The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-02
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Tax exempt Kansas bonds. Shaw
nee Investment Co, 5S4 Kansas Ave.
Phone 5050.-Adv.
c. L. Foster 219 Grafton street, re-
ported to the police today that his Ma
tional bicycle has been stolen.
The Girl Reserves of Lincoln school
will hold a meeting at 2:3O o'clock
Saturday afternoon at the Y. w. c. A.
T. A. McNeal will address the Mems
Dinner club of the Lowman Memorial
Methodist church at $50 o'clock
Tuesday evening.
DIR. r. ]. Wade, secretary of the
benevolent board of the Methodist de-
nomination, will lecture at three local
churches Sunday on the centenary.
A mass meeting for taxpayers from
the rural districts will be held at l
O'Clock Saturday afternoon at the /
VIC. A. J. NJ. Kessler is in charge of
the meeting.
AL f. Williams, United States district
attorney, left Wednesday afternoon
for his home at Columbus. Kan,
where he will remain until the first
of next week.
The meeting of the Golden Rule
club which was to have been held
Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
G. W-sWood, 1913 West Tenth avenue,
has been postponed indefinitely.
Mrs. H. H. Raymond, Twenty third
and Buchanan streets, is assisting the
music memory contest by playing Sc
lections on her own graphaphone, for
neighboring school children.
The volley ball team of the First
Methodist church will play the Trinity
church team on the Trinity court at
o'clock Friday evening. The second
teams of the churches will also play.
Leo Becker, Charles Carpenter and
Burton G. Wasser, members of the
Washburn college debate team, will
go to Holton, Kan, Friday to judge
the Holton-Atchison high school de-
bate.
]. W. Shaffer, proprietor of a gro
Gerry store at Tenth and Monroe streets,
has sold the store to L. w. Squires of
CORTLAND. Kan, and c. F. Anderson
Of Topeka. Shaffer plans to retire
from the grocery business.
Fred Fitzpatrick. United States
marshal, has not as yet appointed
deputy for the Wichita district to take
the place of c. B. Drake, whose term
expired February 1. John Woods is
temporarily in charge of the office.
Ten teachers obtained positions for
the spring semester thru the place
ment bureau of the Kansas State
Teachers association, according to
Miss Grace Parrish, director. A large
number of enrollments are being re-
ceived daily.
Frank Howe has been appointed
fire alarm electrician of the Topeka
HauSer. After two years as electrician
of the force here, Hauser will go to
Paola to go into business with his
brother there.
Construction has been started on
the concrete bridge at the county line
on the Golden Belt road east of To-
peka. The bridge contract was let re-
n xx-ifh ho
tracts for several other bridges IN
Shawnee county.
Handbooks containing information
concerning Topeka high school will
be published in May by the faculty
of the school. The handbooks will
be given to all students graduating
from the ward schools, junior high
schools and all new pupils.
Kansas is still a part of the wild
and woolly west" judging from a re-
quest for literature received by the
state board of agriculture from a high
school girl at Philadelphia. Pa. She
wants to know all about Kansas prai-
ries, insects, crops. flowers, birds.
trees, Indians and buffaloes.
Several persons are distressed over
the fact that a number of children of
school age are not attending school,
according to A. J. Stout superinten-
| dent of schools. Almost all of these
diseases and the health departments
does not want them in the schools,
says Superintendent Stout.
Mrs. Hazel L. Parrett of Richland.
today filed a petition in the district
court asking a divorce from Frank
4. Parrett. She says that a prop
erty settlement and the custody of
their two children has already been
decided upon. They have been sep
arated for about a year according to
the petition. They were married in
April. 1909.
The Eleventh Division of the East
ern Star will hold their first meeting
at the home of Mrs. E. w. Crawford,
1925 Clay street, February Is, at 2:SO
clock. All those on the east side of
West street, to the west side of West
ern avenue and all members of the
Star south of Twelfth street are in
this division. Mrs. Charles Spreng
is chairman of this committee.
The sixteen newly appointed Kan
sas postmasters who appeared at To-
peka the first of the week to take the