The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The little red, white and blue Frozen
Dainty wagons will soon be on the
streets agaiH.-Adv.
/ basement room will be equipped at
the First Methodist church for a club
room for the use of the Boy Scouts.
me Central Y. NJ. G. A. boys camp
F., viii probably be held this summer on
the Frank Coverly place five miles east
| of Wakarusa.
/ Mothers Day was celebrated at sew
! eral of the Topeka churches on Sun
day Many men wore white carnations
out of respect for mother
DR.. F. L. Loveland has been asked
TO give commencement addresses for
thirty different high schools. Twelve
OF the invitations he has accepted
TOUR a week for. the next three weeks.
The Brotherhood of the Central
congregational church has invited the
mayor and city commissioners to at
tend a $50 o'clock supper at the
! church tonight. Questions pertaining
to city government will be discussed.
President Frank K. Sanders, John E.
Manley, E. c. Brownell. DR.. E. S. Pet
tyJohn, and j. Musselman have return
ed from Kansas City, Kan, where they
attended the laying of the cornerstone
or $4,000 Y. NJ. c. A. building on
Sunday.
Reservations should be made i'm
mediately for the social dinner that
Will be held Thursday evening at the
Commercial club for the sons of MEM
bers- Each boy who attends will be
given ticket to the ball game next
Saturday.
George H. Hodges, governor of Kan
sas; John Dawson, attorney general;
F. w. Thomas of the Santa Fe, and ].
VIII Kelley, secretary of the CONNER
cial club. were made honorary mem
berS of the Kansas Association of Sta
tionary Engineers.
The Central Y. NJ. c. A. is consider
ing maintaining summer camp for
working men in close proximity to To-
peka. The men will sleep in tents and
will cook their rails over camp fires.
In the evening baseball games will be
arranged as we'll as horseshoe pitching
and other diversions.
May is the wettest month of the year
according to the figures of the local
government bureau. but the first third
of this month was unusually wet. The
May is 4:3S inches. The record thus
far this month is 3:17 inches. Showers
are predicted for tonight or Tuesday.
Seven menu of the Central Y. NJ.
c. A. will go to Cincinnati Tuesday to
attend the International convention of
the Y. M. c. A. They are: George H. |
Hoyes. who will succeed E. c. Brown |
ell as secretary of the association; Jno. !
E. Manley, state secretary; DIR. E. S. |
Pettyjohn, Leon G. Thorpe. A. E. Aus |
tin. Fred Pierce and H. C. Kibbee
President Frank K. Sanders of
Washburn college has been mentioned
by certain Topeka business men as |
being one who would be we'll fitted to |!
serve as superintendent of the city |
schools of Topeka. However, the !
board of education has taken no &C
ton relative to a superintendent to
succeed c. c. Starr, whose resignation !
will be effective August 1. score of
applications have been received.
The dates for the exhibits of work
done at the Individual schools to
which the public is invited have been
The displays will be held
as follows: Central Park, May 1920;
Clay, morning of May 16; Douglas,
May IA; Harrison, May Is; Lincoln,
May 1876 Mckinley, May Is; Park
dale, May %; Sumner, May 20: Van
Buren,, May 2022. The central ex
hibit at the Manual training building
will be held on Thursday and Friday,
May % and %.
The Rev. A. r. Hodges. an ex-fore
man boilermaker, will have charge of
revival services that will be held in
tent beginning Tuesday at the corner
of Second and Chandler streets. Mr..
Hodges will be assisted by the Rev. A.
S. Clark, pastor of the Seward Avenue
Methodist church, the Rev. E. H.
Cook pastor of the Wesleyan Metho-
non and others. Afternoon services
will be held from 2:3O to $3.50 o'clock
each day: evening services will start
at 8 o'clock.
Miss Edna Clark and her eighth
grade pupils of the Central Park school
will place a Jronze marker on the old
est tree at the southeast corner of
and Clay streets. This tree is
mentioned in Mrs. Margaret Hill Nc
carter's The Price of the Prairie"
The marker will have engraved on it:
'Topeka's oldest tree. Marked by the
"a class Central Park. May 1919 The
-eacher recently dreamed that the class
placed this marker on the tree. She