The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-17
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

day morning.
The Topeka Kfwanis baseball team
will meet the Pelletier store team at
O'Clock this evening, at the Highland
Park school grounds
B. W Edworthy, boys secretary of
the state Y. NJ. c. A. left Saturday on
a motor trip to Estes Park Colo.'
where ne viii spend two weeks
The Rev. w. H. Leyburn. office ex-
ecutive of the Kansas Baptist conven-
ton, had charge OF the Sunday serv-
ices at the Quinton Heights Baptist
church.
The Shawnee Investment Co. has
moved to 116 W. 9Th St, first door
formerly occupied by Topeka Mtg. &
Investment Co.-Adv.
Wilbur A. Stanfield, city commits
sioner of water and electric lights. is
expected to return to Topeka Tuesday
from California, where he was called
by the serious illness of his father.
Rodney Palmer, physical director
at the Central Y. NJ. C. A, returned
Sunday from Lake Geneva, Wis,
where he spent two weeks at the Y.
NJ. C. A. summer school for physical
directors.
Miss Ruby O'Brien, office secretary
of the Kansas Baptist convention, re-
turned this morning from a two
weeks vacation at Chautauqua and
Elgin, Kan.
E ]. Smiley, secretary of the ALI
ance Cooperative Insurance company,
returned to Topeka this morning from
Colorado Springs. where he spent a
two weeks vacation
B. E. Marsh. of the Phoenix As
surance association. presided at a
meeting of the Monday Lunch club to-
day. The program consisted or a
general discussion of fire insurance.
A suit to collect $4,000 on a promis-
sorry note from Otto Grunewald ana
Carrie Grunewald, his wife, of Riley
county, was filed in the federal court
here today by the Federal Land bank
of Wichita.
The good roads committee of the
Chamber of Commerce is formulating
plans for the marking of two high
ways into Topeka The marking of
these roads will open up two new
trade territories.
Miss Ruth Gasche, bookkeeper for
the Alliance Cooperative Insurance
company, left Saturday evening for
western Kansas, where she will visit a
cattle ranch owned by her brother,
Ralph E. Gasche.
A Nash touring car belonging to L.
c. Harbaugh, $40 Lane street, caught
fire Saturday afternoon. as result OF
defective wiring, 1t is believed. and
was badly damaged. The car was in
the garage at the time.
About twenty girls. members of the
Seymour club. will spend next Satur-
day and Sunday at the Y. w. Q. a
camp near Maple Hill Miss ailda
Dyer, directories of the club, will be
in charge of the campers.
The state charter board today
granted a charter to the Kant-Foul
Spark Plug company, of Topeka, capt.
talized at $3.50. The company was
granted authority to issue 5000
shares of stock. no par value.
A. A. Remington, general secretary
of the state Y. NJ. c. A, will leave
Tuesday for Estes Park, Colo, where
he will spend one week. He will then
return to Elmdale, Kan, TO take
charge OF the state Methodist Girls
camp at Camp Wood.
The girl scouts of Wamego, who
went to the Y. W. c. A camp near
Maple Hill, Saturday. will remain un-
til next Sunday. Miss Nell String
fellow, directories of the camp, will
give the girls lessons IN swimming.
basketry and bead work.
There were reported to the city
health department during the week
which ended Saturday, five cases of
social disease, three cases of tubercu-
losls, one case of diphtheria, one case
of favus, one case of typhoid fever
and five cases OF whooping cough.
Sixty persons attended the picnic
of the Square Circle club Sunday at
ternoon at Daylesford farm. There
was a complete program of horseshoe
pitching, baseball, egg and peanut
races and swimming contests. A bas-
ket lunch was served in the evening.
S. z. Price, president of Ottawa uni
versity, who has been at Big Thomp
son Canyon, Colo, for the last two
weeks, will return home next Mon
day. He will give q series of lectures
at the Baptist churches IN the eastern
part of Kansas during the remainder
of the summer.
Members of the Alpha Beta Theta
class. an organization for business
girls who attend the First Baptist
church, will have supper at the Y. w.
G. A. this evening. The regular month
ly business meeting will be held after
the supper. Following the business
meeting the girls will have a line
party to the circus.
The West side free clinic of the
Public Health Nursing association will
be held at Lowman Memorial Metho-
dist church at 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning. The clinic is for children
and for cases of poor nutrition. DR..
C. w. Schwartz will be the physician
in charge, and the nurses win be Miss
Margaret Kitchener and Miss Char
lotte Haskins.
Thirty Topeka Kiwanians will go TO
Horton Tuesday evening to attend the
ceremony of presenting the charter to
the Horton club. The Topekans will
meet at the Chamber of Commerce at
3 o'clock and will motor to Horton,
where delegations from Kansas City,
Atchison, st. Joseph and Leavenworth
will meet them. E. L. Chase, of Kan
sas City, district governor of Kiwanis,
viii present the charter.
The Young Peoples class OF the
United Brethren Sunday school held /,
q picnic supper Friday evening at |
Children's park. Those who attended
were: Miss Florence Wells. Miss
Ethel Wells, Miss Blanche Miller, Miss
Thelma Hook, Miss Thelma Willett. ,
Miss Gladys Ambrose, Miss Rosa Bar
ricklow, Miss Bess Stiverson, Miss
Doris Stiverson, Bruce Stiverson. Carl
Miller, William Stiverson, Ernest
Brewbaker, Russell Catron, Jasper
Frazer, John Griffin, Richard Wat