The Topeka state journal., 1922-10-14
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Big masquerade dance Halloween
AT HOME NEWS

Big masquerade dance Halloween
night at Steinberg'
Eat your Sunday dinner at the Cen
trail Y. NJ c. A. cafeteria.-Adv.
Sweet Cider, wholesale and retail.
Bottling Works. 22o1 Lincoln st.
Phone 317S.-Adv.
DIR. w. E. Buck, city health officer
of the city of Pueblo, Colo, is in To-
peka today visiting his mother, Mrs.
H. A. Buck. 436 Poplar street.
The total Topeka high school en-
rollment is now 1,450, according to r..
r. Cook. principal. This exceeds last
years enrolment of 1.Z92 by ,15S.
A special showing of the film 1.-The
White Man in Black Mans Africa
will be held Monday afternoon at the
Central Congregational church at 4:30
| o'clock. School children of the city
are invited to attend.
A special showing of the motion
picture, when Dawn Came, will be
shown at the Orpheum theater Sun
| day afternoon at o'clock and in the
| evening at o'clock. The picture will
| be shown under the auspices of the
Assumption Aid society.
The regular weekly meeting of the
| Topeka Life Underwriters association
was held at the Chamber of Com
merce at. noon today. There were no
out of town speakers present, and no
/ business was transacted. The next
business session of the association Will
be held Saturday. october II.
Topeka Canton No. 8 was awarded
| a loving cup at the meeting of the
grand lodge of the 1. o.. o. F.. and
associated bodies at Lawrence this
week, for winning the competitive
gain permanent possession of the cup
| if it wins in the drills at Salina in
1923.
| Cancer week in Kansas will begin
November 12 and close November Is,
| according to an announcement re-
from the American Society for the
! Control of Cancer. Public meetings
will be held and an effort will be
made to educate the. people to prevent
! this dreaded disease.
| At the next regular meeting of the
| Topeka Kiwanis club, Monday, Octo-
Der 16, Associate Justice John Mar
shall of the Kansas supreme court
will be the principal speaker. Miss
4 Lucille Skinner. soloist, will sing. M.
E. Linton, a member of the club, will
give the members some hints on saw
! ing plumbers bills.
| Checks stolen, merchants take no
tice-S50 check to H. S. Hallock by
E. r. Chincholl. United States govern
ment pension check, $50. to H. 5
Hallock, $105 check to H. S. Hallock
by c. l.. Kirkpatrick; $2s.75 check to
Milling Co. Payment has been
stopped on all of those checks.-Adv.
A special invitation to Robert
Pierce. president of the Topeka City
Planning board, to attend the conven-
ton of the League of Kansas Munich
palities at Pittsburg, october II, 10
and 19. has been accepted. Robert
| D. McGiffert, city commissioner OF
parks and an active member of the
planning board, will also attend the
convention.
| DR.. P. N. ]. Lerrigo, home secretary
1of the American Baptist Foreign Mis-
sionary society, will speak Sunday
morning at the First Baptist church.
He has just returned to this country
| from a three months tour of investi-
lgation in the Conge~ef Africa. He Is
a brother of DIR. C. H. Lerrigo, of the
state board of health. He was a for
mer resident of Topeka.
! The northeast section of the Kansas
division of the Council of Admihistra-
tive Women will hold a luncheon next
Thursday noon at Pelletier's Tea
room. All women holding admins
trative positions are invited to attend.
| Miss Lillian Scott, of Baldwin, is
president of the Kansas division, and
Miss Zoe Thomas, of Kansas City, is
president of the northeast section
Raymond c. Brown, of College Hill
precinct, has filed as an independent
candidate for trustee of Topeka town
ship. Walter A. Smith, of Highland
Park precinct, has filed as an inde-
Ipendent candidate or township clerk.
The Kansas Electric company today
made application to the public utili-
ties commission for permission to in
crease penalties on overdue bills in
Enporia from to 10 per cent. The
i of,-io
asked today for a certificate of au-
thority to serve the city of Fredonia
with gas.
| 4 dispersal sale at which fifty head
of Holstein cows and twenty-five head
of Guernseys are to be sold will be
held at the Lee Brothers & Cook dairy
farm on the West Sixth avenue road
north of Gage park. Monday after
moon. In addition to cows from the
Lee Brothers & Cook farm, a num-
Der of Wisconsin cattle have been Sc
lecied by DIR. John w. Cook, a mem
Der of the firm, for the sale. The sale
is the first which has been held since
the firm took over the farm. formerly
the Caldwell hog farm. and made a
dairy plant of it.
A missionary institute under the di-
r e C 4 o of the Congregational
churches of Topeka will be held next
week in the Central Congregational
church. The program for the week
includes talks to be given by Miss
Frances Patterson, formerly a mis-
sionary to China, the Rev. John Wells
, Rahill, pastor of the Central Congre-
gational church; the Rev. A. E. Greg
ory, pastor of the First Congrega tion-
al church: the Rev. L. L. Lorbeer
pastor of the India Congregational
church; w. A. Biby, and the Rev
| Kenneth S. Beam of Japan.
Construction of a $4,000 two-story
brick and stucco building at the cor
ner of Kansas and Euclid avenues has
been commenced by N. A. Fitch, and
will be used to house Fitchs drug
store, with the upper story divided
into two apartments, which will be
leased There will also be available
for leasing a portion of the lower
floor. Fitch has conducted a drug
store in frame building on the site
of the new structure for some time