The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Tom Powell will be In chicago next
week on business.
The board of directors of the Cen
trail Y. NJ c. A. will elect officers at
$50 o'clock next Tuesday evening
The meeting was postponed from Fri
day evening
The Temperance society of the
Methodist Episcopal church, with
Headquarters at Topeka, has put out
what is called 1.-The Pocket Cyclope-
dia of Temperance"
The Rev. Joseph p. Hicks and Gill
bert Fenton of Topeka will be among
the speakers at the twen-y-fourth an
nuaI convention of the Fourth Dis
trict Christian Endeavor Union at La
Harpe. May 81 and 2S-
Miss Agar, superintendent of Stor
mont hospital, will speak to the To-
peka high school girls next Monday
afternoon at 2:3O O'Clock on 'Prepa-
ration and Equipment fer Becoming
a Trained Nurse
The Kansas Rural Mail Carriers will
meet in representative hall July 10
and 20. An attendance of between
three and four hundred Is expected.
w. A. Cox, secretary of the Cham
Der of Commerce of Norfolk, Va, has
written TO the secretary of the To-
peka Commercial club, asking him to
furnish a list of persons or concerns
who import or export or who might
wish to import or export from or to
countries bordering on the Mediter-
ranean sea. This information is
wanted in connection with a new line
which is to be established between
Norfolk and Mediterranean ports.
J. Will Kelley, secretary of the
Commercial club, announced today
that the towns at which stops will be
made on the auto trade trip to Wa
mego and return June s, are as fol-
lows: Silver Lake, Rossville, ST. Marys,
Belvue, Wamego, Paxico, Maple Hill,
Willard. and Valencia.
John Kleinhans, chairman of the
Topeka Boosters association, COM
posed of travelling men, and jobberS
and manufacturers, announced today
that the second annual banquet of the
organization will be held Christmas
week and that elaborate preparations
will be made for the event
Suit for divorce was commenced in
the district court today by Bess NJ
Downs against Jerry Downs. well
known ball player, and once Il mem
Der of the Topeka ball. Downs is now
playing in the Pacific Coast league
Mrs. Downs has lived for several
months with relatives in this city
A 1O-pound daughter was born Fri
day, May 81, at Stormont hospital, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Scott. of 335 Taylor
street.
Miss Zoe Atchison, state secretary
of the Y. p. B., will speak tomorrow
afternoon at 2:3O O'Clock at the Kan
sas avenue Methodist church. sun
day evening she will speak at the
Rochester school house, north of the
city. Monday evening she has been
engaged to speak at the Central Park
Christian church.
There will be a special meeting to-
night at Lincoln Post hall at o'clock
to arrange for Memorial services. The
members and especially the Sons of
Veterans are invited. w. w. Smith,
post commander; J. NJ. Miller, adult
ant.
The Jews in Egypt and the Sep
tuagint Version of the Scriptures.
will be the subject of Dr. Arthur S.
Henderson's lecture to his Bible class
tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock at
the First congregational church at
Seventh and Harrison streets.
Rev. Ralph Ward will preach at
the Gage park school house tomor-
row evening at o'clock. The ser
mon will be illustrated with the ster-
eopticon.
Suit for $3.O15.54 on an alleged ac-
count for goods sold and delivered to
United States district court with Mort
A1baugh, clerk, by the John Deere
Plow company, against H. d. Clayton.
Thomas L. Buie of Colorado will
speak on "War-ItS Cause, Cost and
Prevention at Garfield park Sunday
afternoon at 8 o'clock. He will also
touch upon Remedies of the Ills OF
Society,"
DIR. f. L. Loveland of Portland
Ore, and formerly of Topeka, will
preach at the First Methodist church
Sunday morning. DR.. Benjamin
Young will preach in the evening on
Victory Out of Defeat" showing
how some men have won who have
struggled against great odds.
Memorial Day will be observed Sun
day, May 80, at the First Methodist
church. DIR. Benjamin Young will de-
liver a sermon appropriate to the oc-
casion. Members of the G. A. r. and
Sons of Veterans will be present. The
Rev. John Waldron will preach at the
church Sunday evening, as DIR. Young
will deliver the baccalaureate sermon
at Campbell college.
The Commercial club is certainly an
active institution these days, and 1
must confess that L have never seen
1t in such general operation for the
last five years. New life seems to
have sprung into the business men of
the town, beginning with September,
and the work being performed by the
members of the club for the good of
the town, is certainly all inspiring and
1t is unfortunate that more of the citi-
Gems of the city could not witness that
unselfish devotion to their interests
Charles S. Elliott, president of Com
mercial club, in Commercial Club Bull
letin.
The May issue of the Commercial
Club Bulletin is off the press On the
front page is a cut made from an un-
usual photograph showing the Kaw
river by moonlight. The issue prob
ably will be the last one until next
September.
The free fair is something new in
state fair circles, and if. it proves the
success expected, it is likely that other
big fairs will adopt the system. The
plan will give Topeka some excellent
advertising throughout the country
Commercial Club Bulletin.
Frank Smith is booked at the police