The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-29
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AT HOME NEWS

Bugbears of Today.
Here, in the midst of plenty
Where cattle. corn and wheat
Are raised each year; ali! tell me
Do you get enough to eat?
You say you get a little,
That high prices you must pay,
And your debts are growing larger
AS you skimp along each day:
Well it isn't any wonder
You are going to the wall,
For with all the rise in prices,
Wages don't go up at all;
There's bread enough for all;
But getting it, is another thing
You're a worm! you'll have to crawl,
And pleasing to ones sight.
A big, tall, lean, assessor comes
NELL SCRIBBLER.
The Lenten circle of St Simon's
church met this afternoon at 3 O'Clock
at the home of Mrs. Thomas S. Bright,
at 1884 North Madison street.
The bird houses will not be ready for
a few we ks. If the campaign isn't
hurried along it Will be too late for
the accommodation of the birds now
busily mating and nesting.
Easter vacation starts at Washburn
next Wednesday and lasts until the
following Tuesday Practically all of
the out-of-town students will leave
Wednesday evening for their homes.
Supt. ]. Kennedy, of the American
Express company is in Topeka super
wishing the work in the Kansas ave
nue. office which is soon to be run
jointly with the Union Pacific city
ticket office.
Buddy" Moore, chicken fancier
and alleged chicken Stealer, was ar
raigned before Douglas Graham We'd
nesday and waived preliminary hear
ing. He was committed to jail in de-
fault of $500 bond.
The golf links adjoining Topeka are
regaining their popularity with the
coming of moderate weather With
the passing of baseball in Topeka it is
expected that golf will attract hun
dred this summer.
Municipal problems will be discuss
ed Friday night at Industrial Council
hall, AIS Kansas avenue. Speakers will
be obtained and an effort made to
bring Clarence barrow, the Socialist
leader, here for that night.
One of the city candidates who lost
out in the primaries has added to his
failing popularity by the discovery
that he had stuck his cards on pro-
tecting tree bands over the city allow
ing the worms to bridge the sticky
trap and ascend to the tree limbs
above.
The annual conference of the Kan
sas conference of the Evangelical as
ISOLATION just closed their session at
Jewell, Kan. The Rev. B. H. Hobbs
was returned as pastor of the First
church of Topeka, located at Seventh
and Monroe. His congregation is now
building new church.
Lecompton business men have let a
contract to A. P. Ahlstrom &. Son OF
Topeka to build four buildings at that
r.1o A l1r- eli aa nf
district was wiped out by a fire a few
months ago. Each building will be a
one-story brick structure, twenty-four
feet wide and sixty feet long.
The Sixth Ohio infantry which
passed thru Topeka last week en-
route to Fort Riley, received a counter
mand of their order to demobilize and
passed thru here for the second time
Wednesday night on their way to Chi
cago They will probably be sta
toned at some of the lake ports.
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary an
nounced Wednesday that he would be
unable to fill his engagement, April
10, on the patriotic program, on ac-
count of the seriousness of the present
national crisis Henry L. Simpson and
Frederick r. Coudert will be able to
assist in the meetings, however.
r. B. Paxton of Kansas City, has
just come from Amarillo, Texas, where
he bought $4,000 cattle of feeder
quality and also 200 head of fat cattle.
These feeders will be sent to Kansas
pastures April l 5. The fat cattle will
be on the market at Kansas City, Mon
day. He is visiting his brothers, J. r.
and T. r. Paxton
One Topeka man moved into a new
home recently. The yard was filled
with trees. He spent several dollars
and three evenings banding these
trees to protect them against canker
worms. He has just discovered that
they were maple trees and not elms-
therefore there was no need for the
effort and expense.
With spring and rainy weather in
sight the residents of Topeka have
filed their usual petitions for side
walks. Petitions were received We'd
nesday asking for sidewalks on the
east side of CORTLAND avenue from
east side of Kendall, from Ashland to
Laurel; on the west side of Court
land, from Grove to Ashland. All
petitions were turned over to the
commissioner of streets.
Ray Lattner is in Worthington, Ia,
called there by the death of his sister,
Mrs. Anna Tobin. Mr. Lattner and
five other brothers acted as pallbear-
ers Reports in the Worthington
houses in the little city were closed
during the hour of the funeral. The
Catholic Order of Forester and the
knights of Columbus from Cascade
and Dyerville, Ia. attended the flu
neral. Besides husband, eight chill
dren, an aged mother and thirteen
brothers and sisters survive. Mrs.
Tobin was SO years of age. All except
ing one of the brothers and sisters at
tended the funeral