The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-20
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AT HOME NEWS

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A dinner for the members of the
/ firm, stockholders and employees of
the Topeka Electric company will be
given in the fixture room of the plant
at SIG Kansas avenue, tonight.
Susie Carter, negro woman, was SEN
! fenced to six months in the county jail
today by Judge Paul Heinz in the city
| court on a charge OF stealing a coat
valued at S17.50 from the Edwards
/ Cloak company.
! Stella Moore, negro woman, charged
/ with highway robbery, pleaded not
guilty when arraigned in the city court
/ this morning and her preliminary
| hearing was set for January p. She
! is alleged to have held up NJ. c. James
and robbed him of S3s.
: The Topeka branch of the Audubon
society viii meet at o'clock Saturday
evening at the Y. W. c. A. Mrs. Bes-
I sic Price Douthitt Reed of Kansas
university. an authority on the birds
of the state, will give an illustrated
lecture on Character in Feathers"
! A one-act sketch, bills" was pre-
scented for the mem bers of the Junior
: Dramatic club at the Topeka high
school Thursday Three members of
i sen and Harry Dawdy. composed the
/ cast. and the sketch was managed by
Raymond Hoffsomer.
! Harvey Morris. charged with forg-
cry, was paroled from his Jail sen
: tence and sent home to his father in
Denver Thursday afternoon. 1t was
| alleged that young Morris attempted
to pass a Worthless check for $40, but
| he destroyed the paper after the at
tempt to get money on it had failed.
A new shop for the manufacture of
| corsets TO order, with a line CT hosiery
and lingerie included. has been opened
in the Orpheum building by Mrs
state manager for the Nu-Bone Cor
set company. and Mrs. Emma E.
Tennyson, formerly with the Berkson
stores.
A special car will carry two score
or more Topeka Kiwanians to Kansas
City this afternoon over the Union
Pacific. to attend the charter presen-
tation ceremony for the Kansas City,
Kan, chapter of the club. Governor
Allen viii accompany the Kiwanians
from Topeka. The kiWanians will
leave at 2:43 o'clock this afternoon.
A meeting of the Eastern Kansas
Beekeepers' association is to be held
Monday evening. January %, at the
home of o. f. Whitney, secretary of
the State Horticultural society, sos
Topeka boulevard. All beekeepers III
Topeka and vicinity are invited to at
D. u.
rotary of the Beekeepers' association.
The state record of milk production
for a. junior three-year-ol COW, has
been broken by Mercedes Julip
Walker, d HoIstein heffer owned by
the Shungavalley dairy near Topeka.
In 365-day test. the heifer produced
9T5-3 pounds of butter and 1878
pounds of milk. During the year she
gave nearly her own weight in butter
fat and nine times her own weight in
milk.
George Bell. IS, night station master
at the Rock Island depot, is recover
! ing at StOrmout hospital from injuries
he received when he was struck by
an automobile Tuesday night at
Fourth and Kansas AVENUES was
severely bruised but not seriously in
jured, physicians said Bell some time
ago suffered a slight attack of paraly-
SIS and had been in failing health for
the last year.
A company has been formed in
Topeka for the production and sale
| of newly-invented piece of farm ma
chinery-the Stewart grain shocker.
/ The company is headed by H. S. Put
ney, and will be known at the Stewart
Grain Shocker company. The imple-
ment, which was invented by j. G.
Stewart. of St Louis. is to be manu-
featured in the plant of the Road
| Metal and Supply company in Topeka.
On Sunday evening. at 7:30 o'clock,
| at Grace Cathedral. Dean J. P. Deb.
Kaye will present the first of a series
l Of addresses on the converts and the
| rescue work of the Jerry McAuIay
/ Mission in New York City. He will
| also tell of the same kind of work
| which is being done in the Sums of
| London. The general title of these
| addresses will be Twice Born Men"
! There will be a special musical pro-
| gram at each service.
The Beta Phi Kappas," fifth hour
| debating class, won the first OF q series
| of interclass debates from the second
| hour class, or Alpha Phi kappas," at
the Topeka high school Thursday. The
| subject for debate was, Resolved,
| That the Philippine Islands should be
| granted their immediate independ-
| ence." The winning team upheld the
/ negative side OF the argument. The
| fifth hour class team consisted of
| Theron French and Scott Smith. The
| affirmative team was composed of
| Harold Gill and Morley Thompson.
| The judges were Miss Luara Ewing,
| Miss Anna Calvert and Miss Ethel AL
drich, all members of the high school
faculty.
The annual Installation of officers
OF Shawnee Camp No. $500, Modern
Woodmen Of America, was held Fri
| day night at the camp hall L. F.
I 1ukAAt- lCHtA Wds
| installed as consul: 7. P. DooIey, for
| merly banker. was installed as worthy
| adviser; A r Davis was installed as
| banker; DR.. r. F. SoUders, as clerk;
| W o. Sherman as escort, F. z. Brown
as trustee; Joseph Klee as sentry and
/ J. Irwin as Waterman. Music was
furnished during the installation cere-
monies by the Paynter Quartet, of
| Oakland. with Miss Doyle at the
| piano; Clarence Messiek, vioIinist. Al
| bert Schutt. mandolinist and guitarist
with Miss Emma yogeI as accompau-
ist; Miss Florence Gustavis. piano So
| loist and the H B-Hap-E orchestra
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