The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-26
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


Silent reading and spelling tests are
| soon to be given in the ward schools,
according to A. J. Stout, suPerinten-
J dent of city schools.
| kindergarten teachers in the TO-
peka public schools will meet Thure;
| day afternoon with Miss Julia Davis,
city kindergarten supervisor.
| G. NJ Hamilton of Chicago, official
photographer for the Santa Fe, is in
Topeka this week photographing varf-
Gus members of the general staff here
Work, on the washburn student di-
| rectory is proceeding rapidly and 1t
will be completed about October Id,
| according to Miss Hattie Halbert, edi-
| tor.
| Ladies' Auxiliary No. 6, P. P. N. D.
of America, will hold meeting at the
| home of Walter Green, ELS Polk street,
Wednesday evening, September 81
Adv.
| The coIored Hi-Y club of Topeka
| has organized and equipped a football
team which will meer tonight at the
| city park for it's first practice OF the
| season.
| Principals and supervisors of the
Topeka public schools will meet
| Wednesday afternoon in the office of
A. J. Stout, superintendent of public
| schools.
A musical program and p1aylet.
meeting of the wah-na-quah Girls
club of the Toltec Rite at the Masonic
temple Monday night.
| The local chapter of Phi Delta
Delta, woman's legal fraternity. will
hold its first meeting of the year this
| evening at o'clock. Mrs. Harry K.
Allen will be the guest Of the evening.
The members of Mrs. w. w. Boil
lards group of the Missionary society
| of the First Presbyterian church will
| meet with their chairman Thursday
| afternoon at her home, 141S College
| avenue.
| The Fellowship club, composed of
| the dornitory men of the Central Y.
| M. c.. A. will hold its first fall meet
| ing following a supper at $3.50 o'clock
| Wednesday night at the association
| building.
Five thousand identification GER
| tificates for the American Legion con-
| vention at New Orleans will be dis
| trfbuted by the state offices of the or.
ganization to the various posts in
Kansas.
The Topeka court of honor of the
Boy Scout council will hold farewell
| meeting at 1880 o'clock this evening
for John B. Floyd, scout executive,
who is leaving Topeka this week for
| the south.
The Kansas public Utilities COM
| mission has filed application with the
| supreme court seeking rehearing OF
| the Lawrence gas service charge case.
| The suit was decided in favor of the
gas company.
| Mr. and Mrs. Clifford ". Souders
have returned from three months
| trip to California They stopped en-
route at Denver, Colorado Springs,
Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley and
Salt Lake City.
/ The Y. W. c. A. and Y. NJ. c. A of
| Washburn college held membership
meetings this morning. Miss Dorothy
| Higgins presided at the women's
meeting and Dale Sharp was IN charge
of the mems meeting.
All Washburn college men, who are.
members of the Order of De Molayi
will meet Wednesday night at Boswell
| hall for the purpose of perfecting a
new organization. Prof. Albert Hab-
erstro will be- in charge. e
| The Topeka Life Underwriters as,
ISOLATION held a special meeting and
luncheon at the Chamber of Com
merce at noon today, at which Barney
Pearson, a life Insurance expert of
Dallas, Tex. was the speaker.
| Bishop W. Sampson Brooks D. D.
of the sixteenth Episcopal district OF
the A. NJ. E. church. will give an ad-
/ dress at the st. Johns A. M. E. church
| at o. clock tonight. His lecture Will
deal with phases of education.
| J. C. Greenburg, of Evansville. Ind,
of the National Trade Extension hu-
reau, will speak at a meeting of the
plumbing dealers and heating contrac-
tors of Topeka at o'clock this eve
ming at the Chamber of Commerce. z,
| Alan Eustace and Young Gotch will
wrestle at the Valley Falls fair We'd
nesday afternoon, Joe Stecher Will
work against an opponent who hasn't
| been named Thursday afternoon, and
Jack johnson of Topeka will box sew
/ eraI rounds Friday afternoon
Numerous state officials are attend
| ing the Thirty-fifth division reunion,
| in Wichita Among officials in Wich-
tia this week are Governor Allen.
| Charles I. Martin. adjutant general.
| and Milton r. Mclean, assistant adj
jutant general Maj. A. H. Krause,
state house custodian, is also attend
ing the reunion.
C A. Mitchell, quarter on the South
western college eleven at Winfield last
year, a basketball and track man, has
tenrolIed in the sophomore law class
at Washburn college, and will coach
Washburn high school this season. He
gave the Washburn men some training
| in the fundamentals in the practice
Monday evening.
Two hundred and forty chairs to be
used in the kindergarten, ordered last
| summer to be used this fall in the
kindergartens of the Topeka ward
| schools, have just arrived, A. J. Stout,
superintendent of city schools, an
nounced this morning. Cupboards for
supplies will be installed in the kin
dergartens this fall.
w. Y. Morgan, Republican candf-
date for governor, will be the principal
speaker at the annual meeting of the
/ Sunflower State Agricultural associa-
/ ton October is and 10, at the Kan
sas Educational and Industrial insti-
| tute There will also be a two-day
fair with exhibits of farm products,
canning and needle work.
Maj. w. P. MacLean. state COM
| mander of the American Legion and
| superintendent of the Boys' Industrial
| school, will return today from Wichita
and will attend the picnic of the Co
| operative club on the lawn of the
Boys Industrial school tonight. He