The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-03

To cook with "all the time"
| Judge and Mrs. T F. Carver return
| ed Sunday from Prior Lake, Wis,
| where they have been spending the
summer.
The board of city commissioners met
this morning at the city building,
called the roll and adjourned to OBJ
serve the legal holiday.
/ The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Methodist church will meet Wednes-
| day afternoon at the home of Misses
Annie and Susie Sweet. 2S1 Topeka
| avenue
The w. r. c. No. "a will hold it,
regular meetings on the first and third
| Tuesdays of each month in tn.
Knights of Pythias hall. Sixth and
! Quincy street, in the future.
John Angle. of St. Marys, was the
| only recruit received at the local re-
cruiting office this morning He en-
listed in the First Kansas artillery and
was assigned to Battery A.
! The Topeka Yeomen lodge will
meet each week again now that hot
weather is over. During the summer
the club has been meeting but once
! every two weeks. The first weekly
meeting of the fall will be held Wed
| nesday night
The Shawnee County Medical as
ISOLATION will meet at the National
hotel tonight at o'clock DR.. A b
Jeffrey, who has recently returned
from war work in England will speak
| on Treatment of War Wounds and
/ Sepsis''
Arthur Beronius has not done his
| duty as husband, according to d.
vorce petition filed against him by his
wife, Mona. She asks for almony'
| sufficient to care for herself and her
| son, and the restoration of her maiden
ma me, Parsons.
The Rev. John Nygren was elected
| for the third term as president or the
Kansas and Missouri Young Peoples
| society of the Swedish Mission church
He was elected at the twenty sixth an
nual convention of the association at
| Lindsborg, Kan.
In the finals of the ladies' singles
of the Methodist church tennis tour
nament Miss Herrick defeated Miss
Lock ST., 6-3, 62. In the ladies'
land won the championship title from
| Miss Gates and Miss Coleman, the
scores being Ga and 6-3.
Bill McMaud of 416 Chandler street,
and Geo. Grote are some fishermen.
They had in their possession this
morning a channel cat weighing forty
pounds and measuring "a inches long.
This fish was caught on a hook and
! line and it is claimed this as as large
a channel cat as has been taken from
the Kaw river this year.
A Topeka woman who has a sum-
mer cottage at Wakarusa has been
| enjoying fried chicken all summer
and paying moderate prices for fowls.
| Last week she bought several for 16
| cents a pound and was shocked when
she learned that one of her Topeka
neighbors had to pay 40 cents pound
for an Ordinary bird" Saturday.
On his way home from a grocery
| store, William Maeyer, years old,
| and deaf and dumb, was run down by
| motor car at Sixteenth and Fillmore
street Saturday night at o'clock. He
received scratches about the head and
face His left shoulder was dislocated
when the car ran over his body. His
| condition was improving this morn
ing.
George H. Fair, 1915 Garfield street.
will soon leave for France to act as a
member of the United States mail con-
| try. He left for New York today and
will probably leave for France late in
the week. He was formerly railway
mail clerk in Topeka and later presi-
| dent of the National Railway Mail
| Clerks association.
! Lieutenant Howard Benton, of the
U. S. r., recently appointed from the
! officers training camp at Fort Riley,
has been assigned to Camp Cody. at
| Deming, N NJ, according to word re-
ceived here. He left Saturday night
| for his post Benton is the son of
! Mr.. and Mrs. Otis L. Benton, of Ober-
| lin, Kan. He was graduated from
the washburn college last year and
\ won distinction on the Washburn foot
|