The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-11
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AT HOME NEWS

Special meeting of Topeka Automo-
bile club tonight at Chamber of Com
merce building. p. m.-Adv.
A meeting of the executive council
. of the Boy Scouts was held this noon
at the Y. II. c. A. A general review
of the year was reported.
A Round Robin handball tourna
ment will be held at the Y. NJ. c. A.
beginning Monday. The last game of
the tournament will be played June IA.
j. R. McCosh, president OF the
Washburn student council and presi-
dent of the Alpha Delta fraternity,
left Topeka Thursday to enter the
officers training school at Fort Riley.
Application for change in the
charge for meter installation, made
by S j. Shively, of the Mama County
Gas company, was dismissed Thurs
day by the public utilities commission.
Municipal bonds of Kansas City,
amounting to $32, 450, and of Yelling
/ ton, amounting to $4,000, refunding
issue, were registered Thursday at the
office of Fred w Knapp, state audi
tor.
W. H. Williams, of 1913 North Kan
saS avenue, has presented Commits
sioner Porter with flag pole, to be
erected in Gage park. Now Commits
sioner Porter is worrying about where
he can get a flag.
The Royal Neighbors, No. 148, hon
OESu MIS- flOFenCG bdSley dI lHelT
meeting, Thursday night, by present
, ing her with a jeweled pin of the or
der. Augustus kirkpatrick presented
the gift.
The Pleasant Hour Crochet club
met Thursday afternoon with Mrs.
Minnie Partridge, of 314 East Third
street. Next weeks meeting will be
held Thursday at the home of Mrs
A. J. Francis, at SIC Lawrence street.
Mark Jones, living at 5S Franklin
avenue, has been accepted in the en-
cheering department of the regular
army. He will leave tonight for JEFF
ferson barracks, at st. Louis, Mo.
Jones was formerly employed by the
Santa Fe at Chicago.
Has congress settled the age limit
for the CONSUMPTION bill?' a feminine
voice asked over the State Journal
telephone this afternoon. When told
that the limit is from 81 to 80 years
she said: Good, that leaves my hus-
! band out for a while, anyway"
]. Will Kelley, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, asks all room
ing house keepers with rooms to rent
to notify him of the number and loca-
ton of the rooms as he expects many
calls next week when the drug men
and knights of Pythias meet in To-
peka.
Loren Langley and William f.
Huffman, both Topeka boys, have en-
listed IN the army ana nave gone TO
jefferson Barracks, Mo, where they
will remain until mustered in, Lang
ley joined the general army recruiting
I service and Huffman Joined the engi-
! neer corps.
/ Mrs. o. L. Cook, wife of the Rev.
! Cook of the First Christian church,
! left Thursday afternoon for Rock
wood Tenn, where she will visit her
I son, Leland Cook, pastor of the Chris
tian church there, and her daughter,
p. Miss Bell Cook, who is teaching at a
mountain academy near lockwood.
| -Four applicants were accepted
! Thursday by the naval recruiting sta
! ton here and are now on their way
to the training school at Great Lakes
Ill, Those accepted were: .~ James
: Mahaffey, Topeka; Carl L.. Wiley,
| Home, Kan; James w. Pharris, Su-
perior, Kan, and Martin Huff, Wich-
I ita.
/ The first of a series of silver medal
contests under the auspices of the Lii
I liam Mitchner w. c. T. L. will be given
tonight at the Evangelical church,
Seventh and Monroe streets. Medals
will be awarded to two classes. The
contestants are Frances Snyder, Mar
giret Perry, Thelma Painter, Leila
Heatherington, William Howard, Les
/ ter Keppingler, Delma Petty, Jessie
England, Dorothy Cehen, Lillian
Blacker, Virginia Wallace, Edward
Fink, Ada Berry and Nerna Messen.
ger.