The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-13
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Throop. Halls orchestra.
The Helena chapter No. 210, o.
e. s., will give a pie social Tuesday.
April IS. All members have been
asked to bring pie
The court house will be closed
next Friday afternoon SO tight that
even judge can't get in said Sam
ueI Zimmerman today.
Miss Mary Sherrard Kerr will. give
an address Sunday afternoon at the
Y. w. c.. A. rooms at 4:15. The
Keep Smiling club will. have charge
of the music.
The big badges of the Topeka
Boosters and. .Rooters club sold like
hot cakes today. They will probably
all be sold out by the first of next
week. 900 of them.
The first thunderstorm of the sea-
son swung around Topeka early this
| morning. few drops of rain and a
little wind together with thunder and
lightning heralded the proximity of
the storm.
The following men have been nomi-
mated for the directorate of the Y.
NJ. G. A: E. L. Copeland, DR.. S. G.
Stewart, J. P. Davis, H. A. Kingsley,
DR.. Frank K Sanders, DR.. F.. S. Pet
tyjohn and Judge J. S. West.
You can always tell where Albert
Patten, general superintendent of the
street railways, is making his head
quarters by reading the Topeka or
Wichita newspapers. The city Off
Gals houn' him wherever he goes.
Several Topeka barber shop man
ayers have given notice that they will
close their places of business next
Friday afternoon SO that the face
attend the opening baseball game of
the season.
The Topeka Ministerial Union will
meet as usual in the parlors of the
First Presbyterian church, next Mon
day, April Is. Instead of the paper
bv Rev. Robert Gordon, Rev. P. Han
son will present the work of the Pub
lie Welfare league
The board, of city commissioners
met this morning to listen to COM
of the white way along Ninth street
from Kansas avenue to Jackson street.
No objections were filed. The white
way now is assured.
You can't pay a college girl com
pliment without arousing her ire. The
leading lady of the Washburn play
compla ms because in the State Jour
nal review a section of her quarter
column of compliments did not read
just she would have it.
Dale Gear of the Topeka Kaws
wants to meet personally every fan
the Commercial club. He will have
some interesting things to tell the
baseball enthusiasts about the team
and the individual members
Now that the city commissioners
have collected a pile of tin cans and
trash behind their back doors, they
have declared a tin can day" in To-
peka. An attempt was made to influ
ence them on the clean up PROPOSE
ton last year, but their ears were
closed.
A local moving picture house will
show picture of the Fort Riley mill
tary drills next Wednesday and
Thursday. The mana cement states
that the local military band will pa
rade the street before the show. A
number of the state officials have
been invited to attend.
Late Friday a delivery wagon own
ed by the Topeka Pure Milk Co. was
overturned and damaged to a slight
degree by an inbound California car
near Eighth and Kansas avenue. The
driver of the wagon attempted to
cross the track in front of the car.
A dozen or more ice cream freezers
and some ice were scattered over the
track.
Have You Seen My Big Ma
chines?' is the subject of a social ser
vice address that DR.. Arthur S. Hen
derson will give at the Iris theater
Sunday night. DR.. Henderson is in
terestiEg a good many of the working
men of the city in his social service
discussions. The congregation of the
First church will meet at the Iris
both morning and evening due to the
fact that the main auditorium of the
church is at present being altered.