The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-19
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AT HOME NEWS


| Co, 534 Kansas avenne--Adv.
Miss Margaret Ripley, a Washburn
sophomore, is conducting the Wash
burn girls gymnasium classes during
the sickness of Miss Katisue Moore.
Nine cultures were positive out of
eighty six diphtheria examinations
taken at Lincoln grade school Monday
afternoon by the city health depart
ment.
The Santa Fe railroad has filed APP
plication with the public utilities COM
mission asking authority for discon-
tinuance of trains Nos. 37-318 on the
Florence Winfield branch.
H. A. Anderson of Holton$has pur-
chased the building located at 521-
523 Quincy street from H. A. Kinsley,
manager of the Kaw Paving company,
for a consideration of $4,000.
The first of a series of alI-school
picnics for this year will be held Fri
day evening by Washburn students,
according to announcements made to-
day by student council members.
A council of social agencies will be
organized in Topeka soon. The coun-
Gil will include the Provident associa-
ton, Y. NJ. c. A. Y. w. C. A., Public
Health Nursing association and other
groups.
Blocks on Which We Build" is the
subject of Charles S. Morris, Jr., a
will address the church fair at the
Second Baptist church, North Topeka,
at 8 O'Clock Thursday night.
Playground apparatus has been in
stalled at all the schools, according to
A. J. Stout, superintendent of schools
Portable slides have been installed.
Hereafter all equipment will be locked
as the pupils wish to use it after
school hours and do not go home.
A $4,000 damage suit brought
against the Kansas City Railways com
pany by Rachel Dixon, who claims to
have been hurt in a street car accident
in Kansas City last May, was trans
ferred from the Wyandotte county dis
triet court to the federal court here
today.
Fifteen dollars was taken from the
cash register in the Flad & Marsh
drug store, 607 Kansas avenue. last
night by burglars who entered the
building by breaking the glass in the
rear door, according to a. report to
the police this morning. Nothing else
was missed.
Two prizes one of SIS, the other of
$40, have been offered by DR.. Charles
NJ. Sheldon for the best essay on 1.-THE
Causes of War" to be written by
members of the Washburn chapter of
the American College Quill club. The
essays must not exceed 500 words and
will be judged as to clearness and
brevity of expression.
Rev. S. S. Estey, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church addressed the To-
peka high school assembly this morn
ing on the subject, "Will Power" He
stated that many pupils who were bril-
liant and had vivid Imagination sue
ceeded in their school work, but when
they got onto the highway of life they
failed because of lack of will power
The thirty-six hour war waged by
the police, beginning last Saturday
noon, on autoists driving without tail
lights. with improper headlights,
speeding, parking too long and yiolat-
ing other traffic laws, Melted the city
$3.50 in police court Tuesday after
noon. More than ninety persons were
arrested and most of them were fined
from SIS to $40.
Mrs. June R. Chapman will sing.
our World Is a Great Child Garden"
before the Garden, the Gate and the
Key" pictures which are to be shown
Friday evening at z o'clock at the
truth reading rooms, Ill West Sixth
avenue Screen pictures depicting
scenes in the Unity School of Chris
tlanlty Will be shown, and explained.
on the same evening by Harold q.
Kellogg of Kansas City.
A free circulating library of 325
DOCKS has been established at the Pei
letters store for the purpose of assist
ing mothers in training their children
and for supplying children with weIf
selected books. The books were care
fully selected, 200 of them being for
children and 125 for mothers. No fee
IS charged unless the book is kept
more than two weeks, when a fine of
CENT day is assessed.
The Capitol Securities company,
which will take over the business and
securities of the Southwest Securities
company, for which a receiver was
appointed recently, is being organized
in Topeka and officers will be elected
in a few days, according to Michael
Sorensen, vice president of the old
company. The company will capital
iZe at $4,000, with a 100000 line of
reserve credit, it was stated.
C. r. Webster, of the international
committee of the Y. NJ. C. A, who has
recently returned from India, made
an address on the subject, India in
Transition" Tuesday night at the Y.
NJ. Q. A. He stated that since the
war 100000 ex-soldiers have returned
to their homes in India and they de-
sire better homes and schools as we'll
as other civic improvements. G, G.
Titus, former secretary. Spoke of the
work of George Lerrigo at Canton,
China.
The Rev. Father Frederick sieden-
burg, S. J.. member of the Loyala uni
versity>faculty, Chicago, will deliver a
lecture to the Spalding club, Novem-
Der z. This will be the first lecture
Of the Spalding club series. A rum
mage sale will be held October 81 and
% at 219 East Fourth street. Mrs. F.
z. Whitney and Mrs. w. c. Fox are in
charge of the collection of donations.
A Halloween party will be given Oc-
tober 81 at the Knights of Columbus
hall. It will be a costume affair."
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