The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-05
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Marshall's band will give municipal
concert in Garfield park Friday night.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co., 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
There will be a special meeting of
the Public Health Nursing association
Wednesday afternoon, July 6, at
O'Clock.
The regular stated meeting of the
Round Table chapter of De Molay will
be held at the Masonic temple tonight
at 1880 o'clock.
George z. Lyons, corresponding sec
rotary of the Kansas Christian Mis-
sionary society, and Mrs. Lyons, will
leave this week for months vacation
in Colorado.
The regular meeting of the board of
directors of the Topeka Merchants
association was held at noon today at
the Chamber of Commerce. Only rou-
tine business was discussed.
The communicable disease report of
DIR. Earle G. Brown, city health OF
ficer. for the week ending today in
cluded nine cases of social disease,
three of tuberculosis, two of chicken
pox. one of measles and one of scarlet
fever.
An attempt to commit suicide by
drinking some fumigating liquid, was
made by Charles Webster, a prisoner
prolonged spasms and bleeding at the
mouth, but finally improved. He will
recover. it is said. He was Jailed on
a charge of being drug habitue.
John d. Zimmerman. superintend-
ent of the Bible schools of the Chris
tan churches of Kansas, will leave this
week for Lake Geneva, Wis, where he
will attend a ten-day session of the In
ternationaI Sunday School association
training school. Zimmerman will fill
several speaking dates before arriving
at Lake Geneva.
Street car employees are entitled to
the use of the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A.
phasized at the railroad association
building, Fourth avenue and Adams
street The Railroad Y. NJ. G. A. has
grown steadily since it was built in
1903. 1t originated in several old box
cars on the Santa Fe tracks with a
few members and has developed until
1t has membership of 500.
A duck pin tournament was started
today at the Central Y. NJ. C. A.
Twelve players have already regis
tered and more have expressed de-
sire to enter the tournament, accord
ing to Rodney Palmer. physical di-
rector. Each entry will bowl ten
matches or thirty games. The player
having the highest total score for
the thirty games will receive a gold
medal. The tournament closes Aug
ust l.
Floyd John Evans and his wife, two
Topeka evangelists, who have been
very successful in securing CONVEX
sions, are in Topeka for a short rest,
after conducting a series of revivals
in a number of Missouri towns. Mr..
and Mrs. Evans have made a record
of more than one thousand CONVEX
sions since they left Topeka last sum-
mer. The evangelists will conduct a
revival in a large tabernacle at Eureka
Springs, NO, in the near future.
Rodney D. Palmer, physical director
of the Central Y. M. G. A., and Ralph
Ayrault, boys work secretary, will
take a party of more than one hun
bred boys on a hike Thursday.
The party will leave til Y. NJ. C. A.
at 7o'clock Thursday morning. They
will be gone all day. returning late in
the afternoon in time for a swim in
the Y. M. c. A. pool. All boys between
the ages of 10 and ~ years who wish
to go on this hike are requested to be
at the Y. NJ. c. A. Thursday morning
at o'clock. Bring your lunch and wa
ter bottle.
In a Ford car he has used since
1912, Addison Payne, a tourist at
Gage park, has spent the last three
years travelling in the southwest,
from Missouri to California, and in
| that time has never slept in a house.
His Ford car is equipped with tent
and other camping equipment and 1t
has been his home every day of the
! last three years. His home is in Sui
| Ivan county, Missouri. He was ad-
vised to live in the open three years
ago, when he was thought to have
| had tuberculosis. He expects to re-
turn strong and well to his home in a
| short time.