium
Tuesday night. A large crowd was in
attendance.~
Work on the new hospital building
at the Kansas Industrial aud Educa-
tional institute was started t6day. The
building will be completed next Sep
TENDER, according to the contractors,
Barber & Anderson.
Due to an increase in local freight
business. the Union Pacific this week
added six men to its warehouse force
at Topeka, and if the pickup continues
probably will put on a fourth switch
engine crew within short time.
The Topeka high school baseball
team defeated Assumption high school
by a score of 10 to in a game played
Tuesday afternoon at Gage park.
Topeka will play Ninland high school
at Southwestern League park, Fri
day.
The O. E. S. Past Matrons and Past
Patrons association meeting to have
been held Thursday at the home of
Mrs W. ). Robinson, Route No. 6, has
been postponed one week and will be
held Thursday, May %.
The graduating class of Sumner
junior high school will present a play
entitled 'Hiawatha" at the high school
Friday night The lead
ing parts Will be taken by Elmer
Kieninger and Elizabeth Thompson.
Miss Violet Schlegel is directing the
play
The first home grown strawberries
of the season were marketed in To-
peka today by E. B. Stotts from his
place in Auburndale. Mr.. Stotts
states that the appearance of the
home crowns will cut the prices that
have been charged in Topeka for sew
eral weeks.
Philip Goldberg, charged with hold
ing up and robbing Mr.. and Mrs. J.
H. Edwards of jewelry valued at
s2,6e5 at the Edwards home, 500 West
street, January 20, was bound over
to the district court Tuesday afternoon
and committed to the county Jail in
default of $1,000 bond.
The Topeka city planning board
will meet at s o'clock this evening at
be selected for the essay contest on
city planning which has been held in
the city schools. The contest closed |
May 10. and the essays must be in the
hands of the city planning board by
May 20.
of the Chamber of Com |
merce was held at noon today, for a |
general discussion of ways and means |
for raising the funds-$7, 5OO-for the !
establishment OF the three camp |
grounds for motor tourists, at Garfield |
and Gage parks and the State Free |
Fair grounds.
Nine candidates were initiated into !
Topeka Council No. ?, Security Benefit |
association, at its hall, III West Sixth |
avenue, Tuesday night Persons in
itiated were: Mrs. Susie B. Knisley, |
Herman Arndt, Mrs. Pansy Arndt, |
Fred Fisher. Mrs. Bessie Fisher, Mrs. |
Cora Hedrick, Miss Mamie Winter and |
Mrs. Margaret Hall.
Six negroes were arrested this morn |
ing in a raid made by the police on the |
home Of Doc Crawford, 120 Jefferson |
street Crawford was charged with |
keeping and maintaining a nuisance
and released on $500 bond. Arnett
Beasley, Albert Henderson, John |
Davis. Gertrude Young and Lizzie /
Crawford were charged with being |
found in and released on 500 bonds.
The Jacoby Art Glass company. of |
st. Louis, has been awarded a contract |
to furnish eleven art glass windows
for the new First Methodist church. /
Ten windows are to be delivered by /
October Is and one is to be completed |
in July. One large window will be a /
to the members of the |
church who were engaged in the re-
cent World war. The windows will /
cost $1,000.
Ferry L. Plat of Kirwin. a fresh
nan, won the Washburn college ora
-orical contest held Tuesday night at l
IacNicar chapel. He won a cash /
prize of S25 and the right to represent /
Washburn in the contest next year. /
Harry Crane of Topeka was second. |
The other contestants were Herman /
Johnson and Charles Carpenter The |
Judges were Dean P. s. Zampierre. d. /
L. McEachron and Poi. William J. /
Morgan
Charles p. Hutchins. of San Franz
,isco, the California bird man." en-
-ertained the members of the Cham
Der of Commerce at luncheon today. |
with several bird songs, whistled to /
plano accompaniment. He will lecture
auditorium on Birds of Kansas" The
lecture will be illustrated Hutchins
IS to speak at a series of meeting in
he churches and schools of the city.
The Union Pacific pay cara in
charge of r. A. Sallander, the COM