The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-13
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

club was held at noon today at the
lChamber of Commerce.
sPelletier's bowling team was de-
feated Tuesday evening at the Central
Y. NJ. c. A. by the Keller-Dustin team.
zoos to 2,341- Tonight the Santa F'e
and the Tri Mu team will clash.
The Topeka Builders club will give
n ladies' night party, the first of the
season, at the Chamber of Commerce
this evening.
The Young Mems Bible class of the
central Y. NJ. c. A. will hold it's reg
ular meeting Thursday evening at
o'clock in the Y. NJ. c. A. building.
The advertising class conducted by
the extension division of the Univer-
sity of Kansas at the Topeka Chamber
of Commerce will meet at 1880 o'clock
this evening.
| w. P. MacLean, state commander
of the American Legion, left today for
Omaha, where he will attend the
Injecting of commanders 1.-THE ninth
district to perfect an organization to
carry on disqualification.
| One new case of diphtheria was re-
tported to the office of DIR. Earle G.
Brown, city health officer, today, and
two cases were released from quaran-
Itine. This makes twenty-four active
cases in the city at this time.
| Instructions for mailing Christmas
| packages and the date on which they
must be mailed in order to reach their
destination before December IS. were
!
at the Topeka high school.
The Rev. George Rice Hovey, of the
American Baptist Home Missionary
society, New York, addressed the stu
dents of the Kansas Industrial and
Educational institute at a chapel serV-
ice, Tuesday.
No change in the condition of Mrs.
Dewitt c. NeSlis, who is i'll at her resi-
dence. 314 West Fifth street, was re-
ported by the members of the family
ltndaV Np1liS iS still considered
very seriously i'll.
Members of the dramatic club of
Topeka lodge No. 524, L. o. o. NJ,
will present play. THE Long Dis
in the club rooms tonight for the
members of the lodge and their fam
lilies.
A building permit was issued to w.
G. Nussbeck by the city fire marshal
today, to construct a business building
at 419 Seward avenue, to cost 81, 200.
S. F. Ayres also was granted a permit
to build a storehouse at 232 Klein
street, to cost $75. ~
]. G. williams, of Chicago, secretary
of tie National Association of Taxi !
cab owners and the publisher of Cab |
News, a national taXicab journal, ad-
dressed the employees of the Yellow |
Cab company at an open forum meet !
ing held Tuesday night.
Two fires were reported this morn |
ing. caused by sparks from chirnneys. |
'One occurred at 6:30 o'clock at the |
home of ]. w. Morgan, 1116, West |
street, and the other at $50 O'Clock |
at Eleventh street and Kansas avenue, |
the home of Mrs. w. +. Marsh. sQnly !
slight damage was reported. Fs2-AN
The Santa Fe VIII haul thru Topeka |
in the next few days three of the big |
football teams of the country from |
Pittsburgh university. Pennsylvania |
State university and West Virginia uni /
versity. The eastern football men are
en- route to the Pacific coast, where
they have holiday games scheduled.
There are 430 students enrolled in
Topeka high school this fall who have
never before attended the school, ac-
cording to figures compiled at the
high school office. OF this number,
134 came from schools outside of To-
peka, 142 came from the junior high
schools of the city, and 154 came
from local ward schools.
A for terrier, with no tag. but whose
condition indicates that it has been
the well-cared-for pet of some To-
pekan, is at the dog and cat hospital
of DR.. c. w. Bower, 1928 Kansas ave
nue. and its owner is unknown. The
dog was slightly injured when it was
hit on North Kansas avenue by a
motor car, and was taken to the cat
and dog hospital.
tee of the Y. NJ. c. A. met Tuesday at
the Central Y. NJ. c. A. for a discus
sion OF ways and means of raising the
remainder OF the China Fund of the
orga ganization. A total of $S75 remains
to be raised before January in order
to complete the quota for 1922.
Charles E. Eldridge is chairman OF
the committee.
A moving picture film, demonstrat-
ing the causes of street accidents, T
made in Detroit, Mich, is to be shown
at the Grand theater in Topeka all
next week. The film is being shown J.
l-v- Ns.1.neT T.NR Hnnl
Topeka Automobile club. 1t was made
in Detroit at the direction of the pub
lie safety division of the Detroit po- II
lice department.
B. NJ. Cherrington. regional secre-
tary for the International Y NJ. c. A
will be the speaker tomorrow morn
ing at the Washburn chapel. Mr.
Cherrington will speak in behalf OF
the Washburn student friendship
fund. This fund is to be used with
money collected from American col
leges and universities for the benefit
of students in foreign lands. The fund
is being collected by the Y. NJ. c. A. [
The debate between the teams of
which was sch eduled to be held Tues
day night at MacVicar chapel, was
postponed indefinitely on account of
the illness of two Washburn debaters,
Miss Mabel Taylor and Miss Lacy Her
rick. The Washburn negative team
was defeated two to one in a contest
at the College of Emporia Tuesday,
night.
F. A. Bapman, hardware and cutlery
dealer at AIS Kansas avenue, is out
one perfectly good sixteen-gauge shot
gun as result of having rented the
artillery in question to a man giving
his name as Carl Jones, and his ad-
dress as 1017 Quincy street Neither
Jones" nor the gun have showed up
since the transaction, and there is no
one of that name at 1017 Quincy
street.
Plans are under consideration for
the increasing by 100 per cent the
floor space of the Renshaw-NOnkenl