The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-29
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Sweet cider, wholesale and retail.
Custom grinding every day. Diamond
Boiling Works, 2201 Lincoln st.
Phone S17S.-Adv.
A meeting of the board of education
will be held Monday evening, A. j.
Stout, superintendent OF city schools,
announced this morning
Prof. L. T. Collier, of Washburn COL
lege, will be made superintendent Of
the Central Park Christian church
Sunday school at the installation of
officers, Sunday morning. He sue
ceeds R. R. Keller.
DR.. S. S. Estey, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, addressed the
Santa Fe shopmen at the material
shed this noon. Six hundred men
were in attendance at the meeting
for colored workmen at the freight
house, Thursday.
Tickets representing membership in
the Young Women's Athletic league
were on sale on the campus this
morning. The girls who bought their
memberships last year at the forma-
ton of the league are not being asked
to do so again this year.
All classes at Topeka high scho 81
with exception of the sub-senior and
freshmen classes, met this morning
after the second period to elect Of
ficers. Results of the elections will
not be known until late this afternoon
when tellers count the ballots.
Kenneth Macferran, a letter man of
the 1922 Topeka high school tennis
team, won the fall tennis tournament
at the high school by defeating Elvin
johnson in the final game on the high
school courts Thursday afternoon. l..
H. Mosser and William Barnett, mem
bers of the faculty, were in charge of
the tournament.
Meetings of the teachers of the first
four elementary grades will be held
next week. The schedule of meetings
which are to be held in the afternoon
at the high school building will be:
First grade teachers, Monday; second
grade teachers. Tuesday; third grade
teachers, Wednesday, and fourth
grade teachers, Thursday.
Frank Samuel, adjutant of the Kan
sas department of the American
Legion, has been assigned to the task
of finding a representative for New
Zealand at the national convention
of the legion at New Orleans, October
16 to 20. Samuel wishes to com
municate with any legion member,
who has lived or visited there.
The annual Topeka high school pep
assembly held before the first home
football game of the season will be
held Monday morning. Cheer leader
of football season tickets will be
launched. Boys who will try out Mon
day for cheer leader are: William
Suit, Kenneth Macferran, Bernard
Rosebrough, Robert McElvain and
Howard Nickleson.
The big pep meeting at Washburn
gymnasium which was announced for
tonight will not be heid. Rioters are
asked to conserve their pep until to-
morrow and then let ottawa have it.
according to Cheerlea0er Albert Cole.
October will be observed as mis-
sionary month at the Trinity Metho-
dist church. The support for the
sonnette of Kutien. China, will be pro-
vided.
The annual fair of Lane chapel
Methodist church, Fourteenth and Van
Buren, streets, will open Monday eve
ming and will be held five nights,
closing Friday evening. The programs
will consist of music, addresses and
other forms of entertainment. A con-
cert by Jackson's band will feature
the Monday evening program. DR..
Louis Ransom will give a brief his
tory of the band. The officers of the
fair are. George w. Burns, president
and Mrs. Ida M. Stewart, secretary.
The Rev. J. S. Blaine is pastor of the
church.
America has always entered war for
some great humanitarian purpose and
not for conquest or aggression, Gov.
Henry ]. Allen said in an address at
the annual reunion of the Spanish
American war veterans held Thurs
day night at the Douglas A. Graham
residence, southwest of Topeka.
Charles 1. Martin, adjutant general of
Kansas, spoke. George 1. Brown, To-
peka traffic officer, read one of his
poems about 1.-The boys of 49," Mrs.
J. H. Sutton, wife of the Rev. J. H.
Sutton, sang. Selections were given
by Hamilton's orchestra.
One of the most striking windows
seen in Topeka this fall is a window
filled with huge, scarlet tritomas,
pine and cedar boughs and juniper
berries at the Lord Flower shop. In
the center of the window is a large
iron kettle and underneath it is a
blaze. Out of the Kettle flares bios
som after blossom of the big tritomas,
furnishing a realistic blaze OF color.
About the kettle and covering the en-
tire floor of the window are fragrant
pine and cedar boughs. At the rear
of the window, big yellow marigolds
and at the side another huge pot of
the tritomas add additional color to
the showing.
Governor Allen will give another of
his editors a chance to brush up on
state acquaintance. Elmer T. Peter
son has returned to his editorial desk
in the Wichita Beacon office after a
month of secretaryship service. Now
Sidney Coleman, managing editor, is
coming to Topeka to help keep state
affairs straight during the closing
weeks of the Allen administration.
Peterson is to return to Topeka next
week for a short stay. Then Cole
man will have,a chance. Maybe there
Will be another editor or two on the
job when he goes home. Both Peter
son and Coleman are widely known
among Kansas newspaper men.