The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

A basketball team will be organized
at the Central Y NJ. c. A. this evening.
DIR. L. V. Sans of Topeka has been
elected president of the Northeast
Kansas Medical association
Soccer football will be resumed by
Tom Powell and his followers as soon
as the severe cold weather comes to
an end.
DIR. otto Kiene will speak tonight
at the Central Y. NJ. c. A on Com
mon Accidents Men are invited to
hear him.
Meetings were held today of the
state and national leglsIatloh anu
good roads committees OF the Ooiil-
mercial club.
A local grocery store has a window
display of tropical fruits from HON.
duras that is attracting an unusual
amount of attention.
There are 81 boys in the sophomore
class of the high and 81 girls: 1t is
not often that the number OF Dogs
equals that of the girls
DR.. Newton N. Riddell will speak at
the auditorium Sunday afternoon at
3:15 o'clock on The New Mail
There will be special music
This has been poor week for
building permits in Topeka There
has been little activity in real estate.
The weather has been too cold
The next meeting of the ha hsaS
RRekoeDeTS
in Topeka the forepart or 1914 Inc
1912 officers have been reelected
A marriage license was issued TINS
morning to Ulysses G. Hood, 20 years
old, and Tracy Lenora sender "a
years old, both of Manhattan nan.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Reynolds of
Arlington Heights are the parents or
a SON. weighing eleven and one-haIf
mounds. He has been named Henry
Kenneth.
James Quinlon was adjudged insane
following a hearing in the PROBATE
court The commission consisted OF
DIR. NJ. G. Sloo: DR.. Seth Hammel and
DIR. w. w. Yates.
Tom Powell will organize an anna
teur baseball team in Topeka next
spring He states that he already mas
several players lined up including one
of the best pitchers in the city.
Crosby Brothers will close their
store to the public this evening at o
o'clock in order to move their stock
to the new building on the south They
will omen for business Monday morn
ing in the new store
E. A. Austin will speak at the Cen
trail Congregational church SUNDAY
even on The Divorce EVIL IN 10
nelxa" w. J. Rickenbacher will talk
also on the subject. The Work of the
Social Service Committee.
William C"Goldie'') Hawker entered
a plea of guilty to a charge of disturb
ing the peace, the charge growing OUT
of his quarrel with Bud Muir at the
courthouse a few days ago, and was
fined SIS by Judge Robert d. Carver
in the county court.
DIR. F. o. Boyd has purchased from
T. 7. Henderson, through the firm of
Wilson & Neiswanger, three lots on
Boswell avenue-the first block north
of washburn college. DR.. Boyd is plan
ming to build residence.
There is still considerable talk about
Saturday evening closing of the stores
i'm Topeka. OF course the clerks all
favor the proposition, and several of
the store proprietors favor 1T. But no
one likes to make a move.
''ChiId Training by Suggestion is
the subject upon which DR.. Newton
n. Riddell will speak at the Auditor
ium tonight. The lectures are proving
more and more popular. They are be-
ing held under the auspices of the
Topeka Ministerial union.
A chicken raising contest is the
latest idea of Dewitt Lee, boys secre-
tary at the Y. NJ. c. A. Prizes will be
offered for the best specimens of the
fowl tribe raised by boys of the de
partment Ralph Searle will have di-
rect charge of the contest.
Two games in the Y. NJ. C. A. volley
ball tournament will be played late to-
day. DR.. c. H. Lerrigo's team will
meet S. S. Thompson's team at $50
o CLOCK. III. M CldIE MS dSST0Sd-
ton will confront the team captained
by A r. Mulholland at O'Clock.
Il am a member of the CONNER
cial club in the first place." said w.
A. Neiswanger today, Ion account of
the acquaintance that one makes with
business men of the city. 1t is the
push and energy of the city to a large
extent that you meet at that club"
In case the bill providing for the
certification of mortgages to the tax
commission becomes law it will
mean a good deal of additional work
in the office of the register of deeds.
Register Robert F. Tasker believes it
will require another clerk to handle
this work.
A motion to strike from the files a
petition of Swan Johnson, asking the
probate court to set aside all former