The Topeka state journal., 1913-05-19
SNAp SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

/ AT HOME NEWS
Dr.. F. L. Loveland will give high school
/ commencement addresses this week at
Burlingame, Blue Rapids and Dodge
City.
The people living on Brooks avenue
! in Melrose are petitioning the gas
| company for gas supply along that
| street.
! foot visited Gage park Sunday. All
] the city parks were popular places on
| Sunday.
The Shawnee Driving club is expect
! ing to pull off, some unusually good
races at their annual meet on the fair
| grounds on the Fourth of July.
The Rev. S. c. Cob1entz filled the
pulpit of the First United Brethren
| church on Sunday in the absence of
the pastor the Rev. E. r. Baker.
A. C. Davis will build two-story
| dwelling at 21S Lake street. A. NJ. JEFF
fries will erect a dwelling at LAG Nor
| ton street. They will cost $1,000 and
| 81, 100 respectively.
The Rev. Robert Gordon, pastor of
| the First Baptist church will leave for
| Detroit, Mich, to attend the North
ern Baptist convention which will be-
! gin on Wednesday.
! Dr. S. 5. Estey will deliver the bac-
City high school next Tuesday evening.
| On Friday evening he will deliver the
| class sermon at Clay Center.
1.-The New Testament Period and Its
Leaders, is the title of a new book
! by Dean Frank T. Lee, which is being
| published by prominent Boston firm
and which will be off the press by
June 1.
E. V. King has been appointed as
superintendent of the Sunday school of
| the First Christian church to succeed
| Robert Copeland who resigned his po-
sition on account of his removal to CAL
| ifornia.
A travellers aid bureau is a new
| feature of the Y. w. c. A. The work
! of the members of the bureau will be
| to meet incoming trains and give
women any assistance that they may
require.
F. W. Willett has been given permits
to erect two new dwellings, one two
story brick house at 1927 Quincy street
and two-story frame dwelling at 1929
Quincy They will cost $1,000 and $2,-
100 respectively.
The practice on the part of certain
drivers of coal wagons of throwing
Jumps of coal at their horses to make
them go should be stopped. 1t is not
only poor way to manage an animal,
but the coal on the, main thorough
fares of the city is not good thing for
traffic.
The Rev. Charles A Finch of the
First Christian church, will deliver the
annual Memorial services for the To-
peka Typographical union on May 25
in the Auditorium. He will also de-
liver the annual commencement adj
dress for the high school at Goodland
on May %.
The Rev. J. C. Everett, who for
more than four years has served as
pastor of the Third Presbyterian
church, has accepted a call from the
Third Presbyterian church of Paola,
Kan. The Rev. Mr.-Everett is state
clerk and treasurer for the Presby-
terian Synod of Kansas.
President Frank Sanders will lee
ture Tuesday evening on 1.-The Chang
ing Orient of Today at the Walnut
Grove Methodist church. :: The lecture
will be given under the auspices of the
Brotherhood of the church. The gen
eral public is invited to attend. There
will be no admission fee.
The annual election of officers of the
Topeka Local union will be held to-
night at the First Baptist church. Re-
ports for the year will be submitted.
The program includes a song service
at 7:45 o'clock and an address by Gro
yer Pierpont, president of the Wichita
Local union. There will be solo by
Miss Birdine Chandler.
The basketball boys of the Intermedi-
ate C. E. society of the First Congre-
gational church who won the silver cup
offered by the H. B. Howard company,
in the recent basketball series among
the church societies, will be presented
with their prize tonight at the meeting
of the Topeka Local union in the First
Baptist church.
The first homegrown Strawberries
have been received by local grocery
stores. The quality is good but the
supply is limited. By the latter part
of this week the supply of locally grown
berries is expected to be more plenti-
full. The weather has been favorable
to the proper development of the Shaw
nee county berries and good crop is
expected.
Some persons living in the vicinity of
Willow park are in favor of cutting
street through pretty Willow park
Elmwood avenue They say they will
submit a petition for the consideration
of the mayor and city commissioners.
While a street through Willow park
might be convenient for a few people,
still it would mar the beauty of what
is one of the prettiest parks in the city.
Topeka Consistory No. 1, Scottish
Rite has invited all master masons
to attend an illustrated Masonic lee
ture to be given by Robert d. Graham /
of Denver, Colo, in the Masonic tenn
pie, on Friday evening, May %, at
O'Clock the subject. 1.-THE Wages of |
Master Mason" Only master masons
will be admitted. No admission fee
will be charged. All expenses are
borne by the Scottish Rite, who in
vite all master masons to be their |
guests
The people in MeIrose addition are
wrathy on account of the proposal to |
extend the street railway line out West
Tenth avenue instead of West Eighth
as was originally planned A number |
of persons purchased property in this
addition with the understanding that |
the car line would go through the cen |