The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-22


Friday night in the Sunnyside school
house. The meeting will be an open
one.
Many fish were washed out of Gage
park by the recent heavy rains but
there is still a good supply in the
lakes.
s. D. Flora, the local weather man,
will speak at the open meeting of the
Sunnyside grange at the Sunnyside
school house Friday evening.
The laying of the cornerstone of the
new Lowman Memorial church edifice
will take place at I O'Clock Wednes-
day. Bishop w o. Shepard of Kansas
City will officiate.
1t will take 100 loads of cinders to
repair the walks which were washed
out at Gage park by the recent rains,
according to E. F. A. Reinisch, park
superintendent.
Jay E. House, mayor, says he would
like to be congressman, but will not
be a candidate while d. r. Anthony,
present congressman from this dis
trict, wants the job.
Marriage licenses have been issued
to Cleve Graham of Bethany, Mo-, anI
Ethel Messenheimer of Overlook
Kan, and to Judd NJ. Denslow and
Viola Coon, both of Topeka.
The Highland Park grange will
hold an open meeting at the Highland
Park school house tonight. There will
be talks on the care of the teeth by
DR.. T. B. Reynolds and DR.. w. A. Nc
Carter.
The following births were reported
at the office of the city clerk today:
Dr. Earl Godfrey Brown and wife,
1920 Garfield avenue, June 10, boy;
Morton Hull Starr and wife. 1907 Ty-
Ter street, June 16, girl; Adam Desch
and wife, 500 German avenue, June
81, boy.
J. NJ. Leeper, who has the contract
for the Palace Clothing company
building, 711-713 Kansas avenue, and
the Mrs. Warren NJ. Crosby building
at us Kansas avenue, is now working
two shifts, the first shift starting
work at $3.50 o'clock in the morning,
and the second shift quitting at 10 at
night.
A bit of work that will probably be
done on the local river defenSeS will
consist in filling in back of the south
side concrete retaining wall between
the Kansas avenue bridge and the
Rock Island railway bridge. Near the
latter bridge is a low area which has
stood full of seepage water during the
present flood.
The annual convention of the
knights of Columbus of the State of
Kansas will be held at ST. Marys Kan,
Saturday, June 20. Topeka council,
No. 534, Knights of Columbus, will
send as delegates Leo T. Mooney,
grand knight, and B. T. Long, past
grand knight. The annual election of
state officers takes place at this time
and the new state deputy is chosen.
A large attendance is expected.
Playground instruction has come to
be a regular and very important part
of the affairs of Topeka youngsters in
many neighborhoods. Any day now
the passer-by may see a flock of
youngsters interestedly engaged in
fo1k-dancing and games of various
sorts on Topeka school play grounds.
This sort of work furnishes a new line
of occupation for many. clever girls
who have taken it up in recent years.
A jitney was stuck in the mud in
the 70O block on Brooks avenue in
Melrose addition for an hour Friday
evening. 1t was necessary to send for
another machine to pull it out. There
is a bad rut in the road where autos
and wagons stick daily, and every time
it rains the water rushes down from
the hill above and into the Easements
of the dwellings on the east side of
the street A little grading would put
the road in condition.
Ed Hayes pleaded guilty to the
charge of stealing brass fittings which
he broke from machinery at the plant
of the Kaw Paving company and was
sentenced to the state reformatory at
Hutchinson by Judge A. w. Dana in
the first division of the district court
convicts soon to he turned over to the
reformarory authorities Roger O'Mal-
ley, who was arrested with Hayes, has
been discharged.
The annual picnic of The Salvation
Army will be held at Gage park Fri
day II is for mothers and children.
Last year there were 800 in attend
ance. 1t is hoped to have 500 present
Friday. Joseph F. Reisner, physical
director Of the Central Y. M. c. A.
oh, L,o Lii
for the event. Miss Kate and Kill
maurs King are assisting Ensign w. G..
Hauser in giving special invitations to
deserving mothers and children.
The Fraternal Aid Union. lodges No.
= and No 757, will give an entertain
ment after the close of the lodge this
evening. H. NJ. Waring, supreme vice
president, has been asked to close the
program with an address. lunch
will also be spread. The district con-
vention will meet in Topeka July 1,
at which time delegates to the SUI
preme lodge convention will be Sc
lected. Kansas is entitled to sixteen
delegates and will make a fight to 10
cate the headquarters in Kansas.
After having been threatened with
actual confinement in the state peni
Tertiary on a charge of wife desertiOn,
John HoffSette, recently returned here
from Missouri under eXtradition pro-
ceedings, was given an indeterminate
sentence to states prison and paroled
upon his agreement to pay costs OF
prosecution and TO deliver So a week
for the support of his children. Hoff-
sette's wife, who is suing him for di-
vorce, asked the parole on this con-
dition. Hoffsette paid the expenses of
the sheriff in bringing him back from
jefferson City. where the requisition
was contested before Governor Ma
jors.
E W. Rankin will give the business
talk at the meeting of the Topeka
Rotary club Wednesday noon at the
L. c. T hall. Ferdinand ]. Funk will
give u biogra phical sketch of Mr.. Ran
kin's life DR.. s. J. Crumbine, who
was down for a talk Wednesday, will
speak at meeting in the near future.