The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-11
SNAP SHOTS
At HOME NEWS


in Kansas City today on business.
Scenes From China" a one-act
playlet, was presented this afternoon
at the Y. w. c. A. by the Topeka high
school club.
Dancing will feature the evening
at the reception given by the sub sem
iors for the seniors at the Elks hall
Friday evening.
The annual meeting of the Swedish
Lutheran church will be held this eve
ming at the church, corner of Fourth
and Tyler streets.
DIR. and Mrs M. Conner, 1916 Null
vane street, will entertain the Read
ing Circle of the Euclid Avenue Meth
odist church Thursday afternoon.
A meeting at the home of the pas
tor, the Rev. George A. Anderson, SIS
West Fourth street, will be held this
evening by the young peoples society.
In the interest of the Bob Johnson
meetings, fifty prayer meetings were
held this morning in Oakland and on
the East side. Prayer meetings will
be held Friday also.
Harry Snyder, who is one of the
men getting up the Modoc club enter
tainment at the high school audi
torium Friday night. is in Kansas
City today on business.
No services are being held in the
Bob Johnson tabernacle on Monday
nights. Accordingly the East side
churches met last night for the pur-
pose of encouraging the converts in
afhliating with them.
Final debates were being held by
the English VII class at the Topeka
high school this morning. The point
of attack conferred on Resolved, that
capital and labor should elect COM
mittees to settle all disputes"
The Siege for Souls" a national
Salvation Army campaign, started
Sunday and will continue until Febru-
the Salvation Army hall on Kansas
avenue Wednesday night.
| Because the piano hides a part of
| the stage, an orchestra pit is being
/ constructed in the Topeka high school,
auditorium for the Modoc entertain
ment Friday night. The floor is be-
ing lowered ana the orchestra will be
nearly out of sight.
More than 20 applicants for the job
as probation officer of the Juvenile
court have been received by Hugh
MacF'arIand. probate judge. The po-
sition was left vacant by the resigna-
ton of Lyman Malone. No appoint
ment has been made.
The annual meeting of the Swedish
Lutheran church will be held tonight
al the church parlors. The election of
officers is the most important bust
ness of the evening. program will
be given. Wednesday evening the
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| age, 516 West Fourth street.
Solomon Warren, colored, was
found guilty of inflicting great bodily
harm upon Lottie Larkin by jury in
the first division of the district court
this morning. Warren was originally
charged with assault with intent to
kill. His trial lasted all day Monday.
It was tn efirst on the January docket
/ of the division.
Pi Kappa Alpha, the Washburn de-
batting and forensic honorary frater-
nifty, has announced the following
pledges; Miss Antoinette Dean OF
Lebanon; Miss Avis Clayton of Hill
! City; Miss Audrey Myers of Columbia,
Mo-; Miss Katherine Albaugh of To-
peka; Miss Mabel Jones of Topeka;
Roscoe Graves of Topeka; Albert
Reed of Lyons; and Carl Byers of
| Chapman.
An all day meeting of the Women's
Foreign Missionary board officers
of eight states and local Topeka
boards will be held at the First Meth
odist church tomorrow. The meeting
will begin at $50 o'clock. Prominent
speakers at the session will be Miss
Cora NJ. Brown of China, Miss Mary
Shannon of Burma, Miss r. Richmond
! of Lucknow, India, and Mrs. Bristol of
Omaha, Neb.
The same officers will be on the
! 1916 job for the Mutual Ice and Cold
! Storage company this year, it was de-
cided last night at a meeting of the
stockholders in the company's offices.
The officers are: J, B. Billiard. presi-
dent; o. ]. Wood, vice president;
Robert T. Billiard, general manager
and secretary; F. P. Elmore, treasurer.
The board of directors of the company
are Phil Billiard, c. D. skinner, w. H.
WATSON and n. 1. Dalton.
Separate answer of the board of d.
rectors of the Mills Dry Goods com
pany to c. E. Hulett in the latter's
petition questioning the validity of 4S3
shares of stock in the Mills company.
has been filed in the Shawnee county
district court. The reply states that
when Mr.. Mills made his resignation
| he assigned all his holdings to other
stockholders. In Hulett's suit Mr..
Mills is charged with fraud in the con-
duct of the company's business
When Clarence Floyd asked Jessie
Long, colored, to return $40 which he
says she stole from him, and his de-
mands were backed up by those OF
cops, the woman hurled lighted
lamp at Floyd. The affair occurred
last night about 9 o'clock at the Long
nome, 1913 North Adams street. The
lamp did no damage and Detectives
/ Donovan, Alba and Woodward and
officers Pinkerton and Maze ushered
Jessie into the BLACK Maria" and es-
corted her to the police station.
! Charles Younggreen, advertising
manager of the Kansas Farmer. has
been asked TO speak at the Kansas City
/ Tractor club banquet January IL on
/ "A Word From Kansas" Mr.. Young
green has accepted the invitation.
The dinner will be given at the Balti-
I more hotel. Many officials of the
/ Tractor Manufacturers of America
4 will be present. The Implement Deal
ers' convention will be in session at
4 Kansas City January IL and II. Sew
/ eral Topeka men have signified their
l intention of attending.
i Thirty dollars of the 500 needed to
J buy the football sweaters for members
of the Topeka high school team was
raised at the gymnasium exhibit last
night. 1t is expected that the remain
ing SO will be raised next Saturday