The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


Y. W. C. A. will be held at the build
! ing Thursday
Dr. William Garrett 625 Garfield
avenue, is ill at his home with an at
tack of grip.
| The regular January board meet
| ing of the Y. W. c. A. will be held
next Thursday afternoon.
Members of the Spalding Reading
Circle will meet tonight at the Knights
Of Columbus club rooms.
Topeka lodge No. 2, Fraternal Aid
Union, will install offers Tuesday
evening in Security hall.
Miss May Graham, deputy register
of deeds is confined to her home, 1920
Harrison street, on account of the grip
Miss Anna Layton, of Kansas State
Agricultural college, spent Saturday
with Miss Ida Layton at Bethany col
lege.
Frank C. Swanson is slowly recov-
ering from an operation which he I'M
derwent at st. Francis hospital last
week.
A public installation of officers will
be held tonight by Naomi Lodge at
the K. & L. of S. hall. The public is
invited.
A board of the Topeka high school
club of the Y. W. c. A. will be held
at the association building Tuesday
afternoon.
Kansas City, Mo, to John D. Billings,
81, of Topeka, and Alice G. Chandler,
IS, of Topeka.
The Lincoln Circle Sewing society
will hold an all-day meeting at Lin
coin Post hall Tuesday. There will be
an election of officers.
Annual inspection of the Topeka
commandery No. 5, Knights Templar.
will be held at the Masonic temple
this evening at 7:15 O'Clock.
The Topeka high school club of the
Y. w. c. A, will hold meeting at
the association building Tuesday aft
ernoon at 2:45 o'clock.
Charles Bowers, clerk of the district
court, is at his office today follow
ing confinement to his home Satur-
day with an attack of the grip.
Carl P. Bolmar, PIP Greenwood
avenue, returned today from Potta-
watomie county where he has been in
vestigating the public school system
Miss Helen Griffin spoke Sunday
afternoon at the veSper service held at
the Y. w. c. A. taking the place of
Mrs. H. w. Putnam, who is ill of grip.
A marriage license was issued this
morning from the probate court to
Harry Walter Hicklin, age IS, Film
wood and Sarah A. Order, age 35, Ell
inwood.
The opening meeting of the Swedish
Bethel church, Sixth and Harrison
streets, was greeted with a packed
auditorium last night. The Rev. A. j.
Liljengren spoke.
Miss Lucy Gamlowski, 10 years old,
has been taken to her home, 621
Horne street, from St. Francis hos
pital. She underwent serious opera
ton December %.
A Joint membership committee sup
per of the two boosting the Get one"
campaign will be served at the Y w.
c. A Friday evening at $50 o'clock.
The campaign will start January Is.
Sheriff L. L. Kiene left today for
Leavenworth where he will attend
federal court. A number of sliqa or
revenue cases originating in Shawnee
county was the cause of the sheriff s
journey. 3s - e
S. S. Frank of the Frank Furniture
Co., left yesterday for Grand Rapids,
Mich, to attend the Furniture Dealers
annual convention. He will visit Chi
cago and other cities in the east on
business and will be gone about ten
days.
DR.. Charles NJ. Sheldon, pastor of
the Central Congregational church.
eft of the new Swedish Bethel church
at Sixth and Harrison streets. The
date has not yet been announced.
Roy Crawford, manager of the
Grand theatre. is in Wichita attend
ing the opening of a new moving pic
|
L. NJ. Crawford own Jointly. The new
show house will seat $500 people and
shows Triangle pictures.
Bookkeeping at the Masonic tenn
pie is done in printing instead of
. longhand. Each page of every ledger
is covered with the neat small letters
made by a pen j. b. Doncyson, the
secretary, is also an artist and can
print as fast as he can write.
Officers elected at the annual meet
ing of the First English Lutheran
: church Friday night were installed at
! the IL o'clock service Sunday morn
ing. The men are: Henry Eshe, elder;
w A. Benson, deacon; James G. Kerr,
deacon; Walter w. Wessen, trustee.
George Bennett, a Topeka boy, who,
according to the sheriffs force, is
) wanted on a charge of being implicat-
ed in damaging a show case belonging
to A. Samuels, a clothing merchant at
5 614 Kansas avenue, was arrested this
5 morning by Hugh Larimer. undersher-
if, and Charles Hixon, deputy sheriff.
: Probably the only hand lettered
book in the state is being made By ].
B.. Doncyson at the Masonic temple.
: The volume is beautifully bound in
> leather and each page is hand let
: tered, embellished and illustrated with
color and pen and ink work. Few
if any-books like this one are pro-
duced in the world today.
The web of litigation which has in
5 the past surrounded Mrs. Mary Caud-
} er. ex-Mrs. Poppleton, was swept away
l this morning, for the time being at
least, when an order placing her three
year old twin girls, Eva and Anna, in
custody of the Topeka Orphans home,
was issued by Judge Hugh MacFar-
land in the Shawnee probate court.
Rev. Cornelius Anderson of Win
DOM Mimi, will preach at the First
Swedish Baptist church tomorrow eve
,, ming. Mr.. Anderson is strong speak
err and one of the leading ministers in
the Swedish Christian Free Church of
America. Rev. and Mrs. Anderson
will be the guests of Rev. and Mrs.
: c. A. Alden during their visit in the
, city.