The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-02
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Don't fail to visit the Life o. Wheat
booth at the Midwinter. We want to
meet you.-Kaw Milling Co.-Adv.
The enrolment at Washburn col
lege for the second term will reach
the 600 mark, officers of the college
believe.
+. L. Myers and L. r. Booth play
the eighth match in the Central Y. M.
c. a. elimination handball tourna
ment tonight at the Y. NJ. c. A. court
The Topeka Ministerial union will
meet in the First Presbyterian church
Monday at 10 a. m. Rev. w. NJ.
BaIch will speak on Religion, Labor
and Socialism"
Y. w. C. A. vesper service will be
held at AIS o'clock Sunday afternoon.
| Mabelle True will speak on the sub
| ject, "Other Girls" Miss Scoppon will
give an instrumental solo.
Money in oil. See me before Sat
urday night; have a special PROPOSE
ton for small investment. c. c. Guyot.
Agent, FOL jackson street, at office of
Z. G. Lagerstrom.-Adv.
In spite of the cold weather, the
| friends and members of the Loyal Or
der of Moose No. 524 turned out well
for the open house party given Thurs
| day night at the club rooms in the
Masonic Temple. -4 LIZ
Shawnee County Teachers association
will meet at the high school audi
| toriuIn. H S. Jones, of Kansas City,
will give a stereopticon lecture on
1.-The Yellowstone National Park
The Spoilers one of the most
thrilling moving picture dramas ever
seen in Topeka, was witnessed at the
| Grand last night. The famous fist
fight, admitted to be the most realistic
in motion picture acting, is a feature
of the film.
The sleeping porch fans are not
Dragging On the street cars these
mornings. Instead, you hear the hon
ored househusbands tell of the num-
Der of times they arose in the night
and coaxed the furnace to the task of
saving the water pipes.
Clara f. Darby today filed a petit
ton for a divorce against her hus-
band, w. S. Darby. In her petition she
| accuses him Of infidelity and cruelty
| She asks for the property at Oil
Brooks avenue and the custody of their
| Two children, Gladys IL, and Laura /.
Navy recruiting at the local office
has been increasing. William b.
Thayer Benjamin ]. Van Cleave, AL
bert L. Travis, Philip La Blanc and
Samuel L. Zook have enlisted during
| the week. Thayer was in the Second
Regiment band on. its trip to Eagle
|
| freshman.
| The national officers of the knights
and Ladies of Security leave Topeka
Sunday for a trip thru southern Kan
| sas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The
| following officers will make the trip:
j. M. Kirkpatrick, president; J. v.
| Abrahams, national secretary; w. A.
Biby, national treasurer, and A. w.
l Fulton, attorney for the K. & l.. of S.
A demonstration with a lot of inter-
II esting exhibits from the industrial de-
Il partment of Western university at
l Quindaro occupies the south corridor
on the third floor of the state house.
There are exhibits of woodwork
blacksmithing. printing. sewing. mil
linery, domestic science, agriculture
and tailoring. all representing work of
the colored students at Quindaro. The
demonstration is kept busy showing
visitors about.
Mrs. Bertha Chapman Cady, of New
York, educational field secretary of
the American Social Hygiene society,
is in Topeka in the interests of sur
vey of Kansas colleges teaching Of
social hygiene. Mrs. Cady will make
Topeka her headquarters. and will
visit all the colleges in the state. The
society which she represents hopes
eventually to secure the introduction
of Il standardized course in social
hygiene in the public schools and col
leges of the country.
Next Tuesday morning, at the cele-
Ibration of Founders day at Washburn
/ college, President p. P. Womer will
definitely announce whether the $780,
900 necessary to receive the Rockefel-
fer gift of 100000 has been raised.
President Womer refuses to state the
result of his efforts until formal Al
nouncement can be made. He has
been constantly travelling during the
fall and winter. and has just returned
from a trip to New York. Tuesday
President Womer will give an account
of his activities. of which the student
body has had little chance to hear.
The Rev. Francis L. Hayes of Chi
cago, was in Topeka Thursday in the
interest of the Congregational Minis
terial Relief fund. DIR. Hayes was for
merly pastor of the First Congrega-
tional church here. The Congregation
alists are attempting to carry out a
scheme whereby each minister pays
into a fund certain proportion OF
his salary until, at the age of So, he
can retire on at least $500 a year. A
100000 fund is contemplated and
several hundred thousand dollars
have been raised. In case of his death
a minister's widow would receive $500
a years DIR. Hayes considers the pros
poets for success in the undertaking
very good. He is covering Kansas
with several assistants.