The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-17
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AT HOME NEWS.

Bennett T. Hornsby is in Chicago
on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Slaughter, 407
girl
The Y. NJ c. A. Glee club under
| tonight at 1880 O'Clock.
The city water department is today
putting IN an extension OF a two inche
pipe on First street west of Buchanan
The Rev. H G. Fraser of Ottawa
win preach both morning and even
ing Sunday at the Seward Avenue
Baptist church
The Boys of Company B" will be
presented at the Grand. opera house
tonight by the senior class of the high
school There will be a full house.
There are some good motion pic
lures and a strange contortiouist
dancer, also a vaudeville skit, at the
Majestic The program changed on
Thursday.
The social service workers of To-
peka will meet this evening at
o'clock at the Central Y. NJ. G. A. to
listen to the reading of the report sub
mitted by Shelby Harrison of the Rus
sell Sage foundation relative to social
survey in Topeka
The question Of the advisability of
procuring a county farm adviser will
again be discussed at the Shawnee Al
faIfa and Farmers Institute. Satur-
day afternoon, January IS. The meet
ing will be held in the rooms of the
Commercial club.
The Blue teams of the senior and
young mems Y. NJ. C. A gym"
classes will provide a banquet at Z
o'clock this evening for the Red
teams The Blues were defeated in
contest last fall Monograms and
triangles will be given to those who
did particularly good work in the con-
test
DE-. George F. Rabb will leave next
week to attend the semi-annual meet
ing of the Missouri Valley Veterinary
association. to be held in Kansas City.
House DR.. Babb is scheduled for a
discussion of the Recent Horse
Plague and will speak Tuesday, jan
uary 81.
AS the Topeka fire department was
making run on Kansas avenue this
merchant and inquired: And is that
the fire department." The reply was:
NO, it's a lawn mower going to the
fair grounds TO cut crop of ba-
ton in the foolish question class
Leroy Powell. superintendent of
the mail, has sent his government re-
port to Washington for the first if
teen days of the parcel post system
There were 5.273 incoming packages
TSC-INSQ, -VsUuV pdCAdSCS sent OAls
and about 500 local bundles delivered
Mr.. Powell reports a steady increase
in the number of Packages passing
through the Topeka office.
Within few days the members of
the legislature will receive invitations
TO attend the complimentary banquet
which will be rendered to the legisla-
tors and the members of the Kansas
Editorial association on January as
1t was announced today that the
banquet would be given in the Ma
sonic hall. The program will consist
of addresses by prominent Kansans-
The question of how to accommo-
date all persons that care to attend the
high school class day exercises in the
near future is przzling the authorities
OF the institution The assembly room
will not seat all of the high school
students by a margin of ESQ, to say
nothing of the many friends of the
members of the outgoing class who
would naturally be interested in be-
ing present The chances that tickets
will be given out to the members of
the class to hand out to their friends,
and that many of the high school stu
dents in the lower classes viii be left