The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-05
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


In War Time.
.sYour rolls" the customer remarked,
Seem larger than they were
.RoiIs.'' said the baker, haughtily,
Those are our war loaves' SIR
! New otis for the bears at Gage park
will be constructed early next spring
I if funds are available, according to
! E. F. A Reinisch, superintendent OF
city parks.
next spring has already been launched
by w. L. Porter, city commissioner.
| About so lots were "gardene6' by To-
peka men and boys last year.
Pythian Sisters Temple No. 10 will
have installation of officers Monday
night All mepbers are urged TO be
present Members of other temples
are invited for a social evening.
/ Book of Revelation-Doom of
| Rome" will be the subject of DR.. Ar
! thur S. Henderson's lecture to his
! Bible class Sunday at 10 a. m. at the
First Congregational church, corner
! of Seventh and Harrison streets.
I. K. Thompson, of Topeka, was
awarded three firsts and one second
/ prize on his exhibit of Barred Ply
mouth Rocks at the State Poultry
show at Salina this week One first
and the second went to the cockerels,
one first to the ben, and one to the
puIlet
| Detectives Frost and Ransom ar
rested Ira Frost Friday night on a
/ charge of stealing and selling Junk
and trolley wire taken from the old
/ Vinewood car line. Edward Blocker,
/ who operates an East Fourth street
| junk shop. was arrested, charged with.
buying the stolen property.
| K. H. Hammett, who has conducted
an auto Hvery-business at SOC West
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has sold his business and location to
Jesse L. White and E. w. Hill, both of
Topeka. The consideration in the
deal was not announced. The sale
was made because Hammett has been
called to the colors.
The adjutant generals office will
/ be short of a filing clerk Monday as
| F. 9. Martin, present incum bent. has
| accepted a place in the legal Depart
ment of the Katy railroad at Parsons.
! No announcements have been. made
as to who would be selected to fill the
vacant place, other than that it will
! be an expert filing clerk.
J. W. Nolan, field superintendent
! for the Manhattan Oil & Refining
company. announced that drilling on
! the Smith county leases near the
AthoI townsite will begin at once. Cas-
the derrick up for the driller. Among,
the Topeka men interested in the
field are: A. Byron Jesse. J. W.
/ Nolan, F. w. Horn and c. E. Gault
! At the meeting of the Topeka Fan
! ciers' and Breeders associati ton at the
Chamber of Commerce Friday night.
| Charles w. Mcmahon was elected del
/ egate to the annual convention of the
| National Fanciers' and Breeders as
ISOLATION to be held in Kansas City on
January IA to 10. The convention is
| in the form of a show with exhibits
of pet stock from all over the country.
! With reports from the officers of
! the institution showing the biggest vol
ume of business for one year in the
history of the bank. the board of di-
| rectors of the State Savings bank has
been reelected by the stockholders.
The reelected directors are: N P
! Garretscn. A. B. Whiting, NJ A. Low,
| Willard N. Hall, Z. L. Copeland, E C.
Arnold: F. M Stah1. T. F. Carver. DIR.
c. F. Menninger, A A. GODDARD and
William MacFerran, president of the
bank
After twenty-four years of married
life, Mrs. Ida Parton, 504 Monroe
| street, went into divorce court today
and asked for a separation from r.
| D. Parton. She charges abandon
! ment since November 16. 1917. and
| extreme cruelty. They were married
at Fort Scott Feb. IA, 1894. Judge
| Whitcomb issued a restraining order.
| this morning forcing Parton to keen
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| old son, Clarence. Two other children
| were born a result of the union.
| They are married.
AT a meeting of a committee of 20
members of the Topeka branch of the
Kansas Life Underwriters association.
FRIDAY, 1T was decided to send a teIe-
gram to the president of the national
| ASSOCIATION pledging the members of
! the Topeka branch to work among
the soldiers at Camp Funston to en-
courage the soldiers at that point to
| make immediate application for the
| government war risk insurance The
/ Dig drive of the campaign will he
made during the week beginning Ian
uary 2S.
AT the meeting of the Topeka Fan
GERS and Breeders association at the
chamber OF Commerce Friday night
complete plans were made for start
ing sixty-day membership campaign
Inc compaign will start Monday with
the specified object of doubling the
| present membership. According TO
the OFFICERS of the organization every
breeder of pet stock or any person
| Interested in it will gain considerable
peneIlt from becoming a member of
the Iopeka Fanciers' and Breeders
association
DR.: Mary Riggs Noble of Colorado
| springs is coming to Topeka Monday
| to deliver a series of lectures IN tbs
girls OF the high school and to the
employed girls of the city, at the Y
i w. Z. A. The general theme of the
| lectures will be patriotism Charac
ter' ana Health" and will form a part
| u the war work of the Y w q
Beginning Monday, Doctor Noble will
deliver one lecture at the high school
every AFTERNOON during the week TbA
| girls of the high school will he dis
a.tsseu from their o'clock classes to