The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-31
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AT HOME NEWS

Custom grinding every day. Diamond
Bottling Works, 2201 Lincoln ST.
Phone S17s.-Adv.
IT A. McNeaI has called a business
meeting of the Unitarian Laymens
league for Wednesday evening at I;oU
o'clock in the parlors of the Unitarian
church, ga Topeka boulevard.
II. A. Russell, of the state public
utilities commission, leaves TO-DAY TOT
Washington, where he viii assist at a
conference of the interstate commerce
commission for the formulation OF
rules for the valuation of railroad
property
A meeting of the alliance of the
First Unitarian church, 914 Topeka
boulevard, will be held Wednesday
afternoon at 1880 o'clock. Besides the
regular business of the alliance, the
president will read from Painted
Windows"
Members of Oak Grange No. Sos
will celebrate the forty-ninth ami
versary of the grange with a mas
querade Halloween party wednesday
night at Mission Center. Refresh
ments will include pumpkin pie
doughnuts and coffee.
sid Coleman, managing editor of the
Wichita Beacon and private secretary
to Governor Allen, was called to wien
tia saturday by the illness of his wite
there. Mrs. Coleman is recovering
turned to Topeka today.
After having been absent from his
office for the past week owing 70
burns about the head and face, D. o.
McCray, assistant secretary of state
has returned to his desk. McCray was
painfully burned in an attempt 10 eX-
tinguish a fire in his home.
The Women's Democratic club of
Shawnee county, of which Mrs; Theo-
dore Saxon is chairman, will meet
Wednesday afternoon at 2:SO O'CLOCK
in the Chinese tea room of the Heron
Coffee shop. The club was organized
in February of this year, and mas
worked quietly since that time.
Two hundred and forty-nine new
members have been obtained by the
Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. in its ten-day
membership drive. The assoclatloIl
Thursday night. Henry Pruessner Is
leading in the campaign. He has per-
sonally obtained fifty new members.
Miss Alice Thayer of ottawa, re-
turned missionary from Burma, WIN
tell of her experiences at meeting
of the Women's society OF the FRS
Baptist church at 2:30 O'Clock wed
nesday afternoon at the church Mrs
w. F. A&teu will give violin SOLO
and Miss Ruth Palmer will give a
reading.
Several hundred Topeka young peo-
pie were in attendance at the annual
Halloween party of the Central Y.
NJ. c. A. held Monday night. A series
of games were staged in the gymna-
sum- Refreshments We're served. A
party will be held for the younger
boys of the association at O'Clock
this evening.
The Topeka branch of the women
Foreign Mission society OF the
Methodist Episcopal church subscribed
$24I, 500 to foreign missionary work
this year, according to reports re-
ceived from the national headquarters
of the society in Baltimore. The
branch. made the second largest IN
creae in the United States
w. 3. Flowers, advertising man
aeer for the Topeka Daily Capital, and
his mother, Mrs. James Flowers LEFT
Monday for Los Angeles, Cal, where
they will spend the winter. F. b. Gun
ningham will be in charge of the local
advertising department, and d. B.
Clamp of the national advertising de-
- partment of the Capital during Flow
ers' absence.
Members of Topeka Council No. 2
Security Benefit association, will hold
a Halloween party this evening fol-
lowing the regular meeting of the
council at PeuwelI hall, odd Fellows
temple, 1T West Sixth avenue. Mem
bers of the drill team will appear In
approprfate costumes and will be in
:
candidates will be initiated.
Electric light service was inter
rupted in some portions of the West
Side Monday evening, owing to trou-
bic with one of the large turbines al
the Edison company's plant. 1t was
necessary to shut down the turbine
while repairs were made. The trouble
extended to Oakland and Potwin, as
well as the West Side. Service wa:
restored in something over an hour.
A temporary permit to practice law
in Kansas was issued Monday tC
Thomas z. Steward. of GOodland, by
the state supreme court. The permit
was issued in order that Steward
might run for county attorney of Sher'
man county. After filing his nomi
nation papers, Stewards entry was
contested on the grounds that he Is
not an attorney. He secured the tenn
porary permit from the supreme
court which qualities him for the
race.
Mischievous boys, unable to wal
for the arrival of Halloween with it:
license for deYfltry, held rehearsa
Monday night by, soaping the stree
car tracks on the State Hospital line
on the slope west of the Potwin sta
ton. Street cars slid down the slope
entirely out of control Brake:
wouldn't hold and neither would re
verse" a motorman who was on thu
line, said this morning. The more
you reversed the more you went RICH
on down. 1t is mighty dangerous
too. Dangerous for the passengers OF
the >car and for traffic which nigh
get on the ira ok"
Only the eastern, central and south
central portions of-the state have beer
benefited by the showers which fel
during the past week. according to the
weekly crop report of j. c. Mohler
secretary of the state board of agri-
culture. In these areas the wheat has
been greatly benefited, but there j;
still a lack of moisture in the re.
mainder of the state. Replanting ha:
been commenced in Cheyenne county
and other western and northwestern
sections of the state. Corn hUskins
is under way, generally, grair
sorghums are being threshed, an6
some pastures are still in use. Live
stock is in very good condition, little
or no disease heine rennrted-