The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

and Kansas avenues. She was in her
own yard.
A stranger in Topeka today made
some bitter remarks about a town the
size of Topeka which didn't have rail-
read ticket offices uptown.
Flags along Kansas avenue that
have been hanging limp for two weeks
waved periodically in the breeze to-
day. A number of human beings
who have been hanging limp were
revived, too.
That vote for Me" handshake is
becoming more enthusiastic in Shaw
nee county daily. Each candidate
should furnish a voter with a tag that
he might not wiring his hand the sec
ond and third time.
A new 100000 high school build
ing and $4,000 ward school build
ing will be erected at Ottawa this
year. Ottawa school bonds for $780,
900 were registered with w. E. Da-
Wis. state auditor. today.
After 10 o'clock tonight only one
more day to register. Five hundred
and thirteen persons registered We'd
nesday. Despite the efforts of candi-
dates to stir up the voters who have
not qualified. the registration this year
is smaller than usual.
The closing of the drug stores be-
tween 1 and o'clock Sunday after
Moons will add to the lack of interest
taken by the travelling public in To-
peka Sundays. AS 1t is, hundreds of
travelling men who should Sunday
here, go to Kansas City.
DIR. S. ]. Crumbine. secretary of
the state board of health. today re-
ceived a telephone message from Corn
ing announcing the death of a child
eight miles northeast of that place.
Local physicians believed infantile pa
ra1ysis was the cause of death.
hnunS given nv the Toneka Street
Railway company to laborers for haste
in the completion of the Sixth street
viaduct is keeping the men on the job
despite the heat. 1t is thought the
cars over it by the end of the week.
The lawn around the half million
dollar Memorial hall is in disgracefu1
condition. The grass has died out and
the weeds are rank. More than half
the trees are dead and no effort has
been made to remove them. No Won
der the liquor interests laugh at Kan
SaS.
J. D. Hickman, assistant to w. r.
Smith, state printer, sweltered three
days at Excelsior Springs last week.
IF the devil ever visited that town he
would want to trade it for -" Mr..
Hickman told friends who inquired if
Excelsior Springs is as hot as de-
scribed.
The Edison company and the city
waterworks are due for a pleasant
time the first of next month. The
last two weeks of hot weather have
sent Mr.. Everyman's wages through
the lawn hose and the electric fan.
He'll complain when it comes to pay
ing the bill.
Even the minds of romantic young
girls are becoming mercenary these
days. No longer do they describe the
boys as that tall, blue eye fellow" or
all ,x~1xr
hair" The fair young things speak
of them now as their $3.50 a month
man." their $500 man. and so on.
A Men Wanted for the Army"
poster downtown says: Good pay.
Opportunity to travel. Education and
trated with soldiers charging across a
shrapnel swept field. That's a good
way to travel, all right, all right"
commented a man on the street today.
1.-The elm tree has been proven
fanTs in as t an old a Ins
seen it fight and in many cases, die,
before a variety of pests that we didn't
know existed. Kansans must come
back to the old oak and the hard ma
pie and the hackberry-nothing kills
them"
A Nebraska man rushed to the res
cue of his native state today and de-
clared the statement published in the
State. Journal recently that only two
towns in Nebraska nave street cars is
false. Nebraska City has street car,
he declared. It's a horse car and II
they want to count horse cars up
there Kansas can add Cottonwood
Falls to her list.
The owner of a Kansas avenue es-
tablishment stood on the corner walt
ing for a street car this morning. An
automobile drove up and he heard
Trrv1 f,c
roomv' The Kansas avenue store pro-
prietor looked up at the kind friend
who offered to take him to the city
in his motor car-and it was one of
his clerks! And Kansas is great
state!
in a meeting Monday in appointing
judges, supervisors and clerks for the
polling places in the August primaries
was rescinded today by the commits
sion and the list was changed again.
The alterations were found necessary
persons verified on the lists are ill or
cut of town and besides that some
mistakes were made.
The Central Radio club has elected
the following officers for the next
year: President. w. A. Beasley; vice
president. L. r. Taylor; secretary and
treasurer, Robt- McCandless; sergeant
at arms, Arthur Parkinson. The club
is already planning for a series of IL
Illustrated lectures to be given this fall.
One of the most interesting will be a
demonstration of liquid air by Lau-
rens Whittemore of Kansas university.
After a long, hot ride through the
state, the most cooling ami pleasing
view to the railway passenger is the
Union Pacific park in North Topeka
Now that Topeka is consuming such
an immense quantity of ice cream,
wouldn't it be a good plan for the
city health department to make a
thorough investigation of the fac
tories here? Not that the manufac-
turers need inspection-but a munich
pal report would create additional
confidence in the production,