The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-19
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Two new diamond rings worn on the |
third finger of the left hand are on |
exhibition at the city hall
Miss lima Sucker of the Santa F'e !
offices will leave today for Chicago
where she will spend her vacation
She expects to be away two weeks.
A marriage license was issued to-
day in the probate court to victor T.
PicoIet. age 26, Wamego, and Marga-
ret Elizabeth Leonard, age 10, Kings
vile.
Judge George H. Whitcomb today
denied Lera Heron a divorce from.
her husband, Clarence G. Heron: the
case was contested Both parties 10
the suit live at Willard
The first meetings at the Third
Presbyterian church since the johnson
meetings began will be held Sunday.
DR.. S. B. Anderson will preach on the
subject, Visions of God"
The Young Mems club will meet to-
morrow at the Y. NJ. at four O'Clock, r.
L. Copeland will preside After the
meeting a Dutch banquet will be
held in the Y. NJ. cafeteria.
The Musical Art society chorus will
hold a rehearsal Monday evening at
1880 o'clock at the First Baptist
church. At this time the chorus prob
ably will rehearse Coleridge-Taylor's
"Hiawatha-"
The Rev. J. C. Walker of Hutchin-
son, Kan, will preach Sunday at the
Pentacostal church of the NaZarene
The midwinter revival is continuing
and the three lectures by DR.. Walker
are a part of the program.
Clothing placed too near gas
| stove caused fire just before noon to-
day at 500 Lawrence street. The
house is a one-story frame structure,
is owned by A. ]. Miller and occupied
by F. Matford. The damage was be-
tween SIS and $40
The Baptists will have charge of the
Tabernacle meetings tonight. The
sermon for the evening will be given
by the Rev w. G. Handley of the
North Topeka Baptist church. The
| Tabernacle choir under George Adam
son will give special music.
The grand windup of the East Side
Tabernacle meetings will be held to-
morrow night at the tabernacle. The
meeting is to be under the auspices of
the Y NJ. c. A. and the Y. w. c. A.
and the R. R. Y. NJ. c. A. T. E. Prout
of the r. r. Y NJ. will preside.
Mrs R. NJ johnson, wife of Bob"
Johnson who conducted the Taber-
nacle revival meetings, is seriously i'll
at the Johnson partys temporary
quarters at Ala W. Seventh. She is
/ suffering from oVerWork due to the
strain of of the six weeks campaign
held here. Her temperature, which
reached 104 last night, had subsidized
somewhat by noon.
With the disappearance OF the ice
and the coming of warmer weather
men in the streetdepartment have been
nut to work patching the asphalt pave
ment Quincy street is undergoing re
pairs today The asphalt on the hill
between Third and Fourth streets is
being patched. The asphalt is coming
from the new mixer purchased py the
city last December
CITY officials gave the once-over to
a sample voting machine today me
machine was placed in the corridor on
| the third floor of the city bulld1hg ana
. was busy most of the day Its gene Ia5
principles are similar to those of 9th
, I er machines shown here but 1t costs
less than several exhibited. The .clty
| commission has authority to purchase
voting machines and that IS the rea-
/ son for the exhibition.
Regular services will be held at the
: North Topeka Congregational church.
The pastor, Clinton H.-Andrews, will
| preac in the morning on The Bane
and Antidote." At 7:15 O'Clock IN the
evening Dr. ]. c. Kirkpatrick, profess
sor of political science at Washburn,
, will speak on individual Prepared
ness" This is the first of a series OF
talks on general subjects by promi-
nent men of the city.
A verdict of 5000 DANA ges for the
! plaintiff against the Topeka Street
jury in the second division OF the dis
trict court this morning in the case C1
Thuresy Roberts against the Topeka
Street Railway company and the To-
peka Jitney company. The suit was
for personal injury damages The
I plaintiff asked for $1,000 damages
= from each company in her petition.
e The neglect of someone to use g
fIue-stop after taking down stove
! was responsible for a spectacular rur
l of the fire department up Kansas ave
r nue. lust before 2 o'clock this after
! noon. The alarm was turned in from
j 935 Kansas avenue. No fire was Wis
ible when the department arrived bT
| considerable smoke was found in the
! rooms upstairs. Investigation devel
E oped the fact that it was coming ou
/ of a flue hole in the chimney.
Workmen in the city park depart
= ment started out this morning on
. round of repairs. They will go ovel
all of the apparatus on the children
e Fairgrounds and make the necessary
? repairs Most of the apparatus ha'
been out in the weather all winter ant
will need repainting. Some of it wa:
broken last fall before the children
quit using it and has not been re
X paired. The work will be done under
| the direction of Ed Carver, park fore
man.
K Ray H. Hall and his divorced wife
|. Dorothy Marshall Hall. who is the re
2 ported fiancee of Don Thompson. ad
: venturer and war photogra pher
= stigned stipulation in the district cour
It late Friday afternoon whereby Hal
e ceases paying Mrs. Hall $40 a nontl
alimony after April l. However. h
S will continue to pay $50 a month t
5. Mrs. H. G. Voorhees, for support o
Y Marshall Hall, their child. The slip
d ulation was approved by Judge GeOrg
r H. Whitcomb.
e Business Mems Bible class of tn
9 First Methodist church will conside
I Ananias & Company and discuss
l. Resolved That Christians Should