The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-24
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

| Inc paSeDaH team OF the First Bap-
tist church defeated the Seabrook Con-
lgregational team, Thursday, by a score
of to
The meeting of the Soldier town
ship board which was scheduled for
Monday, June 26, has been postponed
until Saturday, July 1.
Members of Orient lodge. No. 81,
A. F. & A. NJ. and their families will
hold picnic this evening at the Boys
Industrial school grounds
Shipments of watermelons from
Georgia and Texas are being received
in Topeka They are reported to be
of good quality but sales are slow
Municipal Bonds and Liberty Bonds
bought, sold. and exchanged. The
Brown-Crummer Company. 419 New
England Bldg, ]. H. Evans. resident
manager.-Adv.
Guy C. Sick1er, secretary of the
| Chamber of Commerce. will spend two
weeks at a commercial secretaries
training school at Evanston, Ill, be-
! ginning August 81.
Clyde NJ. Reed, chairman of the
public utilities commission, has gone
to Chicago to attend a conference of
the executive committee of the state
| utilities commissioners.
| The soda fountain at the Warren M
| Crosby tea room is open all hours.
| Hot weather specials to "cool you Off
when down town shopping. You'll
want to try them.-Adv.
| E. T. Thompson, state treasurer has
returned from New York. where he re-
Gently made check of the records
of the banking interests which act as
fiscal agent for this state.
Reservations for the Y. W. c. A.
camp at Maple Hill have Deen made
by thirty members of the Beta Del
phian young woman's club. The Beta
lDelphians will go to the camp July 8.
An autographed picture of Marshal
Ferdinand Focn, of France, has been
received at the Kansas American
Legion headquarters and will be hung
in the Kansas offices in the Memorial
building.
Red Cross life saving tests will be
given to girls at the Y. w. c. A. pool
by Miss Mary Kramer, registered life
saver. Tests will be started on July 1,
when Miss Kramer returns from her
vacation.
The first car of strawberries from
the Hood River valley of Oregon, was
received Friday by local wholesale
merchants. They are reported to be
of excellent quality. More shipments
will arrive soon.
The early season apples, which are
now being received in Topeka by local
wholesale houses are selling well, ac-
cording to reports. The price this sea-
son is approximately 25 per cent less
than last season.
alarm at the North Star garage, g.
North Kansas avenue, at II o'clock
this morning. Defective wiring was
the cause of the fire. Only slight
damage was reported.
Judge A. E. Helm, rate counsel for
the public utilities commission, re-
ported to be improving from his recent
severe attack of heart trouble in juno
ton City. 1t may be sometime before
he is able to leave the hospital.
W. S. Fulton of Topeka will be in !
charge of the campaign organization
work for Fred Voiland, candidate for
Republican congressional nomination
in the First district. Fulton will open
headquarters in the National hotel.
A building permit was issued Friday
to L. F. Clearinghouse to construct
$1,000 residence at Ala Elmwood re-
nue.. L. G. Hepworth of Manhattan
received a permit to build a $4,000
residence at 1907 Buchanan street.
The Ehrlich-Haily Tire Co, 2to
West Sixth avenue. received its first
shipment of Lee tires, Friday. 1t Sc
cured the local agency for these tires
recently. The company also has the
agency for Firestone and Hood tires. |
Judge c. w. Smith. executive clerk |
in the office of Governor Allen, is i'm |
proving from a stroke of paralysis |
be several months, tho, before he is |
able to return to his work in the state |
house.
The city street department plans to |
raise about twenty miles of Sidewalks
this year, according to Commissioner
w. S. Hancock. Thirteen miles OF |
sidewalks have already been raised
this year as compared with total OF
fourteen miles last year.
E. NJ. Beachley, formerly associated |
with the First National bank of Kan
sas City, has been secured as mem
Der of the sales department of the
local sales office of the National Cash
Register Co. Beachley will devote
most of his time to installing systems
in business houses
Sunday rest day for all, If you
get your Sunday dinner at Warren NJ
Crosby tea room. 1t is cool and at
tractive. The place you will be proud
to bring your friends and out-of-town
guests. Menu specially planned for hot
weather. Price rs cents per plate. GA
Jackson street--Adv.
District No o. E. S. will meet
Friday afternoon, June 80, with Mrs
J. H. Weaver at Shady Glen Farm
Those wishing to attend are asked to
take Santa Fe train No IA. which
leaves Topeka at 1:10 p. m and get
off at Tecumseh. Transportation VIII
be provided from the Tecumseh depot
The good roads committee of the
Chamber of Commerce will hold its
first meeting of the year at a noon
luncheon Monday. The members of
the committee are: H. S. Putney. P.
A. Fairbank. W. H. lines. A. c. Lager
well. A c. Nagel, w. r. Parkhurst,
T. c. Whiteker. E. J. Heckel and L.
S. Perry.
There is now an enrolment of
children in the daily vaca-
ton Bible school of the Trinity Meth
Odist church. The school next year
will have a kindergarten department,
according to the Rev. Frank E. Ryer-
son, pastor of the church. The chill
1ren of the school will have an aH-day
putting today.
Miss Edith Robertson. Miss Eva
Kelley and Miss May Horne went to
Kansas City today to attend the Sun
n Int tinr,al Sun