The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-12
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The members of the Washburn col
lege Y. NJ. c. \. met Wednesday even
ing to discuss the policies of the asso-
citation.
A meeting of all Topeka high school
students interested in debating was
held this afternoon to form a debat-
ing club.
A flue fire occurred this morning
at 9:34 o'clock at the home of G.. w
Bolis, 323 Madison street. The dam
age was slight.
The theft of an electric iron and a
mirror from Kings second hand store,
116 East Eighth avenue, was reported
to the police Wednesday night.
Ten Plymouth Rock pullets were
stolen from John Mcintyre, 1922
Monroe street, Wednesday night, ac-
cording to a report to the police.
Mrs. Bessie Gilbert was granted a
divorce from Fred l.. Gilbert in the
district court Wednesday and restored
to her maiden name of Bessie Estes.
THE World" the official publica-
ton of Topeka high school, will not
be issued January rs or February l.,
on account of the closing of the first
semester
A joint installation of officers will
be held at 1880 o'clock Tuesday even
ing at Royal Arcanum hall, by Frank
c. Armstrong Camp, No. 3, U. S. w,
and the ladies' auxiliary.
Tho Topeka Pet Stock association
will hold a meeting at S o'clock Fri
day evening at the Chamber of Com
merce. All persons interested in pei
stock are invited to attend.
Miss Ruth Wright. manager of the
! Coy theater, was taken to st.
: suit of a nervous breakdown from
which she has been suffering for about
a week.
The boys work committee of the
! Y. NJ c. A. and a number of men in
| terested in boys will hold meeting
this evening at the association build
| ing to discuss the boys work for the
/ coming year.
( Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Murray will leave
| tonight for St. Louis being called
there by the death of an aunt, Mrs.
Mary Donovan. Murray is employed
| by the Union Pacific as timekeeper
in the material department.
J The faculty of Topeka high school
met this afternoon to discuss problems
in regard to the closing of the present
| semester. The present semester will
| close January 81 and the second
| semester will open January 80.
Twenty students of Topeka high
school >>lro,led in the French V course
for the spring semester, but the course
small number would be enrolled in
| the French VI course next fall.
Earl Akers, member of the city
board of education, and Prof. c. A.
Hays, of Topeka high school, are
planning a trip to western Kansas to
! inspect a printing press If the press
| is bought, it will be used to print the
Topeka High School World
| The art classes of Topeka high
school are now taking up life studies
and are drawing poses taken by diff
ferent members of the classes. The
purpose of these drawings is to pre-
pare the student for the clay modelling
course which will soon be offered.
| E. V. Edworthy, state boys work
| secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A, addressed
the members of the Hi-Y club of
! Washburn high school at a meeting
| held this morning. The theme of his
talk was loyalty to principles. He
stated that a boy will never be larger
| than he imagines himself to be.
| Mrs. Katharine Cole today filed a
petition in the district court asking d
| divorce from George r. Cole, 607 West
! Tenth avenue, whom she charges with
neglect and cruelty. She also wants
| her maiden name of Katharine Rich
| ardson restored. They were married
at Carthage, Mo. in October, 1913.
The annual winter meeting OF the
| Topeka Tuberculosis association will
| be held at the Chamber of Commerce
/ Saturday noon. At this meeting the
plans for the 1922 season, the ap-
lproval of the years budget and the
employment of nurses for city and
| county work will be brought up for
settlement.
| The "Bizzy Bee Cafe" out at Con-
cordia, Kan, hasn't been such a busy
] place after all. There is a shortage
of honey" it seems, at least the own
er, Ronald Cox, today filed a petition
in voluntary bankruptcy in the United
| States district court in Topeka. Cox
| places his liabilities at $6,265.83 and
| his assets at $3.50.
| Tom Crawford, son of Mr.. and Mrs
| L. w. Crawford, 1926 Clay street, will
| leave next week for New York City to
| join Edward Mennsnger in an import
and export commission business. Both
are graduates of Washburn college.
| Menninger is telegraph editor of the
] New York Tribune. Crawford has
/ been in Chautauqua work
Tom Brown, negro, was sentenced
to serve thirty days in the county Jail
and pay a fine of 500 when he
pleaded guilty to the illegal possession
! of liquor before Judge James Nc
Clure in the district court Wednesday
afternoon. George Good, a white
man. ItCelNeu d similar. sentence Out
was paroled from the jail sentence.
| The faculty of Washburn law school
will be hosts to the faculty members of
! the other departments of the college
Friday evening, January IS, at the
| home of Edward Rooney, an instruc-
tor in the law school, at 22O West
Twenty-first street. The program,
which is i'll the hands of the law fac
ulty, will begin promptly at O'clock
There is a lull in Postmaster W. o.
R-gby's school for training new post
masters. All of the students who en-
rolled during the first week of the
year have been graduated and there
have been no new enrollments since
Tuesday. Rigby reports having re-
, ceived a number of inquiries, how
ever and expects four or five students
to show up the first of next week.
A derailment of six freight cars