The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-22

o clock Tuesday and Thursday eve
nings. A class in which boys under
eight years may learn to swim. is be-
ing scheduled.
w. C. Magaw, principal of Sum
ner school, will spend the summer tax
ing a census of all children in Topeka
between the ages of and 21 years
He has three assistants. F. W. Com
fort, 1917 Topeka boulevard, was APP
pointed at a recent meeting of the
school board to take over the census
work next fall.
Special 3eakers at the Shawnee
County Normal institute today were
F. l. Pinet. secretary of the Kansas
State Teachers association, and
Charles B. Griffith, Republican candi-
date for attorney general. Regular
lectures were given by E. +. Stanley.
E. J. Hoenshel and Fred Seaman. The
closing session of the institute will be
held today.
The members of the Topeka League
of Women Voters will hold a meeting
at $3.50 o'clock Friday afternoon at
the Chamber of Commerce. The can
didates for the offices of county COM
missioner. county attorney. sheriff
questionnaires from the league and
will be asked to answer these at the
meeting Friday.
Plans are already being made for
the celebration of Labor day by the
Topeka labor unionA At a. meeting
liam Schneider of the Cigar Makers
union, was elected president of the
committee in charge of the observ-
ance. Charles Kerle and John p.
Henshaw- were named as the other
members of the committee.
NJ. H. Mexican, student secretary of
the Kansas Y. M. G. A, returned
Tuesday from Estes Park, Colo.
where he has been attending the stu
dents conference. Mr. Mexican was
in charge of the Kansas delegation.
More than 200 college students at
tended the conference. Kansas uni
versity with twenty-three representa-
tives had the largest delegation from
a single school.
Harry Crane, of Topeka, a Wash
burn college student, who has been
attending the student conference at
Estes Park. Colo. was elected presi-
dent of the conference for the next
year. This conference is made up of
students from seven states Crane re-
turned from the conference Wednes
day. Several Topeka men are staying
at the park to work during the re-,
mainder of the summer.
The camp grounds committee of
the Chamber of Commerce will hold
a meeting at 1918 o'clock Friday. a
report on the amount of money raised
for the establishment of camp grounds
for tourists VIII be presented. 1t is
planned to raise $4,000 for the i'm
provement of camping accommoda-
tons at Garfield and Gage parks and
the establishment of a new camping
ground at the fair grounds
Justice Rousseau A. Burch of the
Kansas supreme court will occupy the
pulpit of the First Unitarian church.
.914 Topeka boulevard, next Sunday
morning, taking charge of the service
in the absence of the minister of the
church. The subject of Judge Burch's
address is announced to be +Is God
in His Heaven. and All Right With the
World ," Judge Burch has been a
member of the Unitarian church since
his student days in the University of
Michigan.
Girls who have enrolled in the Y. w.
c. A. tennis tournament. to be held
June "a to 80, are: Virginia Smith,
Helen Diehl, Grace Holcombe, Bess
Powell. Alberta Rofen, Madeleine
Scott. Jean Woodland and Meta Morett.
All games will be played on the Y. w.
c. A courts at Eighth and College
avenues. Any person who wishes to
see the games, may attend. The sched-
ule of games will be arranged Friday.
Girls may enroll in the tournament
until 6 O'Clock this evening.
Tom AIcNeal of Topeka wants an
accounting as to some 2S,7S8 signers
of w Y. Morean's petitions. McNeal
went to the state house and inquired
and women who, Morgan managers
claimed had signed the Hutchinson
mans petitions for governor. When
McNeal counted. the list, he claimed
he found only 1912 names Now Nc
Neal wonders If his opponent in the
goveriorship race didn't multiply the
number of petitioners by twenty-five.
The Checker Cab and Baggage
company today placed in operation
regular bus line between Topeka and
Lawrence. The new service. which is
the second of its kind to be inaugural
ed between these two points in the
last thirty days, calls for four cars
which leave the National hotel forty
minutes after each hour from $40
o'clock in the morning until 11:4O
commodate thirteen persons in addi-
ton to the driver. Two of the cars
Will tie up each night at Lawrence.
Henry c. Sticher, publisher of the
Usage City Free Press, headed. dele
cation which visited the state house
late Wednesday in an effort to bring
about a change in commissioner dis
trict lines. Sticher and his associates
told their troubles to members of the
attorney generals staff. 1t is claimed
that the Usage City-Scranton district
is not properly represented on the
basis of voting population. This dis
trict has a population of 9,092, while
the remaining district populations are
,651 and 5,266. State officials will
confer with Usage county officials re-
garding the proposed change.
Plasterers, who were working at the
Van Buren, school. Wednesday, mar
rowly escaped injury when one-fourth
of the ceiling in one of the rooms col
lapsed The workmen had left the
room but a few minutes before the
plastering fell. The scaffolds on which
they had been standing were de-
stroyed The fire marshal has ordered
that all the ceilings in the school be
strengthened. The accident was due
to poor work on the part of carpen-
tiers who built the school, according
to A. J. Stout, superintendent of
schools. Three crews of workmen are
being employed this summer in plas-
tering, painting and decorating the