The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29
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AT HOME NEWS.

James Mcclure entertained his
friends Friday night with dinner at
the Central Y. NJ. G. A.
A meeting of Parent-Teacher asso-
citation of the State street school will
be held Wednesday night.
The tornado insurance men have
been doing double the amount OF
business they usually transact since
the Omaha tornado took place.
The first ''tacky ball'' given by the
Lady Moose of Topeka was an event
at the Moose hall Friday night. Many
of the costumes were unique in their
makeup.
The proposed night school for To-
peka was strongly endorsed at
meeting of the Topeka Industrial
Council held Friday night at SIS
Kansas avenue.
The '.Apollophone" is unique in
strument that will be heard at the
concert which will be given next
Tuesday night at the auditorium by
returns will be read from the stage.
The proceeds will go towards the pipe
organ fund.
Music and story telling will be
feature of the work of the children at
the school Fairgrounds this summer.
An interest will be taken in the home
reading of the pupils. All errors of
speech will be corrected by the su-
pervisors-and they'll probably have
their hands full'' in doing it.
Among those who spoke in favor of
a night school in Topeka at a meet
ing of the Topeka Industrial Council
Friday night were G. c. Starr, super
intendent of city schools, Arthur Cap
per, Mrs: Margaret Bostie, Mrs. An
ME Douglass Scott. DIR. Eva Harding
asked number of questions concern
ing the work that the schools are do
ing in bushes education, and the
questions were answered by Super1n-
tendent Starr.
to the school principals in Topeka
there will be a teacher in gardening
appointed at each school to super1n-
tend the work in the home garden
contest. 1t is probable that an "ex-
pert will be employed in the summer
months to give advice to the hun
dreds of children who participate in
the contest. His salary, however, will
likely be paid from a fund that is be-
ing raised to promote the garden
plan and not by the board of educa-
ton. At each school there Will be a
demonstration plot 1Ox5 feet in size.
c. C. Starr, superintendent of city
schools, is of the opinion that school
gardening is one of the best educa-
tionaI features of modern education
for children. In a bulletin sent out to
the local teachers he says:
school work of city school sys-
TENS. More industrial education can
be given in it in proportion to the in
struction required than in any other
school subject. 1t gives training in an
occupation that many can engage in
with profit and opens the gateway to
agriculture to those who at sometime
might find it desira bic or necessary to !
take up that pursuit. 1t is the best |
and most practical form of nature
study. In many cases it substitutes |
educative employment for idleness. 1t
,Ir 4 So o.,
ing spending money. and the charac- |
ter of the work is superior to the |
average employment of pupils.
President Frank K. Sanders of
Washington college is suffering with |
an attack of the grippe
The scoutma sters of Topeka will |
meet at the Central Y NJ. c. a. for |
supper Monday evening.
The Rev. Robert Gordon wllspeak
night at the Auditorium on
paul and Politics" He states it
will be a discussion of good citizen
ship; with an appeal in behalf of the
under dog" Said Mr.. Gordon to-
day: my own church holds all the
people I care to address al one time
and I greatly prefer speaking there.
but our ceiling is unsafe. If a sheet of
plaster should fall again Sunday night
such as fell last Sunday a. panic might
ensue- We do not care to assume
that responsibility. new metal cell
ing has been ordered, and meanwhile
regular services will be held in our
Sunday schoolrooms.
Isaac Greyearth. a full blood Sioux
Indian. will speak in Gemmeu hall
Sunday afternoon at 3:15 o'clock. Mr..
father was at the Custer
ma ssacre and was killed in North Da
kota.
The membership committee of
the Central Y. NJ. c. A. held a
meeting at noon today preparatory to
the campaign that will be held next
month.
George E. Lerrigo, who has been
in Y. M. G. A. work in China for sew
eral years. and who was formerly the
secretary of the Central Y. NJ. c. A,
Will be in Topeka April 10.
The speaker at the Y. NJ. G. A. yes
per services Sunday afternoon will be
Rev. Bruce Kinney. A vocal number
will be given by Miss Grace Gaines.
A practice soccer football game
Will be played at the Santa Fe park
Sunday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
DR.. d. NJ. Fisk of Washburn college
will speak at the Kansas avenue de-
oartment of the Y. NJ. c. A. Sunday
afternoon.
The Royal Tailors. Sheafor and Sny-