The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-03
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

An oyster supper will be serve to mem
bers Of Orient lodge No. 81, A. F. and A.
NJ. at the Masonic temple tonight. The
oysters are to zbesa follow up to the regular
annual business meeting and election of
officers.
The postponed Christmas exercises at
the Third Presbyterian church will be held
next Tuesday g ening; All Sabbath school
scholars are urged to be present on Sunday
morning to get their names on the
Christmas tree.
Lieut.. Frank J. Mnuk, who was one of
the ieutenants attached to the Washburn
college unit of the Students Army Training
corps, has received his honorable discharge
from the army and will leave tonight for
Mnuk will return to Washburn next week
and enroll as student here.
Five Young men from IS to. II years old
were arrested Thursday evening when the
and pDtIee Kansas U avenue. p Ed johnson, Fred
McAdoo George Hendricks, Edgar John
son and Ben Abrahams were taken to police
Headquarters and booked for gambling.
They were released on $40 cash bond.
e. A Reinisch. superintendent Of parks.
reminds the public that unless food is
starve to death nov that the ground is COW
pered with snow. Crumbs aud dry scrarss
placed on the window stills, on posts, or
and save the lives of many desirable birds.
An older boys conference will be held
Sunday fternoon at 3 O'Clock at the CEN
trail Y N. C. A. All boys Of 81 the city y, be-
to be present. The meeting will be in
charge of the older boys. and q program
of special music will be given. c. c. Hart
ford, state high school boys secretary, will
speak.
The regular Fellowship luncheon of the
Y. NJ: c. A. will be held Sunday evening
made by Hugh Mcvey, state chairman of
the boys work of the Y. NJ. c. A. His
md will fhn n
sas Y. NJ. c. A. expects to do for the
boys of the state.
Grover H Rausch has returned to his
home in Topeka from Camp Lewis, Wash
May, 1918. He was with the Hath in
fantry, and was later transferred to the
was honorably discharged as q first class
mechanic December 4, 1918, and went to
Battle Creek, Mich, to visit it, his broth .es
business a partner in the firm Of Law
E. Cross, 429 Locust street.
The police were called upon Friday to
assist Mrs. Fred Cunningham, war bride,
III recovering s. from secondhand store
man who had sold her a stove: j, she nad
but the merchant failed to deliver it and
even denied that she had bought it when
she inquired about it. Meanwhile, a stove
being essential to comfort in zero weather,
she bought one elsewhere but it was only
with the help of Hi sturm, sergeant, and
her So from the first second hand store.
The women's committee of the county
council of defense meeting with the repre-
sentatives of various Topeka institutions
and organizations 1t the Chamber of Com
merce this noon took another step forward
of the discharged soldiers efficient and
employed civilians. 1t the sentiment
of the meeting today that the organization
being completed by the woman's commit
| tee cooperate in every possible way with
the United States employment service in
finding jobs for the returned and discharged
soldier.
The offices of the court of Topeka. in
| Guiding those of Judge Rad Lee and Mar
| shall Frank Leach, are to have much
| needed overhauling- Today they present
| a much torn-up aspect, with the worn and
| tattered linoleum removed. disclosing the
| dilapidated floors. and the desks, chairs,
records and counters moved out into the
! hall. The floors will be repaired, new lin
oleum laid, the walls painted and some new
| desks and counters installed. 1t is expected
| that this work will take up about two or
| conducted in an adjoining room.
| eaving an electric iron connected with
| the current caused a fire Thursday at the
| home of w. L. Excl, 1907 Western avenue.
| The family was away from home and neigh
| bors noticing the smoke found the iron had
burned throu the table and thru the
| kitchen floor. Eiremen prevented further
/ damage. Engaged merely peacefully and
| contentedIy in putting smoke up thru the
| floor of the Sixth street yiaduct an engine
| standing underneath was the cause OF some
| one turning in alarm By way of adding
! added burden of an extra large fire be-
| meath them to combat the cold weather, de-
! citied to burn out with no resultant dam
| age. one was at 1O14 Van Buren, and the