The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-02

Sunday school attendance Sunday was
4O4. This is double the attendance
last winter. The Rev. ]. Quincy Biggs,
pastor, is organizing a new mems class
with DR.. c. E. Brown, president; f. G.
Fouch, vice president, and o. G. Emer-
son, asurer.
The Knights of Columbus night
school will open at Z O'Clock this eve
ming for it's first fall session. Enroll
ment may be made in the office of the
pincipal, 725 Jackson street. Courses
in automobile repairing, commercial
law, business courses and oxy-acety-
lene welding will be offered. Glasses
will be held from Z to o'clock Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday evenings.
The school is primarily for ex-service
men but others may enroll.
In the office of the Southwestern
Bell Telephone company on Jackson
street, there has been Installed a
model of the machine which is to do
the automatic switching of telephone
calls on the Topeka exchange. In the
near future. Subscribers to the COM
pany are invited to have the workings
of the machine explained to them, SO
that their understanding of its prin-
ciples will aid them in the man1pula-
ton of the dials on their own phones
after the switch-over has been made.
The first hour of the regular Sum
day meeting of the striking shop
crafts in Labor Hall Sunday was taken
up by the Salvation Army, in the hold
ing of an evangelistic service Ihe
main speaker of the day was Frank
sanderson. former employee in the
Santa fe shops, now a farmer. Prof.
Walter Burr, of the department Of
rural sociology at the Kansas state
Agricultural college at Manhattan,
will speak at Labor Hall at O'Clock
Saturday night of this week.
NJ
lister of the First Unitarian church, adj
dressed the Washburn college class OF
Young men and women at the FIRST
Presbyterian Sunday school at 9:5o
Sunday morning, on the subject OF
.'Unitarianism," outlining its history
principal characteristics. faith. and its
contribution to religious thousht.
Clyde Miller. leader of the class, is
arranging a series of such talks from
representatives of the different de-
nominations in the city, of which Doc
tor Gray's address was the first.
SUNDAY afternoon delegation of
knights Templar or Topeka Com
mandery No. 5, visited Hillcrest. the
Topeka tuberculosis sanitarium, and
left in the underground cellar a sup
ply of fruit and delicacies for the pa
tents Miss Anna B. Henry, the eff
ficient superintendenr. graciously gave
the committee an insight into the
work being done by this institution
towards checking the white plague,
which was revelation to those of the
party who had not been there before.
This visit is a part of the program
planned by Commander Chester A.
Buell. to do good"
Gas bills are hereafter to be sent
out by the Consumers Heat, Light
and Power company in two patches
each month in order to avoid, the con-
gestion at the gas company's office
- Iar .1f er1I1 yxyDJ
has hitherto been the last day for the
payment of the bills witout penalty.
In the future, Topekans whose homes
are west of Kansas avenue and south
of the Kaw rivsr, will receive their
bills on the fifteenth of the month,
with ten days following in which to
pay them. The residents of all other
parts of the city will receive their
bills on the first day of the month as
in the past. The new arrangement
will become effective October Is.
The base ball game scheduled for
Sunday at Southwestern League park
between the Hall Lithographing COM
pany team and Overlook. the windup
of a tournament in which Carbonate,
Overlook, Richard and Halls par
ticipated, was postponed on account
of the condition of the roads Sunday
and the inability of the Overlook
players to reach Topeka. The game
will be played next Sunday at League
park at o'clock Ticket holders may
use their tickets for the postponed
game or get a refund as they prefer.
This promises to be a tight game, and
the same batteries that struck out II
and Is batters respectively will again
officiate next Sunday-MiteheH and
Jaenicke for Halls and Dement, and
Neider for Overlook.
Several weeks ago a well known
Topeka auto salesman was arrested at
Lawrence on a charge of disturbing
the peace of q couple of felaaule ..rnad |