The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-21
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Fridays are not popular with Cupid
! No marriage licenses have been issued
in Shawnee county on the last two Fri
days.
Jesse Shaw, superintendent of the
city water department, was back at
work today after a vacation spent in
Colorado.
A marriage license was issued to-
day to Edgar G. Parmenter of Spring
field, Mo, and Margaret Devore Tur
ner of Topeka.
The subject of the morning sermon
at the East Side M. r. church will be,
Looking Backward" In the even
! ing, Poverty and Wealth"
Arnold Heinen has instituted di-
vorce proceedings in the Shawnee
| county district court against Lucy Hell
men. He charges desertion.
Finest line of stand lamps ever
| brought to Topeka on sale at E. L.
Overton's, 107 West Sixth. Come and
! father, Mr. Robert S ten, CsitlhtkIp f
Topeka is without a single case of
contagious disease I'VE have not
even one case of disease under quar-
antine today" said DR.. Harold B.
Wood, city physician.
Ed Frey, colore d janitor at the state
house, has been found insane by a
! commission in the probate court of
Shawnee county. His condition is said
to be due to domestic worries.
| Mitchell Bundy. jailor, will spend
d.
spend it in Kansas City, starting in his
auto. He got as far as Lawrence and
turned back on account of bad roads.
! Prince Hardinian, colored, charged
with the theft of a harness, was dis
charged in the court of Topeka Fri
day The evidence that Ha rdima had
the missing harness was not conclu
sive.
James Hesse, a clerk in the Office
of the State Journal, and James
Euwer, an employee of Mills Dry
Goods company, will leave tonight for
Colorado. They will be gone two
weeks.
The union meeting of the down
town churches will be held at 8
o'clock Sunday evening at the First
be preached by the Rev. J. S. Blay-
ney of Hutchinson. Kan.
The following births were reported
at the office of the city clerk today:
Buren, street. August 10, boy; John
Robert Shook and wife, 337 Watson
avenue, August 90, girl.
The Pep committee of the Com
mercial club will meet early next
week to make plans for future work.
weeks at Buffalo Mound, near Maple
Hill, returned to Topeka today
THE Influence of the Bible on Lam
guage, Law, Art and Views of the
World will be the subject of DR.. Ar
thur S. Henderson's lecture to his BIZ
BILE class Sunday morning at 10 o'clock
at the First Congregational church.
James A. Pringle, contra ctor, who is
building the East side sewer, and who
few months ago completed the West
side sewer. has decided to make To-
peka his permanent home. He has
purchased a hotse at S07 Quinton
Boulevard.
After being sentenced to three
months N the county Jail on a charge
of petit larceny. Nathan Chiles was
Fisher OF the court of Topeka. Chiles
admitted taking some bottles from a
barn on East Tenth street.
Mrs. John McBee of 1919 Polk
street, accidentally fell down the Gel
lar stairs of her home Friday and re-
ceived painful injuries. She suffered
a bruised side and a lacerated nose.
Her condition is improved, it was an
nOunced today.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
special program for their thirty-first
anniversary which will be presented
Sunday at 7:45 o'clock. Mrs. Ross
will preside Mr.. Beach will sing the
Holy City" The annual missionary
collection will be taken.
Governor Arthur Capper and Mrs.
Capper will leave tonight for Boston,
Mass, where they will attend the con-
l
held there next week. Governor Cap
per announced today that he would be
unable to make a suffrage speech in
New York because he planned to be
gone from Topeka but one week.
E. G. Chouteau, state manager for
the Court of Honor, will be in To-
peka next week, according to an an
nouncement made Friday night at the
meeting of the lodge, and will attend
the session next Friday. The social
Z fp(l1 mi Jxyi1 arr-1r,
refreshments will be served. Friday
night the lodge attended the Cozy
tneater after the meeting.
house and lot on Clay street near
Ninth street, belonging to L. D. W.
and Don A. MounDay was sold at
sheriffs sale today to satisfy judg-
ments held by the State Bank of
Brownsville, Mimi, and the Prudential
Trust company of Topeka. The prop
erty was formerly the home of the
MounDays. 1t was bid in for the
amount of the judgments, s4,212
A very special service will be con-
Quoted at the Salvation Army hall,
No. 400 Kansas avenue, at p. n.
evangelist salesman and converted
Jew, will tell the story of his life.
Mr.. Loewenthal formerly represented
the Jewish Christian Mission of the
west, but thought he could do more
for his fellow man by accepting a
commercial position and preaching on
Sundays He was converted in Kan
sas City about two years ago
The ladies of W. R. c. No. "a, aux
iliary of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, gave a reception Friday eve
ening for Department Commander
Weeks and his staff at the home of
Mrs. Celia Kline. Commander Weeks,
Adjutant General BraSSfield, Comrade
Hallock and Comrade Miller gave
short addresses Mrs Gordon, pres
ident of Lincoln Circle talked on the