The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-17
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Only one man in Topeka has the
nerve to wear a wrist watch.
The Y. P. B. will meet tomorrow
evening with Miss Rose Killinger, LILO
Kansas avenue
o. W. Foberg. secretary of the
Leavenworth Y. NJ. c. A, is visiting
friends in Topeka.
Miss Sadie Clatts of Johnstown, O.,
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Alden,
zoos West Fourth street
Few women get together these days
without discussing the movie ball at
Garfield park next week.
Orient Lodge No 81, will hold it's
annual watermelon feast Friday eve
ming, August Is. All Master Masons
invited.-Adv.
L. l. Kiene, sheriff, has black eye.
But there's no story behind ii. No
! prisoner hit him in the eye. He had
no automobile wreck Neuralgia did IT,
Altho the opening date of school is
| a month off the schoolhouses are spick
and span and entirely repaired and
ready for the advent of the students
AS soon as the weather cools, the
Topeka Shriners will hold a meeting
| and decide upon campaign for sep
4 aration from -Abdallah, the 1eaven-
| worth temple.
Every evening the firemen at the
/ city hall throw water on Seventh and
I ,
the management of the Iris theater. 1t
cools the air in that vicinity
| NJ S. Marshall, president of the
Quenemo Development company, on
whose property the Kansas Natural
| is drilling a well, writes to the State
Journal that the well is 1880 feet
| deep.
Owing to the cement like condition
of the ground at both the Country club
and Shawnee Golf club links some as
tonishing drives have been made re-
| Gently. Hardly a day goes by at either
club without some lucky "haymaker's"
rolling better than 800 yards.
Altho several Topeka people have
l signified their intention of entering
the ring of motion-picture star lmita-
tons at the movie convention next
week, no aspirant has yet been found
to mimic either Fatty Arbuckle or An
nette Kellerman.
the right than to the left, w. E. Atch-
ison, county attorney, thought there
was something wrong with his new
car. Robert Carver, who has worn
that machines are made that way be-
fore Mr.. Atchison was satisfied with
his purchase.
4 A. r. Elliott of the University OF
Illinois has accepted the position OF
college secretary of the State Y M
I, | y. =. OilOWlDS the IcSlSudlIOu Vi
Homer Grafton to enter foreign work
in Japan this summer, State Secretary
J. E. Manley has combed the country
for a suitable man to take his place
Elliott is assistant secretary at the
t University of Illinois and has beer
prominently identified with a $4,000
extension campaign. He is 20 years
; old.
y A Topeka man, after reading in ths
State Journal the flood eq 1ivalents'
r for music proposed by the Chicago
professor suggests the following add
tons to the music-foods: Bugle, hare
tack; fife, gunpowder tea: triarg gle
ice-cold water; banjo, fried chicken
guitar, Spanish olives; harp, Irisl
! stew; bag-pipes. oatmeal and ale
jows-harp, unieavened bread; clari
net, molasses; trombone (played b.
amateur), scrambled eggs; snare
drum. popcorn; mechanical piano
hash; viola (between violin and cefloj
Someone entered the offices of tn
supreme court Wednesday and price
open drawers in several desks. 81
> far as is known nothing of value wa
taken. box containing $3.50 wortf
of stamps was thrown into vast
basket. One of the desks opened be
long to Herbert Armstrong. assistan
clerk. Armstrong is on his vacation
e So far as is known, nothing of valu
/ was taken, although a thoro checl
2 cannot be had until Armstrong re
8 turns to Topeka Whether records o
I data of the court were sought by tn
!. burglar is not known. Neither is /
I definitely known whether anything o
value was taken from the offices. Tn
burglary was reported to the police.