The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-05
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A father and son banquet will be
held at 500 o'clock Friday evening
at the First Presbyterian church
The Art club of Topeka high school
held a meetinfg at o'clock this after
noon 10 discuss the subject Of art in
the school.
The cold wave has almost doubled
the number of calls for emergency
help at the Provident association. ae-
cordfng to Miss Virginia Campbell,
secretary.
The theft of twenty-one pounds of
butter from a Beatrice Creamery COM
pany delivery wagon at First and JEFF
ferson streets Wednesday afternoon
was reported to the police.
Entries for the senior handball
tournament at the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
will be received after today, accord
ing to r. d. Palmer, physical director
All members of the senior gym classes
are eligible.
A special meeting of all the Hi-Y
clubs of Topeka and vicinity will be
held at the Central Y. NJ. G. A. about
January IS, according to o. w. Has
call, boys work secretary of the Cen
trail Y. NJ. c. A.
At an adjourned meeting Wednes-
day afternoon, the city commission
passed the payroll ordinance for the
| last half of December. The city pay
roll for the half month amounts to
sos, S.33-including bills and claims.
A fire alarm resulted at 10 o'clock
this morning when a Ford automobile
belonging to Roy Pealver sprung a gas
| leak and caught fire at 504 East Sixth
avenue. Damage to the car amounted
to about $50.
The West side w. C. T. Z. will meet
Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at
the home of Mrs. Charles Darnell, Ill
Exeter street. Mrs. F. w. TichnOr will
have charge of the study, which will
be Temperance and Missions
The Y. NJ. c. A. secretaries training
center reopened Wednesday, following
a vacation during the Christmas hoi-
days. The Central association is the
only one in Kansas holding training
center work. The course will con-
ttnue until May Is.
Three reels of motion picture films
will be shown in the boys department
| of the Central Y. NJ. c., A. at 1880
| o'clock Friday evening. The films will
| be Olympic Close Ups" a two reel
| picture of the large ocean liners and
| one reel of the National Review.
| The Loyal Tigers class of the Cen
trail Park Christian church held its an
nual election of officers Wednesday
night The officers elected were:
| Robert Keeler, president; William
| Cowdry. vice president; Melvin Hanna,
secretary, and Don Finger, treasurer.
The members of the board of direc-
tors of the Provident association will
hold their annual meeting at a noon
| luncheon at the Elks club. Monday.
January 8. The report on the special
| Christmas work handled thus the as
| ISOLATION will be received at this time.
The Washburn High school Hi-Y
| club held a meeting at 10 o'clock this
/ morning at the school A number OF
| the committees of the club were re-
organized. B. V. Edworthy, state
boys work secretary of the Y. NJ. G.
A, will address the club at it's next
meeting, Thursday, January II.
N. L. Harris, instructor in poultry
husbandry at the State Agricultural
college at Manhattan, is to be in To-
peka January 8 and IA to speak on
poultry. Four meetings are to be
held at the Seaman high school, I'M
der the auspices of the Shawnee
county farm bureau, at which Harris
will be the speaker.
Altho not entirely completed the
new ]. E. Wilson & Son garage al
Sixth and Underwood avenues has
been opened. 1t covers five lots and
has an extreme storage capacity OF
seventy cars. The same firm has
hitherto occupied quarters at Sixth
| and College avenues.
At the regular meeting of the Co
| Operative club Tuesday evening at the
Elks club, John T. Wayland, of Kansas
City, Mo-, director of the government
savings organization, will be the
speaker. He will talk on government
securities, and local bankers will be
the guests of the club.
The team captains of the Woman's
club will have charge of the annua
bazaar which will be held February
l23 and "a. The program the frs
evening will be given under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Homer Foltz and Mrs. c
B. Van Horn and the second evening
under the direction of Mrs. Herber1
Clark.
The Industrial school basketball
team will play the Topeka high schoo
seconds Friday evening on the higE
| school court. The first team will
journey to RosedaIe Friday evening t.
play Rosedale high school. They viii
meet the Kansas City, Kan, higl
school team Saturday evening on th'
Kansas City court.
A gasoline engine weighing severa
hundred pounds was stolen Tuesda.
night from A. G. Gish, local contrac
tor. who is building a new house a
Thirteenth and Clay streets. The en-
CINE operated a concrete mixer. Gisf
notified the police and several Officers
spent the day in hunting for the en-
CINE. 1t has not been found.
John Jackson, a white man, wa
sentenced to serve five years in tn
penitentiary by Judge George Whit
comb in the district court Wednesda!
afternoon after he had waived his pre-
liminary hearing on a charge of dis
posing of a mortgaged motor car
| Jackson was arrested Wednesda.
morning by Robert Pendleton, deput.
sheriff.