The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-20
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The Young Mems Community Bible
class of the Central Y. NJ. CA. will
take a vacation during the Christmas
holidays
There will be a special meeting of
the board of directors of the Topeka
| Merchants association Thursday at the
Chamber of Commerce.
! The board of directors of the Ger
trail Y. NJ. c. A. will hold its monthly
meeting at a noon luncheon Wednes-
| day at the r. r. Y. NJ. c. A
The Colored Hi-Y club of Topeka
high school is collecting provisions
and will furnish Christmas dinner
to a number of Topeka's needy.
Miss Beth Moder, office secretary
of the Kansas Sunday School associa-
| ton, will spend the Christmas holt
days with her parents at Abilene.
E. V. Edworthy, boys work secre-
tary of the state Y. NJ. c. A, is visiting
the high schools at Hays, Ellis, Abb
lehe and Minneapolis this week on
business for the Y. NJ. c. A.
The students in the printing de-
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| issuing a new eight page publication,
| THE Printing Department Journal
The paper is well edited. c. A. Hays
| is instructor.
The Loyal Tigers class of the Cen
| trail Park Christian church, a high
school boys organization. will meet at
| 7:45 o'clock Wednesday evening. The
topic of the evening will be The Boy
and His Mind
/ A short circuit in a Ford car sent
fire appatatus seurrying to Fourteenth
and Tyler streets at 9:45 O'Clock this
morning. The fire was extinguished
before the. apparatus arrived. witn
slight damage.
Frank G. Richards, general secre-
tary of the Kansas Sunday School as
| ISOLATION, left today for Usage City.
He will meet with a number of Sum
day school officers in the various
parts of the county.
The party of the sub-senior and
senior classes of Topeka high school,
| which was to have been held tonight
has been Indefinitely postponed. The
annual varsity alumni basketball game
will be played instead
Oran Layton, register of deeds, .ad-
dressed the Hi-Y club of Topeka high
school at a meeting Monday night at
the Central Z. NJ. C. A. He urged
the boys to stay with their studies and
commune their
The program and banquet commit
tees of the Hi-Y club of Topeka high
school, who are in charge of the plans
for the County Older Boys confer
ence, which will be held here in jan
uary, will meet at 1880 o'clock Friday
afternoon at the Central Y. NJ. C. A.
The Joe Degand, of North Topeka,
who was arrested Sunday for shooting
craps under the Sardou bridge, is
different party from the Joseph P.
Dagan who lives at zoo North Lake
street. Dagan wants it made plain
that he was not arrested for rolling
the bones"
Miss Bonita Ferguson. superinten-
dent of the young peoples division of
the Kansas Sunday School ssociatien,
will spend Christmas with her parents
in Kansas City. She will speak at the
Illinois Older Boys and Girls confer
ence, which will be held December 80,
81 and January l.
Topeka lodge No. II, A. F. and A.
M, will conduct work in the third
degree all day Wednesday, according
to George w McClelland, secretary
Dinner and supper will be served and
the annual election of officers will be
held. This is the sixty fourth annual
meeting of the lodge.
The headquarters offices of the A. L.
Scott Lumber company. formerly
located in Kansas City. will be moved
to Topeka after January 1, and in
stalled on the second floor of the New
England building. The company
operates a line of retail lumber yards
thruout the country.
I. When Miss Sophia Meize entered her
room at the John Casson home, 1857
Tyler street. Monday, she found a
negro ransacking the room. The man
ran out the front door and escaped,
taking with him 81 he had obtained
sT-rs, E.sT
ing to the report to the police.
An exhibit of rugs, woodwork and
basketry, made by the boys of the in
dustria1 school, is located in the lobby
of the Y. W. G. A. Orders for these
will be taken at the association office.
Ten per cent of the proceeds from the
sale of these articles will be turned
over to the boys who made them.
Word has been received here of the
death of Cordia Denison. the Agar
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs jim
Denison of Gridley, Kan. The child
was killed when struck by a train
Monday. The body was taken to Esk-
ridge for burial. Mrs, Denison was
formerly Miss Virga Zinn of Topeka
All the schools of the city are PLAN
ming special programs for assembly
and the class rooms Wednesday, ac-
cording to A. J. Stout, superintendent
of schools. These programs will in
GluGe the usual u1aAOSueS ana reclta-
tions. The students are trying to keep
their minds on their work today, says
Stout.
The police today were conducting
an unsuccessful search for Charles
Warfield to notify him Of the receipt
of a telegram from his sister, Mrs.
Jessie Miller of Hutchinson, advising
him that his brother, Herbert War
field. was dead there. Late today the
officers had been unsuccessful in To-
eating him.
More than 100 voices viii take part
in the cantata entitled 1.-THE Light Of
the World" which will be given at 8
O'Clock tonight at the Topeka high
school auditoriz1 IA. The feature of the
program will be the antiphonaI sing
ing. The program will be given en-
tirely by the students of the high
school. with the exception of a group
of students from Sumner school.
Paul Flung, a Chinese student at
WaSbbl1ru college is touring nentraI