The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

New potatoes are Selllng as low is
five cents pound IN Topeka today.
The regular May meeting of the
board of directors of the Commercial
club was held at noon today.
j. A. Stewart, general passenger
agent of the Rock Island, is in Den
mess.
The Brotherhood of the Central
Congregational church held a meeting
at noon today at the Central Y. NJ.
c. A.
Miss Hildur Nygren, stenographer
to Joseph Hanlon, chief of the fire de-
partment, is off duty on account of
n1umps
In connection with the safety first
campaign by the motorcops, Ben Hill
was picked up Friday evening for
speeding.
John Holm was arrested at the Rock
Island depot Friday night by Officers
Strum and Alba and booked at the po-
lice station for drunkenness.
The Central Y. NJ. C. A. tennis
courts at the corner of Tenth avenue
and Lane street should be in good con-
dition for play by the first of next
week.
R. c. Obrecht, proprietor of the
peka, was lat home this afternoon.
A large number of Topekans visited
the farm.
The Bible school of the Third Chris
tan church will hold a meeting Tues
day evening. A literary and musical
program will be given and refresh
ments will be served.
The Modoc club held rehearsal
at the Commercial club quarters
Friday night The club has made sew
eral successful entertainment trips
recently to neighboring towns.
The contract for the construction of
a $4,000 frame residence in Potwin
for Mrs. Mary Andrews was award
ed this week to H. S. Douglas j. c.
Holland & Son were the architects.
| W. L. Porter, city commissioner of
parks went no lie i'll Thursday and
| was not able to be at his desk today.
His son has measles and it is feared
| that Porter is also victim of the con-
| tagion.
F. A Derby will build an $4,000
Ninth street and Western avenue.
The contract was awarded to George
H. Gurtler. Sargent & Gasson will
handle the stone work.
A meeting of the Melrose Tennis
club was held Friday night at the
David G. Page residence, sol Linden
wood avenue. 1t is expected that this
will be an active season for the club,
which was organized last year.
A full attendance is expected at the
special luncheon that will be ten
dered at the Commercial club quar-
tiers Monday noon in honor of Herbert
S. Houston, vice president of the Dou-
bleday-Page company, publisher of
The Worlds Work. Mr.. Houston will
speak on world Peace"
Edward Adams Cantrell, national
lecturer for the National nationalist
association, will lecture at the Audi
forum Sunday afternoon at o'clock
on 1.-The Inner Secret of the European
War: Some Facts That Few Statesmen
Have Yet Dared to Publish This
lecture will be free to the public.
Special meetings are in progress at
the Pentecostal Church of the Nazar-
enc, ITO Buchanan street. The dis
trict superintendent, Rev. H. M
Chambers is doing the preaching.
There will be three services Sunday
IL M, p. m. and p. m.-and
preaching each night through the
week.
Architects ]. c. Holland & Son of
Topeka have nearly completed plans
and specifications for $4,000 Ma
sonic Temple to be built at Herring
ton for the Masonic lodge. Ray
the building committee. 1t will be
of brick and stone construction.-The
Construction News.
DR.. Arthur S. Hendersons Bible
class, by special invitation, will meet
with the brotherhood Bible class of
the First Presbyterian church Sunday |
at $50 a. m. at the First Presby-
terrain church. The subject under con-
sideration will be 1.-The Friendship of
David and Jonathan" DR.. Hender- |
sons class will meet at their room at |
500 m.
Wallace c. Richardson. of New |
York City, president of Wallace c.
Richardson, inc, representatives of z |
farm papers scattered throughout the |
country. was in Topeka today on bust !
ness. Mr.. Richardson is visiting AL
bert T. Reid, president of the Kansas |
Farmer company. The Topeka publ |
cation is one of the papers which |
Mr. Richardson represents.
The mayor and members of the |
city commission are considering hav- |
ing the ordinances of the city COM
piled. The matter may be up for |
consideration at the regular meeting |
case favorable action is taken w. c. |
Ralston, ex-city attorney, being most |
familiar with the ordinances of the |
city. probably will be employed to
do the work.
April, 1915, was in nearly every
respect an ideal spring month for
crops in all parts of Kansas, accord
ing to the reports of 125 weather
bureau stations in different parts of
the state. There was no freezing
weather after the first three days and |
it averaged the warmest April on |
record, except in 1896, and had more !
moisture than any other April the
state has experienced in the last 5 |
years.
Edward Adams C-ntreIl, a chautau-
qua and lyceum lecturer, and DIR. w. |
H. Boles, a platform orator who has
championed the prohibition and wom-
an suffrage causes, will engage in a
series of debates at the Auditorium
next week beginning Monday and con-
Guiding Saturday night. The subject |
for Monday night: Resolved, That |
the Protestant clericalism, with it's |
dogma of an infallible book, is as great |
menace to freedom of thought as is |
Ca hnlic clerica liSrn with its dogma of |