The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-15

competing teams is working. In Tues
days campaign, 127 new members
were added to the rolls of the organi-
zation.
The cold weather caused two small
fires this morning. One was at the
home of Mrs. Lee Brown, Sill Madi-
son street, cause spark from a CHM
ney. The other was caused by a de-
fective flue, at the home of S. F. Beel-
er, 1910 West Fifteenth street. Meth
er fire did much damage.
Henry c. Horton, a railroad man,
says every time he returned to his
home in Chicago, alter trip, he found
his wife intoxicated or trying to get
that way. He tired of it, he says. and
left her. Now he wants a .lis orce.
His petition was filed in the district
court today. Horton says he was mar
ried to Gertrude Horton in Topeka, in
1905.
"a cold spell hurts the barbering
business, temporarily said a Topeka
barber today. when the first real
cold snap comes on, men don't like to
come in for shave, and for two or
three days business is pretty dull.
The effect of the descending mercury
is not lasting, however, and shave is
soon a shave again, without regard to
the weather.
Dr. ]. w Graybill of Newton grand
master of the A o. U. w, will arrive
in Topeka today to hold three-day
session, today, Thursday and Friday.
No. will hold a session this evening,
followed by a supper. No. ESQ will
hold session tomorrow evening fol-
lowed by a dance and No. 244 will
hold a session Friday evening followed
by a dance. All members should pre-
sent admission cards for guests.
The executive committee of the Cur
rent Topic club, of the Central Y. M. c.
A, met this noon at the association
building to lay plans for the conf ng
year, and to select some ore to fill the
vacancy on the committee created by
the resignation of Lee Sidwell The
executive committee is composed of
Judge r. H. Cav, president of the
club; E. w. Craver, secretary, and J.
3. MacFarland and C. E. Bascom.
w. I. Miller. of the Miller Lumber
company, reported to the police de-
partment Tuesday night that some one
lurking around his house, at 1925 To-
peka avenue, attacked the maid a Mrs.
osa, as she went down the back steps
of the Miller home. The man caught
her around the waist but she freed
herself and ran into the house. Mrs.
| Csa S waist was torn when she !, x ii
away from the man. No arrests have
| been made
B. B. Eitelman was today appointed
chairman of a house committee of
! the new Chamber of Commerce. Mr..
Eitelman's duties will be to look after
/ the dining room and receive any crit
icisms the members may have to reg
| lister. He will select the members of
| his committee. Those who say the
| Chamber of Commerce doesn't do
anything might ask Mr.. Eitelman,
! George Godfrey Moore. W. H. Davis,
c. 3. Merriam, Horace Hall and other
| successful business men why they
spend their time and money on the
| club work.
| The absent" vote, coming from the
! guardsmen on the border and from
other Shawnee county voters who
We're elsewhere on election day. has
| been canvassed by the county COM
nissioners. 1t did not change the re-
suit in even the closest county fight.
Based upon the vote for secretary OF
state there were 152 absent votes cast.
| One hundred and SIX were cast for the
Republican candidate, forty-one for
the Democratic candidate, four for
| the Socialist candidate an6 two for the
Prohibition candidate.
The annual meeting in commemora
| ton of the delivery of Lincolns
Gettysburg speech will be known as
| Veterans night and will be held in
Memorial hall Friday night, Novem-
| Der H. The following program will be
given: Medley, Miss Mamie Mitchell;
| invocation, the Rev. A. S. Embree;
"Star Spangled Banner audience;
salute to the department colors, audi
enee; violin solo, Clearance Messick;
Lincoln at Gettysburg, the Rev. Ed
mund James Kulp; violin solo, Clar-
ence Messick; Patriotism" w. A S
Bird, and "Aneric a. audience.
| Andy Vester, electrician at the state
house, hung his overcoat up in his
| shop Tuesday afternoon and forgot
about it until he was ready to go
home. Then he couldn't find it. He
reported the fact to the po, ce and
few minutes late, when one of the To-
cal pawnships sent in its daily list of
articles pawned Chief Harvey Parsons
noticed a black overcoat. This morn
ing the overcoat was identified as be-
longing to Vester. 1t had been
his choice of paying the pawnbroker
the 81 or suing him for the coat. The
police are looking for the negro.
Walter Fisher, negro, was arrested
blythe police today, charged with rob-
bling a drawer in the mailing room of
the Daily Capital Tuesday night. He
confessed to the burglary just before
noon and produced S3S, the amount of
| cash there was in the drawer. There
| was more than $40 in cl ecks in the
drawer and they disappeared also
I Fisher told an officer that he threw
them into the areaway at the German
American bank. A search failed to
reveal them. The money taken be-
longed to a savings fund of The
EMPLOYEES of the mailing room.
The check stand man at the Union
Pacific station is mildly interested in
a certain travelling case, similar to
those used by statesmen, which has
been IN his hands more or less of late.
The case was left at the stand several
days ago by a large, good-looking
woman 1t remained there three days,
and then was called for by very
small boy. The next day it was re-
| turned by a very small girl. and
checked again. The chief point of
| interest in the case is the fact that it
| is large and heavy and weighs as
| much as do the children who appar-
:, emily have been caring for it.
The successor to the late Rev E A
| Fredenhagen, organizer of the Ma
tionaI Society of the F'riendIess and