The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-23
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Col. r. w. Griggs. of Meade. Kan.
was in Topeka Thursday as a guest
of r. NJ Painter, department COM
mander of the Kansas G. A. r.
Representative Layton of Osborne
will speak at the Frances Willard me-
mortal service at the First United
! Brethren church Sunday evening.
The members of the Political Sci
! ence club met today in the club rooms
at the National hotel The program
was a discussion of the political
parties
Mrs. r. r. Rollman, secretary of
the Parent-Teachers' association of
Lowman school. announces an eve
ming meeting at the school, Friday,
March 2, at 8 o'clock.
Mrs. Julie Seaton, NJ. D., of Chicago
will preside at a three days conference
of the New Thought Alliance. to be
held at the Unity church, Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday.-Adv.
4 Leona NJ. Lawson today filed an APP
plication for a divorce from Cecil F.
Lawson. Abandonment and lack of
support are charged in the petition.
They were married July IL, 1915.
The ladies of Grace Cathedral Guild
will hold a food sale from a. m. to
!, D.
at Crosby Bros, store. the first one
tomorrow February 24.--Adv.
James Villipigue, proprietor of the
Topekafe, who has been seriously ill
at his home, 73O Tyler street, for the
/; last month, has almost entirely recoV-
cred and is now able to be up town.
The ladies of the Grace cathedral
guild will hold a food sale from 9
} a. M to l p. m. every Saturday dur
ing Lent at Crosby Bros store. The
first sale will be held Saturday, Feb
ruary "a.
Mrs. j. T. Parter. 81 West Fifth
street. who broke her hip in fall
at her home before Christmas, is
slowly improving at Stormont hos
pital, but will not be taken home for
several weeks.
If there were any who celebrated
the last night before the bone dry
law went into effect, they didn't come
in contact with the Topeka police.
Not an arrest for drunkenness was
made Thursday.
At the Novelty this week, a woman
: pulls six honest-to-goodnesS pint bot
ties of beer out of handbag and
| brandisheS them before the audience.
Whatll she do tomorrow when the
bone dry law becomes effective?
S. L. Organ, Kansas Representative
of the Johns-Manville company, with
headquarters in Topeka, has just re-
| turned from a Dig JQnnS-ManF1II0
asbestos melting at st. Louis. He re-
ports the convention a big succe~.
Representative w. A Layton of Os-
borne, speaker pro tenn of the house
of representatives, was a guest of the
, Square Circle club at their weekly
luncheon at the Throop hotel
Wednesday night. Speaker Layton
, made an address on citizenship and
: Legislation"
Clifford Pierce, elected state secre-
, tary of the Y. M. c. A. at the meet
; ing of the state committee Wednes-
: day night, left Topeka today for his
former home in Stockton, N. Y. Mrs.
, Pierce and the three children are
f there now They expect to be in To-
peka by March 5.
H. E. Estes was brought to Topeka
Thursday from Leavenworth, where
, he was arrested by o. T. Woods,
United States marshal, as Estes
, stepped from the federal prison on
, the completion of his term. He is
wanted On a similar charge to that on
which he served time, postoffice
robbery, and will be taken to Fort
Scott for trial.
Dr. William J. Herwig, new super
intendent of the Kansas Anti-saloon
league, will speak on National Prohi-
bition" Sunday morning at IL o'clock
at the First Second United Brethren
church. At 3 o'clock he will talk at
J the First Methodist church of Grant
, vile and 1t 1880 in the evening he will
, address the First Christian church,
Sixth and Topeka avenue.
Alfred H. Tebben and A. r. Elliott
mem bers of the Kansas Y. NJ. C. A
force, will go to Hutchinson Sunday
J to assist in a three-day Forward
Campaign being put on by the
Hutchinson high school club. Other
speakers will be Tad Reed. K. U. foot
ball man; Lee Smith, K u debater.
lola and Pittsburg high schools are
also planning similar meetings.
r. M. Painter, department COM
. mander of the Kansas Grand Army
| posts; Col. j. N. Harrison and Col. A.
Brougher of Great Bend, former de-
partment commander, went to Ottawa
today to attend the funeral of Col
Jack Harris. former department COM
mander of the G. A. R. posts, which
was to be held this afternoon in that
city.
. J. E. Manley who has been state
Y. NJ. c. A. secretary for almost nine
i years and a resident of Kansas all his
life, left Topeka Thursday night Mr..
/ Manley went to Colorado Springs
where he will spend a week with his
r wife and their children before leaving
for New York to take up his duties
, there as a member of the foreign de-
partment of the international Y. NJ c.
: A. committee.
1t took the jury in the Budd Hughes
case just one hour to find him not
Y guilty of culpable negligence. Hughes
2 was driving an automobile at the
: time Mr. and Mrs. Fred Root were
! knocked from a buggy on the Silver
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