The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The Kansas Midwinter exposition is
the attraction at the auditorium.
H. P. Miller, city commissioner, is
Ill at his home with severe cold.
The Topeka Edison Co. will install a
new steel coal and ash bunker that
will cost 81, 900.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Kansas Association of Life Underwrit-
ers will be held in the rooms of the
Commercial club tonight at 1880
o'clock.
The scout masters in connection
with the Boy Scout organizations in
Topeka will meet at the Y. NJ. {. A.
IN Gemmel hall of the Central 7. M.
There were no fires Saturday night,
sunday, nor Monday morning. This
was somewhat of a record breaker
owing to the cold change in the
weather.
Petition signed by Fred Graft and
Simon II. Darst against the paving of
Boswell street from Tenth to Sixteenth
was filed this morning with the city
commissioners.
Fifteen girls who will celebrate the
completion of their work in the Branner
school next Friday and will be ready to
enter the high school made their own
graduation dresses.
Tom Powells soccer team defeated
the team recently organized by John
Gibson at the Santa Fe shops Sunday
by a score of IL to o. About 200
people saw the game.
The revival services held for two
weeks for the Walnut Grove Metho-
dist church by the Rev. E. E. Urner
resulted in forty names being added to
the church membership.
Several Topeka grain dealers will at
tend the annual meeting of the Kansas
Grain Dealers association in Kansas
City, February lib. This will be the
sixteenth annual meeting.
Edward Ellis Carr, editor of the
Christian Socialist Of Chicago. in speak
ing Sunday night at the Kansas Avenue
Methodist church referred to Moses as
the greatest labor leader who ever lived.
NJ. Hawkins this morning filed pc
tition with the city comm issioners for
the construction of a cement sidewalk
on the south side of Eleventh street
from Arch to the alley between Arch
and Garfield avenue.
The first payroll for 1913 was ap-
propriated out of the general revenue
fund this morning, and amounted to
city expenses during the first half of
the month of January.
Robert Speer, secretary of the board
of foreign missions of the Presbyterian
church, will be in Topeka. January "a.
He will speaF at a mems luncheon at
the noon hour at the First Presbyterian
church.
1.-The churches are full of jobless
men," said DIR Roy B. Guild in speak |
ing Sunday afternoon at the Novelty |
theater before several hundred men. |
THE number of jobless men is not |
measured by the number of men look |
ing for a chance to make a living
The Rev. Edward Carr, editor of the !
Christian Socialist of Chicago, spoke j
this morning before the members of |
the Topeka Ministerial Union at the
First Presbyterian church The Rev.
J. A. Renwick gave an address on 1.-The
Church and Christ's Missionary Pro-
gram
The officers of the Topeka Motor
league have invited the members of
the roads and bridges committees of
both the house and senate to dine
with the autoists at the Elks club
Tuesday evening. Good roads and
prospective legislation will be dis
cussed.
Report was made to Sheriff L. L.
Kiene this morning that the store of
F. W. Freeman. near the Topeka In
dustrial Institute, was burglarized
Saturday night and jewelry to the
value of about $3.50 was taken. So
far the officers have not secured
clue to the perpetrator of the crime,
but are working on the case.
To judge from statements in his SER
mon Sunday night on 1.-The Editor
the Problem of Public Opinion DR..
r. L. Loveland, of the First Metho-