The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-03
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

& meeting at 1880 o'clock Thursday
evening.
G. r. Bridgeforth. principal of the
Kansas Educational and Industrial
institute, will address the meeting OF
the Topeka Ministerial union, Monday
morning.
The board of trustees of the Central
. Congregational church will hold a
meeting for the purpose of reorganiza-
ton for the coming year at 1880
O'Clock Tuesday evening.
The Community Bible class will
meet Thursday evening at the Central
Y. NJ. C. A. n. w. Benning Will lead
the discussion on the topic, THE Re
lation of Good Health to Moral Char
acter."
Edwin DENLY secretary of the navy,
has converted his war risk insurance
to government life insurance, accord
ing to W. H. Woodruff, of the local
office of the United States Veterans
bureau.
The report of George T. NIattingly,
city license collector, to the city COM
mission this morning, showed that he
collected in license tees during the
month of December, 1921, a total of
$1,131.34.
Ed L. Littleton, co-ordinator Of the
United States Veterans bureau at the
Kansas State Agricultural college, and
John e. Ryland of Manhattan were in
Topeka today on business for the vet
Grams bureau.
The members of the Topeka Branch
of the National Association for the
Advancement OF Colored People, Will
meet at s o'clock this evening at the
Mount Olive NJ. E. church, Twelfth
and Buchanan streets.
The Loyal Tigers class of the Cen
trail Park Christian church Will hold
its quarterly election of officers at
meeting Wednesday evening. o. W.
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The boy and the other fellow"
over $50 persons participated in
the wolf drive in Mission township
Monday. Two coyotes and a large
number of rabbits were killed. A din
ner vas served at Elevation school
house to those who took part in the
drive.
Word has been received in Topeka
of the death, December %, of B. F.
Sim, at Colorado Springs. Mr.. Sim
was for many years a druggist here
and the family lived in Potwin. Mr..
and Mrs. Sim moved to Colorado ten
years ago.
Placing his liabilities at $6,s70.31
and his assets at $1,000, but claiming
that $4,000 of the latter is exempt,
John H. Taylor, of Hoyt, Kan, farm
er, today filed a petition in voluntary
bankruptcy in the United tSates dis
trict court.
being held at the Seward Avenue Bap-
list church. The Rev. W. I. Cole. pas
tor of the church, is preaching and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Inrie, widely
known singing evangelists, are leading
the song services.
The official board of the Oakland
Christian church decided at the an
nual meeting Monday to recommend
to the congregation next Sunday
morning that Hugh c. Gresham be
employed as pastor. More than
$4,000 was raised by the church dur
ing the last year.
Monday proved to be a bad day for
two of The local high school basketball
teams. The First Evangelical church
team defeated the Oakland high
school team by a score of 81 to IS,
and the First Baptist church team de-
feated the Washburn rural high school
team by a score of rs to s.
Lewis Williams, of Salina, Kan, en-
tered a plea of guilty in federal court
at Kansas City, Kan, Monday, to a
charge of violating the white slave
traffic act and was fined $500, which
he paid. Williams, who has a family,
admitted accompanying a sister-in-
law from Salina to Kansas City, Mo,
for immoral purposes.
IT is planned to have the new Sun
day school temple of the First Metho-
dist church enclosed by the latter part
mund ]. Kulp, pastor. The financia:
drive will be resumed this week. The
cornerstone will be layed at the an
nual meeting of the Kansas confer
ence, March Is, Is and II.
John White, negro. 2232 Madison
street. was arrested for driving a car
while drunk after he had run into the
rear end of a car driven by c. W.
Clements, 1850 Polk street. at Sixth
and Kansas avenues Monday after
AOOn- After the accident he contin-
ued to drive in a zigZag course when
ne was overtaken by police officers.
A still capable of turning out a bar
eel of whisky a day was cOnfiscated
six and one-half miles north of Meri-
rem about II o'clock Monday night by
Anti-Saloon league and government
officials. Arthur Dix and a helper
aid to have been in charge of the
7ti1l, were arrested. They will be
turned over to the sheriff of Jefferson
county, it was said.
The Symphonic Concert quartet will
+ Ssve the fourth number of the Rock
Creek rural high school entertainment
course at s o'clock this evening at tho
Rock Creek school building The
company is under the direction of
Prof. Harlowe F. Dean. The mem
bers of the quartet are: Miss Marga-
ret Bell, Miss Dorothy George, Irwin
Vincent and John Barstow.
About 1000 Topekans attended the
New Years open houses at the Cen
trail, Railroad and Colored Y. NJ c.
AS Monday. The feature of the en-
tertainment at the Central "Y'' was
the athletic exhibitions. A musical
program entsrtained the guests al the
+. r. Y NJ. c. A. There was no spe-
cIal program at the Colored associa-
uon, but the rooms were open all dav
10 visitors.
a carload of fancy Topekan chick
ems viii be shown at the Kansas State
Poultry show al Wichita January 9 20
IA. The chickens will be sent to
Wichita by forty Topeka breeders
Their special car will be attached to
santa F'e train No. II Sunday. Tee
heaviest contingent will be shipped bv
w. E Hubbard. and will number
seventy birds. There will be 400 fowls
in the special car.
During the week which ended Sat