The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-06

She say you bet.
Get more mon yet.
Eft onle made to spen.
blaze. The property s owned and &C.
cupied by D. E. Wingett No loss.
Social dance at Kirkpatrick hall.
7th and Quincy sts., this evening"
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The fire department was called {"
40 Grafton street at 9:33 last nigh>
where matches had caused a small
A good many Kansas towns have
two papers. a newspaper and an organ
Kansas Editor published at Law
renee.
The city water department todaS
started work on a four inch water con-
nection for the Billiard Mills, Curtis
street and Kansas avenue
This c. w b NJ. of the First Chris
ton church will meet at 2:30 o'clock,
Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Fred Iserman. 1913 Garfield avenue.
The United States civil service COM
mission announced today that an eX-
animation will be helu at the Topeka
postoffice May 8 to I'LL the position
of rural carrier out of Elmont.
Lincoln Post and Lincoln Circle will
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
the G.. A. r., tonight at Lincoln Post
hall. lis East Sixth street. A good
program has been prepared.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
United Brethren church will meet in
the church parlor Friday afternoon
Mrs. A. L. Chamberlain and Mrs. A A
Woodward will be the hostesses-
Edward Woodruff. jailer at the city
jail. and Mrs. Woodruff have gone to
Excelsior Springs to spend ten days
Tim Donovan. detective, who has been
at Excelsior Springs for some time,
health.
Frank w ByerIy of Colorado. will
display colored stereopticon views of
Estes park at the assembly room of
the Young Women's Christian asso-
citation at O'Clock this evening. Adj
mission is free and the public is in
vited. There will be silver offering.
bicycle painted black and yellow
disappeared last night while it was
standing in front of the Crystal the
alter. It belongs to John Leabo of 366
Poplar street. Oakland. and the own
er values it at $40. The police are
looking for il but expect to find it
painted another color. if they find it
at all.
Grace I. Stations, who was divorced
from W. H. Stations. has complained
to the district court that Stations has
not been regular with his payments of
alimony. In a motion filed with the
was ordered to pay 500 in sixty days
and SIS a month but that he has paid
only s67 in all
w. T. Hastings lost an action in the
court of Topeka yesterday afternoon
gainst r P. Gilmore. cashier Of the
Shawnee State bank. Hastings con
tended that while ne was out of town
Gilmore rented the house he. Hastings,
was living in. to another family anC
put his furniture out. He brought suit
for S2T5 but the court held for the de-
Tense.
Miss Emma Snyder, a h.<h school
student. leaned over a motor while
taking n lesson in free hand drawinsc
her hair caught in the motor and be-
fore the current could be turned eff a
handful of hair was torn from her
scalp. The injury might have been
much more serious had not Miss
Frances Lindsey. instructor. noted the
trouble and turCed off the current
almost instantly. Miss Snyder was
taken to her home at once and it was
stated today that she is not seriously
injured.
Valuable prizes are to be offered
by the r. R. Y. NJ. c. A. for those who
bring in the most new members dur
ing the next 20 days. The best pros
elyter will get a gold watch and the
No. two membership rustler' will be
presented with a suit of clothes. For
the third prize a rocking chair is Of
fered; fourth prize. an electric read
ing lamp; fifth, four 4S-pound sacks
of flour; sixth. three 36-pound sacks
of flour; seventh, two 24-pound sacks
of flour The next seven in order will
fyat one 94-uOuud SacE of flour each