The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-26

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| -Nels Yingle.
Tillys lunch rooms, upstairs 2lo
| West 9Th. The place that's different.
ADV.
Everybody invited to the mass meet
ing at the Unitarian church, between
Ninth and Tenth on Topeka avenue,
Sunday afternoon at 2:30, to discuss
conscription.-Adv
Mrs. Harold Sweet and son will
leave the seventh of June for west
Virginia to attend a family reunion
They will visit Clarksburg, weston
Buchanan and Fairmont, and will re-
turn in August.
w L. Porter, commissioner OF
parks, stated this morning the de-
mands for 5000 more tomato plants
! had come to his office since the last
few dozen were distributed FRIDAY
| morning.
/ .eThe Problem of Suffering in the
! Old Testament-Ezekiel," will be the
! subject of DR.. Arthur S. Henderson's
/ lecture to his Bible class Sunday at
10 a. m. at the First Congregational
church. corner Seventh and Harrison
| streets
L.ncoln Circle No l will meet at
| the post hall on East Sixth street at
10 O'Clock next Tuesday morning to
/ y
the afternoon the Circle will meet at
Topeka cemetery at o'clock and hold
services and decorate the graves OF
the members buried there.
The Christian Woman's Board of
| Missions of the Central Park Chris
tan church will hold a meeting
| Wednesday evening, May 80, in the
| church parlors, corner of Sixteenth
and Central Park avenue. Miss Flor
ence Mills who has been a mission
airy in India for seven years and at
\ Porto Rico for five years, will address
the meeting.
/ Isador Scrinopskie will open a new
store at ElDorado, Kan, Saturday,
| June 2. Mr.. ScrinopSkie will leave
| Topeka Sunday to take charge of the
| new establishment. The store when
| opened will carry only a high grade
| of nationally advertised lines of men s
| clothing, shoes, hats and furnishings.
Ben Scrinopskie will remain in charge
of the Topeka store.
A new chapter of the Topeka Red
/ Cross workers was formed Friday
night at a meeting of the wives of the
| m lem bers of the Masonic orders of
| Topeka. The class enrolled at the
meeting consists of "A members. Of
! ficers of the chapter elected Friday
night are: Mrs. w. G. Tandy, presi-
| dent, and Mrs. Evan Davis, secretary.
A committee consisting of Mrs Tan
/ dy, Mrs. Marie Mayhem and Mrs. j.
/ B. Doncyson were named to meet with
| the general Red Cross committees. A
second meeting of the Masonic ladies
Red Cross workers will be held to-
| night at the Masonic hall.
| Robert Richardson of 1920 North
| Taylor street was arrested on a war
rant issued from the court of Topeka
late Friday afternoon charging him
With receiving stolen property. That
is the technical charge. What the
officers really charge is that he had
i ten or a dozen small boys workin g
Systematically stealing journal brass
ard pig iron from the Santa Fe yards.
/ When Richardson was arrested he
was in the Santa Fe yards with a
wagon and in the wagon was iron and
brass weighing 200 pounds 1t is
| charged that the boys he had en-
ployed had stripped two Santa Fe en-
! gines of 81 500 worth of metal Rich
ardson is a carpenter but apparently
he has not been working at his trade
very extensively. Some one has been
! buying the junk from Richardson and
the officers are investigating. Rich
ardson was arrested by Officers. Gregg
! and Lawson, Santa Fe special men.
/ Gov. Arthur Capper, Mrs. John E.
! Mcmahon ard A. NJ. Fuller spoke at
| the Assumption school Friday morn
| ing