The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24
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AT HOME NEWS

meet at the Central Congregations
church this evening.
The Mary Sheldon girls will meet
with Miss Mary Patterson, 1898 Gar
field, Wednesday evening
The Epworth league of the First
Methodist Episcopal church will give a
party at the church parlors this even
ing from to 10 o'clock.
Baseball tickets for the opening
game tomorrow between Denver and
Topeka will be sold at the business
office of the State Journal
The members of the Langstaff Sun
! day school class of the Central Con-
gregational church will give a BAN
quet to their husbands Thursday even
| ing.
| The U. C. T. Council No. AZ will
! give a dance to the members and fam
lilies at their lodge rooms, corner Sixth
and Jackson, Saturday evening,
April 20.
The knights of Siege Perilous will
give their ritual in reception of new
members Friday evening at the Cen.
trail Congregational church. Men are
welcome.
The Women's society of the First
Congregational church will meet at
2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at
the home of Miss Martha Valentine,
625 Polk street.
Fred Trip of Meriden was brought
|
been i'll of typhoid fever and his con-
dition suddenly became worse, neces-
stating his removal to the hospital.
The ladies of the third division of
| the Ladies' Aid society of the First
| Methodist church will meet with Mrs.
John FlinkeI, 1914 Fillmore street,
next Thursday afternoon, April 81.
The first quarterly conference of the
Walnut Grove church will be held
Tuesday evening at 8 O'Clock. Mid
week prayer and praise service at
O'Clock Thursday, led by the pastor.
Plans and specifications for the new
wading pool to be built in Ripley park
sioner at their meeting this morning
by Commissioner Porter. They were
referred to the committee on parks.
The second division of the Central
Congregational church meets with
Mrs. ]. A. Crabb. 1887 Lane, Thursday
afternoon, with Mrs. D. c. Harbaugh,
Mrs. William Rickenbacker, Mrs. A.
T. Crabb and Mrs. T. W. Reynolds as
sisting the hostess.
The fourth division of the Central
Congregational church will be enter
tanned Friday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Alice Kingman, 1922 Mulvane,
with Mrs. James Johnston, Mrs. H. F.
Mark ham, Mrs. A. C. McCray and Mrs.
c. B. Graves as assisting hostesses.
Two new cases of diphtheria were
reported to the office of city health
officer today. One of the cases was
in the Hockemberg family and the
other in Loedecker family both on
Central avenue in the thirteen and
fourteen hundred blocks respectively.
A petition signed by SO property
owners was presented at the meeting
of the city commissioners this morn
ing, asking that a five-foot sidewalk
be built onsLocust street from Crane
to Greedy. The petition was referred
to the committee on streets and al
leys.
Four obsolete iron cannons, of the
type used during the Civil war, have
been shipped here and placed in the
Rochester and Prairie Home ceme-
teries. The cannons were obtained
through the efforts of Blue Corps No.
5, w. r. c., auxiliary of Blue Post
No. ESQ, G. A. R.
Extension of the water main on
Brooks avenue received favorable con-
sideration this morning by the CITY
commissioners when the mayor was
ordered to sign the contract calling
for the extension to be made at once.
The extension will be made from
Sixth avenue to Seventh street.
The patent on the Haskell golf ball
has expired and numerous golf balls
are expected to flood the market this
year at greatly reduced prices. Most
| of the local dealers purchased their
supplies of golf balls last fall under
prices charged by the manufacturers
holding the patents so drop in prices
in Topeka is not expected this year.
Joseph Cramer, member of
Arnity lodge No. 231, Knights of
Pythias, has originated a new emblem
attic symbol called the Travelling
Knight" The symbol is intended to
show the ideals and ambitions of the
order and probably will become nation
r. a
ed to Amity lodge on March 2, 1915, at
meeting of the lodge when appro-
pirate ceremonies were given.
> Word was received here today or
dering Captain W. C. Sweeney for two
wears inspector instruction for the
Kansas National Guard. to join a COM
pany at San Diego, Cal Captain
Sweeney. his wife and three children
will leave Topeka tomorrow morning
for San Diego. Captain Sweeney is a
member of company D, Twenty first
United States infantry 1t is moi
known who Will be chosen to succeed
him.
Donald Thompson, war photogra-
pher and former Topeka boy, will be
in Topeka this week to visit his wife's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles j. Mar
shall, and Mrs. S. A. Thompson, All
West Seventh street Mr.. Thompson
has recovered from an accident at Des
Moines when he filled a pipe with
flash powder by mistake and lighted
a match to it As a result he lost the
sight of his left eye but recovered S15,-
600 in accident insurance.
E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kan.
sas Grain Dealers associatio has re
turned from a ten days trip over the
state and reports that the condition
of the wheat crop in southwest anc
central Kansas was never better He
believes conditions are fully as gooc
as in the spring of 1914 when tn.
yield was 1SO.000,000 bushels fol
Kansas. However, the acreage thi
year is 100000 acres under 1914
Mr.. Smiley travelled through Morris
Wabaunsee, Marion, Sedgwick, Sum
ner and Barbar counties