The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-30
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AT HOME NEWS.

AT HOME NEWS.
The regular October meeting of the
Monday evening.
The annual meeting of the Roches-
ter Cemetery association will be held
in the chapel next Saturday afternoon
October Sat o'clock.
A meeting of the committee on ar
minstrel show will be held at the club
quarters Friday noon. w: O. Rigby
Is the chairman.
A portrait Of the late Secretary
George Martin has been presented to
the State Historical society. The pic
ture was painted by George NJ. Stone.
the Topeka artist
The Lowman Hill branch of the w. c.
T. U. will meet Thursday at 2:3O o'clock
at the home of Mrs. T. II. Parsonage at
1913 Morris street. Mrs. Lottie Case win
have charge of the meeting.
E. F. Stanley, principal of the Sum-
ner school, will again have charge of
ton with -.le meeting of the Kansas
State Teachers association in Novem-
Der.
The first meeting Of the year will
be held by the Parent-Teachers' assO-
citation of Lowman Hill at the school
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Officers will be elected for the coming
year.
A report Of the gospel teams Of the
First Baptist church shows that more
than 200 persons at meetings held in
surrounding towns have made public
confession of faith through the efforts
Of the club.
An increase in attendance at the
high school over last year is reported.
The attendance at the close of the sec
! ond week in 1913 was 1.246. There
were 1900 in attendance the middle
Of the second week this year.
A meeting of the Parent-Teachers'
association Of the Lowman school has
| been called by the president, Mrs. j. d.
Gossett, for 4 o'clock Friday afternoon
| for the election of officers The meet
! ing will be held in the Lowman build
| ing.
A permit to erect an addition to a
warehouse at 3O9-311 West First street
was issued by the city this morning to
the Topeka Oil company. The addi-
! ton will cost $2,500. Another permit
was issued to B. S. Wilson of So Lake
street to erect a dwelling to cost
| $1,000.
public schools, is preparing an exhaus-
| tive report of the Topeka public
schools which will be put in pamphlet
form. 1t will be illustrated. It has
| been several years since similar re-
port has been published. Many re-
quests have been received in the last
few months from other schools for a
| Topeka report.
| L. r. Manley, manager of the To-
peka Pure Milk company, and G. c.
Graves, local milk dealer, were fined
800 each by Judge G. A. Huron in
police court Tuesday afternoon. The
two men were charged with failing to
label bottles of milk they sold as not
having come from cows receiving the
| tuberculin tests. Both milk dealers
appealed their cases.
| There were 200 persons in attend
ance at a church meeting Thursday
evening at the First Baptist church. A
business meeting followed a supper.
There have been 1852 additions to the
church since the Rev. Robert Gordon
| The, report of the reasMrer showed
I that in the year 50, QNS. SIS was raised: 9
small balance remafns =,
The Girls club Of the Provident as
ISOLATION will hold its first meeting for
the fall season Saturday. Oct. 3. at, 2
and winter classes have been complet-
ed a musical program will be given.
The meeting is free to all girls. The
Colored Girls club will meet Satur-
day morning at $3.50 o'clock.
The amount collected by the city
during the month of September, 1914
shows an increase of more than $1O(
over the same month in 1913, accord
ing to the reports Of George T. Mat
tingly, city license collector. The
amount collected by the license de.
partment during September, 1914, wa.
$294.S2, and the amount for Septem
Der, 1913. was $193.6S.
AT fellowship dinner held last night
in the Banquet hall Of the First Chris
tian church, the Baraca class elected
officers for the succeeding six months
as follows: President. G. E. Camp
vice. president. C.. w. Williams; secre-
tary, Byron Dempsey: assistant secre-
tary, L. H. Keightley; treasurer, r.. N
Spicer; chief chef, G. w. shimeall. ser.
geant-at-arms, F. E. Leatherman, and
r. L. Taylor. Robert E. Cunningham
to whom much credit due for the
growth and great success Of the class
una nu,nuS1v ra-e1ecfed teacher.