The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-25
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS
Somebody,

Mourned as it lay on the shelf.
! He'd nothing to do the live long day,
| Bnt think about himself.
Another needle nestled close.
And WHISPERED We're pair"
! Then SOMEBODY'S needle laughed for joy,
! When he found that she was there.
And SOMEBODY murmured softly,
4 wondered what I'd do.
For never could mike a sweater,
Without the help of you.
i The ball of wool rolled nearer,
AS he said Remember me.
i When SOMEBODY wants sweater,
SOMEBODY'LL need all three
SOMEBODY'S fingers idle,
ri, Not so caTing to do their bit; o,ons
Then SOMEBODY learned to knit.
Needles and wool and fingers,
| Making woven case
Will keep his heart in place.
Storm doors and sa sh. J. e. Whelan
& Co. Phone 865.--Adv.
John Hovenden of Washington, D.
c., is visitinghis son, Guy Hovenden,
1901 North Polk street.
A marked decrease in the number
. of influenza cases in Shawnee county
has been noted by DIR. w. B. Steward,
/ county physician. He stated that only
one new case was reported Thursday.
Women's Missionary Societies of To-
peka. which was to have been held Oc-
tober 30, has been postponed on ac-
count of the epidemic and closing or
der.
Tomorrow afternoon the Memorial
building will be closed for the purpose
of fumigating every room, w. E. Con-
nelley, secretary of the state historical
society has announced. All employees
of the building will go home at noon
and all visitors will be kept out for the
remainder of the day.
The membership campaign being
conducted by the Loyal Order of Moose,
Lodge No. 524 has been extended to
January 1. The campaign was begun
last June, but has been temporarily
suspended on account of the epidemic
and closing order. W. J. F. Lane, dis
trict director, has been conducting the
drive.
Percy Atkins, head of the personnel
bureau of the Y. M. c. A for Kansas,
has received notice from headquarters
that the war work council of the as
ISOLATION has esta blished a missing
Soldiers department" in Paris, the
purpose of which is to procure infor-
nation required by those at home re-
garding their men in the service. This
department will do all it can to ans
wer direct, all inquiries regarding the
missing men,
Baron D. V. de Orgler. who once
swayed theater audiences with patri-
otto addresses. was sentenced to a
term at the Kansas City municipal
farm Thursday for vagrancy and for
Fleeing" a restaurant owner. The
baron" has received much publicity
and applause turnout the middle west,
posing as a real Austrian baron, who
claimed he had escaped from the
country shortly after the war began.
Notice of an appeal to the United
States supreme court was filed today
by lawyers for w. w. Harris, who was
convicted by a Barton county court on
an arson charge. Harris was convict
ed on June, 1917. and the verdict of
the lower court was sustained by the
Kansas supreme court last July. Har-
ris was convicted on the charge of
burning a barn, five stations and 9TH
er personal property.
The one hundred and second volume
of the Kansas Reports has just come
from the presses of the state printer
The volume contains all of the opin-
ions of the Kansas supreme court filed
between December. 1917. and April.
1918. Two hundred and twenty five
final opinions were handed down as
follows: By Chief Justice Johnston,
"a; by Justice Burch. IS; by Justice
Mason, 81; by Justice Porter, 81; by
Justice Marshall, 80; by Justice Daw-
son. 80.
A stiff protest will be registered at
the Chicago meeting of the interstate
commerce commission next week by
Ernest Hosueland, attorney for the
Topeka Traffic association, in behalf
OF the Kansas poultry and egg ship
pers. 1t is asserted that the proposed
consolidation of freight rates will
work untold hardship on Kansas ship
reason that these shippers have in the
past been the heavy sufferers of the
transmississippi system of freight
rates.
A hunting trip of two boys, which
started at Bishop Thursday. ended
disastrously for them. All went we'll
until they saw a boat tied to the bank