The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23

Why is it F.? when I'd like to sit
And gaze at sunlit hills,
l have to keep u humpin round,
| So L can pay my bills
| -. D. Sullivan left Topeka last night
to attend the funeral of his aunt, Mrs.
/ S. T. P Hall. who lived at Glen Falls,
Kan.
/ Isadore Scrinopskie returned We'd
nesday night from weeks business
Iowa.
! DR.. Frank S. Beattie of lola. has
been appointed to the state board
of veterinarians to succeed Dr. D. II.
| Doyle of Newton.
| A building permit was issued Thurs
! day to c. L. Sherwood for the con-
struction of an addition to the dwell
ing at 1920 East Sixth street.
Dean c. Dutton of Abilene, will
deliver an address before the Y. NJ.
c. A Sunday afternoon. His subject
will be- THE Romance of Service
The Rev Harvey Fowler is attend
ing the Methodist church conference
| here. Mr.. Fowler was a reporter for
the State Journal before entering the
ministry. He is now pastor of the
church in Erie, Kan.
DR.. S. j. Crumbine, of the state
( board of health. will talk to the Cur
rent Topic club of the Y. NJ. C. A.
Monday night at its regular meeting.
His subject will be THE Health Rules
i in the Game of Life
Improvements, costing $4,000, are
| being made at the Fifth Avenue hotel.
/ Thirteen new rooms will be added to
! the building, giving the hotel sixty
| apartments. Work will be completed
/ some time this spring.
Rev. r. A. Edison of Dennison, will
| preside at the services of the Second
| n in
aration to the communion services
The services will be held at the church
tonight at 1880 O'Clock.
Preparatory services to communion
will be held at the First United Pres
| byterian church, this evening at 1880
/ O'Clock. Rev. Ralph Ward, of the
Westminster Presbyterian church will
| have charge of the services.
political meeting. incident to the
city campaign will be held tonight at
| st. Marks A. NJ. E.. church, tonight.
The church is at the corner of North
Harrison and Norris streets. All can
! didates for city offices have been in
vited.
A 9-pound baby girl, Marian Cor
win, was bern today 10 Mrs. Sidney
linn at the home of her mother, Mrs
E. Y. Mervin, 1884 Lane street Sidney
linn, father of the girl. was shot and
killed a month ago by Clyde Brown in
a fight at the Brown home, $50 Twiss
| avenue
DIR. Theodore Ream, of the Meth
| odist church of Hiawatha, has been
appointed financial secretary of the
| Methodists Old Peoples home, in To-
| peka- His two sons, Merrill and
| Dwight are former Washburn stu
dents and were prominent in athletic
| circles.
Lew Williamson, local theater man
ager, will go to Kansas City with the
| censorship board, when it moves the
first of April While in Topeka he
has beer the representative of four
! teen film companies before the board.
/ He will act in the same capacity in
Kansas City. 7.S'3 y
i S. D. Flora, meteorologist in charge
of the local office of the United States
weather bureau, will make an inspec-
ton tour of the western part of the
state in which he will visit many of
the branch offices of the state He
will be out of the city about n week.
Two 13-year-old boys, Herbert Ster-
rett and Marvin Shepherd, were pick
ed up by the police Wednesday night
and were held as runaways. The
police thought they were wanted by
pa rents at Minneapolis. The bows
maintained they were from Kansas
City and finally proved it. They had
money enough to pay their way back
to Kansas City and will be released
with the understanding that they take
George Schmidt, an adventurous
soul with a thirst and desire to break
the drouth, dropped off a train at the
i Santa F'e junction in North Topeka
Thursday night with a grip full of IL
quor. He picked a poor place to drop
Mitch" Bundy. police officer, was
there and Schmidt dropped right into
! his grasp, suitcase all. He's in Jail now
charged with importing liquor" Thai
1 is an offense that has appeared on the
4 police docket only since the bone-drS
law went into effect
Hugh Larimer, sheriff, is having
the sheriffs office in the courthouse
rearra nged, vanished and cleaned up
Now he wants something in the deco
4 rative line. He's putting out an ap-
peal to the eX-sheriffs and relatives OF
d deceased eX-sheriffs to furnish framed
I on the walls. Mrs. A T. Lucas has
i agreed to furnish a picture of her late
husband who served as sheriff. Tn
4 doubleday there is a good picture OF
the late John Wilkerson somewhere il
4 the county. A dozen or more such
4 pictures should be available and Sher.
1 if Larimer wants them
The knights and Ladies of Security
Home and Hospital association ha!
4 been granted a charter by the state
4 board. The application states that tn.
Il association was not organized fol
profit and it has no capital stock. TIL,
plan of the association is to care fol
4 the members in need of assistance
4 Incorporators are: j. NJ Kirkpatrick
a John V. Abrahams, William A. Bib,
4 and Oscar l.. Peake Of Topeka and A
w. Fulton of Chicago. The E. P Jor
dan Electrical company was granted
its charter. A charter was granted
i to the Women's Federal Oil compan,
4 of Washington. D. c. That compa n,
kmay spend s367,6 in Kansas Mrs
Elmer Burgess of Cherryvale is tn,
only Kansan in the company AL
members of the company are women