The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

See the new U. S. Royal Cord Tire
1916 price. Capper Auto Supply Co
Adv.
The next meeting of the Merry Ma
| irons has been postponed from Thurs
day to a week from that time. 1t will
be held in the home of Mrs. w. r.
] Shocks. 1439 Tyler street.
Most of the officers at the city hall
attended the funeral of Mrs. Nathaniel
Coover, wife of the city auditor, this
afternoon. The offices in the building
were closed until O'Clock.
Wednesday morning the Y. M. c. A
will start it's regular series of weekly
store meetings. Gospel meetings will
! be held every Wednesday in the War
rem NJ. Crosby store, the fire station,
| Stricklers business college and Dough-
! ertys business college
| The city waterworks sinking fund
was today called on to pay back 70
the general Improvement fund. $4,50o
which was borrowed some time ago
! from the general fund, to buy water
works bonds. The funds were order
| ed transferred from the sinking fund
to the general fund, by an ordinance
A Thursday noon Bible study class
| will be started Thursday of this week
at the Y NJ. c. A. For the first lesson
the class will be in charge of the Rev.
| Ralph Ward. The International sun
| day school lesson series will be used
and the class will meet every Thursday
noon from 1900 until L o'clock
/ Judge Ralph H Cav performed MS
first marriage ceremony TINS morhins
when Cleyman Weyman, %, OF Ak
ron, Ohio, and Anna Schmidt, ~, OF
Topeka. applied for license and were
married in the probate judges offlce-
| A license was issued to Elmer A. iar-
ris. %, and Leila B. Brown, Is, both
| of Topeka.
Passenger traffic both into and out
of Topeka has decreased abruptly
4 since the holiday season, and the
ticket clerks are looking forward to
dull times between now and spring.
Local traffic seems to have been hard
est hit by the slump. There is still
heavy demand for long distance tick
cts, chiefly to the Pacific coast.
The Topeka Chamber of Commerce
will cooperate with Governor Capper
| in urging the observance of January
| % as Peace Sunday thruout the state.
The Chamber of Commerce is to send
out 1000 letters to churches, schools.
and other organizations this week eX-
| planning the purpose of the proclama-
ton which the governor has issued.
Back-firing in the engine caused a
fire damaging the Cadillac automobile
| owned by E. L. Copeland, treasurer of
the Santa Fe, about 500. The acct
dent occurred Saturday evening when
| Stanley Copeland, son of E. L. Cope
land, endeavored to start the engine
which backfired as the result of
| flooded carburetor.
Mitch Slaughter, Harold Thompson
and Ralph Neal, three youths charged
with disturbing the peace in front of
Lizzie Ottinger's home, 1928 Kansas
avenue, came into the court of Topeka
| today, waived a hearing and were
fined 81 each and costs They were
| tod ni oh RI he
money needed to meet the fines and
| costs.
The membership campaign of the
! local Moose lodge to have closed jan
uary l, has been extended until March
1 by the unanimous vote of the men,
bers The intention was to double the
present membership of $50 by the
first of the year but the illness of
Campaign Director Gerald F. Gahan,
hindered the campaign. About 100
new members have been secured to
date.
Since the meeting of the Kansas
Good Roads association in Lawrence
/ in November, a vigorous campaign has
| been started to secure funds to boost
| the cause of better highways in the
state. ]. Frank Smith, president of
| the association, put up $1,000 of his
own money and sent out $4,000 ap-
pealS for financial aid. The returns
from the appeals have been gratifying
in the extreme.
The Kansas State Automobile Deal
ers' association will hold a meeting in
Topeka Monday, January Is, to COM
plete the organization Of the district
associations. Officers for each of the
districts to be created at the meeting
will be elected and other business
| transacted. Action will probably be
| taken at the meeting for the drafting
of program of legislative campaign
/ n Tn1. rrafo Il,
| soon.
Tom Fisher, a colored workman
employed on the Masonic library
building is in Stormont hospital with
a broken leg, the result of the top
ping over of a three-ton concrete
mixer. The mixer was being lowered
| from it's supports when the jack, used
in the process, slipped on the frosty
! ground and the machine fell. The ac-
| cident occurred at 1890 this morning.
| Fisher, who is about Is years old, lives
on East Fourth street.
At the Topeka Press clubs next
meeting Monday night, newspaper men
| in the state legislature and Arthur F.
Killick, known to the readers of the
/ Kansas City Star as Fatty Lewis will
| be the chief attraction, according to
/ Cecil Howes, chairman of the program
committee. kfllick fs to make the
main speech of the meeting; the solon-
newshounds will be invited to attend
and some of them may be permitted to
talk, but the big thing of the evening
| will be Fatty Lewis.
] The question blanks which have
been distributed among the members
| of the Chamber of Commerce are bad
ly wanted by the secretary of the or
ganization, and each captain who had
| charge of a squad of men in the mem
| berShip campaign has pledged himself
to round up some of the blanks and
see that they are turned in. The ques-
| tons deal chiefly with the things
which the members would like to see
| accomplished in the future by the
| Cha mber of Commerce.
Citizens of Topeka will study the
various problems of city government
which confront the city officers at a