The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-20
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AT HOME NEWS

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Sweet Cider, wholesale and retail.
Custom grinding every day. Diamond
Bottling Works. 22o1 Lincoln st.
Phone 517S.-Adv.
Fred Walker was elected president
of the sophomore class of Topeka high
school. in a recent meeting. to sue
coed Gerald Anderson who has moved
out of town.
Printed cards stating the require
ments for each grade: A, B. C, D and
N. p, will soon be posted in all the
class rooms of Topeka high schools,
by members of the faculty.
Bank clearings in Topeka for the
week ending Thursday totaled So.
PIT, SO5.97, as against $2,614373.26
for the preceding week and So, 49,
566.72 for the same week of 1921, ac-'
cording to the report of the Topeka
Clearing House association
Members of the> Willing Workers
class of the Highland Park church
held a surprise birthday party for
their teacher, Miss Evelyn Powell.
Thursday. Miss Dorothy Jones, Miss
Virginia Rhodes. Miss Ruth Fichnor,
Miss Eva Mather and Miss Evelyn
Powell were present.
Students and alumni of the State
Manual Training school at Pittsburg
determined to inaugurate a drive for
an athletic stadium at their school
and adopted the stadium slogan at
their banquet held at PeIietier's tea
room Thursday night. Dean C. w
Trout presided at the meeting. The
principal speaker was Prof. ]. f.
Mitchell.
The following description of Ken
meth Garvin Williams. 1O-year- son
of M. J. Williams. 3O6 North Ohio
street who was kidnapped last June, has
been received by A. j. Stout, superin-
tendent of city schools; light COM
-plexion, blue eyes. brown curly hair.
on forehead, ears close to head,
weight seventy pounds.
Plans for the Sunflower, Topeka
high school annual, to be distributed
n June, 1923, have been made by Miss
Nellie Ansel, adviser. A meeting of
the Junior and\sub-junior classes will
be held soon to choose a nominating
committee. Candidates for editor and
business manager of. the annual will
be chosen by the nominating commit
tee and later voted on by the classes.
By electing the officers earlier, Miss
Ansel hopes to compile the annual
with less haste.
G. G. Sickler, secretary of the To-
peka Chamber of Commerce, will
leave Saturday morning for Kansas
City where he will attend the state
convention of Chamber of Commerce
secretaries, which will be held in
Kansas City, Kan, Saturday. He will
leave Saturday evening for Detroit
where he will attend the National As
ISOLATION of commercial association
secretaries He will stop in Chica go
on business on his way home. He
will return to Topeka next Friday.
The missionary institute of the Cen
trail Congre gatfonal church will close
this evening with an illustrated lecture
5. Beam of Japan, who will tell of his
personal experiences in that country
Mss Florence B. Patterson will de-
liver an illustrated lecture on India
at o'clock this evening. It will be
followed by fellowship lecture at
Rahill. pastor of the church, spoke
Thursday night on Seventy five
Years Of Americanization of the Ne
groP
Registrations have been rather
heavy the last few days at the office
of Miss Eta Covell, city clerk. for the
general election in November. More
than forty persons registered Thurs
day night, and the registration during
the day was quite heavy. With only
SIX more day to register before the
election, those in charge of the work
at the city hall, expect the next few
days will be exceedingly busy. The
L
O'Clock, and also is open at the noon
hour.
Three hundred telephones were put
out OF business this morning when a
trolley high tension wire of the To-
peka Street Railway company came in
contact with some of the cables of the
Southwestern Bell Telephone COM
pany. The fire department was called
but no fire damage was done. The
accident occurred in an alley between
Harrison and Van Buren, streets.
south of Fourteenth street Worknen
OF the company are busy repairing the
telephones, and they will be in oper-
alton in short time.
A game between the Topeka high
school second football team and the
Carbondale high school team Thurs
day afternoon in Southwestern league
park resulted in scoreless tie. The
Topeka team threatened the Carbon
dale goal line several times during
the game, but it was unable to score.
Passes from Marshall. quarterback,
and Peleton, halfback, 10 H Carr, left
end. were features of the game. To-
peka narrowly missed a field goal in
the fourth quarter when Marshall at
tempted drop kick.
Marshalrs band is going to be a
feature of the Washburn support at
the Washburn2K. U. game Saturday
at Lawrence Members of the Kiwanis
club have offered to furnish trans
portation for the band. About 100
members of the club and their wives
intend to drive down for the game
and root for the Washburn team to
the last man. A number of the stu
dents also plan to go down to the
game. While many of them are going
in cars, most of them will go on the
train. There will not be special