The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-29
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AT HOME NEWS

Keep KooI, in the Y. NJ. c. a. pool
> Summer rate $5.-Adv.
Tax exempt Kansas bonds. Shaw
nee Investment Co. 534 Kansas Ave.
Phone bO50.-Adv.
The next municipal band concert
will be given at Edgewood park Fri
day evening by Marshalrs band.
A program will be given at the
Trinity Methodist church Friday night
by members of the daily vacation Bible
| school.
W. H Leyburn of the Kansas Bap-
fist convention, will go to AtchisOn
Sunday. where he will fill the pulpit
of the Baptist church.
Funeral services for Mrs. Helen
Fitch Keith, formerly of Topeka. who
died Monday in San Diego, Cal, will
be held Friday in Roswell, n. NJ.
An entertainment will be given for
all Odd Fellows and Rebekahs and
| their families tonight at Penwen's hall
/ by members OF Shawnee Encampment
No. ,.
A J. Stout. superintendent of
| schools. left today for Boston, Mass,
where he will attend the annual meet
ing of the National Education asso-
/ citation.
/ on the north and west walls of the
/ new Masonic temple have been sold in
the last two days. The courses con-
tain 800 stones.
A picnic supper was held Tuesday
/ evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
NJ. S. Hummer, of Shorey, by members
| of the Booster class of the Central
Avenue Christian church.
The stock of Haas Brothers cloth
! ing store in Kansas City mas been pur-
chased by the David J. August Cloth
1 ing company and will be shipped to
Topeka for sale at the local store.
HE fourth of the series of eight
lectures on craftsmanship by Paul w.
Ivey of the faculty of the University
of Nebraska will be given at 1880
Der of Commerce.
There will be a joint meeting of
the city and county commissioners
Friday morning at which matters re-
lating to the furthering of the joint
paving projects on West Euclid ave
nue. and Washington street, will be
taken up.
Word received in Topeka indicates
the condition of Judge A. E Helm,
rate counsel for the public utilities
commission, is worse. He has been
confined in a Junction City hospital
ten days ago.
Funeral services for c. T. Hubbard,
who died Saturday in Woodstock, Ill.
were held Wednesday at the grave in
Mount Hope cemetery. Members of
the Free Methodist church. of which
charge of the ceremony.
Mrs. John Redmond of Burlington
underwent a major operation in 10
cal hospital today. She is the wife of
John Redmond, well known publisher
of the Burlington Republican. He is
in Topeka and will remain here until
her condition is fully determined.
Eight members of the I. w. w. have
been arrested in Montgomery county
and are serving sentences in the In
dependence Jail, according to reports
received at the state house. Six of
the eight men are declared to have
had credentials as I. w. w. organizers.
The Women's Auxiliary. Benjamin
Fuller Post, No. 81, of Pittsburg, has
started Americanization classes in the
Pittsbsrg school buildings. The
classes are very successful, according
the Kansas department of the Wo-
mems Auxiliary.
The first anniversary of the Shiloh
Baptist church will be celebrated to- |
night. New officers who will be in
stalled are Roger Campbell, president; !
j. H. Allen, vice president; Miss Edna
Shaw, secretary; the Rev. James Rob- |
ert Martin, treasurer; Robert Floyd, |
chaplain, and Miss Amy Shaw. organ |
list.
A federal warrant charging Jesse
H. Guess, formerly a soldier at Fort |
government warehouse there and /
stealing some cigarets, tobacco and I
army clothing, was issued today by a. /
H. Skinner. assistant United States /
district attorney. Guess is under ar
rest at ArdmOre, Okla.
The pastime of passing bad checks
IS becoming increasingly popular, az
cording to Milton Tabor, secretary Of
the Topeka Merchants associa ton.
wha has several of the checks in his
possession. Following a vigorous
campaign of prosecution nearly n
year ago. the habit of handing mer-
chants checks which were not worth
the paper they were written on. be
came almost obsolete. Tabor plahs
another campaign.
The regular weekly meeting of the
CITY commission will be held Mon
day morning of next week at $3.50
o'clock, instead of Tuesday morning.
At that meeting there will be a hear
ing on the petition of eight residents
Of Auburndale. in the northwest por-
ton of the city, for the extension Of
electric light service to their district
The Topeka Edison company and one
Of the petitioners have been notified
by the city attorney, of the hearing.
A carload of Barney Oldfield tires
and a large shipment of FireStone
tires, ordered by the Western Tire
company. arrived here today. The
noon and a parade of fifteen trucks
will take the tires from the Rock Is
and station to Tenth and Kansas ave-
1ueS. then north on Kansas avenue to
lie Western Tire company offices. SIS
Kansas avenue. There are nearly :
!. 500 tires and tubes in the shipment.
according to Abe Pozez. manager OF