The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-12
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

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i The board of directors of the To-
peka Commercial club met today.
| The paved streets of Topeka have
been washed clean by the recent rains.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Barsmith have
left for business trip to Chicago and
New York.
The contract for the new building
| be let Monday.
Potatoes in home gardens which are
not we'll drained have been ruined by
| the recent rains.
Sheriff L. L. Kiene has been under
the weather for the past two days but
has managed to keep at work.
Children's day exercises will be
celebrated at the First United Breth-
rem church Sunday morning.
The w r. c. No. 81 Memorial serv-
ices which were to be held Monday
have been indefinitely postponed.
Routine business was transacted at
meeting of the board of directors of
the Central Y. NJ. c. A. Friday night.
A large number of persons-young
and old-have enrolled in the Central
T. M G. A. swimming classes which
started this week.
The First Baptist church Christian
Endeavor will meet tomorrow even
ing. Subject. "Christ's Call to the
Young Men of Today
The Clearinghouse Realty company
dwellings 1910 West Tenth avenue
and SIS Underwood avenue.
Flower gardens in Topeka where
the drainage is good are now in fine
condition Nasturtiums and sweet
peas are beginning to bloom.
P. S. Morrison, dentist, has fully re-
covered from his recent illness and is
giving full time to office appoint
ments. Office, 615 Mills Bldg.-Adv.
OF the ninety members of the June,
1915 class of Washburn college, nine
were members of the First Congrega-
tional church of Topeka.
DIR. w. c. McDonough has moved
his office to rooms 427-S New Eng
land building. Special attention to
stomach and intestinal diseases.-Adv.
The Clearinghouse Realty company
is constructing a $4,000 house at 1874
Western avenue. 1t will be two stories
high, and embrace many attractive
features.
There is fruit on the local market
in great neutrality-suspicious. buckle
berries, gooseberries, strawberries,
cantaloupes, pineapples and OF course
oranges and bananas.
The local crop of strawberries is
now practically gone If there is
more rain there will be no more fruit:
The recent heavy rains have played
havoc with the crop.
The Y. M. c. a. will have charge OF
the Christian Endeavor meeting to-
morrow evening at the Quinton
Heights church. Subject, "Chr1st's
Call to the Young Men of Today"
The Central Y. M. c. A. camp at
Maple Hill, scheduled for June 1925
has been postponed until August $40,
because of high water on Mill creek
and the unsettled atmospheric con-
ditions.
The Ladies' of the Grand Army in
vile Lincoln Post. Circle, Sons of Vet
Grams and Aid, TO Flag Day picnic
the afternoon of June IA at Garfield
Park All are requested to bring well
filled baskets.
The force at the local weather Of
flee was able to take things compare
lively easy today. Friday the phone
was kept busy by hundreds of per
sons who wanted to know about the
condition of the Kaw river. rs--t
THE Versions Of the Scriptures
the Georgian, Gothic, etc." will be the
subject of DR.. Arthur S. Henderson's
lecture to his bible class at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning at the First Con-
risOn streets.
Home grown cherries are now on
the local market selling at ten cents
a box or three boxes for a quarter.
and S1.75 crate Raspberries,
huckleberries and cantaloupes have
now made their appearance. They
are shipped from other points.
Marriage licenses were issued in the
probate court today as follows: Ell
ward E. Gam of Washington, D. c.,
and Miss Dolly Curtis of Topeka; Clay
H. Williams and Susie kouns, Topeka;
Roy z. Behner and Eva NJ. Metzger
of Willard, and Clyde G. Doel and
Bertha Lands, Topeka.
Rev. NJ. +. Troxell, pastor First
English Lutheran church, returned
from Atchison yesterday, where he at
tended the meeting of Midland college
trustees, and left today for Heringtop,
where he is on the program of the
Christian Endeavor state convention
for the opening sermon.
A Washburn coed has a younger
sister who will enter college next fall.
"If she can learn to dance between
will come to Washburn, but if she
doesn't learn to dance, she will go to
Baker university" is the way the
Washburn girl explained her sisters
selection of college.
cent song hit, is written by George w.
Topeka say the song is one of the
prettiest ever produced by a local
man. Ona May Miller, we'll known
Topeka vocalist, is singing the song
at places she visits over the state and
comment Las been favorable.
The waShouts on the Santa Fee OF
tawa cutoff and the Ottawa
branch were repaired last night and
the trains are now running on sched-
ule. Except for slow running be-
cause of soft tracks, thera was no
change in train service to Topeka to-