The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-02
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AT HOME NEwa

The Y. w. c. A. girls and their
| friends will indulge in picnic in
Gage park July 5.
Sporting note from the police sta =
| ton: Chief Parsons defeated A. c.
| Bartel, assistant city attorney, in an
| exciting checker. game this morning.
DR.. Arthur S. Henderson of the First
! Congregational church will preach i'll
Muscoath sunday evening and also
make the address at the Fourth of
July celebration the next day.
Ninety-two couples obtained mar
riage licenses in the probate court of
Shawnee county in the month of June
JUST ended. This was more than four
times the number OF divorces applied
for in the sa me time.
A new club has been formed at the
Young Women's Christian association
which will meet on Thursday even
ings. The members are Miss Marguer-
lite Peterson, Miss Nora Resinger, Miss
Hattie Jacobson, Miss Florence Fogel-
quist Miss Fay BES'ins aPd Miss Ardls
Wolverton. This Giubs rs under the
supervision of Miss Daisy Neil and
Miss Helen Shirk
Swimming is popular at the Y. W.
c. A. these days. Last Tuesday even
ing there were go in the pool. Every
saturday afternoon a nickel swim is
provided. The pool will be closed at
D 80 Monday afternoon, the legal hOl-
iday. A swimming contest is to be
held late in August or early in Sep
tcmber and an announcements of the
various events will be made soon.
The subjects of Rev. Robert Cor
don's sermons on the Sunday mornings
during July are as follows: July 4.
The Church and the Nation, or Pa
triotism That Counts July IL, 1.-THE
Church and Its Cost, or What One
Gave for Faith" July Is, "The Church
and It's Mission, or an Enthusiasm for
I'll
It's Growth, or the Ageressiveness Of
Faith
Residents of Fillmore street are
making objections because Two houses
that are supposed 10 be moving are
remaining stationary. one is at
thsre for four days. Another is at
King and Fillmore. The latter moved
Il few yards last night Automobile
drivers are forced to duck down side
streets to make any Roadway toward
Kansas avenue.
The Sunday school of the Swedish
Bethel church will have picnic Mon
day, July 5, on the Washburn campus.
The families will provide lunch and
dinner will be served to all members
of the Sunday school. In the after
noon games will be played and prizes
given. Edwin Carlson, superintendent
of the Sunday school, is planning to
make the outing attra ctive and it is
expected that the picnic will draw a
large crowd
Two former city auditors of Cincin-
natl ate luncheon together at the To-
peka Commercial club. They were
Captain c. H. Titus of Topeka. former
election commissioner, who was audi
tor of the southern Ohio metropolis
forty-five years ago, and W. c. Gull
kins, now executive secretary of the
Cincinnati chamber of commerce and
city auditor only q few years ago. Mr..
Culkins accompanied The Cincinnati:
boosters who stopped off in Topeka en-
route to the Pacific coast.
The first of the union services for
the central part of the city will be held
First Methodist church. The pastors
of the First churches will lake part in
the services. Rev. o. l.. Cook, pastor
of the First Christian church, will de-
liver the sermon. The churches unit
ing in the meetings during July and
August are the First Ba ptist, First
Christian, First Congregational, First
Lutheran, First Methodist, First Pres
byterian and First United Presbyter-
ian.
Nine one-day-old coyotes were de-
clerk, by Sam Maupin, who lives in the
southwest corner of the county in tn.
Wakarusa valley. Maupin discovered
them when he stumbled into a shallow
hole in a pasture where their dam had
left them. He said the old coyote cir
cled around him while he was carry
ing away her young but did not offer
to attack. He claimed and received
the bounty of s1.00 az head on the
young ones One of them was still
alive when delivered but was killed to
comply with the state law.