The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HONE NEWS.

Fires were started-in the street cars
Sunday for the first time this winter.
Gordon, I'll East Tenth street. No
tvember 10.
| The weather was so cold this morning
THAT the first frost was seen on win
dows. There was no loafing on the
streets.
Ed Carver. deputy sheriff, will eat
lsquirrel tonight. Mine fell victims to
his Fundamentally on a hunting trip
to Dover.
The Belgian relief work was a COM
mon topic of conversation in Topeka
today. The spirit Of the campaign Is
tspreading rapidly.
About the only Topekans who are
smiling over the low gas pressure that
iarrived with the chilly weather are
1.-THE men with coal and wood to sell.
The Boys Industrial school. north of
the city, was one OF the points Of in
terest to the teachers during the state
convention. About 200 visited the insti-
tuition.
Local members of the order Of
Pythian Sisters attended the annual
gathering of that lodge in Kansas City
Hast week and report an enthusiastic
meeting.
Mrs. Roy Rodgers and children have
returned to Saginaw, Mich. after
spending a short time in this city.
IThey were called by the death of Har-
Imon Wentworth.
If in doubt about what to do for the
IBelgfans. just call up the Commercial
club and make arrangements to send
lin a check for a sack or a barrel of
flour for the Kansas flour ship.
Marriage licenses have been issued
to vurnis F. Emerson n. 20; OF sc ran
Ilingame, and to Charles n. Youngs-
doff, 81, and Anna ]. Erickson. both
of Topeka.
Local sportsmen who used to chase
1.-THE helpful quail are now taking out
their spite on the festive squirrels,
Imerous in the environs of Topeka this
Iyear than ever before.
Workmen are as busy as bees on
1.-THE roof of the new addition to the
high schol building, in their efforts to
get it slated before the falling weather
of winter arrives. 1t looks like they
are going to win out, too.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
Kansas State Bee Keepers association
will be held in the Commercial club
rooms, Topeka, December 4 and 5.
Frank c. Pellet of Iowa Will deliver
Shawnee county Is becoming very
dry. 1t has been a good many weeks
since the ground was thoroughly sat
urated and farmers are hoping the
weather man will not forget to order
a fair supply of precipitation along
with the cold weather.
The Current Topic club OF the T. M:
lie. A. will meet on Monday evening at
l6:15 1.-The Foot and Mouth Disease
and It's DANGER to Our Meat and Dairy
Supply will De the subject discussed
by Dr. w. L. johnson, government
expert, who will address the club
The trial Of sampson Porter, charged
- Eran n m
December 4. 1912, win begin tomor-
Irow in the first division of the Shaw
nee county district court. Bayless was
shot while visiting the bottoms.
Porter fled and esuded the ofiicera
several months. "a fstsst sA,-s
The cold wave reached Kansas at
the psychological moment to empha-
size the call for help for starving,
freezing Belgium. Every circle OF So
Jciety is taking an interest IN the move
will respond to the demand for flour
in a way to be proud OF.
A little Topeka boy who was Kissed
at by q gander on a, recent visit TO the
country subsequently, discussed the IN
cident with relative and Querieo:
when he Kissed at me?' And wnen ne
didn't get an answer he added: well
that's goose talk for beat 1t.
DR.. S. J.. Crumbine, secretary of the
state board of health, spoke last night
at the Third Presbyterian church on
the subject. Conservation of Human
Life" Plans are being made for the
establishment of public nursing sta
ltion at that church. A pure milk sta
ltion was maintained there with much
success. sa
Jewett Palmer, secretary Of the
Washington County Veterans asso-
citation at Marietta, Ohio, writes 70
the state Journal to say that ne re-
lcently read an account of the old SET
Element of Indianola, which interested
him particularly. and asks Tor in1or-
nation of another "once town located
near Topeka-Tecumseh. He hveo
there in 1857.
A meeting OF those who went out on
the inspection trip over the route OF
the proposed Topeka boulevard VIII
meet at the Commercial club TUESDAY
noon to formulate plan OF action II
is probable that a special working COM
mittee will be appointed to push the
boulevard plan. All persons interested
in the project-ladies included-are
! asked to be present at the meeting
Tuesday noon.
Fresh country eggs are becoming al
most as scarce on the market as the
proverbial hens teeth. And they're
not being grabbed in the country by
, the cold storage spectators. either.
The hens are not laying. One woman
, near Topeka who has been supplying
a store here with most of its eggs has
no less than 500 hens. or Whereabouts
And the best she could do last week
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