The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-26

town have won this honor.
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THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who hao a brother-in-law coming
to visit her for a day not long ago
and as he was not known in Topeka
and her husband was out of town for
the week, she was afraid she would
start scandal by riding around town
with good looking strange man. But
SO far none of the neighbors has
reported.
1T LOOKS FORLORN-BUT-
The shutters are almost falling off,
the roof it badly leaks, the porch says
in the middle and the step will crack
and creak. The paint has nearly all
peeled off, and the hinges about are
rusty. The yard is overrun with weeds
and the walks are terribly dusty. The
fence has fallen down in spots and the
gate is on the ground A garden had
been started once, cause hoe and a
rake are around. Some vines had
started out to grow. but they couldn't
stand the strain, they gave up for the
lack of water, you know we've had
no rain. 1 guess to you that little
house presents a sorry sight, but if
you had seen what I saw, you'd think
in different light. For with all that
desolation that place looks good to
me, for in a window sits a woman,
nearly seventy-three. YER hair is as
white as the new laid snow, and fixed
in an old fashioned way, she looks like
pictures I've often seen of the time
of the blue and the gray. And above
her head were two little flags that
blaze like a million lights. that puts
the desolate looks of that house,
clear, way out of sight. One has three
!, little red crosses. you know she has
done her share, and the other one. has
THREE BIG STARS for HER boys
who are "over there N.s.A..s
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THERE'S A MAN IN OUR TOWN,
Who tells a good story on himself.
When they first began to serve sugar
in an envelope at the restaurants.s7he
drank his coffee without any sugar.
not suspecting what was in the small
envelope which was laid by the side
of his plate. He picked up the en-
his daughters upon returning home
with the remark, "Here is something
they gave me when I ate lunch; gu ess
it must be d sample of som ething. =
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At the matinee dance which the
French Orphan club gave Saturday
afternoon the men had to pay one dol
girls with whom to dance. while the
club thought that no girl would have a
man partner during the whole after
noon. but they didn't know some of
those young girls and had placed the
| wrong estimate upon their popularity.
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WHY NOT IN TOPEKA?
New York, Sept. 26.-It will soon
cost landlord $3.50 fine or five days
Imprisonment, or both. to bar any
family from an apartment because
some of its members are children, if a
resolution offered today by Alderman
/ Clarence Y. Palitz is adopted by the
board of aldermen.
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| THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
| Who is doing her part in this busy
world. She works up town all day
and does all her work at home in the
evening and some of her neighbors
dows late at night. Her little light
will surely shine in the great torch
procession as do those windows on the
fashionable street in which she lives.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
| Mrs. Charles Skier has returned
| from a trip to New York, where she
accompanied her husband. Captain
Skinner
Mrs.sE. s. Quinton and Miss Mil
dred Quinton will spend Saturday in
Kansas City.
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Monrce have re-
turned from a short visit in Kansas
City. -
Miss Maurene Stevenson. of salina,
| is the guest of Miss Helen Estey.
Miss Jean Treleaven will return
home Saturday from Denver, where
she has spent her vacation.
| Miss Ludia Bolmar- left today for
National Park seminary, Washington
D. c., where she will teach this win
| ter.
| Mrs. Jack McCarrol and her daugh-
ter, Betty, of Hutchinson, are guests
of Mrs. McCarrol's mother, Mrs. Ella
| Tucker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard L. Williams
and children of 1105 Western avenue
will leave soon for a permanent resi-
dence in Kansas City.
Mr.. Charles Dillon, who reached
|, home from New York, was called back
to attend a meeting of the united wal
work council in New York City.
Mrs. Fannie Guibor and Miss Jennie
Bross are visiting Mrs. Guibo-'s daugh-
| ter, Mrs. Stanton Moss, and Mr.. Moss
| in st. Marys.
Mr.. C. J. Marshall, who has beer
quite i'll at the Virginia, Is very much
| improved.
| Mrs. Lee johnson is visiting her hus-
baud in Leavenworth <or eew days.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Whitcomb. OF
| San Diego, Cal, are the parents OF 9
daughter, born September - Mrs
Whitcomb before her maj rage was
| Miss Helen Sterne, formerly of To-
| peka.
Mrs. o. A. .Thomann left yesterday
| for her home in Chicago. ILL.,, after