The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-16
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AT HOME NEWS

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Special meeting of the Lillian
Mitchner w. C. 7. U. with Mrs. L. F. |
Sherman, 100 East Tenth street |
Thursday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Joseph Hanlon, chief of the Topeka |
fire department. returned today from |
three weeks vacation trip thru the |
eastern part of the United States and
Canada.
The Fraternal Brotherhood will |
have a free social and dance at Moose
hall Wednesday evening, September
20, in honor of A. Morgan Duke, jr.,
of Dallas, Texas
The first meeting of the fall of the
Topeka Ministerial union will be held
Monday morning at the First Presby-
terrain church at 10 o'clock. The Rev.
Arthur B. Henderson is president and
the Rev. Joseph p. Hicks is secretary
"Christ's Great Motives to Living
a Study of the Sermon on the Mount,
will be the subject of DR.. Arthur ),
Henderson's lecture to his Bible class
Sunday at 10 a. at the First Com
gregational church, corner Seventh
and Harrison streets.
| An automobile driven by Abe Ulam-
perl was struck by a street car At
Ninth and Kansas avenue last eve
ming. The young man was held IN
| the machine due to the rare presence
of mind of Lew Williamson, moving
|
car was badly damaged and the two
occupants slightly injured.
| William Farrek Leland, son OF Cy
| Leland, of Troy, has been granted
special permit to practice law in Kan
sas by the state bar examining board
The permit is good only until the state
bar examination next January. Young
Leland will enter the legal department
! of the Missouri Pacific railroad at
| Atchison.
Miss Bertha Saville, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs F. A Saville, 400 East
Eighth avenue. will succeed Miss
Edith Lacy as secretary of the Public
Health Nursing association. it is an
nounced Miss Lacy will leave here
soon for Los Angeles to study medi-
cine Miss Saville is graduate in
Bethany hospital in Kansas City
| Chiefs of dairy and food inspection
| departments of four Kansas cities and
one Missouri city will hold a meeting
in Kansas City October to adopt uni
form rules for field inspection that
will enable the control of milk sup
plies from outside towns. The cities
| represented in the meeting will be
Topeka, Leavenworth, Lawrence, Kan
sas City, Kan, and St. Joseph, Mo.
| George T. Mattingly, city license
| collector, is at his desk in the city hall
again today after serious illness
Thursday night and Friday, due to
ptomaine poisoning. Mattingly at
| tended the fair Thursday night and
purchased a hamburg sandwich and
some ice cream in one of the conces-
sions. An hour or so later he became
very ill. Physicians said the illness
was due to ptomaine poisoning.
Cord Kline, 1921 West Fifteenth
street, is suffering from a badly
smashed foot, the result of an auto
motorcycle collision Wednesday night.
? y-i6 st on fna Ont h
street on his motorcycle and an auto
was coming west. The driver of the
auto was looking over his shoulder at
a machine behind him and crashed
into kinne'S machine at the corner of
Seventeenth and Polk streets. Kline
spent one day in ST. Francis hospital.
For the vote of appreciation extend
ed him for his faithful service as GUS
| todian of the city hall for more than
| eleven years, ]. S. Dad" Weir, who re
| signed to run the new city hall eleva-
| tor, has made this reply to the city
commissioners thru the State Journal:
| Z take this way of expressing my sin
cere thanks to the mayor and commits
sioners for their vote of appreciation:
also to each and every one of the en-
ployeS in the city hall for their many
| faVOrS; their kind and courteous treat
| ment.-J. S. Dad Weir" Mr.. Weir is
probably the most popular employee in
the city hall.
| Interest in swimming at either Y Nj
c. A. or Y. w. c. A. does not relax any
more than the weekly tub fades out of
popularity during the chilly season
An average of $50 people a day have
been awaiting themselves of the Y. M
c. A. pool and an almost equal mum
her of the Y. w. The Y. M pool will
be kept open thruout the year The
Y. W. c. A. will close its natatorium
October l. Owing to the starting of
activities at the Y. w. c. A. a different
schedule for swimming has been ar.
nounced. Il follows: Monday, $3.50 t.
6 and to 8. Tuesday. p. m. to $3.50
Wednesday, 2:30 to 6. Friday, p. m
to 9. Saturday children only, TO
4:30.
Every time a city begins to get puff
fed up over its metropolitan appear
ance something happens to jolt its as
surance. Not long ago some one
shocked Chicago by chasing a jack
| rabbit down State street. Last sum-
mer Kansas City witnessed a lively
deer hunt on Grand avenue when
doe from a private pen escaped. To-
pekas turn came today when city Of
| ficialS looked out their office windows
and beheld a flock of quail making
| themselves at home the lots back
of the city hall ard on window stills of
the building. The flock paid but little
attention tC the close approach of
curious persons and after making
| themselves at home for an hour or
more diSa ppea red.