The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-12
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Don't forget Marshalrs band dance
at auditorium Saturday, Nov. 20.-Adv.
All issues OF Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue. ADV
S. B. Pratt, superintendent of the
Kansas division of the Rock Island. is
in Topeka today on an inspection trip.
Permits were given to G. G, Hall by
the city today to make additions to
dwellings at 108 and 112 Kious street
and 1904 North Kansas avenue.
All trains from the east were few
minutes late in arriving at the Rock
Island station this morning, due prob
ably, to the weather conditions.
An overheated furnace in an apart
ment at Sel Topeka avenue, resulted
in a small fire that was extinguished
by the fire department at l o'clock
Thursday afternoon.
A concert to be given tonight by the
Wiser Concert and Jubilee company is
under the auspices of the Second
Christian church. A variety of inter-
esting numbers is promised.
Pay for judges, clerks and for room
rent for election boards will be ready
at the office of the county clerk. Tues
day, November 16. Three hundred
and fifty checks will be made for the
purpose.
A musical entertainment will be
given at the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. at 8
o'clock tonight by the Crosby Brothers
music department. The association is
planning weekly entertainments for the
fall and winter.
A Spanish club organized at Wash
burn this week under the supervision
of DR.. p. S. Zampierre is headed by
III. Lee Jones, presidents Katherine
Ewing, vice president, and Mary Edna
Neii' secretary
A thirty-five piece washburn band
wearing new uniforms is expected to
be on the football field for the Wash
rburD-K. S. A. c. game Thanksgiving
Day. The uniforms were paid for by
a tag day at the college.
The offices of the legal department.
the engineering department, and other
quarters on the second floor Of the
Rock Island depot are being repaint-
ed ard refurnished, as well as the cor
ridors of the second floor.
H. B. Wilson, formerly superintend-
ent of schools in Topeka, may be given
the position of superintendent in
Philadelphia, according to word reach
ing Topeka. If elected to the position,
Wilson will receive salary of $12,-
geo.
The new asphalt plant for the city
street department has arrived, accord
ing to W. 8. Hancock, city commits
sioner of streets With the old asphalt
plant the city will be well equipped
to repair pavement. The cost of the
new plant was $4,000.
A. P. Croker, e66 Underwood ave-
nue., a representative of the Schick
Manufacturing company. was injured
Wednesday at Grand Valley, Colo, in
a derailment on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad. Crookers injuries
are believed to have consisted of
bruises only.
Motion pictures of the world con-
ference of Boy Scouts will be shown
at the Boy Scout executive council
meeting of Topeka at the Central Y.
NJ. C. A, December 1. Scouts and
their friends will be admitted free.
There are more than $500 boys of
scout age in Topeka, it is estimated by
Executive j. H. Fazel.
Interest and faith in spiritual heal
ing is being manifested every two
weeks at Grace Cathedral by sew
enty-five more sick and afflicted per-
sons, according to Dean Jas P. deb.
Kaye, rector of the cathedral, who has
been conducting the services. The
next healing mission will be held Sun
day afternoon at AIS o'clock.
Topeka Rotarians and their wives
will visit the WakaNusa grange tonight,
leaving Topeka at 1880 o'clock. Sew
eral members of the club will speak
at the regular meeting of the grange.
The visit is the first of a series which
is planned for the winter, with the
object of getting better acquainted
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