The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-29


dist church orchestra under the dlrec-
ton of Clarence Messick.
The Orient lodge, No. 81, will give
an initiation into the third degree
| this afternoon for class, to be fol-
lowed by a banquet at the Scottlsh
Rite temple at $50 o'clock
The air brake class organized last
night at the Railroad Y. NJ c. A. with
SO men taking the course. u. w
Wood, chief air brake instructor OF
the Santa Fe system, was present.
The Beulah lodge will give ban
ouet at the Scottish Rite temple NO
vember in honor of the grand
patron, J. w. Waldron of Holton, ana
| the grand matron, Mrs Myrtle suit
of Topeka.
A contract has been let to Ernest
Rulings to resurface the bowling al
leys of the Railroad Y. M. c. A The
alleys were made of hard wood but
two years bowling completely Knocked
the surface off of them.
| A number of mothers, whose babies
! were scored during Better Bab!es
week, have not yet called at the off1ce
| of the Topeka Public Health Nursing
association to secure their score cards.
! There is no charge for the cards
Mrs. Gertrude Aber will lecture for
the Temple Builders at their nail, Izz
East Sixth street this evening at 30,
closing up the weeks work before
returning to her home in Kansas City,
Kan. Her work here has been sue
cesSful.
The Kansas temperance society will
send field men to speak next Sunday
at various Kansas towns, Frank Stab
going to WOmer, A. B. POmeroy to
Bow Creek, A p. Jones to McLouth'
j. M. Porter to Beloit and j. j. Kal-
linger to Topeka
| DR.. B. Lust, a prominent New York
physician and editor of the Naturo-
path and Herald of Health, who is on
a lecturing tour across the continent
Lust will give a lecture at the K. p
hall, 122 East Sixth street. Saturday
at 2 p. m.
| Eleventh hour speeches were made
last night at the semi-weekly meetings
of six Topeka churches promoting the
Laymen's Missionary movement, start
ing here Sunday. Addresses were made
by D. o. Coe, Jesse Shaw and A *.
Bowers urging registration ana sup
port from each church for the move
ment.
+ Word has been received in Topeka
of the death of Mrs. James T: Moon
night. Mrs. Moon, who formerly re
i sided in Emporia, had visited often in
II Topeka and was we'll known here. She
was a daughter of r. B. Thomas of
the Thomas Mortgage company of
Emporia.
The Iegless cripple frequenting the
streets for the past two weeks who
rode in a cart, left today for Empofla
stated that he had an acre and hail
of land in California with $4,000. He
hired boys to haul him about while in
Topeka and said that it cost hlr1
other expenses
One Topeka household lets the
chickens roost over the bed. case
uncovered today near the river by an
investigator of the ProVident associa-
ton revealed conditions which rivals
New York City's worst. The house
was piled up with drift wood, oil cans,
trash, with the family lived a dog
and cat and the chickens roasted over
the bed. The house had never been
cleaned since it was built.
The certificates for Troop of the
Boy Scouts of Topeka will be present
ed tonight at their meeting at the
home of J. H. Fazel, 724 Taylor street.
The trumpet corps of Troop will meet
before the regular meeting for drill
with the trumpet corps OF Troop 10
L The Christian Endeavor society of
the Redden chapel will give Hal
loween tacky party In the church
basement Monday evening.
| Charles Wilson, the tuberculosis pa
tient living at 1892 North Van Buren,
street, over whom considerable agita-
ton has been made, is now living in a
tent house in the front yard of his
4 home The Provident association is
caring for his family and it is expect
ed that with a winter outdoors he Will
Il be well enough 10 80 " WI n III Inv
| spring. The family is embarrassed by
the publicity given them recently, says
| Mrs E. J. Callahan of the ProVident
| association, who is handling the case.
| Two fires one of which was OF in
cendiary origin beyond doubt and
of which the other may have been
| caused by a "fire-bug, occurred
| Thursday night. man went into the
| filling station of the Standard Oil COM
I pany, 107 East Tenth street, and asked
| son of w. E. Collins, manager of the
| station, for a match. He at the same
| time remarked that if the building
| ever caught fire, it would be hard to
| save Young Collins gave the man a
| match, and went to fill an automobile
tank with gasoline. When he return
| ed the stranger was gone and the place
| was ATTIRE The interior of the build
ing and the stock of oils and cans
j was badly damaged before the fire
! department arrived. "A fire later in
the evening, however, at TIC Monroe
. street, was plainly of incendiary
origin 1t started in an clubhouse or
the premises of DR.. F. A. Rooster. The
\ damage amounted to only $40. The
II Ia n the Standard Oil cOmDanV'S