The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-03

To tell which kind of breakfast food,
In going down the throat
i Can scratch the most effectively,
Let's take a full straw voter
Cir Cingle.
= Mrs. F. j. Dreyer is hostess to the
ladies of the First German M. E. Aid
! society this afternoon at her home on
/ Kendall avenue.
| Word has been received in Topeka
| of the death of Paul Lease in a hospi-
tai in East Berlin Lease has num-
Der of relatives in Topeka, among
them his aunt, Mrs. C. s. Warner.
For the first time since he was
! taken sick, ohm Coyne, of the city
taken sick, John Coyne, of the city
| hall Wednesday. This was the first
time since Thanksgiving that Coyne
has been able to be out
Aaron Green, former sanitary in
spector for the city health depart
ment, visited the city building We'd
nesday, while in Topeka on furlough
from Camp Funston, where he is now
engaged in Y. NJ. C. A. work among
! the colored soldiers.
! At the annual meeting of the board
of directors of the Topeka State bank
all of the old officers were reelected.
| The officers are: c. w Snyder pres
ident; Harry E. Gavitt and ]. T Gray,
vice presidents; George w. Snyder,
cashier; and A F. Miller, assistant
| cashier.
Ladies day at the Chamber of
! Commerce is tomorrow. But the C. of
c. has not been satisfied to merely
announce a ladies' day for the mem
bers have secured the Orpheum. or
| cheStra for the occasion. This is the
the Chamber of Commerce, which
speaks well for the quality of the en-
tertainment.
The Chamber of Commerce today
announced that there will be one
grand salubrious feast on the eyenin o
or January 10. Oysters are to form
the bulk of the meal, and the enter
| ta1nment feature will be furnished by
the board of directors in the character
| OF walters de luxe. Director Chas
Irapp is expected to give the best por-
| trayal of the character, especially
since he, himself, admits that he has
had considerable experience in that
capacity.
At the Lowman Methodist church
| today the delegates of the Woman's
,ore1gn Missionary society met in an
all day session. Delegates were pres
e1t from Kansas. Nebraska, Colorado.
Oklahoma and Missouri. Lunch was
served at the church this noon. The
feature of the day was a talk on the
conditions and work of the mission
aries In India by Miss Ethel Whiting.
VINO mas Just returned from that field.
Other features were the reports OF
missionaries in all parts of the world
. At the meeting of the board of di.
rectors of the Chamber of Commerce
this noon, the plans for the comine
year were up for discussion No de-
Unite plans were made tho nunbe,
of tentative suggestions were proposed
secretary Wilson of the Kansas CITY
Kan, Chamber of Commerce was pres
ent at the meeting as a guest j. o
stevenson of the American city bu.
| nd ~,
talk on what had been done by the st
Augustine Chamber of Commerce il
the line of city building and admins
tratlon- He gave number of sugges
: tons as to what the Topeka Chamber
OF Commerce might do in it's work THU
year.
Among the 1,345 rumors that ar,
afloat in Topeka today is modern
lied revival of the story that Doctor
Ernest, former Topeka physician, ant
now commissioned officer in tn,
medical corps, has been made to dis
his own grave, stand on it's brink Will,
he was shot to death and-some stree
car platform patrons declare-cove l
himself up with dirt. The origina
, story about Doctor Ernest afloat abou
a month ago stated that he was hun:
probably by his whiskers. It seem
that the esteemed doctor pumped dis
ease germs into the soldiers arms
Naughty, naughty doctor! The trutl
of the matter is, of course, that Docto
Ernest is alive and we'll and is dom.
) good work for the government at De
Moines
, At the stockholders meetin,
Wednesday of the Kansas Reserv
State bank, the report was made O
the growth, business and condition o
. the bank at the end of its first calen
dar gar, December 81. The repor
and prosperous condition of the in
!, stitution were subjects of qualification
!, The following board of directors wa
reelected: F. C. Kaths Earl Akers
. Frank P. MacLennan. E. D. McKeever
DR.. ]. A. Steinmeyer. F. A Anton
, Charles Eldridge, George Godfre
Moore, Henry Short, E. C. Winters
, F. c. Thompson; j. H. Lee, Harvey
vile; L. P. Clark, Independence. Tn
> directors reelected the following of
ficers: F. c. Kaths, president; Fran
p. MacLennan, vice president; Ear
Akers, cashier; F. C. Thompson, assis
tant cashier.
Hearing on an application to SCI
the rails on the Leavenworth & To
1 peka between Meriden junction an
| Ozawkie has been Indefinitely post
poned by Federal Judge John c. Pol
= | lock, according to word received i
Topeka today. The postponement O
i the hearing, scheduled for Saturday
I ! is in compliance to a request fror
I Congressman D. r. Anthony, jr., VIII
has been representing the interests c
Jefferson county residents living o
the road. Time was requested 70
the residents to organize and prepar
formal protest before Judge POLLOCK
The motion to destroy the L. & 7
! may not be heard until it is de
termined what action the governmer
will take on the maintenance an
operation of this and other railroad