The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-06
SNAP .SHOTS
AT HOME NEWU.

There was a meeting Of the Forensic
club of the Topeka high school FRI
day afternoon.
The twenty-fifth anniversary Of the
Central Congregational church will be
celebrated next week.
Fred Robertson. United States dis.
trict attorney. mad his assistant, L. s.
Harvey, are IN Kansas City on BUSH
ness.
The stockmen-feedets and shippers
Of Kansas-will hold a meeting in To-
peka December 10 to perfect an organ
izAtion.
James Clark. former assistant city
attorney, is now practicing law in
Marysvtlle.
The wireless at the high school has
| attracted much attention. Several
visitors 80 to the school daily to see
the instruments.
Window trimmers for all of the
merchants in the city have been work
ing hard this week arranging Christ
! mas windows with great success.
A special program will be given at
the Redden mission Sunday afternoon
by the class under Miss Anna Nelson.
The program will start at three
o'clock.
A minstrel show is being planned
by. the members of the Cathedral
Boys club. The show will be given
| the last Of December, or Immediately
after New Year.
| The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Kansas State Fair ASSOC
citation will be held next Tuesday ev-
ening in the main room of the Com
| mercial club quarters.
The criminal docket will be resumed
next week in the second division of the
district court. A series of city appeal
cases have been docketed for hearing
before INDIE Ga0rOn n Whffc0mh
Residents of the district Of the Gage
park car line are looking forward to
! the time when they will not have to
walk several blocks for a street car.
Work has progressed rapidly on the
construction, it being hampered some
what by the recent rains.
Plantation melodies and songs in
| the Swedish, German and italian Ian
guages, will be sung at the "all ma
| tons service at the First Baptist
| church Sunday night. The Rev. Robert
Gordon will speak on 1.-THE One Word
Understood in All Languages"
The Wooltex Monthly for December
contains a picture of the attractive
| ''Wooltex'' window recently displayed
by the Mills Dry Goods company.
Madame Savarie, who lectured on
Wooltex fashions in Topeka, has sailed
for Paris.
j This week has been wet in more
ways IHdn one, G1CCOIulnS u tHc OOCA-
ct at the police station. Fourteen
, persons. including two Indian women,
have been arrested on the charge OF
! drunkenness. Fines of $40 apiece
were assessed by Police Judge Huron.
| It is evident that J. A. Nelson, the
man who committed suicide in an
East side rooming house this week.
| has no relatives. No one has claimed
the body, which is lying in Shella-
barger's undertaking rooms. and it
-
/ il a claimant is not found in a few
| days.
The Rev. C. A. Alden, the new pas
tor of the Swedish Baptist church.
| corner Fourth and Fillmore streets,
will preach Sunday morning at IL
O'Clock on 1.-The Bride of Christ" In
the evening at 1880 o'clock his sub
Friend" Communion services will
be held at the close of the sermon.
| Sunday school will be held at four
o'clock in the afternoon.
Basketball enthusiasts have begun
to play regularly at the Y. M. c. A.,
Y. w. C. A.. Washburn and other
in organization and there will be
1 dozens of other teams. The high
school will probably not have one,
although movement is on foot
among the students to organize indie
pendently and play most of the games
out of town. 1t is reported that
basketball was not success finan-
cially for the school last year.
In discussion over the proposed
crawling Of the Golden Belt road. the
board of county commissioners of Pot
tawatomie county met with the Shaw
nee county commissioners this after
noon. The Pottawatomie representa-
tives are T. E Harrell, T. H. Doyle and
Matt Rezac, commissioners; w. s.
Plummer, county clerk Six additional
miles, three miles Of which will be
graveled by Shawnee county, will be
graveled on the Golden Belt road this
spring.
A captain to lead the Topeka high
school 1914 football team will be Sc
| lected tonight at a meeting of the
! players at the home Of Capt. Willard.
1O14 Topeka avenue. This week three
candidates were nominated for the
honor, Sargent. Nettles and Shannon.
Sargent played quarterback this year
and has been on the squad for three
season. Nettles has played for the
same length of time, playing tackle
most Of this year. Shannon is another
old player and this year played guard
and tackle.
The Salvation Army has started the
work Of raising money to provide
Christmas dinners for the poor. It is
the hope of the organization to be
kets of food. each containing good
things to eat sufficient to provide for
five persons. Then If there are sufii-
Gent funds a dinner will be served for
! one hundred homeless men. There