The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-04
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AT HOME NEWS

nee Building & Loan association, us
West Sixth street.-Adv.
Plans are being made to initiate
class of $50 candidates into Round
Table chapter De Molay, February %.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Shawnee County Medical society will
be held Monday night at Stormont
hospital.
Twenty eight Topeka high school
students are/organizing a band under
the direction of Miss Grace V. Wilson,
music supervisor.
The members of. the Current Topics
class of the First Methodist church
were entertained at a banquet at the
Central Y NJ. C. A. Tuesday night.
A flue fire caused the only alarm
received by the Topeka fire depart
ment this morning. The burning flue
was at 1898 Lincoln street, and the
alarm was turned in at 8:55 o'clock.
President W. A Brandenburg of the
Pittsburg Normal school will act as
chairman of the Kansas State Sunday
School convention, which will be held
April q and % at Parsons.
The Trinity Methodist church vol
leyball team defeated the First Meth
odist team in a match Friday night
on the Trinity court. Trinity won four
out of five games. The Trinity Sec
ond team lost to the First Methodist
seconds.
o. ]. Dutton, general agent of the
Union Central Life Insurance COM
pany. with offices at sos Kansas ave-
nue.. will leave tonight for Stock bridge,
Mich, in answer to a Telegram from
that place stating his mother was
seriously ill.
The first case of smallpox in its viz
ulent form to be reported in Topeka.
was reported to the city health de-
partment this morning. Three previous
cases have been reported in the past
two weeks. all of them mild form of
the disease.
AS the result in a delay in naming a
successor to c. B. White, who resigned
as United States commissioner in To-
peka, effective January 1, any matters
coming before that official must be
transferred to the office nearest to
Topeka, which is Leavenworth.
The city commission this morning
appointed w. A Neiswanger to act as
an appraiser in the matter of the
changing of the grade of the alley be-
tween Kansas avenue and Quincy
street. running from Tenth avenue to
Eleventh street. l. w. Wilson, APP
pointed at the last meeting of the COM
mission, declined to serve.
Revival services are being conducted
at the Third Presbyterian church on
the east side each night except Mon
day night. The Rev. Thomas J. Ora
ham. D. D., of Louisville, KY, is
directing the services. Song services
under the direction of George w.
Adamson are held each evening at
7:45 o'clock, preceded by a prayer
meeting at 1880 o'clock.
Miss Bonita Ferguson, superintend-
ent of the young peoples division of
the Kansas Sunday School aSsocia-
ton, left today for Baldwin. Kan,
peoples department of the Methodist
Sunday school. Miss Ferguson will
leave Tuesday for Chicago, where she
will attend the annual midwinter con-
vention of the state young peoples
superintendents of the Sunday School
associations.
Music at the IL o'clock service Sun
day morning at the First Unitarian
church, ga Topeka boulevard, will
include a contralto solo by Mrs. Karl
Rankin, Hear Me When I CAN
tBurnow Huhm), and a violin solo by
Miss LoVelia Hilty. Air for the G.
Strings (Bach), the latter being one
contest. Organ prelude and organ Of
fertbry numbers will be furnished by
Miss Bernice Hemus.
The Rev. John Wells Rahilil, pastor
of the Central Congregational church,
has announced the following topics
lot U1OTHlIS S0IHiOnS duIlllS CDl u
airy: February 5, John Ruskin,
Prophet" February II, Abraham
Lincoln" February 10, Marks of n
Gentleman" February 26I President
P. P. Womer of Washburn college will
occupy the pulpit. The following
services: THE Fall of Babylon"
The Highest Law" MY own United
States" and THE Sky Pilot"
Local sport fans are awaiting with
considerable interest the wrestling
bout which will take place Monday
night, February 6, between Tommy
Doctor and Billy Romonoff at War
hicks hall. AS both men are welter-
weights the bout should be fast and
furious from the start. Doctor is an
welterweight champion of the
world, while Romonoff claims to hold
the welterweight champion belt of the
Pacific coast. The main event of the
evening will be preceded by a, prelim-
mary bout and a couple of boxing
contests.
The American system Of govern
ment, and some of the movements
that have been undertaken to revo-
lutionize it," is announced as the sub
ject from which Col John S. Dean
will speak at 8 o'clock Sunday eve
ming at the peoples forum meeting
IN the First Unitarian church, 914
Topeka boulevard. Following the adj
dress there will be open forum dis
cussion from the floor. The public is
invited. The local chapter of the
Unitarian Laymen's league will hold
Its business meeting in the church
parlors at 7:15 o'clock, preceding the
peoples forum.
Jack Merritt. an actor. was hailed
into police court Friday afternoon on
complaint of Billie Bard, an employee
or the oxford restaurant. that he had
stolen his shirt. Merritt had been
arrested while leaving the hotel with
his grip. He declared that all the
clothes it contained belonged to him.
Moreover. he asserted that he and
Bard had been roommates in various
cities during the last few months and
mat they were in the habit of wearing
each others clothes. Judge Rad Lee
raised his eyebrows when the latter
statement was made. He scrutinized
ire small frame of Merritt and eyed
the huge form of Bard. Then he scrib-
pied something on his docket. Thirty
days and So" he said. 'Next?"