The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-26
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AT HOME NEWS.
W. e. Archer. county attorney of
preme court matters.
Tho stork IL taking q vacation No
births were reported at the city clerks
Office up until late this afternoon.
The Norden Benefit association will
hold a smoker at the A. O. U. w. hall
Monday evening. which viii be open
to the members and friends.
The civil ,service commissioners for
the city Of Topeka will conduct the
regular quarterly examination Of APP
plicants for city positions Monday, Oc-
tober 5. In the council chamber at the
City hall.
Henry Kamloski, convicted of burg
larry In the second degree, was SEN
fenced to an indeterminate term in
the Hutchinson reformatory by Judge
Dana in the first division of the Shaw
nee county district court today.
Sheldon Wentworth. formerly of
Topeka but now OF Coffeyville. Kan,
of his father. H. Wentworth, Of 1913
| Van Buren, street, who recently suf-
fered from a stroke of paralysis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles N. Bacon have
returned from a months trip east.
MI. Bacon attended the national en-
campment of the G. A. r. at Detroit
and after the encampment was over
| they visited in New York. Ohio and
elsewhere.
The winners Of the recent r. r. Y.
| M. c. A. tournament went to Usage
City today to play DIR. r. C. Grofe and
H. Ziggendin. champions of the Usage
City Tennis club. The Topeka play
ers are Starr Murphy and Tom Will
| liams.
Beginning Monday, the high school
football squad will practice at League
park instead of Washburn field. The
schedule, which was made out several
days ago. may have to be changed on
account of difference in schedules
with other teams.
| p. H. Coney has returned from
Wichita where he addressed a large
assemblage Of veterans of the Civil
war and other allied societies holding
a reunion at that place. Charles Cur
| tbs. ex-senator, also delivered an ad-
dress at the reunion
The local organization Of the Amer
| lean Red Cross society has been asked
by the national organization to re-
quest the pastors in Topeka churches
to take a special peace offering in
| their churches tomorrow. The peace
! offerings will be used for relief work
| in the war.
| The Kansas State Butchers associa-
| ton will hold its annual meeting in
the Commercial club rooms October
and z. Two hundred delegates are ex-
pected at the convention. The associa-
| ton was organized in Topeka two years
ago. A large program is being planned
for the October convention.
! Approximately $50 members of the
National Grain Dealers association
| 4, A., Of I,<.
mercial club at a noon hour luncheon
October Is and IA A big feature of the
National Grain Dealers convention will
be a trip through the wheat districts
of Kansas. While on this trip they will
visit this city.
In the second division of the Shaw
nee county district court today Judge
George H. Whitcomb granted a di-
vorce to Ella b. Johnston from Robert
N. Johnston and to Robert K Law
lers from Elizabeth A. LAWYERS. In the
second division Bessie c. Knowles was
given a divorce decree from Henry w.
| Knowles.
A permit to erect a dwelling to cost
| $1,1OO was issued to Charles Peterson
| of 400 Chandler street by the city this
morning. Other permits issued: A.
S. Thomas of 1914 Harrison street,
addition to a building to cost $125.
and George ]. Mccoy of 1115 West
ing costing 800.
| IL possible, arrangements will be
! made to give three performances of the
bill now running at the Novelty should
the crowd this evening be as large as
Friday night, according to E. F. Max
well, manager of the house. The bill
at the Novelty is The Sunny Side OF
Broadway" and the crowd Friday eve
ming was much too large for the size
of the house. Part Of it had to be turned
away after the standing room in the
theater was filled
Samuel S. Mcclure, editor and pub
Usher of McClure's magazine. Will be
the guest of honor at a Commercial club
dinner to be given at $3.50 O'Clock Tues
day evening, october 10. At the dinner
Mr., Mcclure will speak on The Five
,Greatest Problems of Our Civilization
Mr. Mcclure is well known throughout
the United States and a large attend
ance of the members OF the Commercial
club is expected at the dinner
william Naugle, who had entered a
plea of guilty to grand larceny in TAX
ing about $50 from a room in a hotel.
appeared before Judge Dana to receive
sentence in the first division of the dis
trict court this morning. When the
Judge was informed that the onense
was Naugle's first. that he had been
born and reared in Topeka, and had
a wife and two children in Sioux City,
Ia, he deferred passing sentence until
he had more time in which to consider
the case.
The application for hearing before
the public utilities commission, made
by attorneys Of Kansas railroads seek
ing an increase in freight rates for
shipping oil, has been Indefinitely
postponed. The hearing had been set
for September %. The railroads asked
that it be postponed to November Is