The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-14
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Miss Kathryn Robinson, office sec
rotary AT the Kansas State Teachers
association. spent Sunday at Waka-
rusa-
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan H. Turner re-
turned to Topeka Saturday after a
motor trip to Duluth, Mimi, and Port
Arthur. Ont
The executive committee of the
Provident association met at the Y.
W. C. A. this noon for luncheon.
Miss Laura TomIinson has been
elected to teach in the Branner and
State Street kindergartens next term.
c. A Axiom, formerly superinten-
dent of the Osawatomie, Kan.
schools, will be the principal of Har-
rison school next term.
There is a very palpabIe wheeze in
the sign painted on the window of a
Seventh street beauty parlor-"Blank
Beauty Shop-DoH Repairing"
The Jackson county picnic will be
held on the afternoon of Saturday, Au-
gust 20, at Gage park A basket sup
per will be served at o'clock.
A building permit was issued today
to Edward H. Berger for the con-
struction of a five-room frame dwell
ing at 1880 College avenue at a cost
The Rev. ]. T. Crawford. who is at
tending the district meeting of the
Kansas Baptist convention. will re-
MIR. Crawford is in Hanston today.
Miss Eunice GRIPPE, who had been
appointed to teach at State street
school next year. has resigned to ac-
cept a position as physical director in
the Des Moines, Ia, public schools.
By a one sided score of 46 to 9 the
Country club defeated Shawnee in the
second inter-club match of the season
at the Country club Sunday. The
Country club won at Shawnee earlier
in the summer.
A contract for twenty dozen chairs
to be used in the new kindergartens
next term has been let to a Mime
apolis, Mimi, firm, A. j. Stout super
intendent of city schools announced
this morning.
Three new members will be received
into the Y. w c. A life saving class
New members are Miss Katherine
Smith. Miss Dorothy Adams and Miss
Victorine Williams.
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed in the United States district court
in Topeka by Chester Lewis, of Cum
ton shows liabilities of s66,407.50,
with assets of but $1,000. Lewis is a
farmer.
o. w. HascaH. boys work director
of the Central Y. NJ. c. A, who has
been in Estes Park, Colo, for several
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Numa James, assistant physical di-
rector, who has been visiting his
mother in Denver. will also return
Tuesday
There was an unusually large crowd
at the Sunday mass meeting of the
Ripley park at o'clock in the after
noon The principal speaker was
Charles r. Nuzum, of the Kansas City
carmen Another speaker was the
Rev. e. w. Harrison.
The twenty-second annual reunion
of the Twentieth Kansas regiment viii
be held in Topeka, october 3. More
than 100 former members are ex-
pected to attend. r. D. Holland,
president of the association, and ]. j.
Corkill, secretary, have issued 500 in
vitations for the reunion
The city street department has a
very busy week scheduled. Strip paw
ing is being laid on Kansas avenue
and grading is being done for side
walks in Steele's addition. Twenty
five cars of cinders are also being I'M
loaded. The cinders will be used on
Topeka's unpaved streets
A car belonging to A ]. Stout. SUI
perintendent CT city schools was dam
aged Saturday when it was struck by a
car driven by Mrs. E. Henderson, col
ored. $40 North Jackson street. Mr..
Stout'S car was parked on the east side
of the North high school building
when the accident occurred.
A short circuit in an automobile at
Seventh street and Kansas avenue was
responsible for a fire alarm at 9:17
o'clock Sunday morning Only a
slight damage was reported. A still
alarm at the Branner street viaduct
was answered by hose company No.
6 at 11:02 o'clock Sunday morning.
George E. Linden will teach COM
mercial subjects at Topeka high
school this fall, according to an an
nouncement made this morning by a.
J. Stout, superintendent of city
schools. Mr.. Lindell was formerly the
superintendent of schools in Mar
quette. Kan. He will succeed Paul L.
Steamer.
were reported to the city board of
health last week. The cases were:
whooping cough. 2; pneumonia, l;
typhoid, 2; tuberculosis, 2 and social
disease. 3. This is a fairly low aver
age for the second week in August.
according to DIR. Earle C. Brown, city
health officer.
The Parrish Candy Shoppe. 500
Kansas avenue, purchased a few
months ago by Paul Parrish from G.
E. Rigby, who had managed it for
many years. has been purchased by
the Voiland-Engel clothing store.
will take active charge of
the store. August Is.
More than $3.50 was raised Sunday
by the children of the
Central Congregational church. In
addition to the money. many gifts
were brought to put on a summer
tree. The money and gifts
will be used in a girls school under
the supervision of Miss Mabel Hug
gins In Canton, China
Two alarms were answered by the
fire companies this morning. At 1920
o'clock an automobile owned by J.