The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-05
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.


Approximately 5000 members are
enrolled on the roster of the Kansas
Federation of Women's clubs.
Topeka postoffice receipts show a
| gain of $4,000 for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, over the preceding year.
w. H. kemper, judge of the small
debtors court, with Mrs. Kemper, re-
turned to Topeka Sunday after spend
ing a months vacation in the east.
Has some one been misusing Uncle
Sans mails? Several postoffice in
spectors are in Topeka and are not
giving out any information concerning
their business.
More than 225 students of the To-
peka high school are now holding
down summer jobs. according to a re-
port made by J. F. Kaho vocational
instructor at the high school.
Nurses of the Public Health Nurs-
ing association have visited forty-five
babies during the last two months.
Half of them are ''bottle babies" The
mothers are given advice as to the
best way of rearing babies.
Washburn's reproduction of the
semicentennial pageant. which was to
have been given Saturday night, was
postponed on account of rain. 1t will
be given tonight. 1t will be a picture
reproduction with several tableauX in
exact replica by students who are still
in the city.
The meeting for examinations. of
/ the state board of nurses examiners
will be held "Wednesday and Thurs
/ day, July and 8, at the National no
| tel. Forty or more applicants for
| registration qualified nurses are
expected to take the state examina-
ton at that time.
Anderson Porter, colored, was ar
rested Saturday evening by the police
| on charge of aSsaI@ on Theodore
Anthony. The alleged assault occur
red last week when it is claimed Por
| ter attacked Anthony, who is a
wealthy stockman or Norton county,
| because Anthony refused to purchase
| liquor.
| Jesse Shaw, superintendent of the
city water plant has estimated that
| there are $4,000 persons living in ter
| ritory covered by the city's water SER
vice and that each person uses an av-
i erage of 76.1 gallons of water each
day. He also figured that one pound
/ of coal put under the boilers of the
/ pumping plant, pumps 1SS gallons of
/ water.
Charles Estis, 1895 North Jackson
/ street. was fined $75 Saturday after
| noon in police court Estis had a dis
pute with his wife about two weeks
/ ago which terminated in his destroy
| ing all her canned fruit 97d furniture
He was arrested Saturday and when
searched at the station black jack
was found in one stocking and q pair
of brass knucks in the other.
| Mrs. Henrietta Calvin, former To-
/ peka woman, and for several years
dean of women and head of the de-
partment of economics at the Kansas
State Agricultural college, is now re-
garded one of the authorities on
home economics She was recently ap-
pointed head of the home economics
| department of the national bureau of
education at Washington, D. c.
| Three hundred and six gopher scalps
were brought to the office of o. K.
Swayze county clerk, late Saturday
afternoon by Printest Wallace and
| Eldon Wallace, two negro boys. The
scalps brought bounty of $45, $3.50
cents from the county clerk and $1,000
from the owner of the land on which
| the scalpS were obtained. The goph-
ers were trapped on the land of Hor-
ace Adams, west of Rossville.
Topeka is fast becoming a spot1ess
| town. Last Saturday some one eX-
perforated on a sidewalk in front of
the city hall and indignation spread
the city sanitary department was
PANIED for not performing police
duties and experimenting and arrest
| ing the culprit. The charge is also
made that frequently the same thing
| takes place on lower Kansas avenue.
| According to Fred Robertson, Unit
ed States district attorney, there are
fifty thousand foreigners in the state
who are subject to military duty in
their native lands-provided their ma
tive governments can induce them to
return. They can not be taken fore
IDLY out of the United States. The
aliens subject to military duty are
those who have not taken out natur-
alization papers. Their children are
also subject to soldier service.
| Mrs Robert L. Payne. 304 Taylor
street is suffering from fractured
arm and Miss Genevieve HOuSer with
severe cuts and bruises on the body
as the result of an auto accident on
the Silver Lake road about half way
| between Silver Lake and ROSSyille
/ Sunday afternoon. w. NJ. Houser,
| GIL West Sixth street, was driving his
car 1t was .'ditched" when he at
tempted to avoid a collision with an
other machine. Mrs w NJ Houser
was also in the auto driven by her
husband. She was not injured
did BIabsons Lore affair have a happy
! ending?'' Il presus1 So saw his former
ffancee the other day. and she must
weigh at least 200 pounds" DO you sup
pose that makes Blabson happy: AT
least it doesn't make him unhappy You