The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-21
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

school will meet Wednesday morning
at o'clock in the high school build
ing.
C. H. W. RauschkoIb, secretary of
the american Legion rehabilitation
committee for the Ninth district, was
in Topeka Monday.
Sweet Cider. wholesale and retail.
Custom grinding every day. Diamond
Bottling Works, 2201 Lincoln st.
Phone 317S.-Adv.
Cyrene cornmandery No. 5, Knights
Templar, will send a delegation of 500
persons to attend the Missouri-Kansas
conclave at st. Joseph, Mo-. Thanks
giving. The delegation will be ac-
companied by Jackson's band.
Miss Ruth Cowgirl, daughter of Mrs.
r. H. Cowgirl, 1415 Jewell avenue, and
a sister of Clyde P. Cowgirl, local at
torney, returned to Topeka this morn
ing from Roanoke, Va, where she has
served as librarian of the public IL
brary.
The state fire marshaPs office has
secured the confession of L. c. Chavis
of Junction City to the effect that he
burned his own home in order to col
lect insurance. ChaviS is a negro
soldier and has been in service twenty
two years.
Ensign V. J. Huffman of the Saliva
ton Army will leave Friday for Chi
cago, where he will attend thu annual
congress Of Salvation Army workers,
November > to 81. Miss Evangeli1e
Booth, commander, will be in charge
OF the meeting.
Members of the women's auxiliary
of the American Legion in Kansas
have been asked by Miss Emma Ea-
dorm, secretary, to visit the schools in
their neighborhoods and take part in
the educational week program of the
auxiliary, December to 8.
Criminal prosecution of the Smith
meyer case growing out of the whole
sale grocer custer suits, started today
at Lawrence. F. H. Smithmeyer is
president of the Poehler Mercantile
company. Settlement was made in the
grocer custer suits several months ago
Members of Media Grotto, Mystic
Order Yelled Prophets of the En-
chanted Realm. will hold pep meet
ing at 6:15 o'clock Tuesday evening,
November %, at the Masonic temple,
t. make final arrangements for the
ceremonial to be held in Topeka, De-
cember Z.
Wheat growing conditions in Kan
sas improved during the last week as
a result of recent rains. J. c. Mohler,
secretary of the state board of agri-
culture, has issued a report showing
that rains which were general in all
sections of the state, greatly improved
crop prospects.
Mrs Mary f. Kurdish, director of
religious education of the Kansas
speak at the young peoples leadership
conference at Hutchinson, December
to 10. The conference will be open
to members of Christian churches in
southern Kansas.
All Topeka high school students
have been requested to come to school
Wednesday morning prepared to give
the phone number by which they may
be called when the machine switch |
ing system is put into operation. These |
will he filed in the office |
records in place of those which are
now in use.
The S65 churches of the Christian
denomination in Kansas will hold
their annual Thanksgiving. of1erlng
services next Sunday, according to the |
Rev. John D. Zimmerman, secretary |
of the Kansas Christian Missionary So
ciety. The money contributed at the |
will be used FOR nome ms
sions. The society will inaugurate |
campaign to obtain 5000 new mem |
bers January l. The campaign will |
close on Easter Sunday.
Five Topekans will speak at the
of the south central district
of the Kansas Christian Endeayor |
union at Hutchinson, Friday, Satur-
day and Sunday. They are: The Rev.
Anton T. Dewey, the Rev Robert
Pratt, Miss Madilene Garter
Mary E. Kurdish. Mrs. Kurdish will |
be the principal speaker at the Chris
tan Endeavor convention at Pittsburg,
Kan, December 1, and ).
Mary s. FOUGHT, $40 West Eleventh |
street, received first prize, a SIS pearl
necklace, in the add-a-pearl picture
contest, conducted by the Ralph r.
Peterson jewelry store, 1O6 west
Eighth avenue. She suggested the
title Pearl o. My Dreams" Lou
White, 1927 Garfield avenue. received
second prize, a SIS necklace, with a
title Pearl of the Dawn" and Howard
Good, of Cimarron, was awarded third
prize, a $40 necklace, with THE Allur-
ng PEARL
Cost of the new combination fire
ruck which has been authorized by
he city commission for use at fire
station No 5, and which already mas
,een orederd, will cost the city $11,-
100 in stead of $32,500. as stated by
. Topeka newspaper. The purchase
Price of the truck was announced to-
lay by Frank L. Stevens. commission
II of finance. The truck will add
,reatIy to the safety to the property
n the College Hill district, which has
lot had adequate protection for some
ime, according to Fire Chief Hanlon-
Members of the Topeka Hi-Y club
who will attend the Kansas Older
Boys conference in Manhattan, De-
.ember /, 2 and 8, are: John Carter,
Donald Harrington, Edwin Parker,
George Epps, Edwin Patterson. o. w.
Iascall, Jack Brewster, Donald Mey- +
RS, J. Glenn McSparran, Earnest
stanley, Lowell Horner, Ralph Mar
in. Phil Peyton, Fred Rietz, Balfour
Teffery and Dave Thomas. ]. Glenn
dcSparran, a member of the Topeka
Ugh school faculty, who is in charge
# the high school delegation has an
lounced- that reservations for Aine
more boys are open.
Talks on the World War portraits
will be given by George NJ. Stone and
drs J.. D. Whittemore at the Memoir
al building, at o'clock every after
loon this week, and at 1880 o'clock
and Friday evening. Next
saturday, November %, will be the
asst day of the exhibition, as the pie
ures must be shipped from Topeka
lot later than November 81. The at