The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-27
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS
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Social D. m.-KeIlam Halliday.
Sam. Core, who lives on Jay avenue,
was arrested today charged with steal
ing twenty bales Of hay from S. z.
Grimes, a farmer living NEAR Sea-
brook.
1t has been announced that the
names of those failing to return their
questionnaires in the proper time have
been placed in the sheriff's hands. As
yet, the names, if mailed, have not
been received at that office.
Governor Capper returned today
from a Red Cross campaign in Rus
sell and Jewell counties He left To-
peka Christmas dayaspent a few hours
in Atchison and spoke Wednesday in
Russell and Mankato.
Enroll Friday, Saturday or Monday.
December 2S., 20 or 81 for either the
day or night schoof$ We ask this on
account of the heavy enrolment for
the opening Wednesday, January q
Strickler's Business ollege.-Adv.
For the first time in nearly a month
there We're no deaths or funerals re-
ported to the State Journal today. On
the last event of this character the
condition lasted three days without a
single death being reported in the city.
The Loyal Woman's Sunday school
class of the First Christian church will
have its regular meeting at the home
of Mrs. Campbell, 735 Topeka avenue,
Friday afternoon at ESQ. The class
is planning Red Cross work and every
member is urged to be present.
Governor Capper's Christmas cheer
didnt stop with the receipt of a
stuffed snake. An unknown and UNI
sung friend has sent the governor a
dead chicken hawk The hawk was
probably killed too late for Thanks
giving and too early for Christmas. 1t
has been buried somewhere near the
statehouse."
! F.fty-five new banks and trust COM
panies have been formed in Kansas
since Walter E. Wilson, state bank
commissioner, entered his present Of
flee last May. A report showing the
number of new banks and trust COM
panies organized in the state has been
issued from Wilson's office in the
state house.
| At 8 o'clock tonight at the Chamber
of Commerce the cash prizes wen by
| poultry breeders at the recent poultry
| show in Topeka will be distributed.
There is some other business in con-
nection with the show to be trans
acted. The meeting is billed under the
auspices of the Topeka Fanciers ara
| Breeders association.
Capt. Jesse D. Cook, medical re-
serve corps, attached to the evacua-
ton hospital at Fort Oglethorpe.
Georgia. This is the new title and
Style OF the erStWhI1G plain DOCTOR
Cook, formerly of the Mills building,
| Doctor Cook left his practice in To-
peka to enter the medical reserve Of
ficers' training camp at Fort Riley,
and later at St Louis the commits
sion of a captain is singular tribute
to his ability.
! Lloyd William Bachelor may now
prove to the world that there's moth
| ing in name" Lloyd is only 10
years of age and he applied for a mar
rage license to wed Myrtle L. Bur-
russ. He was told that he would first
| be obliged to get his parents consent.
Lloyd went out to Overlook where
he found his father, w Ham Bache-
| Tor. The elder Bachelor was too busy
to go to the court house SO he gave
his consent in the presence of the post
master Lloyd received his license
At theNBethany hospital in Kansas
| City on Wednesday morning, Miss
! Ruth Locke, stenographer in the Of
/ flee of Commissioner w. L. Porter.
was operated on following a sudden
illness contracted while on a Christ
mas visit to her parents, the Rev and
Mrs. Edwin Locke, of Kansas City.
The word was received in Topeka by
Miss Annette Nieoll, city bacteriolo-
gist Other than the bare announce
ment of the operation Miss Nicoll had
! received no word of Miss Locke's con-
\ dltlon at late hour this morning.