The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-10
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AT HOME NEWS

The Topeka public library will be
closed all day Wednesday, October IL,
in honor of Columbus day.
Sweet Cider, wholesale and retail
Custom grinding every day. Diamond
Bottling Works, 2201 Lincoln St.
Phone S17S.-Adv.
The fifth grade school football
team won game from the Cub
Scouts sixth and seventh grades at
Ninth street and Topeka boulevard
Monday evening. 81 to s.
The sophomore and suo-sophomore
classes of Topeka high school will
president Two candidates for this
office tied in a recent election.
Members of Lincoln circle No. 1,
Ladies of the G. A. R., will present
a patriotic program at IL o'clock
Wednesday morning at the Kansas
Industrial and Educational institute.
Mrs. Isaac Sewell, superintendent
of the children's division of the Kan
sas Sunday School association, will
speak at the Minnesota state Sunday
school convention at Minneapolis,
next week.
Tryouts for boys who wish to be-
come members of the Topeka high
school Junior dramatic club will be
held Wednesday afternoon. Ten more
boys are needed in the club, according
to Miss Grace Bixler, adviser.
The fire department was called this
morning to put out fire at Twentieth
street and Kansas avenue which proved
to be barrel of oil. A false alarm
was answered at lot Doughitt avenue,
at 9:35 o'clock this morning.
Vic Plants. detective on the city
police force, has leased the building
at 1000 East Crane street and will
open a restaurant there, which will be
in charge of Mrs. Plants during the
time when the Deceive Is on duty.
The report of the police judge to the
city commission shows a total of
s1,502.64 in fines for the month of
August and $1.345 for September. The
city license collector collected fees
amounting to $739.31 for September.
The district older boys conference,
which was scheduled to be held in To-
peka, the early part of December, has
cording to B. V. sdworthy, boys
work secretary of the state Y. NJ. C. A.
Mrs Vincent Pitt, 400 Underwood
avenue, will entertain Lodge No. 169.
of the WoInen's Auxiliary of the In
ternational Association of Machinists.
at her home at o'clock, Wednesday
evening. The meeting will be purely
social.
The Assumption grade school foot
ball team defeated the Lion Piungers
of Harrison school, IL to 6, atFCity
park Monday afternoon. The AS
sumption grades will play Sacred
Heart grades at City park Friday
afternoon.
A fire clown will appear in the To-
week, according to A. J. Stout, super
intendent of schools. He will be
brought here by, Joseph Hanlon,s city
fire marshal. The clown appeared in
the schools last year.
Members of the board of educa-
ton have practically decided to start
condemnation proceedings in order to
the city school children. Many of the
sites are being held for what is said
to be unreasonable prices.
There will be a meeting of the To-
peka Letter Carriers association at
the Chamber of Commerce at o'clock
this evening. at which time the car
riers will consider plans for the forth
coming state convention of postal en-
ployes to be held in Topeka next
month.
Thirty per cent of the children in
the public schools are now depositing
money in the Topeka school savings
system as compared with twenty per
cent at the opening of school. Ninety
seven per cent of the Washington
school students have opened savings
accounts.
Earl McCaslin, a senior in Topeka
high school, broke the school record
for pull ups on the high horizontal
bar by completing thirty-two in a
physical efficiency test conducted re-
Gently by Victor Hurt, physical di-
rector. The former record was
twenty-five.
The Mis- Chiefs, an organization of
the girls of the senior class in To-