The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Dr. H. C. Morrison will talk tonight
at the Fair Grounds Motor Hall on
THE Second Coming of Christ" The
hall will open at o'clock.
Farley p. Womer. president Of
Washburn college, will leave for St.
Paul Saturday or Monday. He will
spend his vacation at a summer resort
| near St. Paul
A struggling registration card, that
of Jim Sims, a colored railroad track
worker, has been received by Joseph
ion exemption board. 1t was given
the serial number of 2,41S.
| Permits for five $4,000 residence
buildings were issued Thursday by
Joseph Hanlon, fire marshal, to the
Clearinghouse Realty company. The
! buildings will be located at 1903 Nc
| Vicar, 1880 McVicar, AT LAUREL 2ZJ
| Elmwood and 343 Elmwood.
A crowd of $500, estimated, attend
| ed the city concert given by Marshalrs
| band at Chesney park Thursday night.
| The band appeared for the first time
in its summer uniforms. The cornet
| solo Paradise in Your Eyes by N
| P. McComaS was probably the best
| received selection.
A. R. Elliott, college secretary OF
| the Y. M. c. A, returned to work this
morning after having a weeks forced
vacation. The city health officers
| placarded his home with a measles
sign last week and he was forced to
remain at home for the week.
The new electric telephone fire
| alarm system for the city department
was completed Thursday The switch
| board in the office of the fire mar
| shall was connected and everything is
| ready for the new system. Every fire
alarm will now go thru the general
|
| of the city.
Miss M'Edna Corbett, superintend-
ent of Shawnee county schools, is the
| first school superintendent to sign as
a. county director of the federal boys
working reserve, state division, being
organized in Kansas by W. L. Porter,
city commissioner. The boys enrolled
will work on farms and help increase
the foodstuff supply.
Doc Cooke, veteran enemy of
bone dry legislation, went to Kansas
City this week to do a little shop
ping" Thursday Hugh Larimer,
sheriff, was Informed that Doc had
been arrested. His shopping" duties
consisted of purchasing thirty-two
cases of whisky, which he was about
to bring back to Topeka, the officers
at Kansas City stated.
The report of the Kansas state
board of agriculture for the quarter
state printing office this week and
now is being distributed. The report
contains the addresses, papers and
discussions at the boards forty-sixth
annual meeting. June 10 to IL, 1917.
Copies of the bulletin can be secured
from the secretary of the board, J. c.
Mohler
y Clifford Pierce. state secretary of
the Y. NJ. c. A, left this afternoon for
chicago and Lake Geneva, where he
will attend a session of the War Work
secretaries of the middle western dis
trlcts He will return to Topeka July
Il and will leave July "a for Estes
Park, where he will instruct in the
| training school of Y. NJ. G. A. workers
! there The school will close August
| The ninth annual children's day
picnic will be held Saturday at Gar
4 Ileid Park Athletic contests essay
contests and concession riding will be
| Inc main features of the program
| work and play at the picnic will be
| under the supervision of Ernest Berg
Kate King, welfare worker, represen-
| tatlves from the Woman's club, Y. w.
| Scouts.
I me circus, which recently left To-
peka, not only left a lawsuit behind.
but also one of its tent men. The
army called him and called louder
Inan the circus; so he enlisted this
| morning at the local recruiting office.
william M. Dennstead was the former
| circus man. He was sent to Jeffer-
| son barracks, at St. Louis, this morn
| ing. His enlistment made Topeka only
1877 men behind the quota given by
the war department.
| W. e. Carswell, manager of the To-
| peka office of the Western Union tel
| egraph company, will leave Saturday
for Colorado, where he will spend the
| summer. His family will follow him
| to the mountains early next month
Mr.. Carswell was granted an indefi-
mite leave of absence on account of
/ III health. Wednesday he suffered a
nervous breakdown while working in
| the basement of his office. C E Kiehl.
| of Omaha, former chief clerk of the
Topeka office, will take his place dur
| ing his leave.