The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-24
LOCAL MENTION.

The Moose Ladies' dance Friday,
March q. couples Csc. Extra ladies 1oc.
-Aov.
Leonard Billings and Mr.. Chester F.
Ebey have returned from Kansas City,
Mo.
A very pleasant surprise was given at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Otto
Allen in honor OF their twentieth we'd
ding anniversary. Those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. r. Emmett Mack, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arpie Wright. Mr. and Mrs. JOS
eph M. Catren, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank L.
Ebey. Mrs. Birch, Mrs. Margaret Shad-
niger. Miss Mary Dill. Miss Anna Ebey,
Miss Florence Craven, Miss Esther
Whaleys and Mr.. Leon B. Allen.
Mrs. Frank L.sEbey has returned
from Omaha. Neb.. where she spent the
past week..
Miss Grace Glunt Of 325 Klein avenue
entertained the members of her Sunday
school class at her home. Monday eve
Ming. The following were her guests:
Mrs. Norton. Misses Lucille Rein. Clara
Blythe. Lille Olson, Florence Nc
Sawyer, Beatrice Shields. Beulah Starr,
Hazel Robbins Lillian Malmstrom,
Clara Lake, Mabel Upper, Lola Blan-
sett and Grace Glunt.
Safety razor blades sharpened better than
new. 25c-30c dog. Brunt Drug Co.-Adv.
The special fireproof building being
CONSTRUCTED by the Mutual Laundry
company, to house their dry cleaning
plant. is nearing completion. The COM
pany. which Is making the underground
to- he n nv,i,- ryukn
have an expert engineer who is INSTALL
ing this part Of the equipment, while
other workmen are Installing engines,
pumps dry washers and many other
machines. Charles. Mathews, proprie-
tor, informed State Journal reporter
today. that when completed, this mod
ern dry cleaning plant would represent
an investment of about $4,000 and will
be one Of the most complete plants Of
its kind in the state. He expects to
have everything in full operation by
April l.
There will be meeting tonight of the
Kansas Dog Protective association at
the Throop hotel at o'clock. All MEM
bers, friends of dogs and others inter-
ested in the movement against the
triple tax" have been invited to- at
tend.
east side of Kansas avenue between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets was
blown down by the wind today. The
structure pitched forward toward the
walk, but as it was located back from
the front Of the lot. the only damage
done was to the billboard.
C. s. Duncan of Tenth and Topeka
avenues, who has recovered from an
illness, will leave Wednesday for Bos-
ton, where he will close arrangements
to travel for a large business house
which has offered him a good salary.
He will still make his headquarters at
Topeka business circles for twenty
years. s..s.s-
Between 2:2o and $40 o'clock this
afternoon exactly 100 vehicles, from
street cars to bicycle, passed between
Seventh and Eighth streets north and
south on Kansas avenue. A State
window during that time, counted the
following: Forty-two automobiles. 2S
horse vehicles, 20 street cars, 6 motor
cycles and bicycles.
Judge C. E. Foote, 611 Huntoon
street, whose son, Chapelle Foote, is
in the city detention hospital on ac-
count of smallpox. visited Mayor Cof-
ran and Roy L.. Bone, city commits
sioner Of finance; to make complaint
about the condition of the hospital.
He had been told that the plumbing
was out of order and that the heating
plant failed to work. 1t was not until
he had talked with William Porter,
city commissioner. who has charge Of
the hospital, that he was satisfied.
Porter explained that the water for
the plumbing Is supplied by a pump
and that the water in the pump had
frozen. breaking piece of the
mechanism, which is now being re-
| placed. As to the heating it was ex-
planned that the steam plant never
has worked from the time it was in
stalled, and that stoves are used.