The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-09
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


high school auditorium
Two hundred and fifty of the 1900
students enrolled in Topeka high
school are taking the physical train
ing courses.
w. C. Ralston, assistant attorney
general, is in Washington county try
ing a case for the state board of adj
ministration.
The Gage Park Community club
will hold a meeting at O'Clock Friday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Rachel
Mack. Seventh and Watson streets
Armstrong Post No. 8, United
Spanish War Veterans, will hold a
meeting at 1880 o'clock tonight at
Royal Arcanum hall, 627 Kansas ave-
nue..
E. F. Hillman has secured build
ing permit for the erection of a dwell
ing house at 329 CORTLAND avenue, to
cost ss,soo. and to contain six rooms.
Judge w r. Smith, solicitor for
! the Santa Fe, today explained why
he has taken UP the vicious habit OF
I chewing gum. He hasn't smoked for
ten days and it's his first miss in
twenty-five years.
The Topeka Abdallah Shrine club
, held a meeting Wednesday night at
| the Masonic temple. Plans for the
local Shriners to attend the dedication
! of Abdallah Shrine temple at Leaven-
worth in May were made.
The Scottish Rite bodies of the VAL
| ley of Topeka will hold meeting at
/ o'clock Friday evening at the Ma
sonic temple to complete arrange
ments for the spring reunion, which
will be held in Topeka April IL, IL,
10 and IA.
| Arrangements for the community
concert of music memory contest num-
| bers, which will be held at Sis
o'clock Friday evening, have been
completed, according to Miss Grace V.
Wilson, instructor in music in the To-
peka schools.
The regular joint meeting of Capitol
Post No. 1, American Legion, and
women's auxiliary of the post, has
been postponed until Thursday, March |
16, when these two organizations and
the fathers association Will hold
joint meeting.
The Rev. J. H. Frazer, pastor of
the Second United Brethen church, |
will begin a series of revival services |
at his church Sunday. He will be as !
sisted by the Rev. w NJ Pettison, pas |
ton of the United Brethren church, |
of Raymore, Mo.
The ladies' vol1ey ball team of the |
First Methodist church will play the |
ladies' team of the Trinity Methodist
church at 1880 o'clock Friday eve
ming on the Trinity court. Contest be- |
tween the mems teams of each church |
will also be held.
"Co-operation" will be the subject
of Robert B. Frantz, of New York City, |
international secretary of the Y NJ. |
c. A, who will deliver an address at /
O'Clock this evening at the Color ed |
V NJ c. A Both men and women |
are invited to attend t~
The Senior Walther league of the |
EVANGELICAL Lutheran church will |
hold a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight, at |
the club house, Fourth Avenue and |
Harrison streets. The Junior league |
will hold a meeting at 1880 O'Clock /
Friday evening at the church.
DR.. Baer Epstein. one of the leaders
of the Zionist cause, delivered an ad-
dress in the Yiddish language at a
meeting Wednesday night at the Jew
ish community center, Fifth and Har-
rison streets Ike Giiberg.. chairman
of the meeting, gave brief outline of
the movement and its ideals.
College Hill section OF Topeka IS
shortly 20 have a new drug store. John
Claypool of Williamsburg, Kan, is
shortly to open a new store in that
neighborhood. Claypool has been in
the drug business for more than
twenty-five years. Mrs. Claypool will
probably open a millinery shop as
well.
hardware store at 825 North Kansas
avenue, has Started the construction
of a warehouse behind his store. The
warehouse is to be eighteen feet wide I
and fifty feet long, of stone and con-
crete construction. with tin roof. 1t
will be completed by the end of this
month
Miss IvadeHe Smith will be in
charge of the program which will be
presented Friday evening at the r. r.
Y. NJ. c.. A. The follwing persons
will appear on the program: Mrs.
John Worley, Miss Esther Lindgren,
Miss Grace Buchanan, Miss Anna
Nelson, Dewey Gregg, Elmer Olson,
Miss Viola Bergson. Miss Myrtle Ran
som, Miss Ines Cornell, Miss Mildred
Ekblad.
Mss Eta CoveII city clerk. today
received an inquiry from Salina as to
whether Topeka has any ordinance
regulating the erection and manage
ment of wireless telegraph or tele-
phone installations. Altho there are
some two dozen stations in Topeka,
to pass any special legislation govern
ing them. There are federal regula-
tons on the subject.
Miss Louise Kriegbaum, in charge
of the rural rest room at the city hall,
Juggles n mean coffee pot. Miss
kreig baum this morning supplied |
several members of the city hall staff
and some favored visitors with some
excellent coffee prepared in the rest
room, where there is a stove and
equipment for the warming up of
lunches by visitors from out of town.
Frank Hatch alias Fred Manning Ii
two weeks ago for forging a |
1880 check, pleaded guilty to third
degree forgery before Judge James
Mcclure in the district court Wednes- {
day afternoon and was sentenced to
serve not more than one year in Jail. {
After he had been sentenced he was
recognized by Robert Peudleton,
denAty sheriff, as an ex-conv:ct who
served time at Lansing while Pendle-
ton was employed there. He also
served a sentence in the Colorado state
penitentiary, it was said.
The regeneration campaign in the
Chamber of Commerce which is to be
carried on April 10 to II. will be man
aged by Paul Harvey of Chicago. The
campaign is provided for in the three