The Topeka state journal., 1922-09-12
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


u will be held September % and 23 at
# Berryton. 1t was scheduled for last
Saturday and Sunday but was post
+ poned on account of rain.
8 After thirty years and four months
s in the service of the Santa Fe, John
e James, of Ottawa. has been placed on
d the pension list. He has been section
q foreman at Ottawa since 1891.
The Rev w. NJ. Jackson. former
pastor of the United Presbyterian
IN church, who has been located IN Om-
aha for three years. has accepted
call to the United Presbyterian church
at Riverside, Cal.
E. II. Hogueland commerce coun-
sci of the Topeka Traffic association,
VIII leave Friday for Kansas City. Mo-,
where he will attend an egg shippers
conference. Rules relating to egg
shipments will be discussed.
~ Rail strike conditions at Dodge City
are being well handled according to
X a report which Randall Harvey, attor-
v ney for the industrial court, has made
V to Governor Allen. citizen police
force of $50 men is handling the
iiDodge City situation.
A second conference of state live
stock interests and representatives or
VI Kansas City commission firms failed
to bring about an agreement regard
ing operations of the state law regulat-
ing commission firms stock yards and
Zpackfng houses. 1t is likely another
conference will be called.
Y Possibilities of an custer suit against
Y Mayor Alfred Coad of Parsons are
bit uncertain and a suit may not be
flied. This is the opinion of Charles
-. Griffith, assistant attorney general,
Who visited Parsons several days ago
to Investigate law enforcement during
the Katy railroad shop strike.
The first assembly of the year at
Topeka high school will be held next
Tuesday, when the first edition of the
soh GrhnOI World will he iSSupd A
three-act comedy will be presented by
members of the journalism classes.
Following the assembly subscriptions
to the World for the coming year will
be received.
DIR. Borden S. Veeder of st. Louis,
epecialist in children's diseases, will
speak at the Shawnee County Medical
society meeting in the city hall Thurs
day afternoon and evening. He will
hold a clinic at 2:30 o'clock and will
speak in the evening at S:45 o'clock.
Doctor Veeder will speak under the
auspices of the Kansas state board OF
health.
Free Fair visitors are becoming
more particular in regard to the clean
illness of the food they are served by
the concessionaires, according to Geo.
". Denton, city food inspector, who
has been inspector at the fair for four
years. Mr.. Denton has issued instruc-
tons to the concessionaires on how
to care for the food in the most sani-
tary manner.
The Topeka members of the six
striking shop crafts will hold their
regular weekly mass meeting at 3
o'clock Thursday afternoon at Ripley
park Three prominent officers of
the crafts will speak. James A. Leck-
Ter, vice president of the Indiana
Federation of Labor, and represen-
tative of the machinists' organization
viii be the speakers.
%Forty new typewriters, which were
ordered this summer in the high
school typewriting department, have
Been delayed in transit east of st.
Louis, according to A. J. Stout, super
sntendent of city schools. Mr.. Stout
also said that 24e kindergarten chairs,
which were ordered to be delivered
before the opening of school, have not
yet arrived.
Suit to collect sS1.9S. which it al
legged is due freight charges, has
been filed by the Santa Fe vs. Gard
ner P. Walker of Ottawa, Kan, in
the United States district court. The
,spetition charges that Mr.. Walker paid
Fonly Sif5 as freight on the shipment
Aofza carload of horses from the Texas
e2Fanhandle to Ottawa on September
"a, 1921, when the bill should have
Hbeen ST46.05.
Asmeeting of the board of education
Will be held at o'clock tonight at the
shigh school. Members of the board
sAvill hear the report of the building
Scommittee. Plans for repairing the
Cheating plant at the Gage park school
Twill also be considered. There is a
aspossibility that the naming of the new
#school on Boswell avenue will be
brought up for reconsideration.
A new room to receive the over
Eflow caused by heavy enrolment was
Nbpened this morning at Lowman
stschool. A new room will soon be
&opened at Mckinley school to relieve
SSthe congestion there. Miss Bertha
Porter, a graduate of the Kansas State
Normal school will be in charge of
tthe new room which will be occupied
Fby either fourth or fifth grade pupils
Parents of five and one-half year
old children. who feel sure that. little
9Johnnie is far in advance of the other
children of his age" will have 4
-chance to prove the superior knowl-
fSedge of their child prodigies thru an
experiment which is being tried this
year in the public schools. Every five
sand one half year old child who
RgWishes to enter the first grade will be
kgiven an intelligence test. If. the can
edidate shows the mentality of a six
tiand one half year child he will be ad-
tmitted to the first grade.
Donald H. McIvor, executive secre-
ttary of the compensation COMMITTEES
#of the American Legion, is enthusiastic
over the endorsement and support be-
1ne given the soldiers bonus PROPOSE
1tion, which is to be voted on Novem-
tber T. by civic organizations thruout
etke state. He is in receipt of copies of
1.-The endorsement resolutions passed by
Sthe United Spanish War Veterans, the
&Grand Lodge OF Kansas, /. o. o. F..
tthe Rebekahs, women's auxiliary OF
tthe odd Fellows, and the Kansas Fed
Eeration of Women's Clubs.
A meeting of the Topeka high schoo
t11i-Y cabinet will be held Thursday
moon at the high school building tC
Acomplete plans for the social program
fof the coming year special as
assembly will probably be called tn,
Halter part of next week in order tC
Slaunch the membership campaign fol
this term. The high school Y. w. c
20 will alsn he O at the a.