The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-23
in NORTH Topeka
North Side Y. w. G.. A. Is Ready
to Open for Business.
A Revival of the Civic Club Is
Under Consideration.

The North Topeka Y VIC A under
the direction of Mrs. E. c. Seger has
completed its organization and is ready
to open for business. Petitions We're
circulated during the summer and one
hundred women have Joined. Glasses
are being organized and viii be ready
to take up regular work about the
time of the opening of school These
classes and the general work of the
association will be carried on from
Quincy school building to which use
the board of education has consented.
Besides classes in gym work. bible
study, and branches of domestic
science, any course can BE- organized
and provided with an instructor, for
which ten or more people have sig
nified desire. While the member
ship at present is one hundred. the
ladies intend to increase the member
ship during the fall to at least 15O
The prospects for success are very
| encouraging.
To Revive Civic Club.
The North Topeka Civic Club is an
organization which, in the past, has
done a great deal of good ir the way
of encouraging public improvements.
| The Club has had a membership of
210. Formerly meetings were held
often. The White Way On the North
Side was result of the Clubs efforts
| The past year however there has been
i
call for meetings 1t has now been
suggested that the condition of the
North Side roads, which has been the
subject of agitation for years, might
profitably attract the attention of the
club. A concerted movement by such
a well organized body, it is thought
| might lead TO some definite and need
Ell action. The need for a rest room
which has been urged a long time
without result. might well receive the
1
women north of town are circulating
q petition asking for it an5 it is felt
that the club might give its consider
alton to the business possibilities of
the proposition
Notes and Personals.
Victor council No. 4, Knights and
Ladies of Security, will hold its weekly
air instead of in the hall The mem
bers are asked to meet at the hall at
| 1000 Kansas avenue at 7.30 p m.
Thursday, bringing lunches with them
They will take the car to Gage park.
will eat supper there and hold the reg
ular meeting afterward in the open.
| DIR. NJ Z. Mccoy, who recently re-
| turned from a year and a half stay at
Rushing. Ark. will open dental par
| lors at 827 Kansas avenue. Doctor
Mccoy practiced in North Topeka pre-
vious to his removal to Arkansas
/ The Elmont Sunday school will give
an ice cream social and entertainment
Friday evening, August %. 1t Will be
held at the Elmont church The pro-
ceeds will be used for the benefit OF
the Sunda- school
! c. A. Marker, the manager OF the
Topeka Creamery. leaves today Tor a
Decatur, ILL.,, and at st. Louis. Mo MI
Marker intends to make the run 10
Decatur in three days He recently
drove his car from Riley. Kan. to To-
peka, a distance of eighty-six miies'
. in three hours and fifty minutes on
w. L. Fulkerson has moved from
function city to North Topeka He
will reside at 1884 Quincy. He 10 an
employe of the Union Paciric-
The union prayer meeting VIII De
held Thursday evening at the Kansas
| Avenue Methodist church The Rev.
I. Herbert Jones will preside
Mrs. G.. E. Allen and her son. M
iC Allen. returned Tuesday evening
/ from Wichita, where they spent a few
days.
Frank Ward, fell from a wheelbarrow
while playing Tuesday and fractured
a bone in her shoulder. She was tax
en- to a local hospital today
John Foley, Quenemo, Usage coEn-
ty. has purchased the Beuchner home,
/ 425 Grant street Mr.. Foley took the
property as an investment ana VIII not
/ make his home there
/ Miss Martha Francis of st. Claire
returned today to her home after a
two weeks visit to Mrs Z. @. Messen-
ger. lib Van Buren, street
p. B. Alexander from north OF
town has moved to 1927 Quincy.
The Senior B. Y P. U. of the North
| Topeka Baptist church will give an ice
cream social Saturday afternoon and
evening. August 2s. at s33 North Kan
/ sas ayenue.-Ady.
The marriage of Mr.. William
Schwartz and Miss Silvia Terry wai