The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-15
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

divorce from c. l. Shape by Judge
W. A. Dana of the district court
Miss Josephine Perry will organize
q beginners class in cooking at the
Provident association Saturday after
noon.
Miss Mary Sweet spoke at the Y. w
c. A. yesper service Sunday afternoon
on the education of the Protestant
girls in Rome.
J. c. Mohler will speak before the
Current Topic club of the. Central Y.
NJ. c. A. this evening Supper will
be served at 6 o'clock.
A mass meeting of the colored vot-
ers of the first ward will be held Tues
day evening at the ST. Marks church,
Harrison and Norris street
Andy Adams entered a plea of
guilty to wife desertion in the second
division of the district court before
Judge Whitcomb Saturday evening.
The team under E. l. Copeland in
paign obtained 54 new members in
the Santa Fe office building Saturday.
On grounds of abandonment Judge
George Whitcomb of the second divi-
sion of the district court has granted
Edna Herman a divorce from John
Herman.
Leroy Highlands, the blind repre-
sentative from Harper, made an adj
dress on Immortality before meet
ing of men at the Y. NJ. C. A. Sunday
W. Y. Morgan, lieutenant governor,
spoke at the First Presbyterian church
Sunday night on Travels in the Near
East and Observations on Missionary
Work There
o. P. Galbreath, soliciting freight
spent Saturday and Sunday visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Gal
breath, 912 Polk street.
An average of more than 400 names
a day is the record set by Kent Raub,
a census taker, working in the enunl-
Grafton campaign in Topeka under Os-
car Swayze, county clerk.
A St. Patrick's day program will be
enjoyed by the women of the First
Baptist church Wednesday afternoon
at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. c. E.
Eldridge, 1105 Harrison street.
1.-The Trial of Paul Before the
Roman Court was discussed Sunday
afternoon at the R. r. Y NJ c. A by
who spoke at the mass meeting for
men. There was special music.
Dr. Clarence True Wilson will
speak at the Central Y. NJ. c. A. this
evening at 1880 o'clock Those who
ar interested in the visit of the Fly
ing Squadron of America to Topeka
the last of this month are requested
to attend.
A large crowd heard the address of
Rev. A. S. Clark, evangelist of the
spoke at the Salvation Army hall, 409
Kansas avenue. Sunday evening. In
the last year Rev. Clark has secured
more than 500 conversions.
There will be a political rally at
Stilly's hall, Twelfth and Lincoln
streets, tonight. All candidates are
invited to be present The officers
and committee in charge of affairs
are: President, Fred w. Ware; sec
rotary, J. H. Odell; committee, Rufus
Knott and Sam Shuch.
The Y. w. c. A. will hold a celebra-
ton on ST. Patrick's day. Plans are
being laid for the affair luncheon
will be served in the cafe. Irish dishes
lunch room will be dressed in white
and green, and the room will be
decorated appropriately.
Triple tax on dogs in the city and
double tax on those in the rural dis
tricts is not lessening the number of
CANNES in Shawnee county, according
to local assessors. There are as many,
if not more dogs. in the county this
year than the last time that the ca
nine enumeration was taken, say as
SCISSORS.
The pen with which Governor Cap
per signed the bill creating Frances
Willard day has been given to the w.
c. T. U. and will be exhibited at the
national headquarters of the associa-
ton Frances Willard day will be
temperance day in the schools of the
state Prohibition exercises and pro-
grams will be given.
Joseph Kincaid, a farmer living
eight miles northeast of Rossville. has
received word from Washington, D. c..
that he has been granted a patent on
Ford automobile foot accelerator
which he recently invented. The de-
vice will be manufactured by a To-
peka firm. Kincaid is now working
on a new kind of a wagon brake.
Edith Gui1ky, the 13-year-old wife
of Caleb Guilky, colored. who is in
Jail for stealing hogs from the Union
Pacific railway, was Saturday evening
taken into custody by Ed. Rooney.
probation officer of the Juvenile court.
Mrs Guilky will face a charge of in
corrigibility, and staying out late at
night, berore Judge Hugh MacFarland.
Candidates on the Citizens tick
ct for city offices in Oakland have
filed announcements. and it is expect
ed that another list will announce
themselves soon. The candidates who
are in the field are: For mayor, Geo.
C. Newton; councilman. c. c. Vande-
venter, J. NJ. Jones, B. J. Harris, John
Richardson and John c. Lingo; police
judge, VIM. Cominski.
Word has been received in Topeka
Leavenworth, formerly a member Of
the Topeka police force for twenty
years. McElroy entered the police
service in Topeka in 1888 and left in
1906. He then became a guard at the
state penitentiary at Leavenworth.
He was 60 years of age and is sur
yiyed by his wife and two children