The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-08
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Girls of the Washburn college Y.
w c. A. are raising money for the
association by selling peanuts and
popcorn at the football games.
The Truth reading room, Ill West
Sixth avenue is now open to the pub
lie, according to announcement today.
Glasses are held Mondays and Thurs
days of each week.
Miss Bonita Ferguson of the Kansas
Sunday School association will attend
the annual convention of Mitchell
County Sunday School association at
Beloit, October IL and H.
The Homecoming week at the Low
man Memorial Methodist church
ended Friday evening with a supper
in the church basement and a lecture
by DR.. H. E. Wolfe, secretary of the
Wichita area.
The pupils of Wanamaker school
will give an entertainment Friday
evening. October IA, in the school
After the entertainment the ladies of
the Wanamaker Ladies' club will serve
refreshments
Delegations representing all the So
cial, religious, fraternal and civic
bodies of the city will attend the mass
meeting at Labor hall, 41S Kansas
avenue, this evening to formulate
plans for Armistice day.
The Empire Cream Separator COM
pany of Bloomfield, Conn, today filed
a petition in the district court asking
Judgment of 1,533 against the Farm
ers Creamery & Ice Cream company
of Topeka for goods it claims to have
delivered.
Tonight will be Santa Fe Night"
at the gospel meetings being conduct
ed by DR.. John F. Harmon at the
Trinity Methodist church. A large
number of young people attended the
young peoples night, which was held
Friday evening.
Topeka chapter No. 8, Royal Arch
Masons, will confer the Royal Arch
degree Monday on class of thirty.
The work will begin at SEAS o'clock
in the morning and will continue thru
out the day. The degree will be con-
ferred on three more classes this year.
NJ. H. Mexican of the State Y. NJ.
C. A. will address the Washburn Sun
day evening open forum on the sub
ject, Finding the Laborer Thru Con-
tact" Sunday evening. The forum
meets every Sunday evening at $50
o'clock at the Central Congregational
church.
The Baraca class of the First Evan
gelical Sunday school held its annual
banquet and election of officers Fri
day evening. The following officers
were elected: Paul Breithaupt, presi-
dent; Otto Lott, vice-president; Ralph
Burkholder, secretary, and Aurelle
Fluke, treasurer.
George A. Whitcomb, former Wash
burn student, is editing the Well
Country Journal. The paper is pub
lished for tuberculosis patients in the
hospitals of New Mexico and nearby
states. He is a patient in the Presby-
terrain sanitarium 1t Albuquerque. He
is the son of Judge and Mrs. George
H. Whitcomb of Topeka.
DR.. c. F. Kent, professor of biblical
literature at Yale university, will
speak at the first Washburn college
vesper service of the year at 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon, and at the college
chapel services Monday morning. He
will go to K. S. A. c. at Manhattan
for meetings October IL and -, and
to Kansas State Normal at Emporia
October 10.
Mrs. P. P. Womer, wife of the presi-
dent of Washburn college, does not
look upon an autom obile tour of the
state as hardship. She left Topeka
last Wednesday to join her husband
at Wichita, and will accompany him
thru western Kansas. He is visiting
friends of the college in the interest
Of the 100000 addition to the endow-
ment fund, OF this amount, $4,000
already has been pledged.
ISOLATION and Farmers conference
which will be held at the Kansas In
duStrial and Educational institute No
Vember and 8, was completed today.
The students at the institute are al
ready preparing for the conference.
Secretary Arthur Emery reports that
there will be a large delegation. from
Douglas county. w. M. Foster is
planning an old fashioned farmers
barbecue.
Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery,
who is author of q number OF mission
study books, and who was recently
elected president of the Northern Bap-
fist convention at Des Moines, Iowa,
Will be the guest of the state Baptist
convention at Topeka Wednesday and
Thursday of next week. She will ad-
dress the women of the city at the
First Presbyterian church Wednesday
afternoon at 4:50 o'clock. All women
of the city are invited to hear Mrs
Montgomery and to meet her here.
what was done at Detroit?" The
Rev. Clifton Merritt Gray, pastor of
the First Unitarian church at GA To-
peka boulevard, will use this topic
Sunday morning at the IL o'clock serV-
ice. The Rev. Mr.. Gray has been in
Detroit during the week, attending
Unitarian churches of the United
States and Canada, and will bring to
his congregation tomorrow an account
Of the most significant things said and
done at that important gathering. The
subject is one of interest to all and
the church extends a cordial invita-
ton to the public to attend.
Several Topeka high school boys
narrowly escaped death or serious in
jury about 4:30 o'clock Friday after
noon when Cadillac limousine
driven by Harold Mckee, 1916 Brooks
avenue, turned upon its side in the
front yard at 1147 Brooks avenue
Mckee. it was said, hurtled the big
car over the curb in a successful at
tempt to dodge a Ford car at the
corner of Brooks and Munson avenues
Mckee was driving north on Brooks
when the Ford appeared, coming west
down Munson. Mckee slid his tires
for fifteen feet. but the big car went
over the curb and turned over. Altho