The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
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AT HOME NEWS

Mrs. L. w. Wilson entertained the
Marguerites, of the Westminster Pres
byterian church, Friday night in hon
or of her birthday.
1T was a great day on Kansas ave-
nue." the fellows who gather in the
drug stores in the evenings admitted
last night. 1T was a horrid day." the
girls deplored.
Miss Alma Fox and Emery Porter
of Auburn. were married at the home
of Mrs. Ellen Marker in Auburn. Mr..
and Mrs. Porter will live on a farm
near Wakarusa.
Some energetic man or men with
the necessary transportation facilities
could make easy money by travelling
thru the alleys in the west end of the
city gathering tin cans at so much a
load.
The Euclid Avenue Methodist Epis-
copal church, Euclid and Lane streets,
The Rev. Edwin Locke, D. D., pastor
Morning subject: What the King
dom Offers" evening, The Hind
RANGES of Life
Washburn alumni in Chicago are CO.
operating with President Womer to
raise added funds for the proposed
improvements for the college. A din =
ner was given in Chicago for the pur-
pose and more than twenty attended.
Group and whooping cough were
prevalent in hundreds of Topeka
homes last night. The windy warm
day attracted the children. They
romped on the ground for the first
time in weeks. AS a result the night
lights were burning.
Mrs. E. D. Keilman. formerly Miss
Blanch Bates, who was secretary to
Mayor J. E. House and his two pre-
decesSOrs, was visiting at the city hall
Friday. A party was given in her hon
| or in the office of Miss Eta Covel1. All
the officials were invited.
The thirty-third anniversary of the
Sloan Lodge, No. 225, A. F. and A. NJ,
will be celebrated tonight at the Ma
sonic hall. A musical program will
be q feature of the entertainment.
Miss Thelma Day will give a reading
and Burdett'S orchestra will provide
the music.
The Town Meeting club at its meet
ing Friday night decided to launch
forth into campaign for it's three city
election candidates. 1t will support
H. ]. Corwine, for mayor; ]. c. Stevic,
for park commissioner and L. r. Lane
for commissioner of streets and public
improvements
Eliza Beverly and Ernest New, ne
groes accused of stealing a $50 motor
from Burton Hill, were arraigned be-
fore Judge Rad Lee, Friday, and both
plead not guilty. They were bound
over to the district court. New fur
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but Beverly was unable to raise the
money and was sent to the county Jail
Employees of the house and senate
babe each other goodbye for two
more years in the small hours of the
morning. AS a celebration of the easy
| SO a day they have been earning they
gave a dance at Kellam's hall which
continued until midnight and then
there were goOd-byes an hour or two
later on the front steps of rooming
houses.
! The high cost of being a mayoralty
| candidate became apparent TODAY to
! one who watched Jay House stroll
down Kansas avenue following an IL
| o'clock emergence from a barber shop
with a shave and massage to his
credit. Pretty girls selling Belgian
! relief tickets were as plentiful at that
| hour as the blowing dust Not a one
missed the mayor.
The Rev. Z. J. Kulp, of the First
/ NJ E church, will speak at the Wash
/ burn Nesper service Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock. The service is to be
held IN McVicar Chapel. DR.. Ku1p's
subject is: But If Not The
! Washburn Glee club will sing Other
music will be furnished by the fine
arts department.
The other day the State Journal
printed story about a young man
whose divorced wife believed he had
married less than six months after
their divorce had been granted. She
mad intended to prosecute him for
olgamy. Three men have made tele-