The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-07
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AT HOME NEWS

", WHO no, lifts five men on a pole"
we VIII make you heavyweight champion
II you sign" to carry coal.
-Gussie Morrow Gage.
Clifford Pierce. state Y. NJ. c. A.
secretary. is i'll with tonsilitis, at his
home, 1178 College avenue.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Swedish Bethel church will meet at
crosby Brothers Red Cross rooms
Friday afternoon.
A marriage license was issued in
Kansas City, Mo-. Wednesday to
Clemens S. Brock. 81, and Maggie B.
Wlllet, A, both of Topeka.
Sgt. John Mcintyre of Company A,
ITO engineers. at Camp Doniphan, re-
turned to camp to day after a visit
with bis parents. Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. l.
Mcintyre of Topeka.
me Gabriel Lumber company today
SUED the Street Railway company in
the court of Topeka for $3.50, alleging
that employees of the defendant negli-
gently ran a street car into a motor
car belonging to the plaintiff
Q. L. Wood, United States marshal
today took Albert Winiarz, an enemy
alien, from Wichita, where he was
arrested for making seditious remarks,
to Leavenworth, where the prisoner
will be interned for the duration Of the
war.
Fire companies were called We'd
nesday afternoon to eXtinguish a blaze
in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. warehouse,
turning of an alcohol lamp. The
bench on which the lamp was stand
ing was burned.
Tho Rev. s.. A. Anderson of the
Third Presbyterian church will speak
tonight at Salvation Army hall. 400
Kansas avenue, as part of a re
turn service" feature. Recently the
Salvation Army. conducted services at
the Third Presbyterian church
Miss Margaret Goodrich, district
agent for the Curtis publications, will
give a dinner Friday night for the
2. j. G. boys, at the Y. NJ. C. A. At
the after dinner program, an address
sas City, who is a representative of
the Curtis publishing house.
A marriage license obtained recent
ly from the probate cour. at Law
renee by Leo George Craig and Ethel
May Harriet, both of Topeka, has
been returned with the explanation
that the couple is too young" The
parents wouldn't consent to the
match, it is asserted by the girls
mother.
Judge James H. Reeder. who died
Wednesday night at his home in
Kansas City, Mo-, was once a law part
ner with Judge DeWitte c. Nellis, who
was elected to the Kansas legislature
In 1889 and again in 1891. The body
was taken to Hays City, where the
burial took place today
A banquet was given Wednesday
night for the unit of colored men
VINO will aeave soon for Camp Fun
ston. The party was given at the
Third Baptist church, Eleventh and
Washington. streets. TIL. address of
the evening was made by the Rev.
D. A jefferson, d. D., who has lately
come to Topeka from Coffeyville.
Florence Malone, 26-year-old pa
tient at the state hospital, threw her
self in front of a speeding eastbound
Rock Island passenger train late
Wednesday afternoon and was in
stantly killed. The patient who, ac-
cordinS to Officials, was suffering
with form of depression that at
times assumed a maniaeal form, was
out walking with Ethel Tamblyn, an
attendant, and lodged away from the
companion when the train approach
ed. The body was taken to Shella-
barger's undertaking parlors.
News of the death of Mrs. Aura
Wooden Smith, has been received
from Rochester. n. Y. She was the
wife of King D. Smith, 1914 Van Blu
rem street, custodian of the locker sys-
tenn in the basement of the Central
Y. NJ. c. A. Mrs. Smiths death re-
suited from pneumonia, brought on by
shock and exposure in the wreck OF
the train in which she was travelling
to Rochester to attend the funeral
of a sister. She died at the home
of another sister, DR.. Loretta Wooden
Turner of Rochester. Mr.. Smith has
gone to Rochester to attend the flu
neral of his wife. She will be buried
in RocheSter.