The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Miss celia Tiff, assistant cashier of
the Lecompton State bank for num-
Der of years has accepted a position
in the office of the state school book
commission.
Will the advance in department
house rentals caused by the coal short
age and the increased price or 1uel De
dropped to their old price during the
rsummer months?
The state charter board today ap-
proved an application for a charter
for the Consolidated Flour Mills COM
pany of Hutchinson. The company
is capitalized for 100000.
The Woman's Missionary society of
the First Congregational church, Will
meet Wednesday auernoon al
O'Clock at the home of Miss May KEEL
lam, 100 West Twelfth street.
Cold weather has one compensation
The fellow who ordinarily will stop
you on the street to waste fifteen min
ficient salutation when the mercury
hovers around a zero mark.
After stealing a car at Sixth avenue
and jackson street, Joy riders aban-
| doned it early in the morning in front
of the home of L. W. eager, 1911 Lane
street. The car was Ford owned by
W. G. CASTOR, 1903 Clay street
Girls have lots of fun joking boys
who smoke the same pipe. The same
girls will make one powder puff as
| common as office towel Take a
! look at them in any restaurant risht
| after they sit down after being out on
Kansas avenue if you don't believe 1t.
| Notice of an appeal to the supreme
court of the United States has been
served in the case of John c. Mad
| den against w. NJ. Forbes. appeal
from Shawnee county. The case con-
was affirmed several months ago by
| the state supreme court.
Emory Hannah, who has been liv-
| ing at Ogden and working at Ogden,
| is a new boarder at the city detention
hospital. Hannah came to Topeka
| Saturday on Union Pacific train. AT
that time>he was unknowingly SUI
| fering with smallpox, according too H.
L. Clark, city physician.
| Dr. J. T. Lovewen, IS years old, is
in Stormont hospital with a broken
hip, the result of a fall on West Fiji
| teenth street pavement Doctor Love-
| we'll was professor of chemistry at
Washburn for nearly thirty years, and
i later was elected secretary of the
academy of science. He retired two
| years ago.
1. w. Felix and Fred Voiland, rep
resenting the clothing firms of Tope-
ka, left Topeka this afternoon for
Chicago. where they will attend a var
conserva ton conference of>the Ma
| tional Association of Retail ClothierS.
The object is to make recommended
tions for the saving of wool in the
clothing to be made for spring wear.
Herbert Armstrong, deputy clerk of
| the supreme court, is the father of a
| daughter born Saturday at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Armstrong, 416 West
Sixth avenue. Before her marriage,
| Mrs Armstrong was Miss Hopkins
and was for several years stenog-
rapher in the state auditors office.
| SlIaS
Porter.
MerIyn D. Cook, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
! S. A. Cook, $50 Lincoln street, has
! been promoted from lieutenant COM
mander to commander of the U. 5. s.
South Dakota. He has been in the
naval service for twenty years. enter
ing Anna polls naval school at the age
of g years, when his parents were hv-
ing at Grainfield, Kan. He has visited
in Topeka.
A revolver shot rom a neighbor' $
| house sent a burglar out of the l.. C.
Harbaugh store, Tenth and buchanan
streets. in short order. He took
nothing from the store. A neighbor
saw the fellow at work and fired from
| a window The Fritton store at 1000
East Fourth street was broken into
and a few pennies taken from the
! cash drawer.
| Fred w. Knapp, state auditor, to-
day registered a $4,000 waterworks
extension bond issue from Winfield.
An issue Of 100000, also for water
works extension, was offered by the
! city of Galena, but was rejected. I'm
der ruling by S. NJ. Brewster, at
| torney general the issue was Illegal
because the city commission did not
stipulate on The ballot the exact pur-
| pose of the issue
| The state supreme court is hearing
the argument of cases assigned to the
T. January docket. Arguments will con-
tinue during the week and decisions
in a number of cases submitted in
December will be handed down Sat
I urday. The Don VanWomer case, as
signed for argument this week. has
been continued until April. Van
/ Womer was convicted of the murder
! of the sheriff of Morton county.
Supply and demand aren't equal in
! the matter of apartment houses. Sell
dom does one hear a conversation be-
tween newly welded couples these
days that the backwardness of Topeka
/ in building apartment houses isn't
mentioned. IF ! had plenty of money
/ to invest I'd buy such and such a cor
ner and put up a modern apartment
! house, is the substance of a state
ment which may be- heard a hundred
times day in Topeka.
/ In one Topeka store 10-cent box
of waters on which the wholesale
house has printed a retail price of o
i cents the waters are selling for Is
cents. If the increase in manufac-
ture warranted a like advance in the
wholesale price, which should be The
/ only reason for an increase in the re-
| tail price. wouldn't the manufacturers
see that the old 10-cent retail label
| would be changed2
! Socks and a night shirt were all the
| clot hes Amos Longaker a bachelor liv-
ing at 1911 West Fifteenth street,
| cared to wear for midnight celebra-
ton on the icy pavements. He at
I tempted to act and dress like the
| original inha bitants of Kansas and
\ firmly believed he was an Indian. DE.
Forest L. Loveland 1851 Boswell
avenue, was awakened by hearing
some one screaming, and going to
window, saw the thinly clad man
! STA Ddir1p in his driveway Officers