The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-21
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The taking of the school census will
start June in the five districts of
the city.
The Association of State Rural Car
riers will hold a meeting at the state
house July 1920.
An exhibition will be held tonight
at the Central Park school from to 8
O'Clock The children Of the school
have charge of it.
The social which was to have been
held tonight at the Rochester school
house has been postponed week on
account of the weather.
Mrs Margaret Hill McCarter of To-
peka delivered the commencement
address at the Olathe high school.
She will speak at Caney tonight.
The exhibit of the work for the
year at Clay school was attended by
many of the parents and friends of
the pupils. Some excellent work was
on display.
Mrs. D. L. McEachron will speak
at the vesper service at the Y. W. C
A. Sunday afternoon on the subject,
The Work of the Association as /
Have Known IT.
One wholesaler in Topeka who deals
in lines has the entire trade in Kansas
covered. He has twenty dealers
handling lines for him, covering every
section of the state.
Looks like bright Saturday and a
great day for Topeka merchants me
rainy days have held up trade that
has been bursting for want OF
chance to materialize-
Senator John Denton of Grenola, has
beer, called to Marshall county by the
death of his brother. The senator
stopped off in Topeka Thursday on his
trip to Marshall county.
Rev. L. A. Harshman of Ottawa has
been appointed associate editor of
1.-The Kansas Synod Lutheran" which
is published in Atchison. Rev: M F.
Troxell of Topeka is the editor-in-
chief
A. Malmstrom, chief scale inspector
for the Santa Fe, left today for Wash
ington where he will attend the con-
vention of American Scalesmen's asso-
citation. He will be gone about two
weeks.
Arthur Maltby of Hutchinson passed
through Topeka on his way to Kan
sas City and stopped to visit at the
state house. where he formerly was at
tached to the attorney generals staff.
He is now practicing law in Hutchin-
son.
The record of the second annual
conference of Kansas Methodists has
been published by Rev. Edwin Locke,
secretary of the conference. 1t is a
100 page book and contains a COM
plete record of the business of the
conference.
A fair crowd, considering the rainy
weather. found it's way out last night
to see Miss Besse Dainty in Tess of
the Storm Country the bill with
which the company closes its engage
ment in Topeka, playing the last three
days of this week.
After delivering his lecture on the
cigarette evil at the high school as
sembly Thursday, Prof. w. A. Nc
Keever walked to the front of the
stage and slipping in the footlight pit
fell to the floor below, a distance of
five feet. He was uninjured.
Walter Clark and Marion JONES'
two young men who are walking to
Chicago to attend the International
Christian Endeavor convention, win
speak at the Third Presbyterian
church Sunday, May 80. The mixers
are holding reviVals all along the
route and they will spend a whole day
in Topeka.
William Merriam of Kansas City,
j. r. Ransom of Kansas City, Rev. H.
w. King of Topeka and Eugene l..
Bell of Oak Mills, Atchison county,
have been named by Governor Arthur
Capper to be members of the board
of trustees of Western university, the
colored school at Quindaro. All but
the first man mentioned are negroes.
The Pi Kappa Delta held an election
and initiation Thursday night at Bos-
well hall, Washburn college. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: PreSi-
dent, Arthur Beattie; vice president,
John Williams; secretary, Miss Flora
Carl Linge, Richard
Fighter, William Guild and Miss Irma
Erickson were initiated into the fra
terity.
Edith Guilky. colored, the 5 year
old wife of Earl Guilky, recently sent |
to the pen for stealing hogs from a
Union Pacific freight train, |
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