The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Special dance tonight, steinberg's hall.
Ill Quincy.-Adv.
The Domestic Sewing Circle met this
afternoon at O'Clock with Mrs. Mark Bar
tell. 211 Norton street.
The Boy Scouts will have a mass meeting
at the central nc !; 81, 6 a. Friday evening;
the Chamber of Commerce.
The Fortnightly club had meeting
Tuesday night at the high school. and Dr.
s. J. Crumbine lectured on the nationwide
fight against yenereal diseases.
There will be a meeting of the Stays
Thursday evening at their hail. Election
of officers and other special business. Come
out. 5. f. Austin, ex- directo-.-Adv.
A class social will be held tonight at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Mckfnsey,
llH Grand avenue. by the members of the
Memorial Sunday school
At the W.. r. C. installation Tuesday
night the members presented Mrs. Supple,
the reelected president with a silver gravy
will meet at their hall Thursday to quilt
and all who desire to help. altho they. may
not be members, are invited to attend.
Henry J. Allen, governor ELECT of Kan
sas, viii make the principal address in
Chicago Sunday January 10, at a memorial
service for Theodore Roosevelt, to be held
the state of Illinois. A number of promi-
nent speakers are to be on the program
for the event and Governor Allen will be
the chief speaker for the day.
Leila Dotson, colored. was fined SIS in
police court Tuesday afternoon by Judge
Paul Heinz for disorderly conduct. The
unpleasant lecture she delivered to officers
at the Rock Island depot Sunday night
when they attempted to search her grip as
she came in on a Kansas City train, was
responsible for her arrest and fine, it is
said.
That the carmen. a union, are still
holding out, but that several trainmen
are going back to work, is the situation
in Kansas City as he left it, according TO
Frank l.. Campbell, clerk of the federal
court, who has returned to Topeka after
spending several days in Kansas City.
Campbell stated that the situation was
Immensely improved and that almost
normal service had been resumed on the
Kansas side with the street car company
under government control.
The recent severe winter weather and the
ravages of influenza have brought suffering
and distress to a large number of families
in Topeka and vicinity, according to p. W.
Griggs, county poor commissioner, who is
swamped with calls for assistance. Tues
day twenty coal orders were given to needy
persons, he said. He also pointed out, that
that he had helped number OF families
outside the city. In some cases, he said,
the bread winners of the families have died,
leaving no insurance and their relatives
absolutely penniless.
With the exception of the clothes she
was wearing, the entire wardrobe of Mrs
II. II. BeIden, of 1901 Lincoln street, was
destroyed Tuesday afternoon by a fire of
unknown origin which started in an open
closet under a stairway. After destroying
the contents of the closet the fire started
upstairs but was checked by firemen, al
tho much of the woodwork inside the
house had been burning when the firemen
arrived. The two story. building, owned
postOffice, was covered by insurance. The
damage was estimated at $3.50 :