The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-10
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Tax exempt Kansas bonds. Shaw
nee Investment Co, 5S4 Kansas Ave-
Phone b050.-Adv.
Lost. black cat, weight 10 pounds;
white spot on chest. Reward Mrs.
Scholle-452.-Adv.
Let the Peoples Investment COM
pany write your insurance on the
home or auto. Phone 3650.-Adv.
The North Topeka Merchants base
ball team has secured its suits and
will play the Rock Island nine Sun
day.
Topeka boys have pledged s177 to-
ward the Y. NJ c. A. camp at Berry
ton. according to o. w Hascall, boys
| secretary.
Phillip L. GiIIett general secretary
/ of the Y. NJ c. A. at Marking, China,
will speak Sunday night at the First
Baptist church. He will tell of his
work in China
The Topeka Dental society held its
regular monthly meeting at Pelletier's
/ tea room Tuesday evening The prin-
cipaI speaker was DR.. E. E. Knapp of
/ Kansas City, Mo.
A short circuit in an electric wire
in the alley behind 1853 Polk street,
resulted in an alarm Of fire being
turned in Tuesday. The fire depart
ment was unable to find any damage
| Miss Helen RosAn, Harry Crane,
/ SElNlanna maxwell ana
ter have been admitted to member
| ship in the Washburn college chapter
of the Quill club, national writer's
organization
Anything interesting in this office"
an inquiring reporter asked Miss
Gladys Fox, stenographer to Milton
Tabor, secretary of the Topeka Mer-
chants association, this morning. Il
am" said Miss Fox.
A tree was planted Tuesday night
on the White House lawn on the
Washburn college campus in memory
of the class of 1922. President p.
| P. Womer and Iryl Byler did the
planting. Ike Kendall made a short
/ talk.
Roy Miller. charged with wife and
child desertion, pleaded guilty in the
/ district court Tuesday afternoon and
was sentenced to not more than four
years in the state penitentiary- He
was paroled under $500 bond to sup
port his family.
| Charles L. Mitchell, who is vice
| president of the National Association
1 of Stationers and Manufacturers, rep
1 resenting retail stationers and office
outfitters. will attend the meeting of
the directors of the association a New
| York City May -
The next meeting of the Topeka Life
| Underwriters association, Saturday
| at noon, will be addressed by r. r.
Cook, principal of the Topeka high
]
| National Life Insurance company of
Vermont, will be the chairman of the
meeting.
A meeting of the Chamber of Com
4 merce committee on camp grounds for
motor tourists will be held at the
chamber, Friday noon. The meeting
was announced today by Glenn w.
Seely, chairman of the committee, on
which several of the civic clubs of the
city are represented.
| A farewell party in honor of Miss
Mary Messy F'leischer was given by
/ the employees of the F. w. Wool
worth store Tuesday night at the
home of George n. Holmes of East
soon for Des Moines. Iowa, where she
will make her future home.
DIR. Edmund ]. Kulp, pastor of the
First Methodist church, was the
| speaker at the regular meeting OF
| the Topeka COOPERATIVE club held
| that the age of individualism is pass
ed, and that the business men of to-
| day are recognizing the arising of COM
plexities in daily life which can only
/ be met by the formation of cooper
ative orga nizations.
Maj. w. P. MacLean, superintend-
ent of the Boys Industrial school, and
| ]. K. Codding, former warden Of the
Kansas penitentiary, protested against
/ the proposed bill increasing the age
of juveniles from 6 to s years, at d
meeting of the Kansas CnAdren's
| code commission Tuesday. Major
| MacLean stated that the older boys
| should not be placed in the industrial
school, where they could influence
/ the younger boys.
| Prof. Walter Burr of the sociology
| department of the Kansas State Agri-
| cultural college, and twelve members
of the advanced class in sociology of
the college, visited Topeka Tuesday 10
study the work of the Boys Industrial
/ school, the children's code commits
sion, and the state hospital for the in
| the industrial school, and the after
noon at the state hospital and with
| the children's code commission
! Five persons were arrested Tues
day nights by the police in a liquor
raid on the house at 800 Quincy
a raid on 500 Quincy. where two
pints of liquor was found. C1arie
| Cannon was arrested at 500 Quincy
and charged with having liquor in
possession. William Foster, Roy An
derson. Oscar Citron and C. A. Mel
Il loish were charged with being found
in A gallon jug partly filled with
| liquor was confiscated.
The annual banquet OF the Wash
/ burn College Dramatic club. will be
held at Pelletier's tearoom at $40
l O'Clock tonight. President and Mrs.
/ Farley P. Womer, and Prof. and Mrs.
z. d. Schoenberger will be guests of
honor. Miss Ruth Marsh, Miss Mar
guerite LaBarrer, Gerald Tasl1er and
Ruben Forney will respond to toasts.
| William Neiswanger. jr.. Miss Helen
| Thomas, Miss Lorraine Reed and Miss
Dora Bratton are the committee in
| charge of arrangements.
The annual convention of the Kan
| sas Book Dealers association is to be
| held in Kansas City Monday and
| Tuesday, May 15 and 16. At a dinner
| which is to be given Monday evening
| the chief speaker, Will be Edgar A.
| Guest. whose poems appear daily on
/ the editorial page OF The State Jour