The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-25
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

At a special session today the state
charter board granted a charter to the
bourbon County Oil and Gas company OF
Fort Scott. The company is capitalized
for $50.U00.
Marco Morrow will address the Square
Circle club tonight at the regular dinner to
be held at the Elks club at 8 SO o'clock A
business meeting and the election of
officers will be part of the program.
f. II. Reeee.. IL: Lawrence street. was
arrested Saturday by the police on com
plant of his wife that he WAS not support
ing her. The Officers found him in bed.
He is said to have no regular occupation
f. F. Nipps. local freight and passenger
agent of<the Missouri Pacific railroad, is
on an extended leave of absence being re
lieved by F. &. Leighty Of the St Louis
office of the company.
At a meeting of the Cooperative club
TO be held Tuesday evening at the Elks
club Fred Rogers will read portions OF
letters from his son-in-law. Lieutenant
Lewis. who has been in France for several
months.
Rev. irwin B. Pul1iam. pastor. Of the
Euclid Avenue Methodist church, Is re-
covering from an operataion which he under
went last Thursday His pulpit was filled
Sunday morning by the Rev. Bernarn
| Kelly, and in the evening by the Rev. j. w.
| Clardy.
DIR. LATE Bresette. who is in the United
States naval hospital Mt Pelham Bay, is
! his parents. Mr.. AMI Mrs. J. f. Bresette.
/ He has been treating Influenza cases In
the hospital since the beginning Of the
| epidemic.
! The Y. w. c. A. will organize a knitting
class tonight Yarn will be given out to
knitters for sweaters; Only those who can
| ply. Instructions in knitting will be given
| by Miss Louise Curtis of the girls depart
! ment of the association.
One hundred and thirty eight new men,
| bers of the high school Y. w. c. A, came
| into the association as a result of the men,
bership campaign Just closed The girls of
the high school association sold apples and
| peanuts at the football game Saturday, md
| fund.
The semi annual meeting of Toltec Rite
is being held today. First and second de-
grees were conferred this afternoon at ? 30
O'Clock, and at O'Clock tonight a banquet
the third degree. Mrs. A. T. Lucas is la ly
superior, and w. w. Cook, knight CON-
| mander.
| Betty Lou kirkpatrick. the small daugh-
| ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Theron c. kirkpatrick
| was presented with sterling silver baby's
4 table set by the board of directors Of the
| Chamber of Commerce this noon. The gift
was made in recognition of the fathers
| service as secretary of the Topeka Chamber
of Commerce for the last twelve months.
| Will Dupree, colored, a local police char.
acter, received fractured skull Sunday
night when he attempted to resist n night
| Waterman at the Wolff Packing company
act Of stealing seventy-five feed sacks. The
negro received two heavy blows over the
| head before he would submit to arrest.
] ILLUSTRATIVE OF the tremendous amount OF
sickness that has prevailed in the last few
weeks in Topeka is the appropriation OF
$l4s.9s passed by the directors Of the
amount $12G.34 was for medical attention
medicine and nursing. Nursing expense.
were S12.s4. for medicines $3.50 was ex
pended and S34 went for doctors fees
Relief Corps No. 81 is undergoing in
spection by the department president Mrs
Naverna Williamson, of Newton. All mem
bers of the corps who have been doing Rec
| Cross knitting are asked to report TO fht
president, Mrs. Edith Supple, the number
Of knitted garments made. The Relic
| Corps service flag will be dedicated as sOoI
MS the names of the men represented on tn,
flag are assembled.
Ed Jackson was arrested Saturday after
noon charged with careless driving as tn,
result or running into a Dibble grocer!
wagon at Norris street and North Kansa
avenue. He was taking passenger to TIL
Santa Santa Fe junction depot in an oaklan.
as he came around the corner t,
Norris street he said. He vas release,
on bond to appear in police court
A petition asking Judgment of $40
against Sarah c. kiehl was filed today fl
the office of the district court by Cora h
rrs tha Kansas avenue ts Mrs marr
her building to Frank Humbert in Febru
airy. 1917; that the defendant collected tn
: 1SqS but never turned it over to her. Re
peated demands for the amount have beel
without avail, she says.
Preparations are being made by Kennel
Raub, county clerk. for the drawing of tn
jury for the January term of the Shawne
county district court. Altho the opening o
the term will probably be delayed severa
, days, it is supposed to open January 1, an,
the statutes require that the drawing o
the jurors completed thirty days before
The law requires that twelve jurors b
drawn for each division. but the reques
of the judges for twenty four extra me
drawn to seventy-tw jurors.