The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-25
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

The Security Benefit association
band will give a concert at o'clock
this evening at Gage park
/ Bids on the five portable buildings
l to be used for kindergartens will be
/ voted on at the next meeting of the
board Of education.
Miss Esther Swanson, primary
] teacher at Lincoln school. handed her
| resignation to the superintendent of
/ city schools this morning.
w. w. Harvey. assistant United
States district attorney, will go to
Wichita tonight, and "Wednesday will
speak before the Lions club of that
city.
r. H. Barber. of New York City.
will speak at o'clock Wednesday
and jackson street, on the subject, rs
this the Worlds Judgment day"
A. J. Stout, superintendent of city
| schools, has asked for bids for forty
new typewriters to be used in the
typewriting department of the Topeka
high school. The present equipment
has been in use for several years
The members of the team of To-
peka Commandery No 5, Knights
Templar. will be guests at a supper at
temple. Following the supper work
in the order of the Red Cross will be
held.
The Langstaff class of the Central
Congregational church viii give an ice
cream social tonight on the church
gins, Congregational missionary in
China. The Boys Industrial school
band will furnish music.
The Lincoln, Douglas and Washing
ton club will hold its annual picnic
at $3.50 O'Clock Friday night at City
park. The program will consist of
speeches by candidates for public
office and music provided by Jack
sons Twenty-third regimental band.
The supreme court has granted ad-
ditional time in which the Wolff
Packing company may perfect its ap-
peal to the United States supreme
court in the wage case decided some
months ago by the Industrial court.
the packing company is allowed until
September in which to make final
appeal
All residents of Denison, Kan. and
TOpekanS who were formerly resi-
dents of that town will meet with their
families at the annual ''Denison pic
MIC" at Gage park. Saturday after
noon at O'clock. The "Denison pic
mic" has been an annual institution
for the past several years, and there
were some fifty persons at last years
meeting. Those attending are asked
to bring their own lunches and eating
utensils.
The washburn Pharmacy, 1914
Lane street, has been opened by John
Claypoole, formerly owner of a drug
store in Williamsburg, Franklin coun-
ty. Claypoole built and furnished his
own building. AS an adjunct he has
opened the lawn alongside the build
ing. which is surrounded by a neat
hedge with a lattice above it, and
serves ice cream and drinks at small,
white-topped tables there. The gar
dem is extremely popular as a drink
ing place with the denizens of the
neighborhood.
A check of reports received from
eighty-six of the 125 legislative dis
tricts of the state on candidates for
the legislature, by the Kansas Phar-
maceutical association, shows that
only four of this long list of candi-
dates are retail druggists. These are
John w. Afford, Republican. of New
Ulysses, seeking reelection; Harry
Dick, Republican, of Lawrence. seek
ing reelection; Charles H. Mosher,
Republican, of Dodge City, seeking
reelection, and George w. Stansfield,
Republican, of Topeka, who has an
nounced his candidacy.
A special program for high school
and ward school girls at the Y. w. c.
A. Maple Hill camp has been planned
Miss Sallie Glass, girls director at Y.
W. c. A, will be in charge of the
camp. The girls, who are now en-
rolled for the camp, are: Mural
Hobsor, Mabel Phillips. Lucille WEIGH,
Dorothy Rollman, Nell Louise Wad-
dington, Jean Beverly. Martha Mer-
rick, Asenath Ives, Dorothy Long
shore, Ruth Plat, Nudge Garnett and
Florence Stanley. There will also be
camp reservations for the business
women during the first two weeks of
August, according to Miss Glass.