The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-31
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

man li1iS evening.
Mrs. Zoe Morris, 625 Chandler
street, is recovering from serious i'll
ness at Stormont hospital
The first regular meeting of the year
of Beulah chapter, o. z. s, No. "a, will
I be held tomorrow at Masonic temple
James B. Doncyson is suffering
from sprained ankle which he sus-
tanned Thursday while stepping off
| of curb.
A meeting of the colored Friendly
visitors will be held at the Provident
association Tuesday afternoon from
8 to o'clock.
Two pieces of artillery will be given
a workout by some Is gunners at the
fair grounds Sunday morning. There
will be no firing.
Orient lodge No. II will confer work
in the third degree this evening at the
Masonic temple Three hundred plates
will be laid for the banquet.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Robert K. Bennett
are visiting Mr.. Bonnett's parents, 913
West Tenth street, en- route to Wis
consin university where Mr.. Bennett
has a fellowship in soils.
Because of the unusual amount of
sickness in the congregation it has
been decided not to have the New
Years dinner at the Second United
Presbyterian church tomorrow.
Open house will be held at the
Colored Y M c. A, 406 Kansas ave-
nue., tomorrow from 2 to in the
afternoon. No formal invitations have
been issued and everyone is invited to
call.
A called meeting oe active mem
bers of the Y. w. c. A. will be held
at the association building January a.
Following the meeting at S.:15 o'clock
the first basketball game OF the new
year will be played.
Several animals have been added to
the Kansas National Guard stable on
Jackson street, bringing the total up
to 50 horses. Two men are employed
all the time looking after the i've
stock and equipment.
Noel V. Wood, of Kansas City, Mo-,
will open a Buick agency in Topeka
soon Mr. Wood came to Topeka to-
day and Joined the Commercial club |
He expects to open headquarters in
building on Kansas avenue soon.
A watch party will be given this !
evening by the Sunnyside grange at
the Sunnyside school house south OF
Topeka. Musical and literary num- |
bers will compose the program, ana |
will be followed by a supper.
Saturday is the first holy feast day |
of the year in the Catholic church and
is observed by the churches similarly |
to Sunday The feast of Epiphany is |
celebrated January and is in honor |
of the coming of the wise men.
Charles Baker, charged with selling |
mortgaged property, was bound over
to the district court this morning by |
Judge Hugh Fisher in the court of To-
Deka The nortgaged property which
it is alleged Baker sold was team OF
horses.
More than 100 plates will be lald
for the Men-for-boys banquet when
will be served at the Central Congre-
gational church Monday evening Each
man belonging to the church Is eX-
pected to bring a boy with him to the
banquet which is a get-acquainted at
fair.
Watch night service will be held at
the First Swedish Baptist church, be-
GINNING at 10 O'Clock this evening.
After a short program has been rem
dered, the Young Ladies society Will
serve refreshments which VIII pc Iol-
lowed by a service of free testimonies
and prayers until the entry of the new
year.
Tom c. Whitaker has been added
as a charter member to the Scarlet
a military fraternity, whose
headquarters are at the Kansas Ma
tionaI Guard hall. This brings the
roll of charter members up to IT, A
line party and several smokers are
planned by the fraternity to De gwen
in January.
Rubber ice covers the ponds at Gage
mark and is exceedingly dangerous to
skate upon. according to Commission
pr of Parks w. L. Porter. During the
past month many skating parties have
,sed the ice and have been building
1
good New Years Eve, Commissioner
Porter will furnish the wood for big
fire.
The pawnshop belonging to 1sadore
between Fourth ana f1Ith
street on Kansas avenue was burglar
zed late Thursday evening and two
revolvers a pair of field glasses ans
several knives and razors were stoleI-
The total value of the loot was about
s25. Two suspects have been arrest
ed by the police. {
Walter Collins and Paul Porter
GOT in bad with the police this morn
ne when they were seen carrying two S
-ailro2d jack-screws in gunny sacks
The men were found in the Union Pa
,ific wards nv Special Officer Gaines.
thanked bv Detective Donovan and ;
Patrol Driver Richardson, Gaines I
made the arrest. Collins and Porter {
are booked for investigation
A New Years gift in the form of
divorce decree was handed j. M Jen-
.en this morning by Judge George H
Ubitcornb in the district court. Ruby ]
Jensen was the defendant in the case
N his petition filed recently, Jensen
alleged that his wife had been guilty
If abandonment for more than nine !
,ears. In a letter to Rad Lee, as d.
rorce proctor. Mrs. Jensen ADMITTED .
he allegation. '
That a cal Frenchman doesn't +
pronounce the cities figuring IN the t
var like they are spelled is the con- {
fiction of the Rev. Patrick Mc1ner- :
,e.- pastor of tho Church of the AS !
,1mnfion. He attended school at
Iiege and Rheims and speaks French
IS we'll as ne does English Rheims
s pronounced Rass, he says; Llege is r
.ee-aize; Mons is Mos and AInlens .
-ocs nv the ma me of Am-ya-
The last meeting of the year will be Z
he last meeting in the old church for
he swedish Bethel congregation II
will be held this evening at 40
clock The old church on Polk
SioS l NJ, - +,rnad over TO the Christ ii