The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28
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nee Investment Co.. 534 Kansas Ave
Phone bO5O.-Adv.
y Frank DeHart, $50 Garfield avenue.
reported the theft of his bicycle to the
police Thursday afternoon
J Topeka chapter No. 5. Royal Arch
I Masons. will hold work in the mark
and past master degrees, Monday eve
ningE
Topeka Commandery No. 5. knights
Templar, will hold WORK in the Red
Cross and Malta degrees at o'clock
Tuesday evening.
The election of officers of the juve
nile lodge of the A o. y. W. will be
held at o'clock saturday afternoon
at Eagle hall. 61s Kansas avenue.
A colored Y. M. C. A. is now prac-
tically assured in Topeka. Approx
mately $3.50 has been raised in the
drive. The goal is $1,000. The drive
will be completed this week.
The chicken pie supper and bazaar
given by the Pythian sisters OF Capitol
Temple No. 2. at the I. o. o. F. hall,
Thursday night, was a great success.
One hundred and fifty persons at
tended.
A J. Stout. superintendent of
schools, and r. r. Cook, principal of
Topeka high school, left this after
| noon for Lawrence, where they will
attend a meeting OF the Kansas
| Schoolnasters' club.
The Rev. S. ]. Williams, pastor of
the Shiloh Baptist church, who has
been conducting a revival at Cedar
Rapids. Iowa, will return Saturday
and will occupy his own pulpit Sunday
morning and evening.
The Dramatic club of Topeka lodge
No. 524. L. o. o. NJ, Will present a
comedy entitled, when Do We Eat?''
at 1880 o'clock Wednesday evening at
Moose hall. All members and pros
| pective candidates are invited to at
tend.
H. G. West held the winning num-
Der on the ham given away by the
Wolff Packing company at the Pa
geant of Progress Thursday night. Mr..
the wholesale market at the Wolff
plant. He held No. 621.
The Kansas City Telephone COM
pany today applied to the public utili-
ties commission for authority to build
extensions on four Kansas City, Kan,
streets. The company stated in it's
petition that it is prepared to serve
the new patrons that will be added
by the extensions.
THE Parent Teachers association of
Gage Park school will hold a social
tonight at the school house. The pro-
gram will consist of numbers by Miss
Gertrude Burning, soprano; Miss Ag-
mes Hannigan, reader; the Topeka
high school quartette, Miss Eula Jones.
pianist, and Frank Jones, violinist--
FRANK HaLIerSOn ana Gnafl6S hugh
ley, negroes. were brought to Topeka
from Guthrie, Okla, by Joseph Will
son, a deputy United States marshal,
to face a charge of counterfeiting.
They were locked in the Shawnee
county Jail and probably will be taken
to Fort Scott for trial, it was said.
Application was filed with the pub
lie utilities commission today by the
Santa Fe railroad for permission to
institute home-seeker excursion rates
fala IN yravxh III TiG-
souri, points to western Kansas over
Santa Fe and Rock Island lines. The
rates are one fare plus 81 for parties
of five or more.
Mrs. C. Manly Morton, a returned
missionary from South America, de-
livered lecture Thursday night at
the First Christian church. Five per-
sons dedicated their lives to the min
fstry and mission fields. They were:
Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. Young, Miss Flor
Miss Lucille Cotter.
The Topeka Edison company will
begin the construction work early this
summer on a line which will furnish
electricity for lights in Little Rus
STA" The line was provided for in the
1922 budget of the company, Albert
Patten, general manager for the Nc
Kinley interests in Kansas, says. There
are about seventy-five homes in Little
Russia"
RAINIER VI OI1lCd6Os gen
eral claim agent, was a guest of the
Rock Island Dinner club at a buffet
luncheon and dance held at the Charm
Der of Commerce, Thursday night. E.
L. Strain, division freight agent, and
H. r. Halleck. president of the club,
were the principal speakers. More
than one hundred persons were
present.
NJ J. Port, e24 Highland avenue.
who pleaded guilty last December to |
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fined s25 and costs by Judge Paul |
Heinz in the court of Topeka today. |
A stay of execution until october 1 |
was granted. Following the beating |
tanned her decree in the district court |
April 5.
H. E. Ryan, of Los Angeles, car
toonist who draws the tom an jerry |
comic strip appearing in several east |
ern papers, and his friend and part
ner, Frank Lee, a humorous author, |
stopped in Topeka to see the Pageant |
of Progress. They are driving over |
land to New York, drawing and writ |
ing on their way. They will spend a |
week in Topeka.
A carload of oranges, totaling 396 |
boxes, has been seized by the United |
States marshal here following a bill of |
complaint, filed by Al F. Williams, |
United States district attorney, alleg-
ing that the oranges are unfit for
sale. They were consigned by the
Randolph Marketing company, of
Highland. Cal, to its agen-. c. W.
Page. at Topeka, and were shipped
over the Rock Island railroad.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of N. |
II. Wolff as clerk of State camp NO.
80, Woodmen of the World. was OBJ
served at a meeting of the lodge |
Thursday evening, at Klingaman's
hall, 116 East Sixth avenue. P. Fl.
Coney delivered the principal address.
Vocal solos given hNy RahaRcal
Gartner and Lillian Blacker. Nanon
Herren gave a reading. Refreshments
were served by Mrs. n. H. Wolff.
The members of the institute for
colored professional men of Topeka
held meeting Thursday night.