The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-18


Then over a lovely rustic bridge,
| Twixt trees and Mexicans gay,
You'll find it pleasant to promenade
Until another Oakland
With a flat-wheeled roundelay
Can jog along for an hour or SO
Oh, Mr. Nelson Yingle,
The car that has run toward Oakland
For year, month and a day,
/ hope your muse will tackle the job,
And do SO without delay,
For 1 cannot do it justice,
Very truly, Sothny Save
The new dance, "Two-Two." will be
| taught tonight at Kellam hall.-Adv.
Save money by preventing Old Man
Winter from bursting your radiator or
cra ckinG your water jackets. Drive a
Franklin. ADV.
The spirituaIist Temple builders will
| hold n Halloween social at their hall,
122 East Sixth street, Thursday eve
ming Pumpkin pie and coffee VIII
| be served.
| O. E. Walker returned to Topeka
| TODAY after a two months tour of the
New England states. He and Mrs.
Walker motored over 1000 miles
thruout the east.
e. L. Copeland, treasurer of the
Santa Fe railroad. is in Washington
today attending the annual meeting or
the Railway Financial Officers asso-
citation Mrs. Copeland is with him.
| Bryce McMurtie 1850 Garfield ave-
| nue. was reported badly injured IN an
automobile accident late this AFTER
noon He is reported to have been hit
| by a motor car of unknown loentlty.
He was taken to his home.
/ Fewer deaths have occurred in To-
| peka in the last two weeks than in
similar period in more than a year
From Monday night up to late To-Day
no deaths have been reported IN the
| city.
Drilling on the Houser farm was
| begun today urder the direction OF the
Foot-washers Oil company, cor
poration composed of Topeka business
men. which holds oil and gas leases
| in a Dunkard community near Centric
polls
| The Ake-Pot Sterboos will hold
| parade on Kansas avenue MONDAY
noon Business men of Pauline ana
| Wakarusa will be initiated into the
order. It is probable that members
of the Modoc club will be initiated the
same evening.
The Kellogg Haines singing party,
, the first number of the Young Peo-
pies entertainment course, will sing
tonight at the auditorium. The party
is one of the best known singing en-
sembles on the concert stage and is
composed of a mixed quartet com
posed of singers of merit. They nave
been singing together for several
years.
4 Two weddings were solemnlzed IN
the First United Brethren parsonage.
112 E Twelfth street, Tuesday eve
ming At 1880 Miss Anna Hayes and
Allen A. Nipper were married; At
D. m. Miss Justine Hobbs. of Topeka,
and Audrey E. Daniel, of McFall, Mo-,
! hn
church, he Rev. G. K. Hartman, per-
formed both ceremonies.
A w Herholzer, new officer in
} charge of the United States naval re-
cruiting station in Topeka, until six
weeks ago had not set foot on Amer
J stationed on the cruiser Wilmington
at Hong Hong, China. He IS known
as an expert ship-fitter, when in ac-
tive service He relieves F. H. Howell,
temporarily in charge.
The Santa Fe in testimony present
ed to the utilities commission in the
passenger rate hearing Tuesday de-
c1ared that during the fiscal year of
1915 it had made only 1.4S9 per cent
return on it's investment in the state.
The Friscos figures showed a return
, of 3.76 per cent. The testimony was
presented in the fight of the railroads
for a return to a Scent passenger
rate.
The service tonight at the revival
meetings being held in the East Side
NJ. E. church will be a special meet
ing for the men employed in the car
shop and planning mill of the Santa Fe
shops Seats will be reserved for the
, shopmen and their families until s
o'clock. The address will be given by
the Rev. Charles Henson, a former
railroad man. Prof J. E. Ogden will
have charge of the music.
The Hugh E. Smith revival meet
ings, which have been in operation for
!, the past ten days at the Lowman M
e. church, will come to a close this
: week. In the eleven meetings held
more than seventy new members have
been added to the Lowman Hill
church, and many more have signi-
fled their intention of joining before
the concluding meeting. Saturday, Oc-
tober 81.
The city won in the damage suit
| brought by F. Y. Campbell for in
juries alleged to have been sustained
because of pile CT leaves in the street
at Tenth avenue and Lincoln street
The jury brought in a verdict holding
the city blameless. Mr.. Campfield tes-
, titled that he sustained severe and
permanent injuries when he rode his
bicycle over a crossing plate buried
r by leaves and fell under a passing
wagon. His suit was for $1,000.
r Roy Hoover was picked up by the
5 ponce 1uoSOdy nlSnl, lot lHNeSllSd-
t ton in connection with the alleged
: robbery of L. Hazelbardt in the Mon
+ arch pool hall on lower Kansas ave-
nue.. Hazelbardt lives at Pittsburg
Pa, and is the owner of the .Gler
, Wood hotel property. He told the po-
lice that he stopped at the pool hal
to watch few games and that when
he went to pay for a cigar. few min
utes later. his pocketbook was gone.
The forty-ninth annual convention
of the Evangelical Lutheran synod OF
Kansas and the Woman's Missiona ~
convention of the same synod is meet
ing this week in Lawrence The fol-
4 lowing are in attendance from Topeka
Charles w. Maggart, D. D.. pastor OF
the First church; DR.. H A. OFT, mis-