The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-09

new students to adjust themselves to
the school.
When a gallon can of varnish was
set on a furnace at the Hinkson-
Crawford Advertising company's
workshop, III East Eighth avenue. at
8 o'clock this morning, the bottom
melted out of the can and the varnish
running into the furnace was ignited.
Apparatus from No. 2 station an
swered the alarm. The damage was
confined to the varnish, Assistant
Chief Joseph Waidelich said.
"Resolved-That the United States
should grant the Philippine Islands
their immediate independence" is the
subject of the annual debate of As
sumption high school, which will be
held Friday evening, January 20. The
affirmative speakers will be Miss 1sa-
belle McGinnis, Kenneth Spurlock and
Miss Alice Smith. The negative
speakers will be Miss Helen McKer-
nan, Paul Cannon and Miss Flora
Garden.
The First Methodist church building
fund now totals S146,205, it was an
nounced at the services Sunday by DR..
E. J. Kulp, the pastor. Approximately
1000 was received in small subscrip-
tions during the past week, the largest
contribution in that time being 800
from F. w. Freeman, president Of the
Merchants National bank. Aided by
the open weather, work on the new
church is progressing rapidly.
There were $50 men and boys at
the first of a series of meetings for
men at the Orpheum theater, held at
3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. DR.. S. S.
Estey was the speaker, and special
music was furnished by the Hi-Y club
of the high school. Doctor Estey's
subject was "And So He Came to
Rome" The speaker set up Rome
as the end of mems ambition for at
tainments, and told of the difficulties
and trials thru which men pass in
seeking that end.
John Tevis was reelected president
of the Epworth league of the Euclid
Avenue Methodist church for the
fourth consecutive time at the annual
election of officers Sunday night.
Other officers elected were: Clara
Van Orman. first vice president; Miss
Bernice Smith, second vice president;
Miss Lois Hattery. third vice presi-
dent; Miss Helen Nelson, fourth vice
president; Howard Smith, treasurer;
Leo Becker, chorister, and Miss Gene
We've Warfel, pianist.
A. A. Remington, state secretary of
the Y. NJ. c. A, left today for Pitts
burg, Kan, where he will hold con-
ference with the association workers
of that city. He will go to Fort Scott
Tuesday, where he will aid in the
financial campaign of the association.
N. W. Benning. general secretary of
the Central Y M c. A, will leave
Thursday for Fort Scott, where he
also will engage in the campaign. He
was formerly secretary of the Fort
Scott association.
The boys work committee of the
Central Y. NJ. c. A. will meet at 6
o'clock Thursday evening to discuss
the boys work for the coming year.
A number of business men interested
TO- I7o IL lee,
bers of the committee are: Frank B.
Parker, Chairman; F. A. Derby, Will
bur G. Gardner, Rad NJ. Lee and P. F.
Schilling. The other men who will at
tend are: Lyman King, T. D. Will
Jams, Henry Thompson, C. A. Sterling
Ray B. Smith and NJ. Milan.
Frank Mcfarland, assistant United
States district attorney, is in Wichita
today, representing the government at
the preliminary hearing of J. C. Burns
and Basil Quillian before Commits
sioner j. c. Sherman. Burns and
0uillian are charged with conspiracy
to rob the Rosehill State bank of
quantity of postage stamps. Both
men face a state charge of bank rob-
berry in connection with the same deal,
which. it is alleged, was framed by the
late Eddie Adams, notorious bandit.
N. w. Benning. general secretary of
the Central Y. NJ. c. A, closed his
twentythird year of service in Y. NJ.
c. A. work Tuesday. He was gradu-
ated from the Chicago training school
of the Y. M. C. A. in 1900 and since
that time has served with associations
at LoGansport, Ind; Two Harbors.
MINI; Chicago; Fort Scott, Kan; and
Albuquerque, n. NJ. He has been con-
nected with the Central association
for three and one-half years. He is
one of the directors of the Estes Park,
Colo, summer training school.
operated at 52S Kansas avenue by
Frank A. Campbell, has been COM
pletely remodeled and new equipment
installed at a cost of some $1,000.
Campbell holds lease on the prop
erty for the next ten years. Some
unique and convenient electrical cook
ing apparatus has been installed in
the restaurant including an automatic
| toaster and an automatic heater for
/ boiling and poaching eggs. The
kitchen has been refinished in white
enamel, with nickel trimmings.
W. S. Whitford, representative of
the Springfield Fire and Marine In
surance company presided at the reg
ular meeting of the Monday Lunch
| club, made up of fire insurance men
| at noon today. A new member, E. N
! AVerill' special agent for the National
Security Insurance company of
| Omaha was elected to membership
W. S. Lang. of Burlington, a visiting
insurance man, was the guest of the
club. Harry Stephens custodian of
the flower fund of the club, resigned
! today and p. B. Hamlin was elected t.
/ fill the place.
The women's quartet of Washburn
college will leave Monday, January
| 16, on a tour of the Santa Fe reading
rooms under the auspices of the r
r. Y. NJ. C. A. The trip, which will
! take about two weeks. will take them
| to California. The members of the
quartet are: Mrs. Theodore H. Post,
/ first soprano; Miss Beulah easier, sec
ond soprano; Miss Carolyn Thorp,
first alto; and Miss Eleanor Allen,
second alto. c. A. easier of the sta
| tistical department of the Santa Fe,
was instrumental in securing the trip
for the organization.
| Several prominent Kansans, among
| them Gen. Wilder S. Metcalf, state
| commander of the Kansas dena rtrnert