The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-01
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

| II AT HOME NEWS
The stage of the Kaw river today
was 81 feet: TT is normal for May.
| Rev. Mr.. Clark will fill the pulpit at
the Seward Avenue Baptist church to-
morrow both morning and evening.
Registration for the thousands of
delegates to The Sunday school con-
vention next week will be at the state
house.
The concert which was to have been
given at Wakarusa Friday night by
the Jessie Miller Concert company,
will be held next Tuesday night.
The report of George Mattingly,
city license collector. was submitted to
the city commission today The report
showed a collection of S688 for the
month of April.
Suit for divorce has been filed in
the district court of this county by
Mrs Venice Metsker against Otto w.
Metsker, to whom she was married
in Lawrence in 1905.
Justice r. A. Burch went to En-
poria today to deliver an address be-
fore the Forum, a social and literary
club of that city, on the occasion OF
it's annual banquet which is to be held
this evening.
the state reform school for boys will
address the Ministerial union at it's
meeting in the First Presbyterian
church Monday morning on the sub
ject, Juvenile Reform
DIR. James White will preach at the
First United Presbyterian church, cor
ner of Eighth and Topeka avenues
at Ii o'clock Sabbath, and there will
be no preaching service in the even
ing. Christian Endeavor service at
o'clock.
The executive committee of the
Washburn college endowment fund
campaign organization will give
complimentary luncheon for the mar
shals, the captains and the directors
of the Commercial club, Monday noon
at the Commercial club quarters.
DIR. Arthur S. Henderson will de-
liver to his Bible class the second lee
ture on the Maccabees Sunday at 10 a.
m. at the First Congregational church,
corner Seventh and Harrison streets.
All men are cordially invited to be
present.
Following is list of births reported
today to the city clerk: Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Chappell, sol East Eighth
street, boy. born April %, Mr.. and
girl, born April 1t; Mr.. and Mrs. J. J.
Desch, 1O5 North Lake street, a boy.
born April 20.
Miss June Ebey, formerly a Wash
burn student, who sang the role of
Queen" in the production of Balfe's
Bohemian Girl'' this week at the
State Normal school at EmpOria,
lived with her grandfather Thomas
Ebey, 10 Lane street, while attend
ing Washburn college.
BY unanimous vote of the city COM
mission the 10y riding" ordinance in
troduced by Commissioner Newland at
the commission meeting Friday was
passed this morning. The ordinance
provided a fine of from SIS to 500 for
borrowing vehicles for joy riding
wit bOut the consent of the owner.
The flood of mail orders for Maude
Adams which were received at the
Grand box office this morning init
mated that the entire floor had been
will be here May 10 in Quality
Street Roy Crawford. manager of
the Grand, said today that the only
seats left are in boxes and in the bal
cony.
Books of the office of c. w. Bow
county. show that the fee and salary
law of 1913 which put the office on
a salaried basis and gave the county
the benefit of surplus fees has brought
$5.174.54 net revenue in it's % months
of operation or an a rage of $235.2O
a month. Total collections have been
s14.677.S4 and expenses s9,5O3.30.
At the meeting of the city commits
sion this morning Mayor House was
authorized to sign contracts with three
summer. Contracts for 4 concerts at
500 each will be made with Mar
shall's music makers. The knights
and Ladies of Security band will be
given a contract for five concerts at
1925. Jackson's military band will
give four open air entertainments at
S85.
April. 1915. came close to being a
record breaker at Topeka for contin-
ued warm, moist. crop growing wealth
er. With one exception, in 1895, 1t
was the warmest April on record since
the local weather bureau office was
established in 1880, and it had more
precipitation than any other month
since last october, and more than any
other April in the past 10 years, ac-
cording to the summary issued today
by the weather bureau.
The Wakarusa Grange has passed
a resolution against the proposed
fair levy for free gates next fall. The
That we the members of Wakarusa
grange, No. ,495. do protest against
such an action, and do earnestly So
licit the consideration and aid of all
feating this measure. Wakarusa
Grange, E. B. Heberling, Levi Stohl.
J. H. Foltz, Committee"
Roy Winner, for the past three
years an assistant in the office of
county clerk, has resigned and leaves
shortly for a stay on his farm at Yer
sailles, Mo. MIR. Winner may spend
the summer in Colorado for the bene
fit of his health, which has been poor
for several months. His position has
been filled hy the appointment of L.
w. Huey, who has formerly been en-
p1oyed in local railroad offices and in
the Bank of Topeka Collections in
April totaled SS02.76.
Weekly Bank Statement.
New York. May 1.-The statement of the