The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

A stranger who has been visiting
here says Topeka has less snobs than
any city in the country of like size
Christmas holidays for the high
school will begin Thursday, December
21. Glasses will b resumed Tues
day, January 2.
C. S. Elliott, former president of the
old Commercial club, will speak be-
fore members of the Indian Creek
grange this evening.
The Dramatic club of the Topeka
high school entertained the student
body Thursday afternoon with pro-
gram of stunts" and playlets
The first books for rne new high
school library arrived Thursday. Cases
for the books were made by the man
ual training department. The library
will be sustained by an annual appro-
priation by the board.
Lloyd Crick superintendent of
schools at Florence, is confined in the
city pest house with smallpox. He be-
came afflicted with the disease while
attending the Kansas Older Boys con-
ference.
Health pictures are being shown in
all Topeka schools today and free
moving picture show was given at the
city auditorium. Tomorrow there
will be a health parade Tuberculo-
sis week will close Sunday following
a free concert in the auditorium at 3
| O'Clock.
The annual election and installation
| of officers will be a feature of the
regular monthly meeting of the four
| Scottish Rite bodies of the Topeka
| Valley, to be held tonight. The report
| of the annual fall reunion is also to
be read, and other matters of interest
will come before the members.
The Topeka Press Club is response
bic for an innovation others might fol-
low. The club is going to put on a
picture show at the auditorium next
charity 1t isn't going to beg adver-
Using space in the two newspapers but
will pay for it,
The third quarter birthday recep-
| ton of the ladies' aid society of the
First United Presbyterian church was
held this afternoon in the church. The
affair is a regular one and is in honor
/ of the members whose birthdays Oc-
Cured in the third quarter of the
year.
A reception for the public will be
given by the Second Regiment band
at the formal opening of the bands
new armory on the second floor OF
the Kirkpatrick building, on East Sew
| enth street, the evening of December
20. The concert will be directed by
DR.. r S. Morrison, the official direct
or of the band. The band gained a
excellent series of weekly concerts.
Jay Jensen. attorney for Camuto
Cabrial, the Mexican who was found
guilty of first degree murder in con-
nection with the shooting of Teofila
! Hernandez, in the district court We'd
| nesday, announced today that he
| would file a motion for a new trial
He holds that no malice and no pre-
meditation were shown by the evil
dence and that both must exist in
order to justify verdict of first de-
gree murder
J. W. Kaiser, state manager for
Kansas of the Woodmen of the World
said today that he expected as many
as 1000 visiting members of the order
at the meeting in Leavenworth Satur-
day when 500 candidates will be mi
tiated. w. A. Fraser of Omaha, Neb.,
| sovereign commander, will be present
to assist in the ceremonies. Governor
Capper will be with the 500 Topekans
| who leave tomorrow on a special train
over the Union Pacific railroad.
Dwight Thatcher Harris, whose dog
tax on the Yellow Dog is as yet I'M
paid, lost a pocketbook He lost the
Pocketbook on the train-on a Rock
Island train. To be exact, he lost the
pocketbook on Rock Island train No.
l. Some days ago he lost the pocket
book. He reported the loss to the
proper officials. And Tuesday, on a
tram knocking around on branch
line in the southern part of the state,
G passenger found the pocketbook.
| Dwight Thatcher HarriS's name Gin
! ful) and address were in the pocket
book, so the honest passenger brought
it to Topeka, and then. instead of
turning it over to the railroad men.
gave it to a policeman. Which fact
came to the knowledge of the railroad
men, who reported it to Dwight
| Th9 cher Harris who got his mock =
book. The point of the story being
either that railroad men, passengers
| and policemen are honest. or that a
newspaper mans pocketbook pos
sesses no intrinsic quality tempting
| others to the theft thereof.