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

| You'll enjoy swimming at Cages lake.
ADV
The first meeting of the directors OF
| the Central Y NJ. C. A. under the new
! regime will be held Friday night
The last meeting of the Y. W. G.
A. membership committee for the pres
ent season will be held Friday noon.
ID. w. Nichols of Waverly, Kan, is
visiting the city a few days with the
intention of locating here perma-
nently
A tennis club is being formed among
girls of the Y. W. C. A. Courts situa-
ted near the governors mansion have
been procured.
Next Saturday will be Flag day. At
that time business firms and private
individuals will be asked to display the
Stars and Stripes
The number of cities and towns. that
will be visited by the Get Acquainted
Special that will invade the north
eastern sections of Kansas June 25-27
will be Al.
y large number of Topeka business
men are still taking an interest in vol
leYbali. They play several afternoons
each week in the gym of the Cen
trail Y. NJ c. a.
Now is the time to buy currants
There is good crop this season but
the price is inclined to be steep on
account of the fact that the demand
is unusually heavy.
The enrolment at Shawnee County
Normal institute at the high school
building is now 203 This is the larg-
est enrolment in the history of the
institute, and this moreover is the
largest institute of the kind in the
state.
Ten boys of the Central V NJ. c. A
together with De Witt Lee, the boys
secretary. and Joseph Reisner, physi
col Iirno Lea a. oil %Ia;c
morning for bicycle run to the Boy
Scout camp on the Carter farm, ten
miles south of Topeka the Bur-
lingame road
A meeting of the South Side Civic
Improvement club will be held Friday
evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry L. Klopfer. 217 East Seventeenth
street. The thing that is particularly
interesting the members at the pres
ent time is the proposed extension Of
the street railway line to Twenty-first
street.
All employees of the Mills Dry Goods
Co. from bundle wrappers to heads of
departments will enjoy dinner in cell |
ebration of the thirtieth anniversary |
of the founding of the store. The !
banquet will be served on the fifth !
floor. Short talks will be made by |
several good speakers. There are !
more than 200 men and women on the |
payroll of the firm.
Arrangements are being made by |
the trade extension committee of the |
Commercial club which is working out (!
the details of the Get Acquainted /
Specia1'' that will run through north ;
eastern Kansas June 1927 for special |
entertainment for the women who |
come to the stations to see the train. /
There will probably be a chorus of !
business men formed, and a talking
machine will be carried.
Professor w. A. Harshbarger, direc-
tor of the Washburn college summer |
school, left today for his former home |
in Cumberland, Nd, where he was call |
ed on account of the serious illness of |
his mother He expects to remain in |
the east about six weeks visiting in |
Baltimore, Boston, Pitts
burg and New York city. He will make !
a special study of eastern college
grounds with a view to procuring ideas
to be developed in the improving of |
the Washburn campus. Prof. w. c. 1
Wheeler will head the summer school in L
the absence of Prof. Harshbarger.
Another meeting of clerks and de- II
liverymen of Topeka will be held at
413-415 Jackson street next Wednes-
lay night when arrangements will be
made to consolidate with the Retail
Clerks Protective association. In at
tendance at a meeting held Wednesday
night were one hundred and fifty per-
sons, forty or fifty of whom were
women and girls. w. L. OBrien, state
a Dor commissioner, was present at
he meeting. The question of the
closing of all Topeka stores Saturday
nights will be discussed at the next
meeting. G. G. Grimes is the man
back of this movement