The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-25
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Dancing school (s to 81, social
dance % to 12) tonight at Kellam
hall-Adv
The Sons of Veterans auxiliary will
give an entertainment and box social
at Lincoln Post hail. lis East Sixth
avenue, Thursday evening.
This rain will. in all probabilities.
close up the yawning cracks in Topeka
lawns-cracks that have been harbor-
iEg bugs and garter snakes since July
A hedge orange falling from a tree
rear Huntoon and College avenue yes
terday afternoon crushed thru a wo-
mans hat and stunned the occupant
thereof for several minutes
The professional study period of the
Topeka teachers will be held every
Tuesday afternoon at the high school.
turnout the year it was announced
today. Next Tuesday. Superintendent
H. B. Wilson will talk on Motivation
in School Work"
Walter P. Schatz of the American
City bureau. will address Washburn
college students Thursday noon, Nov
ember 2. Suggestions will be made to
the students relating to the vocations
they intend to pursue and what as
sistance in the selection the CONNER
cial club can render them
A new drinking fountain and shell
| tering Pavilion has been completed
| in Gage park, it was announced by
W. l. Porter, parks and health COM
missioner, today. The pavilion is Of
rustic design and is located about 100
yards south of the greenhouse The
| building is of walnut timber.
E. w. Rankin has accepted a posi-
ton as secretary of the Federal Coun :
| ell of Churches in America of which
Dr. Roy B. Guild is executive secre-
| ts.ry. The council represents most OF
| the Protestant churches in America
| !, To
the clearing house OF the Protestant
| denominations
! In an effort to ascertain how eggs
| can best be preserved in shipment,
| government agents are making an in
vestigation in Kansas. Today, DIR. Ed
| win c. Heinsohn of the food products
1 investigation department is looking
! over five carloads of eggs being
shipped from the Seymour plant here
to eastern points
1t was officially announced today
that C. r. Waddle. inspector of claim
Payments under Il C. Pribble. general
claim a gent for the Santa F'e, has been
| named chief clerk to Bowman Jarrett
claim agent OF the Panhandle < Santa
Fe. Mr.. WaddIe's office will be ir
Amarillo. Mr.. Waddle leaves her
November l. He has been in Santa
Fe service fifteen years.
Registration books in the city hal
close Friday night at 10 o'clock. The
/ eleventh hour rush to register for the
/ Move mber election was in full swine
today ard the number coming into
the registra ton office was large In
til o'clock tonight books will he oper
at Pinney's drug store, Seventeenth
street ard Kansas avenue; in Klop
fer's grocery. Tenth avenue and
Washington street, and Kelieys drus
store, Sixth avenue and Lake street
| The Lowman Hill school district i:
undergoing its fourth annual outbrea
of chickenpox- DR.. John j. SipPy
state epidemiologist has caused tn,
principal of the school to notify stu
dents that no chIld who absents him
self from school, at this time, will b,
permitted to return without healtl
certificate either from his family ply
stefan or from DIR. H A Alexander
who is acting as city health officer il
the absence of Dr. Herbert L. Clark