The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-21
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Topeka Lodge No. 524, L. o. o. NJ,
will hold a watermelon feast at 1880
o'clock this evening at the lodge hall,
623 Jackson street. -
E. L. Barrier. member of the state
board of administration, VINO has been
ill at Lansing for the last week. is
still unable to return TO his office
duties.
After having been head clerk at the
Paynes' Annex shoe store for the past
to open a shoe store of his own in
Herington.
The Garnett Light & Fuel company
today applied to the public utilities
commission for permission TO increase
its gas rates from 40 cents to 81 per
thousand cubic feet. -=
Mrs. Blanche 'Gretner, secretary in
the office of the Boy Scout headquar-
ters, returned this morning from Me-
chanicsburg, o., where she spent q
vacation of two weeks.
The members of the board OF di-
rectors of the Chamber of Commerce
held their regular monthly meeting
this noon. A general discussion of the
activities of the chamber took place
All offices in the court house were
closed between the hours of 2 o'clock
and 8 o'clock this afternoon, during
the funeral of the late Josiah Jordan.
county superintendent of instruction.
The Rev. w. H. Leyburn. office ex-
ecutive of the Kansas Baptist conVen-
tionS left this afternoon to attend
district meeting of the convention at
Fredonia. He will return home We'd
nesday.
E H. Hogueland. commerce counsel
of the Topeka Traffic association, will
return Tuesday from Chicago, where
he represented Kansas Egg Shippers
association, in an application to Sc
cure Reconsideration of rates.
Of OP
College and West Euclid avenues. has
been purchased from Omar Young by
Carl ScheIl, a Washburn student.
Schell plans to remodel and redecor-
ate the place before college opens.
NJ f. Palmer, proprietor OF tire
agency at 222 West Sixth avenue has
been awarded the agency for the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber company.
He was employed in the Goodyear
plant when it was but a small concern.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Young Women'S auxiliary of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society
will be held Monday evening, August
2S. Miss Mary E. Shannon, a mis-
sionary to Burma, will speak at the.
meeting.
Seger Realty company will be moved
September 1 from room AIS New
England building, to the second floor
of the building at S19 Kansas avenue
1ne new quarters o1Ier more space
for the firm.
Miss E. schaefer and Miss N
Schaefer, sister, will open The
Chapeau Shoppe" at Room 10 in the
Orpheum building, Tuesday morning.
One of the sisters has recently been
manager of the millinery department
of the Partisan store.
The executive committee of the
Kansas State Bankers association will
meet here September to discuss
plans for holding a convention of the
association in the latter part of No
vember, Miss Emma D. Partridge,
secretary, announced today.
The meeting of the board of edu-
cation which was to have been held
today has been postponed until Tues
day evening, A ]. Stout, superinten-
dent of city schools said this morn
ing. The school tax levy for the COM
ing year will be taken up at the meet
ing.
Fire of undetermined origin caused
almost the complete destruction of
five-room bungalow at 1441 Chandler
street, owned and occupied by SheT-
man johnson, colored.- shortly after
o'clock this morning. The building
was valued at $1,000 and the contents
at $3.50.
Another case of scarlet fever was
reported to DR.. Earle G. Brown, city
health officer. This makes a total of
No diphtheria cases were reported
over the week end. The following
new cases were reported last week:
diphtheria, 2; tetanus, 2; whoopins
cough, 1, and pneumonia, 3. l-..
A request for the use of the Ken
wood park in Salina for staging a polo
game was refused the Topeka Polo
club Saturday by the Salina cityAconn-
missioners. The commissioners feared
that the game would injure the park
Vaccinations under with
the Salina Street Railway company
for the uSs o. Smither field, west OF
the city.
Cecil H. Crawford. who has played
the piano in the Orpheum theater
for the last three years. has accepted
the position of organ player in the
new Miller theater at Wichita. He
left for Wichita, Sunday. Asa r.
Crawford, a brother, also left for
Wichita, Sunday He will assist in
raise 100000.
DR.. U. S. Brown, field secretary for
the Methodist Home for the Aged.
occupied the pulpit at the Lowman
Memorial Methodist church. Sunday
morning. He'told of the need for
more hospitals and homes for aged
members. The Rev. c. E. HoIcombe,
of Frontepac, Kan, spoke, at the eve
ming service He told of the mission
work in the Kansas coal fields
Mrs. D. r. Alexander's Sunday
school class of the Third Presbyterian
church will leave this evening for the
Y. w. G. A. camp at Maple Hill where
the members will spend Tuesday and
Wednesday. Girls who will attend the
camp are; Miss Helen Norton, Miss
Anna Remainder, Miss Charlotte Miller,
Miss Florence Schmitthenner, Miss
Jean WEIGH and Miss Venice Adam
son.
= Col Robert Thompson. of Manhat-
tan, addressed the members of the six
striking shop crafts at a meeting Sum
day afternoon at Ripley park He adj
vised the men not to line up in parti-
san politics but to vote for the man
they thought best regardless of party.
W. H Graves. representing machin-
lists district No. s, told the strikers