The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-29
i'm NORTH Topeka
Branch of the Y. W. C.. A.. Is
Planned for North Side.
Druggists Will Close Their
Stores Sunday Afternoons.

The women of North Topeka are
| circulating petitions to arouse interest
in creating a North side branch of the
Y. w. c. A. For some time the need
has been felt for a rest room which
| may be used by farmers wives, girls
] who work, and women downtown
shopping. The school board has
agreed that if interest is sufficiently
general it will permit the use of sew
the present prospects North Topeka
viii soon have the much needed
| branch.
Fire in Kansas Avenue.
| A fire started at 7:2O this morning
in one of the rooms above the Rrin-
| cess theater at 834 Kansas avenue.
Ralph Palmer left his room for a few
minutes. and when he. returned the
oil stove which he had left alight
was in flames. A mattress caught fire,
but quick work by the chemical crew
: of state No. l prevented the flames
| spreading and only slight damage was
done.
Druggists VIII Close.
North Topeka druggists have agreed
! to close their stores on Sundays from
1 to 6 p. M, giving clerks the after
noon off. They will be open in the
morning and evening as usual.
Church Notices.
|
church will hold its regular Sunday
morning service. The Rev. J. A.
Scheer will preach on walking With
Cod
At the Central Avenue Christian
church, the Rev. j. H. Jones will oc-
cupy the pulpit during the Sundays of
August. He will hold his first service
there tomorrow morning. Doctor
Jones is from Ladoga, Ind.
The Rev. Joseph P. Hicks of the
| Second oh iS r.
ing it his rule during the summer
months to limit sermons to twenty
minutes. He will preach Sunday on
the Greatest Question"
The service at the Baptist church
will be conducted by the Rev. w. G.
Handley. He will preach on 1.-The
Key and the Kingdom"
Sunday evening a union service of
all the churches will be held at the
Christian church. The Rev. Mr..
Scheer of the Methodist church will
talk on Union"
The East Indianola Sunday school
holds its service at 10 o'clock Sunday
morning. w. E. Brehm, state super
intendent of Congregational churches
of Kansas, will deliver the sermon.
Notes and Personals.
George Frisbe, county treasurer OF
Jefferson county, returned to his home
today in Oskaloosa from a business
trip to the city.
/ II. j. t1dIndWay OF the InOndS
Lumber company will return from
Estes Park. Col, Monday.
Mrs. Hiram Fisher, 500 Quincy
street, has gone to Alexandria, s. D..
to visit relatives.
Vote for Dave Wallace, Republican
candidate for county superintendent, q
North side man who has always made
good.-Adv.
The funeral of J. F. Matchett, 1901
Van Buren, street, will be held Sunday
afternoon at Prairie Home church.
F. o. Morns and his family will re-
turn Sunday from the North Topeka
Outing club camp at Maple Hill.
E. S. Meade, employed in the North
| side postoffice. has been ill at his
home the past two weeks.
An ice cream social will be given al
Shorey schoolhouse Monday evening
for the benefit of the Sunday school.
Mrs. C. E. Segar will return next
week from a visit to friends at Abb
lenc.
| John Boggs of Washburn college
will preach at Lyman school house
iInne diately after Sunday school July
80. Mr.. Boggs has been in missionary
service in the Hawaiian Islands and
will offer something interesting. Spe-
cial music.