The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

| at the EIks club.
DR.. r.. B. Stewart. office 91s Kansas
/ Phone I1.-Adv.
Samuel Carroll. of the State Journal. is
! in Wichita today delegate from Topeka
| Typographical union to the Missouri Valley
conference.
| The Topeka branch of the National As
| sicintion for the Advancement of Colored
| Peaple will meet this evening at O'Clock
at 40 Kansas avenue
w. u. Wolfe, reporter for the State
Journal, is ill at his home 921 Clay street,
with pneumonia He was taken down with
| Influenza about week ago.
Hugh Walker, % years old. was arrested
| by the police Sunday on a charge of
drunkenness. He was released on bond to
appear in police court Tuesday.
| street ear jumped the track at the
curve on the Branner street viaduct sun
| day and ran a few feet along the planking
| before it was stopped No one was hurt.
| Julius Oberg, p years old, was arrested
| Sunday on the charge of having liquor in
/ to appear in police court next Tuesday aft
| ernoon.
The good weather the last two Sundays
has increased the church patronage" to
almost s. X. O. capacity anu the evil re-
| suits of the flu epidemics being re-
lieved.
After weeks of strenuous activity the city
street department today completed its task
! of cleaning the snow and ice from the
| downtown streets. Now that this work is
| done, it is time for another snowstorm.
|
club will be held tonight at the Central
Y. NJ. G. A. at 6:15 o'clock. L. T. Hussey,
state fire marshal, will make the address
of the evening on the work of his depart
ment-
Sparks flying from the chimney which
| ignited the roof at the home of Henry
Buff, Cos West Tenth street. at noon on
was eXtinguished by fire companies
The damage was slight.
Jessie Brice today filed a petition in
[ fh. off of he cf- ri,
| divorce from Edward Brice on the ground
that he had abandoned her more than IL
| year ago. She wants $50 month aIimony
and the custody Of their two minor chill
| dreu.
The Sunday school Athletic club. organ
| lied under tile auspices of the y. NJ. q A.
will meet at the Central Association build
| ing Wednesday evening at 6 80 o'clock to
complete plans for basketball league for
the boy students in Sunday schools of the
| Topeka churches.
The regular meeting of the w r. G.
will be held Tuesday afternoon at o'clock
At the X. Of T hall patriotic program
/ given at ; 80 Governor Henry Allen and
Senator Capper will speak. A returned
soldier Will be asked to make an address
| also
Fred Miller a discharged soldier whose
home is said to be at Holton. Kan. was
on the charge Of forgery. He lei is IS said TO to
| have passed off several bogus checks for
small amounts on Topeka merchants. He
I
| I"lice. and was TUNED over to the county
authorities.
Druggists in Topeka report a run on
| poker chips Il have had six calls for the
! reds, whites and blues today. and | under
| stand from these prospective. customers
that the town has gone dry on en- n we'll
known Kansas avenue druggist said this
| afternoon. OF course, the fact that the
| legislature is in session is simply a CO.
ferred.
The men Of the COOPERATIVE club will
| entertain their wives at the next regular
meeting of the club Tuestia " evening. Janu
airy y. Dinner will be served at G 20 o'clock.
Miss Marguerite Gohlke and b. F. Bartlett
will sing. Lieut.. CIarkson Milispaugh has
a German prison camp. Members are ask
ed To reserve their plates thru W. X. FaIk-
| ner as soon as possible.
T. d Smith. a laborer, was arrested to-
! day by Detective George Frost for inves-
tganon IN connection with the disappear-
ance from the plant of the Road Supply
| company, Fifteenth and Santa Fee of a
crank case valued at 800. According to
| the police. Smith is of the men who
was arrested last summer in connection
! with the robbery of grocery store at
| Twenty-first and Lincoln streets.
At meeting of the Ministerial associa-
ton. held this morning at the Central i.
NJ. c: A. bulldog. an Informal discussion
was held of proposed evangelistic cam
paign. The plans, thus far suggested, look
pastors of the various churches and the
church people will work for a renewed in
!
in the church. Rev c. w Maggart. pastor
OF the First Lutheran church, is head of
| the committee.
A special car will take about fifty bows
Older Boys conference to be held there
February I: and ., The conference ex-
and 200 leaders They Will be entertained
In salina homes. A II. Tebben, of the
state Y. NJ. c. A, has just returned from
SAUNA where he attended meeting of a
local committee of business men for the
purpose of making the plans and arrange
| ments for the conference.
Preparations are rapidly being completed
Tor the big joint meeting and monday
! luncheon of the Native Sons and Haugh-
ters of Kansas to be held on Kansas day
January 20, at the Chamber of Commerce
Tickets are on sale at the following drug
stores Wagner 4 Goodrich. Brunt's
Co. Rosser's. Flad & Marsh. They can also
| be obtained at the WaShburn college bust.
ness mes office Office and from Carl P. Holman at
Mrs Il, T. Bartlett, No. 3497.
f. Il. Bartlett, of the First Methodist
church, has been elected chairman OF the
Topeka Sunday. School Athletic associa-
ton Other officers elected were. c. NJ
CaSe of the Potwin Presbyterian church
nut drove Methodist Church o se eeF az
treasurer; \ u. Bolton, physical director
At the Central y. NJ. C. A, athletic adviser
6aall league Entries will close January
n Four games will be played every
| wednesday and saturday evening.
| Todays influenza report at 80 O'Clock
| indicated that there were then seventeen
cases of Influenza in the city. Mondays
| report usually carries number of cas- SEES
arising on the preceding Sunday. which
may account for the larger number oil
persons afflicted with the disease than has
been turned in for several days A little
| imported ''flu''-five cases of twas
brought into the city yesterday when five
train all of them stricken With the ~ dis
ease. and were installed IN the city emer-
Eency hospital. Nine releases from quar-
antine and no deaths completed the figures
| shown by the report