The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-21

noon at the Y w. c. A The subject
will be 1.-The Fail of Man" The Rev.
A. E. Gregory is teacher.
improvements, including new Sun
! day school rooms, are under way at
the First Congregational church, and
the work is expected to be finished
! before severe cold weather arrives.
Sparks from a chimney set fire to
! the roof of the residence Of r. E.
Baker. Ills West Eighth avenue. at
2:30 o'clock this afternoon. The fire
was extinguished with but sligh
| damage.
| The community cooperative ZAP
| parel Event" which has been fur
| thered by the clothing merchants for
| the past week, has been very success
full, according to the merchants par
| ticipating.
w. B. Collinson, chief clerk in the
| office of the general manager of the
| Santa Fe, returned to work this morn
| ing after spending several days at
| Houston, Tex, where he was called
| by the sudden death of his father.
| Preparations are being made by the
members of the Topeka Merchants
| association for the second Dollar
| Day of the year-November %. All
merchants of the association will par
ticipate in the Dollar Day." a week
| from today.
| The Rev. James H. Sutton, pastor
of the Euclid Avenue Methodist
| church, will deliver the sermon at
the union Thanksgiving service. in
| Guiding six churches, at the West
| minister Presbyterian church, Thurs
| day morning.
From five to twenty-one years in
| the state reformatOry at Hutchinson
was the sentence received Saturday by
Earl Dspain, convicted of statu-
tory crime in the district court sew
eral weeks ago. Dspain's motion for
a new tried was overruled.
| A fire truck from No. 5 station and
a Lowman Hill street car collided at
| Tenth avenue and Lane street about
| $40 o'clock Sunday night. The truck
was responding to a fire in the Low
man Hill district. No one was injured
and the truck was not damaged, but
| the street car lost fender.
The teams captained by R. D.
| Jencks and c. A. Marker continue to
| lead in the Business Mems Noon Vol
| leybaH league which is held at the
Central Y. NJ. c. A, having won three
| tanned by C. E. EIdridge and L. A. Cor
| lis has won one and lost three.
The Women's Home Missionary So
| ciety of the Lowman Memorial church
| held its annual thank offering Sun
day. The amount received was s385.
| A similar one at the First Presby-
| terrain church amounted to $500 and
one at the Euclid Avenue Methodist
| church amounted to $3.50.
| Plans for the beginning of the first
| section of the new church edifice and
a financial campaign will be discussed
| at a meeting of the building commit
| tee of the Euclid Avenue Methodist
| church, in the church parlors tonight.
| The EpWorth league will hold a car
| niva1 at the church Friday night.
| Harry Holm, 16, of 314 Monroe
| street, acted as his own detective
/ r. h -
| days ago. He traced the wheel to
| the home of Delbert Seybold, Is, of
121 Monroe street, and took Seybold
| to the police station where he was
placed under arrest and turned over
| to juvenile court officials.
Today is the last chance for anyone
on Washburn campus to emain IN.
| acquainted with his fellow students
The Y. NJ. c. A. and Y. W. G. A. are
promoting Hello week" In the two
days of school remaining before
| Thanksgiving vacation, every student
is supposed to shout Hello to every
| other student he meets. The campus
is ringing with saIutations.
A special entertainment will be
given Thanksgiving night at the Rail
road Y. NJ. c. A. to get the shopmen
interested in the work of the ~ &C
cording to Thomas E. Prout, general
secretary of the Railroad Y. NJ. C. A.
Rose GiIberg- Nutter. mezzo-soprano,
will sing a number of songs She will
be assinsted by Mrs. Carl McGrew, So
prano, and Miss Lena Anderson, Vio-
linist.
Topeka dentists will meet at the
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday even
ing to have dinner and to discuss plans
for the revival of a dentists organiza-
ton which was formerly active in the
city's professional circles A feature
of the program will be an address by
DR.. Richard Summa, of Kansas City,
Mo. The meeting will be informal,
and dinner will be served at $50
O'Clock.
A woman driving a. Lexington car
ran her machine into a trolley pole on
the north side of West Sixth avenue
Sunday afternoon at about 1 o'clock,
smashing the pole and damaging her
machine. She was injured only to the
| extent of a few cuts and bruises. The
! front of her machine was badly
smashed, but the motor was uninjured
The woman was nearly Frustrated by
| the shock and her injuries. Her name
was not learned.
Forty boys who are members of the
| delegation which will represent To-
peka at the Older Boys conference
which will be held at Emporia. No
vember rs, &c and 27, held a meeting
Sunday afternoon at the Central Y. NJ
| G. A. B. V. EdWorthy, state boys
work secretary of the Y. NJ. c. A.
gave the boys their final instructions
| in regard to attending the confer
! ence. 1t is probable that the Topeka
| delegation will be increased to fifty
boys.
Confiding to John Martin. merchant
| policeman, that he had returned to
Topeka TO keep the law from get
ting him" proved to be a fatal mistake
| for Paul Cameron. Martin met Cam
eron at the rear of the Dibble grocery
store in North Topeka Saturday night
and when the latter made his confes-
sion, arrested him and took him to
police headquarters Cameron later
admitted that he escaped from the
Idaho state penitentiary last August,
| officers said.
IF we believe in the doctrine of
evolution, if we accept the verdict of
| history II we open our eyes to the
plain. eYerv-dav facts Of LIZ NJ -.