The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-30
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AT HOME NEWS

The ladies of the Unitarian church
have subscribed SIS to the Red Cross
fund.
Ralph Kennedy, immigration agent
for the Santa Fe, stopped in Topeka
Friday.
The Rev j. X Hartman, CT the
First United Brethren church, was the
speaker of the Christian Endeavor
program at the Pleasant Hill Brethren
church Friday night.
THE Trial and Triumph of Faith
Job will be the subject of DR.. Arthur
is. Henderson's lecture to his Bible
class Sunday at 10 a. m. at the First
Congregational church. corner of Sew
enth and Harrison streets.
DR.. S. B. Anderson, pastor of the
Third Presbyterian church has re-
turned from three weeks vacation
spent in the east. He attended a CEN
tennial celebration of the Presbyterian
church in Mayesville, KY, which was
his first pastorate.
Several miles of hard-surfaced con-
crete roads will be builded in and
about the TOP aka shops by the santa
Fe railway, il has been announced.
This will. make possible the substicu-
tioE Of electric trucks for box cars in
hauling freight ard material about
the y&lds. The roads will cost about
$3O.1OO. The Santa Fe will do the
work of building them itself.
| Victor G. Clayton, a law student at
! Washburn college living at 1901 Har-
rison street, will go to Fort Leaven-
worth July 90 where he will take a
physical examination, preliminary to
accepting a commission as second
! lieutenant in the regular army. Clay
| ton attended st. Johns military acad-
envy at Salina for five years and dur
ing the last two years has been law
student at Washburn college.
O.
Company, of Topeka, will leave to-
night with his family for Detroit on
his vacation. Mr.. Wolf recently won
THIS trip in a national contest con-
Quoted by the Dodge Motor Car COM
pany. AS winner of the contest in
which statesmen all over the United
States were entered, he gets all eA-
penses of himself and family paid. He
expects to drive a car back to Topeka
from Detroit
Mrs. A. A Knapp, wife of the chief
! clerk in the state labor commission
er's office, is recovering rapidly from
an operation performed following an
automobile accident in which a num-
Der of others sustained INJURIES Mrs.
Knapp suffered number of fractures,
the most serious being a compound
fracture in her right arm. The at
tending surgeon removed a piece OF
bone five inches long from her shin
bone on the right arm.
Frank NJ. Newland, commissioner
of water and lights, announced today
that no special rates will be given To-
Ipeka residents who water their lawns
ldurlng the summer. As a reason for
this action, Newland cited the fact
that substantial reduction had been
made in rates during the last year. A
new well capable of furnishing mil
lion and a half gallons a day was
opened today and little danger re-
mains of a water shortage during the
summer, according to Commissioner
lNewland.
One of the energetic Red eros:
campaiguers is tired of talking will
and of associating with penny pinch
ers At a secret corner meeting il
the Chamber of Commerce the othel
day. he buttonholed several worker.
who had expressed a desire to expose
the tightwads of the city. The grouI
with their heads together threatened
to print handbills for general dis
tribution exposing every well know
Topekan who refused to contribute
and then a few. too, who gave nearl!
nothing. The bills, according to this
meeting will be printed in a local prin
shop and distributed along kansa.
avenue during the noon hour of on,
, day next week