The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-04

sung next Sunday at 4:3o o'clock by 1
the choir of Grace Cathedral There
are thirty in the chorus and a quar-
tette will sing the principal parts.
Mrs. Clarence Shoemaker, 1871
West street, will entertain the mem
bers of the Womens Foreign Mission
airy society of the Euclid Avenue
Methodist church Friday afternoon.
The volley ball tournament will
commence at the Central Y. NJ. Z. A.
to be played Saturday. H. B. Howard
will present the winners with cup.
The Mexican English class was re-
sumed last night at Branner school
and will meet regularly from now on.
English is taught by Mrs. E. j. Gala
han on Monday ant Thursday even
ings.
Two more issues of the Topeka High
School World will be published this
year by the editor, Ewing Fergus. The |
next number will appear January IA.
Miss Maym H. Parsons will be the next
editor.
A tryout of seniors for parts in the
class play. "Esmeralda.' was held /
this afternoon in the Topeka high |
school auditorium. Miss H. Margaret i
Boo, teacher of English, will choose
the cast.
A called meeting of active members
of the Y. w. c. A. will be held this |
evening at o'clock, at the association
building. to discuss important business.
Following the meeting there will be
basketball game in the gymnasium.
Word announcing the death of the
Rev. J. F. Sloan of Long Beach. Cal,
has been received by relatives. Mr..
and Mrs. ]. S. Langston, SIT East
Eighth street. Mr.. Sloan was formerly
pastor of the First Christian church of
Topeka.
/ Three Topeka nurses passed the ex-
aminations held by the state board of
nurse examiners at Newton December
! 20 and 20. Miss Veda Lyter of Stor-
mont hospital and Miss Doris Wright
and Miss Evelyn Ferguson of st. Fran
els hospital were the Topeka repre-
sentatives.
A meeting of the Saturday Night
club will be held Saturday evening,
| January s, at the Harvey eating house
The banquet is given by o. ]. Wood.
A paper on Physical Valuation as
Basis of Rate Making will be read by
F. w. Thomas, supervisor of appren-
| tees for the Santa Fee.
An annual business meeting will be
held at o'clock Wednesday evening
at the First Christian church. Reports
of the various department will be read.
Miss Vera Hanna has returned to
Topeka to attend Washburn college,
after a two weeks visit in southern
Oklahoma.
Topeka lodge No 2, Fraternal Aid
Union, which was formed by the con-
solidation of lodge No. 2 of the Frater-
nal Aid and lodge No. 757 of the Fra
ternal Union, will give a progressive
might've party after a short business
meeting tonight. The installation of
officers will occur January II.
Four classes of Russians are being
taught English every week at the
Branner school. Two are beginners
and two are advanced, all being con-
r, h. ,-io nff A 0a1-i-
can woman who was reared in Russia.
A Christmas celebration was given to
the class last Thursday at the school
house.
The members of the Bible school
council of the First Christian church
were entertained Monday evening at a
6 o'clock dinner at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank L. Ogle, on West
street. Those present were the Rev.
o. L. Cook, E. V. King, superintendent,
B. Nelson, Frank Leatherman, David
Owen and Mr.. and Mrs. Ogle-
Y. w. C. A. basketball tournament
will commence this evening at SIS
o'clock with a game between Capper
team No 2 and Santa Fe team No. L.
January 8 at 7:45 Capper team No. 1
will play Santa Fe team No. 2; Janu-
airy 81 at 1880 o'clock, Capper team
No. 1 will play Santa Fe team No. 2.
The championship game is slated to
highest ranking teams
John w Nygren of Topeka was
elected president of the Young Peo-
pies Union of the Kansas and Missouri
Young Peoples societies of the
Swedish Mission churches at Salina
Sunday. Nine delegates from Topeka
attended 1t was voted to make To-
peka the next meeting place at the fall
session. Mr.. Nygren is at presc 1t
president of the Young Peoples So
! ciety of the Topeka church, one of the
strongest members of the Kansas
Missouri alliance.
One hundred new medical volumes
at an average cost of $3.50 a book are
to be added to the state library. This
will bring the total number of medi-
cal books up to approximately 3, 400.
Jane Stormont, the widow of DR.. D. w.
Stormont, a wealthy Topeka physician
of early days, gave the state $4,000
to establish medical section in the
library, $1,000 to be used in the di-
. rect purchase and the interest on S.
600 to go each year for medical books.
One hundred of the latest books are
!, added each year as a result
The officers of Rebekah lodge, Cap
itola No. 219, were installed last night
by the Union Rebekah installation
staff. The new heads are: Mrs E.
Marian. noble grand; Mrs. Ella Kim
| Bile, vice grand; Mrs. Sarah Brown,
, recording secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth
Jones, financial secretary; Mrs. Farms
by, treasurer. The installation staff
consists of the following persons: Mrs
. Herbert Green, Mrs. ]. c. Lingo Mrs
Emma Spencer. Mrs. E. V. King Mrs
I w. A. Woolverton, Mrs. Jessie Alton
| Mrs. e. J. RauScher and Mrs MYRTLE