The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-14
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

held its annual ball Thursday night
at Kellam hall. More than 200 mem
bers attended.
The members of Old Abe Camp.
tender their services to Kansas and
to the United States.
The Holy Name baseball team de-
feated the Clay team Friday by a
score of 1 6 to Z! Batteries were: H
Makins and c. Bowling, Holy Name;
and Sutherlin, Stone and Carlson,
Clay.
THE Death and Burial of Jesus
will be the subject of DIR. 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.
A. ]. Stout, principal of the Topeka
high school, will talk to the Ministers
Union next Monday at its regular
meeting at 10 o'clock at the First Pres
byterian church. His subject will be
THE Relation of the Church to the
School"
Copies of resolution opposing Sc
lectiVe CONSUMPTION and endorsing a
plan to conserve the food supply by
legislation, have been passed by the
Topeka Industrial council and sent to
the president of the American Fed
Grafton of labor.
Plans for the big central exhibit of
the school childrens work are still
being made. The display will be held
May 16, II and IS. The work of the
grade schools will be shown in the
gymnasium and that of the high
school will be exhibited in the manual
training building, according to the
present plans.
The students of the grade and high
school of Rossville listened to lee
ture on the eye by Dr. D. r. Paine OF
| II Do 111-
sized the necessity of caring for the
eyes during the school life. The doc
tor brought out the fact that of the
five senses thru which education is
acquired, that of sight is the most i'm
portant A beef eye was dissected-
The annual meeting of the YER
mont society will be held Friday eve
ming, April 20, 7 o'clock, at the Cham
Der of Commerce, Seventh and Quincy
streets. 1t is earnestly desired that
all former Vermonters attend this
meeting. officers of this society for
this year are: C. B. Merriam, pres
ident; L. D. Whittemore, vice pres
ident; Mrs. Frank C. Thompson, sec
rotary and treasurer.
The school children of Topeka will
entertain the delegates of the Kansas
Sunday school association, which is to
convene here May 1, and 8. They
will give a costumed pageant, THE
Cycle of the Seasons" at the city au-
ditorium. Tuesday night. The chorus
will consist of nearly two hundred
children. The program will be con-
Quoted by Miss Mildred HaZelrigg,
supervisor of music in the Topeka
public schools.
A judgment for s6.2SS.33 was
awarded to J. E. Larimer, trustee for
the 1. NJ. Blitz estate, against the Ger
man-American bank in the federal
district court, Friday. Blitz deposited
a sum in the bank and his deposit was
retained by the bank when Blitz was
declared bankrupt The bank based
its right to do this on a banking law
which permits a deposit to be applied
on an unpaid note or obligation The
jury held that the bank should turn
over the money to Blitz with interest
from 1912. This is the second trial
of the case and it may be appealed
again.
In spite of their number being
thirteen, the members of Battery A
from Meriden were given a success
full farewell party Friday night by the
Modern Woodmen and Royal Neigh
bors. A dinner and patriotic pro-
gram, including readings and music,
were the chief entertainments of the
evening. The men from Meriden who
have enlisted in the Battery A are:
Dennis Adams, Delbert Adams, John
Adams, Doyle Chacey, Lorain Warner,
William Wiesner, Charles Anderson,
Lee Stockton, John Thomas, John
Kane, Walter Cunningham, Willie
Haynes and Clarence Wilson. All but
Haynes and Wilson are recruits.
The Arkansas Valley Telegraph
company of Larned filed application
with the district court of Shawnee
county today for a restraining order
enjoining the public utilities commits
sion from putting into effect an order
! - o1xr @oIa
phone company alleges that when Ii
took over the properties of its prede-
cessor the charge for telephone service
was $3.50 a month for a residence
and 50 a month for a business house,
that it rebuilt the property at a big
expense and improved the service,
then made application for an increase
in rates, which was denied by the
commission. The telephone company
| holds that the present rate allowed
| by the commission is not compensa-
i tory and consequently in violation OF
the constitution of the United States
| Preston johnson was supposed to
have exhausted his earning capacity
and spent the winter at the county
poor form. But he left there an6
went to work when warm spring days
came and police officers have beer
trailing him by discarded bottles of g
popular bootlegging brand. When he
| left the poor farm he was a defunc
institution financially but when the
| police arrested him Friday night he
| had $11 in his pockets. And wher
| they searched his room upstairs a
| 934 Monroe street they found s2S
worth of whisky, figured at bootleg
gers prices. They found twenty-three
half-pints besides the three he haG
i'm his pockets. They were all of the
same brand the police have been find.
| ing in the alleys thru which johnson
| is alleged to have operated. He is il
the city, Jail charged with bootleg
! ging.