The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-27
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

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Auburn tonight and another meeting
at Tecumseh Saturday night. Various
candidates for county offices will
speak at thu meetings
There will be a special service TO-
morrow morning at Grace Cathedral
at 10 o'clock, at the same hour Bishop
Wise is being consecrated as bishop
coadjutor in st. Louis. Bishop Mills
paugh will officiate at holy commun-
ion.
W. NJ. Forbes & Company brought
suit in the district court today against
Ellen L. Wood, Robert Wood, D. E.
Parker and Lena Parker to collect
upon a promissory note for $3.50 and
to foreclose a mortgage upon lots To-
Gated on Jefferson street.
Suit was filed by the National Coun-
ell of the Knights and Ladies of Sc
against Harrison ]. Miller, administra-
tor of the estate of G. F. Miller. and
others. to obtain judgment for $4,000
and to foreclose a mortgage on real
estate located on East Eighth avenue.
Captain F. NJ Kimball. who has
been in Bethany hospital, Kansas City.
since he was injured by an autOmo-
nbile Sept. s, has recovered sufficiently
to be brought to Topeka. and is now
at PIT East Eighth avenue. Captain
KimbalPs leg was broken just below
the hip, and he will be on crutches
pTODdDly al NlHlST.
The city commission today approved
the final list of election judges and
clerks for the November election. A
part of the election employees are rec
commended by the Democrat and Re-
publican committees and the remain
der by the mayor. The list as recon-
mended was not changed by the ccm-
mission.
Nearly thirty Topeka Republicans
Dfoh 10 OF nj and
participated in the Republican rally
held there. All of the county nominees
were present but the chief speech
making was done by Maj. A. NJ. Har-
vey, Judge A. w. Dana and Judge w.
F. Schoch, candidate for state sena-
tor. The meeting was presided over
by Wallace Tibbits, Republican county
central committeeman.
An alleged deserter from the regu-
lar army was picked up by police Of
ficers today. He gave his name as
Judge Glenn. He said he belonged
in the service school at Fort Riley
and that he was four days over due.
The fort has been communicated with.
Louis Hoffman began suit in the
district court today against Matte
Belle Wintrode to secure judgment on
a promissory note for S1S2 and to fore
close a mortgage on lots located upon
Stella street.
The city commission today accept
ed the bid of the Southwestern Coal
& Fuel company to furnish coal to
city institutions for the ensuing year.
The city attorney was instructed to
draw a contract with the firm. The
Southwesterns bid amounted to S16,-
$50 and was for approximately 5000
tons of coal, including various grades
for use IN the city crematory, the
light plant, the waterworks and other
municipal works. There were several
other bidders.
c. G. Gray, who was scheduled to be
the chief witness for the state in the
case of the state against Hugh Lari-
mer, but who disappeared after max
ing an affidavit that he saw Larimer
fire the shot that killed James Baker,
has been arrested in Kansas City.
Robert Miller found him there Thurs
day. Gray was under two bonds of
$500 each when he left and they have
been forfeited. He will be brought
back by the bondsmen, H. C. Lindsey
and Mike Thompson. Gray is charged
with violating the prohibitory law.
The first of a series of entertain
ments to be given thruout the winter
by Topeka Consistory No. l for thirty
second degree Masons and their i'm
mediate families will be held Noyem-
Der at the high school auditorium
The New York Metropolitan company
has been secured for a musical pro-
gram composed not only of operate
selections but also the late popular
successes. The best known of the
company is Skovgaard, the Danish
violinist, and his $4,000 violin. Only
thirty-second degree Masons and their
families will be admitted. The con-
sistory will give several other parties
in the future.
Prof. Herman Douthitt, Phi D., hea IL
of the department of paleontology of
Kansas university, will deliver the
third of a series of lectures being
given under the auspices of the KAN
sas Academy of Science tonight at the
Memorial hall. His talk will be on
prehistoric Monsters" illustrated
with slides taken from reconstructions
of the fossil remains of the giant
beasts of the ancient world. Among
the pictures are several of the ptero-
dactyls-the extinct monsters which
represent the highest evolutions of the
animal world. Professor Douthitt will
discuss the reptilian ancestry of birds
and animals, and the causes which
brought to close the age when rep
tiles ruled the world, and will inter-