The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-13
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Ar HOME NEWS

hours.
The annual Smith county picnic will
be held at Gage park this evening.
, starting at $3.50 with a basket dinner.
o. w. Hascall, boys work director
of the Central 7. NJ. c. A, will leave
Saturday for Estes Park, Colo, where
he will spend four weeks
A building permit was issued today
to H. NJ. Petro for the remodeling OF
a ten-room duplex residence at 1O1S
Topeka boulevard at a cost of $500.
A record breaking number of boys
had swims in the Y. M C. A pool
wednesday. One hundred and sixty
two boys, The largest number for this
year, went in"
H. H. Mack, salesman for the lines
Motor company, has gone to Detroit
on business for the firm He VIII
place a large order for touring cars
for Topeka distribution.
Rodney D. Palmer, physical director
of the Y. NJ. c. A. who has been at,
tending the Y. NJ. C. A. summer school
for physical directors at Geneva. Wis,
will return to Topeka Monday
B. V. Edworthy, boys work secre-
! tary of the Kansas Y. M c a. viii
return Friday from the state Y. M. c.
Saturday on an auto trip to Estes
Park, Colo.
The members of the Lowman W. c.
T. Z. will meet Friday afternoon at
$3.50 O'Clock at the home of Mrs
| Henry Youngbloom, 70S College ave-
nue. All members are requested to
bring needles, thimble and thread.
Red Cross life saving classes will
meet at the Y. w. c. A every Tues
day and Thursday evening from
until o'clock during the remainder
| of the summer. Glasses in advanced
! swimming and diving will be held
after the life saving classes are dis
missed.
The members of the Square Circle
/ club will hold a picnic Sunday after
/ noon at Daylesford. Members will
meet at 1880 o'clock in the afternoon
! at the residence of w. H. Shields, 519
| West Sixth avenue, and will motor to
J Daylesford.
| Numa, James, assistant physical d.
rector of the Central Y. NJ. c. A, viii
leave the first of next week for Estes
Park, Colo, where he will spend two
weeks at the summer school for phys
icaI directors. He will then go TO Den
yer. Colo, to spend two weeks with
his parents.
A A Remington, general secretary
OF the kansas r. NJ. c. A. will leave
/ the first of next week for Estes Park,
| Colo, where he will spend one week
will then go to the Kansas Y. NJ. G. A.
| camp at Elmdale.
| Girls who go to the Y. w. c. A.
camp near ElmdaIe Saturday and
1 SUNDAY Will nave an opportunity u
learn basket weaving. according to
Miss Nell Stringfellow, who is in
charge of the camp. The girls will
also be taught to make vases and
beads from sealing wax.
The chicken dinner planned for the
| opening meal of the Y. w. c. A cafe
terra Wednesday night, was not
served in the cafeteria room. The
4 varnish had not dried Those who
came for the meal were not disap-
| v,a5rtod N SarUa6
ant style at tables in the lobby.
The forum committee of the Cham
Der OF Commerce will hold a meeting
| Thursday noon to make arrangements
| for the Chamber of Commerce picnic
| to be held early in September. The
| good roads committee will meet to
complete arrangements for the mark
ing of the Southwest trail from Atchi-
son to Emporia-
r. w Elliott, superintendent of city
] school buildings. is advertising for
| bids for oak flooring in the Railways
| of the north building of the high
school. These floors are used daily by
more than 1900 students during the
school term. Mr.. Elliott expects to
have the floors in by the time school
| opens in September.
There is no unemployment in To-
peka at the present time. according
to w H. Cushing, in charge of the
state free employment bureau at 121
that he has more jobs on hand than
he can get them to fill Both farm
hands and men for work in the city
are scarce, Cushing says.
E B. Breithaupt, membership sec
! Rotary of the Y. NJ. C. A, will return
| Geneva, Wis, where he has been at
| tending the Y. NJ. c. A. summer
school, He will take the place of N.
/ w. Benning, general secretary of the
Y. NJ. c. A, who leaves Saturday to
/ spend six weeks at Estes Park, Colo.
1 One of the most artistic pictures
ever placed on exhibition in a local
theater is painting of Ethel Clayton,
done in oil and gold flake. The work
| Is that of R. B. Jones, publicity mana
ger of the Orpheum theater, and the
picture has been placed in a promi-
nent place in the lobby of the theater.
Ethel Clayton's picture. The Cradle"
| will be shown at the Orpheum the
first part of next week.
A conference of statisticians of the
| United States bureau of agricultural
| economics, formerly called the bureau
| of crop estimates, will be held in Dem
YER next Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday for the purpose of formulating
1 plans for making monthly reports on
| livestock. Heretofore the bureau has
| made reports on grain conditions only.
| The conference will be attended by
Edward c. Paxton of Topeka, Kansas
| statistician for the bureau. After the
conference he will spend a brief vaca-
| ton in the mountains. A conference
similar to this was held recently in
| Chicago.
Unless the supreme court issues
special order Monti Bellott, Jr., will
not spend the summer with his father
in Colorado. The mother in custody
Of the child and under bond for its
return to the court, has objected to
a plan permitting the father to take
the boy out OF the state. Suit for
possession of the child has been be-
fore the supreme court for some
months. Recently the father sought
permission to take the child to Colo
RADIO. Mrs Beilott's ATTORNEYS objected