The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-24

special revival services this evening at
S o'clock at the Evangelical church,
corner of Fourth and Monroe streets
The PhiIathea Women's Bible class
and the Baraca Mems Bible class held
a banquet in the church parlors of
the First Christian church "Wednesday
evening.
A delegate to the church conference
at Independence, March 18th. viii be
elected after the regular prayer meet
ing at the Euclid Avenue NJ F.
church
"A Preparedness Meeting is to be
held at the Third Presbyterian church,
ing at 8 o'clock All those desiring
to unite with the church are urged
to be present at this meeting
Since April IA, 1914, the Masons
have paid for their building site at
Tenth and Van Buren, streets. Now
they must decide when and how they
will erect their new building. The
cost of their site was S27, 500
/ A farmers institute will be held to-
morrow at Richland, Kan. John F
Eby, superintendent of county schools,
and C E St John. assistant superin-
tendent of state schools, will attend
and incidentally the Richland rural
high school project will be considered
1 The Square Circle club met in the
/ private dining room of the National
! y T
spoke on Life Insurance as Affecting
/ Commercial Credits. Short talks.
] were made by Dr. G. J. Crook. E o.
! Coe and A. c. Ginger John Nc
Herman presided as POSTMASTER ard
chairman
T Publicity has no charms for the To-
peka Shriners and all information re-
/ garding their meeting Monday night is
being withheld At that time the
! Leavenworth divorce proposition was
i
other meeting of the Shrine will be
held Wednesday evening and a ban
quet enjoyed.
An automobile belonging to Ray
Hall. son of Willard Hall, was stripped
| of two new $50 tires and rims We'd
in front of Kellam hall, Sixth and
Jackson. The two tires were strapped
to the rear end of the machine. The
thief or thieves severed the straps
with a knife and moved on with the
tires.
The Mid-Week Peoples meetings
| will be held at the First Presbyterian
church this evening A new series of
/ studies on The Church" will be start
ed The subject this week will be.
| The Purpose of the Church? What
| 1t Means to Join the Church Why
Should Christians Join the Church?
/ Ordinance of the Church Baptism and
| the Lords supper What Do These
! Ordinances Mean %
! The Vesper service of Grace Cathed-
raj next Sunday afternoon will be held
| at 4 o'clock instead of 4:30 as an
l nounccd- A special musical program
taken entirely from Schubert will be
/ given. Miss Nell kouns will make a
trip from Chicago in order to be pres
( ent at the services Topeka music
/ lovers will hear for the first time here
/ the little known Schubert Cantata
| +Miriam's Song of Triumph
| F viii confer degrees on a class of
| candidates for membership in Excel
! sior lodge No $50. Tuesday the mem
bers of lodge No. $40 conferred the
/ degrees on candidates for lodge No 1
and last Friday night lodge No. $40
/ conferred degrees on candidates from
| lodge No l. This plan of comforting
! degrees has been adopted by I L 0. F.
| lodges of the city in order to promote
! increased fraternal feeling among
members of the different lodges.
When a woman sends her husband
/ to the penitentiary for non-support
/ she must not marry again if she ex--
poets to keep friend hubby behind
the bars. The marriage of his wife
to another man was the signal OF re-
+ lease of E L Conkle, sent to the pen
nitentiary from Barton county two
years ago. Under the law Mrs. Con-
kle was automatically divorced from
( Conkle and Judge c. W. Smith, Gov
+ ConkIe his freedom He had seven
| teen months yet to serve.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany announces that Improvement in
its Transatlantic cable facilities en-
ables it to reinstate its cable letter
service which has been suspended
since January g. The Western Union
Telegraph company some time a go re-
esta bIished its deferred half rate and
weekend letter services and resunp-
ton Of its cable letter service restores
its full line of supplementary series in
addition to its regular fast cable serv-
ice. This restoration of the cable stu
ton to its normal basis is of the great
est Importance to American foreign
trade.
Atchison Globe: A Topeka man was
looking for a letter from his wife, and
when upon inquiry he was informed
by the postoffice employee there was
no mail for him. the Topeka man be-
comes indignant, and when a Topeka
man becomes indignant there is some
thing doing He went imm ediateIy to
P c Caldwell, the postmaster. and
demanded the letter from his wife.
The postmaster promptly investigated.
but the letter was not there How
ever, thai Topeka man knows when
his wife said she would write that she
did. and that there is something wronz
with the postoffice department Be
ing Topeka man, he will not ct the
matter drop until ne gets that letter.