The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-18
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Harold Knapp will spend the Christ
mas holidays with an uncle in Arkan-
sas City.
c. A. G. Heiligstedt, boys secretary
of the Y. NJ. c. A, will spend Christ
mas week with his parents in st. Louis.
DIR. Jesse D. Cook has returned to
Topeka after several months spent in
post graduate work in New York and
Baltimore.
George A Hoyes, secretary of the
Central Y. M. c. A., will address the
regular meeting of the Walnut Grove
Brotherhood tonight on John Smith,
of Podunk."
The handban tournaments at the
Y. M. G. A. will be terminated next
week, following which plans for an
elimination handball tournament for
the championship of the city to be
held in January will be made.
The line of taxpayers reached from
the county treasurer's wicket to the
front door of the court house prac-
tically all day today Wednesday,
December 20, is the last day for pay
ment of taxes without an added PEN
atty.
Snowy weather caused slight dim
mutton in the customary attendance
at the municipal organ recitals.r New
ertheless a good sized crowd was on
one of the best programs of the season
Sunday afternoon at the auditorium.
Plans for New Years house
warming were discussed at luncheon
today by the team captains OF the
Chamber of Commerce. Charles
Mitchell is chairman in charge of ar
rangements. All the members of the
Chamber of Commerce and their wives
will be invited to attend the dinner
and reception.
: At a meeting of the welfare COM
naittee at the Chamber of Commerce
today at noon, a resolution was passed
advising the city commission that, in
the committees Judgment, they
should make equal appropriations for
the Provident association and the
Public Health Nursing association.
Routine business was attended to.
L. L. Kiene, sheriff, has gone to
Kansas City to learn whether or not
the Missouri authorities want to prose-
cute Mrs. A. Thomas, the woman who
is alleged to have denuded the home
of Mrs. Mabel Akers here of its valu-
ables. A woman who has been iden-
titled as Mrs. Thomas is charged with
robbing a house in Kansas City and
is under arrest in st. Louis. If the
Missouri officials do not desire to
prosecute her Sheriff Kiene wants to
bring her back to Topeka for prosecu-
ton.
The Y NJ C. A. basketball league
formed last week has announced the
personnel of its four teams and its
schedule for its two monhs' season.
The members of the teams are, many
of them, old high school and college
basketball stars. Four teams in the
league are named after one of the
letters of the Y. NJ. c. A The follow
ing are players: "Y" team: F. Will
hanson, J. Gilman. r. Knapp, D.
rTweedy, c. Marker, Goddell; M
team: w. Holcombe, G. Shimeall, H.
Post, C. Watson, D. Hermon; CO.
team: c. Plath, w. Remington, F.
Myers, c. Arraghi, H. Knapp, Q. Bla-
hut; ''A'' team: r. jerks, w. Padgett,
G. Steyes,F w. Landon. E. Peterson.
After Robert Carver, county attor-
rey-elect, had moved the furniture in
his office around to suit him the main
office looked like a wreck. He dis
covered that the desks covered great
holes in the linoleum: that when the
walls were last decorated the decora-
tors missed every place behind filing
case or piece of furniture. While the
office looked its worst he invited the
county commissioners to take a look.
They made the visit today and imme-
diately authorized a tile floor and
newly decorated walls.
In a recent publication Record
Aids in College Management" publish
ed by the Institute for Public Service
of N. Y. c., mention is made of Wash
burn college. The book refers to the
personality requirement in the regis
tration of each student. This book is
d compilation of the best record forms
now in use in fifty-three colleges and
universities thruout the United States
The purposes of the book are to indi-
cate some progressive tendencies in
education as reflected in college rec
ords; to show how student welfare and
educational efficiency are being pro-
NOTED by means of meaningful ques-
tions and records; and to further high
er education, enhance student bene-
fits and tighten the labor of college
officers by means of extending and
standardizing the use of college
records.