The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-20
NORTH SIDE NEWS
X. L. of S. Team VIII Go to
AtchlsOn Thursday.
To Initiate 500 Candidates Into
Lodge.
BETTER LYMAN SCHOOL
''NO Place for Private Opinions
Say Williams.
Score "Pulpit Entertaining" at
Ministerial Union.

The team from Victor council NO.
X. & L. Of S.. viii go to Atchlsor
Thursday in a special car over NJ
Santa Fe to initiate 2OO candidates
into the lodge of that city A contest
for membership. similar to that recent
" held in Topeka has just closed in
Atchison It was 80 day contest ne
ginning just after the contest " as
Srbe n9en1bers OF the lodge on the
North side are feeling honored at the
invitation AS to how the Victor team
came to be asked to put on the work
H. H. Bair, q prominent MEMBER u rs
lodge and team, would only say
Through friendship. e.,,.,..
The members of the team toNoW'
Marion Lewis, captain; Carl Carhes,
G. O. Palmer, William Barnett, ALBERT
Collier, Carl Robinson, Walter cray
H H. Bair. De Vyr Freeman, Mrs.
Susie Collier, Mrs. Arthur Ruff, MIS-
Alcine Hurst. Miss Helena HOhnbaum,
Miss Ruth Gray, Miss Hattie Gray
Mrs. Irma Neff. Miss Ida Wolt, MISS
Cary Herring conductor, Miss Nora
Karr, pianist, Mrs. Mabel Crou'
improvements to the extent of $500
are being made on the Lyman school
about a mile north of Topeka on tue
Kansas avenue road. The new hxlngs
will include two furnaces OF the wafer
burv tyne so new single seats, and a
400 loot tasty iron lGAACC cAADAAA- 49,
yard. The installation of the fixtures
will be completed by the time scnooi
opens next fall
The desks. which are Of the seat
nateless plan, are thought to be more
conducive to study than the two TO-
gether seat. 1t is said that this idea
is getting in vogue all over the school
world and that there IS little demand
for the old double desks.
The innovations in the way Of heat
r.r-f71 ~nd nv
hoard this spring. Hitherto the house
has been heated by stoves. me at
tendance for last year average about
90. Miss Fora Reed and Miss Bertha
Kistler viii have charge Of the school
next term.
Another Improvement which has Of
ten been discussed in the neighborhOod
is the doing away with the hoodlng OF
the grounds after a hard rain stol m
A drainage ditch. to be paid for by
neighborhOod subscription. was talked
Of nothing definite was done about the
matter The ground is SO situated
that the water from hard rains drains
into it from the moisture shedding
graveled road which runs near by. IL
was planned to dig a ditch along the
road to Soldier creek at a comparative
~ little expense and it is thought that
this may be done in the future.
The school is one Of the Oldest IN
Shawnee county. 1t was named after
p. c. Lyman, a farmer and old settler.
a large brick house, built by him.
stands lust north Of the school.
The members Of the North Side
BAPTIST church are generous in tEs
cause Of higher education. Following
an address Of DR.. T. E. Price, president
of ottawa university, Sunday morning
$3.50 was subscribed for the school by
the congregation.
THE pulpit is no place for the airing
of private opinions" said Rev. L. w.
williams, at the closing session of the
year for the Ministerial union, held at
Garfield park Monday afternoon. His
subject was THE Preacher and the
Book" He went on to say that the
Bible is the ultimate foundation upor
which the preacher must base his
ideas. He also scored the preachers
who appeared to settle divine ques-
lions by the opinion of a number of
men than by the mind of Cod
Rev. W. 7. Cole said that because the