The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-30
: SNAP SHOTS
Tote for Billy schichter for sheriff.
AT HOME NEWS

Vote for Billy Schliehter for sheriff.
ADV.
Sweet. Cider. wholesale and retail.
Custom grinding every day. Diamond
Bottling Works. 2201 Lincoln st.
Phone S17s.-Adv.
Bank clearings in Topeka last week
totaled $2.574.090.03 as again-t $3,-
ga, 305-97 for the preceding week and
$2,499,260.42 for the corresponding
week in 1921.
W. B. Collinson, chief clerk in the
office of the General manager of the
Santa Fe eastern lines at Topeka, is on
| weeks vacation. which he will spend
motoring in Colorado. He left Sat-
| urday for Colorado.
The Morris Plan bank has removed
from its former quarters in the base
ment of the Mulvane building to the
first floor of the building, in order to
permit the removal of the Prudential
Trust company's office now on the
| first floor, with the Bank of Topeka,
ito the basement.
The silent reading tests which. have
| been given to the public school chill
dren from the third to the eighth
grades will be completed today. The
! pupils will probably be given spelling
| tests next week and tests on errors
| in English after that. according to A.
j. Stout, superintendent OF public
| schools.
might for r. r. Brewster, Republican
Fnominee for senator from Missouri.
| The Kansas senator will make a
| speech in MaryviIle, Mo. He will re-
turn to Kansas and "Wednesday,
| he speaks in Pratt. The remainder of
the week will be spent in the Eighth
| district.
| S. E. Wil1cutts of the Firemen's
| Fund Insurance company, acted as
| chairman at the regular meeting and
1 luncheon of the Monday Lunch club
4 at the Chamber of Commerce today.
| duced by the number of members at
| tending the Shrine cererpopies at
| Leavenworth.
| Topeka apple dealers will see to 1t
| that every pupil in the city grade
| schools gets an apple Friday CT this
week, in connection with the ohseFv-
ance here of National Apple Week,
| October 81 to November Z. Seventeen
4 motor truck-loads of apples Will be
| distributed. among the various schools
of the city. There will be seventy
| bushels of apples to go around"
among S,55S children.
The Topeka Kiwanfs club will cele-
brate Halloween with a masquerade
party at the Chamber of Commerce
| tonight. Dire things are threatened
| for the members of the club who fail
| to appear disguised in some fashion.
|
| evening has not been announced. Sew
| eral members of the club and their
wives constitute the committee on ar
engagements for the party.
| Because he made a record as a coal
| digger in the state penitentiary coal
mines at Lansing, Oscar Riley of COT
| feyville wants a parole. RileyS pro-
duction of coal in addition to his reg
ular task has-netted him $500. Now
he wants to go home. Riley is a ne
| gro. He is serving his third prison
| term and under strict rules not eli
| gible to parole. He began his last
prison term November 1, 1917.
At the last annual meeting of the
Central Neuropsychiatric association,
| held at Rochester,. Mimi, Karl A
Menninger. of Topeka, was reelected
secretary and treasurer of the organ
ization. The association is composed
of men and women from Ohio to the
Pacific coast, who are interested in
the treatment of mental disease. DR..
Menninger and DIR. w. S. Lindsay
were the Topeka physicians attend
ing the meeting.
The program of the Young Peoples
Forum, given at the Colored Y. NJ. C.
A. at 1920 Kansas avenue Sunday af-
ternoon was furnished by the Girls
Reserve, of Buchanan school with Miss
Okellam Grant directing it. The pro-
gram included music by an orchestra
of boys from the school, readings, and
other features. 1t was opened with
devotional exercises. The attendance
was so large<that the seating facilities
were insufficient.
The United States Express service
put on an impromptu entertainment
for Washburn students this morning
Just as classes were letting out al
driven by Earl White, went over one
of the large bumps in very >bumpS
road near Rice Hall, and capsiZed
White managed to jump out as the
wagon as it turned over, but one foo
was caught and the ankle injured
His horse was frightened, but did No
Hrun away.
| Members of the Lake View Fishing
and Hunting association will holt
their annual Halloween party at 1885
o'clock Saturday evening at the clut
house, Lake View, Kan. The pro
and stunts. Refreshments will b'
served. Members of the entertain
l. ment committee in charge of the at
! fair are: Mrs. A. B. Kirkpatrick, Mrs
Harry S. Landers, Mrs. Charles A
Smith, Mrs. Arch NJ. McKeever ~ant
: Miss Mary Clark.
C. w. Synder, president of the To
, peka State bank, has discovered a fue
oil burner which will go far TOWARD
solving his fuel problem this winter
| IT 1t keeps up the record winch
established in a twenty-four hour ties
over the week end. Snyder started hi
burner, burned it for twentyfou
! hours. He measured the oil in tn
tank before he commenced the test
and on measuring it after the run
found ten gallons more fuel oil in tn
tank than when he lit the burner.
! On the request of United State
! postmaster general, Hubert Work, tn
! I directors of the Chamber of Com
merce today appointed George C
!. Bowman.s-of Topeka, delegate to tn
/ convention of postal employees ant
users of the postal system, which is t
be held in Topeka November 10 AM
a IL. Bowman was appointed as
! member of the Seymour Packing com
!, pany, one OF the largest users of. tn
t mails in Topeka. Other bushes
transacted by the directors today wa
of a routine nature.
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