The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-19


R. f. Condor and E. NJ Peterson
will spend the weekend in Kansas
City.
The Williams Jubilee Singers will
sing at the First Baptist church Sun
day night.
Mrs. L. Schrei of Leavenworth, who
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs
F. Siegel, has returned to her home.
]. E. Marley, state secretary of the
Y NJ. c. A, has returned from visit
with his family, which is spending the
winter in Colorado Springs.
A marriage license was issued
Thursday in Chicago to Hans P. Han
son, %, 1910 Tyler street, and Miss
I've Simmons, 10. of Chicago.
| Reports from the city plumbing in
spector, the city license collector, and
the city electrical inspector were re-
ceived by the commissioners this
morning.
Because Foley Glover left for Kan
| sas City four years ago and has not
returned or written since, his wife has
/ filed petition for divorce in the dis
! trict court.
Another widows pension was grant
| ed by the county commissioners today,
making sixteen pensions granted by
Shawnee county commissioners since
the bill was passed by the legislature
! two years ago.
A feature of "A Modern Cinderella"
featuring June CAPRICE at the Iris to-
day and. tomorrow, is the showing Of
a part of the Ya1e-Harvard game
played in the Yale bowl packed with
| $4,000 spectators.
An all day meeting of the Shawnee
County Pomona grange is to be held
tomorrow in the Y. w. c. A. building.
Officers for the coming year will be
elected and reports of committees for
| the past year will be read.
The class banquet of the Mems Bible
class of the First Methodist church
will be held at o'clock tomorrow
| evening in the Central Y. NJ. G. A.
1t had been originally planned to hold
the banquet at the church tonight.
| Carey J. Wilson, state superintend-
ent of insurance, has announced new
! insurance schedules for the following
towns: Pawnee Station, Reamsville,
Shannon, Upton, Vinton, Roxbury,
Wathena, Cummings, Dighton and
Leoti.
Carelessness in leaving a lighted
lamp in a house at SIS Lawrence
cause of a fire there which called the
department out. The house was
rocked when the ffremen arrived.
About SO damage was done.
DR.. S. G. Hehebower of Washburn
college will deliver an address or
.HSycn1cal ReSearc0
in the Light of Modern Psychology, -
at the Memorial building tonight at 8
| o'clock. DIR. Hefiebower has studied
spiritualism in relation to psychology
| for several years.
! Claude Biggers, negro, charged with
the murder of John Cox, deputy game
1 warden. December 5, was found guilty
| of murder in the first degree Thursday
1 afternoon by a jury in Judge Whit
combs division of the district court
This means he will be sentenced to a
life term in the state prison.
Eleven men have appeared to APP
ply as recruits for the United States
navy during this week. An advertis-
ing campaign instituted since r. L
| station, is credited with the results
which have brought the number OF
applicants per week from four or five
to eleven.
Yates Center and Hutchinson high
schools will start the work of Move
Forward week." which is being direct
ed by the state Y. NJ. c. A, next week
Other schools will arrange for cam.
paigns later. State officers of the Y
NJ. c. A. and leading college athlete.
will be speakers on the programs al
the various schools.
The city commissioners, at thei,
meeting this morning, provided for
the meeting of the payroll for the
first half of January A pay ordi
nance carrying with an appropriation
of S11, 04447, from various depart
ments, was passed. A number OF
paving resolutions were also intro
duced for first reading.
Disa greeting with second hand
dealer about the proper price TO,
some junk he had sold the dealer
Theodore Keeling, a 12-year-old col
Ored bow decided to take it ont il
trade and walked out of the store