The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-27

he viii participate in the national
oratoricaI contest, which will be held
| during the fourth biennial convention
honorary forensic fraternity. March
2S, % and so. Booth was elected
1 to membership in the Washburn
| chapter last year. He will attend the
convention also as a delegate
Hugging matches, vulgar and sug-
mitted in Leavenworth. according to
an announcement made by Mrs
/ Maude Allen, police matron, following
| her visit to one of the popular Satur-
| IT is reported that the matron put a =
EMO to the hugging matches right on
! the spot and that from now on
couples will dance four inches apart.
Five Topeka dentists are on the
program of the tri-state5 convention of
dentists at Kansas City April 0 to IA.
The convention will be attended by
dentists from Kansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri. The Topeka dentists who
will speak at the convention are: DR..
A. J. Buff,N DIR. E. Z. Carpenter. DR..
f. Z. Ramsey. DIR. z. z. WEIGH, and
DR.. j. d. Gorbutt. Several other To-
peka dentists viii attend the conven-
ton.
Bert Won Wolff, 2o56 Buchanan
street, filed a petition in. the district
court today asking a divorce from
Mrs. Edna Won Wolff. He charges her
with being intimate with other men
and declares that while he was work
ing she frequent Y left their three
small children alone until late at night
while she sought. pleasure for herself.
1t was often necessary for neighbors
to come in and care for the little ones,
he alleges.
The Topeka Boy Scouts have not all
come to the end of the long, long trail
which was set for them in the annual
~
them were working on the trail Sun
day, and they are working again to-
day. The contest VIII close at
O'Clock this afternoon. 1t will be sew
compared and the prize winners de-
termined, John v. FLOYD, scout exec
Utive for the city, stated today.
Work in al the degrees was held
Saturday by Sloan lodge No. 225, A
F. and A. NJ, when the thirty eighth
Among the past masters in attend
ance were: Frank l.. Sturges. Geo.
W. Banter, S. J. Hodgins. James Mel
son, William A. Tinker, Frank 5.
Crane, Victor s. Boutwell,. George f.
Rees, Samuel Alexander, Owen ].
Wood, Clement w. SeeIy. John d.
Stevenson and Louis r. Vesper. Z
Plans for the annual meeting of the
Kansas Editorial association were
made Saturday at Lawrence when
Roy Bailey of Salina, president of the
association; o. w. Little of Alma, L.
n. Flint of the Journalism department
of Kansas university. and Carl F.
White of Kansas City, Kan, met at
Lawrence to frame a program. The
annual meeting of the editors this
year. will be held on May and +.
The first days meeting will be held
at Lawrence. and the second at Kan
sas City, Kan.
A radio receiving set is being in
stalled in the Trefry Motor corapanv's
plant at s15 Kansas avenue. With
the set which is already in, the en-
ployeS- have been enabled to hear con-
certs and messages which have been
DroadcaSted from sending stations. An
'an1plfieE and a large receiving set are
to be installed in the waiting room of
the company in the near future The
work of installation has been done
by the employees of the firm, under
the direction of NJ. P. Olson, local
agent for radio supplies.
Beware of the sex detector, says
the department of agriculture. 1t is
widely advertised as one of the great
est ''marvels of the age" but there is
nothing TO it, the federal department
asserts in formal statement. = Ac-
cording to its manufacturer and pub
licity agents, the detector is a small
instrument that will unfailingIyt indi-
cate the sex and fertility of eggs. the
department says, adding that poultry
raisers were promised phenomenal
matches and as high a percentage of
females as they might desire by its
use. But this was only part of what
might be expected of this simple but
potent little device" declares the de-
partment ina recent circular lit
was said to tell the sex of oysters.
butterflies, caterpillars. beetles, worms
and even the sex of the animal from
which were obtained such. But it's
all a fake, the department says