The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-14
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Social dance Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, Warnick's, 526-2S Quincy.
ADV.
All issues Of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
| Co.. 534 Kansas avenIia.-Adv
Miss Ruby. Miss Eva and Miss Ethel
| May will give an entertainment Tues
day night at the Indian Creek grange.
Sparks ignited the roof of the house
at las Emmett street, belonging to R.
H. Thompson, shortly after 1 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. The damage was
slight.
DR.. C. B. Zook and DR.. George Sat
terlee left Sunday for Detroit, Mich,
where they will attend the annual ma
tional conference of the benevolent
boards of the Methodist church.
The work of rebuilding the new
First Methodist church is progressing
rapidly and the new heating plant will
be installed this week, according to
DR.. E. J. Kulp, pastor of the church.
The Benjamin Franklin council Of
| the American Association for the
| Recognition of the Irish Republic will
hold a meeting at 1880 o'clock this
evening at Klingaman's hall, 11S East
Sixth avenue.
Mrs. B. NJ. Webb, matron of the city
| Jail, addressed the Washburn Sunday
| Evening Open Forum, Sunday eve
ming at the Central Congregational
| church on the subject THE Church
and the Down and Outer"
Thirty-seven persons attended the
first meeting of the Esperanto class
which was held Saturday evening at
the Y. NJ. c. A. Mrs. A. A. Austin has
been secured as instructor and the
class will meet every Saturday night.
Ralph Ayrault, assistant boys work
secretary of the z. NJ. c. A, will ad-
dress the Hi-Y club of Topeka high
school at it's meeting at the Central
Y. NJ. C. A. at o'clock this evening,
according to Jack Brewster, president
of the club.
Alleging that she went to California
a year ago and has since refused to
return and live with him. Walter E.
Goodnow today filed petition in the
district court asking a divorce from
Irene Goodnow. They were married
at st. Joseph in June. 1913.
Tomorrow evening is American
Legion night at the Cooperative club
meeting at the Elks club at 6:15
o'clock. Announcements sent out by
W. R. Faulkner, secretary, state that
Joe Nickel and the American Legion
boys will have charge of the program.
It's details are not divulged.
Very little change in the condition
of L. c. Marriott, street car motor
man who was shot by a negro high
wayman at the end of the cemetery
car line three weeks ago, has taken
place during the last few days, it was
reported today. Mariott's condition
has been quite serious during the last
week and his chances for recovery are
still uncertain, physicians stated.
Norman Smith. II, of 135 Harrison
street, was painfully injured about 6
o'clock Sunday evening when he was
struck by a motor car, said to be
owned by E. z. Allsup, S64 Kellam
avenue, between Hancock and Klein
streets on East Fourth avenue The
new bicycle which the boy was riding
at the time was almost demolished,
it was said. His injuries were not
serious.
The Y. w. C. A. and Y. NJ. C. A.
will hold mixer Friday, November
%, at the 7. w. C. A. for the mem
bers of the associations and all the
girls and boys of the city who wish to
completed. The members of the pro-
gram committee are: Mrs. N. J. Petro,
Mrs. J. B. Whelan, Mrs. W. A. Fieger,
Miss Julia Keller, r. D. Palmer and
E. B. Breithaupt.
A booklet on Canada has been is
sued to all pupils in the city schools
studying geography, according to A.
was issued by J, A. Calder, minister
of immigration and colonization of
Canada. Fifteen hundred copies were
placed in the schools free of charge.
The booklet is the most up to date
geography on Canada and contains an
excellent world map as well as a map
of the United States and one of Can
ada.
The dope pot of the Sunday School |
Basketball league was upset Saturday
night as some of the weaker teams
staged a comeback and played a good |
brand of basketball The results of !
the games Saturday night are as fol-
lows: Intern ediate league: Lowman, |
81, First Methodist 10; Westminster, |
20, Evangelical, Is; United Presby |
terrain, 80, East Side Methodist, 5. |
Senior league: United Presbyterian, !
81, United Brethren, 16; First Baptist, |
20, Central Park, 4. Junior league: |
First Methodist, 81; East Side Metho- |
dist, 4; Trinity, Is, First Baptist, 4; |
Central Congregational, So, First |
Christian, 2; Lowman, 10, Westmin-
ster, 6.
"Pittsburg to Frisco" is the inscrip- |
ton attached to the kits of H. E. Dali
Ian and S. ]. Cooper, world war vet
Grams, who are hiking from Kansas
City to San Francisco. Dallan's home |
is Youngstown, Ohio, and Cooper's is I
at Pittsburg, Penn. They are making |
their expenses by selling copies of the |
song America Is Proud of You" This !
song was adopted by the American /
Legion at It's national convention at /
Kansas City, Mo. 1t was written by
]. Hills of Kansas City and was dedi-
Gated to Arthur Maloney post, No. SO,
of that city. They left Kansas City fol-
lowing the convention, came to Topeka
via Olathe, OSawatomie, Ottawa and I