The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-15

talked for an hour with the boys. Mrs
! c. G. Hamilton had charge of the
story telling hour.
/ Charles Bowman Hutchins. natural
| ist, bird artist and singer of bird songs,
/ will give an entertainment on the eve
| % and %, at the Lowman Memorial
Methodist church. The programs
will be given under the direction of
the recreationaI department of the
church of which L. H. Moser. is chair
man.
The Wood Motors company today
filed suit in the district court to re-
cover a Buick automobile upon
which they hold mortgage and
which is said now to be in possession
of c. L. Palmer. The company claims
they have information that the car
is being used in violation of the pro-
hibitory law and the federal statute
and that they deem their security un-
safe.
w. A. EIston, chief deputy state
fire marshal, was the guest of the
Monday Lunch club, made up of fire
underwriters, at the regular luncheon
and meeting at noon today. He spoke
to the club on the prosecution of fire
bugs and fire prevention. Tom
Nuckols, special agent in Missouri, for
the Springfield Fire & Marine In
surance company, was another guest.
Major P. B. Hamlin presided at the
meeting today.
An investigation of an alleged road
scandal in Labette county is to be
made by the government. according to
Al f. Williams, United States district
attorney. 1t is alleged that the con-
tractors who built several miles of
hard-surface roads in that county
were overpaid, that the road work
has proven unsatisfactory and that
there We're irregularities in the eoa-
tracts, it was said. The investigation
will reach all those who were Interest
ed in the road, Williams Stated.
Eleven Washburn students were in
itiated into the Kansas Beta chapter
of Pi Kappa Delta, national forensic
fraternity, Sunday night. The services
were held at the home of Prof. E. D.
Schoenberger, 1917 Boswell avenue.
The new members are: Harry Crane,
Olin Buck, Robert Merrick, Caldwell
Buck, Charles Gulick, Stephen Hum
phrey, Howard Meyers, Miss Errna
Lewis, La Verne Morris, Charles Car
penter, Miss Lacy Herrick. Miss Ber-
nice Deardorff and Ivan Roose are
pledges Of the organization.
A musical concert will be given at
the First Congregational church next
Wednesday evening at o'clock, con-
sisting of the following: contralto>solo.
Doris" Neidlinger by Miss Grace
Lindemuth with violin and cello obbli-
cato, Mr.. Herbert Guild and Mr.. Mes
d0d1 l1AO 41AoSSS mas
sebaum, Bunker, Lindemuth, and
George; stories of Pueblo life and In
dian songs in costume and stage set
tings. The program will close by the
rendition of cantata under the di-
rection of Prof. Harlowe F. Dean:
Miss Florence p. Campbell, pianist;
Miss Euphemia Black Page, So
prano; Mr.. Hugh Smith, tenor; Mr..
Donald Campbell, bass.
Judge George Whitcomb in the
district court Saturday afternoon over
ruled the motion of John Vardy, S12
Madison street, for a new trial in his
$4,000 damage suit against the coun-
ty. Vardy brought suit for the death
of his wife, Mrs. Hannah Vardy, who
was killed last July when the car in
near Pauline. Vardy charged the
county commissioners with negligence
in leaving a pile of loose sand and
rock at the edge of the road without
a warning sign on it. Judge Whit
comb, when the case was called for
trial April II, threw the case out of
court on the ground that VardY did
not have a proper ground of action
against the county.
1.-THE best thing about America is
that she is unfinished. America will
yet make her great contribution to
the world" was the prediction of the
Rev. Clifton Merritt Gray, in his fare
well sermon in the First Unitarian
church on Sunday morning. THE
lest thing about Kansas" he contin-
ued, ais not her fertile fields, but her
broadminded, big hearted men and
women, who are still possessed of the
spirit of the pioneers. Kansas has
not yet arrived. She is on her way"
Doctor Gray voiced his deep regret at
leaving the little church to which he
has ministered for a year. at is the
church of my Dreams" he said. 1T
is a church which is striving to think
the inexpressible thought, to speak the
ineffable word, and to do the impos-
sible deed"