The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Tax exempt Kansas bonds, Shaw
nee Investment Co, 554 Kansas Ave.
Phone bO50.-Adv.
The banks Of Topeka will be closed
all day Monday in observance OF Lin
coln's birthday.
Malcolm Gray, secretary of the state
board of administration, who has been
i'll for several days. is again back at
his office.
Kansas has more than 1000 notary
public officials according estimates
made by Emmett George, private sec
rotary to Governor Allen.
The members Of the Faculty Book
club OF Topeka high school met Mon
day evening at the home of Miss Abb
gail McElroy, 1874 Garfield. The club
now owns fifty books.
A large delegation from Kansas will
attend the superintendents' meeting
of the National Education associa-
ton at Chicago, February 81, accord
ing to Miss Lorraine E. Wooster.
Prof. Albert Haberstro will address
the members OF Round Table chapter
De Molay at a SEATED meeting this eve
ming at the Masonic temple. His sub
ject will be Character Analysis"
The annual election of officers of
Topeka lodge, No. 2o4, E. P. o. E.,
will be held Wednesday night in the
lodge room at the Elks' club. This
will also be past exalted rulers night.
All stations will be filled by past ex-
allied rulers.
Wheat and hog prices are advancing
in Kansas, according to the weekly re-
port of ]. c. Mohler, of the state
board of agriculture. Wheat had a
good advance last week and in some
places brought as high as SLIP. The
hog market is reported strong.
The Dramatic club of the Seamon
rural high school will present play,
Mixed Up at the high school build
ing Wednesday evening. The cast Is
members of the club. They have been
coached by Wallace Corbett.
Special numbers of the "Oasaycap
Chronicle" dedicated to the Square
Circle club and printed by the boys of
the State Industrial school. were dis
tributed al the regular meeting of the
club held Monday night at the Elks
club by Nal. W. P. MacLean, superin-
tendent of the boys school and
member of the club. NJ. W. Scott was
elected to membership in the club.
The Knights of Columbus of To-
peka are perfecting arrangements for
the entertainment of Chauncey Olcott,
when that noted singer arrives in To-
peka F.. A. Lawn is chairman
of a committee on the reception.
Olcott is to be met at the depot. on
his arrival, by a large committee of
has reserved a block of 200 seats on
the main floor of the Grand Theater
for the performance.
Because he married the nurse who
took care of him while he was i'll. ]. P.
Barrett, of Dodge City, has been hav-
ing trouble collecting a sick benefit
clain1 from his insurance company and
has appealed to the state insurance
superintendent to help him. The COM
pany took the stand that since his
nurse became his wife while he was
i'll, it became her duty to care for him
and he was not entitled to collect a
hired nurses compensation.
The All Star Girls, a club of the o.
E. S. held their annual banquet and
meeting, Monday night at the Masonic
Temple. Miss Mary Free acted as
toast mistress. Responses were made
Elizabeth Gregory Faith" and Mrs.
Myrtle Lifton, Love" The following
officers were selected for the ensuing
year: Miss Mary Free. president. Miss
Minnie DOering, vice president, and
Miss Alma George. secretary and
treasurer.
A meeting of men from all portions
of the state interested in the forma
ton of a state automobile association,
has been called for 1880 o'clock We'd
nesday, at the Topeka CharNber of
Commerce. In addition to local men
VINO nave 0Gen invited, all the Nnafl-
bers of commerce in the state
have been asked to send rep
resentattves to the organization
meeting Wednesday. The committee
which is calling'the meeting includes
Fl. s. Putney, a. c. Nagel and G. c.
Sickler.
The Topeka Kiwanis club will back
the campaign for Near East Relief TO
be opened here in the near future.
with actual work. it was determined
Monday night at the regular meeting
of the club. Each member is to give
one hours work to the campaign
Miss Margaret De Forest gave the
Kiwanians a demonstration of the eff
feet of national conditions on the mu-
sic which has been produced by vari-
Gus nations at various periods. She
demonstrated methods of instilling
appreciation of good music, into school
children. /
The brotherhood of the First Pres
byterian church will hold its annual
Lincoln Day banquet in the dining
room of the church, Friday evening,
February 10. Justice Judson S. West
of the supreme court will give the ad-
dress of the evening on Lincoln" The
justices and clerks of the supreme
court will be guests of the brother
hood. Music will be furnished by a
four-piece orchestra and soloist- All
the men of the CHURCH are recognized
members or the DrOChernOOd ana may
make reservation before Thursday
noon by calling 1910 or 1893. ring 2.
Lawrence E. Smith, of Chicago, long
distance walker, and Miss Zetta
Walker of Indianapolis, Ind, gave an
-eXtra. performance. at the Orpheum
theater Monday night by getting mar
ried imm ediately following the second
show. The fact that Edward H. Ster-
ling, also of Chicago, Smiths hiking
partner, lost the ring while acting as
best man, did not cause DR.. E. J. Kulp,
pastor of the First Methodist church,
to deley in performing the ceremony
which was witnessed by the entire
audience. After it was all over, Ster
ling found the ring in his puttees
where it had lodged after finding its
way thru a hole in his trousers pocket
Mrs. Smith now expects to join in
the hike which her husband and Ster-
ling are making from New York 20
Los Angeles.