The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-28
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEW&

The city and county offices were
closed today.
A new electric light system will be
/ installed in the Kansas avenue MeIh-
| odist church.
The thirty-seventh annual meeting
| of the state Historical society will be
| held in representative hall next Tues
, day.
All persons interested in home gar
dening in Topeka are invited to attend
the special meeting of the Topeka Keal
Estate Dealers association next wed
nesday noon. An effort will be made
to transform all unstghtly back yaros
in Topeka into fair garden spots.
Nearly fifteen thousand persons
have been present at the Commercial
club at the noon hour since the mid
die of last May when the 'pay-as-you-
enter system was adopted. OF course
that doesn't mean that fifteen thou-
sand individuals took advantage of the
noon ranges all the way from seventy
to $50. There were one hundred and
twelve present Wednesday noon. The
club quarters were closed today.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
State Bar association will be held in
Topeka January 81 and %. The fol-
lowing members will be among those
on the program: ]. D. Mcfarland, of
Topeka; Henderson s. Martin, of
Marion; A. NJ. Keene, of Fort Scott;
Glass, of Marysville; S. N. Hawkes., of
Stockton; Dean William r. Arthur, of
Topeka; Earl w. Evans, of Wichita,
and E. S. McAnany. of Kansas City.
F. w. Thomas, supervisor of appren-
tees of the Santa Fe, has gone to
Philadelphia, where he will deliver
two educational addresses. One or
these will be on Nov. 80 at the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania before the AS
sociation of Teachers of Mathematics
AZ Nor lion
will be on what Mathematical Sub
jects Should Be Taught in the Public
Schools The other address will be
before the National Society for the
Promotion of Industrial Education. 1t
will be on Making and Training
Teachers for Industrial and Trade
Schools
DR.. James Naismith, physical direc-
tor of the state university, will be at
the Central Y, NJ. c. A. two days
deavor to teach several hundred men
and boys to swim. DR.. Naismith by
his peculiar method claims to be able
to teach a person to swim IN the
short period of ten minutes. AT
O'Clock Friday evening he will speak
at the Central building on The
Physiology of Exercise Saturday
evening he will talk on 1.-THE Fine
Points of Basketball" He is the
father Of basketball.
A. G. Ha1kinS OF Lancaster, Mass,
is advertising in eastern papers the
fact that he has shown his prize win
ming Plymouth Rock chickens at New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Topeka
and other cities Advertising OF this
nature puts Topeka on the map in
poultry circles.
The regular December meeting of the
board of education will be held next Mon
day night
Announcement was made today of
the list of speakers procured for the
Sunday afternoon theater meetings
that will be held next winter under
the auspices of the Topeka Federation
of Churches and the Central Y. NJ. G.
A. The schedule is as follows jan
uary 5, Dean A. c. Peck of Denver;
January IL, Henry J. Allen of Wich-
tia; January IS, DR.. Thomas McClary;
January &c, DR.. c. C. Mitchell of
Providence, r. l.; February 2, Fred
S. Goodman AAof International Y. NJ.
c. A committee; February and I s,
DR.. Newton N. Riddell OF Philadel-