The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


Miss May Graham. deputy register
of deeds. has. been called TO Kansas
City, Mo, by the death of an uncle
A class will be initiated into the
Loyal Order of Moose Monday even-
ing.
Big red strawberries have appeared
on the Topeka market. shipped from
Florida. They are priced at so cents
a DoX.
The regular meeting of the brother
hood of the English Lutheran church
was held last night. program was
given.
The board of directors of the Cen
trail Y. NJ. C. A met last night at the
association building in their regular
business session.
The Past Matrons and Past Patrons
association will hold its annual ban
quet at the Masonic temple next
Wednesday evening.
A special program will be given by
the boys and girls booster chorus at
the Bob Johnson meetings this eve
ming. They will occupy seats on the
platform.
Mr. and Mrs. C. c. Nicholson will
entertain the Argonauts this evening
at their home at $40 Lane street Miss
Ruth Barrett will preside. Miss Eliza
beth WOODBURY. will read a paper.
/ Ten thousand dollars has been
]
it's $4,000 church campaign. Bishop
Anderson, of Ohio. will speak Feb
ruary in the interests of the church.
The Rev. NJ. F. Troxell returned to-
day after a months absence visiting
in Illinois and st. Louis. He will oc-
cupy the pulpit at the First English
church tomorrow morning and even
ing.
knights and Ladies of Security
night will be held next Thursday eve
ming at the Bob johnson tabernacle.
The lodge band will play and Bob
Johnson, the evangelist, will make
special address.
1t was Commissioner w. L. Porter S
turn to move out in the hall at the
city building today. The people who
are house-cleaning at the city hall had
reached his offices. Monday it will
be George Hayden's turn.
The Rev. w NJ Jackson, pastor
of the Second United Presbyterian
church, is assisting in a series of
meetings at Americas, Kan. DR.. j.
S. Glendenning Is filing the pulpit
during the absence of the pastor.
] Gospel meetings will be held every
night next week at the Church of
the Living God, 211 East Fourth
street. Services start at 1880 o'clock.
/ DIR MacFarlane, of Kansas City, is
assisting H. EbeIly n conducting the
meetings
Kenneth Parrish, the 12-year-ol
boy who was injured two weeks ago
while coasting on Sixth avenue, has
been sent home from St. Francis hos
pital nearly well. The operation
which was a very serious fracture was
performed by DR.. L. V. Sans.
Commissioner w C. Tandy has au-
thorized the city clerk to ask for bids
for the printing of the paving specifi-
cations for 1915. The specifications
will be printed in pamphlet form of a
convenient pocket size. There will be
800 copies and the cost is expected to
be about 500.
1t is possible that a special venire
of jurymen will be called to try the
case of the state against D. G.. cd.
Turner, defendant in a state hospital
scandal case. Otis Hungate, attorney
for Turner it is understood, is OBJ
jecting to trying the man with the
same jurymen that tried Arthur Dav-
export and viii Tillman.
An address will be made before the
Current Topic club of the Central Y.
NJ. c. A. Monday night by H o. Caster
of the public utilities commission. He
will speak upon THE Interstate Val
uation of Railroads" His address
covers the theory of the railroads and
the theory of the people in regard to
the railroads.
Advanced chemistry students at
Washburn are permitted to take a
new course now being offered, chem
ical German. Many German texts
have never been translated into Eng
lish and the students will work out the
problems presented and translate the
scientific German at the same time
Professor De BeulIalaer has charge OF
the class.
The Tri Mu Bible class for young
men of the First Baptist church will
meet Sunday morning. The subject
will be The Spirit of Life" At the
| la St rneptipa the fn1lOvviOo com Yoitteps
were appointed: Earl Stevenson
membership; Elmer Miles. personal
welfare; VIM. Bowman, social; Walter
Holcomb, lesson; Bob Bowman, adver-
Using; and Howard Appleton, finance
Grand sweepstakes in the Nebraska
state poultry show was won by a
Buff Cochin cockcrel owned by ]. c.
Baughman, Twenty-Third and Lincoln
street, Topeka according to word re-
; ceived here today. Baughman won a
number of other ribbons ana cups or
: his pens The cock, sire of the grand
weepStakeS winner, carried off the
grand prize of the breed at the Frisco
exposition.
Telephone people were entertained
? last night at the Central Y. NJ c. A
= The fifteenth annual session of the
Missouri & Kansas Telephone society
was held and an interesting program
given Miss Marguerite Keller gave {
piano solo, Charles Bryant and Lev
and a minstrel show was put on. p
/ Fl. Hopkins, general manager of thu
= company, spoke
f Cities all over the country are in
] terested in Topekas revised ordi
[ nances which are being printed fl
t book form. The city clerk has received
$ numerous requests fer copies of tn
= ordinances as soon as they are off tn
4 press. The requests come from q
far east as New Jersey and Virginia
! l.. = he Ia,
d of ordinances are being printed. will
h ESQ extra copies each OF the healtl
e and building ordinances.
t five-foot vein of coal on tn
+ Ephraim Dietrich farm near kiro. /
one of the points at issue in lawsui
in the Second division of the distric
e court which was heard Friday after
k noon. In the suit Oscar Dietrich ask