The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-28

A social in honor of the different
organizations of the First German
Methodist church will be given to-
night at the home of Mrs. Charles
Dreyer, 1874 Harrison street, by the
Epworth league of the church.
Enroll Friday, Saturday or Monday,
December %, % or 81 for either the
day or night school. We ask this on
account of the heavy enrolment for
the opening Wednesday, January q
Strickler's Business College.-Adv.
Miss Ruth Locke, stenographer to
Commissioner w. L. Porter, is slowly
improving after being operated on at
Bethany hospital in Kansas City, ac-
cording to word received in Topeka
today. However it will be several
see her at her usual duties.
While the prairie schooner in which
Forrest Beckley, spinal meningitis
victim, was burned by Sheriff Lari-
mer, the mules he was driving were
turneds over to relatives of the dead
man. At first, it was decided to kill
the mules but later the county physi
| clan stated such a procedure was not
necessary.
A former Topekan, wEo now lives at
Kansas City and who is here on a visit.
says you have to move to Kansas City
| to know the real fuel situation. In
addition to have no gas the Kansas
City people have to put up with in
| adequate street car service and fire.
quent occurrences of darkness when
the lights are turned out to give more
power to the cars
| Topeka banks are rapidly joining in
| the three per cent offer for county
money since the commissioners passed
| a resolution providing that no county
money shall be deposited in banks not
paying three per cent. A. A. Rodgers,
/ county commissioner, reported today
, that the Central National bank and
the Bank of Topeka have joined the
| three per cent class.
| Topeka furnished three more men
/ to the United States navy Thursday,
| according to Shipfitter Hierholzer, in
| charge of the local navy recruiting Of
| flee. Howard J. Hollenbeck of Idana,
John H. Stephens of Lawrence. and
Earl A. Goggeen Of Widick left Thurs
| day afternoon for Kansas City, where
| they will take the final examination.
After they pass this they will be sent
back to their homes to await orders.
Among the most noteworthy Christ
mas greetings received in Topeka was
very simple one saying merely,
/ wishing you very merry Christ
mas" and signed by Irwin J. Lane,
| from somewhere in France with the
| Twelfth engineers. A. e. f. Lane was
formerly an employe of the Santa Fe
| railroad and roomed with Mr.. and
| Mrs. r. L. Moore, to whom the cable
|
tlives at lola.
A 4-year-old Topeka girl who has
a diplomatic way of getting her father
and mother to allow her to do almost
anything she wants was up at the
J garage with her father and wanted to
go down the alley to the house by
herself Her father had never per-
mitted her to do this because he was
afraid she might be hit by other cars.
But on this occasion he had to give
in when she said: Daddy, we won't
have any argument about the matter
now: I'm going to the house by my
self"
Clark C. Daley. former Topeka boy,
is the new president of the South
Ferry Realty company of New York
City. according to a dispatch from the
big Town" received in Topeka. This
position is one of the most coveted
places in the realty world, and cleo
ton to it is the highest honor that
can come to real estate man in New
York. The office carries with it the
administration of the multifarious in
lam S. Chesebrough, the millionaire
inventor of vaseline and other refined
petroleum products. Daley came to
: Topeka at the age of three with his
parents from Dayton, Ky He was in
the office of Valentine, GODDARD G. Val
entine for a number of years while at
tending school at WaShburn college,
where he graduated in 1902. 1t was
in this year that he went to New York
City as secretary to Chesebrough.
From that time on his rise in the
realty world has been steady. culmi-
/, mating in his new position.