The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-30
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

u l.. MitcheH Is IN the east On DuSi-
ness.
Despite the chilly Gather Topeka's
tennis fans are still playing.
Dancing class (S to 81, social g to
12), tonight at Kellam Halliday.
The Topeka central W. C. T. q. will
meet at the Y. w. C. A. at 3 o'clock
Monday afternoon.
A case of scarlet fever at 1011
North Madison street was reported to
the city board of health this morning.
Two hundred and fifty young people
of the First Baptist church gave
pre-rally day party Friday night in
the church.
]. Will Kelley, secretary of he
Commercial club, is expected to return
early next week from the convention
of Commercial clubs being held in an
eastern city.
THE Written Sources of the Cos
pels,'' will be the subject of DR.. Arthur
S. Hendersons lecture to his Bible
class at the First Congregational
church Sunday morning.
The board of directors of the Big
Free Fair association will hold a
meeting in a short time, and audit
bills and ascertain just what amount OF
money was made at the fair.
The Endeayor society of the Third
Christian church will be addressed
Sunday evening by H. o. Caster, at
torney of the Kansas state public util-
| tiles commission. Special music IS
announced.
Helpers will be the subject OF Dr.
G.. x. Hartman's sermon Sunday
morning at the First United Brethren
| church, Twelfth and Quincy streets.
! In the evening he will preach on the
subject, Gods Promises to the Good
Installation of officers next Friday
night of the Court of Honor will be
made the occasion of a big pep meet
/ RI
| it is expected that more than two nun
dred will attend the ceremony.
The first appointed dental surgeon
of the Kansas National Guard having
failed to arrive at Eagle Pass, Dr.
Walter w. Hunt of Oskaloosa, was
given a commission and left today for
the border where he will practice
| upon the molars of Kansas guards
men.
Marco Morrow was elected chair
man of the advisory committee of the
Central Newspaper bureau of Kansas
| at a meeting in the Commercial club
| Friday noon. He replaces Merle
| Thorpe, who has gone to Washington,
D. c., to edit the Nations Business, a
! magazine devoted to the financial in
terests of the country.
Repairs making possible the seat
ing of 800 persons in the Knights of
Security hall will be completed in
three weeks. The hall is to be dedi-
Gated October 10 with joint installa-
ton of officers in the five Topeka
councils and those of surrounding
| towns. Capital council No. 1 will meet
in the hall regularly after this week.
The Freshman class of Washburn
college elected Ralph Oman president,
| following chapel. Miss Marion Dana
was chosen vice-president; Claire
secretary; and Leroy Anderson, SER
geant-at-arms. A committee appoint
ed by the class at previous meeting
made the nominations.
At a meeting of the Foreign club
of the Y. w. c. A, Miss Mabel Fink
was elected president to fill the place
recently made vacant by the resigna-
ton of Miss Edith Nash. The For
eign club has charge of the fund
whereby Miss Laura Radford, former
secretary of the local association, is
maintained in association work in
India.
Van Swan, nee Parker. an employee
of the Outlook here, today was granted
a divorce and alimony from Charles
p. Swan, a former Topekan now III
Hutchinson. MES. Swan was also Civ
en- custody of their 5-year-old child.
the divorce. The case was not con-
tested. Mrs. Swan charged desertion
and non-support.
The Epworth league devotional
meeting at the First Methodist church
at 6:15 p. m. Sunday, October l, will
be especially interesting. The subject
is How Money Spending Revea is
Character The leader is ]. L. Hersh
and there will be short talks on the
subject~by several prominent business
men. You are invited. Fifteen-m minute
song service at the opening.
The buggy in which Ralph Boley
was killed nearly three weeks ago,
is still on the parking at Seventeenth
and Lincoln streets, where the acct
dent occurred. Boley's parents, it is
said, have no desire to claim the We
hicle in w.ich their boy met his death,
and the buggy will be left there unless
someone wants it badly enough to go
after it
Commissioner w L. Porter, who is
president of the. organization Mayor
House expresses such open disgust for,
the Kansas League of municipalities,
has been invited to deliver an address
at Excelsior Springs, october 10. on
1.-The Conduct of City Clean-ups." At
that time there will be a meeting of
the Missouri Valley Public Health as
ISOLATION.
The reports of the delegates who
attended the national convention of
underwriters in St. Louis last week
will be heard at a meeting of the
Topeka Association of Life Under
writer's tonight in the Commercial
club. The following will speak: H
o. Garvey, Charles A. Moore. ]. f.
Spaulding, Z. D. Clithero, 0. T. Crop
per and Z. A. Thrill.
Rally Day will be observed in
nearly fifty churches of the city to-
morrow morning. Special programs OF
songs and recitations will be given in
each Sunday school and record at
| tendance is expected. Rally day is
intended to bring back to the Sunday
school all the children who have
stopped attending during the hot
weather and to reawaken enthusiasm
in Sunday school work.
The American league pennant win