The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-06
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.


party at the Orpheum Friday even
ing.
Sidewalks in many sections of the
! city had not been cleared of snow up
/ to today.
The chairmen of the respective
Commercial club committees met at
/ noon today.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Perry returned
today from a months trip along the
Pacific coast.
/ The sunshine was appreciated this
morning following several days of
snow and gloom.
! Today was motion day in both di-
/ visions of the district court. Several
cases were disposed Of.
Topekans shivered this morning,
but three years ago today the tempera-
I ture was five above zero.
! Arthur Capper governor of Kan
sas. will speak at the Central Congre-
sationel church Sunday evening
/ Peace"
Leroy Highlands, the blind mem
Der of the legislature, will speak at
the R. r. Y. M. c. A. Sunday after
noon at 3 o'clock.
The Kaw river is still slowly falling.
The stage today was GA feet A rise
is anticipated as soon as a thaw takes
place on a wholesale scale.
Despite the snow and cold eggs are
selling at between 90 and % cents
dozen at Topeka stores, and they are
not the storage kind at that.
A heavy docket of jury civil cases
Will begin Monday morning in the first
division of the Shawnee county dis
trict court before Judge Dana.
The date for the dedication of the
new Methodist Home for the Aged
building has been set as March 80.
The building should be completed by
March l 5.
Deets Pickett. research secretary
for the Temperance Society, Metho-
dist Episcopal church, will speak at
the Walnut Grove Methodist church,
Sunday evening at 1880 o'clock.
An unusually large number of in
sanity complaints have been filed in
the last two months in the Shawnee
county probate court. Defendants in
number of the cases have been adj
judged insane.
1.-The Development of the Silo' is
the subject upon which H. H. Pugh
of the Beatrice Creamery company
will speak at the meeting of the To-
peka Rotary club in the L. C. +. hall
next Wednesday noon.
The case Of the state gainst Paul
Hyatt will GENE up for preliminary
hearing in the court of Topeka Mon
day a. w Bradshaw swore to the
warrant which alleges that Hyatt as
saulted and bruised Fairy Hyatt.
n. A. Crawford of aMnhattan,
managing editor of the Kansas Indus
triaIist, was in Topeka today. Profess
SOf crawford mas given NaludDle as
sistance in the reporting of the
annual meetings of the Kansas State
Teachers association for several years.
The research and news department
of the Temperance Society, Methodist
Episcopal church, with headquarters
in Topeka, is sending out a large
amount of temperance dope" for
publication in newspapers all over the
country. The sheets are printed in
Topeka.
Of
firmed ''transients" on the move at
the present time Topeka is getting
it's share of them. Not only are the
dormitory rooms of the Provident
ISOLATION filled each night but many
applications for lodging are made at
the city Jail
The r. R. Y. NJ. C. A. was packed
Friday night on the occasion of an
entertainment, "A Perplexing Situa-
ton given by the young people of
the Third Presbyterian church. There
were Gil persons present and many
were turned away because of lack of
accommodations.
The preliminary hearing in the case /
of the state against Joe DwigginS will
be held Monday in the court of To- /
peka before Judge Fisher Tom
Pierce, complaining witness in the
complaint, claims that he gave Dwig !
gins $40 with which Dwiggins was TO |
procure a pint of whisky and return |
the whisky and S19 in change to him.
Pierce says DWlSgInS Flew with the
$40.
Rossville Reporter: Joe Kalcik, |
one of the Reporter readers who lives /
on Route IL, Silver Lake, has received |
information this week from Washing |
ton, D. c., that he has been granted |
a patent for a new idea on a foot ac- |
celerator for a Ford car. Joe has |
one on his car and says the device |
works very successfully. A Topeka |
firm will manufacture the device for |
Joe.
Amity lodge 2S1 of the Knights
of Pythias will give free entertain
ment Tuesday night. March 9, at 3 |
North Topeka. ]. w. Hardice's or
chestra will play several selections |
and Miss Rose Gilberg will sing. Rep /
resentative w. A. S. Bird and Rev. |
John A. Bright will be the speakers
of the evening. The public is cor
daily invited.
The SA class of the Branner school /
gave an informal luncheon Friday /
noon for the teachers of the school /
The guests We're: Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. /
Jones, Miss Lydia Barnes, Mrs Ruth
Roby, Miss Nellie G. Smith. Miss Rose
Rankin. Mrs J. L. Campbell, Miss
Jennie z. Smith Miss Jessie E. How
ard, Miss Laura E. Mcclure, Miss
Grace Bostwick and Miss Anita X
Laurent.
According to a street car conductor
on the Douthitt line, a "jitney' col
lided with the back end of his car at
Euclid and Buchanan streets Friday.
The jitney driver attempted, in spite
of the snow, to get to a bunch of pas
sengers on the corner first The
street car beat him there and stopped
To prevent running into a woman who
was about to get on the car he was
forced to run into the car. The lamps