The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-26
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AT HOME NEWS

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The first of the Y. w. c. A, vesper
service series will be held Sunday,
October 8.
w. H WATSON, commissioner of
finance, 1857 Clay street. is suffering
from a relapse of hay fever.
Officers for the year will be elected
at the special meeting of the high
school athletic association at assem-
bly, hour tomorrow.
Smoke from a chimney of the Lux
merca nti1e plant early last night was
responsiblef or a useless run of head
quarters fire companies.
l. N williams, former representa-
tive from Sedgwick county, was a To-
peka visitor Monday Mr.. Williams IS
Ia candidate for county attorney.
N H Wolff, state deputy of the
Woodmen of the World, received
visit Monday from Orson Stiles. sec
rotary to the sovereign commander.
A zephyr of patriotism blew three
youths into the list of recruits at the
local station last week. Three others
are awaiting permission to join the
army.
Miss NJ. Francis Cross. field secre-
tary for the Y w. c. A. with head
quarters in Denver was in Topeka to-
day to confer with officers of the local
| association.
The local news staff of the Univer-
sity Daily Kansan at Lawrence, re-
Gently was augmented by the addition
of Fred Rigby of Topeka, son of W.
o. Rigby, postmaster.
An entertainment committee to ar
range for a winter series of programs
to be given November 10 to April 10.
will have meeting at the Railroad
Y. NJ. C. A. Wednesday evening.
The new traffic ordinance is being
tft1x nm X
but the provision governing speed and
noise while running past a hospital
isn't receiving much consideration
Registrations for Mrs. Menninger's
bible study courses poured in all day
today at the Y. w. G. A. The first
meeting of her class will be held
Tuesday evening, October 3. at
| o clock.
Preparations for the organization
of Bible classes and special meetings
this winter will be made by reli-
gious committee to meet Tuesday eve
ming at s o'clock ia the railroad Y.
M. c. a.
a free musical concert was rendered
Monday night by the Norden Benefit
association in the a. o. u w. hall. \
male chorus and women's quartet
received applause from the audience
for the numbers they furnished.
The game next Sunday for the anna
teur baseball championship of the
state. to be played between the New
ton Santa Fes and the Topeka Ideal
bakery team will bring a crowd of
100 rabfd fans from Newton.
| w. W. Bowman, secretary of the
Kansas Bankers association, and his
entire office force left Monday to at
tend the American Bankers associa-
ton in session in Kansas City, Mo.
| 7 he local office is closed this week.
| A reception was given last night by
members of the Reformed Presbyter-
| ian church at the S. l. McClelland
of the Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Mitchell
and the Rev. ]. X. kodd, Chinese mis-
sionarieS.
Helen Roudebush, IS, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. z. H. Roudebush, is re-
covering rapidly from injuries sus-
! tanned during fair week, when she was
S., knocked down by an automobile. She
| has been removed from ST. Francis
| hospital to her home q rt
| Manhattan will soon sport New
| Toggery store. according to an an
nouncement made by !. s. Galitsky,
proprietor of the New Toggery in To-
peka. Similar stores in which Mr..
Galitsky is interested are situated at
Lawrence and St. Joseph.
A band of jefferson and Leaven-
worth county farmers drove into To-
! Deka the other day IN automobiles
! They had anything but kind words for
Shawnee county reads and declared
! the roads in their county easily sur
/ passed those in Shawnee.
Dean Horace Whitehouse of Wash
| burn college will call a meeting of the
! Topeka Musical Art society this week
! for the purpose of making plans for
| the presentation of the Messiah. Civ
en- each year in the auditorium. Other
matters of interest are to come before
/ the society.
| Sunday, October /, Hugh E. Smith
| of Los Angeles. one of the best known
evangelists of the Methodist Episcopal
i church. will commence series OF
meetings at tie Lowman Memorial
church. DIR. Smith is not stranger
| to Topeka having been at the First
| Methodist church for several weeks a
! few years ago.
Miss Eleanor Woodburn of the Kan
sas Bankers association IS attending
/ the American Bankers association
i convention at Kansas City this week.
A party for the high school girls
club of the Y w. c. A. was given at
the association building this afternoon.
Shadow playets" provided the enter
| tainment for the afternoon.
Benefits of affiliation with the Kan
sas Federation of Labor were DESERT ed
| Monday night by H. A johnson. presi-
dent of the federation and state organ
| izer. in addresses before members of
| the sheet metal workers. painters,
1 decorators and retail clerks unions.
Mr.. johnson will speak tonight to the
/ carpenters and brick masons. From
| Topeka he will go to Hutchinson.
The husband of Goldie Irving did
not arrive from Kansas City Monday
sa the police released her and her
Mexican lover. Mrs. Irving was picked
up by the local police on request
| from Kansas City. she said she and
/ her husband parted two years ago.
| She admitted living under the same
roof with a Mexican at different times
since. She said the Latin was good
| to her.
A membership contest between the
| Railroad Y. NJ. c. A of Canada and
1.-THE one of the United States will take