The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Noon lunch Cremerie Cafeteria.-Adv.
The lawyers turkey shoot will be
held Saturday afternoon on Tom
Doran's farm, east of the city.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety Of the Euclid Avenue Methodist
church. will meet Friday afternoon at
2:30 O'Clock at the home of Mrs. N.
B. Sweeny. 1918 Bolles avenue.
Jacob Maze. patrolman, discharged
Two days after Maze's discharge pro-
tests from many Kansas avenue mer-
chants were written to the mayor
against his leaving the force.
Elizabeth Prell. 311 Monroe street.
today filed a petition for divorce
from John Prell. Gross neglect Of
duty and extreme cruelty were
charged in the petition. They have
four children. Mrs. Prell wants Gus
tody of the children.
Judge S. N. Hawkes., assistant attor-
ney general. is in Great Bend this week
prosecuting an alleged l. w. w repre-
sentative who was arrested during the
harvest season under the vagrancy
act. Constitutionality of the vagrancy
act is being tested.
Bob Miller. undersheriff, went to
Toronto, Ohio, today to bring William
B. Thayer back to Topeka to face a
wife desertion charge. Funds to pay
W. Seeley, head of the home service
department of the Red Cross, to whom
Mrs. Thayer appealed.
The public utilities commission has
been asked to approve proposed
bond issue Of 100000 by the Wichita
& Northwestern Railroad Co, The
road is an n\extension of the Anthony
& Northern and its plans were out
lined to the commission several weeks
ago. Revenue from sale of bonds
would be used for purchase of new
property.
Buy only absolute necessities" is
the solution Paul Findlay, secretary of
the California Fruit Growers eX-
change. offers to the present high cost
statement before a meeting of the To-
peka Merchants association at the
Central Y. NJ. c. A. Wednesday night.
The talk was one of u series being
given under the auspices of the asso-
citation.
Thirty-eigh clerks at the state
prison volunteered to dig coal and en-
tered the mines, according to Warden
J. +. Codding. who discussed prison
mine conditions with members of the
state board of administration. During
the last several weeks the mines have
been operated at full capacity and
men were taken from other prison de-
partmentsN in order to increase the
coal production.
One case of chickenpoX was report
ed to the public health authorities to-
day. Three casesof diphtheria were
released. There are now seven cases
of diphtheria in Topeka, according to
DR.. Earle G. Brown, city health Off
Ger. AT Neodesha. children under 16
are required to stay at home. schools
having been closed and other regula
da 70 he Of
the disease there that has already
reached epidemic proportions.
Charles Maze and Ralph Jones were
arrested. by police officers today upon
complainant ]. Thomas. a stranger IN
the city, who claimed that they held
slsinn up and robbed him in a gambling
saen on Kansas avenue. Maze and
sJones both claimed that the stranger
lost his money in a straight crap
game. The chief of police was uncer-
tain ass teSthe exact number of the.
place where Thomas said the crap
it was. in the 600 block on Kansas
avenue. Maze--and Jones are being
held for Investigation
While crossing the Sixth street Via
duet Wednesday evening, buggy
driven by Alfred KuykendaH, 1928
Golden, was entirely demolished when
struck by a motor car going in the
opposite direction The foree of the
collision threw Kuykendall out one side
of the buggy against the iron railing.
His wife was thrown out the other.
Fortuna tely, his horse did not run
away. Kuykendau was driving east. A
westbound motor car attempted to
pass another car but was blinded by
the lights and did not see the buggy,
altho Kuykendall said he had a light.
Neither Kuykendall nor his wife was
seriously injured. The driver who
struck them took them to their home.
When Dwight Thacher Harris. for
mer Topeka newspaper man. landed in
Albuquerque, N. NJ. to take a place on
the advertising staff of the Albu-
querque Evening Herald, he promptly
inserted an 'ad" in the paper inform
ing all and sundry that he wanted a
couple of rooms for himself and his
eight year old boy. Then he wanted
to buy a home and tried it again. He
was successful in both attempts Fol-
lowing out the Harris custom the To-
peka Dwight Thacher promptly an
nounced to all readers OF the Herald
that he had been successful. Harris
never misses a chance. Topeka news
paper men are betting heavy odds that
every English speaking person in the
New Mexico town knows that Dwight
Thacher Harris has arrived and is es-
tablished there.