The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

ninger met this morning at the Y. w.
c. A.
The Elks will rehearse tonight at
the Eiks club for their big minstrel
| show.
/ Cafeteria Luncheon and Turkey
Dinner at the First Presbyterian
church Wednesday.-Adv
| A meeting of the Friendly Visitors
| of the Provident association will be
held this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
A candy sale is being conducted at
| the Y. w. c. A. by the Okansee camp
fire girls of the Topeka high school
The Personal Workers class of the
| Railroad Y. M. c. A. will meet We'd
nesday night at O'Clock Secretary
I. E. Prout will lead.
Bowling will feature the social room
activities at the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A
tonight Pickup teams have been
playing one another getting ready for
tournament
Christmas exercises at the English
Lutheran church will be decided upon
this evening at meeting Of the
teachers and officers Of the Sunday
school
A membership committee banquet
of the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. Will be
given this evening at the association
building for the forty-one members
and their wives.
DIR. Cyrus A. Nusbaum made an adj
dress at the Santa Fe sheds today
noon lie mas Deen re-
vival services at the Lowman Hill
Methodist church.
The English class for Mexicans will
hold a session at the Branner school
Wednesday evening. Mrs E. J. Gala
han, of the Provident association, will
instruct.
Girls from 8 to 16 years old will
learn the rudimentals of housewifeIry
at the Provident association saturday
afternoon at o'clock. The class is
to be organized as a club.
Annual memorial services for all
lodges of the Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order of Elks were held at the
Elk club Sunday afternoon. Topeka
lodge No. 204 held the services.
The Washburn Glee club concert
which was to have been given the first
of this week has been postponed until
some time in January. Too many
other events are taking place at the
college.
Vacation for Topeka high school
students will begin December II at
2:30 o'clock and last for two weeks.
The length of the holiday was decided
upon at a meeting of the school board
last night.
Scott Hopkins, who returned Mon
day from the east, says that Asso-
ciate Justice Hughes is the man the
fasteners expect to lead the Repub
lican party in 1916. It's Hughes eV-
erywhere," he says.
Containing fifty pages. the largest
number ever put out, the Topeka High
cember II. Considerable stress is be-
ing put upon the reporters to get in
enough copy to fill the paper.
The principal address at the Wash
burn vesper services Sunday will be
made by the Rev. S. S. Estey, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church. /
Sundays services will be the Christi H
mas services with special music.
The Thanksgiving offerings taken
up in the Topeka churches eat the I
union meetings were equally divided /
between the Provident association and I
the Crittenton home at the ministerial +
Monday morning. Collections I
amounted to more than SSc.
Pictures of eighteen football men /
will adorn the football special edition +
of the Washburn Review which will t
be published this week. A complete /
review of the season will be given. /
Edwin Menninger is editor and Har-
wood Benton is sporting editor of the |
Review.
The women's cooking class will take
it's second lesson Thursday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock at the Provident asso
citation. Cooking is not to be the sole
topic of instruction in future lessons
and the women will learn all types of
house work, from scrubbing 10 wash
ing the baby.
The Ford car which was stolen
from the garage of Mrs. D. L. Shu-
mate, =27 Clay street, last week has
been found and returned to the owner
by Hugh Larimer, undersheriff and L.
L. kfene, sheriff. The machine was
found in an alley. 1t evidently had
been borrowed by joy riders
The following officers were elected
Monday night at a meeting of the
Shawnee County Medical association:
Dr.. T. c. Biddle, president; DR.. Milton
Y. Miller, vice president; Dr. A. K.
NJ I {
treasurer, and DR.. Walter Wedding,
'ensor.
Edward Rooney of the law firm of +:
curtis. Mote, Rooney & Crossley of
Topeka, has gone to Omaha where he {
Will defend Arthur Houser, charged {
With the murder of NJ. H. Smith, late
rational treasurer of the Woodmen of
he World. Eouser is scheduled to go {
m trial in the district court today at {
omaha.
aunder clothes properly is planned to !
,e organized this week at the Provi- !
lent association. Efficiency will be .
he wash word" says Mrs. Lillian H
doore. This class is to be kept sep : :
rate from the washerwomen who .
ring their washing weekly to the ;
ssoctation tubs.
Dean and Mrs. Harold Butler, cf
Kansas university entertained at as
emily, at Topeka high school this
iOl HllS- lean Tie ASetu %
he fine arts school, sang Danny
beaver" and Irish, German, negro ( {
nd battle songs. He Was accom-
anied by Miss Remley. Mrs. But
er gave several readings.
A two story house, at 1925 Fillmore
treet, owned by John Barrett was
artially destroyed by fire early last
light. The damage amounted to about c
ESQ The fire started about 1880 I t
clock. Joseph Hanlon, city fire chief, v
unable to state the cause of the @
ire but believes that it might have
cen incendiary. He will put the mat
er before the state fire marshal S
Ten teams of men will make an a
very member canvass of the congre- a
nf "a lirl,