The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-02
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| There will be a regular weekly
meeting of the board of directors of
the Merchants association at the
! Chamber of Commerce at noon Tues
day.
The regular weekly meeting and
luncheon of the Monday lunch club,
made up of fire insurance men, was
held at the Chamber of Commerce
at noon today.
affiliated with the Loyal Order of
Moose, will hold supper at $50
o'clock Friday evening at the club
rooms, 62S Jackson street.
Miss Ethel Under and Miss Mabel
Under, of 804 North Topeka avenue,
are spending their vacation at Buff
falo, N. Y, and Philadelphia. They
will be gone for several weeks.
The Topeka Chamber of Commerce
will assist and cooperate in the work
of fire prevention week, it was deter
mined at the regular meeting of the
board of directors at noon today.
The annual election of the board of
directors of the Topeka Cooperative
club will take place at the next reg
evening, at Pelletier's tea room at 6:15
o'clock.
Total bond issues in Kansas during
September totalled $1,792,735.7S, &C.
cording to a report issued by n. A.
Turner, state auditor The amount is
100000 below issues for the same
month year ago.
Shawnee county chapter of the Red
Cross. has returned from Wichita,
where he addressed a regional confer
ence of Red Cross workers on Sat-
urday, on Roll Call plans.
The department of astronomy of
Washburn college will hold open
house this evening. All persons in
terested in viewing the stars and
various bodies are invited to visit the
department in the observatory.
The local committee in charge of the
Talbot-Murphy campaign meeting of
the Modern Woodmen of America,
which will be held October rs, will
hold meeting at 1890 o'clock this
evening at the office of DR.. f. R.
Souders.
E. N. Sunderland, assistant secre-
tary of the Chamber of Commerce,
returned Sunday evening from a two
months vacation, which he spent mo-
toring and camping in Colorado. Sun
deriand drove some 1000 miles dur
ing the trip.
A number of Topeka Masons went
to Lecompton Saturday evening to at
tend the meeting of Lecompton lodge.
They assisted in the degree work. The
communication was held in the historic
old building in which the first Kan
sas legislature met.
N. L. Flinton and daughter, Mrs.
Nettie Cramer, returned to Topeka,
Sunday, from Des Moines, Ia. where
ment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. They were accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Z. Pennick.
The fall athletic program of the
Euclid Avenue Methodist church will
open at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon
with class for school boys. The new
recreation hall will be used every af-
ternoon and evening for indoor games
and community gatherings.
In cooperation with the Wichita
Board of Commerce. the Topeka
Chamber Of Commerce will work for
an amendment, at the coming ses-
sion of the state legislature, of the
Kansas bad check law. The model
which has been chosen IS the Wiscon-
sin check law.
Following an investigation of recent
strike trouble in the Rock Island
shops at Goodland two arrests have
been made, according to information
received by the industrial court. Both
men arrested were strikers. They were
arrested under the anti pickting sec
ton of the Industrial court law.
A special committee consisting of
George T. McDermott, chairman, S. E.
Cobb and R. B. Austin was appointed
today by the directors of the Chamber
of Commerce to handle the matter of
the collection of delinquent dues from
the members of the chamber. The
committee will investigate each indi-
vidual account.
Members of the Morris Plan Bank
ers' association, from 100 American
cities, will gather in New York City.
October 8, to attend the three-day
eighth annual convention of the as
ISOLATION there. From Topeka, Mr..
and Mrs. H. NJ. Harris will attend the
convention. Harris, secretary of the
Topeka Morris Plan company.
Miss Helen Hand and Joseph Ream
of Topeka, students at Kansas univer-
sity. have been ranked as honor stu
dents at the university for 1921 and
1922. R. r. Cook, principal of To-
peka high school, received a letter of
congratulation from Kansas univer-
sity on the work done by students OF
Topeka high school.
The directors of the Chamber of
Commerce today voted the sum of
500 for the assistance of the Shawnee
county farm bureau, in holding the
second annual Kaw Valley potato
show at Topeka. November and 8.
F. o. Blecha, county farm agent. ap-
of the plans for the show.
Miss Ann Erickson and Miss Flor
ence Towne of the Santa Fe office
force, are on a vacation trip which in
cludes a journey by rail from To-
peka to Galveston. Tex, thence to
New York City by boat, and back thru
Atlantic City, N. J., and Philadelphia
to Topeka. They have left Galveston
and embarked on the boat trip.
Fifteen Topekans will attend the
annual meeting of the Topeka branch
of the Women's Foreign Missionary
society of the Methodist churches in
Kansas. Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colo
RADIO and Arizona. which will be held
Friday at Hutchinson. Bishop E. L.
Waldorf. of Wichita, and DR.. wallace
B. Fleming, of Baker university, will
speak.
The first game in the new evening
volley ball tournament of the Central
Y. M. c. A, will be held at $50
o'clock Wednesday evening. A tourna-
ment of twenty-four games will be