The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-07
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The board of directors Of the To-
peka Commercial club held Its regular
March meeting today.
Miss Irene Welshans will give q
reading at the Y. w. c. A. vesper
services at AIS o'clock Sunday AFTER
noon.
Beginning this afternoon the office
OF the city water department will be
closed every Saturday afternoon at
o'clock.
The business mems volleyball teams
will clash at the Central 7. M c. A.
this evening. The first game Will start
| at Sis O'Clock.
The class in millinery at the 7. w.
c. A. will start next Wednesday even
| ing at seven o'clock. 1t will be under
| Mrs. Maude Brickley.
w. J. Rickenbacher has purchased
the seven room dwelling on McVicar
| avenue belonging to Harry McKitrick.
The consideration was $4,000.
| A wedding license was issued today
| in the probate court to Warren T.
Saxon, over 81, Of Holton, and Grace
T. Bitter. over Fl, of Emporia.
J. A. Ramsey, city sanitary sergeant.
for Manhattan to spend Sunday with
| their daughter, Laura, who is attend
ing the State Agricultural college.
| DIR. Otto Kene will give an address
tonight at the Central Y. M. c. A. at
| z O'Clock on first aid to the injured.
He will speak Of accidents that take
(, place in indoor and outdoor sports.
| Eugene villipique. graduate Of To-
peka high school, 1911, and a student
at the Washburn law school. is con-
sidering entering the race for clerk
! of the court Of Topeka. Ronald Smith
l Alt have already n.
! nounced.
! The merchants of the city will hold
a meeting soon to discuss the question
of early closing Saturdays. The petit
| ton for early closing that was placed
| in local stores by the Topeka Local
union was signed by nearly four thou
sand persons.
! The wichita celebration over the
completion of a $2,5OO,OOO union depot
! reminds Topekans that there is a slight
sentiment here for the erection of a
structure sentiment that, appar-
| emily, is not enthusiastically received
by the railroads.
| Mamie White, 1917 North Polk
street. filed petition for divorce from
her husband, Elijah White, in the dis
trict court today. She alleges that he
| forced her from their home, 1904 West
after her. She asks alimOny and the
custody Of her minor children.
| The civic Improvement committee
of the Commercial club under w. j
Rickenbacher will meet Monday noon
to inspect the ''city plan" as drawn up
| for Topeka by Charles Milford Rob-
inson. The plan consists of SO type
written pages and includes twenty
five illustrations. 1t is quite compre-
hensive.
Next Tuesday at three o'clock q
public welfare meeting will be held
at Potwin school: It will be under
the auspices of the Parent-Teachers
| association of the school. There will
be a similar meeting Wednesday a,
the Grant school at $3.50 o'clock and
one at the Quincy school Thursday
at the same hour.
/ w. A McKeever, professor Of chile
welfare at the State university. will
speak Monday evening at 1880 O'Clock
at the Topeka Training School fol
Sunday School Workers in the FRS
Methodist church. His subject "Con.
structive Ideals for Sunday Schools.
The following Monday night he will
give another address
!. Special services will be held at tho
!, First Presbyterian church Sunday b.
DR.. George G. Many. The subject il
! the morning will be, "Christ in Yo,
} the Hope of Glory" The subject O.
the afternoon service which will b.
held at three o'clock will be, Men
, Their Sins and Their Savior" "Rea
Life" will be the evening topic.
A meeting Of the Shawnee Count,
, Bar association was called this morn
ing by the president J. G. Waters
Resolutions were taken upon tn
, deaths Of Bishop Crumrine and Jane
w. Morgan. Otis Hungate was name,
as an additional member Of the com
. mittee to plan for the annual ba
banquet, to be held within 80 days
Carlton A. Searle. well known ii
; Topeka railway circles. has been ap
!, pointed general baggage agent Of tn
: Rock Island Lines with headquarter
in Chicago in addition to his duties a
manager of mail traffic Of the system
, Searle is a relative of e. wv. Thomp
son OF Topeka, who at one time wa
assistant general passenger agent o
the Rock Island Lines here.
:, | The following federal officers leav
I /; Sunday for Wichita, where they Wi
q attend the United States district cour
| which convenes there Monday morn
q ing: Fred Robertson, United State
q district attorney; his assistant, F. N
Brady; Chief Clerk William E. Sticke
a Morton Albaugh, clerk of the court
J. r.. Harrison, United States marsha
and his deputy, Frank F1enniken.
The College Hill circle of the Chill
h Conservation League of America, re
Gently organized by Mrs. Eleanor Z
: Wetz, held its second regular meetin
n this week at the Westminster Presby
terrain church. Those who took pal
10 on the program were Miss Ruth Gra
p ham. Miss Bessie CASTOR. Mrs. Thee
dore Hanson, Miss Katherine Al
8 baugh, Mrs. Fred E. Hale. and Mrs.
]. G. Zimmerman.
In the first annual peace oratorics
. contest in the Washburn chapel la
night, Ray Garvey won first place.