The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-11
SNAP SHOTS

Look up, the sky is glad,
Away with sorrow.
Trouble to the south doth add.
Lift up, God is glad.
Hope for the morrow.
There will be a meeting of the board
of directors of the Commercial club
tomorrow noon.
The Topeka Press club will hold
business meeting at the club rooms
Wednesday afternoon at O'Clock
The Knights and Ladies of Security
band will give the first of series OF
concerts at Chesney park, Wednesday
evening. An excellent program has
been arranged.
J. F. House, mayor, has received
a letter from j. 3. Walker, Elizabeth
town. KY, asking the mayor and po-
lice to help the writer find his brother,
M R. Walker, last heard of in Kansas
City.
The janitors and the office force OF
the school board are having ice cream
during the hot weather as the result
of the sale of hundreds of pounds OF
waste paper that have accumulated at
the high school.
The front entrance of the old Atclli-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe general office
building is drapcd in mourning today
in respect tc A. o. Wellman, assistant
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pany, who died Monday afternoon.
The City Federation of Clubs today
urged all persons in the garden con-
test to notify Mrs. Theodore Saxon as
soon as their gardens are ready for
inspection. Mrs. Saxon may be reach
ed over telephone 1909 blue. She will
direct the inspections
Male members of the Sunday school
of the First Christian church are en-
| PERTAINING the ladies this afternoon at
Gage park. Recently the women out
| distanced the men in a. membership
campaign and as a result the men are
entertaining with picnic today.
The Central Park Christian church
will give a reception Wednesday night
for the members of the church and
their friends in honor of r. P. Mac
Pherson, the pastor, who will preach
his last sermon in the church next
Sunday. He has accepted a call to
the First Christian church of Mac
Pherson, Kan.
Announcement was made Monday
| evening at a meeting of the Industrial
council that Louis F. Post, assistant
secretary of the department of labor
at Washington, D. c., will speak at
Topeka on Labor day. Mr.. Post is a
prominent labor leader. former
editor and a follower of Henry George.
the famous single tax advocate.
Jitney drivers here have found a
hole in the city's new ordinance gov
erning their activities and they are
| picking up passengers on Euclid ave
nue. with as much freedom as before
the ordinance became effective. Eu-
| cid avenue, from Boswell to Bowles,
carries a street car track but one-half
the street is outside the city limits
and not covered by the ordinance.
Following dinner at the Throop
hotel this noon, the COOPERATIVE club
adjourned for the remainder of the
summer. Only one other summer
meeting is planned and that is q pic
mic at Dick Hodgins' farm, the grove
of which has been named for the CO.
Operative club. In the fall the Co-Ops
will start out with talks by Justice
! Burch. DR. S. ]. Crumbine and Judge
A. w. Dana.
W. G. Tandy. street commissioner.
will ask a half-mill levy, the same as
in 1916 for bridge building in 1917
He asks for total of s57,1O0, the
same as in 1916, for his entire depart
ment, the street section to get
$43,600. Other commissioners are ex-
row or the latter part of this week. 1t
is not expected any of them will ask
for material increase.
ten-page bulletin, What Kansas
cities think of the League of Kansas
Municipalities" has been issued from
the league headquarters in Lawrence.
The bulletin for the most part, con-
tains testimonials of mayors and city
officials favorable to the league. The
opinion of J. E. House. mayor here,
which was expressed with considerable
frankness in a commission meeting
last week does not appear.
The body of Ora w. Lauck arrived
in the city Monday from Bouse, Ari-
iona, where Lauck was accidentally
killed in a mine accident. 1t was ac-
companied to Topeka by sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Orahood. Mr.. Lauck was
Al years of age. For many years he
live dwith his parents in Topeka. He
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. John A.
Lauck. Four sisters and two brothers
survive him. Burial will be in ST.
Marys, Kan, Tuesday.
The state Sunday school committee
of the Presbyterian church in Kansas
met today at the central Y. NJ. c. A. to
determine the course of study for the
next year in Presbyterian Sunday
schools over the state. The meeting
was addressed by DIR. S. r. Ferguson
of Cedar Rapids. Ia district super
intendent of publication for the
church in Iowa, Kansas and Missouri
and by DIR. G. c. Frecker of Kansas
City, district superintendent of educa-
ton.
Miss Ethel Houser, daughter Of En-
sign ana MIS- HCuSer, was married
last night at the Salvation Army hall.
to Leon f. Gear of Wichita, Kan. The
ceremony was performed by Brigadier
A. B. Pebbles of Kansas City. The
bridegroom is the treasurer of the
Salvation Army Corps of Wichie4. The
) hall, at 400 Kansas avenue, was dec
GRATED with palms and wedding bells.
Nearly $50 friends attended the we'd
ding Out of town guests were tie
bridgroom's mother from Wichita,
: and Captain McCullah from Junction
City.
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