The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-22
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AT HOME NEWS.

Thursday. February 20. The subject
| for discussion will be Alfalfa and
| will deal with its feeding, cultivation,
curing, commerce, domestic sale, etc.
A paper will be read by ]. w. Bigger.
Refreshments will be served.
DR.. Charles NJ. sheldon returned to-
day from an eastern trip.
c. c. Starr, superintendent of city
schools, has left for Philadelphia,
where he will attend a meeting of the
department of superintendents of the
National Education association. While
in the east Superintendent Starr will
visit schools in Philadelphia and
Washington, d. c.
The new Quinton Heights school
building will be opened for use next
Monday morning. "a" classes from
the first to the sixth grades will oc-
cupy three rooms-seventy-ei pu-
pills. One room will be left vacant for
the time being.
One week from Sunday DIR. Zane
Batten of New York, a Baptist social
service expert of note, will speak at
the First Baptist church.
The annual sessions of the Kansas
Bible institute will begin Monday at
WaShburn college.
The Mothers club of the Topela
Provident association will be enter
tanned next Tuesday afternoon at 2
O'Clock by the local w. c. T. L. or
ganiza ton.
Beginning Monday night, March 81.
Dean Frank T. Lee will deliver a
series of five Monday night lectures at
the Central Y. NJ. c. A. They will be
given under the auspices of the To-
peka School of Religious Education
DR.. Edwin Locke will preach at the
Mt. Olive Methodist church (coloredD
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock The
subject for the morning service is
Judgment Must Begin at the House
of Cod A Iair will be given bv the
sisters of the church beginning Feb
I'll
2S. program will be given each
night.
A mass meeting of the colored peo-
pie of the city will be held at the
Calvary Presbyterian church on Thir-
teenth street Sunday afternoon to con-
slider the social survey proposition
The Rev. Charles A Finch of the
First Christian church, will preach
Sunday morning on washington the
Patriotic
The series of Sunday afternoon the
alter meetings will close Sunday af-
ternoon at the Novelty with an ad-
| dress by DR.. John A. Gray, of Brook
| lyn, who will speak on "A God in
Ruins The knights and Ladies of
| Security band will give a concert at
BIS O'Clock. The Y. NJ. C. A. Glee
, club under Dean Horace Whitehouse
will sing. DR.. Gray is said to be a
particularly strong speaker.
| for the week ending February 20, and
which is published in the State Jour-
| nal, shows that Topeka made a gain
of 1855 per cent over the correspond
ing week of last week.
The letter carriers of Topeka will
hold their first annual ball this even
| ing in McRae's hall. A large attend
ance is expected. Gribble's orchestra
Will furnish music.
Harry L. Heinzman, high school Y.
M. c. A. secretary for Kansas, is at
tending an association training con-
ference in Kansas City which is being
conducted by the internati COM
mittee for college men who intend to
go into Y. M. C. A. work.
A large Methodist conference will be
held in Topeka beginning March 8.
Delegates will be here from several
states.
Old Abe Camp No. 6 has accepted
the invitation of Rev. c. A. Finch,
pastor of the First Christian church,
622 Topeka avenue, to attend a Wash
linton birthday memorial service, or
sermon, at that church Sunday Feb
ruary %, at IL a. m. The members
will assemble at camp hail. Lincoln
Post, lis East Sixth avenue, promptly
at 1890 Sunday morning for the pur-
pose of attending such service as
camp.
The annual all day prayer services
of the Women's Home Missionary So
ciety will be held next Thursday. At
the First Methodist church, services
| will be held beginning at IL o'clock in
| the morning. Following round table
| talk, Mrs. Thorpe will address the
members of the society on City Work
in Topeka" Mrs. Mitchner will read
a paper on Temperance and the
| White slave Traffic." other papers
will be read, but the entire program
has not as yet been completed.
The Rev. w. NJ. Jackson, pastor of
the Second United Presbyterian church,
will give an address Sunday evening
at 7:30 o'clock on THE Square Man"
The young mems Bible class will have
charge of the service The Baraca
quartet will furnish special music
Young men are invited to attend the
service.
The quarterly meeting of the Topeka
Federation of churches will be held at
the Central Y. NJ. c. A. at 7:30 o'clock
next Monday night. DR.. Roy B. Guild
is president of the organization.
The Topeka banks were closed today
Although the attendance at the Audi
forum in connection with the Alaska
Siberian animal pictures was held down
on account of adverse weather condi-
lions some coin was added to the pipe
organ fund.
A little colored boy named Henry
Williams was picked up by the police
Friday afternoon in a sad frame of
mind. He started out early Friday
from Kansas City, Kansas, expecting
to reach Frankfort the same day. The
conductor on the Union Pacific train
told him to get off at Topeka, accord
ing to his story. He spent the night at
the police station, and this morning the
Topeka Provident association took
charge of him. They gave him trans
portation and he left this afternoon