The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-26

to Representative hall to hear an
address by Vernon ]. Rose. All MEM
bers and their families are requested
to be present. The general public is
invited. Speaking will begin at
O'Clock.
George (Slim) Lewis, claimed by
the police to have been the man who
cut and seriously wounded Harry
Grumbine, a police court character, in
a chilli restaurant at 209 Kansas ave
nue. Monday night, was arrested Tues
day evening in North Topeka by Pa
trolman JONES. Lewis faces a charge
of assault with intent to kill, in the
court of Topeka.
The people who are putting the new
roof on the city hall were just half
through when the sIeet storm began.
Today the sleet is melting and the big
leak just over the office of George
Hayden, city attorney, is making its
final effort Tubs, buckets and pans
were scattered over the office floor
this morning to catch the water but
they failed to catch all of it.
The new draughtsman in the office
of the city engineer will be on the job
tomorrow. Arthur Bowman will sue
coed c. A. Forter and will quit the
engineering school at the State univer-
sity today in order to do so. The po-
sition in the engineers office will pay
500 q. month. Bowman isn't quite
through school but can finish his
course at the university by CORE
spondence.
New trial in the suit of EIevenor
Ann Ernest against DR.. F. J. Ernest
for separate maintenance which was
decided in favor of Mrs. Ernest Sat
urday, has been asked in motion
filed by Hamilton and Page, the doc
tors attorneys. Judge Whitcomb
handed down a decision awarding Mrs.
Ernest $3.50 in property and cash as
separate maintenance. The motion
for a new trial alleges that the de-
cision was contrary to evidence.
Apparently Topeka undertakers
either have a poor eye for business
or they are the best hearted fellows
in the business world. Yesterday the
1915 calendar of one of the under
takers was found to have the words
EN- bossed upon it: Good Will Toward
Men" Today a city hall woman made
another discovery. CHANGING over the
calendar presented by another under
taker she found these words: The
Rich Gift of Coda Year of Time"
The fortnightIy meeting of the To-
peka Ministerial association will be
held at the First Presbyterian church
Monday morning at 10 o'clock. The
Rev. r. p. Mcpherson, of the Central
Park Christian church, will read
paper on THE Ministry and Fiction"
Miss Marguerite Gohlke and Glen
wood Jones have been added to the
choir of Grace cathedral. The regular
cantata Sunday will be The Song
of Thanksgiving by Maunder, sung
by the choir and quartet.
The local union of the Christian
Endeavor bodies of the city will enter
tain at an annual banquet for the En-
deavOr and out-of-town officials Fri
day evening, February 25. The ban
quet will be served at the First Con-
gregational church oy the women's
society of the church. Prominent
speakers of the evening will be ]. D.
Shell of Kansas City, state field sec
rotary, and Paul M Williams of
Hutchinson, president of the state
Christian Endeavor.
Since the first of January building
permits amounting to a total of $780,
40 have been taken out and $1,000 of
this amount is made up of permits is
sued by the city fire marshal yester-
day afternoon. Permits for four
dwellings were secured by the Home
Building association of Topeka. They
/ call for residences located and valued