The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-03
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

G. c. sickler. secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, is in Kansas
City today on business.
The annual meeting of the Topeka
Tuberculosis association will be held
at the Chamber of Commerce Friday
noon, October 6.
Sweet Cider, wholesale and retail
Custom grinding every day. Diamond
Bottling Works, 22o1 Lincoln st.
Phone 3178.-Adv.
Tho Tri City Gas company of
Cherryvale, has applied to the public
utilities commission for permission to
! increase gas rates at Cherryvale.
Store room for rent November L,
| 919 Kansas ave. If you are looking
for a choice business location on the
avenue, call owner. Phone 61O.-AdV.
An institute for Sunday school
workers in the Topeka district of the
Methodist Episcopal church will be
held at the First Methodist church,
October 10 and IA.
Miss Nadine Noll, of Wichita, has
been selected as the Kansas princess
for the queen browning ceremonies at
| the Texas Cotton Producers aSsocia-
| ton exposition in Waco, October "a.
The week of October to 6 has
been set aside by the Salvation Army
advisory boards of Kansas as the
period in which funds for next year 5
relief work and maintenance will be
| raised.
Miss Charlotte Leavitt spoke at the
Washburn Y. w. C. A. services this
morning at a meeting conducted by
Mabel Taylor. Miss Leavitt explained
what the church and the Y. w. c. A.
should mean in the life of the modern
college girl.
Charles H Sessions. postmaster,
lately managing, editor of the Topeka
| nat Ivy To- n
Topeka Press club, will address the
Press club at the regular meeting to
| be held at the Chamber of Commerce
| this evening.
Frank Parker, of Topeka, state
agent for the New England Mutual
Life Insurance company, is motoring
to Des Moines, Ia, where he will at
| tend the mid-western meeting of the
agents of that company, wednesday
and Thursday
Dean Susan NJ. Guild asked the
presidents of all the women's organ
campus to meet with her this after
noon for an informal discussion of
the problems facing their organiza-
lions during the year.
The birthday of Theodore Roose-
Welt, October 27, is to be celebrated
| in Topeka by the Standardization
| War Veterans. The veterans will hold
a. meeting in Memorial Hall on the
evening of October 27, with special
| program devoted to Roosevelt's life.
The physical training department
| of the Central Y. M. G. A. is start
| ing a special class in boxing this
week. 1t will run six weeks, two les
sons a week. Instruction is to feature
| blows, guarding, blocking, feinting
and footwork," the "Y' announcement
| says
The first fall meeting of the mems
dinner club of the Lowman Memorial
| Methodist church will be held at $3.50
O'Clock this evening at the church,
James A. Troutman, OF the First
Methodist church, and DR.. Charles F.
| Mathews, pastor of the First Baptist
church. will speak.
The Topeka Printing House Crafts
mans Club will meet tonight at
! Klingaman's Hall 116 East Sixth
| avenue, at 8 o'clock. The chief
speaker of the evening will be Marco
Morrow. Plans are to be made to-
night for the annual banquet and en-
tertainment of the club.
| Recognition services for the new
members of the Washburn Y. w. c.
A. will be held this evening at
O'Clock in MacVicar chapel. The
big sisters" of the Y. w. c. A. will
| call for their little sisters and take
them to the meeting. The incoming
members are asked to wear white.
Governor Allen has appointed ten
delegates to the national mining con-
gress in Cleveland, October 9-14-
Delegates include: c. F. Spencer, Ira
Clemens, w. C. Shank, ]. A Gibson,
Pittsburg; Leo johnson, Usage City;
| C. N. Fish, Leavenworth; George X
Mackie, Lawrence; James Hamilton,
Weir City; Joseph Fletcher, Fronte-
nae, and John NJ. Crawford, of the
court of industrial relations.
W. A. Biby, recently returned from
an expeditions, as the chairman of the
state committee of the Near East Re-
lief to Europe and Asia Minor, was
the speaker at the regular meeting of
the Kiwanis club Monday evening at
the Chamber of Commerce. Biby told
the Kiwanians that the people of Eu-
rope are no worse or than the peo-
pie of this country as a result of the
war tho the governments are in worse
shape financially, ana the reports of
lions, particularly Germany, are in
the nature of propaganda to avoid the
payment of the post war indemnitieS
and reparation claims.
Charles E. Tomlinson, 113 Wood
lawn avenue is a travelling salesman
and does his travelling in a sedan "of
a popular make" Adjoining the side of
his sedan. he sports several stalks of
corn which he grew on his farm
on Woodlawn avenue. The stalks are
longer than the DOdy OF the car, and
stick out both, in front and behind.
They carry several exceedingly large
and weIl-formed ears of corn, hanging
fringe-like along the side of the car.
On the hood there are several heads
of kafir corn, arranged on a heavy
sheet of cardboard. A card above the
perambulating agricultural display
reads Some Kansas Corn"
w. H. lines is full of alibis Out in
front of his motor mart at the corner
of the Eleventh street and Kansas
avenue, which ranks among the bus
lest motor establishments in Topeka
there is a trolley pole. Set firmly in
this pole there is a reifc of a by gone
4 age in Topeka, a reminder of a trans
portation system which is fast vanish
ing from our ken-a hitching ring.
Sometimes our customers want to
trade in a used horse and buggy in
part payment for. new automobile.
and the ring is there for their con-
: lVenience. They hitch their out-of-date
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