The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-23
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AT HOME NEWS

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AT HOME NEWS
The signs of piety have changed
From olden times, to days like these,
For once, parson was profane
Whose pants weren't shine, at the knees.
DR.. A. Balfour Jeffrey has resumed
has practice at 706 Kansas avenue
Adv
The L. 1. n X girls of the 1917
class of the Topeka high school will
give a picnic at Gage park tonight.
A marriage license was issued
Wednesday afternoon to Clarence
Webb, 81, of ottawa, and Freda Ma
bic, 81, of Quenemo.
The annual picnic of tn : Indianola
school was held this afterno on at the
home of w. S. Robinson. A ball game
started at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The Fraternal Aid Union No. 1902
will have an indoor picnic at their hall
| Friday evening. All members are
asked to be present and bring their
baskets.
| The sewing meeting of the w. r. c.
which was scheduled for this after
noon. was postponed Until next Tues
day. The place of meeting will be
| announced later.
The Military Sisterhood announces
| that tea towels are needed by the sol
! diers. Any one who can give these
articles may leave them at the Sister,
hood headquarters;
! J. VIII Kelley, secretary of the To-
/ peka Chamber of Commerce. will
make a special effort for the next
| two weeks to collect back dues from
the members of the club.
The neighborhood of Central park
| vicinity had rare musical treat
Wednesday evening. as DR.. 7. S.
hi 1,or
at his home, 1414 Buchanan street.
| Charles Cuthbert, an architect, has
| been instructed by the city commits
sioners to prepare plans and specifi
cations for remodeiing the interior OF
! the water office on the first floor OF
the city hall
The Ladies Aid society of the
Prairie Home church will have an ice
cream social at the home of A. L.
| Sturgeon Saturday night. Proceeds of
the entertainment will be given to the
building fund of the church.
A second option on the lot at the
| southeast corner of Tenth and Kan
sas avenue has been granted ]. F.
William Renker by John S. Rhodes.
The first $500 option covered a period
of four months. The second option
will expire December is.
| Plans are being made to form a CO.
operative buying association at a
/
night at 8 o'clock. Members of the
Trades Union and the Railway Co.
operative club will attend. The as
sociation, if it is formed. will pur-
chase groceries at near wholesale
/ prices.
Eight million feet of moving pic
J ture film will be supplied he thirty
four environments of the Ur.teo States
army by the war council Of the Y. NJ.
c. A, according to a message received
/ at the state Y M. C. A. The firms
: will be shown the soldiers, as special
| entertainments given by the Y. NJ. The
100000 feet will provide 1,126 pro-
grams each week for one year
For the first time in the last ten
years the Topeka Edison company
baseball team defeated the Topeka
Railway nine 10 to in their annual
| baseball battle at their picnic, held
Wednesday at Gage park. The mo-
1 tormen of the railway company de-
feated the conductors OF the same
! company by a score of 6 20 10. More
than 500 persons attended the picnic.
Four hundred pies were distributed
Wednesday among the 100 national
guardsmen encamped in Topeka by
! the Military Sisterhood. Each soldier
received a generous quarter of the
pastry. Mrs. c. L. Martin. president
of the sisterhood. has issued a call for
towels to be presented to the men.
/ our nuDCTSu nave dlTSdQy Deen QlS-
1 tributed and it is hoped Topekans will
contribute the remainder shortly.
Work of the locay Navy league will
| continue according to John Marshall,
president of the local Organization.
| There has been a rumor circulating in
! Topeka that the work of the league
might be suspended on account of the
| trouble of officials in Washington But
I the work will continue. One hundred
| and fifty dollars was raised at the
| Wednesday meeting of the league with
which to purchase yarn for the women
workers of the organization.
Word has been received in Topeka
that Ira Carter Barrett. son of Mr.. and
| Mrs. w. r. Barrett of SIS Horne
J street, has enlisted in Battery d of the
Second California field artillery. and
is now encamped in Tapforan park
| San Bruno, Cal. Since his graduation
from topeka high school in 1911, Mr.
Barrett has been doing nursery work
in southern California. For the past
| two years he has yeen foreman of a
large avocado ranch owned by the
Hart & Barber Nursery company in
Peunte, Cal.
New York Cotton Market.