The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


Which he thought best to just let pass,
When Martha. sitting by his side,
why, George, dear, what's that you've
got?
what from that woman, have we
I wonder if Martha would, right there,
Take Georges spiel as on the SQUARE
You know my friend. Erastus Bliss p
Hi" HI. wife was crazy for sol bonnet, -
we'll .said-why-'send tn bill
Would Matt then say, You kind. old
Or reach for Georges big left s ear?
Topeka. Kan.
The George Washington social
which was to be given by the Epworth
League of the First German M. E.
church is on account of the death OF
Conrad Mayer, postponed one week.
Color photography, it's developments
and possibilities, will be explained by
Clement Smith at the high school au
ditorium tomorrow evening at
| O'Clock.
The Spanish club will meet at
o'clock tonight in the room of their
secretary, John Boggs. at the Central
! Y. NJ. c. A. A matter of importance
| will be discussed.
Only two offices, those of Ralph
w. Squires and Treasurer Campbell,
were closed at the court house today.
/ Both divisions of the district court
were in operation. Jury cases were
! heard.
! The roll call meeting was held Mon
day night at Capitola Rebekah lodge
/ No. 219. Addresses wer made by L.
/ NJ. Penwell. a grand officer of the l:
o. o. F., and w. J. Russell, grand
secretary of the order. Refreshments
! IN NJ nm n
! members.
The Neighborhood Card club will
give a dinner for the husbands of the
members at $40 Madison street this
evening. Those who will attend are:
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. A. Powers. Mr.. and
Lawson and Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Gus
/ tafson.
The local section center of the
weather bureau was closed all day to-
day on account of Washington's birth7
day anniversary. The shippers fore
cast, daily report on temperatures over
the country. and other data from out
of the city were not available for pub
LEGATION. ST.
f. Two Topeka young women who
could give no satisfactory reason for
I their presence on the street early
i Monday morning We're arrested Two
Ayoung men companions put up $40
bond for their appearance in police
| court Monday They did not show up
4 and the bond was declared forfeited
Lawrence Journal-World, Feb. 21.
Evangelist Byron J. Clark will be-
sin a series at the First United
Brethren church, next Sunday. Rev
CLARK is now conducting a successful
revival at Salina. He is a safe, sane
evangehstic leader, who has had
many years experience as a pastor, it
is said.
The Very Rev Francis NJ. Hayden.
4 Fetfred rector of the Church of the
! Assumption, is seriously i'll of the grip
! at his home, 720 Harrison street.
Father HAYDEN has been in bed sew
! eral days and his physicians fear that
y bronchial complications will set in.
His fever, which reached 1O1 yester-
4 day, had lessened somewhat today.
For several weeks canned goods at
the rate of one or two crates at a
time have been disa appearing from the
McRae grocery store, 1874 Quincy
street The matter was investigated by
Watts and Elmer Jackson, two
negroes, were picked up for investi-
cation by Officers Pinkston and Maze
and Detective Morgan
Every winter Ed. Bennett is a ia
niliar figure around the police sta
ton. During the summer time he is
one of Ringing Brothers crack driv-
ers. He has received a message or
dering him to report at the show
headquarters and go to work March
20. His chief boast is that he never
struck a horse with a whip. Bennett
, will leave in about a month.
, The Seward avenue M. E. church
will be dedicated next Sunday. The
Rev Z. H. Wolfe, district superin-
tendent, will conduct the morning
dedicatory service. The Rev. Benja-
min Young, pastor of the First NJ. E
| church, will conduct the afternoon
service, and the Rev. w. NJ. Balch
pastor of the Lowman Memorial NJ. E
church will speak at the evening serv-
ices.
Amended alternate writ of manda-
mus was filed today by Attorneys
for the plaintiffs in the suit of own
Eers of the Birth of a Nation" the
, feature motion picture film, against
| w. d. Ross, state censor, to compel
the censor to allow the film to come
into the state. The writ was amend
ed by inclusion of the cause of action.
Hearing in the case is scheduled to
begin Saturday before Judge Dana
The Modocs' tour is at an end and
nine of them arrived in town yester-
day afternoon over the Santa Fc.
Twenty are still seeing the sights in
California. Tom Powell stopped over
at Pueblo to visit a brother who is
sick in a hospital there Those who
returned: Frank Stevens, DIR. ]. H.
Solecki, DIR. F. A. Koester, Hugh.
Smith, Paul Van Ness, A. McFarlane,
Clyde Allen, Charles Jennings and NJ.
c. Holman.
(. In the statement of Mrs. Lucia O.
Case, printed in the State Jour
nal Monday evening. the last sentence
should have read, But as we have 50
many states where the women have
not the ballot, and Where the men
must be won to vote for the amend
1nent, by popular vote, unless the
amendment carries, then by the legis-
latures. we feel that it would bring the
hoped for result much sooner to work
in states where women have not the