The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-11
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The membership committee of the
| Y. w. c. A. will hold its monthly meet
ing at the association building at 1880
O'Clock Wednesday morning. -
The De Molay football team de
| feated the Santa Fe office team by
day evening at League park.
The Hi-Y club of Topeka high
school met Monday night at the Cen
! trail Y. NJ. C. A. j. &. r. Barnes,
coach, spoke on clean athletics
The board of directors of the Public
Health Nursing association will hold
their regular monthly meeting at
! O'Clock Wednesday afternoon in the
council room at the city hall.
J.R. Smiley, local supervisor of the
federal board for vocational training,
addressed the Square Circle club,
Monday night on the work of his de-
| partment. John D. Floyd, Boy Scout
executive. talked on the principle of
that organization.
Mrs. June r. Chapman has been ap-
pointed Kansas field secretary of the
National kindergarten association. She
has been one of the foremost kinder
garten workers in Kansas. She will
Topeka schools and will do her work
by correspondence.
The Sunday school athletic assoeia=
ton met Monday evening at the Cen
trail Y. NJ. C. A. Eighteen churches
were represented. There will be three
separate leagues this year. They are:
| senior junior and Intern ediate. The
games will be played Tuesday, Friday
and Saturday evenings, beginning
November 1.
The Kiwanis club held a meeting
Monday night at the Chamber of Com
merce. Dinner was served at $3.50
! o'clock. The members and their wives
were entertained by two colored actors.
! George Stansfield, president of the Vic
tory Highway association, addressed
| the club on the roposed~transcontl
mental highway.
At the annual reunion of the
Twentieth Kansas infantry, held Mon
| dav at Moose hall, the following off
GERS were elected: R. D. Holland,
| president; Isle MeElhinney, vice
| president, and J. J. Corkhill, secretary
| and treasurer. The date for the 1922
reunion was set for October 8. It Will
be held in Topeka.
The grading system at Topeka high
school has been changed. This has
been done to clear up the confusion
that resulted from the old system.
| Instead of e. &C. '.V c. ''F"' and
"P," the figures l, 2, 3, and will
| be used. Zone" will stand for excellent
work; two" for good; three for
medium; -four" for fair, and "five"
for failure.
| The second biennial report of the
Kansas highway commission for the
years 1919 and 1920 is just off the
press 1t will be distributed gratis to
county engineers and commissioners,
Ito members of the legislature and
Iothers upon request. according to I.
W. Watson, state highway engineer.
The report contains 270 pages, and is
a complete survey of road building
construction for the period.
Adj. Gen. Charles I. Martin has been
summoned to conference of the
| eight state adjutants general in the
Seventh corps area, to be he'd at
Fort Crook, Neb., October 21.sa Mai.
general, and possibly one or two other
staff officers will accompany General
! Martin. Plans for greater co-opera-
ton between the regular army,
National Guard and organized reserves
will be discussed at the conference.
At a meeting of the boarl of edu-
cation Monday night the plan for a
new junior high school building at
| Thirteenth street and Boswell avenue
| was discussed anG the contract for the
| plans was awarded to Charles D. Cuth-
| bert. Other architects who submitted
|
| Williamson & Co., W. E. Glover. T. c.
Squires and Joseph Marshall. The
| building will be erected at a cost of
| $4,000 and will be one of the most
modern in Kansas. Construction on
! the building is scheduled to begin
| early in the spring.
1.-THE comfort that comes from cor
recting wrong in the world, the atti-
tude toward life that is right, and pro-
duction of noble deeds, the joy of
creating. all these would produce a
feeling of content and joy in the
world" The above was the statement
made by Prof. G. F. Kent, of the
Biblical literature department of Yale
university in an address on Jesus, the
! Way to Happiness given at Wash burn
college Monday afternoon. Professor
Kent held a conference with several
Topeka ministers following his address
! at chapel Monday m orning. He left
! Monday evening for Manhattan, where
| he will speak today and tomorrow to
| the student bodies of the State Agri-
cultural college.
| According to the monthly report of
| the Provident association baths were
provided for ninety-tWo persons.
| Transportation amounting to $25.77
was given to four persons. Thirty
| pieces of furniture were given away
as well as 377 articles of clothing and
shoes. Only eight children were cared
for in the day nursery. Two women
| were given beds in the dornitory. The
number of men securing beds was 1902.
Fourteen meals were served in the
/ building and 1876 meals at restaurants
were provided. Investigations report
| ed were 442. The total disbursements
I amounted to s311.69 and bills to be
allowed amounted to SSS3.s9. Previous
loans repaid amounted to S46.22. The
receipts of the day nursery amounted
to s11.s0.