The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-20
SNA.P SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The small boys of the city are
crazy over marbles just now; it will
soon be top time.
The Plus Ultra class Of the Third
Presbyterian church will meet tonight
at 7:30 at the church.
The probate court has issued a we'd
ding license to Chester Weekley and
Elsie O. Raush. both q, both of To-
peka-
| Lewis Howell a prisoner who escaped
from the city Jail. has been reczptpFed
and is now pounding rock. Howell es-
| capped Tuesday.
| The annual meeting of the Kansas
State Beekeepers' association will be
| held in the rooms of the Commercial
club Feb. 1921.
Topeka temple No. 10 Pythian Sis
ters will have a short program after
their regular meeting Saturday even
! ing also light refreshments.
p. Swats. Jew. charged with forg-
| ing a check for 50, was heard this
! morning in the court of Topeka. and
bound over to the district court on $500
bond.
| Marion Smith. president of the Ca
thedral Boys club. will entert.-in the
members of the club and their friends
| tonight at his home on Greenwood
avenue.
! Pupils in Topeka public schools are
I
birthday will come on Sunday this year.
| If it had occurred on week day, the
schools would have had a vacation.
| One man in Topeka has a pair of
Rocky Mountain burros which he drives
regularly. The animals are said to be
! just as useful and not as expensive as
horses. They were purchased in Colo
RADIO for so apiece.
I The carpets" are untrampled in the
| Rock Island offices in Topeka today.
General Manager Sweet, Assistant Cen
eral Manager Smalley and General
! Passenger Agent Stewart are all out of
the city on company business.
Euclid Avenue Methodist church
elected Thursday night: G. T. Mat
tingly, Sam Zimmerman, E. d. Spick-
erman, Lloyd Smith, H. w. Kearns, H.
S. johnson, DR.. A. F. Harrison.
There will be reception Of new
members of the Third Presbyterian
church on Sunday morning. Also bap-
tism administered. These are parts Of
the regular Washington birthday cele-
bration. Fine music at both services,
10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
Nearly a block of sidewalk along the
east side of Mulvane street, Elmhurst,
is impossible on account of the condi-
ton of the terraces along vacant lots.
, This condition has existed for weeks
and no action on the part of the pro-
perty owners or the city has been ta-
ken.
DR.. F. ]. Ernest will give talk on
first aid to the injured at the Central
Y M. c. A. Saturday evening. The
, lecture will be free to all men Of the
! city. The speaker will tell what to do
,, in cases of frost bites, freezing, sun
stroke. burns and scalds injury by
electricity, etc.
The following examinations have been
, announced by the United States civil
service commission: Assistant geolo-
. sist. March 11-12; field forest agent
March 4; technical assistant in malaria
Investigations. March 9. Information In
: regard to these examinations can be Sc
cured at any postoffice.
Il H. NJ Cottrell. agricultural commits
! sioner OF the Rock Island Lines, left
!, today for Oklahoma City where he will
? spread the gospel of better seed corn
He will return to Topeka Monday anG
resume his conference with Topeka
4 commercial interests for a campaign
against bad seed corn in this state.
!. Teams &C. and "a will clash a,
4 Sis o'clock Saturday evening in tn,
business mems vo1ley ball tournament
2 at the Central Y. NJ. c. A. Later IL
o the evening "Y" and m" will play
a The standing of the teams is now a,
follows: NJ, 667 per cent: Y, 5S3 PEI
Y cent, c, 500 per cent, and A, ESQ pei
' cent.
n ]. c. Burnett, assistant genera
agent Of the Santa Fe in Topeka. i