The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-18
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

practice Sunday morning at ten O'CLOCK
on the Western league grounds
DR.. w. W. Yates has been chosen as
a director of the Central Y. NJ c. A.
to succeed President Frank <. San
ders.
A meeting of the Topeka Real Es-
ta tie Dealers association will be held
next Wednesday noon at the CONNER
cial club quarters
The Aetna Building and Loan asso-
suit filed in the district court, alleging
failure to pay mortgage.
n. G. Nelson is contemplating the
erection of two story residence at
1856 Mulvane street. He is taking
figures from contractors.
a number of Topeka stores are fea-
turing Towering bulbs for fall plant
ing. The demand for bulbs is reported
to be unusually heavy this season
All friendly visitors of the Prov
ident association will meet at the
Provident building for the first time
this season at o'clock next Thursday.
The Kansas Association of Life
Underwriters will hold thier regular
quarterly meeting Monday at the noon
hour in a private dining room of the
Commercial club.
At the Y. W. c. a. vesper service
Sunday, T. E. Prout. secretary of the
R. r. Y. NJ. c. A, will talk on '-Rea-
sons for Bible Study" Miss Elizabeth
Anderson will sing.
Miss Mary r. Vose, secretary of the
Provident association, has returned
from Baldwin where she delivered an
address before the girls of the Y. NJ.
G. A of Baker university
The privileges of the Central Y. NJ.
c. A. will be extended to the male
teachers in attendance at the meet
ing of the Kansas State Teachers
association, November 81.
All members of the Commercial club
campaign committee are asked to meet
at the club quarters Monday noon
The final squirt of the campaign will
probably be made some day next week
Jock Mcbride, one of the Topeka
soccer football players, will play on
the Schneider team of Kansas City,
a week from Sunday against the team
of the Kansas City Soccer Football !
club.
A class in good housekeeping has
been started at the Provident associa-
ton by Miss Mary Murphy. The class
is open to girls who have had two
years of work in the cooking classes of
the association. Fifteen girls have en-
rolled.
city schools. visited the ProVident as
ISOLATION this afternoon with a view
to learning the nature of the work
that the association is doing. He was |
classes that were in session.
]. E. Spa1ding will erect s2,S0O resi- |
dence at POI Woodlawn avenue in Pot |
win. The work will begun this month |
Mr.. Spalding is contemplating the |
erection of another dwelling on the /
same property at a later date, accord |
ing to the Construction News.
While two-thirds of the cities of |
the country showed a decrease in |
bank clearings over the corresponding /
To- n
of 10 per cent in bank clearings for |
the week ending October 16. This /
was the largest gain of any city in the /
country.
A Topeka newspaper man went to |
the Homer concert to hear a certain |
song. He left in the middle of the |
program, distressed because the Sc
lection had been omitted. AS a mat
ter of fact, it was given while the ,
man sat in a box and wait
ed. 1t was sung in French, and the /
man didn't know it
Admission to all general sessions in
connection with the meeting of the /
Kansas State Teachers association |
November 81 will be restricted to
actual members of the association
who have paid the annual member
ship fee. This will be necessary as
five thousand teachers are expected TO
attend the meeting and the Audi
torium has a seating capacity of but
about 1000.
Mrs. Lillian Mitchner. the president,
and Mrs. Ida Viets Whitcomb. CORE
spending secretary of the w. C T. q,
were elected as delegates to attend the
perance at Brooklyn. The meeting
will be held October 23-2S. They were
also appointed as delegates to the Ma
tional w. c. T. L. meeting at Asbury
Park, New Jersey. october 29-Novem-
Der s. Mr.. and Mrs. Whitcomb have
already left for the east. The dele
gates were appointed at the state con-
vention held october 10 in Winfield
A male quartet composed of Messrs.
WeIIman, Rankin, Wright and Smith
will sing at the Redden Mission at 3
0 clock Sunday afternoon There will
be a revival service in the evening,
beginning at 1880. with a song service
Led by David L. Williams. Mr. Jonn
L. Shaw will sing a solo at this ser
vice. This will probably close the spe-
cial series of meetings. which have
been quite successful From now on
there will be a preaching service
every Sabbath evening Rev John H
Fazel is in charge of the mission
The famous banana case that was
heard in Topeka last year and which
was apparently settled by the inter
state commerce commission has been
reopened and a hearing will be held be-
fore Examiner c. r. Marshall in Kan
sas City on Monday. H. D. Drisccn,
commissioner OF the Topeka Irathc as
ISOLATION and his assistant, S. r.
Duct<ett, will represent Topeka To-
peka is after a reduction of rates from I
New Orleans and Galveston, but the 4
railroads are putting up a strong fight I
against the lowering of the rates. 4
Wichita and several other Kansas
towns will have representatives in
Kansas City. II
H. L. Cook. who resigned as sec
retary of the Kansas State Fair ASSOC