The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS
Live and Let Live.

Live and Let Live.
Each man has a bee in his bonnet.
g Each bee is a law he would make.
So each of us fellows in business
Is watching for his turn TO quake
Cause some one in each Legislature,
Is sure that we need legislation,
For the business which isn't his own.
-NELS YINGLE-
Claudia Euler of Sumner street is
i'll with an attack of measles.
The womens society of the First
Congregational church will meet We'd
nesday at 2:30 O'Clock with Miss Liz
liam Kirkpatrick, 500 West Sixth ave-
nue..
Clarence w Cherry today filed a
petition for a divorce against Queenie
Cherry Cruelty and failure to cook
and serve anything in his home are
grounds on which Cherry sues for di-
vorce.
John Hill, the youth whose scars on
his face were his undoing, was found
guilty of attempted highway robbery
by jury in Judge Whitcombs divi-.
sion of the Shawnee county district
court.
The East Fourth Street Booster club
will meet this evening a O'Clock at
the st. Charles hotel. The various
committees appointed at the last meet
ing will report on results accomplished
during the past week.
| A marriage license was granted
Monday in Kansas City, Kan, to Perry
Chapman, Topeka, and Mabel Ellis,
| of Kansas City. Perry Chapman is
window trimmer, according to the city
directory, and lives at 1725 Lane
street.
! The Ideal bakery will hold open
house for the public tomorrow from
1 to o'clock in the afternoon. The
occasion is the fifteenth anniversary
f<- oil va
opening after the disastrous fire that
Quilted the building November 8. L.
i P He'll and J. w. Schaefer are the
proprietors
| Judge Whitcomb's court room was
| crowded this afternoon with specta-
tors desiring to hear the trail of Claude
Biggers, charged with killing John
Cox, a game warden, on December 5.
The trial was not well under way
until late this afternoon because the
Archie Lewis trial was not ended UNI
| til 2 o'clock and considerable time was
taken up in selecting jury.
| Members of the Rotary club will
entertain their wives and the mem
bers of the state legislature, at the
rooms of the Chamber of Commerce
tonight, with a banquet which will
! commence promptly at o'clock. A
program of music, speaking and other
attractions has been arranged and 45O
guests are expected The club enter
tains the wives of it's members each
year.
General Freight Agent ]. R. Koontz.
E. L. Copeland, secretary and treas
urer, and F. c. Cox, general manager
of the Santa Fe, all of Topeka. were
guests last night at a dinner at the
Chamber of Commerce at st. Joseph.
| The railroad men addressed the mem
bers of the organization after the din
ner, Mr.. Copeland explaining in detail
n of hnS
management confronted by the rail-
roads.
The Shawnee Golf club, at the an
nual meeting last night, elected the
following directors: J. E. Spalding, +.
E. Sallee, Otis Hungate, Ed Curry, w.
E. Bulls. The club also amended the
constitution to raise the membership
fee from $40 to $25, and to raise the
annual dues from $40 to SIS. The
board of directors was decreased and
now includes only nine members in
stead of twenty-one, was originally
| the case.
Probate Judge Cav today an
nounced that Mrs. Lucy Warner
should be separated from her daugh-
ter, Gladys Frisbie. 1t is planned to
send the girl to the orphans home at
Atchison. Mrs. Warner admitted on
the witness stand that she lived with a
| Greek and the little girl lived in the
same home with the couple. 1t was
claimed that Mrs. Warner used the girl
as lure to get money from other men.
! Gladys is only A years of age.
Henry B. Gephardt, formerly as
eistant apprentice school instructor in
| the Santa F'e shops here, now in the
valuation department of the road, won
a $40 prize in a contest conducted by
| the Railway Age Gazette, a leading
railroad trade paper, when he sub
mitted a comment on an advertise
ment appearing in the paper. Gep-
hardts comment was reproduced in
the trade paper, with f1attering re-
marks from the editorial department.
Sergeant w. H. Brady. former ser
geant instructor of Battery A, has
been reassi gned to Topeka Last
summer, Brady, following the mobili-
cation Of the Kansas National Guard,
was transferred to the Third Pennsyl-
vania field artillery. Brady was very
popular with both officers and men,
and the announcement of his return
awakened general satisfaction in the
battery He is expected to report to
Gen. Charles I. Martin, adjutant gem
eral of the K. n. G., at an early date.
/ The monthly issue of the Washburn
College Bulletin is devoted to articles
/ by or concerning the fine arts faculty
and general musical and art affairs
in Washburn and Topeka. The cover
/ of the Bulletin carries a fine ink
drawing of Dean Whitehouse and the
first few pages are given over to
essays by members of the faculty, fol-
1 lowed by some general treatment of
the artistic opportunities in Topeka
and in Washburn and ends with
sketches of prominent members of the
| faculty.
Nineteen-sixteen was a busy and
/ prosperous year for the Shawnee
Building and Loan association and
! 1917 is indicated as a still better one.
according to the report of Thomas B.
/ Brown, secretary of the association
presented at the annual meeting of the
! association last night. Officers of the
association elected last night are: H
! f. Guthrie, president; A. A. Rodgers.
1 vice president; Thomas B. Brown sec
! rotary; V. p. Hillhouse. assistant sec
| rotary: F. NJ Bonebrake, treasurer:
/ A. A. Rodgers. Frank M NewIand y