The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-19
SNAP SHOTS

AT HOME NEWS

The Strike of the Times.
If you're up to the minute, youil have to
Says Mary Louisa Elizabeth DykinG:
So she bought wrist watch and has CLOCKS
on her nose
And is striking, they say, for millionaire
beauN.
-Gussie Morrow Gage.
Noon lunch. Cremerie Cafeteria.-Adv
Under physicians orders. T. A.
Derby has Withdrawn from the Cham
Der of Commerce election ballot after
being nominated with George 2. Nc
Entire. His place on the ballot will
be taken by r. r. Baer, first alternate.
Santa F'e employees may obtain
passes for the Christmas holiday after
all. The ban on passes, placed at the
time of the curtailment of passenger
service. December T. has been lifted,
according to f. c. Fox, general man
ager, following the resumption of nor
NAL traffic.
Walker D. Hines. director general
of railroads. has filed a suit in the
United States district court to re-
cover s1,715.39, alleged unpaid freight
charges against Z. NJ Whitehair,
junction City. Hines claims there
We're unpaid balances on nearly every
car of hay shipped by Whitehair,
contractor, to Camp Macarthur. Tex
Eath from the excavation of the new
Masonic temple is being used to i'm
avenue colored school. The ground
east of the Santa Fe tracks long has
been used for this purpose but has
been low and hard to drain. 1t will
make good recreation field when
filled in. accommodating baseball
field. with room to spare. Gymna-
SUM apparatus probably will be in
stalled later.
II. s. Hancock commissioner of
public works, has renewed his appeal
of Iac ri ri fW iC
badly in need of them for road work,
as the installation of oil burners in
many of the large plants have made
cinders scarce article. Hancock
urges citeEens to dump their cinders
and trash in separate piles. so. the
street department ca1 collect the for
mer. The 'cinders are OF no use, if
mixed with trash.
Veterans of the world war should
be granted free license privileges by
the. city. just as Spanish war heroes
were, in the opinion of Robert J. Nc
Giffert, city commissioner. Himself
a hero of Chateau Thierry and the
Argonne, McGiffert plans to present
an ordinance to this effect. so that
his buddies may enjoy the same privi-
J leges as the other VETS" Under an
ordinance written in 1914 but brought
/ up to date, honorably discharged sol
| diers and sailors in the Spanish
American, war and former members OF
/ the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kan
sas cavalry are permitted to operate
/ baggage wagons and "vend. hawk and
peddle goods. wares, fruits and mer-
! chandise" without paying the Gus
| tomary fee.
George F. Rees was elected ,wor-
shipful master of Sloan lodge No
225. A F. and A. NJ. at the annual
election of officers held Thursday
night in the Masonic temple. Other
officers elected were: Samuel Alexan-
der, senior warden; William G. Cart
lidge, junior warden; Homer A. Claus
san. senior deacon; Frederick II
Gades. junior deacon; Homer &. Fink
senior steward; L. Q. Baird, juriol
steward; Clement W. Seeley, retiring
worshipful master James Nelson
treasurer: William A. Tinker. seCre-
tary. The following committees were
elected: Neurology committee, G. w
Painter, James Nelson, Victor Bout
well; finance committee, L. R. Vesper
Burl Snow, John D. Stevenson; organ
ist, Ross Tracy; chaplain, Thomas
Bowles; editor of the Sloan Bulletin
O. K SWavZe,