The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-17
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

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Milton Tabor, secretary of the To-
peka Merchants association, resumed
his duties today following a weeks i'll
ness.
The senior Y. W. c. A life saving
class will meet this evening at
I O'Clock. There are now eighteen wo-
! men enrolled in the class.
A lawn fete was given Wednesday
evening on the Holy Name school
grounds by the ladies of the church.
More than 500 persons attended.
There are now six active cases of
diphtheria in Topeka, according to DIR.
Earle G. Brown, city health officer.
A new case was reported Wednesday
The Rev. Frank G. Richard. general
secretary of the Kansas Sunday
J School association, is in Nemaka
county today on association business.
He will return home Friday morning.
Col. George P. Washburn is Wis
| itor at the soldiers home in Buffalo.
Kan. Colonel Washburn, who is the
department commander of the G. A.
f., will return home the latter part of
! this month.
The Rev. J. T. Crawford, general
secretary of the Kansas Baptist con-
vention, is in Scott City today attend
| ing district meeting of the conven-
ton. He will return to Topeka Fri
| day morning. NJ.
F. r. Miller, manager of the ladies'
| ready to wear goods department at
Pe1letiers, will leave Saturday for New
| York, where he will purchase a new
| supply of fall goods for his depart
ment. He Will be gone TWO weeks.
Guy c. Sickler, secretary of the
| Topeka Chamber of Commerce, will
| leave Friday morning for Chicago,
| where he will attend the annual school
| for Chamber of Commerce secretaries
for two weeks. Sickler will make the
| trip by auto.
Kansas will be represented at the
encampment of the Cumberland Pres
| byterian churches of the United States
| to be held in Pertle Springs, Mo, next
/ week by Mrs. Isaac Sewell, secretary
| of the children's division. of the Kan
| sas Sunday School association.
| One of the biggest nuIsances in To-
| peka will be done away with when the
| street car tracks on Eighth avenue
| between Topeka boulevard and Harri-
son street are removed. The city will
| restrip the paving in that block, ac-
| cording to w. S. Hancock, commits
| sioner of streets. 4
/ Oil burners will be attached perma-
| nently to the engines of the city water
| plant the middle of next week. accord
| ing to Wilbur A. Stanfield, commits
| sioner of water and lights Four car
| loads of coal have been received and
| they will help stave off the fuel short
age until the oil burners are installed.
Charles Smith and T. G. Gaitskill,
| both colored, were picked up in the
| city park by the police this after
| noon. They were held for investiga-
| ton in connection with an alleged as
| sault upon colored girl in the park.
| They were to be taken before County
| Attorney Tinkham Veale for inquisl-
| ton this afternoon. IT,.
| The Lake street bridge across ShuE-
! ganunga creek is being complete
rapidly, according to WIS. Hancock.
| commissioner of streets. The run
way in the center. of the bridge has
| been completed and as soon as the
| tracks of the Topeka Railway conf
\ pany are completed the final work on
| the bridge will be done. s.z
The work of strip paving Kansas
| avenue will be delayed a few days on
account of the springing of a crank
| shaft in the city asphalt plant. accord
| ing to w. s Hancock, commissioner
| of streets. Following the stripping of
Kansas avenue from Fourth avenue to
| Twelfth street Eleventh. street will be
| stripped from Kansas avenue to To-
peka boulevard. 10
A new dance pavilion, 56x75 feet,
| is being constructed at Edgewater
| Beach. east of Topeka, and is to. be
dance orchestra is to play there on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
| nights. 1t is planned to enclose the
pavilion, build a large fireplace at
the coming winter.
A LIST of out of state persons who
will speak at the Kansas teachers
conventions this fall is peing mailed
to each of the two department chair
men of the State Teachers association
so that they may make arrangements
with the speakers for special depart
ment talks, F. L. Pinet, secretary of
the Kansas State Teachers associa-
ton, announced this morning.
Plans for a three-day aerial meet
at Topeka in October will come before
the aviation committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce at the meeting Fri
day noon. Tentative plans for the
fifty ships, are already being drawn
up The committee will also lend its
assistance to the project of organizing
a squadron of the Reserve Air Force
in Topeka. The committee is COM
posed of J. S. Kritser, chairman; Har-
~ Buff. w. D. Wallace, E. n. Sunder-
land and w. H. lines.
Officers We're elected and a petition
for charter was sent to the Ameri-
can Red Cross headquarters in Chi
cago, at the initial meeting of the
mems life saving corps of Topeka,
held Wednesday evening in the office
of L. p. Dlttemore at the high school
building. 1t was also decided to con-
tinue life saving lessons on Tuesday
and Friday evenings at Gage park.
Officers who were elected at tLc
meeting are: DR.. S. ]. Crumbine,
president; L. p. Dittemure, vice pres
i6ent; Elliot Belden. secretary-treas-
urer: DR.. F. H Scholle. medical off
GER; R. d. Palmer captain; A H.
Koepke, mate, and Maurice Sewers,
instructor. The corps VIII give a life