The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-26
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Topekans who are former presidents
of Dennison, in jackson county, are
planning a picnic to be held at Gage
Park this afternoon.
Frank G. Richard. secretary of the
Kansas Sunday School association,
will leave tonight for Mcpherson.
where he will speak at a community
Sunday school meeting Sunday.
Every duty we omit obscures some
some truth we should have known"
These words of Ruskin are offered to-
day by the Unitarian porch pulpit at
ga Topeka boulevard.
Topeka Commandery No. 5. knights
Templar, will hold work in the Order
of Malta at o'clock Monday evening 1,;
at the Masonic temple. Supper will
be served at 6 o'clock. At o'clock
the order OF the temple will be con-
ferred.
A meeting of the camp grounds COM
Jlaittee of the Chamber of Commerce
is to be held at noon Monday, when
further details of the improvement OF
the tourist camp at Garfield park will
be taken up. c. w. Seely is chairman
of the committee
The next meeting of the spanish
American war veterans will be held
September "a at the home of Douglas
Graham, county clerk, four miles
southwest OF Topeka. Fifty members
were in attendance at watermelon
feast Thursday. The Rev. Bernard
1NOAiCy SPOhCs
Altho the weather was unsettled,
employees of the new J. c. Penney
company store, 529 Kansas avenue,
reported that a substantial amount OF
business was transacted at the open
ing today. This is the 372nd store of
the company. Several have been
opened in Kansas. A dozen clerks
have been employed.
There will be a meeting of the board
of directors of the Topeka Hotel COM
pany at the Chamber of Commerce at
noon Monday. At that meeting the
views of the directors on the plans for
the new hotel will be obtained and
committee appointed to meet with
Christian Neipp, the lessee, upon his
arrival in Topeka in September.
Clell o. Hanson left Friday for
Philadelphia following a visit with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. o. Hanson
of 220 Woodlawn avenue. Hanson
was graduated from Topeka high
school in 1920, and has served in the
navy since November of that year. In
that time he has visited all of the
European countries with the excep-
! ton of Switzerland and Greece. He
expects to visit China within the next
year.
W. H. Sprague, a farmer living
three and a half miles west of Sea-
brook, was seriously injured this aft
ernoon when a haystacker on which
| he was working overturned, pinionlns
| MN D6neaIn Inc dCClOChI "
Cured as the result of the breakage
| of some of the ropes of the appara-
| tus Sprague's leg was broken, and
| he may have suffered other injuries.
He was brought to st. Francis hos
pital in Topeka.
Former residents of Jefferson
county who now live in Topeka will
meet at Garfield park for the annual
picnic of their association, on the aft
| ernoon and evening of Saturday, Sep
| TENDER 2. There will be talks on the
/ early settlement of Jefferson county,
| the singing of old songs will be a fea
ture of the musical program of the
picnic. and the picnickers will take
| their lunches with them in baskets
Oscar Raines is president of the asso-
citation.
| Claiming that the five sons on
| whom he migha have depended al
/ present for support were killed in the
World war, George M. johnson, resid-
| ing in the 500 block on Quincy street,
is seeking engagements to play his
violin at square dances for his sup
port. johnson has a violin bearing
| the name of Joseph Guarnertus
marked 'Fecit Cremonae," and says
| it is 1913 years old, being made in
t1724. He is 81 years of age and is a
/ native of Big Springs, Kan.