The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29
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AT HOME NEWS

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| Van Buren, street
There were but twenty-eight fire
alarms listed during the month of
fApril. up to noon today, as compared
to forty-nine answered in March
George T. Mattingly, city license
! collector, today reported to the city
/ clerk that he had collected $1,S71.42
in license fees in the month of April.
Asa. Crawford, assistant to President
P p. Womer, of Washbuln college,
left Friday night for an extended trip
thru southern Kansas and Okla homa.
He will speak in the high schools of
| the principal cities on his itinerary.
BE Kind to Animals Week" will
! close Sunday. It is being observed
| thruout the United States. The pas
tors of the Topeka churches have been
/ asked TO devote a part of their SER
mons to humane work. according to
I Miss Kate King. welfare worker.
( The ham presented to the holder of
a lucky number each day by the
Charles Wolff Packing company, was
won Friday by w. o. Shaeffer. 226
North Lake street, who drew No. 1905
Shaeffer may have the ham by pre-
senting the ticket at the local market
/ today.
! Austin Hidalgo. Mexican. was fined
$50 and Mrs. Matilda Rodriguez was
fined $25 by Judge Rad Lee in police
court Friday afternoon. The couple
band had found them together in Hi
dalgos house and had taken a shot at
them.
The state headquarters of the
American Legion issued 700 question
naires Friday to American Legion
posts in Kansas to find out how many
persons would be in Topeka on Satur-
day. May Is, TO welcome Hanford
MacNider, national commander of the
American Legion.
Ill
the cleanup Of the city's alleys by the
street department. The work in
North Topeka has been finished. and
Frank Snyder, superintendent of
streets, believes he can complete the
work on the east side of Kansas
avenue by Tuesday
An informal meeting of the Topeka
Life Underwriters association. was
held at the luncheon hour at the
Chamber of Commerce today. There
was no formal program. since the reg
ular meeting of the association. ac-
companied by a banquet. will be held
at Pelletier's tea room tonight
The pupils of State Street school |
will give a May festival on the after |
noon and evening of Friday. May .. |
The program will include a May pole. |
folk dancing and a play entitled |
Colonial Days" The pupils of sum
;. Virginia Richie will serve as
queen.
william z. Connelley. president of |
the Mississippi Valley Historical as /
ISOLATION. will be in attendance at the 1
annual n Getting of the association at /
James c. Mallin of Kansas university, |
will speak at the meeting on PRO
Slavery the Background of the Kansas
Struggle"
David A. Granville today filed
petition in the district court asking a
divorce from Mrs. Myrtle M Clan
vile, who. he charges, abandoned him
last February and has since refused
she mas high temper and has treated
him abusively. They were married in
September, 1920.
A new summer resort is to be
opened May at Edgewater Beach,
two. and a half miles east of Tecum-
sch. by T. ]. Herren. A bathing pool
and a large dining hall are to be
erected there. with Mrs. Hannah Gus
tafson of Topeka in charge Dinners
are to be served each evening, with
luncheon on Sunday
Five national trustees were in at
tendance at a meeting of Column bia
Circle No. so, Security BENEFIT as
ISOLATION. at the council hall Friday
peka; R f. Delaney, Kansas City.
No: Frank L. Gass- Carterville. No;
j. X Watson. Los Angeles, Cal, and
7. J. Juden, Cape Girardeau. Mo
NenLN CdnuAudLeS were A4AAAAdAG0 at /
the meeting.
S Wolstencroft, representative of
the National Real Estate Journal, ad
dressed a meeting of the Topeka Real
Estate board held at the Chamber of
Commerce at noon today Wolsten-
croft's talk was on methods of av-
vertising real estate and at the same
time boosting a town toward perma-
1ent -betterment. He is on his way
10 San Francisco, where he will attend !
; national convention nf real estate
boards.
Tho members Of the boys and .
7oung mems physical training classes
II the Central Y. NJ. c. A will present .
Thursday and Friday. May is and 10.
1t the association building. One hun Z.
ired and fifty persons viii participate :
n the affair. The exhibition will be :
! review OF the work of the classes
Turing the last year. The spring term :
# the gymnasium classes Will close
Nay 10.
The annual fellowship IN Kansas i
University, awarded each year to a
Vashburn senior, on recommendation il
ear to Herman G. Wehe. sos Gar
ield avenue, Topeka. Wehe Is a
enior who is specializing in educa-
onal work and physics. with the in 7
.hinese mission school eventually. v
Vehe will take advanced work in h
ducation and physics at Lawrence. s
The Topeka Life Underwriters as
ociation will meet tonight for dinner is
nd an address by F. r. Brady. assis-
int cashier OF the Commerce Trust n
ompan1-. Kansas City. Mo. Brady b
ill speak on The Relation OF Banks ,
, Life Insurance Companies" f. f.
alice, of the Topeka organization, A
ill preside. There will be short ad-
resses by other members of the local X
Several bankers of To-
eka will be guests of the insurance o.
len. r.
The community Bible class of the
. w. c. A completed its term Tues | A