The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-31
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS
The cherries are nearly rip,


nee Investment Co.. 5S4 Kansas Ave.
Phone 5050.-Adv.
The Union Pacific received two car
loads of Buick motor cars, today, for
the Wood Motors company.
The Topeka Parent-Teachers' as
ISOLATION will hold a, meeting at
o clock Thursday evening at the Y. w.
c. A
Jackson's Twenty-third Regimental
band will appear on the musical pro-
gram of the St Johns A NJ. z. church
on June q.
The d. A r. will hold a meeting
at $3.50 o'clock Saturday afternoon at
the Y. W. c. A. Mrs. Theodore Saxon
will preside.
Another spring like this and the
farmers of Kansas will forget to COM
plain over the taxes for the construc- /
ton of hard surfaced roads.
Money to loan on improved real es-
Understandable rates-and no red
tape-TeIephone 1896. The Topeka
Mortgage & Investment Co--Adv.
A special meeting of the Girl Scout
council will be held at $50 o'clock
Thursday evening at the Y w. G. A.
to elect a new scout commissioner.
The annual picnic of the Past |
Matrons' and Past Patrons assocta- |
ton, district No. 3, o. E. s. has been |
postponed until a date to be set in |
June
The heavy rain during the Memorial !
day parade Tuesday caused several |
members of the various bands to cease
playing due TO the collection of water |
in their instruments
The members of the sub-junior |
class of Topeka high school will hold |
a party at o'clock Saturday evening !
in the high school gymnasium The |
junior class will hold it's annual picnic /
Tuesday, June 6.
The members of the matrons' |
volleyball class of the Y. w. c. A. held |
their annual picnic at noon today in |
the association building A volleyball |
game was one of the principal fea-
lures of the program.
The Rev. ]. T. Crawford executive
secretary of the Kansas Baptist con-
vention. will leave Tuesday for Kansas
City. Kan. where he will attend a |
meeting of the board of trustees of
the Kansas City seminary.
Topeka motorists are becoming
careless again and are speeding into
the Topeka Observation-Disclosures street
death corner intersections. This
practice probably will continue until
another serious accident occurs.
Arthur Thomas, 4O6 East Eighth
avenue. who suffered an injury to
the eye in an accident while at work
Saturday at the PeTrine pillow works, is
at Christ's hospital. He is getting
along as well as could be expected.
The members of the girls gym
nasium classes of, the Y. W. C. A. will
hold their weekly hike at 5:15 O'Clock
Friday afternoon They will take an
all night hike Saturday night Miss
Nell StringfeHow will be in charge
The high school boys Y. NJ c. A
camp will open June IS. according to
o. W. Hascall. boys work secretary of
the Y. W. c. A. A camp site was pur-
chased by the association this spring.
and a camp lodge is now being con-
structed.
More than 500 Rotarians from New
York and Illinois have been on sight
seeing tours of Topeka this week, and
each visitor commented on the city's
beautiful streets, wonderful trees,
splendid residences = and rotten
weather.
Hundreds Of picnics and fishing
parties were spoiled by the Decoration
day weather. In homes all over the
city the picnic lunches were consumed
with all the joys that are experienced
when chiggers and mosquitoes are
not present.
Jubilee services will be held at the
Lowman Memorial Methodist church
Sunday to observe the successful com
pletion of the financial canvass of the
church. DR.. c. B. Zook, district SUI
perintendent, will deliver a sermon
at the morning service.
Miss Hilda Dyer will be in charge
of the Y. W. c. A. at the association
at 1880 o'clock this evening. Mrs. NJ.
H Mexican will preside at a meeting
of the Maids club of the association
at o'clock Friday evening.
Morning and afternoon golf and
tennis tournaments were scheduled for
the Shawnee and Country clubs Deco
ration day, but the rains spoiled
match play. Only the real golfing
bugs who do not allow the weather to
with their game braved the
storms
Some wag mixing humor with
politics has painted in large letters the
question who are the Republicans %
on the concrete dyke protecting the
south side of the Kaw river near the
Melan bridge The words appear in
two places and undoubtedly are read |
by several hundred persons crossing
the bridge every day.
Carl r. Gray, president of the Union
Pacific system, passed thru Topeka
afternoon in his special car
attached to westbound train No 1913.
He was accompanied by H. J. Plum
hOff, general superintendent Their
destination was not revealed here but
it was said they intended to inspect
the Mcpherson branch while en- route.
Two petitions for the construction
Of small stretches of sidewalk, and a
petition for the paving of something
more than 200 feet of Fillmore street,
were received by the city commission
this morning, and referred to the
commissioner of streets and public
All three petitions are
too late to be handled with this sea-
sons program.
The Rev. Clifton Merritt Gray. who
resigned his pastorate of the
First Unitarian church of Topeka, left
for Westminster. Nd, Tuesday eve
ming, where he will spend the month
Of June with his wife. July and Aug
ust he will spend at the American
Unitarian headquarters in Boston,
where he will be in charge of the
work of the association during the
absence in Europe of the president
and secretary of the association.