The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-02
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The Topeka Rotary club will meet
at the U. c. T. hall week from today.
Mrs. w. G. Tandy. wife of the city
commissioner of streets, is ill in st.
Francis hospital.
The Redden mission under the Rev.
J. H. Fazel is now cooperating with
the confidential exchange located in
the Y. w. c. A. building.
Between 800 and 400 persons are
expected to attend the annual con-
vention of the State Dental associa-
ton in Topeka April 27-29.
There was a good attendance at the
meeting of the High School Boys club
Monday evening in the cafeteria room.
DR.. c. B. Van Horn spoke.
Details in connection with the Kans
sas Methodist conference which will
be held in Topeka March 1920 are
being worked out. An attendance of
nearly 1000 persons is expected.
There is a close contest in the
Wednesday evening volleyba1l series
at the Central Y. NJ. c. A. The tour
nament will close this month. Play
Wednesday will start at $50 o'clock.
! All this week. men and women, the
Palace Clothing company allows you
/ SO cents a pair for your old shoes,
| they to be given to the needy of this
| city through organized charity, this
| so cents being allowed on any new
pair you purchase, whether new
The Woman's Missionary society of
the First English Lutheran church
will be entertained Wednesday after
noon at the home of Mrs. James KEEL
her, 6O4 Hancock street. The lesson
leader will be Mrs. l.. NJ. Tinker. Spe-
cial music will be furnished by Mrs.
o. Ekberg and Miss Edith TroXell.
Alleging extreme cruelty and pro-
fame language on the part of the de-
PENDANT, suit for divorce from John c..
Shinn has been filed in the district
court by Mary Shinn. Mary Shinn also
asks the restoration of her maiden
name. The couple were married Sept.
10, 1910, according to the petition.
The Women's Commercial club at a
meeting held Monday night in the
main room of the Topeka Commercial
club quarters, decided to cooperate
which has DIR. j. E. Kirkpatrick as
temporary chairman. The club will
get a Topeka lawyer to give some in
struction in parliamentary law.
The Rev. Gladstone Dowie, son Of
Alexander Dowie, founder of Zion
City, has accepted the charge at the
Church of the Good Shepherd, Lau-
rent and Quincy streets, North To-
peka. and will occupy the pulpit be-
ginning next Sunday. He came to
Topeka Friday to remain permanent
ly and is living at 90 North Quincy
street.
The following births were reported
at the office of the city clerk today:
George w. Duncan and wife, IT'S Gar
field avenue, Feb. %, boy; James Sta
pleton and wife, r. F. D. No. 1, Feb.
8. girl; w. V. Holman and wife, 91S
West Fifth street, Feb. 1S, girl; B. w.
Jones and wife, 1886 Van Buren, street,
Feb. %, girl; Theodore NJ. Thomas
and wife GA East Seventeenth street,
Feb. 81, boy.
wood, originally intended to prohibit
the circulation of malicious statements
calculated to damage banking institu-
| tons passed the senate Monday, car
rying amendments which make it APP
plicable to any sort of business insti-
tuition whose prosperity might be af-
fected by the circulation of injurious
statements. The Price bill was intend
| ed to hit persons who start runs on
| banks by starting rumors of bad con-
dition.
| The Midland College Orchestra and
Concert company of Atchison will ap-
pear at the First English Lutheran
church Thursday evening, March 4, at
8 O'Clock. The company is conduct
| ed by Prof. Bruno Meinecke and car
ries as vocal soloist Miss Vera Best
formerly of Washburn college and a
New York voice graduate. Miss Mar
garet MILAN of the Chicago School of
| Oratory accompanies the concert com
pany as reader. The Midland college
orchestra is said to be one of the best
college orchestras in the state.
Petition for friendly action against
J. NJ. Read has been filed in the
Shawnee county district court by Ell
vira Craig, a minor, who brings her
action by w. w. Mills, her next friend
The petition states that Henry Craig
a bricklayer, was killed in a fall from
a scaffold January Ii while in the
employ of Read. The petition also
says that the defendant in the case
valves summons, consents to a trial
that the claim of the plaintiff might
be adjusted by court. In her suit the
| plaintiff asks for no definite amount
of money.