The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
SNAP SHOTS
Dance on the big Spring Floor
tonight at Kellam Hall-Adv.
AT HOME NEWS


tonight at Kellam Halliday.
/ Decision Day will be observed in the
revival meeting in the West Side
/ Christian church Sunday. october Is.
| The -ity Ministerial union will meet
! at 10 o'clock Monday morning at the
First Presbyterian church. DR.. Rob-
| ert Gordon will read a paper on Civic
Righteousness
Ike Gilberg will lecture before the
I Psychic Research society Sunday
/ evening at 1880 o'clock at 1000 North
| Kansas avenue. His subject will be
Life and Its Troubles"
/ The Rev. Herbert j. Corwine, Demo-
crat candidate for congress in the First
district, will conduct services at the
First Christian church, tomorrow
| morning.
| The Republicans will hold rally
at Silver Lake tonight George T. Nc
Dermott, Robert D. Carver and Miss
NJ Edna Corbett will speak. Old Abe
camp Sons of Veterans will furnish
music.
| Assistant Attorney General Coleman
returned from Wichita today, where
with Assistant Attorney General Lind
say he has been conducting series of
spectacular raids on liquor joints in
| that city.
| Miss Margaret Kite of Philadelphia
will speak tonight at the high school
on sub-normal children The meet
ing Is free and open to the general
public. School teachers are especially
| urged to come.
| The Rev. E. w. Spencer. pastor of
the Walnut Grove Methodist church,
is preaching a series of sermons on
| Practical Things His topic for to-
morrow evening is THE Meaning of
| the Dollar Sign
A rally-day program will be given
at Redden chapel Sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock. A special program will be
| given by the Sunday school and Mrs.
Grace Hit will read the temperance
poem, college Oil-Cans.''
All members of the Central Park
| Christian church are expected to be
present at the morning service tomor-
| row when the matter of the selection
| of new pastor will be taken up. The
Rev. r. V. Lesson will preside.
The Literary History and Dates of
the Gospels will be the subject of Dr.
| Arthur S. Hendersons lecture to his
Bible class Sunday at 10 a. m. at the
| First Congregational church, corner
| Seventh and Harrison streets.
DR.. Elizabeth S. Kite will give an
illustrated address at the First Bap-
fist church Sunday night. The ster-
| eopticon slides she will use show in
graphic way the menace and the prop
err treatment of the feeble minded.
The new Wanamaker school
building was dedicated last night with
a special program of addresses and
musical mum bers. Friday evening,
Oct. 81, completion of the new school
| house will be further celebrated by
| Halloween social.
| Down in Macon, Ca, Mrs. E. A
Bowden, nee Glow, believed until re-
Gently that her father was dead. Their
she discovered otherwise. Today city
officials received a letter here asking
their help in locating Wilbur Perry
Glow, the father.
| No change is reported today either
by railroad men or shippers in the
car shortage situation. Both have
hopes of the situations being relieved
by Monday. However. nothing defi-
mite is promised. Mills are still run
ming but are very much congested.
| Topeka men will drill an oil well a
mile west of Centropolis. A syndi-
cate of Topeka men has closed con-
| tract with the Cantrall Drilling COM
pany of Oklahoma City in which the
company agrees to begin drilling
the lease by October IT. Those in the
syndicate are Homer Jenkins, L. A.
Hartman and J. w. Nolan.
Members of the Topeka Press club
will meet in the Press club rooms, in
the Mills building ut 2:30 o'clock Sun
day afternoon. From the club rooms
the members will go to the First Pres
byterian church IN n body, to attend
the funeral of John Macdonald, vet
| eEan Kansas e11lor- Funora1 services
will be held in the church at 8 o'clock.
Permit to build a $4,000 storage
building on 1924 North Jackson
street was issued by the city fire mar
shall today to Curtis, Tow1e & Paine, a
planning mill company. The planning
mill company already has one ware
house on the property. The new build
ing will be one story high, built of
brick and stone and will be e6x37 feet
The automobile of D. E. Barton, S21
| Lincoln street, stolen from in front of
the Orpheum theater Friday night,
was found by the police today at the
| corner of Twelfth and Lime streets
1t had been driven there and aban-
| doned. Apparently it had been used
only short time. Less than a quart of
gasoline had been used from the tank
The car is a 1916 Buick.
Lane chapel. colored, will hold its
seventh annual fair next week at the
church, corner Fourteenth and Van
Buren, streets. Special programs will
be given every evening of next week
with the exception of Saturday, Oct
81. Each evening will be in charge of
some prominent member of the
church. A number of attractive booths
have been planned and several enter
tanning contests.
A Bible school rally 9:45 a. M and
a Christian Endeavor mass meeting
at $50 p. m. will be features of the
services. The Rev. D. F. Cross, the
evangelist and singer, will speak Sun
day morning on the theme. What
Saves a Sinner" and in the evening
on mo Room for Christ A large
chorus of grown people and a junior
choir will assist in the singing. Bap-
tismal services will be held in the aft
ernoon.
The Auburn and Dover Good Roads
committee met this afternoon in the
Commercial club rooms for the pur-
pose of boosting improved roads in
the district with which they are in
terested particularly. ]. Will Kelley,
secretary of the Commercial club, read
some figures on the cost of construc-