The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-13


Take father'and mother, sift each one until
All seifishness pours thru the sieve,
Then carefully wash ali the snaps from
And mix with portion of give,
Then thoroly soften and season with prayer
Add seasoning and spice to each taste, ,,,,
Then sprinkle with pleasure to tighten each
care,
And weigh every word lest they waste,
Then into each cup filled with live girls
Just stir good 'raisin' with fun,
Then stir full of service and unselfish Joys,
And you'll have good home wheh II
u'"e- -Neis Yingle.
Dancing tonight-school 8 p, m
Social p. m.-Ke1lam Hall--Adv-
Miss Alice Hartman of Dallas,
Texas, is visiting with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H, Hartman, of North
Central avenue.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
United Brethren church viii meet
Friday afternoon at $3.50 with Mrs. l.
L. Yelton, 400 Orchard
The S. A. U No. 1902 will give an
entertainment at their hall Friday
night. The supreme officers of the
lodge and all members are invited
Prof. w. B. Broughton gave his
eighth annual PIANO recital at Wash
burn college chapel last evening. A
large audience braveds the weather to
hear the recital.
The Loyal Women's Bible class of
the First Christian, church will meet
in war work council at the Crosby
Brothers Red Cross rooms Friday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
Rev. j. E. Rydbeck of Denver spoke
at the Lutheran league meeting of
| the Swedish Lutheran church last
night at hte home of Mary Nellgren,
! 612 West Fourth street.
The intermediate department of the
Topeka local union of Christian En-
deayor will hold military rally ana
reception at the Central Congregation
al church Friday evening at O'Clock.
| The meeting of the Priscilla club
with Mrs. William Swearinger Friday
afternoon has been Indefinitely post
| poned because of the death of A. c.
Fowle in California, whose body viii
/ be brought here for burial.
| The appointment of S. E. Cobb as
treasurer of the Armenian Relief So
ciety here to succeed the late Scott
/ Hopkins was announced today by
Charles Dillon, chairman of the COM
mittee for the society, in Topeka.
The Mission Township Teachers
| club will meet Saturday morning at
10 O'Clock in the breakfast room of the
Y w. C. A. A special program has
| been arranged. All the teachers of
1.-THE township are urged to be present.
An effort is being made by Sheriff
Hugh Larimer to get all former sher-
ifs to donate a picture of themselves,
framed. The pictures will be hung in
Larimer's private office. A picture
of the late A. 7. Lucas, sheriff in
/ 1903-07, was hung on the wall today
The interests of the Patriotic
! League of the Y. w. c. A. are to be
served to the students of the high
school tomorroy morning by Miss Ell
vira Slack of Denver. Miss Slack is
a national secretary of the Y. w. c. A.
and she took part in the recent high
/ school girls conference in Topeka.
| The u S. quartermaster corps re-
ceived an excellent shoe inspector
| Wednesday thru the enlistment of Abe
| L. =Gafther. GARNER has been with
the David J. August Co. in the shoe
department and if this is any criter-
ion. he should be eminently qualified
| to fill the shoes of an inspector of
shoes.
The East Side Anti-Poll Tax asso-
citation will give its smoker tonight
at the Chamber of Commerce in cele-
bration of the recent victory in the
supreme court when the poll tax law
was declared unconstitutional The
| smoker will begin at o'clock. All
who contributed to the fund with
which the case was carried to court
are invited to be present.
Two noon volley ball teams have
trail Y. M. c. A and are designated by
the first two letters of the alphabe
Team IA" plays on Mondays and
Thursdays, and team B" has the
floor on Tuesdays and Fridays. The
b. team has challenged the LAS to
a match game next Wednesday and
the challenged forthwith consented to
the trial by battle.
Visitors at the Chamber of Com
merce are often fIattered by President
oil Inv a inf int
to three city fathers who generally
put in an appearance at the chamber
dining room along about noon each
day. And they come sans diadem,
sans forTnality, and sans too much
dignity. Commissioners Tandy. Por-
ter and WATSON form the personnel OF
the means of-impression trio.
The Rev. B. r. Ross, former pas
tor of the African Methodist Episcopal
church, now of Coffeyville was the
victor in a suit filed against him in
;, the court of Topeka. The suit was
brought by the board of trustees OF
the church. Judgment was rendered
; in favor of the minister and court
costs assessed against the trustees
! The board charged the Rev. Mr.. Ross
with selling an old church building in
North Topeka and pocketing the
money.
Deputy Sheriffs Holman and Miller
. | had little more than arrived at the
old Garfield school. Fourteenth anC
! Quincy streets, to remove Susan Hard
ing, aged 80 years, to the county Jai
than the aged colored woman died
The school building has been used re-
Gently as a refuge for old and infirn
negroes. The rawlings of the Harding
, woman disturbed the others and the
sheriff was asked to take her into
custody. The death occurred at
o'clock in the afternoon.
All of the schools in Topeka viii
have the Red Cross, it's works, it!
/ accomplishments and its ideals drilled
: into them Monday by a corps o.
speakers under the command of W
A. Johnson. johnson says that the
. school children are one of the mos