The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-14


week. On Wednesday he will hold a
conference with Nemaha county Sum
day school officials at Sabetha. He
will speak at a Sunday school picnic
at Larkinburg, Thursday. Next Sun
day he will be in attendance at Sum
I day school convention at Elmdale.
/. S. Jones of the Preferred Risk
/ Fire Insurance company, served as
chairman of the meeting of the Mon
! day Lunch club, an organization OF
fire underwriters. held this noon at
fthe Chamber of Commerce. Fred E.
the Fred S. James inspection bureau.
and w. L. Rigney of Paola, Demo-
cratic candidate for the office of stats
superintendent of insurance, were the
two principal speakers.
Girls who will spend this week at
1 the Y. w. c. A summer camp at
Maple Hill are: Miss Kitty Weede,
Miss Lillian Swanson, Miss Esther
| Swanson, Miss Borg, Miss Bessie Will
der, Miss Minnie Dinglested, Miss Alice
Miss Mary Oswald and Miss Anna
Grabau. Miss Helen HoIler, office
executive at the Y. w. C. A, reports
that there are a few vacancies at the
camp for the next week end.
William H. Douglas, son of Mr. and
Mrs H. S Douglas, 1922 College ave-
nue, has been awarded a Founders
scholarship in the Carnegie Institute
OF Technology in Pittsburgh. Mr..
Douglas is enrolled in the building
course of the college of Industries. He
graduated from the Topeka high
school and attended Washburn college
for one year. In 1920 he enrolled in
the Carnegie Institute. He will COM
plete his course in the institute next
term.
An energetic bond salesman mount
ed Douthitt avenue street car this
morning on his way to work. But he
couldn't bear to waste the time which
must elapse before he got downtown
So he started to work on the street
car conductor. By the time the car
reached Eighth and Kansas avenues,
where the salesman ahghted, the con-
ductor was thoroly interested pros
pect. He took fares, rang them up,
signalled the motorman and issued
transfers, automatically, while he
listened attentively to the glowing pic
ture the bond salesman painted,
Members of Topeka Review No. IA
of the Woman's Benefit Association
of the Maccabees were entertained at
Riverside camp by Mrs. w. A. Haskins
with dinner. Music and an old
fashioned dance furnished the amuse-
ment of the afternoon. Those pres
ent were: Mrs. Rosa Geiger, Mrs.
Mary Schultz, Mrs. Allie Miller, Mrs.
Mary Thoewater, Mrs Clara Day, Mrs
Hattie Covell, Mrs. Ada Coon, Mrs.
4hillIlle OOlSlTOIils MIS-. l. j. myers,
Mrs Alice Keene, Mrs. w. E. Seguine.
Mrs. Alice Grice. Mrs. Fannie Busby
and Mrs L. K. Bowers.
Paul T. Mcfarland, assistant United
States district attorney and compensa-
ton officer for the Kansas state de-
partment of the American Legion, has
been informed of the death of G. l..
Ebeling, post compensation officer of
the American Legion post at Leona,
Doniphan county. Ebeling, who was
very active in Legion affairs, was ia
tally injured Tuesday of last week in
an automobile accident at a railway
crossing and died in a hospital the fol-
lowing day. The appointment of a
successor will be made by the state
department officials on the recon-
mendation of the post.
A. Malstrom was removed to his
home Saturday from a local hospital
where he has spent the last two weeks.
Mr.. Malstrom suffered a paralytic
stroke in San Bernardino, Call while
he was returning home from the
Shriners convention in San Francisco
last June. He was taken to a Los
Angeles hospital where he remained
for five weeks before he was brought
to Topeka. Mr.. Malstrom has been an
employee of the Santa Fe railroad for
the last thirty-six years and is now
chief scale inspector of the system.
proved, according to the attending
physician.
Members of the Epworth league of
the Lowman Memorial Methodist
church who left this morning to at
tend the Kansas conference of the
Epworth league institute at Baldwin
this week, are Miss Carrie Kendrick,
Miss Lola Morrison, Miss Veda Gent
ner, Miss Neva Luxton, Miss Dorothy
Stark, Miss Bernice Long, Miss Hester
Morrison, Miss Mildred Fowler, Miss
Marguerite Shearer, Miss Arloa Bell, |
John Schwartz and Merton French. |
Those who will attend the conference
the latter part of the week are Roy
Haun, Louis Keller, Harold Keller
Edward Nash. Harold Reed, Harry |
Purdum and Gordon Hill.