The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-24
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Tax exempt Kansas bonds, Shaw
nee Investment Co., 534 Kansas Ave.
Phone 5050.-Adv.
The Rev. John A. Bright viii con-
at the Oakland Presbyterian church
Sunday.
why is George stone like the Mer-
chants National bank p" was asked
at the Rotary club show last night.
Under new management" was the
answer.
A standing committee of the Kan
sas Bankers association, met at the
Chamber of Commerce at noon today,
to transact routine business.
The members of the senior class of
Washburn college will be required to
take final examinations at the compile
ton of the spring sem ester, according
to recent faculty ruling.
The Eastern Kansas Bee Keepers
association will hold a meeting Tues
day evening, February %. at the
is president and ]. w. Swickard is
secretary.
Mrs. John Kessler will take the
leading role in the pIaylet which will
be presented Friday. March 3, at I.
Q. o. F. hall, 521 Quincy street, by
the members of Ladies' Auxiliary No.
8, n. A. S. z.
L ne OLudcAlS VI Inc w dSlIDuIh Id W
school voted to back the college adj
ministration in the campaign to raise
100000 at a meeting Thursday. Earl
Hatcher, of Hill City, was elected stu
dent council representative.
The members of the Parent-Teach-
ers' association of Gage Park school
will conduct an entertainment at 8
o'clock tonight at the school. Miss
Margaret Bell and Miss Hazel Swogger
will appear on the program.
The membership of the Lowman
Memorial church is I ,019, according to
the report of the secretary presented
at the annual meeting held Thursday
night. The church also reported a
highly successful financial year
A concert given by the st. Louis
Symphony orchestra in Kansas City.
Thursday, was caught by the radio
phone installed in the c. A. Wolf
jewelry store in Topeka, and listened
to by an appreciative audience.
The members of the Girl Reserves
clubs of the city will hold a joint
party at o'clock Saturday afternoon
girls are expected to attend. The Girl
Reserves is a Y. w. c. A. organization
for grade school girls.
c. II. Thomas was granted a divorce
from +. 1. Thomas by Judge James
Mcclure in the district court Thursday
afternoon. He charged that she neg
leCted her home and stayed out late
nig4eJS. They were married in Octo-
Der, 1917. at Lawtor, Okla.
Paul Van Katwijk, pianist, of Dali
las, Tex, will appear as the second
number on the Washburn Artists
course at $50 o'clock tonight at Mac
Vicar chapel. Katwijk is head of the
piano department of South Methodist
university, of Dallas, Tex, and has had
onnSidera hle aKnpridnNa hold
ing a high reputation in Europe.
At a meeting of the Frank G. Arm
strong camp of the United Spanish
War Veterans Thursday night, $50 was
donated to the Near East Relief. Pre-
liminary arrangements for the Memoir
ial day program and services were
completed. E. J. Riney, of Dodge City,
department commander. will make a
visitation and inspect the camp in the
near future.
A meeting Of the East Side I'm
pTovement association was held at the
East Side Methodist church Thurs
day evening. A campaign for new
members of the association is to be
carried on, and a committee is to be
ming board on proposed future plans
for the east side of the city, with spe-
cia1 reference to drainage and flood
protection.
J. S. Zimmerman. manager of the
Zimmerman Seed company, has re-
turned to Topeka after several years
during which he conducted the bust
ness from Ottawa. Zimmerman has
reopened headquarters in Topeka at
ia East Fifth street. Formerly he
handled an extensive seed business by
mail order. from a Quincy street To-
cation. Some years ago he removed
to Ottawa.
The Tully- Mcfarland Drug COM
pany of Topeka was made defendant
in a suit for $1.65E50 filed in the dis
trict court today by the Hygeia Anti
York, which claims the drug sore
proprietors refused to accept a ship
ment of drinking straws which they
ordered and which had the name OF
the store printed on each package.
Directors of the Kiwanis club met
at the Chamber Of Commerce at noon
today They discussed the personnel
of committees which will have charge
of the convention of Kiwanis clubs
from Kansas and Missouri which is
to be held in Topeka in September OF
this year. Several applications for
membership were also before the
board.
A. H. Skinner. assistant United
States district attorney for Kansas,
will go to Kansas City Saturday morn
ing to represent the government in a
hearing before Judge Pollock on a
motion to redGce the bond of E. NJ
Van Meter from $4,000 to $500.
Van Meter was indicted recently in
Chicago on a charge of attempting to
pass a forged government obligation,
according to the authorities.
A dinner and dance is to be given on
the evening of Marchs9, at the Cham
Der of Commerce, at which the new
members secured for the chamber in
the recent membership campaign, and
the two competing teams on the COM
mittee, with their wives and women
Il. =.