The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-13
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


chestra. Kellam Halliday.
James Nelson, manager of the Cen
tral Topeka Paper company, is in Chi
cago for a few days on business.
The Gideons will hold a meeting at
Central Y. NJ. c. A. Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock. Miss Marie Vancil will
sing.
Mrs H O. Carney will be the guest
of the council of clubs at Kansas City,
Kan, Thursday afternoon of next
week. She will speak on THE League
to Enforce Peace
Every one interested in radio
telegraphy is invited to attend the
meeting of the Kaw Valley Radio as
ISOLATION at the association rooms at
713 Kansas avenue, tonight at 1880.
1.-The Kingdom of Cod will be the
subject of DR.. Arthur S. Henderson's
lecture to his Bible class Sunday at
10 o'clock at the First Congregational
church, corner Seventh and Harrison
streets.
The sixth fire of the day occurred
at 2:08 O'Clock this afternoon at 1125
Tyler, in a two story dwelling house
owned and occupied by S. E. Diefen-
dorf. The cause was again burinS
SCOT falling on the roof and the dam
age was very slight.
A meeting of the auditorium COM
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
day. Plans for the carrying out of
the referendum vote in the chamber,
which was ordered on motion of the
entire body at the annual meeting last
night, were discussed.
Rev. G. E. Wallendorf for sixteen
years pastor of the Elm Swedish Bap-
fist church at Chicago, and now pas
tor of the Swedish Baptist church at
Concordia, Kan, will start next Tues
day evening, January 16, to conduct
a series of revival meetings at the
| Swedish Baptist church.
The Oxweld Railroad Service COM
pany. headed by Henry w. Jacobs, III
Greenwood avenue, Topeka, as presl-
dent, certified to the Secretary of state
of Illinois Friday to an increase in
capital from 100000 to 81, 500, 900.
The company was organized in Chi
cago about four years ago, with offices
in the Railway Exchange building.
The members of the Topeka Indus
trial council voted Friday night to ask
the Topeka Edison company to reduce
the cost of day service cents k1lo-
watt hour. The alternative of the
council will be to lend all the assist
ance possible for municipal light
plant. The organization also Endorsed
the work of the National Peace league.
Judge r. A. Burch on Healthy In
surance Legislation is the big attrac-
ticn at the Y. NJ. C. A. Current Topic
club banquet Monday evening at the
Y NJ c. A Owing to the wide inter
est awakened in the subject recently
the club has thrown its meeting open
to the general public at O'Clock Mon
day evening.
Employees of the city water depart
ment are looking for a battling leak
in the system somewhere in the north
ern part of the city, which is filling
cellars. 1t is believed that a clogged
sewer is responsible for the rising Of
the water into some of the cellars, and
that the leak as well as the regular
discharge is going into sewer with no
outlet. The usual clues which locate
leaks have failed so far.
More returning troops from the
Mexican border are due to pass thru
Topeka tomorrow or the next day. C.
E. Bascom, city passenger agent for the
Rock Island, left today for the south
west, where he will meet a shipment
of Pennsylvania troops, and escort
them as far as Topeka. The units
which are going to their homes and
the time when they will reach Topeka
are not known in the local station.
A divorce case from lower Kansas
avenue has consumed two days of the
time of Judge Whitcomb in the second
division of the district court. Au-
gusta Robinson, a negro girl, is suing
Nels Robinson, well known proprietor
| of a negro restaurant near the Rock
Island depot, for divorce. She alleges
extreme cruelty and asks for alimony.
| Witnesses galore are being summoned
on both sides Robinson is fighting
the petition as well as the alimony.
Mrs. Lucy Warner will undertake a
third matrimonial venture-thiS time
with Andrew Speel, a Greek. She has
| two alternatives, one to marry and
| the other to face a jury trial on a
| criminal charge of living unlawfully
with the Greek Mrs Warner two
months ago was arrested, charged
with using her daughter, Gladys Fris-
bic, as a lure to blackmail E. E. Hes
| ter, boarder at the German hotel.
| The daughter is in the county deten-
ton home.
Charles C. Younggreen, advertising
| manager of the Kansas Farmer, was
| elected general manager of the COM
pany at the directors meeting Friday
afternoon. Younggreen is proba bly, the
youngest general manager in the agri-
cultural publishing field today. He
has a wide acquaintance in this field
and a number of big advertising coups
to his credit He is a Topeka man,
educated at Kansas University and is
member of a number of business or
CARNATIONS of the city.
The twenty-first annual meeting of
the Alliance Cooperative Insurance
company was held at the home offices
of the company in the Central Nation
al Bank building this week The COM
pany is controlled by a board of fif-
teen directors. Those elected for the
ensuing term were: Otis S. Allen, To-
peka; J. A. Bonjour, Onaga; E. j.
Smalley, Topeka; P. A Rogers, Bur-
lingame, and c. Wiies, Canton, each
of whom was reelected to succeed
himself. The board of directors then
reelected the old officers.