The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-28
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AT HOME NEWS.

| DIR. L. A. Ryder has purchased a Marion
| five passenger car.
The Santa Fe baseball team defeated
the Royal Tailors Sunday, 10 to g.
Jr. Charles NJ. Sheldon will go to New
Zealand in about year on a lecture
| tour.
| The monthly meeting of the elders OF
the First Presbyterian church will be held
next Friday evening.
The tennis courts of the Central Y NJ.
C. A. at Tenth avenue and Lane street
are now in condition for use.
Work has started on the New England
| building additions. Henry Bennett, the
contractor, is in charge.
F. NJ Spencer has purchased, through
| Wilson & Neiswanger residence at 1870
| Mulvane street for 5000.
city force is at work today repairing
the asphalt pavement in the seven hum
dred block on Jackson street.
! Commissioner Newland asks to be
| notified at once when electric lights on
street corners are out of order. q
The Boy. Scouts of the Central Congre-
gational church will meet at the parson-
age Friday between and 6 O'Clock.
A game of baseball in the Interclass
league is being played this afternoon on
Washburn field-Juniors VS.. Subscribers.
| The monthly dinner of the teachers and
officers of the First Presbyterian church
will be held tonight in the church parlOrS.
! The last address of the series on Side
| Lights on the Bible will be delivered this
evening by Dean Frank Lee at the Central
Y. NJ c. A.
The Rev. J. c. Everett will have charge
| of the Y. NJ. c. A. extension meetings
| next Thursday. He will speak at several
points in the city.
A large delegation of Topekans will at
| tend the annual meeting of the Kansas
State Retail Merchants association in
Fort Scott, July % and "a
The Sociological Study club will meet
at 1156 Grand avenue this evening to COM
plete arrangements for the May day pic
mic which will be held at the City park
next Thursday.
The plat to the new addition-Cunning-
ham Heights-has been filed with Robert
F. Tasker, register of deeds. The addi-
ton, which is located west of Highland
Park, contains 1872 lots.
The first three Sunday evenings in May
al the Central Congregational church will
be DEVOTED to illustrated lectures by DR..
Roy B. Guild on THE Man From Italy
and His Companions
Thousands of Topekans took advantage
of the pleasant weather on Sunday They
went off on long walks after wild
flowers and there were many visitors at
Gage and other city parks
A pageant Twill be held at the Audi
torium May 1 by the members of St.
Clarke will be the queen, as she sold the
| largest number of tickets for the affair
-four hundred and forty.
Word has been received in Topeka that
Miss Ruth Robinson, now Mrs. Frank
Carter, and who formerly played at the
Majestic theater, has made tremendous
! nit IN Fort WORTH, Tex, where the North
company Is playing at the Savoy theater.
l. A central exhibit of work done by the
pupils of the city schools will be held in
the manual training building the week be-
individual exhibits, also, at the respective
sc.-ools, the dates to be set by the prin-
cipals.
The annual election of officers of the
9. This will include the election of a sue
cessor to E. c. Brownell. George Hoyes,
now the house and educational secretary
is the man the members of the association
are pushing for the place.
The following births have been reported
to the city clerk: To Mr.. and Mrs E. H
Seagrave, 1916 West Fifth, a girl to Mr.
and Mrs. William H. HerscbeIl, a girl;
to Mir. and Mrs. Bernice Hodison, 9I4
North Topeka avenue, a boy; to Mr.. and
Mrs. E. Nelson, SIS Chandler, a girl.
The Emma Bunting Stock company
closed its Topeka engagement April 70
with record breaking attendance at the
first act of THE Princess in Patches
Roy Crawford presented Miss Bunting
with an enormous basket of American
beauties.
TIE playground work in Topeka will
start within a week or two after the close
of the city schools Boy Blue netted $3.50
expenses of maintaining the grounds AMI
it is probable that the board of education
will appropriate some money at the next
meeting for playground purposes.
Only a small percentage of the teachers
of the city schools attended the meeting
of the Northeast Kansas Teachers asso-
citation at Leavenworth. The thirty-five
teachers who visited the schools at Law
renee report that they were well enter
tanned by the teachers of that city. A tea
was held for the visitors from the capital
city.
The meat dealers of Topeka have an
opportunity to do general favor to the
meat trade, and at the same time to set
themselves right with the meat buyers of
their own city, by welcoming and encour-
aging the proposed Investigation" of the
high price Of meats which a certain or
ganization of Topeka women is about to
undertake. Some one has told these wonl-
en- that there Is trust or conspiracy