The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-30
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AT HOME NEWS

investigate the SundStrand. Jos. G.
Wilson & Co, 525 Kansas Ave.-Adv.
Al F.tWilliams. United States district
attorney, addressed the meeting of
/ Round Table chapter, De Molay, held
! Wednesday night at the Masonic tenn
pie.
a suit TO collect s12.72O from Selma
o. Dial and Micajah F. Dial on
promissory notes. was filed in the dis
! trict court today by Charles Kraemer,
! of Topeka.
Second term work in the spring
/ millinery classes offered by the y.
W. c. A. will open at 1880 O'Clock
7 Thursday evening. Miss Lucille Rich
ards will serve as instructor.
! Mamie Smith, colored photograph
star, supported by her own Jazz
4 Hounds" band and the Mamie Smith
( Revue company. will appear in jazz
| concert at the city auditorium April
I Il
1 Lewis G. Gregory. of Washington,
/ D. C.. representing the d. A. H. l. A.
| movement for universal peace and
| brotherhood. addressed the students of
the Kansas Industrial and Educational
institute, Wednesday.
II. A. Russell. a member of the
| state public utilities commission, and
| J. L. Worsley, engineer for the COM
mission. attended a conference of pub
tic utility and railroad commissioners
held this week in Des Moines, Ia
Z
, owned and operated for the past five
years by c. W. Smith. has been sold
to O. p. Andrews, of Clifton, Kan
Andrews has been running a barber
shop in Clifton for fourteen years.
Lewis G. Gregory of Washington, D.
c., will speak Friday afternoon at
4:3O O'Clock at Buchanan school on
the subject "Bahai Movement" He
comes to Topeka under the auspices
of the Grade Teachers Study club.
1 The public is invited.
Mrs. D. F. Hansen, of Topeka. to-
day filed a petition in the district
court asking a divorce from Elmer
Hansen, said now to be living in Ne
IRENE cruelty and abandonment. They
were married in July. 1921.
THE Function of the Cereal Chem
ist," will be the subject of an address
by r. S. Herman, chemical expert of.
the Ismert-Hincke Milling Co, of
Kansas City, Mo. before the Wash
burn college chemical club at 1880
O'Clock this evening at Rice Hail.
w. A. Lewis, president of the state
Normal school at Hays, was Topeka
visitor Wednesday. He reported that
conditions in Western Kansas have
improved wonderfully during the past
few weeks on account of the rains,
and said that the reaction has been
felt in all lines of business.
Reports of the theft of milk bot
porches of west side homes lately have
been received by the police Bottles
have been stolen from the home of
William A. Biby. 1908 Jewell avenue,
seven different times. it was said 1t is
believed the thefts are committed by
boys.
A large still, three barrels of mash
and some whisky were confiscated by
the sheriff's force and prohibition Of
ficers Wednesday night when they
raj i'll cd a home n
North jefferson street. Click refused
to open the front door, and 1t was
broken in. He was arrested and re-
leased on $500 bond.
A truck belonging TO the Poehler
Mercantile company. due to the slip
perry pavement. challenged Wash
burn-Douthitt street car to combat
at Kansas avenue and Thirteenth
street, Wednesday afternoon but fin
ished second the difference in weight
being the deciding factor. At that
the damage to the truck was small
Plans have been completed for the
dedication CT a new rural high school
at Winchester Friday. The building
has just been completed at a cost OF
approximately 100000. Prof W. D.
Ross, former state superintendent,
and now connected with the State Nor
NAL at Emporia, will deliver the prin-
cipal address in connection with the
dedicato-y ceremonies Friday.
Daisy troop. No. s. Girl Scouts, of
the Central Park Christian church, !
will hold a food sale Saturday morn |
ing at the Warren NJ. Crosby Co. store |
The twelve girls who wilt serve at the |
sale are: Neil Crittenton. Juanita !
Young, Aletha Olney. Shirley Patch, !
Evelyn Ransom, Dorothy Wonderly, |
Nellie Leach, Thelma Campbell, Pearl |
Marker, Opal Coon and Irene Coon. |
The musical students of the Kansas |
Industrial and Educational institute I
a frir a Eh
at s O'Clock Friday night at the audi |
torium of the school The cast in |
cIudes,, Ben Green, Jessie Eaton, !
Charles Courtwright, Eugene Har- /
Peterson, Leo Escoe, Monroe Wilson, I
Robert Wellington, Florentine Tolbert, |
Rebecca Frasier and Pauline johnson. /
Earl Mckinney. OF Oakland, was
arrested this morning by Tom Hur
ley. marshal of the court of Topeka,
on a warrant charging him with
forgery. Mckinney is charged with
signing the name of his brother. John /
groceryman. to $40
check drawn on the Oakland State
He was released on $500 bond. signe
by his brother after he had pleaded
not guilty when arraigned in the city
court.
Miss Eta " Covell, city clerk. is
issuing an S o. s. call for information !
about one Albert Cicero Stevens Mrs
Ruth Locke OF Columbus. O., has
written TO Miss Covell. asking If the /
city clerk can supply any informa-
ton as 10 the habits or habitat of
Stevens, who is Mrs. Locke's nephew.
His mothers maiden name was Leek
according to the letter. Search of the
city directory and of the lists of reg II
stered voters has not revealed the
name of the man sought.
Bling Bang Bill Billy returned
Wednesday afternoon, from Manhat-
tan where he assisted in the prelirnf-
nary plans for the drive which the
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