The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-30
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AT HOME NEWa

The first batch of Christmas pres
ents arrived at the postoffice Monday,
26 days before Christmas
The board of directors of the Cen
trail Y. NJ. c. A. held a business meet
ing today noon at the building.
The number of petty robberies in
Topeka is beginning to increase. Cold
weather is given as the cause by the
police.
DR.. Charles r. Brown, dean of the
Yale Divinity school, spoke Monday to
Washburn students. He is making d
lecturing tour of the country.
The Young Ladies' society of the
Swedish Lutheran church will conduct
a sale of fancy work at the church this
evening beginning at o'clock
The social which was to have been
held today at the home of Mrs. w.
j. Deimler, 1912 Polk street, has been
postponed until further notice
The first game of the basketball
league will be played Wednesday night
at the Central Y. NJ. c. A The teams
will be named according to cOlors.
An over-heated furnace set fire to
G. E. Hubbard's greenhouse at Els
Polk street at $50 o'clock this morn
ing. The damage amounted to $50.
A dance will be given next Friday
night by the Court of Honor at their
hall in Masonic temple. A short bust
ness session will be held preceding the
dance.
DR. Thomas McClary will leave To-
peka for an extended tour through the
south in few days He has been de-
1ivering a series of lectures while
here.
Musical services will be held at the
First United Brethren church Sunday
evening These will be the first of Il
series and will be directed by Charles
V. Kettering.
Eight cases of typhoid fever-the
most in four years-have been report
ed at the city health office during
November. There We're only three
cases in November, 1914
Ice about one-fourth of an inch
thick was frozen last night in the
small streams around the city. An
will put the ice in shape for skating.
Books for Buns might be the
title attached to the library of the
Provident association. The Migrants
like spicy magazines and blood and
thunder stories best, the officials say.
Free dental work will be given to
anyone who applies today at the Ma
tiOnal hotel where the Kansas state !
board of dental examiners is meeting.
Charges will be made only for the ma |
terials used
The annual meeting and election of
the Topeka Masonic guild will
be held at Masonic temple Tuesday
evening. November 80, at 1880 o'clock, /
81, A. f. & A. NJ.
Frank Long escaped from the state /
penitentiary Monday. according to a /
message received in Topeka last night. /
He was a barber by trade and had +
been sent to Lansing for third degree /
robbery from Marshall county.
A sale of fancy work will be held
tonight at the Swedish Baptist church
by the young ladies' society for the
benefit of the missions Many articles
I'll h.
and refreshments will be served.
Because his horse fell through a de-
fective bridge, necessitating his killing
it, F. G. Mcdowell, a farmer living
north of Topeka, has presented a bill
for 500 to the county commissioners. II
Mcdowell says the bridge was not II
taken care Of
The social and program OF illus
trated songs of other years which was
to be given at the First Baptist church
Wednesday night under the direction
of Miss Jennie Blinn, has been called
off on account of the Baraca banquet
which is to be held that night.
One hundred and seventy-two dol
lars of insurance has been paid to the
mother of Catalina Terez, the 13-year-
old Mexican girl who died of consump-
ton recently The mother has alb
no idea of American money
and values and the Provident associa-
ton is handling it for her.
X,
to emphasize an argument last night
with his wife and is in the county Jail
today. He was attempting to reason
with and persuade Mrs. Xenos and
children to move down from Kansas
City when Officers Woodward and
McGovern stopped the proceedings.
Plain steaks, Irish stew, boiling
pieces and meat that families eat every
day are what are being demonstrated
in the mothers cooking club which
W IN a Goio /
lessons at the Provident association.
The elaborate part of the cook book
IS barred, says Mrs. Lillian H. Moore.
Harry l. Heinzman of the interna-
and a former Topeka boy, will speak
at the Central Y. NJ. c. A Wednesday
evening at 1880 o'clock. Hollis A.
Wilbur, a member of the national
committee in China, is also on the pro-
gram. The addresses will be made in
the gymnasium.
Miss Flora Harrington. Miss Kath-
ryn AIbaugh, and Miss Audrie Myers
Will represent WaShburn in a dual
debate with K. S. A. c. February 1 s.
An elimination debate was held at
Washburn last night on the subject,
Resolved, That the Monroe Doctrine
40 Developed and Applied by the
United States Should Be Abandoned"
Down at the court house there is q
man who has a business that would be
envied by any Topeka merchant. He
doesn't do I.Iuch advertising and only
winter is responsible for the boom. c.
" Bacon. county poor commissioners, ,
reports that the poor, needy and
otherwise, are one by one finding their :
way to the county for coal and pro- {
Visions. /
The city civil service commission G
RS will hold a special examination at
he city hall Monday, December s, at I
a m. Application blanks may be
at the office of the city 6
clerk. The examination will be for