The Topeka state journal., 1922-03-15

There will be an informal program of
talks by I. A. McNeal, W. z. Bush,
Samuel T. Howe and the minister, the
Rev. Clifton Merritt Gray.
A woman on a town-bound street
car, read copy of a morning paper
this morning Beside her sat a man
passenger, a stranger to her. Two
more men occupied the seat behind
her. When she turned to a comic
strip, the three men chuckled in uni
son, and she became aware that she
was sharing her paper with three per-
feet strangers. She folded it up and
put it in her handbag.
S. L. Clark, employed at the Fred
Walker drug store. 1913 Kansas
Wichita Tuesday saying that only six
of eighty-three applicants before the
Kansas board of pharmacy recently
passed the examination was erroneous.
Clark says his name should have been
included in the list of successful ap-
plicants, making seven in all out of a
total of eighty-eight who took the
test.
Z. n. Sunderland. assistant secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce. thought
that John A Stewart. who addressed
the membership of the chamber Mon
day. was an Englishman. The pariors
of the chamber were decorated with
Irish colors, left there after party
Saturday night. Sunderland called in
two porters Monday morning and
helped them get the Irish decorations
removed SO as not to offend the Eng
lish' speaker.
Notice has been received by Mai.
Carl r. White, property and disburs-
ing officer for the Kansas National
Guard, that a homing pigeon which
had escaped in Topeka has been
found at her former quarters at Camp
Alfred Vail. n. J. The pigeon escaped
while being fed in Topeka, and flew
! ,450 miles to her former nest in New
Jersey, from whence she had been
shipped to Topeka last month. The
flight of a homing pigeon rarely eX-
ceed 4,500 miles, it is stated by ex-
perts in the game.
The Santa Fe railroad company
Tuesday afternoon filed suit in the
federal court to collect $2O.33 from w.
C. Ellis, of Lawrence. 1t is alleged
that when Ellis applied for a ticket to
Indianapolis, where the national C. A.
r. encampment was being held last
September he presented a certificate
asking for special rates. The special
rates were granted and the ticket was
sold for Sb2. .61 according to the Pc
tition. Later. it is alleged, it was
discovered that Ellis was an auxiliary
member and not entitled to special
rates. The suit was filed to collect
the difference.
Among the other signs of spring.
list the following: Baseball and track
shoes are going to shoe repair shops
to be fitted up for the summers duty.
The shoes are being dug out of closets
and trunks where they nave rested"
during the winter and are going to
the boot foundries and garages for
new spikes. cleats and general clean
ing up. I'VE don't get as many base
ball and track shoes for repair as we
do football Shoes" a leading shoe re-
pair man said today. I'VE have had
as many as fourteen pairs of football
shoes in the shop in one day during
the football season"
Resolved. That the Philippines
Should Be Given Their Immediate In
dependence" is the subject Of de-
bate which will take place tonight be-
tween Washburn rural high school
and the Berryton high school. The
negative team from each school Will
debate away from home. The winner
will meet the Seaman rural high
school Friday night when Oakland
will also debate on the same question
with Silver Lake. The members of
the Washburn team meeting Rerryton
tonight are Miss Zelda Kern, Miss
Ruth Platt. Harry LOOMS; Miss Villa
NJ. Maxwell. Ivan Robinette and Har-
old TcmSou