The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-18

i Rev. j. II. sutton, DR.. B. M. Powell,
DIR, C. 3. Zook, and ]. w. Marlin,
| president of the Topeka district of the
Epworth league.
One thousand years of history has
| TRANSFERRED since 1914. according to
DR.. Wallace Bruce Fleming. president
| of Baker university. who delivered an
address Sunday evening at the Low
man Memorial Methodist church. He
told of the peace situation today and
compared it with what we expected
when the armistiee was signed No
vember IL, 1918. The world is no
longer independent but is inter-de-
pendent, he said.
There was a large exhibition of
work done by the Kansas Industrial
and Educational institute on display
at the Kansas Free Fair. The tailor
ing department of the school placed
$50 suits and 200 pairs of overalls on
exhibition. The domestic arts depart
ment displayed twelve dresses. There
were also agricultural, domestic
science and mechanical exhibits.
Much larger exhibits are planned next
year and they may also appear at the
! Hutchinson fair.
AS result of the special services
and sermons on the massacres of
Christians in Smyrna, three Topeka
churches took up special collections
Sunday, which totaled $212. and the
members and congregations of others
were urged to give to the Near East
relief their contributions for the as
sistance of the suffering in that To-
cality. The collection at the Westmin
ster Presbyterian church amounted to
$135, the Potwin Presbyterian $50 and
the United Presbyterian $27.
A. A. Remington, secretary of the
State Y. NJ. G. A, held a conference
with the officers of Hi-Y clubs in
southern Kansas Friday and Saturday
at Av-Nr N n rNv-ft NV
boys work secretary of the association,
will leave Tuesday for Manhattan,
where he will make preliminary ar
rangements for the holding of the
state older boys conference, Decem-
Der 1, 2 and 3. He will speak at the
assembly of Manhattan high school.
On Wednesday he will address the
students of Hutchinson high school.
Capitola Rebekah lodge No. PIG will
celebrate its seventy-third anniversary
at a meeting tonight at Penwells hall,
Odd Fellows temple. A program of
music and readings has been arranged.
Past noble grand officers of the Re-
bekah assembly and past grand Of
ficers of the Odd Fellows lodge in To-
peka will be in attendance. The Rev.
E. w. Harrison, pastor of the Third
Christian church, will give the invo-
cation. A short address will be de-
livered by the Rev. J. Quincy Biggs.
pastor of the Central Park Christian
church.
Members of the Ohio club will hold
their annual picnic Thursday at Ches-
ney park. All former residents OF
Ohio are invited to attend. The, pro
gram will open at noon with a lunch
con. All guests will bring their
lunches and the club will serve coffee.
Charles H. Sessions and T. A. McNeat
will be the principal Speakers. There
will be impromptu speeches by per-
nrf1 h
counties. The late H. W. Bomgardner
was president of the club. John A.
Alexander, 419 Lafayette street, vice
president, is acting president. Mrs
Henry T. Herr, 1872 Taylor street, is
secretary Harry Wright is in charge
Of the program.
The members Of the western section
of the Y. NJ. c. A. Employed Off
GERS association of Kansas will hold
meeting, Monday, October rs, at
Newton, to confer on changing the
plan of organization Of the Etate Y.
NJ. c. A. A similar meeting will be
held in southeastern Kansas in the
near future. No definite action on
the matter will be taken until A. A.
Remington state secretary, returns
from the state and international sec
retaries meeting, which will be held in
New York City. September 2S. The
Kansas associations to be represented
at the Newton meeting are: Emporia,
Arkansas City. Wichita, Hutchinson,
Mcpherson, Ellis, Hoisington, Horace
and Newton.
The appeal of Charles Maust for
a writ of habeas corpus to obtain his
release from the federal ,penitentiary
at Leavenworth, where he is now serv-
ing life term for murder, has come
to naught The United States circuit
court of appeals has affirmed the
decision of Judge John c. Pollock
denying Maust the writ, according to
word received by the federal district
attorneys office here. On March IS,
1901, Ben Cravens and Bert WeIty
killed Alvin BatesmanF a business
man In Red Rock, Okla. Wefty was
wounded in a battle with. a posse and
captured, but Cravens killed a deputy
sheriff and escaped. Nothing, more
was heard of him for ten years But
in 1901 a Bertillion expert declared
that Charles Maust, serving a term for
horse stealing in the Missouri state
penitentiary, was really Cravens. He
was tried in the federal court of Okla
homa, convicted and sentenced to life
Imprisonment In his application for
a writ of habeas corpus he alleges
that he is not Cravens at all, and Sec