The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-28
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Botkin have
rented their home on Buchanan street
and nave taken suite of rooms at
1243 Topeka avenue for the winter.
The annual school directory is just |
off the press. 1t lists in alphabetical |
order the schools and the teachers |
with the subjects and the grades they |
teach.
Union, will give a Halloween enter |
tainment next Tuesday evening at its |
lodge rooms, corner Sixth and Quincy i
streets.
A strong scent of gas has been noted
in the ]. F. W. Renker well on the |
Flickinger farm. twelve miles south
west of Topeka. At any time it is ex-
pected that heavy flow of gas will
! he discovered.
During the absence of L. r. Serdio
on a vacation trip to New York, R E.
Sloan. expert rate case accountant OF
the Rock Island, is in charge of the
evening classes in Spanish at the
Dougherty Business college.
THE Early Life and Work of
Jesus will be the subject of DR.. Ar
thur S. Hendersons lecture to his
Bible class Sunday at 10 O'Clock, at
the First Congregational church, cor
ner Seventh and Harrison streets.
The Rotary club will entertain wives
and sweetheartS at a dinner at $3.50
o'clock Monday evening at the high
| school auditorium. At O'Clock, fol-
lowing the dinner. d program Will be
given at the high school auditorium.
Shawnee camp No. $500, Modern
Woodmen of America, will have an
open meeting and entertainment in
| their hall at Sixth and Jackson streets
| Friday night, November 8. Fifty old
| ''fiddlers' have been invited to take
part in a "fiddling'' contest. The win
ner will be given cash prize.
All executive officers of the Santa
i EO "a o1I1di fI1o
vice presidents, general auditor and
| treasurer, were reelected in a meet
| ing of the board of directors in Chi
| cago Friday, according to word re-
ceived here today. The meeting was
held in President Ropley's office.
Special attraction will be off red
drawing teachers on Friday of the
state teachers convention in lunch
con to be held in the parlors of the
First Congregational church at 1890
O'Clock. Miss Bonnie Snow of Chi
cago, special speaker for the drawing
round table, and Mrs. l.. Sherwood of
Chicago, art lecturer and critic, will
be the speakers.
Miss Eta Coven city clerk. was
obliged to call a policeman to her of
| flee late Friday night to quiet the big
| crowd which called at the last minute
to register. 1t was the last day for
registration. The elevator in the city
nail broke down and a big number re-
fused to walk up the two flight of
stairs Finally the elevator was re-
paired and business resumed.
| H. B. Wilson, superintendent of city
schools, has gone to Chicago to attend
a meeting of the members of the com
nlttee on economy of time and CO.
operating investigators of the National
Council of Education, of which he is
the chairman. The meetire is to be
an all-day affair, for the purpose of
discussing reports and plans for flu
ture work. Superintendent Wilson is
expected to return early next week
Frederick E. Bornschien, 70 years
old, for forty years a resident of Ellis
worth, Kan, died in a local hospital
| Friday following an operation. He
was confined to the hospital four
weeks. Mr.. Bornschien was a baker
MS part of the state, and was one of
the pioneers there He is survived by
two daughters. Mrs. Mamie KidweH
Hobart, Okla, and Mrs. Emily Deni-
son, Kansas City, and one son. Fred
Bornschien Jr., Kansas City The
body will be taken to Ellsworth TODAY
The first in a series of sermons on
Political Preparedness will be given
by the Rev. Robert Gordon at the
First Baptist church Sunday night
These are the subjects announced to-
day-October 20, THE Necessity of
Keeping Alive the Heroic Spirit in the
Republic" November 5, 1.-The Candi-
dates and the Churches. or the Old
Time Religion and Modern Politics.
and on November -, ''Vox Populi, Vox
Del, or the Fundamental ASSUMPTION
1880 p. m. Mrs. ARA ]. Clark is or
ganist and musical director.
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