The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-18
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Don't forget Marshalrs band dance
at auditorium Saturday, Nov. 20.-Adv.
Moose dance Thursday night, Nov.
| IS, at their hall, 623 jackson St.-Adv.
Have you made your reservations
for the Elks' dinner-dance Friday
night ADV.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 5S4 Kansas avenue.--Adv.
NJ. A. Low. formerly general attor-
| ney for the Rock Island, who is ill at
Stormont hospital, is slightly inn
proved.
Defective gas tubing caused a small
+. fire at o'clock this morning at I'll
Lime street in a house occupied by
Elmer STREET..
The Emmett State bank today
filed suit in the district court to col
lect s3,965 which it claims William
L. Owens owes on a promissory note
dated in May, 1918.
The Peninsular Fire Insurance com
, pany of Grand Rapids. Mich. has
been given a permit to do business in
Kansas. The permit was is1ued by
the state insurance department.
Winnie Young, $50 Morris avenue. a
member of the high schooT football
team, suffered a dislocated knee at
team practice Tuesday and will be
unable to play in the Wichita game.
Approval of the appointees on the
city planning board and the usual pay
day allowances will be the principal
business before the special meeting of
the mayor and city commissioners Fri
day morning.
A deposit of mud six inches deep
was found in the bottom of the water
storage tank on the roof of the Santa
Fe general office building when the
tank was drained to repair a leak. The
tank held city water.
A meeting of Republican women of
the county was held Wednesday after
noon at the Y. w. c. A. when plans
were made for a strong organization
OF the Shawnee County Women's 6e-
publican club. A similar meeting VIII
be held Monday afternoon at o'clock,
A motor car driven by Crane &
Company chauffeur hit an automobile
owned by C. H. Trap in front of the
Trap printery, 113 East Eighth
street, this morning and jammed the
Trap car across the sidewalk into
the front OF the building. No one was
hurt.
Charles I. Martin, adjutant general.
expects to attend meeting OF the
Chamber of Commerce in Horton No
vember 80 to discuss organization of
an artillery unit for that town. Ma io-
Charles NJ. Browne is pushing organi-
IA ton of the new unit for his home
town.
Charles F. Morris was ordered to
pay S120 monthly for the support of
his small daughter now confined in
a sanatorium. when Judge James Nc
Clure granted his wife. Lulu Morris,
a divorce Thursday afternoon The
payments are to be reduced to $50
monthly when the child returns home,
the court ruled.
Mary Z. Wood was granted q di-
vorce from Thomas G. Wood by
Judge George Whitcomb in the dis
trict court Wednesday afternoon. She
was given the custody of the three
minor children. Wood was ordered
to pay $3.50 belonging to her, to-
gether with $45 month for the sup
port of the children and $3.50 costs
of the case.
The girls of the Lowman Memorial
Methodist Sunday school were guests
of tho boys of the school at supper
in the church basement "Wednesday
night. More than 100 boys and girls
attended. Prof. S. c. Carroll Is head
of the boys department and Miss
girls department. Miss Neva Luxton,
Miss Dorothy Cole. Teddy Vickland
and Joe Ream.
The measles story in The State
Journal Wednesday evening was not
strong enough" according to Dr.
Earle G. Brown. city health officer.
Doctor Brown was quoted as saying he
believed the measles total would reach
100 cases in November. but Doctor
Brown expects the total for this week
to reach that number. Two cases OF
measles have developed into pneu-
monia, Doctor Brown reported.
A bullet fired by a bandit on the
train on\which she was riding passed
her baby's head by only about six
inches, is the startling story told by
Mrs. Harold Cone of Seattle. who is
in Topeka visiting her mother. Mrs
Permilia w. Cone, 1888 College ave-
nue.. Mrs. Cone was riding in the
same car in which Dennis Chester,
who escaped from Kansas City de-
tcctives, was riding. At Broken Bow
NCb.. Chester fired a number OF SHOTS
and jumped from the train. making
his escape One of the shots went into
the berth occupied by Mrs. Cone and
baby and only because he had
crouched, on the floor by the berth
when he fired did the bullet miss her.
self and baby.