The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEwa


New coin at State Savings bank for
Christmas presents.-Adv.
Miss Nellie M. Ansel an English
teacher at the Topeka high school, is
at home on account of illness.
The Brotherhood of the Potwin
Presbyterian church will give sup
per at the church Friday night a Z
| O'Clock.
The chancel of Grace Cathedral is
being entirely redecorated. Ecclesi-
astical decorations will be painted on
the walls.
Practice on Christmas music is in
progress by the Evangelical associa-
ton choir The special music will be
taken from a cantata.
Bethany college closed Wednesday
for the holidays Forty of the girls
who live out of the city have left for
| A marriage license was issued this
morning from the office of the pro-
bate judge to Ira Nixon, age &c, To
| peka. and Grace Castor, age 20, To-
| peka.
The senior class of the Topeka high
| school adopted invitation cards this
week. They are to be printed IN gold
brown ink and will be mailed out by
the seniors early in January.
A supper and talk over the round
| table will take place in the Guild hall
| of Grace Cathedral tonight at 6:15
O'Clock. Twenty people have been
invited George NJ Geisel viii head
the discussion.
The ladies of Parish Holy Name
Friday, December II at 2:45 p. M, at
| the knights of Columbus club house.
All ladies west of Clay street are in
vited.
Six thousand dollars has been saved
up and invested by the Women's Guild
of Grace Cathedral towards buying a
new pipe organ. The new organ is to
cost $4,000 and will be the best
church organ in the city.
A smoker for members of the
Washburn law school will be given
following a luncheon Friday morning
at IL o'clock at the law building on
| West Sixth street. The students go
home for the holidays that day.
| A call from Galesburg. Ill. has been
sent to the Rev. c. A. Alden, pastor
of the First Swedish Baptist church.
offering him the pastorate of that city.
AS yet Mr.. Alden has not decided to
go. He has been in Topeka three
years.
The proceeds of the Apex theater
for Tuesday, December 21, will be
turned over to Washington school
children for the establishment of a
cooking department in that school.
The children are out selling tickets
for the day.
The junior class of the Topeka
high school beat the seniors IT to 6
Wednesday afternoon in the opening
game in the new basketball court
Mclean made every score for the
junior five. The subjuniors won from
the subscribers by a 10 to count
Three hundred and fifty yards of
laurel has been brought from Della
ware to decorate Grace Cathedral.
and the church will be festooned with
evergreen and holly Cut flowers will
be bought d few days before Christ
mas.
Irene Mills against the Topeka Street
Railway company, wherein the plain
tiff sued for personal injury damages,
was filed in the district court this
morning. The Mills woman sued for
$3,3SS. A day or two ago she was
given $3SS by a jury in the second
division.
Warrant for Alice Osalere, charging
the defendant with immoral acts in
and among the homes of Mexican sec
ton hands working for the Santa Ire
at Wakarusa, was issued this morn
ing from the county attorneys office.
The woman was arraigned and
pleaded not guilty. Her preliminary
hearing will be held tomorrow morn
ing.
The sophomore and freshmen bas-
ketban fives tangled this afternoon
in the third of the class series on
subsophomores played the subfresh-
men. Semi-finals will be played at
2:45 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and
finals at d gymnasium exhibit Jan
uary Z. Following the final meet the
regular team will be chosen.
A Swedish supper will be served
Friday evening at $3.50 o'clock at the
Swedish Lutheran church, Fourth and
Tyler streets. Special Swedish Christ
mas dishes will be served, including
lutffsk and julgrot The brotherhood
of the church will hold a meeting at
o'clock the same evening for the an
nual election of officers and reports.
Edward MaldstroIn will preside for
the brotherhood.
Christmas will go behind the bars
at the Shawnee county jail this year
Mrs. L. L. Kiene, wife of Sheriff kiene,
is planning a big dinner for the in
mates of the jail Christmas day a
big Christmas tree celebration for the
wards of the court will be given by
Hugh MacFarland, judge of the juve-
nile court, and Paddy" Belts, superln
tendent of the county farm, viii make
Christmas a feast day for the people
on the farm.
Motion in the appeal of Charles NJ.
Taylor, the Meriden man found guilty
of being a habitual drunkard by
Jury in probate court, that the plain
tiff be given $25 to pay attorneys fee
was filed this morning in the district
court Sheriff Kiene, who was an
pointed guardian for Taylor, has the
money. Taylors appeal was to have
the order making Kiene his guardian
set aside A. j. Bolinger, Taylor's
attorney, filed the motion.
Amended and supplementary petit
ton in the case of Adam Becker,
Meriden banker, against the McCleery
Lumber Co., c. G. McCleery, F: T.
McCleery and E. ]. ROnnau, was filed
in the Shawnee district court this
morning. Becker is suing for judg-
ment on alleged promissory notes. His
original petition was filed July and
he asked for judgment on $4,000
worth OF DaDer His supp1ern entary