The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-17
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Plans are being discussed Tor Dnllu-
ing a dormitory at St FRANCIS nos
present the nurses live in houses near
the hospital
The executive committee of the
Kansas Editorial association will meet
in Topeka, November %, to plan
program for the annual meeting to be
held some time in January.
Fees from the office of the state
superint endent of insurance totaled
nearly three quarters of a million dol
lars in the eighteen months period
ending July /. That is the statement
today of ]. c. Cation, state accountant.
in a report filed with Governor Cap
per.
There will be a meeting of the To-
peka Automobile club at the Cham
Der of Commerce rooms next Thurs
day evening. The Chamber of Com
merce will furnish a room in the new
quarters for the Automobile club.
More than 100 new members were OBJ
tanned in the last week.
Tracy Irvan of Wichita was elected
president of the Kansas Association
of Blacksmiths, Horseshoers and
Wagonmakers at their final session
Thursday. Harry Overfield of indie
pendence was elected vice president
and Austin English, secretary 1t was
voted to hold the next convention at
Wichita.
Cards asking each teacher to state
the number of pupils in each class and
the percentage of the various grades
We're passed out today among the high
school teachers, by Principal A j.
Stout. The cards are expected to re-
the greatest percentage of the stu
dents fail and who are the teachers
under whom they fail.
A force of section laborers is at
work today tearing up the planking at
the point where the Rock Island
tracks cross Kansas avenue, replac-
ing the worn timbers with sound new
ones, and raising and adjusting the
| rails to the proper point. The job
will proba bly, be finished by tomor-
row night. In the meanwhile at least
half the street is blocked
Spencer Arthur Abbott, after his
review of the world series pictures al
greatest sport film production he ever
saw. All of the close plays of the
games are shown "close up" so thai
the spectators can even distinguish thu
features of the individual players.
| The Y P. B. will meet tonight al
/ the home of Mrs. D. R. Evans, 731
Western avenue.
Plans for an aggressive campaign
for a membership of 1000 were laiC
| Thursday night at a meeting of mem,
| berS of the Shawnee County Automo,
bile association held in the office Of
j. I. Botkin, secretary of state An
nouncement was made of more thar
100 new memberships in the las
week Rooms for the automobile as
ISOLATION have been provided in tn,
new offices of the chamber of com
merce.
Charging that the sacred primar.
election law has practically destroyed
party loyalty and resulted in indiffer
ence to all party matters, the Shawne,
County Republican club adopted :
resolution Thursday night urging tn.
legislature to repeal it. The resoIu
+! ton calls the state wide primary ''de
moralizing" and "burdensome in cos
and compliance" The resolution wa.
unanimously adopted by the club Will
the instruction that a copy be sent t.
each member of the legislature
The primary law was swatted RICH
and left by the Shawnee County Re
| publican club at a meeting held i
Lincoln Post hall Thursday night
Following number of speeches, res
olutions against the primaries wer
passed and these resolutions will b
sent to all members of the incomin
legislature. Those who spoke were
j. T. Botkin, secretary of state; W
A S. Bird, p H Coney, G. w. Wiley
s. L. Lashbrook, ]. A. Alexander
JOlll 1lldHey anu "A A 1lOQS6TS.
A special train which will includ
both sleepers and chair cars will g,
to Lincoln, Neb., tonight from Law
renee, taking the football team ant
the rooters to the K. U.-Nebraskf
game. The train will go thru To
peka at about 1920 o'clock tonigh
and will stop here for passengers
The round trip fare from Topeka il
1852, with sleeper fare extra. TIL,
train will get to Lincoln some tim,
Saturday morning. On the return
trip the train will reach Topek;
about 6 o'clock Sunday morning.
Motor trucks are fast establishin,
their supremacy over street cars il
encounters between the two. In tn
fourth collision in the past three DAYS
a motor car came off winner Thurs
day night with a truck belonging t,
the HARLAN Furniture company stale,
on the street car tracks at Seward an.
Scotland avenues and was struck be
fore an approaching northbound Oak
land car could be stopped. The trucl
was showed off the track, uninjured
but the glass in front of the street ca
was shattered, the fender smashed an,
a large hole was torn in the front end
The car was taken to the barns TO
repair. No one was injured. H W
Bates. motorman on the street car
escaped.