The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Thirty new street lights are being
Installed in various parts of the city by
the city lighting department
Arthur B. Carson, who underwent a
serious operation at st. Francis hos
pital. is doing as nicely as could be ex-
pected.
Committees working on the pro-
gram for the anniversary celebration
of the local court of the G. of H will
report at the meeting of the lodge to-
night.
Wednesday evening, October 81,
Will be held a booster meeting of the
Scottish Rite Masons preparatory to
the reunion November 16, to be held
in Topeka
Harry Gavitt and c. S. GaVitt left
state on business connected with
Harry Gavitts oil and gas land in
Butler county, Kansas.
D. T. Hoatson of the lanl depart
ment of the Prudt ntial Life Insurance
company has been transferred to In
dianapolis. He and his family will
move there November 1.
November the Beulah cha pier No.
"a, o. E. s., will entertain at the Scot
fish Rite hall in honor of the grand
matron. Mrs. Myrtle Suit, 1897 North
Jackson street, ana the gran patron,
Rev. j. w. Waldron of Holton, Kan.
The Cadillac Sales company will
present a modern front to the world
as soon as the work is completed
upon the building at 514-516 Jackson
street. Large French plate glass
windows will be put in with many
other minor improvements.
The city of Topeka will be repre-
scented at the International Association
of Dairy and Milk Inspectors conven-
ton in Washington, d. c., which will
be held October 81, % and 20. The
city commission has voted to send DR..
Leslie w. Rowles. city milk inspectors
The first case of smallpox in several
months was discovered in Topeka
Thursday John Diel. ECO Chester
street. has been placed in the city de-
tention hospital. and his wife and two
children are under quarantine Diel
is Santa Fe employee and has been
working in Iowa.
A class of $50 coming from over the
state will attend the Shriners' cere-
monies at Topeka this fall The fall
reunion of the four coordinate Scot
fish Rite bodies of the valley of To-
peka in the Orient OF Kansas will be
held from November 16 to 10. There
will be degree work and several BAN
quets.
A dormitory for the nurses at st.
Francis hospital will be erected on
Morris avenue south of the hospital as
soon as sufficient funds are available.
The building will accommodate forty
nurses. The hospital is so crowded
even since the new addition was built
have not the proper quarters.
Berryton fair opened this morning
at the grange fair grounds in Berry
ton and will close tomorrow evening.
The grounds are in excellent shape
and the track is reported to be fast,
the recent rains not washing it much.
There will be many exhibits this year,
entries closing last night in order that
the fair might be ready when the
gates opened.
The fire department made a run to
the Topeka Milling company on
Crane and Adams streets, last night.
There was no fire and it was dis
covered that several curious en-
ployees had taken a personal interest
in the new fire alarms that had re-
Gently been installed. While looking
one over to see what made it go off
one of the men sent in the alarm.
At Redden chapel tonight at
o'clock will be given a literary and
musical program by the young people
of the church. The program will be:
Selection by Alexander's orchestra;
recitation, Mrs r. H. Lawton; piano
solo, Miss L. Marion; reading, Miss
Eva Corning; saxophone solo, C.. E.
Alexander; solo, Miss Margery Glas-
gov; selection by Alexander's orches-
ira.
Topeka firemen have caught the
uplift spirit and are reading maya
zines these days. The men have lit
tie to do between fires yet have to
remain at the stations on duty They
appreciate any magazines that are
given to them to help pass the time
away and by calling No. 3S5 a wagon
will be sent around for the magazines
which will be apportioned among the
six stations in Topeka
There will be plenty of money in
the city treasury with which to build
a public comfort station on Kansas
avenue, if the surplus of funds is as
great at the end of the year 1915 as
w. H. WATSON, city commissioner of
finance, thinks it will be. There are
considerable balances in the miscella-
neous fund and in the fire department
and police funds. He says the indica-