The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-10

The Topeka Radio club OF the high
school will meet tonight at 1880.
The dancing classes will meet in
the high school gymnasium Monday
afternoon
The Rev Roy Guild will speak at
a special high school assembly Mon
day morning.
The women of Grace Cathedral will
hold a food sale at Crosby Brothers
store Saturday from to L o'clock.
The county commissioners reported
this morning that the south side dixie
through the fair grounds is practically
completed.
Mothers c. L. of the First Presby-
terrain church will meet next Wednes-
day afternoon at the home of Mrs
Eva Burge, 1404 Harrison street.
The Social Service club of the First
Presbyterian church will meet Mon
day afternoon at 2:30 at the home of
Miss Grace Koontz, 1914 Topeka ave-
nue..
The fourth annual ball of Topeka
Aerie No. 5 was given by the Eagles
last night at Kirkpatrick hall. The
grand march was led by William B.
Butler.
DR.. Roy B. Guild will speak this
evening at a mems meeting at the
Central Congregational church. He
will deliver an address at the meeting
Sunday morning at the church
DR.. Eva Harding has some real
flowers blooming in the garden at her
home on West Tenth avenue. A num-
Der of snowdrops are in blossom and
| it is not yet the middle of March.
| The Highland Park Athletic club
will give an exhibition of boxing,
wrestling and gymnastic work this
evening at o clock at the Highland
Park school house.
Sheriff L. L Kiene will make trip
to Oklahoma to bring back R. o.
Hughes, who is charged with desert
| ing his wife and children here in To-
peka- Hughes is a painter and is work.
ing steadily in an Oklahoma town.
The case against U. S. Price, charg-
ing wife desertion, was continued in
the court of Topeka this morning un-
| til April 2. Price was in court. He
is charged with abandoning his wife
and two children in needy circum-
stances.
Julia Brown filed suit for divorce in
| the district court today against Frank
L. Brown. She charges desertion. She
states they were married at Flagstaff,
Arizona, February %, 1910, and that
he has been absent for more than a
year.
At the annual meeting of the
Ladies' Aid of the First Presbyterian
4 church this week Mrs. o. L. Moore
was elected president; Mrs. l.. e. Nc
1dlIs VICE II. A. fluI-
ledge, treasurer, and Mrs. Charles Dill
Ion, secretary.
Vernon Hendry, vice president OF
the International New Thought Alli-
ance, will speak Sunday on "Opulence
Of Purse, Gods Will for ALL" at the
regular services of the New Thought
society at Unity church, 80 Topeka
avenue, at IL o'clock.
The Brotherhood society of the
swedish Evangelical church will hold
a meeting in the. church parlors this
tevening at S:15. The Topic for dis
cusSion will be the social ana religious
condition in the Roman empire at the
time of Christ
One conversion followed the ser
mon last night of Byron J. Clark, who
is holding revival services at the First
U. B. church, corner Twelfth and
Quincy. His subject last night was
"Heil-And a Native of It," He will
speak tonight on Heaven and How
to Get There"
There will be a free lecture or
Christian Science at the high school,
auditorium Sunday afternoon at
O'clock, by George Shaw Cook, c. S
B., of Chicago, ILL.,, member of the
board of lectureship Of the mother
church, the First Church of Christ
Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
Harry Rowland, former advertising
manager for the Santa Fes who mys-
ueriously disappeared several weeks
ago, IS the defendant in a suit filed in
the court of Topeka by the Tully-Mc-
Farland Drug company. The petition
states that Rowland was indebted to
the firm to the extent of $500 and that
the Santa Fe Railway company has
money in it's possession belonging IL
Rowland.
William Elliot, the young man who
is charged with statutory offense
against Ti1lie Patterson, aged Is,
waived his preliminary hearing in the
court of Topeka today and was bound
over to the district court. Tillie Pat
terson was in court this morning ana
persons who saw her stated she looked
more like a u year old girl than Is,
the age she claims. Elliot is only
boy.
Moore in the statutory cases brough
by Robert Carver, assistant county
attorney, late yesterday afternoon
against three young men, with Els
as complaining witness. This after
noon Elsie Moore's fate will be deter
mined in probate court. She viii hav
to show cause why she should not l.
sent to the State Industrial School
Girls at Beloit.
Hazel Gardner, who with Pearl
Higginbottom, ran away from home
two or three weeks ago and was pick
ed up by Hugh Larimsr, undersherifl
at Grove, is not being held on thu
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| very" Her mother has requisite
that such a statement be made. The
Gardner girl was arrested on that
| charge by Sheriff L. L. Kiene but was
released on her own recognizancC
pending good behavior.
Clyde Becker will not have to suf-
fer Imprisonment for embezzlement
and and the forgery of checks. In
the court of Topeka Becker pleaded
guilty. was sentenced to six months in
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the understanding that the bogus
checks are to be made good. The pa
role was recommended by Sheriff L.
L. Kiene w. E. Atchison county at
itorney, and Harvey Parsons. chief of
police.
Mrs Nyra Miller and daughter Miss
| Ruth are visiting Mr.. and Mrs z. T
| Hearick for a few days on their return