The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-10

y representation of the Topeka club
will go to Horton Tuesday night to at
tend the charter presentation meeting
| of the Horton Kiwanis clHD-
N. w. Benning. general secretary of
the Y NJ. c. A, will leave Saturday
for Estes Park, Colo. where he will
fattend the Y. NJ. c. A summer school
until September 1. He will be &C.
companied by his wife and three chill
dren, Henry, Alice and Jean.
A total membership of 346 for the
month of June was reported in bull
letin- issued recently by the Colored
Y. M. c. A. of Topeka. Horseshoe
pitching contests and tennis tourna-
mcnts are keeping up the interest OF
the members thru the summer.
Notices for all paving completed in
Topeka during the last year will be
issued July IL. according to Miss Eta
Coveu. city clerk All payments must
be made in thirty days. Bonds will
be issued for all unpaid paving. The
cost of the paving is 1858. 1887.
The good roads committee of the
Chamber of Commerce will complete
a budget of the cost of marking the
Southwest trail from Atchison to En-
poria via Topeka this week and it will
be referred to the board of directors.
If it is approved by the board, the
work of marking the trail will begin
at once
A banquet win be held Tuesday
evening az $50 O'Clock by the Mems
Dinner club of the Lownan Memorial
church. Candidates for county Of
fices. irrespective of their parties, will
be speakers All members of the
church and their families viii be in
vited to attend the banquet and hear
the talks.
A. A. Remington. general secretary
of the Kansas Y. NJ. c. A. will return
Tuesday from Niagara Falls, y. Y,
where he has been attending a Y. NJ.
c. a. conference for the last two
weeks Remington will probably
Y. NJ c. A summer school at Estes
Park, Colo.
The thieves who broke into Sam
Cunningham store. corner Eighth
avenue and Lake street, Sunday night.
have nothing to do today but eat and
smoke. Cunningham reported to the
police this morning that some hams,
eggs cigars, tobacco, candy. water
melons. cantaloupeS and $3.50 in
money were taken.
y The Rev. W. H. Leyburn. soffice
executive of the Kansas Baptist con-
vention, spent Saturday and Sunday
in Lebanon Reverend Leyburn spoke
at the Sunday evening services of the
Oak Creek Baptist church near Leb-
anon. The Oak Creek Baptist church
is the finest country church in Kansas,
Mr.. Leyburn reports.
The Rev. ]. T. Crawford, general
secretary of the Kansas Baptist con-
vention. was in charge Of the dedica-
tory services of the. First Baptist
church of Waldo. Sunday. Rev. Mr..
Crawford will visit several Baptist
churches in the western part of Kan
sas the first of this week. He will Ire
turn to Topeka Thursday.
A heavy docket awaits Tuesdays
session of police court. No court was
held Tuesday, that being the glorious
Fourth, and Friday the blotter. was
tied up as part of the evidence in the
custer suit against the mayor As a
result nearly 200 cases are awaiting
disposal, about sixty of them being for
violation of the traffic rules
A. A. Scard, manager and buyer of
the shoe department of the Crosby
Brothers store, left Saturday for Bos-
tonA where he will attend the style
show and convention OF shoe dealers
and n1arufact urers in session there.
He will also visit a number of the
larger factories there Mrs. Scard &C
companfed him to Indiana, where she
will visit relatives
Examinations of the subsou at the
northwest corner of the Potwin school
building will be made this week
There is a crack nearly two inches
wide in the west side of the building
due to the soil under the foundations
whether or not the building is safe
before the next school year opens. II
it is not safe now we Will make 1t
safe r. w Elliott. superintendent Of
buildings, said this morning
Walter A. Snapp. 1913 Kansas ave
nue.. today filed a petition in the dis
trict court asking a divorce from
Clara L. Snapp, charging her with Elk
IRENE cruelty and alleging that she [
accused him falsely of in |
timacy with other women They were
married in April, 1898. On June IS, I
1922. Snapp says, they signed an
agreement relative to a division Of /
their property. and asks the court TO 1
approve it Mrs. Snapp is living in I
Louisville, Kan
A. H. Skinner. assistant United /
States attorney, has announced that
he will file an action in federal court
this afternoon, asking for the cam.
of the naturalization papers
of Sam Menther, formerly q resi- t
dent of Junction City. but now re-
turned. it is charged, to Syria. h ma
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