The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-18
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AT HOME NEWS

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ii AT HOME NEwA
The Domestic Circle club of the Y
W. c. A. will meet tonight to sew on
| Christmas presents.
A meeting of the teachers of the
Topeka high school will be held Tues
| day afternoon at 2:45 o'clock.
The Royal Highlanders Dancing
club will hold its next social dance
Thanksgiving night at Security hall.
The Rev. M. L. Robey spoke today
noon at the new Santa Fe mill. to the
gospel class Mrs. J. M. Gurley sang.
The West Side w. c. T. U. will meet
| Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the
home of Mrs. s. H. Pitcher, 300 Wood
| lawn avenue.
The high school club of the Y. w.
e. A. will have a surprise Thanks
| giving party at the association build
ing next Tuesday.
| A membership supper by the To-
peka high school club of the w
c. A will be served at the association
| building Friday night.
The club room of the Y. w. c. A.
will be finished by December L. 1t
is to be a lounging room for the girls
! and will be full of easy chairs.
Pomona grange held an all-day ses-
| sion at the Y. w. c. A. today. Reg
u1ar business was transacted and the
meetings were closed to the public.
There will be a free Bible lecture
| tonight at Lincoln Post hall, lis East
Sixth street, by Pastor j. P. MacPher-
son of New York The public is in
vited.
A marriage license was issued to-
day from the office of Hugh McFar-
land, probate judge, to Roy kueys,
| age 26, Carbonate, and Murile john
son, age %, Richland, Mo.
Calls for coal from colored people
| l. ri a
families this fall. Most of the coal
given by the Provident association has
been to old couples who were unable
to work.
The Baraca class of the First Bap-
fist church will give a Thanksgiving
banquet November 80. Governor Cap
per and Warden J. K Codding of the
state penitentiary will be the principal
speakers.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon in the
church parlors. Mrs. c. M. Brummitt,
Mrs. John Cassron and Mrs. Gus
Weese are hostesses.
free literary and musical enter
tainment will be given by the Young
Peoples society of the German Luth-
eran st. johns church Friday even
ing, November 10, at the school house
on West Second street.
Topeka women who would like to
call on the needy 1dI1lllSS OIL the city
have been asked to join the Friendly
Visitors club of the Provident aSSocia-
ton. The next meeting of the club
will be held December 7.
Curing the Demoniac Child will
be the subject of the Prayer circle of
the First Presbyterian church this
evening at 7:45 o'clock The meeting
will be held at the home of Mrs. Angie
Sprague, 1912 Taylor street.
Six big baby dolls were bought to-
day to be dressed by the girls in the
Polly Anna club of the Y. w. G. A.
for Christmas sale Its funny. but
do you know those big girls still like
to make doll clothes?' said the Sec
rotary.
The foggy, damp weather keeps the
children snorting and shifting with
colds nowadays, says Mrs. Lillian H.
Moore, special Investigator of the
Provident association. For the first
time during the fall there is consider
able sickness in Topeka, she says.
Two colored women on Kansas ave-
nue. were waddling along carrying
baskets, ina ketin'' The gossip
must have been interesting for one
was overheard to say, mo, L amt
married; I amt gwine to support no
man" why, wot's the matter with
you, chile?" chortled her companion,
cant yo' suppo't HUSBAND"
Suit for divorce was filed in the
Shawnee county district court today
C. Hurlburt. The plaintiff alleges
extreme cruelty and non-support on |
the part of her husband. They were
married at Kansas City, Mo-, Decepl-
Der 10, 1911, and are the parents of
two children, George, 8, and ZelTna, 2
Mrs. Hurlburt asks a divorce, ali |
mony and custody of the two children. |
Underclothing and shoes for chill
dren are wanted by the Provident |
association, as the cold weather is
driving youngsters who go barefoot !
eight months of the year into warm |
clothing or pneumonia. The supply |
collected during the spring and sum- |
mer is almost exhausted and the as |
ISOLATION is looking everywhere for |
old clothes that will make some little |
urchin warm and otherwise might go |
to waste
Homeless, a woman with her two
children was picked up at the Rock |
Island depot this morning. Believing |
that she could find more work in the |
capital city than in Caldwell, a small |
town, she took a chance on getting
a lob and left home. The Prevalent
association is looking after her and
will try to place the family so that
the mother can support her children,
says Mrs. Z. j. Callahan, assistant
secretary.
L. o. Dana, who has been wanted
by the sheriffs force since last June
on a charge of liquor law violations
at the court house TINS
morning, surrendered himself and en-
tered a plea of guilty before Judge
George H Whitcomb. The costs in
the case were assessed against Dana
and he was paroled. 1t is alleged by
the sheriffs office that Dana's viola
lions took place in a barn at the rear
of 323 Quincy street.
Reports from the various county
clerks of the state as to the amount
expended annually for county aid and
the number and amount of pensions
granted since the passage of the state
laws are being received daily at the
office of the state board of control.