The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS



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why IL This Thus:
When. woman tries her level best
To Keep the high cost OF living down,
And mixing her a chic Faster gown.
That her friends will admire with snvious
But viii give no word of praise or puff
10 be home made, Of .Soddy stuff.
-Gussie Morrow Gage.
Saturday night a burglar entered the
office of DP. W. A. wehe. G27 Kansas ave-
reported to the police.
| Only six new cases of influenza were re-
ported to the public health authorities to-
| day. Influenza reports have been very
| light now for number OF days Five
houses were released from quarantine this
| morning.
Charles Riley Mccaliey, humorous inter
/ Riley, was a speaker before the Topeka
high school assembly this morning. His
program consisted of Hoosier dialect read
| ings and violin selections.
| The senior class at Washburn is wor-
1 ried. The college authorities have set
Friday. June y, ms the day the upper
Think of turning us loose upon tire
world on Friday the thirteenth senior
| walled today.
Topeka Boy Scouts "camped out satur.
day in vinewood park. the troops leaving
Topeka early In the morning. A sham bat,
ssa d Ts1n ~ peace hs
ed IL n day
..ciean-Up' day will be substituted for
| Hobo day at washburn college. Stu.
dents will not be compelled to attend
classes but will appear on the campus in
piant and trim frees. and III incidentally ALIEN" en-
joy the basket dinner to be served by the
| co-eds.
A portrait of her husband. Charles
1 Tb0mnR nv a
college ~ Mrs. Charles Thomas, Of this
named for Thomas owing to the gift Of
$4,000 to tho school By Jonathan Thomas,
| And still that sign board asking that you
| as blot ON the state house grounds. 1t
all right when the war it,
| gates to conventions have adopted resolu-
tions against 1t but Topeka seems willing
i to allow it to remain.
The Topeka Engineers club. meeting In
Topeka Saturday afternoon. made trips Of
| inspection thru the Topeka municipal
Of ts state the besns and other
dustries. T. II. McKibben was named to
represent the club at the engineering con-
ference In Chicago April q to IS.
| Failure to support and provide for her
are the grounds on which Mrs. Emily
| Hammond asks a divorce from Henry H.
Hammond in her suit filed in the district
court. She says he abandoned her In Sep
| TENDER, 1918. She wants her title to two
lots on Carnahan street confirmed and the
| FERN.
| About o'clock this afternoon fire com
| panies were called to 140G West street. A
family named Fields was moving into the
the moving van but was thought TO have
| been entirely extinguished. While the
wagons were gone for another load the
| mattress broke out in another blaze. Little
/ damage resulted.
sss groups have been Srgan lied
tional conference of the organization. The
leaders OF the groups are: Pauline Nc
Edna s5 sir@a Th HpSe k otp
Vera Pratt, Phi Sigma sOmegas Florence
Leland, Donan Boeiiner and Bessie Han
| son, Holbrook.
one of ner neighbors last week about her
large electric light bill for March. II know
she said indisnantiy. VT" Il believe the light
ought to be-" Sunday night after this
out, of bed to answer the telephone and
| asked her II she Intentionally left the light
burning in her basement all night.
A Buick Six motor car belonging to d.
J. Lorts, manager Of the Newark shoe store,
night about 10 o'clock from in front q the
day morning In the road near the Country
| club grounds, by Howard Mcdaniel, 1901
his way to the club to caddy. Howard
| notified Lorts, who recovered the machine
| about noon Sunday.
THE battle Of Paris is rough game
| This is the opinion of Lieut.. Sam Stewart
and Lieut.. Harwood Benton, expressed
onsa post card received by a Topeka friend.
Stewart and Benton. old Washburn football
heroes. are expected home soon, heroes OF
| the great war. Roth were among the first
TopckaDs to. enlist and each received his
camp. shortly before the close Of the wal
Benton was decorated for bravery on the
| battlefield.
The second smoker given in the re-
juvenation of the Topeka Automobile club
will be held at the Chamber of Commerce
tomorrow evening. The smoke Is sched-
cigars at Z 40 o'clock Fred A. Derby
recently returned to Topeka from overseai
service with the Y. NJ. c. A. is to be this
speaker Of the evening. He is to tell Of
his experiences with transportation for the
Y. ~. G. A. French roads. Specin
music for the evening will be furnished bJ
Tom Powell.
Charles Renshaw, recently convicted OF
liQuor felony in the district court. but
cut on L ds,srred sc. senten ,, was ar a,.
of drunkenness His wife, laura Parker
| Renshaw. and Hazel Dean. were also ar
| rested. The left front wheel OF Parker
ear was demolished when he ran into ar
| excavation between n grocery store ant
billboard north Of town. according TO th'
| police. A taxi was ordered, but the off
GERS met 1t on the bridge and took ths
three into custody.
petition was filed with the city com
mission this morning by Phebc Overholt
a religious worker, asking that the bills Of
Emma Nickel and Laurn Stickley. worker'
in charge OF the city gospel mission. at tn.
city emergency hospital be recousidered
| The two women have been in the city fol
about nine yenrs and work under thu
i auspices of the Mennonite brethren. with
out any salary and without resortinR e
solicitations. They were taken sick Will
hospital. Their bill amounted to $500
The bill was referred to the commissioned
Of parks.