The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-01
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AT HOME NEWS

Ball tonight-Steinberg 'S-Ady.
Free. Souvenirs tonight to Ladies
Big May Ball at Steinberg's.-Adv
There will be a regular meeting of
/ the city commission at $3.50 o'clock
| Tuesday morning
Tax exempt Kansas bonds. Shaw
nee Investment Co., 534 Kansas Ave
Phone S050--Adv.
An entertainment of readings and
song will be given Tuesday evening
at the Central Park Christian church.
A radio outfit has been installed at
Seaman high school. Concerts have
| been heard at Denver, Detroit and
Pittsburgh, Pa.
The official board of the Central
Park Christian church will hold a
meeting at s o'clock this evening in
the church parlors.
Childrens story hour will be con-
Quoted Tuesday afternoon at the Cen
trail Park Christian church for the
pupils of Central Park school
District NO. of Beulah chapter No
81, o. E. s.. will meet at the residence
of Mrs. Will J. Russell. 1912 Harrison
street. Friday afternoon, May 5.
The members of the Flower Lovers
club will meet at the home of Mrs
Myrtle Moore, S17 Orchard street,
Tuesday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Division No. 2, of the Women's
Union of the Central Park Christian
church will hold a meeting Tuesday
afternoon at the nome OF Mrs. N. h.
Fouch, 917 Euclid avenue.
The police made a total of 27a ar
rests during the month of April. as
compared with 256 in March Fines
collected totaIed only $1,000 as COM
pared with S1,13S.75 last month.
A reduced railway fare of one and
one-half times the one way fare, has
been granted to Kansas bankers who
attend the annual meeting of the state
association at Wichita, May Is ana
10.
The dramatic club of Lawrence
chapter. De Molay. will present a play
entitled, ''Isn1s." Saturday night at the
Topeka high school auditorium under
the auspices of Round Table chapter
De Molay.
John Runyen, James B. MulIin, A
w Harper. John Morton and J. @.
Eddy have been elected to serve as
members of the board of directors of
the Railroad Y NJ c. A for term of
three years.
Two hundred Odd Fellows and Re
bekahs were in attendance at morn
ing service of the Central Park Chris
tian church, Sunday. The Rev. J.
Quincy Biggs. pastor, delivered an
address on Whatsoever more"
Mrs. w. c. Chaffee today served
her first meal TO the diners at the
Chamber of Commerce. Mr.. and Mrs.
Chaffee today took charge of the
dining room. They are still operating
also the tea room at the Warren M.
Crosby store
Temporary alimony in the amount
of SIS a month. and 5000 attorneys
fees were allowed Mrs P. H. Coney,
formerly Mrs. Mabelle Cochran, by
Judge George Whitcomb in the dis
trict court Saturday afternoon. Her
divorce case against Coney is pending.
Jay W. Stevens, chief of the fire
prevention bureau of San Francisco,
will address the Topeka COOPERATIVE
6aVF At ,T-r.
dinner and meeting of the club, and
later will address the first Forum
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce,
for this year.
Application for authority to grant
reduced rates to the annual state con-
vention of the United Commercial
Travellers of America at Hutchinson
June and 3. was filed with the pub
lie utilities commission today by the
Santa Fe Railroad company. acting
for all Kansas lines.
Eleven cases of social disease were
reported to the city health department
during the week which ended Satur-
day. There were also reported two
cases of tuberculosis, three of diph- |
iberia, two of scarlet fever, two of
whooping cough, four of pneumonia |
ard five of chickenpox.
A petition asking a writ of habeas |
corpus to obtain his release from the |
federal penitentiary was filed in the |
Billingsley. sentenced from the east |
ern district of Michigan in January, |
1919, for transporting liquor. He |
charges that his sentence was Illegal. |
One of the balloons released Friday |
Of last week by the Hall Lithograph- |
ing company, bearing advertising mat
ter and tickets to the Pageant of /
Progress. was captured in Manhattan, /
and the ticket which entitled the |
finder to a guess in the Hall guessing /
contest was returned by mail this /
morning.
Proceedings will be started soon by /
Al f. Williams, United States district /
it was announced today, /
looking to the return to Kansas of J
Walter johnson, who was indicted in |
this district in October on charges of
stealing tires from the Fort Riley mill
tary reservation. johnson was cap
tured Friday in Indiana.
w. S. Whitford, of the Springfield
Fire and Marine Insurance company.
presided today at the regular luncheon
and meeting of the Monday Lunch
club at the Chamber of Commerce
J. H. johnson. of the insurance de-
partment of the state, was the guest
of the club. and made a short address
The attendance was larger than usual
Miss Phoebe Emory, a returned
from India, spoke Sunday
at the Lowman Memorial Methodist
church. Her talk was simple MARIA
tive of conditions in Ind1a. She is
supported by the members of the
Lowman Memorial Methodist church
She will speak next Sunday morning
at the Euclid Avenue Methodist
church.
Judge Winfield Freeman. state IL
brarian, will be the principal speaker
at the meeting of the Square Circle
club. TO be held at Pelletier's Tea I
room at 6:15 o'clock this evening. A
final vote will also be taken tonight
on the project of erecting a club house
and recreation center on ground which
has been donated by J. H. Lee for that
purpose.
G. ]. Boeger, local photographer,