The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-07
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AT HOME NEWS

Fragrance.
She was a maiden fair and sweet,
Daintily clad from head to feet;
Her hair in neat precision lay,
Save where curl might chance to stray !;
l thought her some fair bud or flower
Plucked from some garden, in a shower,
But when she spoke, and raised her head,
knew twas from an onion bed.
-Nels Yingle.
The N. Y. c. club girls and their
friends enjoyed an auto truck ride last
evening
The tallest man in the Topeka
guard camp plays piccolo in the
Third regiment at Ripley park
Bowman's mems apparel store, sta
toned just next to Warren NJ. Cros-
by's store, has moved to sos Kansas
avenue.
The Epworth League of the First
German NJ. E. church will meet this
evening with Lawrence Iserman, 94S
Brooks avenue.
National guard officers addressed
the Military Sisterhood of Kansas at
Memorial hall this afternoon. Music
was furnished by the Third Regiment
band
Rev. C. I. Scott, presiding elder
from Nebraska, will speak at the city
gospel mission, 1928 kansas avenue,
tonight and tomorrow night at s
o'clock.
A marriage license was issued from
the office of Ralph Cav, probate
judge, today to William M. Hylton,
Topeka, age 22. and Alice S. Kile,
Topeka, age 20.
1t would have been a dandy night
to sleep if one hadn't closed the win
dows and then fallen asleep not to
awaken until 4 or O'Clock in the
sitting heat of a closed room.
Owners of automobiles don't re-
main at home long Rn0nUh
for music. Two automobiles were
driving on the Topeka streets last
night, thier occupants playing banjos
and singing.
A. E. Sutton, former city electrician,
who resigned to volunteer in the radio
corps, is genuinely missed at the city
hall Sutton'S work as electrical in
spector has been highly satisfactory,
according to w. H. WATSON, commits
sioner of finance, under whom Sutton
has worked.
There's no cure like that of nature.
Many Topeka residents have been
watering their lawns religiously every
day but the grass just wouldn't look
fresh and green. But with a good
rain, such as that of last night, every
yard in Topeka was thing of beauty
this morning.
The Lincoln, Douglas and Washing
ton club celebrated its second annual
outing for the season at City park
Monday night. Music was furnished by
Jackson's Twenty-third Regiment
band. The colored t'home guard"
gave an exhibition drill. DR.. J. l..
Ransom delivered an address.
Kansas homeopathic physicians
will meet tomorrow afternoon at the
National hotel to plan ways of aiding
in the war. The meeting will be held
under the auspices of the Kansas State
Homeopathic association. The Rev.
Edmund j. Kulp, pastor of the First
Methodist church, will address the
physicians.
The divorce petition of Floyd Wad-
ley, of 1898 Fillmore street, against
Minnie Wadley, filed in the district
court today, almost holds the record
for brevity 1t charges Mrs. wadley
with gross neglect and extreme cruel
ty after having stated that they were
married at Lawrence June 26, 1915.
All he asks for is a divorce.
Topeka teachers who go to war will
find their positions open on their re-
turn. That is a ruling made by the
board of education upon recommended
tions of the teachers committee. The
Misses Elizabeth Campbell, Mary Han
son and Ruth Schnacke have been
granted a years leave of absence and
the resignation of H. C. Pope has been
accented.