The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS
a Temperance banquet.


(They called it Il temperance banquet)
The onions were picked.
The potatoes were stewed to the eyes.
The coffee was in its cups
The candles were all lit up
The mince pie was groggy-
EaeRy O see RR nfe h had an edge
The cracked tumblers had had one drop
too much before they were brought
The sugar bowl was full.
The flowers with which the table was dec
grated had been out all night.
Even the ice water was drunk before the
evening was over).
And the vinegar-Oh, mOtheri
In fact all the food and drink were on the
downward road.
Leo P. J. Munly.
The quarterly conference of the
| First German NJ. E. church will hold
it's first session Saturday evening, 7:45.
January 20. The Rev. Hohenwald,
D. s., will preside.
| Mrs. ]. P. Dempsey of 500 Linden
wood avenue, left today for Cincinnati.
| o., and Covington, KY, to attend the
funeral of her mother, Mrs. Jane
Whitcomb, who died Tuesday.
| The flag at Gage Park schoolhouse
will be at half mast this week as a
| mark of respect for Alvord NJ. Watson,
who died Wednesday. Watson was a
member of the school board from 1870
to 1880.
The second case of diphtheria in the
city was reported to the city health
department this morning. With only
| two cases in town, however, it is not
| believed that there is any danger of
an epidemic.
The students of Bethany college will
give their January musical Friday
evening, the 18th. The entertainment
will be held in the Guild room of
Grace cathedral at Eighth and Taylor
streets. An elaborate program has
| been arranged.
E. B. Rees, garbage contractor for
| the city, will leave tonight for his
morning that he has not definitely
decided which one of the various
tracts of land offered to him will
meet his needs the best And they
sure stick the price on he said this
morning.
! There was no meeting of the city
commissioners this morning. An ad-
| journed session of last Mondays
meeting will be held tomorrow morn
ling. The principal business before the
/ commissioners tomorrow, so far as is
| known at the present time, will be the
passage of the pay ordinance for the
| middle of the month payday.
Measles is getting to be a fashion
able disease with the Mexicans in To-
pekas little Mexico. Several cases
have been reported from that section
| of town in the past few days, and it
seems as if the outbreak has been sud
den. Another case was reported this
morning from bunk car, and the en-
tire car will probably be quarantined.
Workmen are preparing the main
| floor of the auditorium for the Mid
winter exposition today. All the
chairs have been removed, and col
umns, booths, vistas and other deco
rative architecture is being installed
Ion the parquet and the surrounding
floor space. A large electric sign has
been installed on the balcony in front
Of the auditorium.
| L The Central YIN. c. A. quartet
| will sing Friday evening, January 10,
| at the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. The mem
bers of the quartet are H. A. Jungk,
Hugh Smith, M. E. Mikesell and Paul
VanNess. A feature of the entertain
ment will be solo by Mr.. Jungk. He
| is to play upon an old instrument of
European make dating back to the
middle of the seventeenth century.
| The first birthday of the Square
| Circle club is to be celebrated at a
| meeting Wednesday night, at which
time officers for the coming year will
| be elected. A meeting of the club was
| held at the Throop hotel last night.
| The club is composed of 10 young
business men in different lines of ac-
|
| ance for new business, their object.
| Under the auspices of the freight
| department of the Rock Island Lines
| in Topeka, Col. J. L. Taylor, assistant
| to the chief inspector of New York,
will speak at the Central Y. M. c. A.
building Friday evening, o'clock, on
1.-THE Safe Transportation of EXplo-
sives" Stereopticon views will accom-
pany the lecture. All railway en-
ployees and the general public are
| invited.
A special Rotary sermon is to be
delivered at the First Presbyterian
church by Dr. S. S. Estey, pastor of
the church and a prominent Rotarian.
Sunday evening at o'clock. The
announcement of the sermon. and
special invitation to all members of
| the club to be present was made at the
luncheon of the club at noon today.
1t was decided that the members
should go to church separately and
not assemble beforehand.
Fire caused approximately $500
damage to the house and contents at
1870 Buchanan street this afternoon.
1t is believed that the rfre was another
of the chimney fires" which have
been common during the last month,
and that burning SCOT fell upon the
roof The house was owned by l.. A.
Blodgett and occupied by f. w.
Spears. The call was turned in at
12:39 o'clock this afternoon.
In a fit of anger, the 20-year-old
son of Mrs E. B. Thavis, 332 Kansas
avenue, hurled lighted lamp across
the room at mis- home last night, set
ting fire to the window curtains. The
fire was extinguished before the fire
men arrived at the scene The dam
age was very slight. The affair hap
pened shortly after IL o'clock The
boy is said by the police to be men
tally unsound, and disappeared from
the house before the firemen arrived
THE police started a search for him.
/ General and official notice to the
membership of the Ake-Pot Ster-Boo
has been sent, of a big pow wow
which is to be held by the order on
the night of Friday, January 10. The
notice speaks in unequivocal terms of
a masquerade ball which is plotted by
the order likewise OF a fall festival