The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-18
SNAP SHOT S
AT HOME NEWS


park will be held all day June %, Sat
urday instead of Sunday as announced
originally in the state Journal.
Semi-annual supply contracts for
the soldiers home at Dodge City are
being allowed this week at a meeting
of the board of managers held in Me-
mortal hall.
The Cooperative club will hold its
regular meeting Tuesday, June 10, at
the Elks' club. Tom Brown. of the
Shawnee Building & Loan association
will be the speaker of the program
The regular meeting of the Jay
hawker club will be held at $50 at
the Throop hotel this evening. Ernest
c. Winters. manager of the Topeka
Oil company, will read the paper for
the evening.
The jury in the Jesse Weaverling
case IN which Phil Becker is being
sued for $4,000 damages began its
deliberations shortly after 2 o'clock
this afternoon. The case has been
on trial since last Tuesday.
The ST. Elizabeth club will give a
benefit thimble and card party We'd
nesday afternoon at the home of Mrs
NJ. F. Gamlowski, 706 Polk street
The proceeds of the meeting will be
given to the Red Cross society.
The women's society of the First
Congregational church will meet
Wednesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs H. w Putnam, at 1871 Red
den avenue. A motor car will meet
the members at the end of the Wash
burn car line at $3.50 o'clock.
Under an agreement providing that
/ THE Birth of Nation" be not shown
any place in Kansas in the meantime
attorneys in the injunction suit filed to
prevent its showing agreed this af-
ternoon to postpone the hearing until
9 o'clock Friday morning.
A call for cbi1dren'S hadc bas haop
issued by the Topeka Provident asso-
citation. Children, from babes on up,
are compelled to sleep on tables and
on the floor on account of the short
age of beds. Persons having children's
beds to donate to the association
should phone 1886
When the bird house season was on
this spring, George L. Weigand, 1925
Boswell avenue, built an elaborate
home for the feathered newcomers and
painted it white. He painted the roof
or his bird resort red. He has diScov-
cred that a blue bird is now raising a
family within the patriotic domicile.
Rev. Bernard Kelly, newly chosen
commander of the order of the Loyal
Legion will be glad to give informa-
ton concerning the organization to
anyone interested in its work. Mr.
Kelly desires to correspond with Of
ficers, their sons, or grandsons who
are interested in the society and elig-
| IDLE for membership.
The joint program of the Masonic
orders of the twenty first district will
be held June %, Saturday afternoon
and evening at Gage park, instead of
| Sunday as was formerly announced.
The celebration will be in honor of
| St Johns, one of their patron saints
| { nd in observance of the centennial
anniversary of Masonry in England.
The LAX Mercantile company of
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| store in Fort Riley. The branch house
was opened last Thursday to supply
| the encamped army as we'll as to take
care of the old business in the vicin-
| ity of Junction City. Percy F. Schill-
| ing and Ned Fleming, both of Topeka
have been sent there to take charge
| of the business.
Don't Park Here" and Safety
| Zone signs were put up on Kansas
avenue and the main cross streets Sat
urday afternoon by the police depart
ment. The signs are painted on large
| round discs mounted on iron stand
ards, which in turn are set in heavy
! iron bases. The Don't Park Here
signs have been stationed in front of
fire hydrants and in front of theaters.
| The safety Zones have been station
ed in the center of street intersections.
| ]. Frank Smith. president of the
Kansas Good Roads association, To-
peka, left Sunday for Phillipsburg,
| Kan, where he will address a good
roads meeting tonight. Tuesday night
| he will attend a meet at Smith Cen
ter and Thursday he will go to Dodge
City, where a big meeting is being ar
ranged in the interests of the Santa
Fe trail.
During the absence of the family
Sunday night the residence of the Rev.
o. L. Cook, 337 Woodlawn avenue, was
ransacked by burglars and robbed OF
much valuable property. The Rev.
Mr.. Cook was out of the city and Mrs.
Cook and her daughter were al
church. When they returned at IL
O'Clock all the lights were burning and
when they entered the house they
found dresser drawers pulled out,
| trunks opened and things turned up
side down from basement to attic. The
contents of trunks and drawers were
piled in the middle of rooms. One
drawer in a writing desk was over
looked and it contained 5000 in cur
rency. The silverware was not touch
ed However, all watches, bracelets
and other jewelry were taken. En-
trance was made thru a rear window
from which the screen was cut
Lillian Roberts, four years old, gave
her mother, who lives at 707 Var
Buren, street, a real scare at GARFIELD
park Sunday afternoon. She dlsap.
| peared and for nearly an hour could
not be found. While her mother
friends and James McGovern, plain
clothesman, were hunting all over the
park for her she was riding all ovel
town in a street car. While her moth
er's back was turned she slipped
away went out to the street car and
boarded it. It happened to be g
Washburn car and the little girl rode
to the end of the line and back. I'm
til Washburn was reached and every
one else had left the car the con
ductor supposed the child belonged t.
some of the older passengers. He
brought her back to the place where
she had boarded the car and James
McGovern was there to meet her.
Mrs. J.. c. johnson of Burlingame
Kan, celebrated her eighty-fIftf
| birthday anniversary June Is, and d
| surnrise LartY was given for her by q