The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-23

prison-provided the checks are good.
w. w. Bowman, secretary of the Kan
sas Bankers association, has found in
a recent state supreme court decision
a finding that giving of good post
dated checks is perfectly legal. The
bad check law applies, it is stated,
both to current issue checks and post
dated checks. If a person gives
worthless post-dated check. they are
subject to punishment and penalties
similar to those provided for giving of
worthless current checks.
F. M. Stoves and wife returned Fri
day afternoon from an eight weeks
golden wedding honeymoon" trip.
Thy visited in Des Moines, Ia, st.
2esa Mimi, Winnipeg, Man. Regina.
couver, Seattle, Wash, Portland, Ore,
San Francisco, Cal, Santa Barbara,
Cal, Los Angeles. Cal, La Junta,
Colo, Denver, Colo, and Idaho
Springs, Colo. They spent nearly four
weeks in Idaho Springs, Mr.. Stoves
In perfect health thruout the entire
trip. He lost 5000 worth of travellers
checks in Regina but the money was
Immediately refunded and he con-
tlnued the trip undelayed.
f. A Mitchell, of the advertising
department of the Santa Fe, believes
that he will soon be eligible to hold
card in the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen and Engineers. He has
been chauffeur to the model of the
"Ginery Twitchell', one of the road 8
early engines, for several weeks, past,
and sees no termination of his contract
in immediate view. Mitchell took over
the throttle of the Ginery Twitchell
at Santa Fe. N. M, during the annual
| fiesta there. Then he fooled the
model, which was mounted on a Pack
ard truck, about the streets of To-
peka during the Kansas State Free
Fair Thence the Ginery Twitchell
went to the fair ae Hutchinson. and
Mitchell leaves with it tonight for
Oklahoma City.
Eight hundred and thirty persons
attended the noon religious meeting
conducted at the Santa F'e shops by
the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. this week.
This was the largest attendance ever
reported. The attendance at the
meeting in the material shed was 80.
DR.. r. A Schell, pastor of the First
Christian church, was the speaker. G.
r. Bridgeforth, principal of the Kan
sas Industrial and Educational insti-
tute, was the speaker at the meeting
in the car shed. The attendance was
$40. The meetings next week will be
as follows: Tuesday noon, Santa Fe
east mill, in charge of City mission
workers; Wednesday noon, Santa Fe
storehouse. the Rev w. H. Young in
sheds, the Rev. r. E. Russell, of
Usage City, in charge; Friday noon,
Santa Re material shed, speaker not
secured.
Miss Nina Rippeth, secretary of the
Shawnee County Red Cross chapter,
Mrs. c. B. Thomas, r. r. Baer, and
c. E. Bascom, officers of the chapter,
will attend regional conferences of the
Red Cross at Salina, Kan, St. Joseph,
Mo-, and Wichita, Kan, during the
next few days. The conferences are
held for the purpose of interchanging
ideas and information from the va
rious chapters in the Southwest di-
vision, of which the headquarters are
at st. Louis Mo, and laying plans for
the annual Red Cross roll call which
Is to be held November IL. r. r.
Baer will attend the conference at
Salina; Miss Rippeth and Mrs. Thomas
the conference at st. Joseph, and
Bascom the conference at Wichita.
The quotas of the different chapters
in the forthcoming roll call will not be
set at these conferences, but are de-
termined at the headquarters of the
division in st. Louis.