The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Jane of Hunter. Kan. are visiting
Mrs. Hopes parents. Mr.. and Mrs. ].
B. Mckee.
The Golden Rod card club will meet
tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock at the
home of Mrs. Clarence Fairchild, APT
Locust street.
Topeka shouldn't feel SO blue over
q few Of her young men gone. Over
III Leavenworth nearly every class l
man has been drawn.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. F1eeman of,
Hutchinson, who were guests last
week of Mr.. and Mrs. D. F. Denman.
have returned to their home.
The paving on West Sixth street.
one of the most popular and most
used thorofares in the city, draws
more complaints than that on any
other street.
The city commissioners are greatly
elated over the popularity of the COM
fcrt station at Eighth land Kansas
avenue. The patronage indicates the
necessity for such a public institution.
Ladies of the Red Cross are going
to hold an afternoon card party on
June at Kellam hall. the proceeds
to go to the Red Cross. The use of
the hall has been donated by the man.
agement.
A Topeka man has found one way
that he can save money as a result of
| marriage. Silk shirts soon out Of the
running by laundry washing are wear
able twice as long since his wife has
washed them.
The office of the first district appeal
board was moved from the Smith
building to the state house this morn
ing. The new office of the board is in
one of the committee rooms of the
house of representatives.
The county commissioners will not
readvertise for bids on the West
Tenth street paving until the supreme
court hands down a decision on the
application for an injunction appealed
last week from the district court. ~
Topeka delegates to the State sun
day school convention at Hutchinson
this week left Topeka this morning
in special car. A. J.. Gregg, state
secretary Of boys work in the Y NJ c.
A. was included in the delegation.
A slice of $92. 900 has been cut from
since 1912, according to statement
presented to the school board at its
meeting Monday night. The outstaHd-
ling bonds amount to $437,661 at the
present time.
| Indian Creek grange will hold it's
regular meeting tonight at the grange
hall north of the city. H. K. Evans
will be the speaker of the evening
with an address, Doing Our Bit Over
| Here" Music for the occasion will be
furnished by the Richenbacher chill
dren.
Total sales of third liberty loan
| bonds by the Boy Scouts amount to
sd'o5o, according to statement by
AZ A. Graham scout commissioner.
When the final report is in it is ex-
pected that the scout record will show
sales of at. least $4,000 in bonds of
the third loan.
| The Shawnee County Medical asso-
citation has announced its intention to
place service flag in the Chamber of
Commerce for the members of the
/ organization who have answered the
call to arms. 1t was said that more
than one-third of the members of the
association will be represented by the
stars.
| Lafayette, State street and Branner
schools, the East side churches. and
the Railroad Y. M. c. A. are planning
a joint entertainment to be given at
1.-THE Ripley park community house to
raise funds to purchase equipment for
the reading room in the hall for Red
Cross work. June 4 was set as the
at the meeting of the organization
committee at Branner schools Monday
night.
The engineer on No. 6 on the Santa
Fee saw a negro woman on the track
near Tenth street as he was pulling
in last evening and whistled fran
tically as a warning. The woman
paid no heed and the engineer applied
the brakes, bringing the train to a
full stop within fifteen feet of the
woman. She was hard Of hearing and
did not know the train was near her
! Despite trespassing rules and warn
ings, the Santa Fe undoubtedly would
t,raxr 10y oil r 11iv EuS7
not been in control of his train.
Oscar Larson, so. stumbled and fell
on a sidewalk in front of the Swedish
hall, 21S West First street, late Mon.
day afternoon. He suffered a slight
fracture Of the skull and the police
| who were called took him to the
Santa Fee hospital under the impress
sion he was a Santa Fe employee
This proved not to be true, the police
stated today. However. he is being
icared for at the hospital. His con.
dition today was reported much i'm
cover. Larson is janitor at the hal
and lives there.
Mrs Jehile T. Wintrode went tt
Tulsa, Okla, to attend the funeral o.
/, her brother. william Purdue. Ths
death of Bill" Purdue, as he wa.
popularity known. occurred April 26 il
a hospita. in Arkansas City. For man,
years he was a widely known residen
of Fort Smith, Ark He was passen
ger conductor on the Iron Mountain
railroad between Fort Smith and COT
feyville. A number of years agofh,
left the service Of the Iron Mountain
and moved to Oklahoma, where h,
4 opened the~big bath houses at tn,
mineral springs. His death wa
caused by pneumonia. He is survived
by his widow, one daughter, Mrs Rob
ert Kistler of Tulsa, and two sisters
Mrs. Wells of Coffeyville and Mrs
Wintrode of Topeka. Mr.. Purdue wa
at one time with the Santa Fe in To
peka-
| New York Money Market.