The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-02

morning hand rail will be erected
on the steps in front of the building.
The athletic association of the To-
peka high school had to pay rent for
its football field for the fist time this
year. Previously the team has used
Washburn field but the conflicting
dates this fall made it necessary to
rent League park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Baxter and
child of Idaho Falls, Idaho, are in
Topeka for an extended visit to rela-
tives and friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Bax-
ter formerly lived in Topeka Mr.
Baxter is one of the big potato grow
ers of the idaho Falls district.
A bazaar lasting all day with sup
per at o'clock is being held at the
First Presbyterian church today. A
playlet, 1.-The Old Maids Convention"
is being put on afternoon and evening
by the women of the social circle,
coached by Mrs. Paul Walker.
Considerable cogitation was caused
among the officials at the Topeka
high school Wednesday morning when
a sign was found the bulletin
board announcing frat" meeting.
When the affair was run to earth it
turned out to be a practical joke.
An entertainment will be given to-
night at the Swedish Baptist church
by the ladies' society for the benefit
of the church's chndren's home at
New Britain, Conn. The pastor will
d
home Music will be furnished by the
ladies' society.
Plans are being made for a New
Year eve dance by the Court of Honor
The dance will be held at their hall
in Masonic temple. A three-piece
refreshments will be served. Business
will be suspended on that night as
well as on Christmas eve.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Earl Tanner of 1907
for Andover, Kan, where they will
make their future home. Mr.. Tanner
was formerly state manager of the Sc
curity Mutual Life Insurance company
here. He organized a state bank in
Andover recently and will assume the
cashiership.
Vocational cards asking about the
ambitions and aims of the students of
Topeka high school have been issued
and will be filled out this week. The
work is in charge of ]. F. Kaho, vo-
cationaI councillor, who will try and
see that the students get started in
the right channels in accomplishing
their aims.
Work, a Condition of Happiness
and Success is the title of an article
IN the Y. M C. A. magazine for De-
cember by the Rev. S. S. Estey of the
First Presbyterian church. 1t was
taken from an address he made IN
New York city last summer and is
run along with an article by Josephus
Daniels, secretary of the navy.
Basketball will be played for the
first time this winter in the high
school gymnasium and goals and
bleachers are being erected now for
the coming season 1t is expected that
the winter game will be a paying
proposition for the first time Pre-
viously football has been dependF
upon to car basketball and track
financially. The new bleachers will
seat two or three hundred.
Topeka Masons will go to Meriden
tonight to attend a Masonic banquet
given there by lodge No. 236. APP
proximately 100 Topekans will go ac
com panied by the Eastern Star orches-
ira and the Modocs. E. H. Ande rson,
A w Smith, William. M Shaver and
c. B. Reed will speak. The trip will
be made in automobiles, if possib
A prayer meeting for national pro-
hibition will be held by the Shawnee
County W. c. T. U. this afternoon
in the lecture room of the First Meth