The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-30
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


The F. A. L. No. 1902. will give a
home social Thursday at the home of
Mrs. w. D. Carpenter. 1921 Quincy
street.
The Altar society of the Holy Name
church will meet Thursday afternoon
at 2 o'clock with Mrs. NJ. J. Drury
1924 Mulvane street. All the women
of the parish are invited
H. F. Dotson. of St. Joseph, Mo,
has been named as assistant milk in
spector of Topeka, succeeding D. S.
Jordan. who has resigned to take
position with the Davis MIX Ma
chinery company of Chicago.
students of the domestic science de-
partment of the Washington school
served dinner to the members of the
board of education. The dinner was
a demonstration of what the coloreG
children had learned during the year.
Tr Joseph Hill, singer and reader.
who has for years been pUDullrizinS
the works of Paul Dunbar. will give
an entertainment "a the Shiloh Bap-
tist church this evening under the
direction of the Young Peoples I'M
ion
Our ice this summer will be bought
from Topeka concerns who employ
Topeka labor and not from a Tester
ing fret who seems 90 foster no fell
low feeling for Topeka manufacturers.
son.-Adv.
Fifty-one men have volunteered at
the Topeka recruiting office for army
service since war was declared on Ger
many. The office has been notified of
the presidents call for 100000 for the
regular army. national guard and
volunteer contingent.
James +. Anderson, representing the
commerce department of the govern
ment census bureau, is in Topeka be-
Gin ffrfT al ~ lie
city. The survey will take several
weeks. Such survey has been or
dered in cities with population ex-
ceedins 10000
The drug store at Tenth and Kansas
avenue formerly known as the Rex
the management of Klingaman and
Hoover. a new stock of goods and
new fountain have been installed.
Cape jasmine buds will be given wonl
en- and children on the opening day.
The annual Y. NJ. c. A. tennis tourna-
ment has been postponed indefinitely
on account of the rains and of the
soft condition of the courts The
play was to start last Saturday but
prOba blv will not open until Thursday
or Friday of this week. Fourteen
men have entered the singles and ten,
TIL doubles tourna ment.
If the weather permits the pupils of
Van Buren, school will repeat their
May day performance Thursday even
ing at GAS on the school lawn. Fol-
lowing the outdoor demonstration a
short program will be held in the as
sembly room. After this program the
annual election of officers of the Par
ent-Teachers association will be held.
A string of motor cars, carrying
overweight members of the San
Francisco advertising club, will arrive
in Topeka Friday morning. Here, they
will be guests of the Chamber of
Commerce and the automobile club.
The advertising men are on their way
to attend the national convention of
advertising clubs in st. Louis, June 3
to T.
Money taken in for sales at the
Berkson Bros. store, 1857 Kansas
avenue, Thursday will be used in pur-
chasing liberty bonds, it was an
nounced. The front of the store VIII
be trimmed with patriotic decorations
and trophies taken by Battery A whlle
it was on the border will be placed IN
the show windows. The battery, IN
need of a few en,will move its official
recruiting headquarters to the store
one of the big 3-inch guns will be
placed in front of the store.
The two wading pools. which have
been donated to the city by Governor
Capper and II. p Dillon, will soon be
started. according to Commissioner W.
L. Porter. The sites were selected
Tuesday afternoon. One will be built
at Garfield park, in North Topeka,
and the other at Edgewood park in
Po5win Each pool will be 10 feet in
diameter and IS inches deep and will
be built at a cost of $500. Work on
the selected sites will start immed-
lately. according to w. L. Porter.
Word has been received in Topeka
that Philip w. Whitcomb. for the last
six years a resident of England, and
son of Judge G. II. Whitcomb of To-
peka, has rendered his services to the
war department at Washington. Whit
American ambassador in London.
old He was born in Kansas and is
present he is advertising agent for
the Triangle film corporation in Lon
don.
When Mrs. L. NJ. Dunaway, night
operator for the Santa Fe at Pauline,
heard glass break in the store of W. L.
Staples 200 feet away. Tuesday night,
she didn't wait to investigate. She
began using the telephone calling
neighbors and Hugh Larimer, sheriff.
All the telephones are on one line and
the phone in Staples store rang also.
The burglar may have taken 1t for a
burglar alarm. Anyway, he did not
enter the store after breaking the
window. Within few minutes the
store was surrounded and searched,
but no one was found. Before the
searchers arrived the man who is sup
posed to have broken the window