The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-16
SNAP SMO T S
AT HOME NEWS

The Central w. &. l. L. Will meet
Monday afternoon at 8 o'clock at the
home of Mrs. f. Z. Moore, at 412 West
Fifth street.
The Junior leader class of the Cen
trail Y III. c. A. held a bicycle nike
thru the tornado district Friday at
ternoon.
Mrs. H. w. Kearns, 24OS Buchanan
street, will leave this evening for
Palacros, Tex, where Mr.. kearnss
mother and father were injured when
a team of horses ran away with them
THE Problem of Suffering in the
Servant of Jehovah Passage
Isaiah" will be the subject of DR.. Ar
| thur s. Hendersons lecture to his
Bible class Sunday at 10 a. m. at the
First Congregational church, corner
| Seventh and Harrison streets.
Rev. Fl. A. OFT and C. w. Horn left
today for Chicago, where they will at
tend the convention of Lutheran
| brotherhoods from the general synod.
Rev. Mr. OFT will speak next Thurs
day before the mission council of the
! convention on Financing Mission
Next Tuesday is June 90 and it is
going to be an expensive day for tax
payers who fail to visit or communi-
cate with the county treasurer's office
in the interim. This is the last day
for the payment Of the second half
] of 1915 taxes. The penalty is added
| the following morning.
Another oil scheme is being floated
in Topeka. This time. a band of To-
peka men including Byron lessee,
w. E. Shores f. NJ. Horne, E. c. Wise,
Harry Smelser and j. w. Nolan have
! leased 5000 acres of land in Smith
county, just south of Cedar. They
promise to begin drilling in ninety
days
| Miss Kate King, city welfare worker,
| is pleased with the response she has
received to her plea for clothing and
| bedclothing and bedsteads for the cy-
clone sufferers. Two wagonloads of
clothing and bedsteads have been dis
| tributed by Miss King. She wishes to
take this means of thanking the
donors.
The special meeting being held at
The Salvation Army hall, 400 Kansas
avenue, will close Sunday evening.
| They have been in progress since last
Saturday night. Tonight, Sunday
morning and Sunday evening, the
boy preacher" George r. MacDon-
aid, % years old, Wichita, will con-
duct the services.
The Junior society and young people
of the First Methodist church held
a joint celebration Friday afternoon
in honor of their first anniversary.
The entertainment lasted practically
all afternoon. Picnic games. a cafe
terra supper and an entertainment at
the church in the evening were all
parts of the program.
Jimmie" McGovern, plain clothes
man, has had a bum check in his
pocket. passed upon local store, for
two months, always keeping an eye
open for the man who passed it.
Thursday the man called on Meow
ern on another matter. acknowledged
the check when it was flashed and
made good the whole amount.
Dr chairman of he
city registration board, announces
that Afford r. Mckinney, Fred Ray
mond Baumas and Michael Clohessy
had failed to call for their registration
certificates. All three men have reg
istered but haven't anything to show
for it should an official in another
t. wn demand to see their certificates.
Thirteen Topekans went out on a
steak roast Friday night. Three of
the women drank three cups of cof-
| fee, each. No man drank more than
two cups. Women are organizing
anti-cigaret leagues thruout the coun-
| try to save the nerves of the men.
| Why not an anti-coffee drinking
| league for the nerves of Americas
| women?
| Attorney Nat Spencer of Kansas
| City will deliver an address Sunday
night at the First Baptist church on
| the subject, THE Church ard the
| Great War" Mr.. Spencer is execu-
| tive secretary of the church fedora
ton of greater Kansas City. He is an
attractive and forceful speaker. On
! the last Sunday evening of the month,
June "a, President H. J. Waters of
| the State Agricultural college will be
| the speaker.
Charles Richards, motorcycle po-
liceman, has left the police force. MI
numerous efforts were made by auto
owners to get his job while Harvey
! iaf Of
matter was up to the mayor more
! than once. Under the new police ad-
ministration Richards went right
| ahead paying no attention to the
horsepower or the number of coats of
V rnish on cars; the complaints con-
| tinued and this week Richards got a
chance to quit. He declined to talk
! about it.
Amateur wireless operators of the
country will be recruited into the
naval wireless work, according to dis
patches received this morning by viii
liam Provence, in charge of recruiting
| in Topeka. Recruits for this service
| viii be sent for a six months training
course m the radio school established
at Harvard university. After COM
pIet1ng the course the men will be
allowed to come home and remain
there until they are called out for ser
vice. recruits must ne between the
ages of Is and rs.
The new bridge across Soldier creek
on Kansas avenue will be single-span
structure, 140 feet long, with 5000
foot waterway if the cost of such a
bridge can be kept inside the 5000
mark set by the county commissioners.
With such plan the bridge will be
thirty feet longer than the present
structure, the south end being that
much farther south. The county COM
missioners originally favored a con-
crete bridge with three arches. The
North side drainage board was OPP
posed to it on the ground that the
bases for the arches would act as
barriers to the driftwood that goes
down Soldier creek in times of high
water. Work on the new bridge will
begin lust as soon the