The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-02

Seem ike young Iolhs 10 me nov.
Social dance tonight at Kellam hall.
Admission 35c.-Adv.
The annual fall rally of the Y. w.
c. A. will be held Friday night, Octo-
Der 5. Plans for the winters work
will be discussed.
Mr.. and Mrs L. C. Rain have left
for a two weeks trip in the east. in
Guiding Chicago. New York, Indian
apolis and Louisville.
Ernest L. Palmer of Topeka has
enlisted in the engineer corps of the
regular army and has been sent to
Jefferson barracks. st. Louis.
A marriage license was issued today
by Probate Judge Ralph IT Cav to
George P Hargis. 81. Topeka! and
Verna G. Stalker, 20. Topeka.
The meeting at Central Congrega-
tional church Thursday night will be
for prayer from beginning to end,
preparatory to the communion.
We are making some low prices on
building material See US before plac-
ing your order j. B. Whelan &
Co, 713 E. 4th. Phone S65.-Adv.
Chancellor Frank Strong of Kansas
university will deliver the principal
address at the annual meeting of the
State Historical society to be held in
Memorial hall, October Is.
Miss S. Iwig will entertain the
Ladies' Aid society of the First Ger
man Methodist church Thursday aft
ernoon at her home on Golden ave
nue..
W. w. Mills, owner of the Mills
dry goods and garment store, who is
ill at his home on Topeka avenue, is
reported to be resting easy with no
change in his condition.
The Eastern Kansas Holiness asso-
citation will hold it's regular monthly
meeting at the Evangelical church
Wednesday, Services will be held at
1890, 2:3O and at 7:45 O'Clock.
Pupils in the Topeka public schools
who were late to school Monday
morning on account of seeing the mil
itary units of Topeka entrain, will not
be counted tardy, according to H. B.
Wilson, superintendent.
Prof j. E. Kirkpatrick of Wash
burn college will give a course in
"Christianizing International Rela-
tons at the Central CONGREGATIONAL
church, Sunday morning at $3.50
o'clock. The public is invited.
Stuart Ripley, who entered Wash
the regular army and has been as
signed to jefferson barracks. St
Louis. His brother, John Ripley, en-
listed in the Red Cross ambulance
corps which entralned Tor camp Plke,
Ark, last week.
The old transfer station was pre-
scented to w. L. Porter. city commits
sfoner, this morning by the Topeka
Railway company. The building will
be moved to City park, where it will
be remodeled and turned into a con-
cession stand or as a dressing room
at the swimming pool.
Y. w. C. A basketball teams prom
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building this winter. Special provi-
sion for teams have been made by
Miss Anne Sweet, secretary. Each
team will be coached by the physical
directors of the organization and a
tournament will probably be staged
later in the fall.
The Mems club of the First English
Lutheran church will meet tonight at
the church to plan for the winters
work The Missionary society of the
church will meet Wednesday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Henry Ear
ker, 1880 Kansas avenue. The meet
ing will be called to order at 2:30
o'clock Mrs H. A. OFT is leader for
the meeting.
Appeals were made today to the
movie houses to aid the government
in obtaining clerks and stenographers.
With the war calling away hundreds
and making thousands of extra posi-
tfons Uncle Sam is having no end of
difficulty obtaining help. Leroy
Powell, superintendent of mails and
manager of civil examinations in To-
peka, made the appeal to the movie
men.
The new Lincoln school will proba-
bly, be dedicated November Z, accord
ing to tentative plans made Monday
night by the board of education. The
ceremony will probably be held dur
ing the state teachers association con-
vention and promises to be one of the
big celebrations of the year for the
people on the East side. No definite
plans have yet been made for the pro-
gram.
Fifty men of the Central Congre-
gational brotherhood took supper at
the church last night and heard DR..
Sheldon give the new facts about pro-
hibition, which he will present to
English audiences next month. The
meeting was in the nature of a fare
we'll to the pastor, who leaves next
Monday to be gone for three months.
G.. c. Wheeler is president of the
brotherhood.
Garfield school, closed this year for
use as a school building, will be
turned over to colored womens fed
Grafton and will be used for an as
ISOLATION building for the colored girls,
according to a petition presented to
and granted by the school board. The
building will be remodeled and re-
finished The women were granted
use of the building for two years. pro-
vided that there was no emergency for
which the board of education would
need the building.
E. D. Manshardt claims that on the
night Carrie Brackeen, a negress, is
charged with picking his pocket, he
was on his way to the Beatrice
Creamery at Second and Polk street
when the woman stopped him at an
alley on Second street between Jack
son and Harrison streets. He also
claims he stated in the court room
that he stood and talked to the wo-
man at the side of a school house in
stead of in the alley. Manshardt' was
the prosecuting witness against the
Brackeen woman in d trial held in
the district court Monday.
The two wading pools built last