The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-04
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Noon lunch. Cremerie Cafeteria.-Ady.
DR.. f. P. Skaggs has again resumed his
practice after several weeks illness. Phone
5157 for appointment--Adv.
Fire companies made two runs late Fri
day afternoon. There was a false alarm
from 1915 West Eleventh street ana one of
the daily viaduct fires at Sixth street
J. F. Peters Of Oberlin, a well-known
member of the bar of northwest Kansas.
is Topeka visitor. Decatur county thin d ne
and his town forging ahead IN business
and Improvements.
Monday night will be presidents night
at the meeting of the Spauiding Reading
club to be held in the Knights of Co.
lumbus hall This is the first meeting of
the year. Mrs. NJ. F. Gamlowski is the
president.
Thirty-nin cases of diphtheria have been
according to the records at the office of
the state board of health. Butler county
iberia cultures. These are the only locah
ties in the state which indicate an cpl
demic of the disease.
The Rev. John A. Bright, chaplain of the
house of representatives, is in Salina at
tending the annual convention of the Kan
sas Lutheran synod. Sunday he will go
to Lincoln, Neb, where he will fill the pull
pit of his son, the Rev. Luther Bright,
at the English Lutheran church. He will
return to Topeka, Monday.
The health report for the week, made up
this morning by Or. Earle 6 Brown, city
dition in Topeka. Two cases of diphtheria
were listed and one case of typhoid. Veneer
cal diseases apparently increased. Ten cases
were reported. This is larger than the aver
age weekly report on these diseases.
All men in Topeka are invited to at
tend the first mems meeting of the year
OF the Central Y. NJ. C. A. at 3 80 O'Clock
Sunday afternoon. Special music for the
meeting will be furnished by the Y. NJ; C.
A. orchestra. The address will be deliv-
cred bv Rev Charles F. Matthew's The
meeting will be held in Gemmen hail.
The car sheds at Goodland. Kan, will
be boarded up this winter, according to
word received from the United States rail-
the Rock Island at that point have long
been a bone in the teeth of the car men
employed on account of the fact that all
| the protection afforded them from the
rigors of winter was a roof.
Night-vocational courses will be installed
soon in the public schools, partially sup
! ported by federal aid under the Smith
Hughes act, Superintendent A. J. Stout, an
nounced Thursday. A program of the
courses will be presented to the board of
education Monday might for approval The
men and cooking, sewing and millinery
for women. The Smith Hughes act pro-
| videss for paying teachers who teach the
| trades courses.
| Judge james A. Mcclure of the first
division of the Shawnee county district
| court today granted Ada Luse a divorce
over the 4-room house at PIG Elliott street
| to Mrs. Luse and keep 1t in trust for
their two children. and also to keep up
| payments on the house. Luse was ordered
| to pay SIS a week for the support of the
| children. Mrs. Luse granted Gus
| tody of the children. The Luse family
Mrs. Luse claiming her husband locked
. her and the children out of the house,
drove to the home of her parents in JEFF
ferson county with Oscar Wise, second
! cousin.