The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Miss Clara Daniels has been ap-
pointed as regular teacher in the
city schools.
The State Journal will give baseball
scores on telephone No. 2S4. Please
call that number.
DR.. F. L. Loveland and a number
of churchmen took lunch at the Com
mercial club today.
Cheapest place in city to buy sew
ing machine. F'oucht's hardware, S25
North Kansas avenue.-Adv.
petition is being circulated on
Quincy street, between Fifth street and
Eighth avenue for a white way.
The class in agriculture at the high
school is being given some instructions
in a simple method of bookkeeping.
Boys and girls tennis contests are
being arranged for high school students
by the director of athletics, c. H. Hep
worth.
Seven thousand school census cards
have been printed for the use of l..
T. Gage, who will take the census this
season.
The subsophomores of the high
school defeated the sophomores in
baseball on Washburn field Tuesday
afternoon by a score of 10 to 9.
The physical directors of the Cen
trail Y M. c. A. are arranging the
spring gymnasium schedule which
will be put into operation beginning
May 1.
The annual grade school meet will
be held at Washburn field May Is. 8.
H. Howard is in charge of the meet.
The school children are now training
for the event.
The business mems volleyball tourna-
ment will be organized at the Central
Y. NJ c. A. this week. This will be
the second tournament in volleybal
for the season.
TIL Central Y. NJ. c. A. will open
tennis courts at the corner of Tenth
avenue. and Lane street next week.
There will be three courts for the use
of the association members who join
the tennis club.
The fair weather that has prevailed
this week has stimulated trade to a
marked degree. The shoppers from
out of the city have been numerous,
and the country people have found
the roads particularly good.
A dinner complimentary to Paul L.
Corbin of Shansi, China, will be given
at the Central Y. NJ. c. A. next
Wednesday. The affair will be I'M
der the auspices of the church feder-
alton missionary committee.
The revival meetings being held by
the Rev. Robert Gordon of the First
Baptist church are being advertised
through the projection of lantern
slides on a screen stretched across the
old Prudential bank building.
The Municipal Journal published in
New York devotes considerable space
to the annual report of George o.
Wilmarth, city fire marshal of To-
peka, particularly that part which deals
with the new motor equipment.
The visitors to the Western League
ball park have been surprised to note
that a. whole block of dwellings has
sprung into existence in the property
west of the park known as Shawnee
Place since the last baseball season.
Albert Patton, superintendent of the
Topeka Railway company, states that
the company will make an extra eff
fort to give first class service to and
from the ball park Friday afternoon
for the opening of the season with
Denver.
The two buildings south of the New
England building have been torn down.
There only remains some debris to be
carted away before it will be possible
to commence construction work on the
two-story addition to the New England
The fire department was called at
II o'clock Tuesday night to 1407 West
Tenth avenue where an automobile in
a garage, the property of DR.. S. A.
Boam, had caught fire through spon-
taneous combustion. The loss is esti-
mated at $3.50.
In the "baseball'' membership con-
test of the Central Y. NJ. c. A. between
the White Sox- and Giants, these men
are team captains today: John Wylie,
Richard Wilson, DR.. f. S. Pettyjohn
and A K. Bowers. The workers report
ed at noon today.
These Y NJ. C. A. directors have
been chosen to represent the Topeka
association at the International Y. NJ
c. A. convention in Cincinnati May
1918: Arthur Capper, David Bowie,
DR.. Frank K. Sanders, DR.. E. S. Pet
tyjohn and E. c. Brownel.
BY request Prof B. P. Stout will
sing the Holy City tonight at the Audi
torium. The song-will be beautifully
The chorus at the Audi |
forum services now consists of about |
50 voices and is doing excellent work |
under the leadership of Prof. B. P. |
Stout.
The Highland fling will be danced |
DIV seventeen boys in costume at the !
annual gymnasium exhibition at the |
Central Y NJ. G. A. April % and IS. |
All gymnasium dancing, in fact, will |
De in costume. A feature of the exhi |
oition will be tumbling stunts by a
group of ten young men
A package of seeds has been sent |
,ut from the office of c. c. Starr, SUI
of city schools, to each
If the school buildings of the city for |
Use in connection with the school |
gardens. The thousands
IF pupils who enter the home garden
contest will be given practical in
tructions relative to the proper way
% plant seeds.
When the annual meeting of the To-
oeka Traffic bureau is held about the /
middle of May, approximately $4,000 in |
claims will have been filed, and the !
mount actually paid will be about So |
IoO This is considered a good show
ng for the first year, but the record /
s expected to be better next year 1t /
axes a half year or so Cor the claims |
edged to go through the mill
At the close of the second inning of /