The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Eat Sunday dinner at the Central
Y. NJ. C. A. cafeteria open from IL
till ADV.
Miss Grace V. Parrish, directress of
the Kansas Teachers Placement bu-
reau. will leave Monday evening for
Denver, Colo, where she will spend
two weeks.
An oyerheated electric iron resulted
in fire alarm at $3.50 o'clock Friday
evening at the home of t. c. Riley,
24O5 Topeka avenue. There was but
slight damage.
Members of the Monday Tourist
club will hold an all-day picnic Mon
day at Tecumseh. They will meet at
the northeast corner of the state house
grounds at 1890 o'clock in the MORN
ing.
A total enrolment of 101 in the
Branner annex school for Mexican
children was reported for the first
two weeks of school. Only twenty
seven were enrolled in the school last
year.
Miss Marion Peers, director of the
Topeka high school art department,
will act as a judge in the art depart
ment of the Kansas State Fair at
Hutchinson Monday. Miss Margaret
Whittemore will be in charge of the
high school art classes during her
absence.
Pamphlets containing the fall physi-
cal education program of the Y. w.
c. A. are now being distributed.
Gymnastic classes will be held daily
and dancing classes will meet three
times each week. The summer swim
ming pool schedule will close October
l and the winter schedule will become
effective.
neutrality-suspicious. truck No. and
Yellow cab No. 1O1 collided this morn
ing at Eighth avenue and Topeka
boulevard. The steering gears of both
cars were damaged. No one was in
jured. The cars were moving slowly,
according to persons who saw the
accident.
A meeting of the Y. W. C. A. board
of directors will be held next Monday
at the Y. w C. A. Maple Hill camp.
The members of the board will spend
the day at the camp. In the evening
husbands of the board Members will
be guests OF a dinner to be served at
the camp.
By special request, the Rev. John
A. Bright, chaplain of the Kansas
House of Representatives will preach
Sunday evening at 1880 o'clock at the
First United Brethren church. corner
OF Twelfth and Quincy streets. Also
by special request. the Reverend
Bright and Mrs. Bright will sing, THE
Model Church
The Topeka Life Insurance Under
writer's association held its first fall
meeting this noon at the Chamber of
Commerce. Plans for the fall meet
ings of the association were perfected.
The members of the association will
act as hosts to the delegates to the
state insurance congress. which will
be held in Topeka in January.
DIR. o. r. Searle, who has been a
resident of Topeka since the fail of
1919. when he brought his family here
from Belvue on account of the better
educational advantages, is making
plans to move to Wamego next week
where he will resume practice. Be
fore coming to Topeka. Doctor Searle
practiced medicine at Belvue for
twenty-five years.
The concluding speech of the OPEN
ing week services of the First Meth
odist Episcopal church will be given
Sunday morning at IL o'clock in the
new Sunday school temple by DIR.
Wallace B. Fleming. president of
Baker university. at Baldwin, Kan.
Doctor Fleming will speak at the
Lowman Memorial Methodist church
at Sis and 1880 O'Clock, Sunday night
Dempsey Parker, coIored, was held
by a coroner's jury this morning to
have feloniously killed Rafael Garcia,
Mexican, in a fight which occurred
near Parker's home on Bruce street
Monday morning of this week. The
evidence showed that the Mexican
had attacked Parker, after having
been drinking all night, and that
Parker acted feloniously in killing his
assailant since he was not in any great