The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The fine arts department of Beth
for the high school students this
morning.
Atchison highs basketball team
will play Topeka high school Friday
afternoon at 2:3O in the high school
gymnasium
VoIleyball is the sport of sports at
the Y NJ C. A at present. The gym
has practically ben given over TO the
various teams.
Suit for divorce was filed in the
district court this morning by Mary z.
England against G NJ. England, on
grounds of non-support.
Paul Huycke and John Steele have
returned from a business trip in the
south. Both are in the lumber bust
ness and while in the south visited
sawmills.
Captain j. f. McCullah, of Junction
City, will be the speaker at the Saliva
ton Army Midwinter camp meeting
this evening. HIS topic will be The
Grea test Discovery"
Report that pair of rubber gloves
and "a can of tooth powder had been
stolen off the porch of the Pettyjohu
residence. 1913 West Sixth street. was
made to the police this morning.
There will be a gospel meeting i'll
the machine shop tomorrow noon.
Il. j.
Christian church will give talk and
Mrs. F. F. Dawdy will give several
vocal selections.
The Provident association puts out
an urgent call for furniture, for two
widows who are supporting large fam
lilies. Any sort of furniture is accept
able, although old tables and chairs
are in the greatest demand.
Another contribution to the flood
Of bogus checks in Topeka recently
was brought to the county attorneys
office this morning The check was
for $10.50 and was passed at the f.
Houser grocery store, 1882 Clay street,
by a colored youth.
Nettie A. Kessinger has filed suit
for divorce from Peter A. Kessinger
in the district court on grounds Of
non-support. Besides a divorce the
plaintiff asks custody of the couples
minor children and possession of prop
erty at 106 Chandler street.
The West Side w. C. T u. will meet
| Thursday at the home of Mrs. John
Marshall. 1877 Greenwood avenue. The
subject will be, Purity in Literature
and Art" Plans will be laid for the
banquet at the Potwin Presbyterian
church to be held March 5.
Tryouts for the high school debating
team will take place soon. Prospec-
tive members of the team will be re-
quired to discuss for five minutes
Resolved. That the United States
Should Increase Its Armament
Begging from house to house doesn't
go in Topeka if Chief Parsons and his
men know anything about it. This
morning a young man was found beg
gins in such a manner He told the
police he was trying to get to Carbon
dale. The cops took him to the depot
and supervised his getting on the
train.
Ness City expects soon to have a
fine new Y. NJ. c. A. building NJ. K.
Lennen, president of the Ness City
Commercial club. and several other
prominent Ness City men are meeting
at the Central Y. NJ. C. A. to dis
cuss plans. Ness City will be the
the smallest town in Kansas to have
a Y. NJ. c. A building.
E. J. Smiley. secretary of the Kan
sas Grain Dealers association, will
leave Thursday for Winfield to ad-
dress a meeting of IS grain dealers
He will discuss the meaning of the
various bills pending in congress
which will affect the interests of grain
dealers This is the first of a series
of similar meetings to be held
throughout the state.
Milford kirkpatrick. a negro, was
fined SIS in police court this morn
ing. Kirkpatrick went home Tuesday
night and got into an argument with
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and when the brother insisted the sis
ter heaved a lamp at him. The ne
gro's head and face were covered with
blood stains when he appeared in po-
lice court this morning.
There will be a joint meeting of he
three knights of Pythias lodges of
peka Thursday evening, February Il,
at K of P. hall, corner of Sixth and
Quincy. The guests of honor. Grand
Chancellor Cliff A. Matson of Wich-
George A. Bangs of North Dakota
will attend the meeting. Several other
grand officers are expected. Besides
the addresses of the grand officers an
entertainment program has been pro-
vided.
AS Hugh Larimer. under sheriff.
was leaving the court house Tuesday
afternoon very small boy with very
dirty face tugged at his coat. Larimer
looked down and the youngster hand
ed him a piece of paper and scam
pered Unfolding the paper the under
sheriff looked interested as a black
pencil drawn hand and skull and
bones met his gaze. Under
meath was written "As you go out the
archWay leave two cents in the red tin
can near the door or We'll get our re-
venge."
The championship of the Y w c.
A. basketball league was decided last
night at the V w. when the Red Caps
beat the Capper SO to 10 by superior
team work. The championship Red
Cap team is composed of Velma
Swearingen ((captain), Henrietta Dill
Ion, forward; Julia Kelley, center;
Florence Morrow and Helen Chin
chon, guards. The curtain raiser
played by the Shamr ock and the San
ia Fe office team resulted in the for
mer teams winning by a score, 20
to 8.
Alleging misrepresentation in a real
estate deal, Mrs. Alice Cain has filed
suit in the Shawnee county district
court with Charles Bowers. clerk
against w. c. Stephenson and w. w.
Webb. local real estate men, for
ST. 1856. The suit involves a transfer OF
two properties. Mrs Cain alleges she
paid Stevenson and Webb $50 as a
commission in the deal and prays that
she recover the amount d L Hite