The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-25

paste under the wheels of the street
cars, and the tracks have to be sanded
or traffic is ''blowed up"
The Topeka high school second
football team will play the Lecompton
high school Friday afternoon In Le-
compton. The second squad, under
the direction of c. A. Hays, coach, has
been practicing hard this week against
the first team. =
Members of a committee to choose
invitation cards for the graduation
exercises Of the sub-senior and senior
classes of Topeka high school, to be
held next spring. are: Harold Carr,
James Griffith, Anna Louise Cassler,
Gwen Flora, Louise Haupt and Kath-
crime Peterson.
Apparatus to demonstrate the ma
chine switchins telephone system to
be used soon in Topeka will be erected
on the stage of the Topeka high school
auditorium on Friday, November 8, in
order to show the high school students
how the new automatic telephones
will be operated. The demonstration
will be made before an assembly of
the entire student body.
Robert Akers and Albert Davis will
be the official representatives of the
Topeka High School World at the high
school Journalism conference to be
held November II and IS in Lawrence,
under the auspices of the Kansas uni
versity department of journalism.
Other Representatives from Topeka
will probably be George Weaver and
Park Cain. Either Miss Ruth Hunt
or c. A. Hays will be the faculty rep
resentative.
Members of the Dramatic club of
Washburn college will make their
first public appearance of the season
the week of November 81. THE Dover
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The second rehearsal will be held the
lattr part of this week. The entire
cast with the exception of four minor
characters has been selected. Mem
bers of the cast are: Earl Brehn. Ed
McIllhenny Miss Helen Thomas. Miss
and Charles Curry. Prof E. D. Schon-
berger is coaching the club.
A letter addressed to Amy School
Child in Topeka" was received re-
Gently at Topeka high school. The
letter was from Lucille Eldridge, of
Bakersfield, Cal, inviting some school
child to visit California. 1t was wri-
nor of California as California Invita-
ton Day. On this day each school
child in California is to write to a
pupil in some other state and invite
him to California. The letter received
at the high school building described
State.
Tom Powelrs setter pup slapped
over lot of traditions about the
canniness loyalty. and instinct of the
dog family, Tuesday. Tom and an
other man had taken the pup auto
mobile riding down the Burlingame
road when bad luck overlook them,
his host were out fixing the tire, a
Ford rambled by, and the setter pup
drifted over the hill after the Ford
laboring apparently under the i'm
preston that his master had joined it.
Pursuit was unavailing, and now Ton,
is ADVERTISING for the dog which wore
a collar and a Topeka license tag.
Only eight enrollments for the class
in advertising which is to be carried
on during the next fifteen weeks in
Topeka by the extension division of
the University of Kansas, were made
at the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
night. 1t is believed by Guy V. Keller,
secretary of the division. that the low
registration was due to misunder-
standing on the part OF some of the
men who intend to take the course.
The first lecture is to be given tonight
at the Chamber of Commerce by Prof.
L. n. Flint, of the journalism depart
ment of Kansas university. Previous
to the lecture enrollments for the
course will be made ct the Chamber
of Commerce at Gas o'clock this
evening.
The formulation of a uniform scale
of retail prices for numerous articles
sold in drug stores, for which there is
now no fixed price, was discussed at
the regular weekly meeting and
luncheon of the Shawee County Phar-
maceutical association. held at the
Chamber of Commerce at noon today.
1t was pointed out that the varying
and irregular prices which are
charged in different drug stores for
noying to the public. F. J. Weed of
Kansas City, representative of the
American Drug Syndicate, addressed
the druggists. In addition to being
the representative OF a large whole
sale drug concern, Weed is an accom-
plished story-teller. and entertained
the druggists after luncheon today.