The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-26
SNAP SHOTS
A. HOME NEWS.


VS.. Santa Fee off1ces.-Ady.
: The State Temperance union is do
ing active work nowadays They are
sending speakers to the small towns
of the state.
Topeka showed a gain in bank
clearings for the week ending April "a
of 2O6 per cent. over the correspond
ing period of 1912.
A building permit was issued today
to John Martinson for the erection OF
a dwelling at 1875 CORTLAND avenue.
The home will cost $780,
A meeting of the Women's Foreign
Missionary society of the First Meth
odist church will be held at the
church next Monday evening.
Prof. B. P Stout and Mrs. Stout
day night. The occasion will be one
of the Gordon revival meetings.
Professor B. P. Stout, the singing
| evangelist will sing in the Quinton
Heights chapel tonight. The general
| public is invited to hear him.
The waconda club of the Y. w. c.
A. will hold a social meeting at the
association building tonight. An elab-
| crate program has been arranged.
| E. c. BrowneI, general secretary of
| the Central Y. NJ. c. A, will speak
Sunday afternoon at the Kansas ave
| nue. department of the association.
An illustrated address on 1.-THE Good
| Shepherd will be given at the Central
| Congregational church by the Rev. A.
| H. Armstrong of ST. Louis Sunday
| evening.
| A meeting for Iaboring men will be
held at 418 Kansas avenue Sunday
| afternoon. There will be mock trial
aimed to show the injustice of the
| capitalist.
The Rev. E. E. Urner of the Wal
nut Grove Methodist church and the
Rev. Edward Locke of the Euclid ave-
nue. Methodist church will exchange
pulpits Sunday morning.
Topeka stores are crowded with out
| of town shoppers today. saturday
| the shoppers always come in large
numbers, but today on account of the
| fine weather the crowd is particularly
| big.
The shower of late Friday which
amounted to 10 of an inch did the
thirsty gardens a great amount of
good and put a brighter shade of
green on the grass of the Topeka
lawns.
''The Prodigal Wife," is the subject
speak at the Auditorium Sunday night.
This will be the last service at which
Professor B. P. Stout will sing before
leaving for st. Louis.
Topeka lodge, No. 81. Fraternal
Brotherhood. will entertain Supreme
Vice President Mrs. Emma r. Neidig
of Los Angeles, Cal, tonight at it's
hall East Seventh street. District
Manager Gilbert Carter of Wichita will
also be present.
The college girls who are attending
the council of the Y. w. c. A. presi
dents of the northern Kansas colleges
in Topeka will have charge of the YES
per services at the Y. W. c. A. build
ing Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Norman
Atkinson will sing.
J. Will Kelley, secretary of the
Topeka Commercial club, will leave
this evening at $50 o'clock for Keo-
kuk and other points in Iowa on bust |
ness pertaining to the factory aid plan
of the club. He will probably return |
by Friday of next week.
Professor G. D. Steiner of the State |
Agricultural college spoke before the |
members of the Shawnee Alfalfa and I
of the Comm ercial CLUB this afternoon. |
The subject was: planning and |
Planting the Home Grounds"
Weather permitting the Royal Tail
ors and the Santa Fe general office |
baseball teams will play an interesting
game at League Park beginning at 8 /
o'clock Sunday afternoon. These |
teams claim to be as fast as the teams /
of the Kansas State League and will |
not permit rowdy playing.
Many of the Topeka teachers of the |
city schools will not return from their
visiting trips until Sunday night. A
number of the teachers are in attend
ance today at the meeting of the
northeast Kansas I0aCneTS dSSOCld-
ton; others visited schools in Law
renee, Kansas City and other points
and will visit in those places the week
end /
The plan recently adopted by the
membership committee of the Com
mercial club to place the names of
five Topeka men who are eligible to
membership in the club on the cafe
tables each day has been put into eff
feet The members are supposed to
fv7H III 1,r-Sy7
the men whose names arc on the cards
into the organization.
The Socialists Labor day will be
celebrated May 1 with picnic at Gar
field park. A parade will be staged
on Kansas avenue from Tenth avenue
to the park. There will be several
floats in the cavalcade. There will be
speeches at the park, and another
feature will be a basket supper. The
parade will start at 10 o'clock. The
Socialist claim that the September /
Labor day is the Labor day of the
ca pitalists.
The April "industriaI'' number of the
Commercial Club Bulletin is off the
press today. 1t bears a cut on the
front page of the governors mansion
that is unusually attractive. The issue
is largely devoted to the factory and
industrial interests of Topeka. A long
published. Soon this list will be print
ed in booklet that will deal with
the Industrial advantages and will be
distributed free to those interested.
The Novelty theater baseball team
will play the Stage Employees team
at Skeene's park at 8 o'clock Sunday
afternoon. The following is the line
up: Novelty: Gerald, catcher; Newell,
2b; Newman, 3b; Eyer If; Free, CT;
2b; Newman 3b; Eyer If; Free, CT;
and Holsinger, rf. The Stage Hands,:
Henderson, catcher; Neff, pitcher;
Wilcox, SIS; Bourden, 1b; Q. Gregg, 2b;
Collins, 3b; Barnett, lb; Edwards CT;
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