The Topeka state journal., 1922-03-18
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

| AT l.0l CLOCK tTlOaN night IRE IN
a trash burner at $40 North Kansas
avenue, became unmanageble, and the
fire department was called to extin-
guish It.
In the first. baseball game of the
season played Friday afternoon at
! Cake park, the freshman team of the
Catholic high school defeated the
| sopEomoreS at the rate of Ia to f.
The freshies took an early lead and
held it.
The Rev. w. E. ]. Gratz, a Metho-
| dist minister of Chicago, will address
the regular Sunday morning meeting
| at the Central Y M c. A. at $3.50
| o'clock Sunday morning. He is at
| tending the Kansas conference at To-
peka.
Mrs. Louis c. Mcclure. of Denver,
| Colo. supreme president of the Order
of Beauceant, will be in Topeka Mon
1 day to constitute an assembly OF all
| charter members, which will be held
at 2 o'clock Monday noon at the Ma
sonic temple.
Albert Hutchinson, accused of steal
ing twenty Buff Orpington hens from
c. E. Armstrong, S31 Chestnut street,
was bound over to the district court
for trial under $500 bond by Judge
Paul Heinz in the court of Topeka
Friday afternoon.
For the first time since August 5,
1921-more than seven months ago,
the records of the city health depart
ment are free from cases of diph-
iberia reported The last two cases
on the books of the department were
released this morning.
A fire alarm resulted at 7:45 O'Clock
Friday night when the floor under
meath a gas range in the kitchen of
the Chamber of Commerce building
caught fire. The damage was COM
paratively slight. and was confined to
the burning of the floor.
1t was a one-sided game which the
basketball teams of the Lincoln school
ana the East Side Methodists played
Friday afternoon, the Lincoln school
winning by a score of 2S to 6. Carroll
Schrader was the only member of the
East Side team to score a point
At the regular luncheon and meeting
of the Topeka Life Underwriters as
sociation held at noon today at the
made an address on Long Term En-
dowment Policies" The attendance at
the luncheon was unusually high, in
spite of the inclement weather.
The Modoc club will hold a smoker
at the clubs rooms Monday evening.
Capitola Rebecca lodge, No. 219,
will give a box social Monday even
ing at the hall, III West Sixth. Every
body invited. Bring a box.-Adv.
If you want to buy all modern home
see 1863 Lane today. Phone 610 or
16O1.-Adv
District NO. IL o. E. S. will meet
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at
the home of Mrs. c. W. Schwartz,
1710 West Tenth avenue. The host
esses will be: Mrs. c. w. Schwartz,
Mrs Fred Farnsworth, Mrs. c. NJ.
Houghton. Mrs. c. Dunnfng, Mrs. c.
w. Boettcher, Mrs. G. T. Hammel,
Mrs Bert Rehkoff, Mrs. J. c. Tulloch,
and Mrs. H. S. johnson.
The members of the track team of
the Kansas Educational and Industrial
Institute left this afternoon for Kan
saS City. where they will take part in
the Missouri Valley Interstate Athletic
conference track meet, to be held to-
night in Convention hall. The fol-
lowing men went on the trip: Loben
Mosley, Eugene Harrison, James Boyd, |
Coleman Camp and Andrew J. Steven
son.
THE Raising of Lazarus by Rach-
maninoff, sung in the Russian text, |
will be one of the solo numbers which /
Mrs. Rose Gilberg-Nutter will use in
the IL o'clock Sunday morning service
at the First Unitarian church, 914 To- |
peka boulevard. The song is in keep !
ing with the Russian topic announced, |
Confessions of Tolstoi,'' which the |
Rev Clifton Merritt Gray will use as
the basis of his sermon.
a friendly suit has been filed in the |
supreme court to test the right of the |
state to ownership of land in the bed |
of the kaw river near ST Marys- The |
land became an island in the river as
d result OL SIlllllIS OildCA
the law islands in navigable streams
become property of the state. The
question is to be determined in man
damus proceedings in the supreme |
court against n A. Turner. state |
auditor.
board of directors of the Gavitt Loan
& Investme company. Harry E. |
Gavitt was elected president of the /
company succeeding his father. W.
w q elected
John NJ. Brunt, vice prest-
dent: c. r. Thrapp, treasurer, and E.
G. Brunt, assistant treasurer The
board of directors now includes Harry
E. S. Gavitt and c. r. .Thrapp.
A report from Salina to the effect
that the s. r. LUX, Jr., Mercantile
company had leased tract of land
there from the Union Pacific with a
view of establishing a wholesale house
this afternoon. THE report is not
true in fact. We haven't decided defi-
niteIy to establish a branch in Sa-
lima a member of the firm said. NE
gotta tions are pending but the situa-
ton remains very much the same as
it has been for the past few months"
A letter has been received by Geo.
r. Bridgeforth. principal of the In
dustriaI and Educational Institute,
from Valentine B. Acukwer, a native
of West Africa, indicating his inten
ton of coming to Kansas and enter
ing the institute, where he will take
a course of educational and voca-
tional work fitting himself for mis-
work among his own people.
The new Il 1. and E. student will
work his way to New York on a
steamer, and from New York to To-
peka, overland.
Twenty Topeka Rotarians have |
made reservations for attendance at
the last district convention of the L
Seventeenth District of Rotary, to be
held March 80 and 81, at Muskogee,
Okla Following the holding of the
the Seventeenth district is
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