The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The banks were closed today.
Jackson's band will give a concert at
the auditorium April g.
]. c. Emaheizer has been i'll for some
weeks with a severe attack Of stomach
trouble.
L. M. Jones, superintendent of tels-
graph of the Santa Fe, is out of the city
on business.
The Religious Integrity Of George a1s
cussed this evening at the Walnut Grove
NJ. E. church
The Topeka Ad club is agitating the
holding Of free noon day organ concerts
at the auditorium.
The Rev. Edwin Locke will speak on
Jonah at the Euclid Avenue NJ. E.
church this evening.
DIR. Arthur S. Henderson will speak this
church on THE Immigrant
The sixth annual banquet of the Kan
sas Authors club will be held at the
Y. W. c. A. building tonight.
H. B. Lautz, assistant to the general
manager of the Santa Fe in Topeka, has
returned from a business trip to Missouri
The weather observers at the local gov
eminent station celebrated Washington s
birthday today by closing their office at
The first floor has been laid in connec-
ton with construction work on the new
Royal bakery building on West Tenth
avenue.
The Topeka Ad club has apparently
awakened out of it's dormant state it was
in for some months. The club IS now do
ing things.
The Rev. f. A. Fazel has started per-
sonal workers class at the Central Y M.
G. A in connection with the Men and Re
ligion movement.
500 Kansas avenue has gone into the
hands of a receiver. Fred H. Jewell Is
acting as receiver
There is a youngster attending school
fS AcrT-i
Change it around and you'd have name
with a decidedly antiquated sound
"A good many persons in the residential
districts of the city have been patriotic
enough to decorate their home with flags
in honor of Washington's birthday
The contractors are now pushing the
work on the G. A. R. Memorial building.
DELAYS in the past due to the failure Of
material to arrive have retarded the
work.
Secretary J. VIII Kelley is not in favor
of moving the Commercial club cafe to
the auditorium for the purpose OF getting
people together at the noon hour to near
the pipe organ
There is some talk of charging the
lunch room at the Commercial club. The
noon day crowds have been so large late
" that the seating capacity in the room
has been Inadequate
1t is suggested that a concert be held
in the auditorium in the near future by
Mile A. King, the pianist, to raise money
with which to purchase piano Tor the
Commercial club rooms.
Ewing Herbert of Hiawatha and Prof.
Charles Dillon of the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college will be the guests OF honor
at a $50 O'Clock AID club dinner next Tues
day evening.
The Santa Fe shops were closed today
in honor of the birth of George Wash
ington The general Offices did not close:
The office men work by the mohth anu
the shopmen work by the hour
E. L. Copeland will speak Sunday morn
ing before the members of the mems
class of the First Baptist church OF
wichita His subject will be, can
Business Man Be Successful and BE
Christian"
Many of the Masons in Topeka TO-DAY
are real old fashioned Democrats 1ney
came to Topeka for their lodge celebration
and will attend the Democratic banquet
tonight. And a large number OF them
are for Bryan, too
The question of good roads viii be dis
cussed this week by the directors OF the
Commercial club It is possible that an
appropriation for the Improvement OF the
Topeka avenue road south of the Shun-
ganunga will be made.
Washington's birthday will be cele-