The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

the Central Park Christian church at
1880 o'clock Sunday evening.
Milton Tabor. secretary of the To-
peka Merchants association, who is ill
at his home, was reported today to be
much improved.
Custom grinding every day. Diamond
Bottling Works.. 2201 Lincoln st.
Phone 317s.-Adv.
Night School classes in Business
English and Arithmetic will begin at
Strickler's Topeka Business College
next Monday night, October 9.-Adv.
A diphtheria epidemic which
threatened Shawnee county this fall
has been averted, according to DR.. c.
c. Lull, county physician. Only four
cases are under. quarantine at this
time and only sixteen cases have been
reported this fall. A year ago at this
time there were fifty-rour cases I'M
der quarantine.
Richard Kilbourn was elected presi-
dent of the Washburn De Molay club,
an organization of Washburn men
holding membership in the Order of
DeMolay, at the meeting of the club
! this week. Other officers elected
were: John De Mum, vice president,
and James Weaver, secretary-treas-
urer. Prof Albert Haberstro was Sc
lected as advisor for the club.
Six hundred persons were in attend
ance at the joint installation of Of
ficers of the four Topeka councils OF
the Security Benefit association, held
Friday at the Odd Fellows temple.
lit West Sixth avenue. A class of
forty candidates was initiated. ]. NJ.
Kirkpatrick, national president. and
J. V. Abrahams, national secretary,
served as installation officers.
Forty members of the Topeka Life
Underwriters association and their
| families will go to Gage park tonight
| where the annual picnic and steak
roast of the association is to be held
! at o'clock. The meeting and lunch
con of theN association at the Cham
her OF Commerce at noon today was
| given over to a general discussion
| of the insurance business, and of the
plans for the steak roast tonight.
Garden seeds produced in Germany,
France, Holland, Japan, Wisconsin
and New Jersey, are distributed thru
| Topeka to a territory covering Kan
sas, Texas, Oklahoma. Missouri, Ar
kansas, Louisiana and Nebraska, by
the Hayes Produce company, whole
| sale dealers in seeds, at 601-05 North
Kansas avenue. The European seeds
will commence 20 arrive in Topeka
next month, for distribution for next
season.
A special meeting of several mem
bers and directors of the Topeka
Kiwanis club was held at noon today
at the Chamber of Commerce. The
| kiwanians are considering bringing to
| Topeka the little Symphony orchestra
of the Kansas City Symphony Orches-
ira association. to give series of con-
y certs, specially arranged for the pupils
| in the city schools. The matter will
| be referred to the directors at their
| next meeting.
DR.. Stephen T. Bayles. of Topeka
who formerly operated a drug store at
day filed a voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy in the federal court. He listed
his liabilities at $2.818.15 and his as
sets at about $3.50, claimed as exempt
Minnie E. Stowe, an Ottawa house
keeper, also filed a voluntary petition
in bankruptcy, listing her liabilities al
$12, 534, mostly in the form of prom
issory notes. She has no other assets
than her wearing apparel, she says.
The officers of the Juvenile council
Of the Security Benefit association
were installed this afternoon at a
meeting at the Odd Fellows temple
III West Sixth avenue. The Officers
installed were: Helen Stout, worthy
monarch; Donald Sands, senio
knight; Edward Sperter, u n o
knight; Lavina Alexander, sub-juniol
lady; Loretta Appodoca, lady guide;
Parks, knight of the watch: Nellie
Miller, lady of records: Glenn Mize
treasurer, and Mildred Simey, pianist
"a Pioneer Religion" will be the
sermon topic of the Rev. Clifton Mer-
rift Gray at IL O'Clock Sunday morn
ing in the First Unitarian church, 914
Topeka boulevard. based on the cove
nant adopted by the church of the
Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1902. Al
1880 o'clock the first open meeting OF
the Unitarian Laymen's League will
hear the report of their delegate, Mrs
| w
them at the summer meetings on Star
Island. This is a meeting for tho
church and its friencs and for the
public, and all will be cordially well
come.
The picnic of the Topeka Real
Estate board members and their fami-
, lies, scheduled to be held Friday might
at Lakewood park. was hastily trans
ferred to the home of John Hersh, 81
Kendall avenue, a member of the
5 o'clock. At the Hersh home the pic
mic supper was eaten, and H. G. West
former president of the Farmers Ma
tional bank, who was the guest of the
| board, talked to the real estate deal
ers and their families, on his recent
three-months' European tour. Fol
lowing Vests talk, the dealers and
their families took in the second SHOW
at the Orpheum-
A ruling governing the charges
made Tor transporting eggs In cases
which were not constructed according
, to the requireTne nts of the carriers
which western railway lines planned
to put into effect has been suspended
until January 90, 1928. as the result
of an appeal tot the interstate com
merce commission by E. H. Hogue
land, commerce counsel for the To-
peka Traffic association and the Kan
sas Egg Shippers association. The
: ruling would assess an extra charge OF
rs per cent on all shipments in which
there was one nail short of the re-
:. CURED number, in any case A hear
: ing before the commission will be
: held before January 20. to determine
the justification for the ruling.
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