The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-18

The staffS of the January, 1915 /
Class Annual and World Will have a |
banquet tonight at the high school
cafeteria.
A stereoptican lecture on India"
will be given by Dr. ). S. Estey at the /
First Presbyterian church Sunday |
evening at 1880.
The Young Peoples club of the /
First Presbyterian church will have a /
party tonight at the home of Miss /
Helen Rutledge. 1854 Topeka avenue. |
DR.. S. S. Estey will return Sunday I
from Tulsa, Oklahoma. where he has /
been in charge of Presbyterian No- |
cational week at Henry Kendall col |
lege.
The Standard Bearers of the First
NJ. r. church will meet with Miss
Margaret Wolf at her home at 1851
Tyler street ct three O'Clock this aft
ernoon.
H. D. Wolf. manager of the Topeka
Clearing House association, announces
that all banks in the city will be clos
ed Tuesday. Feb. %. in honor of
Washington's birthday.
The Martha Washington supper
given annually by the W. H. NJ. S. of
the First NJ. E. church comes next
and music have been provided.
The Saturday Night club will hold
regular meeting at 1880 o'clock Satur-
day night. William E. Connelley, sec
rotary, will read paper on, The
Inca's Gold and Where 1t Is Hidden
knocks will be the subject of the
Sunday night lecture given by the
Rev. Benjamin Young at the First NJ.
+. church Sunday night. Every one
with a hammer is urged to bring it
along.
The Democrats wish to correct an
error made this morning in ar an
nouncement of the Democratic ban
quet to be held here Feb. %. The
banquet will not be at Masonic temple
but at the auditorium.
The Johnson tabernacle meetings
are continuing with good interest
rally on Saturday Rev. w. G.. Handley
of the North Topeka Baptist church,
will preach the sermon
The Epworth League and the
Ladies' Aid society of the First Ger
man NJ. f. church will have a Wash
ington's birthday social at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. G.. Urban, Ills North
Monroe street.
Report was made to the police to-
day that the barn belonging to Ed
Wells, Sixth avenue and Wear street,
was broken into late Thursday evening
or early this morning. 4 set of har-
ness and q stock saddle were stolen.
The case of Elijah Lite" Lane.
charged with obtaining a horse under
false pretenses, towit, by giving bad
check in payment therfor. was taken
under Amusement by Judge Hugh
Fisher in the court of Topeka today,
following completion of evidSlce and
argument.
Appeal from the probate court de-
cision in the fight for custody of her
two Swear old children, was filed to-
day in the district court by Mary Pop
pleton. At a recent hearing in probate
court Judge Hugh MacFarland held
that the two children were delinquent
and neglected and ordered them COM
mited to the orphans home. The
hearing was held January 10.
THE Inside of the Cup, or Churchill
and the Church., is the subject of the
Rev Robert Gordon's sermon at the
First Baptist church Sunday night.
This is the third in the series on
Modern Literature and Life" On the
27th the subject will be Race Preju-
dice" and Mr.. Gordon viii discuss DIR.
Sheldon's recent book. "Of One blood"
! The chorus of the Industrial institute
will sing at that service.
Mrs. Marcellus Mathewson, of sos
I Lincoln street, slipped on the ice on
/ the north side of the Methodist
church last night and suffered a frac-
tured hip. She was on her way home
from down town when the accident
! occurred. An X-ray examination at
/ st. Francis hospital revealed the fact
that she had sustained a severe frac-
/ ture of the hip. AS Mrs. MatheWson
is 60 years old the injury is very
serious.
Two hundred girls tonight will
show the work of fifty years in the
Y. w. c. A. at the auditorium in their
| pageant Girls of Yesterday and To-
day" Incidentally the pageant will
| show the change in styles, customs,
furniture, decorations and manners
from 1860 to the rag time days of the
| 20th century. The pageant is the
GROWING celebration of the local Y
w in honor of the National Jubilee
semi-centennial of the founding of the
association.
Topeka will have a contestant in the
intersociety oratorical contest at Man
haitian Saturday night. George c.
Gibbons of this city will compete at
the big contest to be held at the State
Agricultural college. Other entrants
for the contest are E. r. Morris, of
Norton; Florence Justin, of Manhat-
tan; L. A. Zimmerman of Belle
PLANE; Leo c. Moser, of CORTLAND;
Hannah NJ. Campbell, of Utica; Lillian
Lathrop, of Manhattan, and Stella
Blain, of Manhattan. Governor Ar
thur Capper will preside.