The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-17
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

J. Waldron Hardy, former print
er, visited Topeka today. en- route to
Horton. where he is coaching an anna
lteur play.
The Priscilla club of the First
Swedish Lutheran church will meet
tonight with Miss Anna Johnson, 1877
Grattan street
w. B. Simmons and Miss Mary ".
Elton of Topeka were married at the
Church of the Assumption this morn
ing at o'clock
The machine shop class held noon
session at the Santa Fe shops today.
The Rev. E. A Peterson spoke and
Mrs. E. A. Wilson sang.
John Wright, deputy county clerk.
is spending this week in Tuskegee.
Ala, where he attended the Booker
I. Washington funeral
The entertainment to be given Fri
day at the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. will
be by the Oakland high school chorus
under the direction of Prof. William
VanOrsdol.
George Kruger, who has returned
from China after thirteen years spent
as a missionary, will speak at the
Ra1lraod Y.-M. C. A. Sunday afternoon
at 8 O'Clock on 1.-The Best for China"
Preston Coleman, an assistant in
the attorney generals office, returned
today from Independence, Kan,
where he has been assisting the
county attorney in liquor prosecu-
lions.
Dying in tent at the county farm,
the tubercular patient who was re-
moved from his room on Kansas ave-
nue. few weeks ago made the sixth
man to die of the disease within the
past four weeks.
The first applications for the jan
uary state bar examination were re-
ceived today in the office of the clerk
of the supreme court. They were
from w. E. Kiser, of Chanute, and
Alexander H. Miller, of Salina, Kan.
Because of typograp hical error in
a Topeka paper saying Crochet in
stead of tcroquet'' several women
decided that that was what was being
done at the Railroad Y. M. c. A. and
volunteered their services as instruc-
tors.
e. r. DeBray. city clerk of Clay
Center, filed s3S, 900 worth of paving
bonds today with the state auditor.
Mr.. DeBray says that Clay Center
is coming right along with the paw
ing improvements, having thirteen
blocks now
Alleging cruelty and non-support,
Ida NJ. Widner of North Topeka filed
suit for divorce in the district court
against James E. Widner. Mrs. Wild
ner also asks for a division of prop
erty which consists of lots 27-80 on
North Polk street.
Smoke from the Beatrice Creamery
company's plant at Second and Polk
streets, is the cause of complaint from
persons living in that vicinity. They
have signed a petition asking the
mayor and members of the city com
mission to do away with the smoke. !
Memorial services in memory of
Booker T. Washington will be held at |
2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon under |
the auspices of the COlored Business |
Mems league. At a meeting of the /
league Tuesday night a committee !
was appointed to secure place for !
holding the services and to arrange a |!
program.
The. coloreds Girls club will reor-
ganize for theSyear at the Provident
association Saturday morning. The ,
club met every Saturday last winter |
and had from rs to 40 members. The |
reorganization of the club will make |
the eighth colored -woman's club in |
Topeka, the other seven meeting reg
ularly the year around.
A reception hall and boys reading /
room are being added to the basement .
of the First Christian church. By ,
tearing away the building towards the /
rear the additional space is being Sc
cured The Baraca class will meet in
the reception room and it is planned 4
to add several hundred volumes to the !
reading room collection.
Girls under IL years of age have a
party every Saturday afternoon at the /
Provident association parlors and from /
20 to 40 of them romp and play games.
This fall there has been no one to lead .
he class and the Provident association
IS looking for some college girl or
some one who loves children to volun-
-eer as leader for the youngsters.
The petition in the suit of the state
against John Miltorberger and John
Stramel for the $500 bond of John
Hartman, convicted in the district
court on charge of breaking into the
store of John O'Eara in Oakland, was
lied in the district court this morn
ng. Hartman filed an appeal bond
md it is claimed by county officials
disappeared.
Humor in the current form does not
tickle the state of Kansas into buying
is medium. There are no humorous
magazines purchased by the state al
hough nearly every phase of activity
n existence may be found treated in
magazine form. On the other hand
when a humorous work be-
comes justly celebrated, the state
makes a copy it's own.
When Floyd Johnson of Silver Lake
eft his car standing in front of the
Novelty theater Tuesday night he did
lot remove a buffalo robe, value $25;