The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-05
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


The high school Y. w. c. A. held a
/ discussional meeting this afternoon at
! the Y. w. c. a. building
An ordinance was passed by the city
| commission this morning authorizing
| the payment of $4,712.I7 for work on
storm sewer No. 81
| Members of the Round Table chap
| ter No. g order of De Molay, will
lhoId their quarterly election of OFFICERS
this evening at the Masonic temple.
| Members of Topeka Legion No 10,
LOYAL Order of Moose, will hold their
annual election of officers at meet
ing at 1880 o'clock Thursday evening
/ at Moose hall.
The Topeka high school student
council will meet Wednesday morning
at s o'clock at the high school build
ling. Plans for the all-school party TO
| be held December 10 probably Will
/ be discussed.
| Members OF. Abdallah Shrine temple
lresiding in Topeka and vicinity Will
leave at 3:45 o'clock this afternoon on
/ a special train via the Union Pacific
I for Leavenworth, where they Will at
/ tend the annual meeting OF the temple
| Each member of the Central Y. NJ.
lC. A. is asked to secure a new .memb Der
before December %. Harry Nightin-
gale was the first one to meet the re-
Iquest and obtained a new member, E.
E. Carpenter, Monday afternoon
| Fees collected IN the plumbing de-
partment of the department. OF streets
/ amounted to S21T.50 fer November,
according to the monthly report pre-
| scented to the city commission today
| by w. a. Woiverton, collector.
Members of the physical training
classes of the Y. W. c. A will hold
their annual banquet at 6:15 O'Clock
Friday evening in the association
building. The banquet will be fol-
! lowed by program of stunts, yelLs
and games.
A class for iIliterate foreigners is
| TO be taught on Monday and Thurs
/ day nights be ginning this week at the
| Topeka high school building. Miss
/ Ruth E Hunt, an English teacher at
the high school building, will have
| charge of the classes.
Frank Samuel, adjutant of the Kan
sas department of the American
Legion, will leave tonight for Indian
Iapolis, where he will attend meet
ling of state adjutants of the legion.
( Kansas ranks first among the states
/ for advanced membership in 1928.
Jess w. Niiley. elected state super
/ intendent of education at the last gen.
| eral election, has purchased the house
at HOP Garfield avenue, formerly
/ owned by Emmett D. George, pub
porter. Mr.. Miley will bring his family
to Topeka in a short time.
| Tentative plans for the initiation of
a class of 500 candidates by the Eagles
Hodge were made at a meeting Monday
night The class name will be Jona-
than NJ. Davis. p. ]. Mckinley, of
lFrontenac, state president, and c. B.
Little, of Olathe, addressed the meet
ing.
The city commission approved the
purchase of some books for the city
attorneys office this morning. A $ t
s1F Il 80 axr frr, n
/ digest; y. L. r. McQuilken, on munic-
/ ipal corporations; and Huddy on auto
/ mobiles, are to be purchased The
/ total cost of the books will be S566.SS
William Richards. formerly a
! teacher in Topeka high school, Will
substitute for Miss Effie Hand, WHO is
j unable to teach her classes due to i'll
ness. At the beginning of the sLrtng
/ term. Miss Nina Latchey will take the
I classes taught by Mr.. Richards ami
/ will have charge of them until June.
| One new case OF diphtheria was re
/ ported to the office of Dr. Earle G.
I Brown, city health officer, today anG
/ one case was released from quaran-
tine. This makes twenty-one active
! cases in the city at present. One case
/ of scarlet fever was reported to the
! health office this morning.
Due to the uncertainty of compile
i ton of the new Boswell school, the
/ opening was postponed until the Sep
Q
/ of the board of education Monday
! night The board also authorized bids
for a new sidewalk in front of the
/ Buchanan school
The Rev. John Wells Rahill was the
speaker at the meeting of the Wash
burn Y. W. c. a. this morning He
talked on Books I Eat" in which he
advised college students to read as
many books as possible. and told OF
the kind of books which he recon-
mended them to read, and how to read
them.
Reports have reached Topeka to the
effect that Milton Tabor, formerly
secretary of the Topeka Merchants
ASSOCIATION. has suffered a relapse and
I is in a critical condition at the home
/ of his father in Lincoln, Nebr. Tabor
after an illness of several months. was
taken to his fathers home a month
ago.
The Y. W. c. A. of Washburn col
leGe will hold a bazaar and food sale
wednesday in Boswell hall from 10