The Topeka state journal., 1922-01-26
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Der of Commerce, is i'll and unable to
be at his office today.
The Topeka Alumni club of Phi
Delta Theta will meet at the Chamber
of Commerce at luncheon FRIDAY
noon.
H. X. Rodgers, assistant fire chief
of Marion, Kan, gave a fire preven-
ton demonstration at Quincy school
| Wednesday afternoon
Only one fire alarm was, received
by the Topeka department before noon
today-a flue fire at 1903 West Six
teenth street. There was no damage.
Scoville Davidson, singer and hu-
morist, will give a program at S:l5
o'clock Friday night at the r. r. y.
| NJ c. A. He will be assisted by Miss
Edna Bell.
Word has been received in Topeka
of the birth of a son. January 21, to
| Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher Woodford. OF
Logan, Utah. Mrs. Woodford was for
Dmerly Miss Eva Spears. of Topeka.
| The members of the senior Walther
! league of the ST. John's Evangelical
Lutheran church, will hold party at
| S o'clock Friday evening at the club
/ house, Fourth and Harrison streets.
c. E. Bascom, city passenger agent
| for the Rock Island. is confined at his
home. 1926 Fillmore street, with a Sc
we're attack of the grip. He has been
unable to be at his office for nearly
week.
A Kansas Day program will be
given at o'clock Friday afternoon AT
a meeting of the City, Federation OF
Colored Women's clubs. at the Second
Christian church, Twelfth and West
streets.
c. B. Pratt division superintendent
of the Rock Island with headquarters
at Heripgton, was a Topeka visitor
this morning, stopping off in his spe-
sAT u frTT
Kansas City.
P J. Barnes. an auto painter of
Kansas City. Kan. today filed a Pc
tition in voluntary bankruptcy in the
United States district court at Topeka.
Barnes places his assets rat $3.50
against liabilities of $1,167.29.
An examination of applicants for
teachers county certificates will be
held in the office of Josiah Jordan,
county superintendent at the court
house Friday and Saturday. The ex
aminations will begin at 8 o'clock each |
morning.
Five new cases of influenza were
reported to the city health department.
this morning This is about an aver
age DAVIS report, DIR. Earle G. Brown, |
city health officer, says and does not
indicate any great increase in the |
epidemic.
The trial of David Banfield. negro. |
charged with grand larceny. was be-
gun today before a jury in Judge |
James McClure's division of the dis !
trict court Banfield is alleged to
have induced Anna Lloyd, a negro |
woman. to withdraw $3.50 from the I
bank with which he is said to have |
made away.
There is in session at Kansas City |
this week a convention of the Kansas |
Ice Cream Manufacturers association. |
L.. r. Manley, of the Topeka Pure
Milk company. is president of the as
sociation and is presiding at the con-
vention at Kansas City. 1t is possible
that the next annual convention viii
be staged in Topeka.
Guy Gardner, formerly ticket and
city passenger agent for the Union Pa
cific here. was in Topeka Wednesday
while on his way to Denver where he
has recently been promoted to the po-
sition of district freight and passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road company Gardner left Topeka
about ten years ago.
A. J. Hess. formerly of Alma, Kan,
is in the county Jail today charged |
with passing a worthless check on the |
Vaughn Smith Drug company. Young |
Hess is said to have signed the name /
of his father, II. d. Hess. to several |
checks. The elder Hess warned him
not to do it, according to officers. The
last check is said to be in disregard |
of the warning.
Sickness. including bad colds grip
and FLU" has crippled the working
force of the American Express com
pany. Six employees are confined to
their homes. according<to E. E. Bray
man. local manager. They are: c.
Weigelt. depot agent at the Santa Fe;
Francis Murphy, money clerk; F. L.
Pelle, bill clerk; and E. B. Ottinger,
r. r. Hunt and Earl White, delivery
men.
A meeting of the Shawnee County
Democratic committee will Nbe held at
1880 o'clock this evening at the office
of r. w. Blair in the New England
building for the purpose of arranging
a Democratic mass meeting for the
selection of forty-three delegates and
the same number of alternates to at
tend the Democratic state convention
which will be held at the city audi
torium, February %.
The basketball team of Round Table
chapter, De Molay, will meet the team
of the Lawrence chapter in a game
Friday night at Haskell gymnaSiuIEs.
Madison Bell, athletic coach of Has
kell institute will officiate- The mem
bers of the Topeka team are: Winifred
Young, Ralph Yeager, Louis Streit,
Victor Evans Clarence Carlson Ber-
nard Page, Oral Jennings, Augustin
Alba, Jr-, Carl Boyer and Robert
Stone.
Frank Carter. negro, who has given
the Topeka police trouble for many
years, was sentenced to serve not more
than five years in the penitentiary by
Judge James Mcclure in the district
court Wednesday, when he pleaded
guilty to a charge of robbing Cor
don Brothers store at 400 Kansas ave-
nue. few night ago. J. E. Kennedy.
a white man, who assisted Carter in
the burglary, also pleaded guilty and
was given a similar sentence,
L. A. Halbert. superintendent of the
associated charities of Kansas City,
Mo, viii speak at the annual dinner
and business meeting of the Provident
association at 6:15 o'clock. Friday
night at the Heron Coffee shop. Wal
ter L. Payne, president of the Farm
ers National bank, and Charles H.
Sessions will also speak. Anyone in
terested in welfare work is invited to
attend Following the dinner the an
of ha aF-d af