The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-15
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


/ evening at Sis O'Clock.
The regular weekly meeting Of the
Camp Grounds committee of the
] Chamber of Commerce, will be held
at noon Friday, at the dining room or
I the chamber
Officers of Jobs Daughters. a Ma
sonic auxiliary corps for young wom-
en-, will be elected Friday night at
meeting of the members at the Ma
sonic temple
Clas. es will probably be held 1eNt
January ir the new Boswell school.
When this school opens it Viii be
necessary TO redistirct the southwest
! part Of the city
About twenty-five Topeka Y. w
&c A girls will hike out the. West
sixth avenue road Friday afternoon
The girls Will have picnic supper
/ before returning.
Topeka will be represented at the
Older Girls Camp conference at
Golden. Colo, by Miss Dorothy LuNton-
There will be twenty-five girls from
Kansas at the conference.
A special swimming period for all
Topeka girls is held every Saturday
from 1880 a. m until ESQ p m. at
the Y w C. A. pool. Each girl is
permitted to stay in the pool for for
ty-five minutes.
An American Legion auxiliary corps
CT twenty-five members was installer
Wednesday at Usage City by Miss
Emma t1duIpu OLAACtAS EACGtI0 a.
first meeting were: Mrs. G /. God
derz, president, and Miss Alice Brooks.
secretary.
The annual picnic of the Frank G.
Armstrong Camp No. 3, L. 5 w v,
and the Armstrong auxiliary No. 2
will be held tonight at Lakewood
park. Autos will take the picnickers
from the end of the South Topeka
car line to the park
The forty-fourth annual Stahl pic
rl1a in 10 NJ
NJ. Stahl grove at Wakarusa. The pic
mic has been an annual event OF more
or less political and social sigCific2nce.
since Kansas was the battle g-'u2d
of the prohibition fight
Earl Harris, superintendent of the
Yellow Cab company of Topeka, was
married in Kansas City today to Ger
trude Miller, formerly of Topeka and
daughter of c. l. Miller of Sulwen,
Okla. Mr.. and Mrs. Harris viii make
their home at PA Harrison street
Tho Fethany girls Of the First
Christian church have elected the fol-
lowing Officers: Miss Marie Donald
son, president; Mrs Dorothy Griffith
vice president; Miss Leona Stahl, seq
rotary: Miss Cecile De Moss, treasurer,
and A-iss Lois Wooley, correspondents
secretary
The local Y. w. c. A camp at Maple
Hill will open July 1 and continue
until September /. Thirty Topeka
gram that will Include swimming, ten
mis-, hiking and boating is now being
planned for the girls, according to
Miss Nell Stringfellow, physical di-
rector at the Y. w. c. A.
Mrs. Isaac Sewen. chndren's division
superintendent of the Kansas Sunday
School association returned today
from a tour of the county confer
ence of the association Mrs Sewen
was seriously ill for a week at Plain
vile. Great interest in the interna-
tional convention to be held at Kan
sss City this month is being shown
thruOut the state, Mrs. Sewel reports.
Hunter Elder, negro soldier from
Fort Riley, who was found fatally
wounded at the home OF his common
law wife, Alma Brunette. 115 North
Van Buren, street, last Friday morn
ing. come to his death by his own
hand. according to the finding of
coroner's jury this afternoon. The
Burnette woman, who has been in Jail
since the shooting. will probably be
released, it was said this afternoon.
Herbert Parker and Willard Jasper
son have been chosen as delegates
from Topeka to the international Old
er Boys Camp conference TO be held at
Golden, Colorado, June p to July 3.
Sixteen boys viii represent Kansas at
this conference. Delegates are chosen !
according to the leadership ability that
they show in their school or church
work. L R. Templin of Agenda, Kan, |
will be in charge of the Kansas group. |
A campaign to obtain 100 new sum-
mer memberships to the Central Y.
NJ c. A. will be inaugurated June %. |
Only senior-memberships will be So
licited. There will be forty campaign
workers. "Only 2S2 men used the
pool last Saturday. 1t should accom-
modate $50 a day." said 7. B. Brett |
haupt. membership secretary. The |
water IN the pool will be kept at a
temperature of so degrees during the
summer months.
About 900 persons will attend the
annual picnic for the Topeka Knights
Templar and their families at Gage
park July Is. The guests OF honor at
the picnic will be members of Mar
shaIPs band and OF the Topeka COM
unanderfes' drill team. The commit |
tee in charge OF the picnic is Clinton
ID. Hart, chairman; Joseph E Du-
breuil and o X. Swayze William
Bond Will have charge of the re-
freshments, which are to be served
cafeteria style"
An inquest into the death of sam !
uel Childes, the negro who was killed !
when the Dodge car driven by Harry !
Scott, Fifteenth and Adams street, !
overturned near Pauline Sunday even I
jury was sworn and taken to examiner
the car. The hearing was then post |
poned until Monday morning because |
several witnesses could not be present |
today. The touring car belonged to |
Yost & Redenbaugh. 1871 Kansas ave
nue., wall paper merchants, it was said /
today. The negroes borrowed the car /
while Redenbaugh was at SCOTS place /
contracting for some work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur A. Stanfield. |
and their daughter. Miss Thelma |
Stanfield, left Topeka wednesday for /
a three weeks vacation in California. |
The three school nurses on the staff !
OF the Topeka schools examined no /
loss Of no schools I
during the term which has just ended. |
The nurses also inspected Abs rooms /
There were sent home and excluded |
from the schools no less than 1929 /