The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-14
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! An opera will be presented some
/ time the latter part of this month at
/ a downtown theater by members To-
peka council No. 534 of the Knights
: Of Columbus
/ Municipal Bonds and Liberty Bonds
( bought, sold and exchanged The
/ Brown-Crummer Company. 419 New
England Bldg, J. H. Evans. resident
( manager.-Adv.
/ Kindergartens will be established
this fall at Sumner, Clay, Quincy,
States Street and Van Buren, schools,
it was decided at a meeting of the
/ board of education
Topeka Legion No. 9. of the L o. o.
NJ will have a f-olic and a banquet
Thursday night at the lodge rooms
623 Jackson street. Visitors are ex-
pected from St. Joseph and Emporia-
A play, The Deemster," will be
presented at a benefit show put on by
members of the Canton Topeka Lodge
No. 3, I. o. Q. F.. at III West Sixth
street next Thursday night at
o'clock
The board of education will adver-
tise for bids for repair work on city
school buildings within few days
Between $4,000 and $4,000 will be
spent this summer for public school
repairs.
Roy Elliot, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Michigan, will arrive in To-
peka today or tomorrow to assist in
the supervision of the repair work to
be done on public school buildings
this summer
Mrs. Theodore Saxon. president of
the Flower Mission of the w. c. I. u
will talk at the Provident association
Thursday afternoon on the prepara-
ton and care of food Topeka women
are invited to attend.
The girls of Topeka are apparently
as good swimming fans as the boys.
swimming in the Y. W. c. A. pool
Tuesday, the first day the pool has
been open since school closed.
Miss Loriel Lamoreux. the bird
philosopher will leave Thursday for
Colorado Springs She will spend
Wednesday night at the Universal
Truth society. Tenth and Topeka ave-
nue.. Subject, The 1 Can Way of
Happiness"
A daily vacation Bible school will
open Monday at the Third Presbyter-
ian church and will continue for five
weeks. The school will have kinder
garten, primary, junior and high
school departments. There will be
nine instructors.
Topeka Commandery No. 5 of
Knights TempIar will give lodge work
in the Order of the Red Cross, Order
Of Malta and the Order of the Temple
next Tuesday evening at o'clock
Dinner for those taking part in the
work will be served at o'clock.
A meeting of the Shawnee county
Pomona grange will be held Thursday
at Oak Grange hall, seven miles south
west of Topeka. for the purpose of ar
fall. The fourth degree will be exem-
plified and the committee on Irvine
will make a report.
The Y. w. c. A. tennis tournament
for the girls of Topeka will open June
"a and continue for one week Both
singles and doubles will be played
All the games will be played on the
Y. w. c. A. courts at Eighth and COL
lege avenues. Girls who wish to take
part in the tournament must register
by June %.
Several thousand dollars will be
spent for repairs for the boys depart
ment of the Central Y. M C. A. to be
made next fall. The entire east por-
ton of the basement will be remodeled
to give more room to the younger
members of the 'Y" The increased
membership in the boys department
makes the repairs necessary.
A suit brought by the Dolan Mer-
camille company, of Atchison, to col
lect $50, 1880 from Lansing B. War
ner, Inc, a Chicago insurance firm,
was transferred to the federal court
Tuesday from the Atchison county dis
trict court. The company claims this
amount is due for liability resulting
from the burning of one of the Dolan
buildings. which the insurance firm
had underwritten.
Rodney D. Palmer. physical director
of the Central Y. NJ. c. A, will leave
June % for Lake Geneva, Wisconsin,
where he will spend two weeks at the
summer school for physical directors.
Before leaving for Lake Geneva Mr..
Palmer will spend about week with
his parents at Burns. Kan. During
IL 7 To- 80 ant
physical director will have charge of
the physical training work.
F. L Pinet, secretary of the Kan
sas State Teachers association, visited
Wichita and Emporia Tuesday to dis
cuss plans for the next state teachers
convention to be held October 10, 20
and 81. Mr.. Pinet will go to Hays
and Salina Thursday. The probable
attendance at the next convention will
be Topeka, 5000 to 1000; Parsons,
1900; Hutchinson. $500. and Hays,
1000. Mr.. Pinet reports.
Topeka high school girls, who will
attend the girls conference at Estes
Park, Colo..- June 20 to 80. are Alice
Benning. Virginia scholle. Mary stitt.
Mildred Adams, Hazel Hepworth,
Elizabeth Linn, Ann Brewster and
Phyllis Newman The party will be
chaperoned by Miss Grace Gilmore,
girls physical director at the Topeka
high school. The girls will take tea
at the Y. W. c. A. Friday afternoon
with their mothers. Miss Sallie Glass, |
girls work secretary, will make a
short talk to the girls.
Under stipulated agreement
Judge John c. Pollock of the federal
court issued an order today for the
rebuilding or repairing of the Twelfth
street bridge across the Kaw river at
Kansas City. The stipulated agree
ment is between the Kansas City Rail- /
ways company and the kaw Valley
drainage district. The drainage dis |
trict was seeking to remove the bridge !
and the railways company which uses
the bridge for its cars sought to re-
strain the. action. Under the agree