The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-03
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

The w6man's Branch Alliance of Unity
church will meet Friday afternoon at 20
ern avenue
The Topeka Sunday School Athletic as
socintion will have called meeting at the
Y NJ. {. A. Tuesday evening. April at
Z o'clock. representative is desired from
all the Topeka churches.
The swans at Gage park lake have seven
March IA. 1t takes about six weeks to
superintendent of parks. The nest of the
discovered.
Ninety nine visits were made during the
month of March. according to the report OF
five were TO homes, eleven to schools and
three TO the Orphans home. She reported
four cases of chicken pox. three cases OF
diptheria, six of scarlet fever and one of
smallpox.
The Eagle Shoe and Clothing company
of S1o North Kansas avenue has secured
and will open a shoe store at that place
Friday morning. $. T. Thompson. New
or The man. mas sep a wna
was formerly sole owner of the concern.
The members of the French band here
Wednesday evening were greatly disap-
pointed because they were not able to hear
the pipe organ in the auditorium. Two of
| the band were pipe organ players. Some
.hey were Of ba. m1pska fx1egts nG
one of the greatest in the country.
The members of the French band here
Yesterday spent a pleasant afternoon visit
ing with the doughboys on the streets who
wore the enviable overseas stripes on their
arms; The Frenchmen Rugged them in
greeting, and the fighters of the two ma
| lions caused many stare on KANSAS
avenue as they sauntered arm in arm along
/ the street.
There Is insufficient freight traffic on
/ the Leavenworth Topeka railway to war
rant the running of a train more than
once every other day. according to a reso-
lnrff NV Io al Of III of
the road at meeting In Topeka Wednes-
, day afternoon. Permission is to be asked
Of the public utilities commission to cut
the service from one train a day to the
| service endorsed in the resolution.
! Alleging that man has been in the
/ habit of prowling about his residence Mt
night while he was at work. S. +. Hazard,
an employe of the street railway company.
appealed to the police this morning for
assistance. He said he works nights and
| into a state of CONSERVATION by hanging
about the house. Mrs. Hazard saw him
near the house this morning about dawn,
| Hazard said, but the man disappeared.
! A suit to break the will of Mrs. Ann
Olivia Riggs who died last October. was
trict court by George IL. Knowles, a
| nephew, of Waterbury, Conn. L. $. aud
X. DeArmond. of ConcOrdia, are made the
defendants. Knowles alleges that Mt the
| time of his aunt's death she was living on
her $4,000 farm in Cloud county and that
| the DeArmonds influenced her to deed the
4 land to them while she was i'll feeble health
and mind.
A Ford owner in Topeka-identity hid
! den for the present-has an opportunity OF
making good a recent wrong Neighbors
| in the vicinity of Eleventh and Fillmore
i streets say they saw this driver swervt
his machine Intentionally in order to run
over n dog playing near the curb. This
| dog was the pet of little hoy al
| six no is just recovering from the in
fluenza and was in the window watching
/ his PAL play. The loss of the dog and
the sight of. the accident greatly un
nerved the lad and he is suffering set
back as result. The Ford owner has thu
opportunity of replacing the dog and re
turning happiness and health to the boy.
A surprise party was given Miss Mary
Morris Tuesday evening at her home, IL
| Harrison street a farewell before her
departure for California. After supper d
| musical program was given. followed by
| dancing. The guests were Mrs. Agnes
| Lowe, who planned the party. Misses LII
| liam Coffman, Ethel Williams, Gladys
| Kaufman. Mae Hoffman. Agnes
Scott, Lucille Morris, Olive Ljun-
germ. Marie Morris. Fanny Eos.
| ter. Mrs. Gertrude Sanderson. Frank burr
Leonard WARMER, Edward Conner. Ray
Spillman. Paul Smith. Robert jefferson
X. DOvie, f. Goodurn. +. II. Morris. Henry
| Morris, Clarence Owens. Henry Heukle
Corp. Paul Johnson Sergt. Ben HanaueI
and Sergt. Perry Kellous.