The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-13

where he will hear evidence in loca
rate case.
The Silver Link club will meet this
evening at $50 O'Clock for a supper
and gymnasium work. The club mem
bers are. providing for their Christ
mas family
Mrs. Charles S. Elliott will entertain
the women of the third division of the
First Methodist church next Thursday
afternoon at 8 O'Clock. at her home al
/ 1908 Topeka avenue.
/ Thirty-one prisoners-guests at the
| Harvey cafe ordered breakfast this
morning The crowded condition OF
| the bull pen was due to numerous
| ''fulls'' Sunday night
Lectures and visits to Congrega-
tional churches will take up the en-
| tire week for the Rev. A. S. Hender-
son, pastor of the First Congregational
church. He will spend the time in
Woodson county.
Search for the sterographs on Egypt
is being made at the Topeka high
school. The travel pictures have been
missing for some time but it is not
thought that they have strayed out
side of the high school.
Milk as a noon day drink is taking
the place of coffee with the younger
generation, according to Topeka res
taurant keeper. The individual bottles
and the influence of health talks have
caused the change of beverages, he
says
The Girls Mission circle of the First
Christian church will give a reception
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Miss Mae Roberts, 400 Fillmore street.
Miss Edith Russell state secretary of
girls circle work, will be a guest of
honor.
z. w. Craver knocked his knee cap
out of place Saturday night when he
took a header over the handle bars of
his bicycle, landing on the pavement.
He will be in bed for a week or two.
Mr.. Craver is president of the Current
Topic club.
The lunch room committee of the
Y. w. c. A. met Saturday afternoon
to check up the business of the cafe
terra during the past year The past
IL months have been the best for
business since the cafeteria was start
ed, it was found.
1.-The Christ Child by Hawley will
be sung at the First Methodist church
next Sunday night by the quartette
and chorus. Composing the quartette
are Miss Sara Kouns. soprano; Miss
Elizabeth Anderson, contralto; Glen.
wood Jones' tenor, and Darwin Brad
ley, baritone.
Postonement of meetings of the
Current Topic club for two weeks was
considered at today's meeting of the
executive committee at the Central Y.
NJ. c. A. c. E. BaScom, Lee Sidwell
and James Mcfarland from the ex-'
ecutive committee in addition to the
regular officers.
w. F. Ellison, the railway mail
clerk who has been in a hospital at
st. Louis for two months following an
operation for cancer, will return to
Topeka within a few days. Mr.. Eli
son is well known here among post
office people. His run" is from Kan
sas City to LaJunta.
Womens life in the orient was de-
picted in a one-act playlet which was
given by the Topeka high school club
of the Y. w. c. A. this afternoon. The
girls staged the same production, "A
Scene from China" which the dele
gates put on at Newton at the high
school conference last fall.
Miss Fung Hin Liu of Canton,
China, made an address before the
Epworth league of the First Metho-
dist church last night. Miss Liu,swho
is a graduate of Wellesley and Column
bia and is said to be the best educated
Chinese woman in the world, went
from church to church giving a series
Of speeches.
One thousand sermons fill the
morgue of the Rev. A S. Henderson
pastor of the First Congregational
church. He can talk on anything
that he has ever preached on in two
minutes notice, he says, a thing alb
solutely impossible if he kept the aver |