The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-26
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

A. w. Smith. pension commissioner
left today on a campaign trip, He
goes to Council Grove and returns on
Sunday.
The young girls of the Provident
association sewing classes will meet
Friday afternoon at O'Clock in the
association building.
Tho. membership committee of the
Commercial club will hold its first
meeting of the season Saturday noon
to plan quiet membership campaign.
Failure of cable to reach Topeka
has delayed the work of completing
the extensions of the white way syS-
tenn on East Fourth and West Ninth
streets.
A meeting of the promotion com
mittee of the Commercial club was
held today to make plans for launch
ing the factory aid proposition in the
very near future.
Miss Georgina Speare will give a
story telling lecture in the high school
assembly room at 4:S0 O'Clock Friday
afternoon She is being brought here
by the city school teachers.
Several Topeka veterans of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment have re-
turned from Lawrence where they
went to attend the annual reunion of
the members of the regiment.
One of the local moving picture
houses is showing rather an unusual
picture. 1t was taken from an army
aeroplane and shows military action
ION earth" hundreds of feet below.
Leroy Powell. superintendent of
mails has returned from Memphis,
where he went as a delegate to the
convention of the National Associa ton
of Supervisory Postoffice Employees
Merton Albaugh, clerk of the United
States district court, returned today
from the session in Wichita He says
that the court spent most of it's time
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has been reached
An enlargement of one of the Sc
lions of the moving picture taken of
the big auto parade last Sunday after
noon by the Best Film company is be-
ing shown in a local store window and
is attracting considerable attention.
Every school entering the school
garden contest is asked by Superin-
tendent c. c. Starr to send a repre-
sentative Saturday morning not later
than 9 o'clock to the manual training
building to arrange the exhibit and to
assist in loking after it.
The evangelistic meetings that are
being held each evening at the Oak
land Methodist church are proving a
success. More than thirty CONVEX
A. Hodge is conducting the meetings,
sions have been made. Evangelist r.
which will close next Sunday.
Aside from the musical events that
have been scheduled by the pipe organ
the coming season. Admundsen, the
oiscoyerer of the south pole, has been
slated for a lecture He will be here
some time after the first OF the year.
The Topeka High School Walking
club elected the following officers
TUESDAY: Captain, Donald Wilson; first
lieutenant, A. Louie Gordon; sec
ond lieutenant. Joseph Slaughter;
QuartermaSter, Ralph McKibben; cor
poraI, Edwin Menninger; sergeant,
James HeSSe-
There were as persons in line at
o'clock this morning when the regular
Thursday rummage sale at the PrCNj-
dent association began. The frosty
weather caused the poor people to
feel the need of clothes for children
at the present time, particularly shoes
for boys and girls
Students are enrolling in the high
school almost every day. The total
enrolment is now about 1,1S5, fully
one hundred more than last year at
this time, and the largest enrolment
in the history of the institution. 1t is
expected that the 1900 mark will be
reached in attendance later in the sea-
son.
Owing to the expansion of business
G. l. Sharpe of the Hazard ChesIey
Land company, and manager of the
Central National Mutual Hail Insur-
ance company, has moved his offices
from 116 East Seventh street to the
third floor of the Central National
DdHk DulIulISt Wn6Te ne IS eSIaD1Sn6Q
in a suite of rooms.
Wednesday evening the teachers of
the first and second grades in Topeka
met with H. T. Jett, in charge of in
struction in penmanship to study
methods in the teaching of this brancl
of work. Monday at 4:3O o'clock the
teachers of the third and fourth
grades will meet for the same pur-
pose, and wednesday Mr. Jett will
call in the teachers of the fifth, sixth.
seventh and eighth grades at the same
hour.
All is in readiness for the first high
school football game of the season.
According to c. H. Hepworth. director
of athletics. twenty of the forty stu
dents who have been turning out cor
practice each day will be in the game
against the Burlington high school
eleven The contest will start On
Washburn field at 1870 O'Clock Fri
day afternoon. Subsequent to the
playing of this game the Washburn
regulars will tussle with the fresh
man squad.
Superintendent ]. H. Miller of *