The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-04
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


II AT HOME NEWS
The Courage of Conviction.
You've struggled all your life, dear,
To be like folks you know,
And you've made miserable failure;
| You'd better have been-just you
| You've had your own ideals,
But you've put them all away
And followed along f IN the beaten path
If you don't have the courage, dear,
| To speak your thoughts out loud.
You'll always be just taggin' along
Just mixin' with the crowd:
J. c. drummer steward at the state
prison at Lansing, is convalescing in
Topeka hospital, following an opera
ton for appendicitis
! DIR. A. B. Jeffrey will leave Topeka
Dec. %, to enter a hospital in London.
England. where he will work as a
surgeon for the British government.
Mrs. A. E. Lowe. 307 East 10th
street, was operated on for appended
tbs last Friday at the St. Francis hos
pital. She is recovering rapidly.
| Preston B. Coleman. assistant at
| torney general, is the happiest man in
| the state house today. It's a girl.
| Coleman demonstrated his joy in the
distribution of a box of real 10-cent
| cigars.
Minnie Burns, deserted wife, secur-
| ed a warrant today charging J. H.
Burns, her husband, with wife and
| child desertion- She charges that he
abandoned them while they were in
| neceSSitOuS circumstances.
| The regular meeting of the Topeka
Ministerial association this morning
included a lecture by DR.. s. j. Crum-
| bine of the state board of health, on
| Health" The lecture was given in
| DIR. Crumbine's office in the state
| house.
Two thousand Kansas automobile
dealers have been invited to attend a
meeting in Topeka. Dec. II, for the
purpose of organizing state assoc
citation. w. H. lines, secretary of the
local association, has issued the in
vitations and 500 have answered, stat
ing that they will be present.
w. F. Benson, state bank commits
sioner, returned home today from Ari-
IONA, where he inspected a mining
project. Promoters of the company
wanted to sell stock in Kansas under
the blue sky law. ]. T. Botkin, secre-
tary of state, accompanied Benson on
the trip and will return to Topeka
some time Tuesday.
The supreme court today began the
hearing of cases on the December
docket. The custer suits against Kan
sas City brewing companies were not
called for this session, but on motion
| of attorneys the case was continued
until the March term. Supreme court
| decisions, covering cases presented in
| November, will be handed down Sat
urday.
The longed for picking up in ticket
sales at the railroads manifested itself
lightly beginning Sunday when the ad-
vance guard of the order boys started
home. Some of them left in the after
| noon, but most remained for the even
ing meeting. They left Topeka or
every road and in every direction
Only a few remained in town at noon
today.
Workmen doing the excavating fol
the new steel turntable in the Union
Pacific yards are hampered by the
fact that they have struck sand, and
the basin for the. turntable is having
to be shored up with timbers while the
excavating progresses. 1t will prob
ably be a month before the turntable
is completed. The basin will have tc
be concerted.
Ray Smith, ticket clerk at the Rock
Island station several years ago, re-
visited Topeka today for the first time
in more than eight years. He met and
talked with c. Z. Bascom, now city
passenger agent, for the first time ir
more than II years. Smith has beer
in business for himself in Colorado
and was on his way to Chicago, where
he will open a business soon.
Elmer E. Myers of Lawrence, for
mer sheriff of Douglas county, visited
the state house today. He is a candi.
date for sergeant at arms of the house
during the next legislative session and
will probably show strong following
house officials are named. Myers is
popular in Douglas county and made
an excellent record as sheriff
Hugh Kiene. 14-year-old son of L
L. Kiene, sheriff, went hunting with q
little 36calibre shotgun. Sheriff
Kiene walked alone in cornfiel6
chasing the rabbits out while the sor
sent a fusillade down the corn rows
The sheriff flushed two rabbits and
they hit Hugh's corn row at the same
instant. He fired one shell and killed
both rabbits. The shell in a 36-calibre
shotgun doesn't carry more than Il
or 13 shot. Young Kiene is a hero
famong his fellows this week.
More than 500 persons attended the
eighth municipal organ recital giveI
by Dean Horace WhitehouSe in the
Auditorium Sunday afternoon. The
program was entirely made up of re.
quest numbers which the audience APP
pladed heartily Recent repairs on the
organ have greatly improved its tones
The program included (by request
two wedding marches, evidently at
fording several brides-to-be the op
portunity to decide which tune the!
would use to time their march to the
altar.
J, Three hundred persons attended
the semi-annual Sunday school con.
vention of Soldier Creek TOWNSHIP
held in Indian Creek grange hall Sun.
day. At the meeting resolutions wer,
passed looking toward Standardization
} of Sunday school work. Among tn.
speakers on the program were J. H
Engle. president of the Kansas Stat,
Sunday school association. H E
Bomgardner, president of the Shaw
nee County Sunday school association
| Rev. ]. H. Fazel and Mrs. J. r. McCaf