The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-07

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Dancing tonight. $3.50 till 1880
kellam Halliday.
Rogan's orchestra and Miss Mar
guerite Gohlke will furnish the musi-
cal entertainment for the mass meet
ing of the laboring men of Topeka at
the Chamber of Commerce on Febru-
AIRY IL. In passing. it should be un-
derstood that the word men means
men and women both.
The mid week service of the First
Presbyterian church will be held In
the church parlors instead of the res
idence of a member of the congrega-
ton, it was announced today. me
change was made following the an
nouncement of the raising of the ban
on unnecessary use of coal.
The Aetna Building and Loan asso-
citation is the beneficiary by the resig-
nation of Matt w. Weightman, jr.,
from the assistant cashiership of the
Farmers National bank. Weightman
is vice president and treasurer of the
Aetna Building e. Loan company and
will devote his entire time to caring
for these offices.
II. I. Young, a farmer living west
of the city. says it pays to raise pigs
as a side issue on farm. If Young's
experience is any criterion it would be
equally paying to raise pigs.as a main
spring pigs to the Wolff Packing
company for $3.50 a hundred, this
price being 3 cents above the high
market. The four pigs weighed 1900
pounds.
Frank NJ. Newland. commissioner
of water and lights, today told the
city commission that unless salaries
the water department are raised, the
city stands to lose the men. The men
are now getting about $50 a month.
Commissioners Tandy and WATSON OBJ
Jected to 'revamping" the salary or
dinance again. as it was changed a
few days ago.
The fourth annual mid-winter camp
meeting being held at Salvation army
hall, 400 Kansas avenue, is drawing
good attendance. A tent has been
erected in the hall and evergreen
trees give an atmosphere of local
color" Rev. B. H. Hobbs conducted
Wednesday nights services. From
tonight until Sunday, Rev. A s.
Clark, conference evangelist for the
Methodist church, will speak.
Two illustrated lectures will be CIV
en- at the Wanamaker school house
Friday evening beginning at o'clock.
A d. Folker, county agent. will speak
on Management of Live Stock and
Poultry on the Farm" Mrs. Green, in
charge of club work in the country,
will talk on "War Bread" A pie sup
per will be served, the receipts to go
to the Junior Red Cross. The wo-
men attending are asked to furnish
the pies.
At the Valentine party to be given
by the Topeka chapter, No. 64S,
American Insurance union next Mon
day night, the guests are expected to
each one of them bring some portion
of the feast that is to be the chief
feature of the party. The idea is that
the mass of food will be put into
common pie and then apportioned
among the guests by a corps of wait
ers. No guest will know what he is
going to get.
Gladys Smith, 16-year- old colored
girl, and Antonio Rodriguez, her Mex
lean stepfather, are charged with
stealing the furs and muff from Mrs.
Olive Whitmer. 421 Topeka avenue.
The girl, who works in the Whitmer
home, has confessed that she left a
window open so Rodriguez could get
in Rodriguez denies he is implicated
in the theft. The furs and muff were
stolen from a couch in the Whitmer
home situated in a window. While
Mrs. Whitmer was in another room
Tuesday night some one opened the
window and took the furs and muff.