The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-27

You'd do such a lot of things;
And IF. you had the talent,
You'd be so glad to do
The things for others pleasure
That they have done for you;
IF is a mighty good word to use
IL you use it as you should,
SO IF, you see all the talents you have,
You can do just heaps of good
City Commissioner w. L. Porter is
Manhattan visitor.
Sharp lightning accompanied the
rain storm Tuesday night.
There are four people in Topeka
with the name of Lewis, each with
only one arm.
Mayor Jay E. House plans trip to
Canton, Ohio, after the "Missus. he
will leave in few days.
George Stansfield recently shot
glossy ibis one of the rarest of Kan
sas birds 1t is to be mounted by o.
w. Bronson.
The we'll at the fair grounds, which
caused considerable complaint, has
been cleaned and fumigated by order
of the city health department.
Miss Eta Covell, city clerk. says
she will take a picture of the new
born -colored baby with two teeth if
someone will furnish the camera
w G., Grove of Kans~s City, Mo-.
was fined $40 in police court late
Tuesday afternoon on a charge OF
using another man Incense Tag Oh MS
car.
Commissioner W. H. WATSON, who
| has been confined to his home with
| hay fever is much improved and ex-
| poets to be in his office at the city hall
tomorrow.
I'VE strive to please the ladies" "
That's why a long counter somewhat
| resembling a bar has been removed
from the office of the court of Topeka
| I'D lNr-1 aCl- mr.
E. E. Brookens state organizer of
the college Hughes campaign, with
George T. McDermott, a Topeka law
yer, will go to Lawrence this evening
for the organization of a Hughes club
| at Kansas university.
Albert H. Winter, an instructor in
the manual training department of the
| Topeka high school has been elected
as the representative of the Topeka
| high school on the executive council
of the Topeka teachers association.
Two big elm trees near the Stoves
residence on the corner of Eleventh
and Jefferson streets were shattered
by lightning early this morning. The
| bolt sprang from one tree, leaped over
another and badly splintered the third.
Charles E. Eldridge and Cha rles F.
Hardy will deliver addresses at the
state convention of the Kansas credit
men at Wichita, October IL. Both
| Hl0n VIII Talk on standard building
construction and other fire prevention
methods.
Mrs. Lucy Rhods was bound over to
the district court by Judge Hugh
Fisher in the court of Topeka Tues
| day afternoon on<a charge of an at
tack with hammer on Mrs. William
Miller the woman who lives next door
to her in Rossville
The Eli Ulamperl department store
| will conduct it's business on strictly
cash basis in the future on account of
the increased operating cost. the high
| cost of living and the rising price of
| raw materials. it is announced The
| change will go into effect October l.
Clinton H. Montgomery, who is ex-
aiming the books of the Wichita
| Railroad & Light company is in To-
| peka this week in connection with the
! $4,000 suit filed by the city of Wich-
| ita against the traction company. The
Topeka end of the work will be COM
| pleted by the last of this week
A meeting of the Ladies' Aid society
| of the Lowman Hill Methodist Episco-
pal church was held Wednesday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock in the home of
Mrs. F. r. Souders, 1900 Garfield
street. Mrs. c. w. Reed, Mrs A. E.
Woodwork and Mrs. ]. ]. Henderson
assisted in entertaining the society
Motor car parties from practically
all .neighborhoods and towns in Shaw
nee county will attend the Henry D.
| Estabrook meeting to be held in the
auditorium Saturday night. accord
ing to advices received by John 7.
CLANCY, vice chairman of The Shaw
nee county central Republican COM
mittee. Estab brook is I. prominent Ne
| braska politician.
The last weekly weather and crop
| bulletin for this season issued by the
weather bureau is published by the
State Journal today. The bulletins
| will be resumed in the first week OF
April. On the first of October the
daily report on temperatures and pre-
cipitation will be changed for the win
ter, the detailed Kansas report being
discontinued temporarily.
w. H. A. Fusch, 1880 East Third
street. has left on a trip to Chica &C
to attend the twentieth annual con-
Vention Of the American NaturopathiC
association, which will be in session
September %. % and 80, with head.
quarters at the Sherman hotel. Ran.
dolph and Clark streets, Chicago. Ill
Mr.. Fusch is secretary and treasurer
of the Kansas Society of Naturopath:
and will represent the Kansas societ,
at the convention.
Prof Edison Petit director of tn,
Washburn observatory, will lecture be
: fore the academy of science at tn,
Memorial building tonight at o'clocl
on the Outlines of Cosmic Evolution.
This is the second number of the serie
given under the auspices of the Kan
sas academy of science. No charg,
is made for the series and all student
and lovers of science are invited to b.
/ the academy'S guests.
| From blithely approving rathe
| coarse comedy the movie censor boart
| Tuesday afternoon proceeded to con
| dernn serious movie-drama on hirtl
| | control. entitled Where Are My Chill
| dren ?" Altho there was not an atom
of "gilded vice" exposed and there wa
| a depressing perturbation of the evil
of the doctrine now receiving mucl
| discussion in the east, the picture wa
| unanimously condemned by the boar
as 'tunwholesome." The picture wa
shown in the presence of some fort,
Toneka club women. the consensus q