The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-13

| Topekans in attendance are: Mrs
Leon r. Lane, Mrs. George P. Whit
aker, Mrs. John A. Steinmeyer, Mrs
Robert D. Blaine. Mrs. George F.
Rees, Mrs. Clarence E. Mauney and
Mrs. Clinton D. Hart.
An important meeting of the East
Side Improvement association is to be
held at the East Side Methodist
church, Seventh and Lime streets at
1880 o'clock this evening. The opposi-
ton of the association to a proposed
change in the Branner street viaduct,
will probably come up for discussion
tonight.
Will ]. Russell was nominated for
the office of secretary and H. G. Stew
ems for the office of treasurer at the
annual meeting of the grand lodge of
Kansas, 1. o. o. F. at Lawrence this
week. The officers for I923-24 were
nominated at this meeting. The cleo
ton will be held by the subordinate
lodges next May.
The Topeka real estate board will
hold its regular monthly lunch and
business session at the breakfast room
of the Y. w. c. A tonight at $50
o'clocl,. Wilbur ]. Mansfield, of
Kansas City, brother of ]. A. Mans
field and Guy r. Mansfield. Topeka
real estate dealers, is to speak on
"Realtor-What is a Realtor? %
The. alumni of the Hays Normal
|
ing next Friday evening between the
hours of $3.50 and o'clock at the
Central Y. NJ. c. A. Many of the
alumni of the school VIII be in at
tendance at the annual convention of
the Kansas State Teachers associa-
ton in session dn Topeka on that day.
Checks stolen, merchants take no
tice-$50 check to H. F. Hallock by
&. r. Chincholl, United States govern
ment pension check, $50, to H. F.
Hallock. s105 check 10 H. F.. Hallock
by c. l.. Kirkpatrick; $29.75 check to
c. l. Kirkpatrick by Ismert-Hincke
Milling Co. Payment has been
stopped on all of those checks.-Adv.
Members of the Past Noble Grand
association of Capitola Rebekah lodge
Nd. 21, of Topeka, won first prize in
their division of the float parade held
at Lawrence during the annual assem-
bly,, which closed Thursday. The float
was decorated with roses on lattice
work in the colors of the order. pink,
green and white. Lighting effects
were furnished by storage batteries.
Anthony F. Ittner, of ST. Louis, mas
ter of ceremonies of the supreme coun-
Gil of the Mystic Order of Yelled
Prophets of the Enchanted Realm,
instituted the new Media Grotto of the
order at the Masonic temple, Thursday
night, following a banquet at which
Owen j. Wood, monarch, served as
POSTMASTER. One hundred and thirty
two charter members were in at
tenSance.
There has just been completed at
the Topeka plant of the Perfection
Metal Products company, what is be-
heved to be the largest bolted steel
oil tank ever constructed in the United
States. The tank has a capacity of
$500 barrels and will be used for oil
storage near Duncan, Okla. 1t is forty
three feet in diameter and twenty-one
feet high, and was completed at the
plant in a week.
Kansas ranks twenty-second among
the states in hard surfaced road mile
age with a total of Gill; miles, a state
ment given out by State Highway
Engineer N. w. Watson says. The
state has received, on an average,
$1.S64 federal aid per mile Only seven
states have more than 1000 miles of
hard surfaced highways, and but two
Minnesota and Texas-have in ex-
cess of 1000 miles.
Frank w. Haitbrink, manager of
the Salina office of the Veterans bu-
reau, will be placed in charge of the
Topeka office, when the two offices
are consolidated in the near future.
John Cannon and Lloyd Beardsley. OF
the Salina office, will be transferred to
Topeka, and w. F. Ragle, of Salina,
will go to the Wichita office. E. F.
Turcott will remain in the Topeka Of
flee as contact representative.
Miss Dorothy Kittell, Miss Marguer-
lite Knauer and Miss Mildred Bolinger