The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-26
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The men of the dormitory of the
Central Y. NJ. c. A. sent three sacks
of old clothes to Russia Thursday.
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The teachers of the Topeka public
schools will hold their annual picnic
at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at
Edgewater beach. near Tecumseh.
Fred VoiIand, Hugh Fisher and A.
B. Whiting will speak at the dedica-
tory services of the Central Park
Christian church, Sunday evening.
The members of the Epworth
League of the Trinity Methodist
church will hold their annual election
of officers at a party at 1880 o'clock
this evening at the church.
Mrs. Anna Coffman has been APP
pointed manager of the cafeteria of
the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. Mrs. William
Quigley will have charge of the
kitchen and Mrs John Kent will be
in charge of desserts.
Employees of the city park depart
ment are setting out the plants in the
flower beds at the various fire sta
tons of the city. Six ornamental beds
have been constructed and filled up
with suitable plants at the Central
station.
While all the native lilacs in the
city parks have gone for this year,
there is now blooming a tree lilac, a
native of China. with small white
flower The Chinese lilac serves to
extend the lilac season over consider
able time.
The membership of the Central Y.
NJ. c. A. is now 1,720, according to
Era Breithaupt. membership secre-
tary. The association gained SIS new
members during the recent campaign
The Topeka association is the largest
in Kansas.
The Rev. NJ. G. Mum will deliver
the baccalaureate address for the
members of the senior class of Wash
burn rural high school at 2:30 o'clock
Sunday afternoon at MacVicar chapel.
The Rev. John A. Bright will give the
invocation.
Two more stories are to be added to-
the building of the Topeka Transfer
company. at Sixth avenue and Adams
street, in the near future. The stor-
age capacity of the building will bel
prac tically doubled. The plans for
the addition are being drawn by T. WI
Williamson.
w. H sproul, Sedan lawyer. has
filed a declaration of his candida cyl
for the Republican nomination forl
congress from the Third district
Sproul will seek to defeat Congress-
man Phil Campbell who filed for re-
nomination with the other seven conf
gressmen last week.
Road contra ctors have been advised
by State Highway Engineer NJ. W.
Watson to take advantage of the pres
ent over-supply of open railroad cars
and ship their materials to construc
ton jobs at once. The over-supply of;
cars is said to be due to the coal mine
strike which has reduced the demand
for coal cars.
Miss Audrey Dent was queen of theI
May fete held this afternoon at Quincy
school. Aline Davis and Naomi Ret
ter were crown bearers. Attendants
Furgason, I-eta Thomas, Gladys
Thomas, olive Phillips and Edna
Smith. The Spirit of Spring" was
represented by Marjorie Bradley.
Justice Silas Porter, of the state su-
preme court went to Olathe today to-
be guest of the Johnson county Re-
publicans who are giving a dinner
with Governor Arthur ]. Hyde, of
Missouri as the principal speaker. w.
r. Stubs, candidate for governor,
and his campaign manager, J. n. Dol
ley. of Topeka, also were to attend
the dinner party.
Paul Barrier, printer, of Liberal,
Kan, was severely injured recently
when his leg caught in the fly-wheel
of big job press. Paul is the son of
the Rev. Thomas F. Barrier, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church of
Liberal. The Rev. Barrier has re-
ceived a unanimous cali to become
pastor of the Oakland Presbyterian
church of Topeka, and it is expected
that he will accept.
The entire Sis. 600 Masonic temple
bond issue was sold Thursday The
purchasers were: J. r. Burrow. Sr.,
$4,000; Central Trust Co. $4,000
and Prudential Trust Co, SIS, 900, The
six men who purchased the smoke
stack of the temple were: Charles A.
Moore, DR.. Henry p Hogeboom, Will
W. Mcbride, Eli G. Foster, Guy A.
Collard and Charles F. Bottom. The
purchase was for $500.
Farmers and Wall street brokers
are not the only ones who get in
financial difficulty. Mrs. Julia White
house, a Kansas City, Kan, stenog
rapher, late Thursday filed a petition
in voluntary BANKRUPTCY in the federal
SO, Her only assets consist of
500 worth of clothing and $50 in
cash. She paid the $50 into court and
claimed her clothing as exempt.
1t was reported in official circles
today that Clarence Smith, present
secretary of the state tax commission,
will probably be appointed as chair
man of the commission to succeed the
late Samuel T. Howe. 1t was said
no other candidates are being consid-
cred seriously for the place by Gov
ernor Allen. The governor also has
indicated that Smith is a likely ap-
pointee for the position. Smith has
been secretary of the tax commission
for a number of years.
Ed Mullaney, Hill City banker and
prominent in Republican politics. was
in Topeka today taking up with the
M il utilities cafnr o.
against the application of the Union
Pacific railroad to make changes in its
Lincoln branch. The proposed
changes would take off one train be
tween Plainviile and Hill City. Clyde
N. Reed. chairman of the commission,
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