The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-15

were to have been the main speakers
of the evening.
Prohibition received a staggering
blow last night at the Provident assoc
citation when sick, broke and care
worn bartender from Denver took
lodgings. He was a decent bartender.
he said, earning an honest living when
the blow came. Having been raised in.
a saloon and knowing only the trade
of mixologist, he unable to acclimate
himself to a pick and started for wet
old Kansas City. Grip has delayed his
trip somewhat in Topeka.
Arrangements are being completed
by Ike Gilberg to hold mass meeting
of Topeka Jews for the purpose of
raising funds to relieve suffering Jews
in Europe. The meeting will be held
January %. A telegram received from
New York this morning asked that
meetings be held on that day and that
rabbis preach relief sermons the
twenty second. A central committee
for relief of Jews, SO Park Row, New
York city, is managing the campaign
Clubs will be organized next week
in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades
OF the schools near the Y. w. c. A
under the auspices of the Y. w. c. A
The Rainbow clubs are open to any
school girl and are being organized
for the purpose of taking the Young
Women's Christian association to the
girls and making them feel its influ-
ence while their characters are form
Ing. The clubs will meet every Satur-
day afternoon from 2:30 to o'clock
/ A Methodist Sunday school teacher
in Topeka tells of how she taught her
pupils to remember the age of Me-
/. thuselah. For one urchin that cOuldn'
understand such large numbers she
wrote on a piece of paper Me
thuselah, 900.' Next Sunday she asked
the boy the old gentleman's age. IT
/ don't know" Didn't 1 write it for
| you on a piece of paper? % she asked.
| ''Yeth," beamed the little boy, but
/ thought that was his telephone num-
! ber."
A. L. Entsminger won a suit against
/ his former wife, Mrs. Emma Kelley,
in the court of Topeka this morning
when Judge Hugh Fisher granted him
possession Of the property at S29 Mon
roe street which has, according to evil
dence, been occupied by Mrs. Kelley
since prior to the marriage. Ents-
minger obtained a divorce from his
wife in the district court several
months go when the court ruled that
the marriage had been contracted by
| fraud.
Canaries with cold feet may be COM
mon these days but when woman
brought a cage containing two yellow
! birds from the Santa Fe depot to the
Provident association, the little song
sters were ready to give up the ghost
With the woman was l3-year-oio
daughter. two suit cases and two cents
She had let everything else go but
kept the birds. The association took
care of the family and secured the
mother a job so that her yellow
canaries now twitter sweetly in q
warm kitchen.
Fifty books for children are at the
Y. w. C. A. to lend and the associa-
ton has a library of SOS volumes
which are constantly in circulation
Twice a year the state sends them q
case of new books and the lending
system is on the Dewey decimal plan
The annual election of one-third OF
the board OF directors will take place
next Friday night at the Y. w. c. A
at the annual meeting of all active
members. The board will meet fol
lowing the election and select the 1915
officers for the association.
Motion for permission to amend thu
plaintiffs petition has been filed il
the district court by G. Z. Hulett,
shareholder in the Mills Dry Good
company, in his suit against w. w
Mills and the board of directors of tn
company The motion is filed b.
plaintiffs attorneys, Schoch and Ran
kin. Hulett asks permission NOR
fully to set forth the number of Ger
tificates, date of issue and the humble
of shares of stock of the compan.
which are claimed to have been is
sued to w. w. Mills without authority
Topeka lodge No. 2. Fraternal All
Union, has installed officers for tn
: year as follows: Past president, c. c
Becker; president, T. B. Garrett; vic
president. Maud Butler; chaplain
, Safe Bettinger; guide, Mrs. W. Fl
! Cochran; observer, w. H. Cochran
sentinel, James Kerr; trustees-A. J
James, Mary Peterson and Julia Has
kins. The lodge will attend the fu
neral of William Holmgren, who wa
a charter member of the lodge. Flu
neral will be at ? o'clock at Penwell'
. chapel.
i People are taking better care o
their water meters than they did il
former years. They have learned tina
frozen meter means an expense O
= s1.00 with a possibility of considerabl
. more. While around 200 meters hav
: been frozen up this week. calling 70
! new plates across the bottom that i
! nothing like the record. Frank Stew
ems of the water office said today tina
four years ago this month 400 meter
froze up in one night and day. Tn
weather was no more severe than tina
of this week but people were NOR
a careless.