The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05

o'clock in the morning until O'Clock
in the afternoon. In addition to the
articles which will be On sale, hot
chocolate and sandwiches will be
served, and there will be a fish-pond.
Miss Isabel Obee is in charge of the
bazaar.
The w. I. Miller Lumber company
bid for cedar poles for use in the water
and light department, was accepted by
the city commission today. The order
calls for quick delivery, and will con-
sist of nearly two carloads. The total
cost is to be $4,000. Other bidders
were Page IL Hill company of Kansas
City, and Naugle Pole & Tie company,
of Kansas City and Chicago.
The merchants department commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce
composed of the directors OF tine
former Topeka Merchants ASSOCIATION
met at noon today. for the transactlol'
of routine business. The commlttee
will meet regularly on Tuesday IN IN IN
future. Just as the directorate OF the
Merchants association has met in the
mast. w. H. lines. president OF the
Merchants association, said after the
meeting today.
w. o. Rigby, former postmaster OF
Topeka. has leased the building at $50
Jackson street, formerly storehouse
for the Acme Paint company, to be
used as the location OF a whoAesale
CANDY manufa curing plant Wnlch ne
Rigby and his father, the late NJ. +.
Rigby. were formerly owners of the
Rigby Candy company Morris
Steiner, formerly an emp.oye OF w
o. Rigby and his father. viii return
from Chicago to take charge OF the
new factory here.
Maurice Leonard, chief of police,
was appointed by Mayor Herbert j.
Corwine, Monday, as head of the city
traffic board, to succeed Guy A. Swal-
I 10. HD a SnTinR. Tie
board has not functioned since that 10
any extent, altho permits have beeE
issued for drivers since tnat time
Duties of the board are to pass on ap-
plications for permits to drive motol
vehicles in Topeka, and to sit in Judg-
ment when charges against drivers are
issued for fragrant violat- onS or the
traffic ordinances. Members or the
board are appointed by the mayor.
Two mail deliveries will be made
daily in that part of the city north and
west of Washburn college hereafter
according to Leroy Powell, superln-
tendent of mails. All resident sections
p. of the city are supposed to have two
deliveries daily, but it has been i'm
possible for some of the carriers to get
over their routes twice in eight hours.
it was said. Some of the routes have
been changed in order that the two
deliveries may be made in the Wash
burn district each day. Charles Ses-
sions postmaster. said he had asked
for authority to increase the force of
carriers in Topeka
George W. Harris, colored. a Topeka
boy who graduated from the Topeka
high school at the age of 16 years, is
now one of the aldermen of New York
city. After graduating from the To-
peka high school. Harris studied law
! at Tufts university and Harvard. He
is now editor of the New York News,
an Afro-American weekly paper pub
lished in New York City. He was one
of the four New York aldermen who
introduced a resolution passed re-
Gently by the board of aldermen of the
city. commencing Mayor Hylan on his
stand against the Ku KlLX Khan. Har-
ris' mother. Mrs. L. E. Harris. and his
brother. c. G. Harris. live in Topeka.