The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-24
SNAP SHOTS
At HOME NEWS

Only two drug stores on Kansas ave-
nue. closed Sunday afternoon
Sunday was one of those days so dear
to hear of the the ting-a-lng ice
! cream man and his jingle-coin-jin gle
customers.
The Royal Neighbors of America,
Camp No 14S, will hold a special get
acquainted meeting Wednesday eve
ming, July rs.
The farm loan bank bill will be dis
cussed at a meeting of the Topeka
I Association of Life Underwriters to-
night at the Commercial club.
A COW which insisted on remaining
on the track delayed a Gage park
street car half an hour Sunday after
noon. Where was the cow-catcher?
Members of the Retail Clerks union
will hold a meeting tonight 1t is
planned to picket the various stores
which have been remaining open Sun
day.
Permits to erect two buildings, one
on sos Chandler street and the other
on 507 Chandler street, to cost 1000
each, were issued today by the city
| fire marshal.
Jake Lewis, for many years reporter
with the State Journal and the Capt.
tai, is recovering slowly from serious
1 illness at his home, corner Morris and
Munson avenues.
This is the first summer in years
that the coal dealers have not been be-
sieged with orders for the winter sup
ply. The cash basis" ultimatum has
held back the early trade.
! Good Topekans returning from
church Sunday morning met an I'M
usually large number of perspiring
golfers and tennis players on their
way home from the links and the
courts.
! Wakarusa, the Atlantic City of
Shawnee county, was well filled with
Topeka bathers Sunday. And the
latest in beach and mud-bank displays
was up to advance notices. Movie
censors, beware!
! Farmers coming to Topeka report
the upland corn in very dry condition.
The corn in the bottoms will stand
several more days of dry weather, they
say. Each day is bringing on a more
serious need of rain.
Saturday evening at about O'Clock
there wasn't room to park an automo-
bile from Eighth to Sixth avenue on
Kansas avenue. This is an indication
that there are still many Saturday
night Topeka shoppers.
All members of the high school Y
w. C. A. are invited to the meeting
of the Reading Circle at the Y. w. c.
a. building tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock. At this meeting plans for a
big club picnic will be made.
Edward McGrath was elected presi-
dent of the Topeka Allied Building
Trades council at its semiannual meet
ing. other officers elected were: r.
L. Smith vice president; w. L. Frazee,
secretary-treasurer; G. R. Sheldon,
tyler.
| Shawnee lodge No. IL and Home
lodge No. 1902 will be guests OF To-
peka lodge No. at Security hall Tues
day evening. The new initiatory
work will be put on. Ice cream will
be served after the business meeting
of the lodge.
Topekans aren't as considerate to
| their horses as motorists to their ma
chimes. The motor car owner never
| fails to drive his auto to a shady spot
4 Horses are not provided with the
straw hats that predorninated in re-
cert summers
Mrs. Hildur Nygren Carlson. who
was drowned Sunday, and her hus-
| band were about to move into a little
cottage in the Kenwood district, which
had just been built according to plans
n ade by the couple.
A red faced travelling man from
Kansas City. whose white shoes were
spoiled by a street sprinkler on Kan
sas avenue this morning, said he didn't
mind getting on the water wagon
when he came to Kansas but he hated
to have the wagon get on him.
H B. Wilson, superintendent of city
schools, has returned from New York
City, where he attended the annual