The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-22
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Phone 5e5e.-AdV.
I There will be a special meeting of
I Pomona Grange OF Shawnee county,
I Wednesday, March L
wigs and costumes for rent. Viola
Beauty shop, 112-114 East Seventh
/ Telephone 2901.-Adv-
/ There will be no more vacations at
I Topeka high school after today, until
/ Memorial day, May 80.
I A family night and pie social will
I be held Friday night at 8 O'Clock at
the first United Brethren church.
". L. Higgins Jr.. former sport
writer for The State Journal, was a
visitor from Lawrence in the city to-
day.
I The regular luncheon and meeting
/ Of theaTopeka Builders club was held
ar the Chamber of Commerce at noon
today.
The bird houses which the boys in
the manual training classes at the high
school are making. are on sale at the
Lord Flower shop.
/ Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Hamlin. 1887
! Mulvane avenue. report the birth of
q daughter, Mary Louise. The daugh-
I ter was born Sunday
Farmers who have been hauling
stock water for weeks kept the rural
telephones into Topeka hot with gem
eral rain inquiries this morning.
/ The spring play of the Washburn'
/ College Dramatic club. which will be
presented following the Easter vaca-
/ ton, will be entitled, Miss Lulu Bett-"
] A church supper will be served at
/ sis o'clock this evening at the Trinity
( Methodist church. A special program
will be presented following the supper.
The rain today mussed up the coun-
( try roads that have been so ideal for
: motoring for the last few weeks, but
there is 10 grouching about it in
I Topeka.
/ The sleeping porch fans who have
+ been sneaking out for the last week
should look at the weather forecast
on the first page and sneak right back
again tonight.
Mrs Albert Neese's team of>the Wo-
mems club will have exhibition of
/ the aproS which they viii Gave Tor
| sale at the bazaar, Thursday, in the
I Topeka Edison company's windows
The harder it rains the faster they
drive a Topeka traffic cop said to-
1 day as he pointed out motor cars
rushing madIy into the storm, wind
| shields blurred and vision shortened.
( Jackson's twenty-third regimental
band will present its annual concert
Tuesday, February 2s, at Metropolitan
hall 404 Kansas avenue. This will be
the first appearance of the band this
year
/ A short circuit in an electric trans
mission line set fire to a telephone
! pole adjoining Pelletier's store. at 2
/ o'clock this afternoon. The fire was
( extinguished as soon as it was dis
! covered.
I Topekans caught out in the sudden
/ rain this morning did not begrudge
! their soaked clothing. The lack OF
moisture has been a matter Of general
/ concern in the state and personal dis
/ comfort was forgotten
/ The rain should give the city's fire
| companies a much needed rest. Roof
/ fires that have sent in from five TO
ten alarms a day will be postponed
/ for a few days ar least-untiI the
shingles are dry again.
Paul Van katwijk. widely known
l pianist. will appear in a concert at
$50 O'Clock Friday evening at MeVi-
car chapel as the second number of
the Washburn artists course. katwijk
is dean of music at South Methodist
university of Dallas, Tex
taxpayers associations are to be
formed tonight in the Menoken and
| Tecumseh townships. Meetings will
be held at the Menoken school and
! the TecuTnseh school for that purpose
J. M kessler, president Of the county
league, will speak at both meetings.
Lillian Pringle. ceIlist: Edith CYL
Ienberg, pianist. and Alice Baroni, col
orature soprano. will give a concert
at Sis o'clock Friday evening at the
First Baptist church. under the au-
spices of Lincoln Circle, No. 1, G. A.
R.. cooperating with the National So
ciety for Broader Education.
Look what tie Democrats have
I done for Kansas one enthusiastic
Bourbon said today as sheets of rain
swept Kansas avenue The downpour
failed to dampen the spirits of the
! state convention in Topeka. In fact,
it vas the best news that has hit KAN
( sas for many dry and dusty weeks.
I Mrs. Margaret Buckley today filed
a petition in the district court asking
1 divorce from Fred L. Buckley, said
/ to be serving a sentence in the state
/ penitentiary for forgery He was con-
/ victed in Shawnee county in August,
| 1921, according to the petition The
/ Buckleys were married in October,
1918.
/ A Chevrolet touring car was dam
a ged Sunday night when it went over
4 the bank of the Shunganunga creek
4 or Chestnut street near Seventh
/ street The accident was caused by
| the breaking of the steering knuckle,
/ it was said. The driver escaped IN
injured except for a cut on one of his
] hands.
! Mrs. Lee Carter was elected presi-
4 dent of the Topeka Past Noble Grands'
( officers Monday. Other officers elect
I ed were: Mrs. George HanIey, first
/ vice president; Mrs Dora Candy, sec
| ond vice president; Mrs. H. c. Stew
/ ems. secretary, and Mrs. Mary Per
I kins, treasurer.
Charging that he has been guilty
Of habitual drunkenness. Mrs. sasetta
! Sawyer today filed a petition in the
district court asking a divorce from
( Fred T. Sawyer. She also alleges that
he has cursed. abused and struck her
and that he frequently remained away
from home all night They were mar
ried in September. 1917
! An amusing disregard of the ex-
/ istence of a traffic cop was witnessed
| at Eighth and Kansas avenues Tues
day evening when woman driving an
/ electric pranced right by Officer
Raub's frantic whistles against her Sch
I broke right into north and south traf-
fic from the west and in a majestic
turn followed her course.
Clarence A. Patton, deputy sheriff
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