The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

| next Monday evening at regular
meeting of Topeka Lodge No. 524. L.
o. o. NJ. A number of candidates Will
| be initiated.
Secretary J. C. Mohler of the state
board of agriculture, reports an I'M
usually large acreage of alfalfa will
| be sown this month in the southwest
| ern portion of the state.
Josiah Jordan. county superintend-
ent of public instruction, is much inn
proved and is expected to recover, ac-
cording to relatives. He became seri-
ously i'll several weeks ago.
| An issue of 100000 worth of road
| improvement bonds has been regis
| tered in the state auditors office by
Atchison county. Arkansas City regis
tered $4,000 worth of refunding
bonds.
An additional case of diphtheria
was reported to DR.. Earle G. Brown,
city health officer, Tuesday. The
total number of active cases Of this
disease is ten. No death has occurred
this month from the disease.
The city commission passed an
ordinance Tuesday requiring motorists
not to exceed a speed limit of twelve
miles an hour in city parks. This ap-
plies to all parks owned by the city
within and without the city limits.
Albert Shuttle, 1886 Jackson street.
has invented a mirror for the pro-
lection of motorists at INSTRUCTED
corners. One has been placed at the
Oh f1uhLOOn SlECCI anu
Topeka boulevard. The mirror re-
fleets approaching cars.
The tracing and miscellaneous de-
partments of the freight auditors de-
partment of the Santa Fe offices en-
joyed a picnic at Cages park. Friday
afternoon and evening baseball
game, potato race and one legged race
were among the features of the day
SD. Younkin, 81 East Third street.
was slightly injured Sunday night
when he was struck by a Ford car,
said to have been driven by a farmer
living west of town, at the corner OF
Sixth and Kansas avenues, Mr..
Younkin suffered bruised knee and
hip.
Miss Nell stringfelIow. physical di-
rector of the Y. w. Q. A, who has
been in charge of the Topeka delega-
ence at Estes Park, Colo, for the last
two weeks. has gone to Los Angeles
Cal. where she will remain until the
middle of September.
Contract for the new 1,000-foot con-
crete testle and a new concrete bridge |
across the Marias des Cygnes river at
Trading Post on the Kansas City-Fort
Scott highway, will be let today. The
bridge is one of the most important
links in the north and south highway
thru eastern Kansas.
Mr.. Harry Wood of St. Louis. Mo,
politan Life Insurance company, and
Mrs Harry Wood, have arrived here
to make their home. Mr.. and Mrs. r
]. Campbell have gone to Tulsa, Okla, |
to make their home. Mr.. Campbell
was formerly district manager of the |
company here.
Hyman Pressman, formerly in the
clothing business in Topeka, later in
business in New York City, has re-
turned to Topeka and purchased the |
Hub bargain store at $40 Kansas ave |
nue., from E. Scrinopskie. Scrinopskie, |
who has owned the business since
1910, has retired from business, ana IS |
on an extended vacation in the east
There is going to be plenty of music |
at the Kansas Free Fair which begins |
here September IL, according to Sec
rotary Phil Eastman. A contest for
bows and girls bands has been ar
ranged and a, number OF prizes Will De |
offered. The bands will play in COM |
petition Tuesday, September IL. Mem |
bers of the competing organizations
will be entertained by the fair man
agement.
The delicatessen store at $40 West |
Sixth avenue has been sold by h a |
GraIey to ]. w. Chittix and J. w.
King. Graley became manager of the
grocery department of the Warren M /
Crosby department store eight months
ago, and since that time Mrs. Graley
has been managing the delicatessen.
husband in the management of the
Crosby grocery department.
The resolutions committee of the /
Kansas State Teachers association
will meet Monday, August %, in the
association offices at 923 Kansas ave-
nue.. Members of the committee are:
Eph Voorhees,. Leavenworth; Miss
Lucy Mccoy, Kansas City, Kan; ]. F.
Hughes, Chanute; Ford Sangster,
Onaga: w. F. Shelter, Concordia; E.
an Miss Mary Tan-l
sky, Hutchinson: Miss Jessie L. Clark,
Wichita, and Jess Miley, Girard.
Miss Sallie Glass. girls work secre-
tary at the Y. W. c. A, will leave the
last of this month for Tallahassee, Fla.
where she will be the student secre- /
men. She will also. be the executive
secretary of the student Y. w. c. A. /
at the university Miss Glass has been
the girls secretary at the local Y. w. /
c. A. for the last two years. She viii /
be succeeded by Miss Helen Fay Fair 1
who is now the girls work secretary |
of the west central field.
Dispute over possession of a Ger
man police dog claimed by two COM
rades in overseas service has led to /
the arrest of Max Adamson. His /
comrRde, w. L. Sparks, claims own
ership of the dog and swore to the |
phan county. Sparks and Adamson |
found the dog during an advance on
the German line in 1918. Sparks.
however. has since had possession of /
the dog. He claims Adamson en-
ployed Henry Myers to take the dog
He then directed arrest of the two
men.
Services at the laying of the corner
stone of the United Presbyterian Il
church at Huntoon and Fillmore
streets this evening will be under the
direction of the Rev. NJ G. Mum,
pastor of the church The principal
speaker of the evening will be the
Rev. A. NJ. Reed of Manhattan. The
Rev. John RahilI. pastor of the Cen
trail Congregational church, will offer