The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-10
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Mrs. Sarah Malone. city welfare
worker, was called to Kansas City,
Kan, today to attend the funeral of
her son-in-law, Mack Parker
Monday evening the Spalding
Reading Circle will meet at the
knights of Columbus hall. playlet
will be given entitled. The Old Maids
Convention
Monday night the Shawnee County
Medical society will meet at the Ma
tionaI hotel DR.. w. w. Duke of Kan
sas City, will speak on Dental Sepsi5
and Its Relation to Systemic Diseases"
w. NJ. BaIch. pastor of the Low
man Methodist church, will preach
Sunday morning at the church on
Christian Stewardship" In the even
ing his subject will be, THE Tongue"
George p. Hayden. city attorney.
has spent the last few days in Kansas
City in the case of John NJ. Landon.
receiver of the Kansas Natural Gas
company against the public utilities
commission
The Rewards of a Christian Life"
will be the subject of Dr. Arthur S.
Henderson's lecture to his Bible class
Sunday at 10 a. m. at the First Con
gregational church, corner Seventh
and Harrison streets. All men are
welcome.
The FraternaI Brotherhood will
give a valentine social next Wednes-
day evening. at Kirkpatrick hall Two
hundred members and guests attend
ed the social this week. Governor
Arthur Capper was the guest of
honor.
John Cuff, Luke Cavanaush, George
| Tinnie and NJ. Council were arrested
at a house on lower Kansas avenue
Friday afternoon while engaged ill the
strenuous consumption of wet goods.
~ Of a-fxr yyI
rolf of $140.
The local court of the Court of
Honor has opened a sixty-day cam
paign for new members. A L. Here
! ford, of Springfield, Ill, supreme
| chancellor of the order, will be here
at some time in April for the initia-
ton of the class resulting from the
campaign.
The condition of DR.. w. S. Hunter,
who has been critically i'll at Stormont
| hospital for the last week is much i'm
proved today. DR.. Hunter is suffering
from typhoid fever complicated by
kidney trouble. 1t is thought that the
crisis is past and that his recovery is
| fairly assured.
| DIR. Philip H. Kreutscher of Chicago
will lecture before the Shawnee Coun-
ty Medical society on March 3. DR..
I<reutscher was an associate of the IA
| rncuS surgeon, the late John h. Muir
ply He will discuss 'Metastatic
ONT Infections with a stereopticon
| demonstration.
The members of the Cooperative
| club Will meet Tuesday noon at the
Elks club and proceed by automobile
to the College Hill bakery, where they
| will be entertained at lunch by Coop
| Jordan. Members are asked to notify
| Mr. Jordan of their intention to be
present, that he may know for how
many to prepare.
Kansas cities of the first class may
issue bonds to the amount of 100000
to prospect for coal, if the legislature
enacts into law a bill by Lyons of
Atchison county. The Lyons bill pro-
vides for the voting of bonds at a
regular or general election Cities
would be compelled to limit their ac-
tivitics to their corporate limits.
All comrades of Lincoln Post are
hereby notified to meet at their hall
Sunday at p m, to take part in Lin
| coin memorial exercises at the Audi
torium at $50 p. m. All ex-soldiers
of the Civil war and ex-Confederates
are hereby requested to join us in the
parade. G. Wood, patriotic instruc-
tor, Lincoln Post, No. L.
A series of special evangelistic
meetings began Thursday evening in
the Swedish Bethel Mission church,
Sixth and Harrison, and will continue
over Sunday. Rev. Adolph Anderson
of Lanyon. Iowa. is conducting these
meetings. The choir of the church is
i assisting. Rev. Mr.. Anderson is pas
tor of one of the largest Swedish
churches in Iowa, and he is a very
powerful speaker.
Two fires causing small damage oc-
CURED this morning. About $50 dam
ages was done at the dwelling house
owned by NJ. Montgomery at
Garfield, which was occupied by S. B..
BraiIton. An overturned stove caused
about the same amount of damage in
the residence at sos East Fourth
street. owned by s. A. Morrison and
occupied by Dean Taylor, at half past
10 this morning.
NJ. Francis Cosgrove, 81, junior
member of the Jaw firm of Ferry,
Doran & Cosgrove. today obtained
a license to wed Miss Josephine w.
the same firm. Other marriage Ii
censes issued today by the probate
court are: Henry Peterson, 80, To-
peka, Isabel McCalem Lishman, 90,
sa, Nellie NJ. Forshay. 26. Topeka:
Lester o. Mathews, rs, Topeka, Kath-
ryn Hershfelt. %, Topeka.
An interesting debate will be staged
by representatives of the Brotherhood
versus the Epworth league of the Wal
nut Grove church in the church par
lors next Monday evening. The de-
bate is an annual feature of the
church and the subject this year and
for two years before has been THE
Philippine Question" The brotherhood
will be represented by DIR. c. L. Will
liams. E. G. Gibson and Ed May and
the league by w. Orr, Rheba Austin
and c. Smalley. The debate will be
open to the public.
The jury in the criminal division of
the district court Friday found Miller
Kirkpatrick not guilty of the burglary
Of the Economy market at Twelfth
and Clay streets last October. The Of
ficers had a written confession from
the negro. 1t was claimed by Elisha
Scott, his lawyer. that the officers had
obtained it by promising not to prose-
| cute on forgery charge This he