The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-05

Matt Glass, and still later the Wilder 1
Brothers shirt factory at Lawrence I
The firm now employs thirty-five per-
sons and has seven travelling repre-
sentatives.
E C. (Ted) Mercer. who is to be !
the principal speaker at a series of
evangelistic meetings at Grace cathe-
dral during next week, is to speak to /
the Kiwanjs club of Topeka at |
o'clock on Monday evening, and to the |
Rotary club at noon on Thursday. !
Mercer and H. H. Hadley, who work |
together. are in Arkansas City this |
week They will be in Topeka next
week and Lawrence the following |
week.
Miss Dorothy Foster, a former
Washburn student. daughter of Mr.. |
and Mrs. Festus Foster of Topeka, is !
now secretary of girls work at the Y. !
w. C. A. in Wichita. Miss Foster was (
graduated from Washburn college in |
| 1919. she spent two years teaching IN
the Hoyt high school. The past sum- |
mer she took a course in a New York |
school for Y. w. c. A. training. Miss
Foster is a member of the Delta |
Gamma sorority.
Ernest J. Wright, acting industrial |
secretary of the state committee of the
Y. NJ. c. A. has accepted a call to
| become state manager of the Father
! and Son League. The league is an
| organization promoting the father and
| son idea, which was instituted by F.
| H. Cheley, of Denver, formerly boys
work secretary of the international
| committee of the Y. NJ. c. A. for this
district. He will retain his office in
/ the suite of the state Y. NJ. c. A.
| w. D. Updegraff, Shawnee county
| stockraiser, offers a pure-bred Poland
China gilt to any pig club member or
| anyone else who wins premium at a
| county or state fair with the offspring
/ Of a
/ Poland China sale. which will be held
| in North Topeka next Saturday. Up
degraff is offering the prize to stimu-
| late interest among farmers in the
| county and especially among the
members of the Shawnee County Pig
club to produce only pure-bred stock.
The trial of Opal Lambotte, IS
year-old Rossville girl, on charge of
assault and battery sworn to by Virgil
! Bixby, another Rossville girl, who
| claimed that Opal slapped her, was
| continued until next Wednesday oy
Judge J. d. M. Hamilton, when the
| case was called in the probate court
| Wednesday. Liberty Nedeau, Opal's
| chum, appealed to the district court
| after Judge Hamilton had found her
| guilty of delinquency and sentenced
! her to the girls industrial school at
Beloit.
Arrangements have been completed
| by the state boys work committee of
/ l. =. "A
| older boys conferences. The Shaw
! nee county conference will be held
February 8. 4 and 5. The Mcpherson
county conference, which will be held
| in conjunction with the statewide
| friendship campaign, will be held on
| February 10, IA, Is and 16. Arthur
M Cotton of New York City, member
| of the international committee of the
Y. NJ. C. A, will be one of the prin-
cipal speakers The Jewell county
| conference will be held at Mankato
February "a 25 and 26.
A gain of two and half million
dollars in policies carried in the Bank
Savings Life Insurance company oc-
CURED during 1921, according to the
annual report of the concern. There
are now seventeen and a half million
dollars worth of policies written by
the company. The company began
business as the first stock life insur-
ance company in Kansas, in 1909. Of
Ulcers of the company are: f. H.
Lupton, president; Thad C. Carver.
vice president; E. E. SalIee, secretary;
Dr.. G. ]. Mulvane, medical director;
| r. Q. Burge, assistant secretary, and
Joab Mulvane, treasurer.
Five Hi-Y clubs were organized in
Kansas under the direction of the
boys work committee of the state Y.
M. c. A. during the month of Decen-
Der. The new clubs are located at the
following cities: Marysville, Onaga,
| Cedarvale, Osawatomie and Kinsley.
Students in fifteen other high schools
of the state have asked NJ. H. Mexican
and E. V. Edworthy of the state Y.
M. c. A. to visit them and help per-
feet an organization. 1t is planned to
visit these school between January Is
and the last part of February. Floyd
Hawkines, of Manhattan, of the state
staff, will assist in this work.
The addition of a modern refriger-
alton plant and other remodeling
operations at the Topeka Packing
company's plant, S38-S44 North Madi-
son street, is to begin as soon as pos
sible, according to r. R. Baer, presi-
dent of the company. The refriger-
alton equipment will produce twenty
five tons of ice daily, and the capacity
of the plant will be increased one
third by the changes and improve
ments which are contemplated. The
work of tearing down certain por-
tions of the present plant will COM
mence next week. The entire job is
to be finished by April 1, and is to
cost approximately $35, 900.
The first meetings of the classes of
the School of Missions of the United
Presbyterian church were held We'd
Eesday evening. There are four
classes and the school will be conduct
ed for a period of six weeks. The in
structorS of the classes are: men.
the Rev. NJ. G. Mum; women, Mrs
]. c. Alter; young people. Mrs. w. T..
Replogle, and Juniors, Mrs. M G.
Mum. The object of the schools to
teach the members of the church and
Sunday school more about the foreign
missions of the denomination. The
preparatory service for the quarterly
communion service will be held at
1880 o'clock Friday evening at the
church. The Rev. F. NJ McConnelIee
returned missionary from India. Will