The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-05
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The April meeting of the Rota club
is TO be held in the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce at noon We'd
nesday. >
At the county regional meeting of
the W. C. I. Z. Thursday and Friday
at the Swedish Bethel mission. Mrs.
Eta Sadier Shaw of Michigan will be
the principal speaker.
A total of $1,000 was raised of the
Topeka quota of $1,000 for the Irish
relief fund as a result of the work of
the Irish relief committee in Topeka
on Monday A meeting will be held
at knights of Columbus hall tonight
at 8 O'Clock to check up results of the
work.
There will be party at Kansas
City, Mo. Friday night for the mem
bers of the Union Pacific Family
League of the Kansas division. Miss
NJ. u. Doering, city ticket agent and
l. c. Coverly and wife are among the
local employees who will attend the
party.
DIR. ]. A. steinmeyer. potenate of
Abdallah shrine, leaves tonight for
Dallas, Tex. where he will attend a
meeting of the national directors of
the Imperial Council of Shriners for
parts of North/America will attend the
Dallas meeting.
The Washburn class in education
taught by Prof. L. d. Whittemore is
making a tour of visits to the class
rooms of the city high school and
students will study the methods and
conditions in the schools, and will
make written reports, to be discussed
in class later.
One of the best addresses ever given
at the Community Training school was
! that of last night by. the Rev. f. w
Harrison of the Third Christian
church. His subject was The Funda-
mentals of Christian Living" Next
Monday evening Mrs. J. Newell Abra-
hams will give a reading, THE Lost
Word" at the assembly period.
C. II. Tobias of New York, interna-
tional secretary for the colored Y. NJ.
c. A, is in Topeka today to assist with
the local colored Y. NJ. c. A. work
and to address the Topeka Educational
and Industrial Institute. He spoke at
the institute this morning and tonight
will be on a program at the Calvary
Baptist church, beginning at 8 O'Clock.
| The Rev. W. H. Young will also be on
| the evening program.
| Following spinal injuries received
when she fell down the basement steps
! in the Topeka high school, Miss Effie
| Hand, teacher of mathematics in the
high school, has been granted a leave
of absence for the remainder of the
| term. Miss Hand attempted to nego-
tate the steps from the first floor to
| the basement last week while the
| building was in. darkness. She fell,
| and has been confined to her home
| since that time as result of the in
| juries she received.
4 Almost the last straw for Mrs. Louis
4 AfnV-T ~
/ son, Raymond Merritt, former cashier
of the Grove State bank. was taken to
| Hutchinson to begin an indeterminate
| sentence for the embezzlement of
| funds. Last week Mrs. Merritt, with
| several other women, was laid off
| from her work at the state printing
| plant, Her husband, now in Cali
| fornia, Is an Invalid and unable Ito
| work. Monday her father, a. veteran
of the Civil war, was buried.
The naturalization service is seek
| ing to locate thousands of ex-service
men in order to send them their GER
| tificates of naturalization. Frank L.
| Campbell, clerk of the United States
district court, has received a letter
| asking him to assist in the work
| Thousands of men were automatically
naturalized at military posts turnout
the country, but their certificates
were withheld. These certificates
can now be obtained from the natu-
rafization examiner at st. Louis.
| John F. Kinkel, senior at X. U. and
| a graduate of the Topeka high school
with the class of 1916, will leave to-
| night for New York, from which point
| he will sail for Venezuela, with party
! of biologists who will prospect for oil
in the South American countries
Kinkel is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John NJ. Kinkel, 1874 Fillmore street
| After graduating with honors from
\ II I.
| course in mining engineering, special
| izing in geology, at the State -univer-
| sity. Another Kansas man and grad
| uate of the State university, Nathan P.
| Isenberger of Salina, has also been
| chosen to accompany the party to
| South America !.