The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-26

alleges cruelty on the part of her
| husband. The Union Pacific railroad
is made ce-defendant in the suit.
| She asks injunction against the
railroad to keep the company from
! paying Root any money, pending the
| result of the action. Root works for
the Union Pacific.
Old shoes and clothes that the fam
lily has outgrown or worn out are what
the ProVident association is looking
| for Many calls from shivering indi-
v1duals are coming in daily, says Mrs.
f. j. Callahan, assistant secretary.
The Ideal bakery on West Sixth
street has an attractive window dis
play this week, designed by Don Bill
lngS. 1t shows the cooking of today
and the colonial times. A figure of a
woman over an open fire portrays the
colonial way and the modern electric
cooker illustrates the modern method.
Fabulation of names and addresses
OF FAMILIES for Christmas distribution
or baskets was started on today by
Mrs. Charles B. Thomas of the Prov
1dent association. 1t is very hard to
keep track of the addresses of fam
Ines, she says Five or six moved the
day before Thanksgiving and necessi-
tated a redirecting of baskets.
Comfortable balances remain in most
or the various funds of the city with
which to carry on the city's business
Tor the remainder of the year, accord
ing to the figures of w. H. WATSON,
city commissioner of finance. There
IS a possibility of a surplus of $22,-
600 in the general fund, should the ap-
preparations from this fund be no
heavier during November and Decem-
Der than they have been for other
months of the year. Wasson's COM
putaticns were to November 1.
DR.. Benjamin Starr, who was in To-
peka several weeks ago with the lay
mems missionary convention, has been
ordered to Newark, N. J., to organize
a similar convention there shortly. He
is executive secretary of the laymen's
missionary movement. According to
word received by a Topeka friend from
Dr. Starr today the total registration
in the fifteen conventions up to date,
900, which is ahead of the similar
series conducted six years ago.
man called on Mayor Jay E.
House today and served notice that
he would soon put force of solicit
tors at work canvassing for orders for
mission recently passed a city ordi-
nance making the license fee for such
solicitors $40 per day. The man
stated that he would not pay the Ii
should he refuse to pay the license his
arrest would follow. Now city Off
Gals are awaiting developments.
Thanksgiving meant much work for
officers of charitable institutions. Miss
Mabel Adams almost missed out en-
tirely on her dinner and the women at
the Provident association were up till
Wednesday packing baskets
Many individuals sent in money and
asked that they do the work of filling
the baskets for distribution. Twenty
five families were treated by the Elks'
club and every one received roast beef
or chicken, cranberry sauce, canned
corn, nuts, apples, potatoes, butter and
bread.
Thanksgiving was quiet day for
the police. Only three arrests were
made in the "a hours. One was a
drunk and the other TWO were pinched
on charges of maintaining a liquor
nuisance E. Doty, blacksmith at
500 North Kansas avenue, and Frank
Doty. his son, were arrested by Chief
Parsons and Detectives Abbott, Sum |
mers and Golf. The arrest was made |
following raid on the blacksmith |
shop. According to the police, more
han a score pint bottles of corn ex-
-ract were found under a drill plat |
form in the shop.