The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-15
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AT HOME NEWS


The members of the Shawnee Coun-
Gil, No. 8, win meet tonight at 1000
North Kansas avenue
The K. S. P. club of the Central
church will give its ritual in the re-
ception OF six new members tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mccoy have
/ returned from Minneapolis, Mimi,
where they visited relatives of Mrs
Mccoy.
The Brotherhood of the Central
i Congregational church will meet this
evening for the annual election of Of
! ficers.
| The concert which was to be given
/ this evening by Jackson's Twenty
third regiment band, has been post
poned until May 20.
Supper will be served at the Central
Congregational church Thursday ev-
ening. Stereopticon slides will be
shown, illustrating Medical Missions"
after the supper.
! The city has placed d ban on bath
ing suits for women without skirts
and quarter length sleeves. Such an
4 order was issued today by w. l.. Por
ter, commissioner of parks and play
grounds. That will apply to bathers
at Gage and Ripley parks.
Miss Effie Main, in spite of the
queer reception her paper received at
a recent meeting of the Good Gov
eminent club, has been asked to re-
peat her performance for the MEM
bers of the Y. w. G. A. Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
o. T. Wood, United States marshal;
G. c. Jackson, assistant: and Frank
Campbell. deputy clerk of the district
court went to Salina, Monday to at
| tend the session of the district court,
which is the first session to be held in
Salina for the last fifteen years.
Joseph Donnely, assistant at the re-
cruiting station. went to Holton Mon
/ day to look up several applicants.
| The applicants will have their pre-
| liminary examination and will then
| come to Topeka and later will go to
Kansas City where they will be sworn
| in.
| The pupils and faculty of College
Hill school celebrated the schools
| success in the Shawnee county track
| meet with an entertainment Monday
| night Several members of the school
| board and faculty addressed the meet
| ing. Charles Brown of College Hill,
won honors as highest point winner.
: The school won the grade school cup.
| TQpekanS wishing free cabbage and
tomato plants have just two days re-
naming i'll which to make application
/ from the Topeka Provident associa-
ton. Commissioner w. L. Porter an
pounced that there are sufficient
plants remaining to supply two fani-
| lies. The plants will be distributed
Thursday in front of the city hall, Sew
enth and Quincy streets.
) Crowded quarters at the naval train
| ing schools have made it necessary to
grant furloughs to enlistiLg men in
the hospital corps, yeoman service and
those enlisting as apprentice seamen.
This order was received Monday by
| William Province, recruiting officer in
| Topeka. The men will be taken to
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| in, and then be allowed to return to
their homes subject to immediate call.
voluntary bankruptcy petition was
filed Monday in the United States dis
| trict court by Charles D. Eby, OF
| Downs, Kan. His liabilities were list
ed as amounting to 1000 and his
assets at $40, the estimated value OF
one share of stock in the Eby Con-
struction company. Henry Bowman
of Douglas county, also filed a volun-
tary bankruptcy petition Monday. His
liabilities total SS,S74 and his assets
are below the exemption limit of the
law.
Suit for $275 damages against Earl
Overly, Watson and Bert Moore, Hol-
ton, was filed in the Shawnee district
court late Monday afternoon by Mrs
May Phelps, woman taxi driver, 1924
Kansas avenue. The suit is the result
of a collision late Sunday afternoon
between her car and n car driven by
overly, eight miles east of this city
She saysJhe car that hit her is owned
by H w Moore, father of Bert Moore
Overly, who was driving. had just ia
ken the wheel from Moore. Mrs
Myrtle Kassebaum, mother of Mrs
Phelps, according to the petition, is in
bed suffering from a nervous shock
she sustained when the two cars came
together
Mrs Mollie Hunter, of Topeka, is 4
candidate for the office of department:
president of the ladies of the G. A
r. of Kansas. Mrs. Hunter is q past
presiden; of Lincoln Circle, has beer
in the council of administration fol
the department, and has also bee
corresponding secretary for the de
partmenc. Among the women who
will go to the convention in Salina
from Topeka to work for her candi-
dacy arr: Mrs F. H. Smu"r, past de
paItment president; Mrs. A K. Blank
Mrs. George Hanley, Mrs. Ezra De
Put, Mrs. b. F. Robey, Mrs. Frank
Whitney, Mrs. Frank Organ. Mrs.. viii
liam Petclson. Mrs. A. A. EVoodwa re
and Mrs G. III. Witherell.