The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-21

DIR. Eva Harding has moved
office to 1928 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
DIR. o. L. Cook and Mrs. Cook will
entertain their Bible classes this eve
mig at their home, 337 Woodlawn
avenue.
An all day meeting of the Fedora
ton of Missions wiz be held at the
Y. w. C. A. Thursday. Lunch will
be served at noon.
Mrs. Julie Seaton, NJ. D., of Chicago
will preside at a three days conference
of the New Thought Alliance, to be
held at the Unity church, Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday.-Adv.
The Ladies' union of Seabrook will
give a Washington social in costume
February % at the church. pro-
gram has been prepared.
Mrs J. Hal Smith of Buffalo, N. Y,
will speak at the First United Breth-
rem church next Sunday morning.
! Mrs. Smith is a talented woman with
| a great message, who for years la
bored with her deceased husband in
Kono Land, Africa.
! The protest against the paving of
Euclid avenue from Kansas avenue to
Monroe street was declared effective
! today by Commissioner Tandy as it
contained the signatures of more than
half the property owners interested.
The street will not be paved this year.
A patriotic program appropriate to
! Washington's birthday will be given at
Central Congregational church, Thurs
day evening at 1880 o'clock. w. D.
! Ross and E. D. Schonberger will
speak The Washburn Glee club will
sing and some of the Central Park
school children will take part.
| George r. Sherretts, %, Dover, and
Helen Vance, II, Burlingame, were
married this morning by Probate
Judge Cav. About a dozen friends of
the young couple crowded into the
2X4 marriage room while the cere
mony was in progress. 1t was inn
possible for all to get inside the room.
! Plans for the initiation of the legis-
lators who were unable to attend the
! initiation last Thursday night were
completed by the Ake-Pot Sterboos in
a meeting at the Chamber of Com
! merce this noon. The initiation of one
hundred or more lawmakers last week
was voted such a success by all con-
cerned that members of the legisla-
ture who could not attend have been
clamoring for a chance to ride the
goat.
Such large crowd attended the
| funeral of John F. Switzer that not
nearly all of them were able to get
into the home. The Topeka Bar asso-
citation of which Mr.. Switzer had been
member, attended in a body. Floral
offerings were received from the var
ious organizations of which he was
a member. The services were in
charge of DR. S. S. Estey. pastor of
the First Presbyterian church. Waldo
Haywood sang a solo. The burial was
in Mt. Hope cemetery.
D. F. Shirk superintendent of the
I.ansas Children's Home society, has
| been in Louisiana in the last ten days
| gathering data for a report on child
welfare conditions in that state.
which he will make at the annual con-
vent1on of the National Children S
, Homo society to be held in PittSburg
Pa. in June. Mr.. Shirk is president
, of the national organization. His trip
was made at the request of the Off
! GERS of tile Louisiana Child's Home
society. He will return to Topeka the
| last of TIL week.
A formal complaint was issued from
the county attorneys office charging
George Adams, II years old, with a
statutory crime He is accused of TAX
ing Hattie Blanger, 6 years old to
Silver Lake, Saturday night and re-
naming with her at the Silver Laka
hotel, where they passed as brother
and sister. When Charles Blanger
father of the girl found them Sun
day morning in the village, he had no
trouble in catching his daughter, but
young Adams escaped. The officers
of nearby towns have been notified
Seven Topeka people appear before
the fOotliShts, some of them in their
initial performance, when The Vaga-
bond is given at the Orpheum. be-
ginning next Monday night. In this
comedy drama tabloid J. F. Doni-
plant, Kenneth Nelson, Ray Knoll
Dewey Gregg, WilhelTnina Hammerli
T. Lucille, L. Hardy. and Florence
Gregg form the cast. 1t is to be q
one-act affair and will be given in
connection with the presentation OF
Mary Pickford's second big feature
The Pride of the Clan
J Fred Harrison, a negro laborer who
has been working on the excavation
for the new Dibble grocery store. al
Sixth and Quincy streets, was arrested
Tuesday for selling a piece of leaf
pipe winch he and several other work.
men dug out of the ground there
Harrison was arrested on complaint OF
F. NJ. Spencer, the contra ctor who i,
making the excavation, but was late,
released at Spencers request. Harri.
son told the police that it was custom.
airy for the laborerS to DISPOSE of i,,pl
which they found in such places an,
that in no case that he knew of haf
any one ever been arrested for it.
The work of making an $4,000 ex
tension to the Topeka Woodwork
store, 625-7 Kansas avenue, began the
first of this week under the direction
of ]. L. Holden, construction SUPER
intendent for the WooIworth syndi
cate. the partition between the pres
ent rooms and that at 500 Kansa.
avenue is to be torn out and the Wool
worth store will occupy this room. r
F. Steinkamp, manager of the Ioca
branch. said there would be three
entrances and twelve display window.
when the Demodeling was complete
The interior will be overhauled ant
ne fixtures and furnishings installed
A luncheon was served at noon to-
day in the Grey room of the State
Journal in honor of Robert Lynn
Cox, vice president of the Metro
politan Life Insurance company, OF
New York City, who is in Kansa.
taking survey of the field in connec.
ton with the new farm mortgage Ioa1
department of his company. Their,
were present: Robert Lynn Cox, Gov.
ernor Arthur Capper, c. B. Merriam m
| c, / Wilson insurance