The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-15
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

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Phone b050.-Adv.
The board of directors of the Cham
ber of. Commerce met in the regular
weekly meeting at noon today.
The Beulah Ladies' Chorus of the
o. E. S. will rehearse Tuesday night
at the home of Mrs. H. w. Bonn
gardner
Kiwanis club will be held at the
Chamber of Commerce at 6:15 o'clock
this evening.
1t has been announced that all
stores belonging to members OF the
Topeka Merchants association will be
closed on Decoration day, May 80
Mrs. Harvey Kinkead entertained
with a shower Saturday evening at
home in honor of the approaching
marriage of Miss Edna Lawrence.
THE Spoilers" featuring William
Farnun, is the fourth benefit enter
tainment to be given by Canton To-
peka No. 5, I. o. o. F., Thursday eve
ming
The First Presbyterian Sunday
school contributed $3,013 to mission
airy work during the last year, accord
ing to the report just issued. The
membership is 1,O44.
Miss Nellie Schone of Parsons. who
attended the annual meeting of the
Order of Eastern Star last week, spent
the weekend with Mrs. J. T. Craw-
ford. HOG Tyler street.
The meeting of Topeka Relief
Corps No. "a. will be held at 1:45
o'clock Tuesday afternoon instead of
the regular hour on account of the
funeral of Samuel T. Howe.
Washburn college students opened
a two-day campaign today to raise
$1,000 for the support of Johnny
Nipps, Washburn graduate, who is
engaged in mission work in China.
The Rev. J. T. Crawford. executive
secretary of the Kansas Baptist con-
vention, left today for Salina, where
he will attend the annual meeting of
the Central association of the conven-
tion..
Attending the state conferences of
union labor at Coffeyville are Heron
Naylor, representing the employees of
the Topeka Street Railway company,
and J. W. Mills and J. o. Stevic of the
Topeka Industrial council
Henry ]. Evendorf was granted
divorce from Maude Evendorf in the
district court Saturday afternoon. He
alleged that she deserted him four
different times and that she refused
to prepare his meals or do the house
work.
Homer W. Bomgardner, AIS West
Sixth avenue, prominent Topeka un-
acute appendicitis Sunday evening at
Stormont hospital. He is reported to
be resting easily and an early recov-
cry is expected.
There were reported to the city
health department during the week
which ended Saturday, three cases of
tuberculosis, six cases of pneumonia,
six cases of chicken pox, two cases of
scarlet fever, two cases of diphtheria,
one case of whooping cough, and
iJr raS CO r1fx
Edgar NJ. Purdy, of Lawrence. to-
,dayfiled suit in the federal court here
to collect $25, 900 damages from the
Western Union Telegraph company
and the.sUnion Pacific Railroad COM
pany for injuries he received Febru-
ary1s, 1921, while working with men
putting up telegraph poles near
Perry.
The Topeka police have received a
request to-be On the lookout for Rev.
J. S. Potts, a widely known resident
of New Alexandria, Pa. He disap-
peared from his home May 8, accord
ing to the letter received by the police,
without leaving word as to where he
was going. When last seen he was
driving a Ford touring car.
The members of the Square Circle
club will meet at the jackson street
entrance of the Warren NJ Crosby Tea
room at $50 o'clock tonight for the
regular dinner and meeting. E. l.
Copeland, secretary-treasurerl of the
Santa Fe, will be the speaker. and the
final disposition of the question of
building q clubhouse will be taken up.
Work has started on the grading the
alleys of Topeka which are to be
paved this year, and within few days
which are to be paved, will
also be the scene of grading opera
tions. The paving program is heavier
than it has ever been before, and the
contractors and the street department
alike are anxious to get started on If. \
Topeka mothers took boys of the
State Industrial school, far from their
own mothers. to their hearts Sunday.
From 4:30 o'clock till $50 o'clock
Sunday afternoon, the grounds of the |
school were dotted with little groups |
Of boys listening to mother stories and |
heart to heart talks from the mothers !
Of a day. There were some thirty |
women who visited the school and /