The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

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As the city seni-monthly pay day
WOULD have fallen on Sunday, city
employees were paid today.
A marriage license was issued this
morning from the office of Hugh Mac
Farland, probate judge, to Fred B.
Elizabeth Purdy, age IS, Topeka.
Christian Individualism-th Indi-
Vjduai in Old Testam ent Teaching"
viii be the subject of DR.. Arthur S.
Henderson's lecture to his Bible class
Sunday at 10 o'clock at the First Con-
gregatioEal church.
A two weeks evangelistic campaign
will open at the Second Presbyterian
church, corner Huntoon and Fillmore
streets, November %, with Evangelist
McCory of Pittsburg, Pa., as the
preacher.
The November meeting of the wo-
mems Foreign Missionary society was
held at the home of Mrs. Bernard
Kelly on Topeka avenue today. On
the program were Mrs. H e. Wolfe
the president, and Mrs. c. P. Adams.
An all day meeting of the Lincoln
Literary and Sewing society will be
held Tuesday at Lincoln Post hall, 116
East Sixth avenue. The members are
preparing for the bazaar and chicken
PIE dinner to be held Thanksgiving
Day.
The city civil service board will hold
Der 8, at a. m, for the positions of
clerk of the police court, sanitary po
licemen and patrolmen. Examina
ton will be in the council chamber of
the city hall.
An assignment of criminal cases will
begin in the second division of the
Shawnee district court November 30.
The assignment was made up this
morning by Robert Carver assistant
county attorney, and will occupy the
division for about a week.
The Crittenton home board has sent
out an appeal for remembrances dur
ing the Thanksgiving season, to the
people of Topeka. The Crosby Broth
ers store has given space to the board
for a depository of THANKSGIVING gifts
to the home. Mrs. R. G. Moody is
president of the board of managers.
A. A. GODDARD will address the Po-
litical Science club at it's club meet
ing next Friday on the proposed bond
election for the erection of a county
welfare settlement. The settlement as
petitioned for will consist of a tuber-
culosiS hospital, detention home,
home for the aged, and other
branches.
DR.. Lydia De Vilbiss, chief of the
child hygiene division of the state
board of health will speak at the din
ner given by the Current Topic club
6 o'clock. Prof. Carlton Wood will
give violin selection, 1.-The Indians
Lament" by Dvorak-Kreisler. r. H.
Cav will preside.
AT the next meeting of the Indus
trial Council an investigation of labor
conditions in Topeka will be sought by
w. L. Porter, city commissioner of
parks. and representative of the
plumbers, in the council. Porter says
he has reports of men who have reg
ular employment, but who do not re-
ceive a living wage
The case against Theo NJ. Dice, a
TecumSeh man who was charged with
giving c. w. Renshaw a bad check for
$22, was dismissed in the court of
Topeka Friday afternoon. At the pre-
liminary examination it was shown
that there had been no intention on
the part of Dice to defraud Renshaw
and he was released.
Thomas Stewart, 216 West street,
a workman employed in digging the
East side sewer, received n scalp
wound Friday, when a piece of sewer
pipe which was being handed to him
while he was in the ditch, fell and
struck him on the head. He was also
bruised about the feet and legs His
condition is not serious.
Special services will be held next
week at the Walnut Grove Methodist
church by the pastor and gospel team.
Every One Against His House,,
will be the subject of the sermon at
the Westminster Presbyterian church
tomorrow morning. In the evening
the w OIIldn N1lSS1OIdTy SOCleLy Will
held its annual praise service.
At the inquest held over the body of
Mart Baumgaroner, who was shot at
his home in North Topeka Wednesday
morning. the coroner's jury returned
a verdict holding that the man met his
death from bullets fired from a gun in
the hands of Emma Baumgardner Is
the hands of Emma Baumgardner,
lived at eos West Laurent street.
The Rev. w. L. Goldsmith, of the
Central Congregational church will
fill the pulpit at the First United
Members of the First Methodist Epis-
copal gospel team will conduct the
evening services. William LoeweDthal
and Edward Rooney will speak as the
pastor, the Rev. G. K. Hartman is in
northern Kansas.
1.-The Harvest Cantata'' will be sung
at the First Baptist church tomorrow
morning at IL o'clock by the choir
under the direction of Mrs. ARA :.
Clark, director and organiSt. There
are sixteen members in the choir.
Evangelistic services will be held
at the Second United Brethren
church, Fifth and Leland streets
every evening next week, beginning
at 1880 o'clock.
A jury in the second division of the
district court, in the case of Quennie
Weatherley against the county COM
missioners of Shawnee county, re-
turned a verdict in favor of the
Weatherley woman. The plaintiff was
suing the county for the $3.50 reward
offered more than year ago for the
capture or information leading to the
capture of Sampson Porter, later con-
victed of the murder of Frank Bay
less The jury was out about ten
minutes.
The Business Mems Bible class of
the First Methodist Sunday school,
which meets tomorrow morning, will
So1 MI cepixy iY1e
program, with talks on the subject by
DR.. w. A. McCarter and Mr.. S. L.
Lashbrook The lesson subject is
Jonah the Missionary and Effective
with biOgranhV