The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-20
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AT HOME NEWS

Tax exempt Kansas bonds. Shaw
/ nee Investment Co. 5S4 Kansas Ave.
/ Phone bO5O--Adv-
The members of the Topeka Ty-
/ pothetae held a meeting at a noon
4 luncheon at the Chamber Of Com
merce today.
During the first half of June. a to-
! tai of S119.4O has been collected from
/ the issuance of building permits from
\ the office of the city fire marshal
Topeka Commandery No. 5. Knights
= Templar, will hold regular lodge work
4 in all orders this evening at O'Clock
Supper will be served at 80 o'clock.
DR.. John Wells Rahill, pastor of the
Central Congregational church, will go
to Lecompton Sunday afternoon,
where he Will preach the annual St
John the Baptist sermon before Lodge
10. 42O, A +. & A. NJ.
A baby and child health clinic was
opened this morning at the Lowman
Memorial Methodist church by the
Topeka Public Health Nursing asso-
citation. 1t will be held every Tues
day thruout the summer.
A Topeka man who has just com
pleted a beautiful $4,000 home on
College avenue is so proud-and just
ly so-of his property that he has
framed the ice card that is hung on
the front porch every morning.
Bids will be opened and the con-
tract will be awarded for approx
mately four miles of sidewalk at a
meeting of the city commission at 10
o'clock Friday morning. This will be
the largest contract let this year.
A total of $4,000 worth of new
Sedgwick county road bonds have
been registered in the office of n. a.
Turner, state auditor. The bonds bear
Az per cent, the lowest interest rate
paid on tax free securities in several
months.
A lawn social will be held by mem
bers of the st. Elizabeth club at the
site of the new knights of Columbus
clubhouse, 316 West Sixth avenue,
Wednesday evening. The proceeds
from the social Will be given to the
knights of Columbus building fund.
Frank Snyder, superintendent of
streets, has lost the cover for the
asphalt heater of the city. The cover
was lost while it was being moved
from Fifteenth and Monroe streets to
the city's plant at Crane and Jackson
streets. 1t weighs 100 pounds.
Persons who will become twenty
one years of age before the general
election, November Z, but who will not
have attained that age by the pri-
mary election, August 1, may register
and vote at the primary election, ac-
cording to Miss Eta Covell, city clerk
William Newman will have charge
of the program of the next meeting of
the Rotary club at noon Thursday at
the Chamber of Commerce. Bishop
James Wise is to be the principal
speaker. Plans are being made for 4
Rotary picnic which will be held
June %.
Mrs. A. c. LagerwaII. wife of the
county engineer, was called to Spring |
field Ill, Monday night to attend the |
funeral of her mother, Mrs. Lydia !
Corre1, who died there Saturday.
Mrs Correll visited in Topeka last
summer and was known to many per- !
sons here.
A seventy-five- horsepower boiler is |
being installed this week at the city |
asphalt plant. The original boiler, !
which was purchased as a part of the |
new asphalt plant, did not have large |
enough capacity 1t is being replaced |
at the expense of the company from !
which the plant was purchased.
Three out-of-town girls have en-
rolled for the Y. W. c. A. tennis tour
nament to be held June "a to June 80. /
The visitors are from Kansas City, |
Clay Center and Minneapolis, Kan. |
Topeka girls who wish to enter the |
tournament may enroll at the Y. w |
c. A. office any time before June 3.
Governor Allen today app ointed |
Henry c. Mayer, of Wellington. as a
member of the state embalming board.
He was named for a three-year term
to succeed j. o. johnson, of Osa-
watomie. Johnson has served on the
state board nine years. He was first
in 1913 by Governor
r. f. Burke's team defeated DIR.
J. I. Lattimore's team this noon, 46
to 80. in the noon volley ball league
for business men at the Y NJ. c. A.
Burke's and Lattimore's teams are
now tied for first place. The next
league game will be played Thursday
noon between r. F. Burke's and DR..
H. A. Alexander's teams.
Revival services will be conducted
by the members of the First Nazarene
church in a tent at the corner of
Quincy and Gordon streets in North
Topeka. The meetings will begin
and will continue every night this
week, except Saturday. Old time COS
pei services will be held.
w. s. Clark returned to Topeka this
week from an inspection of hotels and
restaurants in southeastern Kansas.
The state hotel inspector took a par
ticularly careful look at the dishes in
public eating houses. In one place
he broke more than 200 dishes that
were cracked or provided too many
hiding places for festive germs
Seventy teachers attended the sec
ond session OF the Shawnee county
normal training institute in the south
building of the Topeka high school
ular speakers today. Miss Lorraine
Wooster, state superintendent of pub
lie instruction, and Emmett George,
to Governor Allen, spoke.
Three Democrat congressional can
didates received refunds on their re-
mittances for filing charges. L. J.
Pettijohn returned checks sent as fees
by Charles d. Stephens, Columbus;
Robert c. Mayes, Ashland, and NJ. NJ.
Schmidt, Summerfield. Under the law
for congress and United !
States senator do not pay entrance ]
fees.
Sixty-seven boys and girls attended
the first days session of the church ,
school of religion Monday at the Cen
trail Congregational church. A chalk
talk was given by the Rev. r. NJ.
Pratt, field secretary of religious edu-
cation for the Congregational churches ]
in kansas. The enrOllment in the