The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-15
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

The Ministerial union will meet next
Monday morning at 10 o'clock at the Cen
trail Y. NJ. C. A.
Kenneth Raub. county clerk of Shawnee
county, who has been seriously i'll with in
fluenZa, has recovered and is back at his
office again.
There will be a special called meeting of
afternoon at = 80. O'Clock at the Y. W. c.
\. a full attendance is urged
Rev w. j. Herwig, superintendent of
day morning at IL o'clock in the Methodist
church. Coffeyville, and in the evening in
the Princess theater, Neodesha, Kan.
Chaplain Homer L. Wark, recently re-
turned from France, where he served as
chaplain with the 18th infantry of the
S5th division, will be the speaker at the
Fellowship luncheon Sunday evening at
the Central y. NJ. {. A.
Wanamaker school has taken a French
orphan. The school children raised the
sumner IL short time ago There are forty
pupils and two teachers in the school. The
teachers are Bessie Eddy and Elsie Wilson.
Roy Kerle. son of W. H. Kerle, secretary
of the Topeka Industrial council: has ar
rived in New York with the 113rd aero
squadron according to word received in
Topeka today. Young Kerle said in his
Just rarin to get home"
Mrs. NJ A Sites will entertain the lady
Maccabees at a st. Patrick party next Mon
day evening at her home, 325 Polk street
There will be a special musical program.
The out of town guests for the occasion
will be Mrs. Kate Swan, state commander;
Mrs. A. II. Brill. Emporia; Mrs. NJ Stat
ford, Mayetta, and Mrs. NJ. j. Sites, st.
Marys.
DR. Lydia Devilbiss, director of the
child hygiene division of the state board
of health, has written a letter to L. z.
sprague. manager of the production. the
Unmarried Mother" showing at the
Grand theater. in which she says: Il had
the pleasure last night of seeing your play,
and am much interested in your success.
~, ell fIn ioIa
| wish the members of the Kansas legis-
lature might see the play"
Gladys Penny and her small brother,
penry HoT We're 9f dnq Frdav By
explosion of dynamite caps. The family
had recently moved on to the farm where
the accident occurred and the children
found the caps in the yard, and not know
ing what they were, began to examine
them, when they exploded, injuring the
Without with serious injury. The parents
brought the girl to Topeka, and she is
under treatment at Christ hospital.
A copy of the Marse Henry edition of
the COurier-Journal of Louisville has been
received by the Topeka free public library
and has been placed on the public reading
table for the benefit or patrons of the
library. 1t is an unusual publication, is
sued Il personal compliment to Henry
Watterson, editor emeritus of the Courier
Journal. The edition was made -apropos
by collateral events: the entry of Mr.. Wat
terson upon his eightieth year; the begin
ming OF the sixth Uecaue OF ms editorial
connection with the Courier-J ournal, and
the publication of the initial chapters of
Looking Backward" Mr.. Watterson' s
memoirs and "reminiscences of men. women
and events during eight decades of Ameri-
can history.
Excelsior lodge No 8. Knights of
Pythias, and Prince Albert court No. 1,
Order of Calanthe, will hold a joint
Thanksgiving service at Metropolitan hall,
4O+ Kansas avenue, Sunday, March D,
Capt. H. 1. Monroe will have charge of
the program. Prayer will be offered by
by the orders. A paper by Miss Matte
Perkins. Address on Pythianfsm, Prof.
Il. II. Wade. The sermon will be de-
livered by the Rev. l.. st. Geo. A. Nc
Callum of the B. l., present pastor of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church of this
city. Music will be furnished by the Pierce
Addition band, under the management of
Sir Nelson Hilton.