The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-01
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Bishop Millspaugh will officiate at
st. PauPs church at Clay Center, sun
day morning, October 8.
Charles Slusher, who was operated
is improving. A second operation will
be necessary before Mr.. Slusher can
regain his full health.
Capital Lodge No. 2, Pythian Sis
tiers, will meet in their hall at o'clock
Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Belle Alex,
of Ottawa, will be present, and a full
attendance of the lodge is urged.
A meeting of Troop No. of Boy
Scouts will be held tonight at the
home of J. H. Fazel scout commits
sioner. An initiation and feed will
make up the evenings entertainment
for the boys.
J. o. Johnson, colored, who was ar
rested in Topeka Thursday, will be
taken back to Dodge City, Kan, to-
day by c. w. Woolwine, sheriff OF
Ford county. johnson is wanted on
charge of assault with intent to kill.
w. D. Ross, state superintendent of
instruction, will talk before the ma
tional convention of teachers at Nash
vile, Tenn, November Is, 16 and II
on the subject, What the High
Schools are doing for Rural Educa-
ton
The street railway company is MAX
ing alterations on several care in prep
aration to operating one-man runs on
two stub lines. The gates at the back
end will be padlocked and cash boxes
will be installed on the front plat
form.
Transfers, chauffeurs and stable
men en- route from Chicago to Cali
fornia to attend the convention of the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters, passed through Topeka Thurs
day on a special Santa Fee train. There
were 125 men in the party.
The first pep" meeting at Wash
burn college was held Thursday noon
A rooters' club was organized WITH
Tom Crawford es president. HARDWOOD
Benton is vice president. The club
is expected to attend every game TINS
year Ross Layborne is cheer leader.
The regular quarterly business
meeting of the East Side Methodist
church will be held this evening at
the church, Seventh and Lime streets.
Preceding the business meeting the
Rev. H E. Wolfe, district superln-
tendent, will give an illustrated leo
ture.
A P Tone Wilson, of the United
States land office in Topeka, was ar
rested Thursday night at the ROCK
Island depot for being drunk SpeclaI
Officer Judkins made the arrest VIII
son said he was looking for the Mex
lean consul. He was released from
the police station on So bond.
A mixup of a rusty bicycle ridden
by q boy and a shiny electric coupe,
driven by Mrs. Harry M. Washburn,
222 Greenwood avenue, on Kansas
avenue caused the coupe to suffer
several bad bumps but didn't hurt the
bicycle Neither the boy nor Mrs.
Washburn was hurt in the accident.
The state teachers convention is
planning to re-elect Miss Lillian Scott
to the office of president. 1t has
been the rule heretofore to allow a
president to serve only one -errn, but
Miss Scott has worked so faithfully
and efficiently that The sentiment
seems to be in favor of breaking the
precedent.
The jury in the white slavery
case against the Rev J. K Woodson.
a colored Baptist preacher, in the sec
ond division of the district court, failed
to agree on a verdict and were dis
charged at IL o'clock this morning by
Judge George H. Whitcomb. Wood
son was charged with seducing Mrs.
Beatrice Frye, wife of Ed Frye. The
jury deliberated more than three
hours but could not agree on a YER
dict.