The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Dancing school and social dance to-
night at Kellam hall--Adv-
The first issue of this years High
School World will be printed Septem-
Der 20.
The new dance. '"Two-Two.'' will be
taught Thursday at Keilam hall
a ".
The Spiritual Temple Builders will
give social next Thursday evening
ut 1872 East Sixth avenue.
Alfred H. Tebbin of Essex. Conn,
the new high school secretary for the
Kansas Y. NJ. c. A. is in Topeka
The thimble party of the Fraternal
Aid union will be held Thursday aft
ernoon at the home of Mrs. Counter,
500 Klein street
Senator J. w. Howe, secretary of
the state board of control, left To-
peka today to attend the Dickinson
county fair at Abilene.
George E. Lyon, secretary of the
Kansas Christian Missionary society.
assisted in the dedication of the new
Christian church at Hugoton Sunday.
The building was erected at cost OF
Sc. 500.
The Rotary club will meet tomor
row noon at the tea room in the Mills
nounced enormously in Topeka
newspaper this morning, officers of the
club state.
A. j. Hout. Topeka real estate
man, left this morning for the lower
Rio Grande valley to prepare for sale
and settlement a large tract of land
now being occupied by the United
States troops.
Smith County club will meet Thurs
day evening at the presidents office,
| 621 jackson street. at I O'Clock, to
organize and make a raid on Frank
Ogden's watermelon patch three miles
west of North Topeka.
| The mems Bible class of the First
| Presbyterian church held a meeti..g
Tuesday night. at s o'clock for the
purpose of a general discussion of
Paul as a man of the world Re-
freshmentS were served.
Talk about the ''witching waves at
the state fair last week-two young
women crossing a certain treacherous
downtown corner today put on a pub
lie exhibition that rivalled anything
that cost 10 cents at the fair grounds.
| The annual meeting of the Kansas
Society of Mechano-Therapy will be
| held September 81 in the knights of
Pythias hall, Sixth and Quincy streets.
A free clinic in the afternoon, accom-
panied by lectures and demonstra-
| lions will be feature of the meeting.
| A meeting of the executive commit
tee arranging for the statewide CON
ference for older boys to be held in
Topeka the first week in December,
was held in Topeka today. 1t is
thought that representatives of the
State Sunday School association, the
$. tie Y. NJ. c. A. and business men
will attend
Crane & Company. publishers and
printers on East Eighth avenue, have
painted automobile parking lines on
the pavement in front of their build
ing-the first move of, this kind in the
city since the publication of the new
traffic ordinance in the official city
paper, the State journal, some time
ago.
G. D. "Dutro" Harris was in Topeka
Tuesday when county officials secured
evidence indicating that he is q
wholesale dealer in contraband drugs
at Memphis. Tenn. according to po-
Ice officials. While o. V. Bower wa
in the county attorneys office telling
a story of his dealings with Harris
Harris was hurriedly packing his
grips. An investigation last night
disclosed the fact that Harris went tc
the Santa Fe depot in a taxicab at !
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon and wen;
east. Neither Bower nor county Off
ciais knew Harris was nearer Topeka
than Memphis. The statement gwen
to the county attorney by Bower was
forwarded to federal officials and II
is up 10 the government whether step.
will he taken to locate and prosecutc
Harris.