The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
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The proposed midwinter reunion OF
the Scottish Rite bodies of the Valley
of Topeka will not be held, it was de-
cided Friday night at a stated meeting.
The Elks' lodge will initiate a class
of thirty candidates January 26. This
will be the first class of any consider
able size taken into the lodge this
year.
Five cases of influenza have been
reDorted to the city health depart
ment, all in one family. The five
cases are the first of that disease to
appear in Topeka this year.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Javhawker club will be held at the
University club at $50 p. m, Tuesday,
January II. The paper will be pre-
sented by Judge J. D. NJ. Hamilton.
The local camp of the Gideons will
attend the evangelistic services con-
Quoted by DR.. F. W. Swift at the First
Baptist church tonight in a body They
will meet at the church at 7:15
o'clock.
Fire occurring at 4 o'clock Friday
afternoon destroyed the roof of the
home of J. L. Wright, 1880 Topeka
boulevard. The family, which includes
five children, slept in the roofless
house last night.
The membership of the Kansas
State Teachers association is now 49,,
SOL. According to a report from the
National Education association the as
sociation ranks first in the United
States in membership in proportion to
population.
of the G.. A. R. did not install the Of
ficers of Blue Corps No. 5, w. r. c..
as had been reported Mrs. Currie D.
Frisbie says she installed the officers,
assisted by Mrs. Ka THE Brownmell, as
conductor.
Robert Akers has been elected as
sistant editor of the Topeka high
school world to succeed Donald
Welton, who was elected editor. AL
bert Davis was elected assistant bust
ness manager to succeed James Weav-
er, who became business manager.
They will take up their new duties at
the beginning of the spring semester.
January 80.
At the annual meeting of the To-
peka Real Estate association, held at
the Elks club Friday night, new Off
GERS were installed as follows: Presi-
dent, George L. Tuer; secretary, E. c.
Seger; treasurer, H. D. Kulp; execu-
tive committee members. David Neis-
wanger, Walter Ashton Smith and w.
c. Stevenson. The realtors were ad-
dressed by Mayor Corwine.
Fighting With the Stars is the
topic of the sermon at the First Uni
tartan church, 914 Topeka boulevard.
at II o'clock Sunday morning. 1.-The
stars in their courses are symbols of
powers with which we must reckon IN
our fight for righteousness and
against evil. Are we fighting with or
against the stars?" asks the minister,
the Rev. Clifton Merritt Gray.
Washburn college students have
checked out 5000 reference books
from the college library since the be-
ginning of the fall term. Neither
works of fiction, nor books taken
from the shelves for study in the Ii
brary are included in this number.
Eight thousand additional slips have
been printed to satisfy the students
desire for knowledge the remainder OF
this year.
The semi-annual sales school and
convention of the Aetna Life Insur-
ance company is in progress today at
the state offices of the company, with
twenty-five agents of the company,
from all parts of the state, in atten-
dance. The agents had lunch at the
Elks club. Questions affecting the
handling of life insurance at the pres
ent time, and instruction in salesman
snip are taking up the attention of
the Aetna men.
The remains of a large liquor fac
tory which had recently been in use
were found Friday afternoon by Rob-
ert Pendleton and Oscar Perkins, dep
uty sheriffs, and Clarence Buniy, po-
lice detective, on the Topeka avenue
road two miles south of Topeka. The
outfit was one-half mile east of the
home of J. Barrett, where a small still
was found. The officers found four
teen large barrels that had recently
been filled with mash, together with a
sack full of jugs, a stove and gasoline
tank. No one was around to claim the
outfit.
At meeting of Machinist local
union No. 1870, Friday night at Labor
nall, womens auxiliary was formed.
A permanent organization will be
formed at the next meeting, January
q, when 1t is expected that the or
ganization will be approved. The tenn
porary officers elected were: Mrs. T.
j. Travis, president, and Mrs. C. E.
Fairchild, secretary. The sixteen wom-
en- who Joined the organization Friday
night were: Mrs. G. Z. Fairchild, Miss
Susanna Gookins, Miss Cecilia Sander
son. Mrs. A. NJ. Coffman, Mrs. Ellen
Gilman, Mrs. Helen Thomas. Mrs.
Laura F. Higgs, Mrs. F. A. Anderson,
Mrs. J. E. Cross, Mrs. A. J. Spetter.
Mrs. T. J. Vetter, Mrs. Fred Redd.
Mrs. H. Hoffmeister. Mrs. Vincent
Pitts. Mrs. Cora Wiley, Mrs. E. L.
Carson AND Mrs. T. J. Travis.