The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-12
SNAP SHOTS
Avn HOME NEWS

1 A vocal recital viii be gwen Iues-
i day evening at Y. W. c. A by Miss
! F'reida Slaughter.
/ The regular weekly luncheon and
| meeting of the Monday Lunch club
was held at the Chamber of Com
merce at noon today.
The Girl Scouts of Topeka will have
1 dinner this evening at the Y. w. c. A
I Miss Grace Elmore, scout master, will
I be in charge Of the meeting.
The regular Monday meeting of the
| Professional Women's club will be
held this evening at the Y. w. z. A
! Mrs Lucretia Embleton, president,
/ will conduct the meeting
The trade extension committee of
the Topeka Merchants association
held its regular weekly meeting at
HO;30 o'clock this morning. There
Il was only a general discussion.
The members of the Social Order
4 of the Beauceant will hold a business
n meeting at the Masonic temple Tues
/. day afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock. I'M
l portant business will come before the
| order.
I Thirty business girls of Topeka are
! enrolled in the Y. w. c. A. tennis club.
I The court at Eighth and College may
/ be used at any time by members OF
I the club. The girls are permitted to
invite gentlemen guests on Thursdays
and Saturdays.
John l. Hersh, PRESENT, and P. A.
| Fairbank, past president OF the To-
peka Kiwanis club, will leave Tues
day for Toronto, Canada. to attend the
annual international convention of XII
wants clubs. Both men will be &C
companied by their wives.
The regular meeting of the Ktwanis
club will be held at Pelleter's tea
Henry f. Mason, of the state supreme
court. and G. J. Swan, receiver for the
Consumers Heat. Light & Power COM
pany, will be the principal speakers
Members of the Lowman Memorial
Methodist church celebrated the pay
ment of the building and Improvement
debt Sunday. More than $500
raised during the last year was used
in paying the debt Speakers at the
services were G B. Zook and DR.. Ed
mund J. Kulp.
J. W. Buffum, now of Los Angeles,
Cal. formerly a Kansas travelling man,
is visiting in Topeka. after having
spent three years in California Buff
fun is visiting his two sons, the Rev
Herbert Buffum, and A c Buffurp,
1904 Buchanan street, and his som
in-law, H. S. Lee.
The Rev. John Wells Rahill, pas
tor of the Central Congregational
church, will be the principal speaker
at the regular weekly meeting and
dinner ofthe COOPERATIVE club at Pei
letters at 6:15 o'clock Tuesday eve
ming of this week. The Co-Ops will
soon discontinue their meetings for
the summer.
Enrolment in Washburn college
for the summer school. commenced
this morning. Officials of the col
lege believe that the summer enroll
ment will show a gain of 25 per cent
over that of last year. Most of the
courses offered are special courses,
and an effort is being made to build
up the children's department
The first of a series of sub-district
Epworth league meetings was held
l.
A Meetings will also be held at Usage
City, OskaloOsa and Wamego this
week. A district booth festival was
planned Sunday night at the home of
DR.. c. B. ZoOk by members of the To-
peka district. The festival will be held
in September
Five thousand dollars is to be spent
for an addition to the Madison Street
Baptist church. The seating capacity
of the church will be increa sed by
fifty. and the basement will be con-
verted into a recreation room for
church members. The campaign to
raise the money for the improvements
was started Sunday at the regular
church services.
One hundred and forty-three high
school boys attended first session of
Camp Wood at Elmdale from May 1
to June 10. The second session will
open today and continue for ten days
About $50 boys will attend. The state
Y VI. c. A. will open Camp Dock
stader at Cawker City on August 10
and Camp Steelaway at Waterville,
August p. Attendance is limited to
boys of high school age.
The 1928 annual reunion of the
both field artillery will be held on
the grounds of the Boys Industrial
school at Topeka, it was determined
at the end of the Saturday reunion.
Scores of the members of the old regi-
ment picRicked on the Industrial
school grounds Saturday ana enjoyed
the eats and the program furnished by
the boys of the school. 1t was de-
terminsd to have a good representa-
ton of the regiment at the reunion
of the Thirty-Fifth division to be held
at Wichita September 20, the ami
versary of the opening Of the Argonne
drive.
Bradbury Thompson and Donald
Linton. students at Potwin school.
have made a perfect record in attend
ance for the past two and one-half
years. Miss Mary Louise O'Neil has
been neither absent or tardy for two
years. Pupils who have not been alb
sent during the last term are: Charles
Atwell, Kindergarten; Hobart john
son, kindergarten; Richard Lommas-
son. 2-S; Esther Flora, 3-A; Bernard
Austin, 3-B; Vivian Oliver, 5-B; Ken
meth Cuff, ga; Charles Dreyer, 5-A;
Grace Pierson. ga; Alice Pierson.
lotte Bacon, ga: Mildred Clark. 6-A;
Josephine Herboldsheimer, 7-B.
Professor and Mrs Angelus T.
Burch left Topeka Sunday evening for
the east. Professor Burch will attend
the national convention of the Asso- /
ciated Advertisers of the world at Mil |
waukee, June to Is, and will then
go on to New York city. where he will /
take a special course in journalism at
Columbia university. Mrs. Burch will l
represent the WaShburn chapter of 4
Alpha Phi, women's fraternity, at the |
national annual convention of the or
ganization to be held at Syracuse /
university, Syracuse. n. Y. beginning /
June - The Burches were accom- |
panied by Mrs. Elrick B. Davis and |