The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-29
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AT HOME NHw8

You too can wear diamonds" Easy
payments See Harris-Goar's-Adv
Dancing today p. m; tonight
p. M; Kellam hall.-Adv.
G. E. Beard. the city fireman who
was injured in a fall at No. station
last Monday night, is slowly improv-
ing. Beard received his injuries by
falling Is feet to a concrete floor
Alfred L. Won Langen, of Bakers
field, Cal. is spending this week with
his father and other relatives. Won
Langen made the long trip at this
time for the express purpose of spend
ing Thanksgiving at home.
Adopting a French war orphan on
$36.50 would try the courage of most
mature people. Not so with the pu-
pls of Lafayette and Parkdale schools
who have raised this amount and in
tend to use it in the way indicated.
The Golden Rod school ThanksgiV-
ing program Wednesday afternoon
was pronounced success. Miss Lot
| tie Johnston and Mrs. r. j. Mccall
ferty gave addresses and the pupils
themselves rounded out the entertain
ment.
The choir of the Swedish Lutheran
church will give an entertainment to-
night at 8 o'clock at the church for
! the members of the congregation. The
musical program will be preceded by
a supper served by the Dorcas society
VI the
About forty members of the Topeka
High ~ club hiked to the water
works and held a weinie roast Mon
| day night. Alfred H. Tebben and A
r. Elliott, state Y. NJ. c. A. secretaries,
accompanied the mixers and ate an
enormous share of the weinies.
Ray Singer is in a critical condi-
ton at St. Francis hospital. The
young man shot himself Monday night,
the result of a disappointment in a
love affair with Miss Julia Stanley,
827 North Kansas avenue. The bull
let penetrated lung and has caused
a hemorrhage.
decision concerning the segregation
of negroes furnishes occasion for a
| celebration at the st. John African
| Methodist church this afternoon. The
National Association for the Advance
| ment of Colored People will have
charge of the speech-and-music pro-
gram.
Captain Carl E. Mallon, recently
| commissioned from the Coast Artillery
| Training School at Fortress Monroe,
Va, arrived in Topeka today. He is
on fifteen day furlough, which time
he will spend with his family at 1858
Tyler street. Before enlisting in the
training school Captain Mallon was
sales manager for the KaW Milling
Company.
Six Topeka poultry breeders are ex-
| hibiting their birds at the Heart OF
America" poultry show in Kansas CITY
this week. They include w. M. God
sey, Buff Plymouth Rocks; John
O'Gara, Barred Plymouth Rocks: J. K
Thompson, Barred Plymouth Rocks;
l. T. Hubbard. Silver Wyandottes; J.
| r. Cowdrey, Rose Comb Rhode Island
Reds; Charles .Lungene, Buff Orping-
| tons.
The annual memorial service of the
Elks' lodge will be held at the Elks
building on Sunday December 2, at 8
o'clock. Eleven Elks have passed
over the Long Road during the past
twelve months, and this service is a
tribute to their memory. The service
is open to the public. The memorial
address will be given by A. NJ. Keene
of Fort Scott; the eulogy by Otis E.
Hungate, OF Topeka. and the music by
the Sunflower quartette and Gordon's
orchestra.
The insanity trial of Horace G.
Black, labor agitator, which opened
Wednesday afternoon was continued
until Friday morning. Blacks mother,
Mrs. A. Black, testified that he had
struck her and that he had struck
Others testified that Black was a
pest who bothered them continually
by discussing the labor question. La
Dor leaders in Topeka testified in his
| oendlI, declaring that Black was sane.
The nude pictures of Black found on
his person were shown to the jury.
The Lafayette school Parent-Teach-
ers'' association gave an unqualified
endorsement to the work of DR.
Poland at their meeting Tuesday after
noon. DR.. Poland is the gentleman
who achieved notoriety and newspaper
space thru the demise of a cat, after
an administration of nicotine
Lafayette school was the scene of the
cats departure for the feline heaven
DR.. Kulp made a short talk on the
work of the Red Cross and made such
an impression that The association
promptly organized a separate Red
Cross unit.
Another case of smallpox has beer
quarantined in Topeka, according to
DR.. H. L. Clark, city health director
c. ]. McNeal, 400 Seventeenth street
depot agent for the Wells Fargo Elk
press company, became i'll with the
ailment shortly after returning from a
short vacation trip. Clark thinks he
was exposed thru a package or some
one from Kansas City. where more
than 200 cases of smallpox are quar-
antined this week. Mr.. and Mrs Ear
H. Whitman, 117S Clay street, who
have been Quarantined for the last two
weeks, were released from the rules
today.
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