The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-15
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

| iting Miss Katherine Mullin, 1915
Jackson street. this week.
i The bowling alleys of the Railroad
Y. NJ. C. A opened Saturday night.
| Teams will be organized this week
E. R. Ford, pastor of the Wesleyan
Methodist church, will speak in the
new Santa F'e mill wednesday noon.
Miss Bess Pyle of Kansas State Ag-
ricultural college spent the week-en
with Miss Mary Mcfarland, 100 Har-
| rison street.
A conference of the officials of the
Railroad Y M. c. A will be held at 4
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Bible study
| on THE Life of Christ will follow the
| conference.
The parsonage of the German
Lutheran church at 21O Van Buren,
street has been remodeled, reprinted
and repaired.
literary and musical entertain
ment was given by The Oakland high
school at Prairie Home Saturday
night. The program was made up of
music and readings.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Shook, of Jen-
nings, Kan, are in Topeka visiting
| their son, S. j. Shook. G. w. Shook
was formerly editor and publisher of
| the Jennings Echo.
Gymnasium shoes are the only re-
| quirements for admission to the floor
at the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium
which will open tonight. 1t will be
open every evening of the week to
members.
The social room at the Railroad Y.
M. G. A. will open Tuesday night with
many new games, croquet, chess
checkers, dominoes, caroms, and
crokinole. Two new croquet tables
have been added.
Ida Collister of Minneapolis, Kan,
has put on the Christmas market a
unique calendar with a separate pase
for each week of the year. On each
page is an expression from a KAN
sas author or poet.
The gospel team of the Railroad
Y. NJ. G. A will meet at the building
tonight at o'clock There are TWEEN
ty-five men in the team and four of
them spoke at Walnut Hill Sunday
night, Roland Lawty, Williams, and
Reser.
MarShalrs band is contemplating
moving to new quarters. The band
has been located in the old German
American bank building for a number
of years and plars are being made to
find location elsewhere on Kansas
avenue.
Matt Weightman. candidate for the
Republican nomination for state
treasurer, returned to Topeka today
from trip to Ellsworth, Hutchinson
and Winfield, where he attended the
Bankers association.
Representatives of nearly every ma
tionality in the European war heard
M A. Wolfe, of Kansas City, secre-
Peace at the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. |
Sunday afternoon. Thirty-six people |
remained for the fellowship luncheon
Ohio T. Wood. United States mar
shall, left today for Belleville, Kan,
where he will get Alfred Oehler, who |
is being held on a white slave charge. |
Oehler will be taken to Lincoln, Neb., |
where he is charged with transporting |
HazeLDay from Lincoln to Bellevillc.
How Weather Forecasts Are |
dress by S. D. Flora, the Topeka |
weather man, at the Brotherhood |
meeting to be held at the Walnut
Grove Methodist church tonight at S |
o'clock. Refreshments will be served. |
SHOULD a Christian Attend the
Theater?" will be the subject of the
address that will be made Wednesday |
night by T. E. Prout to the Personal i
Workers class at the Railroad Y. M.
c. A. The subject for class work will |
quircr."
Announcement was made today to
the effect that examinations for
nurses under the civil service exami-
nations will be held in Topeka De-
cember Z. Nurses receiving success
full grades under the December ex-
aminations will be eligible for positions
as nurses in the state charitable in
St1tutIOnS.
La Homa B. Rulings. for the past
two years cornetist with Burk's ORA
matte Stock company, has arrived
home to spend about month He
was formerly connected with North
Brothers at the Majestic theatr. He
will likely join the Shipp and Feltus
circus early next year for a tour of
the West Indies, Panama, Central and
South America.
P. w. Griggs was elected chairman
of the general and executive commit
tees for the Bob Johnson meetings to
be held in January. F. N. Manshardt
was elected chairman of the cottage
committee to take the place
Of P. w. Griggs. The tabernacle will
be erected two weeks prior to the
and it is planned to have an
mmence force of men work on it and
put up the skeleton in a couple of
days.
Two consumptive brothers who
were canvassing, have been sent back
to Kansas City by the Provident asso-
citation. They were en- route to New
Mexico and had ridden the rods all
the way from Rochester. N. Y, SELL
ing novelties to make a living. They
were a menace to the health of the
said Louis Floyd, gen.
eral secretary, land had become al
most helpless when they reached To-
peka so we sent them to a Kansas
City hospital"
Mrs Lille mcdowell OF Topeka,
wife of w. E. Mcdowell, 1915 Hun
-oon street, has published in book
form 4 series of children'S stories I'M
der the title, 1.-The Stories I Told ;
Louise" Mrs Mcdowell has in this
way put into print many of the tales
that the children like to hear and it is
written in a readable way for those .
who have just learned to spell out
words. This book, which has beer J
very favorably mentioned, has no big
words" The author is selling the /
book for SO cents, plus six cents post