The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-09
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

| The directors OF the ktwanlS club
met at luncheon today at the Cham
Der of Commerce.
Tax exempt Kansas bonds. Shaw
nee Investment Co., 534 Kansas Ave.
Phone b050.-Adv.
Money to loan on improved real es-
tate-reasonable' rates-and no red
tape-Telephone 1896. The Topeka
| Mortgage & Investment Co.-Adv.
Municipal Bonds and Liberty Bonds
bought, sold and exchanged The
Brown-Crummer Company, 419 New
England Bldg, J. H. Evans. resident
manager--Adv-
1 Everything continues to be calm in
the city health office. according to DR..
| Earle G. Brown, city health officer.
| There are no epidenics, plaques, or
scares at the present time" Brown
said this morning.
The commencement exercises for
the graduating class of Topeka high
school will be held at o'clock this
evening in the city auditorium Ad-
mission is by ticket, twelve of which
were given to each senior.
Four master clocks. which will con-
/ troll the action of all clocks in the To-
peka high school, have been presented
to the school by the senior class. The
clocks have not yet arrived. A gift of
500 was also made, to be used as
student loan fund.
The members of tha Seaman for
State Superintendent of Public In
struction club will meet at the Seaman
school building, north of Topeka, Sat
| urday evening at 8 O'Clock. Walter
L. Payne, former state treasurer, will
| be the principal speaker of the eve
| ming.
! The Thompson Hardware company
was granted the right to close a con-
tract with the Santa Fe for a spur
track to their warehouse at Third and
Adams street by the city commission
| this morning, at a meeting of that
! body at city hall. The petition has
/ been before the commission some
1 time.
Harry Berger, city bacteriologist,
has been working overtime recently, in
an attempt to complete the chemical
analysis of the contents of fifty-two
| bottles of various sizes. turned oyer to
| him by the police department, con-
tanning alleged liquor. Berger says
good percentage of the confiscated
| booze is rank poison.
The National Society OF Colonial
| Daughters has awarded certificates to
eight Topeka high school pupils in
recognition of the excellence of essays
| written on patriotic subjects The fol-
lowing received certificates: Miss
Winifred Miller. Howard Yeager, Vir-
ginia Shortt, Willard Gabriel, Ruth
Jackman, Ellsworth Jordan, Mary
SpurIock and Ted Decker.
| The members of the DeMolay order
will hold a picnic at Wakarusa, Sat
| urday. TopekanS will make the trip
| on Santa Fe train leaving here at $3.50
| O'Clock in the morning and the return
ing train will leave Wakarusa at $50
! o. clock in the evening. The day will
be spent in swimming, boating, base
ball games, boxing and wrestling
bouts. Each boy-is to take his dinner
and supper.
Topeka Boy Scouts are planning for
| the time of their lives when they
enter the first annual Y. NJ. C. A.
summer camp, near Maple Hill, July 3.
There will be two divisions of the
camp, the first July to July II, and
| the second, July IT to July 81. The
plans call for a cost to each boy at
tending of but SO. Maurice H. Sewer,
| Topeka scoutmaster, will be director
of the camp. A similar camp will be
held for girls.
Topeka school children are to save
money thus summer. AS a continued
feature of the school savings plan
instituted three months ago in Topeka
schools by Superintendent A. J. Stout,
students will be given an opportunity
to deposit their savings during the
summer months. They are expected
to deposit an average of $4,000 a
week. More than rs per cent of the
students of all the city schools now
ave bank accounts thru the savings
plan.
Miss Helen Faye Fair, 1851 Garfield
street, was appointed to succeed Miss
Sallie Glass, city-wide girls secretary
+ of the Y. w. c. A, upon the latters
] resignation, effective September l.
| Miss Glass has been with the local Y.
1 w. C. 4 for two years and desires to
/ be with her mother, who is i'll in Ala
bama. Miss Fair has had wide expert
: ence in association work and has
worked turnout the west central field
of the Y. W. Miss Helen Hayes OF
Iowa City was appointed new physical
director by the board.
The Trap Gohr-Donovan company.
/ thru its local representative, r. H.
Hardin, has sold two of its refrigerat-
ing plants, one to the Exchange
Grocery, corner Sixth avenue and
Quincy street, and the other to Man
ming Brothers who conduct a grocery
and meat market at 235 Polk street
The plants take care of the entire re-
frigeration problem, eliminating ice
entirely, and their use promises to be-
come general in stores handling per-
ishable products. The plants are OPP
Grated with electricity.
Weed cutting season opens in To-
peka Saturday, June 10. Under city
ordinance, the city park department
/ is charged with cutting weeds in all
vacant lots where the owners do not
provide for this work A crew of en-
ployes of the department will start out
Saturday for the annual cleanup. But
residents are not encouraged to let
their lots go to weeds. For the ordi-
nance provides that the expense of
cutting the weeds shall be charged to
the taxes of. the property. Last sum-
mer Las lots were cleared of weeds,
at cost of more than $1,000. The
average cost per lot was $1.09. A few
lots were cut as many as three times
GREAT RE(n PIONEER DIES