The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-10
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Tax exempt Kansas bonds. Shaw
nee Investment Co., 534 Kansas Ave
Phone 505e.-Adv,
The public utilities commission has
granted a reduction in railroad fares
for the state convention of taxpayers
when the taxpayers league represen-
tatives meet in Topeka March 9. The
commission has approved a round trip
rate of one and one-half the one-way
rate.
George Weaver, a former Topeka
boy and widely known here as a
musician. has organized an orchestra
and has been touring Canada for the
past year. Weaver has travelled eX-
tensively turnout the United States
and is known in practically every
state.
Advanced students in music will
give an interesting program at Wash
burn college chapel at S:15 O'Clock to-
night, to which the public is invited.
Theodore Roth. Helen Frances Frisby.
Fannie Cornell, Beulah easier. Gladys
Rabb, Sylvia Silverthorne and Bess
Stiverson are the performers.
Oscar Perkins. deputy sheriff, left
this morning for Guthrie, Okla, to
return H. L. Youngblood, held there
by the police and wanted here on a
charge of passing worthless checks.
Youngblood is wanted in several Kan
sas towns. on similar charges, accord
ing to information received by the
sheriff's office.
A building permit for the censtruc-
ton of an eight-room residence to
cost $4,000 was issued Thursday
from the office of the fire marshal to
J. M. kirkpatrick, president of the
Security Benefit association The
building is to be erected at 1921 Col
lege avenue. Lundgren & Carlson are
the contractors.
Jesse w. Greenleaf of the Kansas
public utilities commission, has been
named as a member of a special COM
mission TO present telephone deprecia-
ton figures to the interstate COM
merce commission. Kansas has Joined
with Pennsylvania, Florida, Minnesota
and Maryland in the case before the
1. c. G. Greenlead will appear for
the state in the hearing.
A horse and buggy belonging to r.
Z. Armstrong, route 81, and stolen
Thursday night from in front of the
high school auditorium while the
owner was attending the old fiddlers'
contest, was found this morning near
the First Methodist church, Sixth ave-
nue. and Harrison streets. Apparent
ly some one had taken the horse and
buggy for a drive and later tied it up
near the church
Albert Hutchinson was arrested by
the police Thursday night on a charge
of stealing twenty Buff Orpington
chickens from c. E. Armstrong, S31
Chestnut street. He pleaded not guilty
when arraigned in the court of To-
peka and is being held for a. prelimi-
nary hearing. He is alleged to have
sofd the chickens to the Dibble Gro
Gerry company, where they were aft
erward recovered.
Willard Drennon, 20 years old,
walked into the police station this
morning and gave himself up to the
officers as deserter from the United
States marine corps. He said his unit
was stationed in Pensacola, Fla, and
that he deserted several months ago.
Times were SO hard on the road, how
ever, that he decided it would be bet
ter. to give himself up to the mercy of
Uncle~Sam, he told the officers.
l. The city commission this morning
created a benefit district with approx
mate boundaries on the south of Hun
toon street; on the north of Tenth
nue., and on the west of Morris ave-
nue.. The district created this morning
is for the installation of a storm water
sewer. A sanitary sewer district under
consideration in tho same neighbor-
hood. has not yet been definitely de-
cided upon.
Abraham LincolL's Religion is an
nounced by the Rev. Clifton NJ. Gray
as the topic for next Sunday mornings
sermon at the First Unitarian church.
In spite of lis deep admiration for the
Great Commoner, the Rev. Gray did
not, during his twenty years ministry
in Charleston. South Carolina, have
1.-THE pleasure of making an address-on
Lincoln. He felt it was not fitting for
a northern man to choose a topic
which might be offensive to some of
his people, altho Lincoln is appreci-
ated and admired by a large number
| of persons thruout the entire South.