The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-21

, Billy. He will visit many of the
cities of the Near East before return
ing home.
The Sunday school of the Lowman
/ Memorial Methodist church again led
Topeka Sunday schools in attendance
\ Sunday with Asa persons present.
l.OIher schools reporting attendance
were: Trinity Methodist,s246; Third
Christian, 1873; Kansas Avenue Metho-
dist, 17S; Euclid Avenue Methodist,
$50. Seward Avenue Baptist, 40: Cen
Christian, ss. and Seward Avenue
Methodist, So.
There is now plenty Of water in
store for any fire emergency, accord
ing to Wilbur S. Stanfield, commits
sioner of water and lights The
lone-half million gallons. The mains
have been entirely flushed and will
stand pressure of nearly 500 pounds,
i he says. Several new mains will be
laid within the next year. but all APP
fplicattons cannot be granted owing to
the large number.
Persons are now registering for the
final election November z, according
to Miss Alice PAXTON, registration
clerk. 1t will not be necessary for
persons to register who did not vote
in the primaries unless they have
moved. Registration clerks do not ex-
ipect as heavy a vote in the November
election as in the primary on account
of there being SO many candidates.
Too many persons saw their candi-
dates defeated, the clerks say.
r. w. Elliott. superintendent OF
public school buildings. will, invests
gate this week the room on the sec
ond floor of the south high school
building in which the new printing
press may be installed. If Mr.. Elliott
/ decides that the vibrations from the
| press will not disturb other classes it
will be installed in that room. The
high school Journalism department
has been moved from the north build
ing to the second floor of the south
building near the printing department
The Rev. J. T. Crawford, general
1 secretary OF the Kansas Baptist con-
! vention, will leave tonight for Han
ston, where he will attend a district
| meeting of the convention. He will
also visit conventions in Collyer, Ellis,
st. Francis and Downs before return
| ing to Topeka, August 81. The Rev
Mr.. Crawford had planned to attend
conventions at Pratt and St. John
| Sunday but he was unable to make
the trip on account of an injury to
his left leg which he received on his
last trip
The radio set belonging to the
Palace Clothing company is to be in
stalled at the picnic grounds when the
Chamber of Commerce of Topeka and
Lawrence meet Tuesday to celebrate
the completion of the paving on the
Victory highway. The Palace COM.
pany which has been operating the
radio at it's store for some weeks,
volunteered to install it on the picnic
grounds, furnish al. operator and give
a concert free. of charge. The radio
] is only one of the entertainment fea-
lures which are keing planned for the
picnic
The Sunday school temple of the
new First Methodist church being
| erected at the southwest corner of
| Sixth avenue and Harrison streets will
1 T.., n
according to an announcement made
Sunday by DR.. Edmund j. Kulp, pas
| tor. All services will be held in the
temple until the completion of the
the temple is being decorated. The
! old furniture is being repaired and
will be placed in the building tempo-
rarily. The building committee hopes
to have $175,o00 raised by Septen-
Der 10. y
"A chorus Of $500 persons east of
the state house Sunday evening sang
| many, of the old hymns which have
4 been sung thru the ages. The chorus
was under the direction OF Prof. Har-
lowe F. Dean A short talk on the
theme, Are Churches Necessary"
was given by DIR. E. A. Bleck. pastor
of the First Presbyterian church OF
Lawrence. Hymns sung by the gath
! ertng were: Coward Christian Sol
diers," Faith of Our Fathers" How
4 Firm a Foundation" Lead Kindly
Light" The Church's One Founda-
! tion." Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
| and Just AS Am
| The Kansas SunfIowers, a baseball
! aggregation consisting of state fire in
surance agents and members of the
Monday lunch club, will play the fire
Tuesday, September IL, at Kansas
City. The game will be played on the
/ diamond in the Georgian gardens,
| Fifty-first street and Swope parkway.
/ Shnr t. %
e, local team. The challenge was read
and accepted at a meeting of the
Monday Lunch club this noon. o. D.
Butcher presided at the meeting.
| About twenty-five Topekans' will be
present at the contest.
The checker board at the Hotel
Throop is in use eighteen hours daily.
| This game. which seems to be the
most popular among the travelling
| men who visit Topeka, begins at 7
o'clock in the morning and is played
! continually until 1 O'Clock the follow
| ing morning. Many of the local
checker sharks play with the hotel
| visitors. The original checker board
at the Throop was long ago discarded
and new boards have been installed
four times. The board now in use is
protected by glass cover. The
ichecker men are repainted by the ho-
tel clerks every thirty days.
| The second reading of the ordinance
granting the Consumers Light, Heat
| & Power company new twenty-year
franchise will be the principal bust
ness before the city commission at the
regular meeting at $3.50 o'clock Tues
: day morning. The ordinance must be
read in full three times at regular
meetings of the commission and can
not become effective until sixty days
! after it is published in the official city
] paper. The ordinance requiring the
| Topeka Railway company to remove
! its tracks on Eighth avenue between
Harrison and Clay streets also will be
presented for second reading.
! Mrs. James T. Fidyer was elected
| pTes5 d emit of the Women's Union Label