The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-03
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


One hundred or more Topeka high
school students failed TO return today.
being i'll with grip.
Mrs. Mortimer Gragg. 1405 East
Tenth street, will entertain the Yes
puccian club Tuesday.
Miss Bertha Clay entertained a few
friends at her home at PIG Huntoon
street Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs VIM Jacobs, 1923
Garfield street, are the parents of
daughter. born December 81.
An invitation has been extended to
all the pastors and churches in Topeka
to join in the Bob johnson revival
The regular monthly meeting of the
Topeka board of education will be
held this evening at the high screol-
Work is TO be resumed this evening
by the night school classes of the Rail-
road Y. NJ. C. a. after a two weeks
vacation
Contrary to rule, when the city
commission adjourned this morning it
Adjourned TO meet Wednesday instead
of Thursday morning
The committee of management of
the Railroad Y. NJ. C. A will hold a
business meeting at the building
Wednesday at $50 o'clock
y meeting of the sub senior class
of the Topeka high school was held
on the reception for the seniors.
Principal A. J. Stout of the Topeka
high school IS just recovering from 4
bad attack of the grip which has chung
to MIN throughout the holidays
Mrs. E. ]. Callahan, assistant secre-
tary of the Provident association, re-
turned to work this morning after an
illness OF two weeks with the grip
A petition calling for the vacation
n he Polk
streets from Eighth to Ninth was APP
proved by the city commission today
Mr.. and Mrs. Obey Weaver of sedg-
wick. Kan. spent a few hours in To-
peka Sunday visiting newspaper
friends Mr.. Weaver is editor of the
Sedgwick Paragraph
Early adjournment of the Railroad
Y NJ c. A membership committee
Tuesday evening will permit the mem
bers to attend the dedication of the
Bob johnson tabernacle.
Mrs. J. NJ. McCarty and daughter
Airline have returned to their home in
Kansas City, Mo- after a visit with
Mrs McCartys parents. Mr.. and Mrs
C. NJ Herring, 404 Orchard avenue
The final straw was added TO the
pocketbooks of the Topeka high school
seniors at their meeting this afternoon
TO collect for invitations The prox-
unity of Christmas and graduation
constitutes a white mans burden for
them.
At the Ministerial association meet
ing this morning al the First Presby
terrain church, the Rev. E H. Emmett,
orga nicer for the evangelist, Bob John
son, spoke. The revival is to be made
an aII-Topei1a affair instead of for the
East side.
Miss Hannah Abrahamson, for
twenty years missionary TO India, will
Tar 4
the Swedish Bethel church. Meeting
will be held at the Seventh Day Ad-
ventfst church, Western avenue and
Fifth street
The company of nine people accom-
panying Bob johnson, the evangelist
will arrive tomorrow to take part in
the dedication exercises in the new
tabernacle on Fourth street Bob
Johnson will not arrive until Wsdnes-
day morning
Robert E Cunningham and wife
left today for Washington, where Mr.
Cunningham will become assistant
secretary to Charles Curtis, United
States senator. Cunningham was for
mcrly stenogra pher for Chief Justice
W A Johnston
Miss Louise Fleming and Miss Mary
K Murphy. Topeka high school teach
ers were unable to resume their du-
ties this morning on account OF sex
au- of school for some time with the
grip returned today
January directories are being deliv-
cred today by the Bell Telephone COM
pany. There were I0.02S copies print
ed pra cticaIly all of which go TO res
ideIts of Shawnee county Fourteen
hundred were mailed The book has
increased by 200 names
The holiday exodus of students from
home commenced Sunday and VIII
continue until the middle of the week
when the last will get back to school
From 40 to so boys and girls left To-
peka for Kansas State Agricultural!
college and Kansas university.
Intense suffering was undergone by
patients in a Topeka hospital duril.,
the holidays. Nistletoe decorations
were left hanging after Christmas in
convenient places, but in spite OF It's
most of the patients could not move
Organized charity was victimized re-
Gently when Louis Floyd loaned
masculine trained nurse IS on a fine
gold watch The trained nurse need
ed money to get to Kansas City ana
applied at the Provident association.
The watch looks like a 500 timepiece
and is worth probably 80 cents.
A combination Kaleidoscope and
stereopticon which will illustrate lee
lures and sermons has been planned
by the Rev. A s Henderson. pastor OF
the First Congregational church. Mr..
Henderson figures on illustrating
many talks that he could never get the
slides for from his private library. He
strongly believes in illustration as an
aid in a lecture
Offices for Bob Johnson. the evan
geIist, have been furnished by the