The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-30

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Noon lunch. Cremerie Cafcteria.-Adv.
Topeka's overseas men are pointing
to the similarity between the weather
this morning and the weather in
France.
A nice cold soaking rain tonight and
tomorrow night will knock consider
able enthusiasm out of the small boy
who goes out hunting for Halloween
trouble.
I'D like to find one man who won't
grab a cashiers hand when she's
handing him change" said Topeka
cashier today. What would you
think of him." she was asked. 'FIe
wouldn't be man, l guess" she re-
piled.
A St. Louis judge excused a jury the
other day so the Jurymen might spend
thier last hours in the saloons before
the ban was placed on 2.75 per cent
beer Gosh. think what would hap
pen If judge in Kansas would do
such thing.
Ninety per cent of an army is COM
posed of privates. From interviews
with ex-service men in Topeka 1t
would seem that 80 per cent OF those
in service from this city were either
n-commissioned officers or commits
stoned officers.
The first division of the district
court has been forced to enjoy idle
ness all week because attorneys with
cases on the docket weren't ready to
go to trial. This, despite the fact that
the attorneys have known for weeks
that the cases were scheduled for
trial.
Mrs. Lillian Doing Mrs. Emily
Hardy Stewart and Miss Nan Herren
will be on the Agnes ]. Caller lecture
program at the Orpheum theater Sum
day afternoon when the latter gives
her lecture for the Welfare and Up
lift league on THE Reconstruction of
the World Thru the Individual"
w. D. Cole, the new auditor of the
Kansas lines and holdings of the Nc
Kinley Syndicate, who is in Topeka to
take up mis- new position, Will not
move his family from Jacksonville,
ILL.,, due to the shortage of homes in
Topeka. Topeka is suffering daily
from her lack of housing facilities
The second case of influenza in To-
peka since September rs was reported
to the city health department Wednes-
day The patient was in the E. r.
Smith family, 1910 Harrison street
DR.. Earle 6. Brown, city health Of
ficer saw danger of a further spread
of the disease during damp weather.
A loose wheel on the first coach
of the Rock Island Golden State
limited was believed responsible for
derailing four cars in the Topeka
yards late Wednesday afternoon.
Wrecking crews had the train back
on the track early this morning.
other trains pulled in and out OF the
station on side tracks.
So many automobiles are lined up
on both sides of Fifth street between
Kansas avenue and Jackson street
that it is next to impossible for two
machines to pass. In nearly every
city in the country, excepting Topeka,
"a city ordinance has been passed limit
ing the time that machine can be
parked on a business street
A Country club car detailed at
Twenty seventh and Clay streets early
this morning disorganized service on
the line during the rush hours. The
derailed car, it was said at the COM
pany offices. was replaced in less than
thirty minutes, but it took an hour or
more to get cars~back on schedule. As
a result, the II o'clock crowd" got
down town about s. Water overfiC W.
ins the track, it was said, caused the
derailment.
Delay in receiving reserved seat
tickets for the Topeka concert seJies,
owing to the strikes in the east, caused
confusion, but the tickets are now on
sale at the Jenkins music store, ac-
cording to Henry ]. Dotterweich, man
ager. The first concert will be given
November IL, by Joseph Lhevinne,
Russian pianist. at the city audi
forum. TOpekans who have bought
tickets were urged to obtain reserved
seats quickly.
"A musical entertainment will be
given by the May sisters Friday night
at the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. These
three girls. the oldest 16, have given
musical entertainments in Topeka for
several years and were on the Rail-
road Y. NJ. c. a. program for six sea-
SONS. They are Ethel, IL. cornetist;
Eva, II, violinist. and Ruby. 16,
pianiste:- All three play, sing and give
dramatic readings. They are daugh-
nf NJ w sol
West Gordon street.
An invitation was received by
Thomas Prout, secretary of the To-
peka Railroad Y. NJ. C. A., to send a
gospel team to the international Y.
NJ. G. A. conference in Detroit No
Vember 10 to %. The invitation
which will be extended to only five
railroad associations in the country,
came from DR.. John r. Mott, interna-
tional Y. NJ. c. A. secretary at New
York. Prout and A. D. Gray, presi-
dent, will represent the local associa-
ton at the conference.
The man who wrote the pun-kin
story in The State Journal last night
was full of prunes. There has been
pumpkin shortage this year tbs true
The farmers have not raised as many
as usual-also true. A large number
OF the grocery stores did not receive
a supply until neutrality-suspicious.
truth. But there-are pumpkins for sale
and the grocers have 'em and the
wholesalers have 'em and the farmers
have 'em. So don't take the punzkin
scare too seriously. fellers. (Signed)
THE MAN WHO WROTE THE
STORY.
Water consumers who do not pay
their water bills at least every three
months will have their water supply
cut off Wilbur Stanfield, city com
missioner, announced. Already 235
consumers had water turned off owing
TO non-payment of bills When the
supply was discontinued, however, the
bills were usually paid. Former ad-
illustrations permitted the bills to
run indefinitely, but when Stanfield
came into office he made a new ruling
for the purpose of keeping his books