The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-19
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Sunday Movies
| was born of the good Pilgrim stock,
And the thought of play
Given the Lords day,
Always gives me a terrible shock.
And would join with the men of today,
Who would use any means
Be it sermon or screens,
For guiding young minds the right way.
-Nels Yingle.
DR.. Eva Harding has moved
orr1ce to 1913 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
The gas is still only a flicker. And
the weather has been of a balmy ma
ture.
The young ladies' gymnasium class
OF the First Methodist Sunday school
met this afternoon.
Attend our third annual Pre-Lenten
Ball tomorrow (Tuesdayl night. KEEL
lam Halliday.
Eber S. johnson, %, and Melvina
Tairo. IS, both of Usage City, were
married today by Probate Judge Cav.
The Lillian Mitchner union will
meet with Mrs. Ida Lock, S34 Jeffer-
son, Thursday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Beatty, and
daughter of Lincoln, Kan, visited Mr..
and Mrs. Rush Elmore at Tecumseh
last week.
L. K. Davis of the Indiana and
Oklahoma Oil and Gas company is
visiting his sister, Mrs. L. B. Fisher
He is on his way to the Oklahoma
field.
DIR. W. A. Brandenburg, president
of the Pittsburg Normal addressed
the students of the Topeka high school
this morning at 1915 o'clock at the
school assembly.
Dr. Julia Seton of Washington, D.
c.. will preside at a three days con-
ference of the New Thought Alliance
to be held at the Unity church, Fri
day. Saturday and Sunday.
Harry D. Wolf, manager of the To-
reka Clearing House association, an
nounces that the banks of the city
will be closed Thursday, February
%, in observance of Washington's
birthday.
G. NJ. Cook, who has been vice-gov-
ernor of the island of Guam for the
last two years, is expected in Topeka
today for visit with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. S. A. Cook, 920 Lincoln
street.
Three more Topeka men charged
with Bookkeeping have entered pleas
of guilty before Judge Whitcomb
rather than face a jury trial. They
are: Andy Dupree, Felix Dodson and
Lelah Jackson.
a M. heene, speaker OIL the Nall
SaS house of repreSe natives, will de-
liver lecture on 1.-The Divinity of
Christ at the meeting Of the Brother
hood of the Walnut Grove Methodist
church this evening.
A petition throwing William First
enberger into involuntary bankruptcy
has been filed with the clerk of the
United States district court. Firsten-
berger was postmaster at Kansas City,
Kan, until last summer.
Two fires were reported Sunday and
both were caused by sparks falling
on the roof The home of DR.. A. S.
Embree, at 324 Greenwood avenue,
home of DR.. F. H Scholle, at 1895
Topeka avenue. g-
Lieut.. Robert W. Daniels, of Bur-
lfngton, VT, who is attending the
army service school at Fort Leayen-
worth, came to Topeka last night to
spend Sunday with his aunt and
uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Daniels
1917 Topeka avenue.
The young ladies of the young peo-
pies circle of the First Methodist
Sunday school are preparing two plays
as a missionary pageant. These Will
be given soon under the auspices of
the home and foreign missionary So
cieties of the church.
Edward Adams, the 10-year-old son
of Charles P. Adams, 124 Greenwood
avenue, who fell from his bicycle
Saturday morning and was found and
picked up in an unconscious condition
by a neighbor, is reported to be in a
much improved condition this morn
ing.
Saturday was the anniversary of
the death of Frances E. Willard and
thruout the United States memorial
services were held by the various w.
c. T. U. organizations. In Topeka
the Young Mems Christian association
held a short program Saturday night
in her honor.
Representatives of the fifteen
knights of Pythias lodges will attend
the fifty-third anniversary celebration
to be held this evening in Security
Hall, Seventh and Kansas avenue.
Governor Capper, w. A. s. Bird, B.
S. Young and Ben Rively will be on
the program.
Sunday morning the Rev. A. S. En-
bree fought fire at his home on
Greenwood avenue in Potwin. The
roof of the house was badly damaged
Sunday afternoon the minister ad-
dressed a big audience with his ia
nous sermon Babes in the Woods at
the Orpheum theater.
After Shaping his wife and chasing
neighbors home Lewis Elliott, plas-
terer, living near Twentieth and Fill
more streets, was found asleep in a
horse stall in his barn when Officers
Bundy and Holman arrived on the
scene. Elliott had been drinking. He
slept off his jag in the city Jail.
There are a lot of fellows around
here who are representing them
selves as deputy sheriffs who have
not had commissions for five years
This was given out by Sheriff Lari-
mer. and further he said that unless
they are turned in to him soon the
police will be notified to pick them up.
day in the triple tragedy at his home.
100 Twiss avenue, is recovering rap
idly from the wound received. Brown
is at ST. Francis hospital. So far no
warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Mrs. Brown. who was shot accident
ally in the struggle, is not in a serious
condition.