The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Dance to Haleys music at Garfield
park tonight.-Adv.
The Thimble club of the F. A. u,
1902 will be entertained at Mrs. Will
bur Carpenters, at 1921 Quincy street,
Thursday afternoon.
The bird fountain, designed by
Merre1l Gage and built by the stu
dents of clay modelling at Washburn
and later presented to the school. is
being placed on the Washburn
campus today.
The regular monthly social and
business meeting of the Ladies' Aid
society of the Lowman Hill Memorial
church, was to be held this afternoon
at the home of Mrs. H. E. Shaffer,
I'LL Garfield avenue.
Mayor House and George p. Hay
den, city attorney, are getting better
acquainted. While workmen are re-
pairing the mayors office at the city
hall. the mayor and city attorney are
bunking together in the latter's office.
c. A. Caster, county secretary of the,
Y. M. c. A, left this morning for the
Y. NJ. g. A. training school at Estes
Park, Colo. where he will be in
charge of county association lnstruc-
ton.
The first moving pictures to be
taken of United States troops after
they had landed on French soil will
be shown tomorrow at the Cory IN the
Pathe weekly. The pictures show, for
the first time, Old Glory waving on
French soil.
Fifty boys from the public play
grounds were taken to the country
Monday morning in a large motor
truck. The boys were taken to
farm just east of Topeka where they
are picking up potatoes. More
youngsters will probably be taken out
this week.
Poultry fanciers of Missouri and
Kansas will be entertained Thursday
night at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
A T. Modlin, one mile west of Wash
burn college. The celebration is an
annual affair given each season just
before the Mod1ins leave for fair ex-
hiibtions in Kansas and Missouri.
The advance advertising car of
Ringing Brothers circus arrived in
Topeka Tuesday night and repre-
sentatives made the final arrange
ments for the show. The city was
covered with posters today for the
final advertising drive of the show.
The special car will leave for Emporia
tonight on 100, Santa Fe.
So many Topeka girls are anxious
to learn to initiate Neptune's daugh-
ter that the Y. w. C. A has been
compelled to add another night to the
instruction class program and in the
future classes will be held Monday,
Wednesday ar Thursday nights at
o'clock. Until this week, classes have
only been held on Monday and Thurs
day nights
Edwin E. BIayman today filed suit
in the district court for divorce from
Sarah A. Brayman. Brayman is an
employe at the Sarta Fe shops. The
two were married in April, 1881, at
Topeka. For ten years, the plaintiff
ri nri0r their
defendant abused him despite the
fact he turned his pay check over to
her every month
Ambrose A. Hickey, former Santa
Fe employe, was awarded judgment
of $3.50 and costs against the Santa
Fe Tuesday in the court of Topeka
Hickey was injured February %,
when he was operating an air motor
for the company The motor was out
of order and bumped against his arm,
crushing the bones between the ell
bow and wrist.
Topeka high school and college girls
have taken another slam at personal
liberty. Smoking by young men be-
tween dances will be put under a BAN
according to a decision reached at a
recent meeting of girls 1t is ex-
planned that the mothers of the girls
object to sending their girls to dances
with young men who smoke in the
cloak rooms during intermissions
A beauty contest among the wives
of the members of the Topeka Auto
mobile club was feature of the an
lBual picnic of the organization at Nc
FaddenS grove at Wakarusa late this
afternoon. T. G. Whitaker was the
judge. The picnic started at o'clock
There was a big dinner. together with
baseball volley ball. medicine ball and
other sports Two hundred motorists
attended.
Charlie Oden. and his sister, Mar
guerite, 10 and IL years of age
were run down this morning by a mo-
tor car driven by o. G. Jones, sales
man for the Lux Mercantile company
The accident occurred at o'clock
this morning when the two colored
children were driving across Kansas
avenue at Ninth street, going west
Jones was coming south on Kansas
avenue and ran into the children's
buggy just in front of the drug store
No one was injured