The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-06

be given to the club quarters fund of
/ the organization.
| Sickness among families is making
/ the work OF the Provident association
! heavier than usual this week, accord
/ ing to Miss Virginia Campbell. secre-
| tary. Mattresses are especially well
corned at the present time. Clothing,
groceries and bedding are being most
| generously distributed by the associa-
! ton.
The Mckinley day program which
was to have been given Tuesday after
noon by Women's Relief Corps No. %,
at its hail. 116 East Sixth avenue. has
! been postponed on account of the
| deaths of Martha Griggs and Belle
I Chamberlain. Memorial services for
| these two late members will be held
Tuesday afternoon instead.
DR.. Raymond ]. Wade, of Chicago
delivered three illustrated lectures
Sunday on the Methodist centenary
| thruout the world. He spoke in the
morning to the First Methodist con-
gregation at the high school audi
forum, at the Kansas Avenue Meth
odist church in the afternoon and at
the LownIan Memorial church Sun
day night.
The sale of pure-bred Duroc-Jersey
hogs. held at the Kansas Free Fair
grounds Saturday by the Shawnee
County Duroc Breeders association,
resulted in the sale of forty-five hogs
at an average price of $3S a head,
which was IS more per head than the
average at a sale held there last fall.
One hog owned by Clark Witwer
brought SIS.
A service bureau has been organized
by the Y. W. c. a. The work of the
bureau will be the investigation of
rooms and the maintenance of an en-
ployment bureau. The members of
the committee in charge of the bureau
are: Mrs. T. d. Alden, Mrs. w. w.
Webb. Mrs. L. NJ. Maffett, Mrs. J. r.
Waddington, Mrs. W. D. Wallace. Miss
Helen Hollar and Mrs. C. A. Harlan.
Tuesday evening, February Z, will
be ''Washburn night for the members
of the Topeka COOPERATIVE club. Stu
dents from the college will furnish the
music at theNregular dinner and meet
ing of the club at Pelletier's Tea room
at 6:15 o'clock. President P. P. Wo-
mer. of the college, will speak. The
program Of the evening will be in
charge of DIR. S. T. Willard and w. F.
Carrie.
An automobile I driven by Eli C.
Foster, S11 West. Sixth avenue, coll
lided with a car driven by George
Braton, 1924 Kansas avenue, at 1920
O'clock this afternoon at Eighth ave-
nue. and Topeka boulevard. Foster
was driving east on Eighth and Braton
was driving north on Topeka boule-
ward. No perspns were injured. Eos
ter's car was not damaged to any
notable eXtent.-> The rear axle on Bra
toms car was broken.
A suit in which Sam Hastings of
Kansas City, Kan, is plain ff and the
Cudahy Packing company is defend :
ant, originally filed in the Wyand otte
county district court, was today trans
ferred to the United States district
court at Topeka. Hastings, former
employee of the packing company, is
suing for compensation amounting to
$5.706. which he alleges is due him as
the result of injuries received in an
accident March 8, 1921.
With subscriptions of $4,000 re-
ceiVed last week, the new church fund
of the First Methodist church now to-
tails S154,000, according to an an
nOuncement made at Sundays services.
Donations during. the preceding week
included $1,000 by ]. R. Burrow.
president of the Central National
bank; $500 by Mr.. and Mrs. e. NJ
Cockrell, $500 by Mr.. and Mrs. w. A
Biby, 500 by the sThompson-Bau
Austin Hardware company, and 500
by Mrs. George p. Morehouse. Work
is now progressing on the interior of