The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-25


Miss Mary Bunker. supervisor of draw
ing in the public schools. is recovering
from an attack of Influenza
j. F. Austin is i'll at St. Francis hospital
He was stricken with paralysis Jan =
and his condition is rapidly growing worse
The Older Boys meeting at the y. NJ G
A. will be held Sunday afternoon at j
O'clock Rev. Il. j. Mitchell will make the
address.
group of editors from various parts of
the state were entertained ut iunch To-Day
at the Chamber of Commerce, by Frank
L. MacLennan.
Albert Wilson of Hutchinson is visiting
his parents; ar and Mrs kieh nnd MI MI
Wilson have been Ill with Influenza.
Justice ]. s. West will make an address
at the Fellowship luncheon at the Y NJ. Z
A Sunday evening ut $50 o'clock. Stran-
gers are especially invited to attend the
luncheon.
Tom Powell has returned from Kansas
City Kan where he gave sf f"r in enter ter
ebration of the birthday anniversary of
Robert Burns.
| Prof. Roy Towne will continue his lee
! ture before the Bible class sunday at 10 Il.
| m on the comparative Study of the
| Greek and Hebrew Prophecy" at the First
congregational church. All men are wei
| come.
| Lieut.. Erwin Keller, member of the
| Shawnee Cycle company firm. who mas
| been in the service In France Tor more tna nan
/ a
| return to his business interests i'll To-
! i.eka soon.
: Suit to collect 500 from Roy +. Ham
3 nett and $3.50 from NJ. Il. Van Petten was
: tIIed Friday In the office of the district
! court by ]. f. Shaffer. real estate man
! with offices at 600 Kansas avenue. shat
: fer claims that he obtained buyers Tor the
| properties of the two men and that they
have refused to pay him commission
The Shawnee County Political Science
club will give banquet at the Chamber
| of Commerce the evening OF February 10
| in honor of Miss Lizzie Wooster. the first
| woman state officer in Kansas, and in
honor of Mrs Minnie Grinstead. the frs,
woman representative in the Kansas legis-
| lature. Governor Henry Allen Will make
an address.
Fire companies were called out twice
this morning At IL o'clock companies
went to 1925 Tyler street where the root
of a two story frame dwelling caught OF
| chimney. 1t was eXtinguished with very
little damage resulting to the buildinG
panies responded to calls from 1874 Tylel
| street to watch flue burn out.
meeting of the Rotary club will b'
held Friday evening. January 81, at til,
| postponed from this week. on account o.
the high school play az the auditorium
dinner the governments film Fit-to
Fight will be shown Each member o
the club may invite two men guests for th'
dinner, and a larger number of guests fo
the picture
Earl Reeder. recently convicted by
jury in the second division of the distric
court OF completely in the robbery of tn
Gallagher grocery store at Eighth and ella,
streets: July 16, 1918, filed a motion for
new trial in the office of the district cour
this morning. He bases his request 81
newly discovered evidence, Illegal testi
mony admitted at the trial and the alIege
mlsdlrectlon by the court of the jury &
material matters of law. H.
Local authorities received word from til
sheriff at Mankato. Kan, this morning ati
wishing them to be on the lookout for II ma
who robbed Mankato store Friday night
getting away with ten suits of clothini
and four travelling bags. 1t was state,
that he registered at Mankato under tn
name of w. H. Roberts. but that he lief
that place about midnight on the Roc
o'clock this morning.