The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-16

The Empire voting machine is now
on exhibition at Burghart's cigar store
Call and see it, Chas. w. Hull, agent
ADV.
The Ladies Altar Society of the
Holy Name church will meet Thurs
day afternoon with Mrs. Sheldon, HOO
College avenue.
The American Ladies' club will meet
Thursday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Roy Stoves. at Ala East Eleventh
street.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the First
United Brethren church will meet
with Mrs. Covert at her home, 423
Madison, Thursday afternoon.
The Dorcas society of the Swedish
Lutheran church will meet Friday aft
ernoon at the home of Mrs. A. P. --hl-
strum, Twenty-sixth and Goldfinch
streets.
W. w. Bowman, secretary of the
Leavenworth today to establish
county organization. Tuesday he
established one in Washington county.
j. E Hanway of Casper, Wyo., ar
rived in Topeka this afternoon to Wis
it his brother, A. B. Hanway, 1918
Monroe street. Hanway formerly lived
here and was employed on the State
Journal.
Members of the Poehler Mercantile
company, which recently purchased
the Davis Mercantile company. of
Topeka, will be entertained with
dinner May 81, by the Chamber of
Commerce.
A tennis tournament will soon be
staged by the tennis club of the Cen
Tenth and Lane street, are reported
in fine condition and some real mid
season form has been displayed.
The store building at 526 and 526 Y
Kansas avenue, occupied by the Isador
Scrinopsky Clothing & Shoe Co, will
be remodeled Immediately by the con-
struction of a new front. The front
of both first and second stories will be
faced with brick.
The twentieth annual graduating
class of Sunday school students at
the First Presbyteria church under
Mrs. C. F. Menninger was held Tues
day night. The 1917 class consisted of
"a members and makes the total grad
uated from the school near the 1900
mark.
Infantry service of the regular army
branch enlisted three men, Tuesday.
Two Indians, Joseph Eteeyan and
David Larton, of Mayetta, enlisted in
the morning and were sent to Jeffer
son barracks, at st. Louis. The other
recruit was James c. Taber, of Thayer,
Kansas.
Prof H. ]. Woods. of the physical
science department of Washburn, will
give two illustrated lectures on Soils
and Soil Formation The first lee
ture will be given Thursday morning
at $50 o'clock and the second at 9
Friday morning. The meetings will be
held in the observatory of the college.
Elsewhere in the State Journal is it
stated that the automobile of the Rev.
Herbert Buffum was stolen Tuesday
night, while he was at a show. Mr.
Buffum desires to have it stated that
he is not a frequenter nor an endorser
of shows and that he was not at a
show Tuesday night when his car dis
appeared.
Tomato and cabbage plants will be
distributed Thursday morning at 10
O'Clock by Commissioner w. L. Por-
ter, to all people having received requi
sition blanks from the Topeka Provi-
dent association. Thursday will be
the last day of distribution and plants
will be given to only those with blanks
from the association.
The May term of the United States
district court at Salina adjourned
Tuesday and the Topeka officials re-
turned in the afternoon. Only one
this session. That was a case against
Theodore Copeland, of Lawrence, con-
victed of sending obscene letters thru
the mail. Sentence will be pronounced
Tuesday by Judge J. G. Pollock.