The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-12
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Members of Topeka lodge No. 524.
L. o. o. NJ, will hold picnic Septem-
Der at Ripley park
The Rev. william Rice. pastor of
the Redden chapel. will speak at the
Sunday morning services of the First
Presbyterian church.
Five per cent compound interest on
Installment Savings Certificates. State
Savings bank, 6O1 Kansas Ave. All
deposits guaranteed.-Adv.
There will be a regular meeting of
the city commission Tuesday morning,
at which the budget for next year will
probably be passed.
The members of the board of trus-
tees of the Kansas Sunday School as
ISOLATION will hold their quarterly
meeting in Topeka Wednesday.
Troop Two of the local Boy Scouts
will leave this evening for an over
night hike. Zeke Schilling will be in
charge of the boys. They will return
Sunday morning.
Forty-five boys from the Evan
gelical summer camp in Forest park.
swan in the Central Y. NJ. c. A. pool
Friday and today, according to Lester
Titus, boys work director.
Nine candidates will receive the
Royal Arch degree at 4:3O O'Clock
Monday afternoon, when work is held
Masons. Supper will be sArved at $50
o'clock.
A still alarm sent hose company
No. of the Topeka fire department
to the Branner street viaduct, where
a small blaze had started at 1917
o'clock this morning. The damage
was slight.
Adjutant A. Houser of Wichita will
conduct the Salvation Army services
iY1fo nj II
Piercey, who was in charge of the To-
peka crops, has been transferred to
st. Paul, Mimi.
''No one is useless in the world who
lightens the burden of it for any one
else" The Unitarian porch pulpit,
at GA Topeka boulevard, offers these
words of Dickens as IT'S message to
the passerby today.
Miss Edith Russell. formerly as
sistant pastor at the Eldora Christian
church. will have charge of the serv-
ices at the Central Park Christian
church during the absence of the pas
tor, the Rev. J. Quincy Biggs-
Mai. and Mrs A. H. Krause and
Mrs. Daisy Bell, delegates from the
Topeka camp and the Topeka auxil-
larry of the Span:sh-American war
veterans, will leave Thursday for San
Francisco, where they will attend the
national encampment.
Josiah Jordan, county superinten-
dent of schools. continues to show a
slight and steady improvement in his
condition, according to relatives He
was able to carry on conversation
with the members of his family today.
Mr.. Jordan is very weak as result
of his sickness.
The Rev. ]. F. Pressnall, pastor of
the Wesleyan Methodist church, will
leave Monday to attend a two weeks
session of the Kansas conference of
Western Methodists in Miltonvale.
The Rev. w. D. Hahn and the Rev.
William Mckinley will have charge of
the services during his absence.
The following officers of the Demo-
cratic county central committee were
elected at a meeting of the precinct
committeeman held Friday night:
Chairman. John E. Barrett; vice chair
man, Charles o. Hovatter; secretary,
Dave Chandler; treasurer, William
Quail. Barrett succeeds Roscoe c.
Ellis.
The first meeting of the directors of
the Chamber of Commerce to be held
in more than a month is scheduled for
Monday. There is nothing of special
importance to come up at the meet
chamber. stated today The regular
weekly meetings of the board were
suspended during the summer.
LIB. PoIIom. for the last four years
teacher of Smith-Hughes vocational
agriculture at Arkansas City, has as
sumed his duties here as supervisor of
this work in Kansas. Pollom plans to
start visiting within the next few days
schools which have been doing voca-
tiOnal agriculture work and those
schools asking for approval to open
classes.
The state charter board has APP
proved a charter application for the
Eastern Kansas Power company-one
of the Emanuel interests-which will
take over the plant at Eureka. The
company was chartered with capt.
tai of 100000. The state board also
approved a charter for the Weinan
Eox & Cooperage company of Atchi-
son. The company has a capital of
$4,000.
The children of the Central Park
Congregational church will have a
Christmas tree Sunday morn
ing Each child will bring gifts to put
IN the tree. These will be packed and
sent to the missionaries in foreign
countries to be distr .buted. The chill
dren are now raising $3.50 to pay for
a heating plant that is now on it's way
to the mission field. The Rev. John |
Rahill, pastor of the church, an
that the summer Christmas
tree will be an annual event in the |
Sunday school.
The following persons will camp |
during the weekend at Wakarusa:
Mr.. and Mrs. J. V. Buchanan, Mr.. and |
Mrs. c. NJ. Hartman, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed !
sr., Mr.. and Mrs. Harry |
Smelser, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed buchanan, |
jr., Mr.. and Mrs R. A Buckman, Mr. |
and Mrs. John Buchanan. Charles Cra- /
mer, Miss Neva Buchanan, Miss Mary |
Miss Olive Buckman, Miss
Ruth Clary, Miss Gertrude Buchanan. |
Leo Baker, Charles Hartman, Eugene |
Hartman, Richard Buckman, Harold |
Smelser and Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Baker J
The first annual picnic of the To- |
peka Chamber of Commerce, sched- |
uled for August rs on the grounds OF
the Boys Industrial school, has been |
cancelled. in order that the mem bers |
of the Topeka chamber may attend