The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-06

Book" will be presented by one hun
bred young people of the Westminster
Presbyterian church Sunday evening,
December 10, in observance of the ter
centenary. of the landing of the Pill
grims.
Topeka should have. 5000 members
! in the anti-cigaret league, according
to the percentage basis set by Miss
Lucy Page CASTOR, organizer The
Salvation Army in the city has en-
listed 100 per cent of its membership
in the league.
The Cooperative club will meet
| Tuesday night at 6:15 o'clock at the
Elks' club. L. c. Rain and Dean
Rogers are to have charge of the pro-
gram. Robert Miller has been ac-
cepted as member of the organiza-
ton.
The Christian churches have raised
three -fourths of the $4,000 amount
set as their goal for missionary work.
for the general budget. The large part
of the fund was raised in a special
canvass of all church members Sun
day afternoon.
A special meeting of the Topeka
Press club is to be held at the head
quarters of the club at the Chamber of
Commerce at o'clock tonight to plan
for the staging of THE Court of
Political Aspirations which is to be
given next Monday evening.
The colored children of the city will
be treated to a large Christmas tree
arranged at the Garfield school on
Christmas day. Colored churches and
lodges have arranged for one of the
best affairs of the kind ever given.
The Elks' lodge voted a large dona-
ton for the colored children's tree.
Santa Claus and his grandson, Jack
Claus have arrived at Pelletier's to
l
Saturday afternoon in a decorated
| truck, and at Tenth and Kansas ave-
nues, Santa Claus made a speech. to
several hundred children, telling of his
journey from Alaska and his intention
to stay until Christmas.
Topeka will be the next annual
meeting place of the Kansas State
Nurses association, according to Mrs.
c. c. Bailey, head of the Topeka Pub
lie Health Nursing association, who
has returned from a meeting of the
state board of directors in Wichita.
The Topeka annual meeting will be
held May 12.4 ID. and IA. 1921.
Excellent grades were made by II
per cent of the students in the Topeka
high school during the first ten weeks
of the term, as compared with only
per cent who made grades of +poor."
Gradesrof very good" were made by
% per cent of the students. and good"
grades were awarded to 81 per cent,
while % per cent were given the grade
of fair"
Returned missionaries had charge
of the morning and evening services
at the West Side Christian church,
Sunday, with Mrs. c. E. Ault. presi-
dent of the Womens missionary So
ciety in charge of the services. Theo-
dore Westerfelt, former missionary to
Africa, talked in the morning and Miss
Mabel Higgins, recently returned from
China, was the speaker in the evening.
New officers elected at the meeting
of the Topeka branch, Friends of Irish
Freedom, 116 East Sixth avenue, Sun
day afternoon. We're: P. H Coney
president; p ]. Garden, first vice.
president; Mrs. Mary O'Rourke Allen,
second vice-president; f. ]. Dodds.
financial secretary; Hugh Lawlor,
treasurer; Mrs. T. L. Patterson, orator:
and p. F. Lannan, ]. E. Hartley and
j. E. Brady. trustees.
Members of the Westminster Pres
byterian church will become better ac-
quainted with a new plan inaugurated
by the Rev. John A. McAfee, pastor.
Each district of the church has a di-
vision in a new directory with the
names of all the members listed. In
the directory there are 472 names, of
which $50 were added in the last eigh-
teen months. The annual church din
ner will be given December 16, when
each of the church districts will have
a separate table.
The world was never more religious
in a true and wholesome sense and yet
never so little interested in churches
as at the present time, according to
Rev. L. NJ. Birkhead of Kansas City.
Mo-, who spoke on THE Unchurched
and the Irreligious." at the First Uni
tartan church Sunday night. '"The
overwhelming majority of the people
are alienated from the churches" de-
clared the Rev. Birkhead. THE
churches have been deserted, except
by a part of the middle class. Not
more than 8 per cent of the working