The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-18
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Chester I Long and Henry Allen will
no i'm ToDeka Saturday to attend the
ANIMAL banquet of the Saturday Night
club.
4 report of the marriage license
clerk in St. Joseph. Mo-, shows tne
names of two Topekahs' Nei9 9e90
and Rosa johnson.
The maximum temperature at 10
neka four wears ago today was 30 de-
grees. Today the weather is the
variety to produce cold sh1Vers-
A meeting of the board OF dlTecIors
of the Y Nj. c. A will be held Friday:
Tt is expected that the president anu
other officers of the association Will
be reelected.
It is probable that the band travel
ing with the Workman SHOWS Will give
a sacred concert for the pubic on the
east steps of the state mousse d. 0
O'Clock Sunday night.
Revival services will be held at The
Salvation Army hall Tuesday, Wed-
nesday and Thursday Rev A D
Clark, Methodist conference eNaise-
list will assist at the meetings
The F. W. Woolworth and 10 cent
store in Topeka was closed between
the hours of and a this afternoon on
account of the funeral OF b IL Knox
first vice president of the company.
The last meeting of the season o!
the Provident Association Mothers
club was held this afternoon at the
association rooms Ensign W. u
Houser of The salvation Army was the
Nav IS was set aside for Peace and
Arbitration Day. Owing to lack OF
time in which to make arrangements
for the occasion the day will not be
observed in Topeka The proclama-
ton was only made this week.
Hereafter all meals for Masonic
events will be served in the Scottish
Rite banquet hall on the fourth floor
of the Masonic temple. The big Ma
sonic dining room on the fifth floor
has been turned into reception
room.
The Booster band will begin its first
of a series of concerts in Garfield
park next Sunday. Earl Stafford is
organizer and director. ]. W. Keller
is solo 1cornetist, and Theodore Morse
is another soloist. A. ]. Dickie Ham
is solo alto.
Carl Peterson, formerly of the Blue
Sky department of the bank commits
sionr's office, left for Brownsville,
Texas today. He expects to cross the
line into Mexico for a short sightsee-
ing trip. Mr.. Peterson is now with the
Elmhurst Investment company.
Frank Palmer, a patient at the state
hospital, escaped at 10 o'clock Monday
morning and mas not been captured
The police believe that he may be To-
Gated at his home four miles south OF
town. Palmer is Is years old and
weighs 12S pounds. He is not vio-
Jungleland will be depicted in a
large sized animal show at the Shrine
carnival next week. James and Will
liam Dyer, who are directing this one
of the Workman attractions, have
made it a point to search for the
strangest and rarest animals and birds
in existence.
Rain has caused a postponenient of
a fishing rip planned by Jay E.
House, mayor; Roy Crawford, Ike
Barnum and William Wikidal- They
had planned to go to Cedar Point. in
Chase county "Wednesday They are
still hoping to go THURSDAY ana De
Nav 20 is the last day in which
persons may pay their sewer taxes
in sewer district No. Al. which Is
bounded by Euclid avenue and Sew
enteenth street, the Missouri Pacific
right-of-way and Shunganunga creek
After May 20 the taxes will be certi-
fled to the county. and placed on the
tax assessment roll
The Kansas City Commercial clut
trade special passed through Topeka
Monday. The train consists of twelve
cars and there are lis passengers. The
week through Kansas and Oklahoma
The train was fitted out by the Roci
Island and each Pullman car is pro
vided with a telephone
J. T. Collins, agency supervisor fol
the New England Mutual Life Insur
ance company, addressed the aSsocia
ton or lie unQeTWTlI0TS OI 1opehd
the Commercial club rooms Monda.
night. Mr.. Collins is from Boston ant
is a graduate of Harvard. While here
he was the guest of Charles Lock
name, the New England company
state agent. The next meeting of thu
association will be held June 81 at thu
Commercial club.
The following births were reported
at the office of the city clerk today.
Scott Comb and wife, Rochester, Ma y
Is, boy; Bert NJ: McHenry and wife
1917 Madison street, May lie, girl
Cimon Cerna and wife, A. T. & S. L
Yards May 16, boy: Aaron Sedler an6
wife, 315 Kansas avenue, May i, girl
Roland Blanchard Trimble :trd wife
1914 West Second street. May 5, girl
c. r. Harmon and wife, 3ia Wes
First street, May Is. boy.
Another of the families on thai
part of Van Buren, street north of thl
state house grounds that doesn't pa,
rent consists for the time being of Mr.
and Mrs. Woodpecker. Soth are rcd
headed. They have their home in :
hole, evidently of their own digging
that is. well up to the top of q tall deas
tree. And although Mrs. Woodpeckel
is on the home job pretty continuous