The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-02
SNAP SHOTS
At HOME NEWS


were enrolled in Washburn last year.
wifi leave in a few days for Madison,
Wis, where they will enroll in Wis
consin university.
Hope the weather rains completely
out before fair week. Secretary East
Never was there so much interest in
a Kansas exposition
State Spiritualist convention eve
nings on September 2 and at Fourth
and Monroe. Next Saturday, Sunday,
afternoon and evening. at auditorium.
Public is invited.-Adv.
A Topeka man vino rides on a pass
and buys his clothes and his wife's
clothes in Kansas City is complaining
because of the city waterworks bond
issue, which costs him nothing.
A young printer wore an SIS silk
shirt to work today. He said he had
two more at home that he purchased
yesterday following his wife's donation
Of back pay from the Santa Fe.
The recent wave of burglaries in
Topeka has added to the old admoni-
ton, Did you put the cat out?" The
last word at night now is. Have you
closed and locked all the windows and
doors?"
Hard Times Note: Two ice wagon
drivers took thier girls to dance the
other evening. The dance was fol-
lowed. with a midnight lunch at a local
restaurant. The restaurant bill was
$S.45.
Armin D. Weiskirch, who has been
spending the summer in Santa Bar
bara, Cal, with the Burroughs Adding
Machine company, will return home
in week to enroll at Washburn col
1ege.
Secretary Eastman's distribution of
Free Fair automobile banners did not
last more than three weeks this year.
Motorists from over the state used up
the supply two weeks before the fair
opened.
A hayward sparrow keeping shock
ingly late hours flew into the Grand
theater during the show. THE Scan
dals of 1919" last night. The bird
1azzed wildly about the house without
finding an exit. ~.
College men. tanned and hard
muscled, are returning TO Topeka for
the opening of Washburn college. If
appearances indicate gridiron power.
Washburn should have a fighting
squad this season.
Topeka motorists are looking for
ward with hope to the arrival of the
staff of detectives of the Anti-Auto
Thief association who will assist the
police and protect their own associa-
ton in the capture of motor car ban
dts.
George H. White, washburn football
star of 19O4-5-6-7 and in 1908 and
1903 with the news department of The
State Journal, is a Topeka visitor.
White is now special writer on the San
Diego Tribune where he has been for
the last eight years.
The Idle front porch sport these cool
evenings is engaged in by all Topekans
who were financially. unable to take a
vacation out of town this year. They
are telling the returning recreationists
what a great summer they missed in
the old home town."
wish I was a centipete, - com
mented the operator of a. ohe7fpan
street car on the u. P. depot loop to-
day. Il handle the juice, the brakes.
the doors, the cash register and make
change-and 1 haven't enough hands
and feet for the job"
Tourists coming thru Topeka report
that the only pleasure they have found
in driving in Kansas in the last two
weeks is east and west of Topeka
where the roads are in unusually good
shape compared with the highways in
other sections of the state.
Merrill Rutter. who attended Wash
burn last year, will leave Friday for
Chicago. where he will enroll in
Northwestern university. Ward Sum-
merville, who was enrolled in the pre-
medic school at Northwestern last
year, will return with Rutter.
81 used to be concerned about heavy
traffic, Kansas avenue crossings and
said today. Now 1 spend all my driv-
ing time worrying about boys on BIZ
cycles who zig-zag aimlessly down the
streets in front of motor cars"
A Santa Fe man, his wife and his
daughter took all their money and
their liberty bonds and three passes
and made a California trip this year.
f7a OIL xzyfro N Fri
for more money. And yet they're
complaining of hard times!
Most of the gags at the Scandals of
1919" at the Grand last night were
woven around the late lamented de-
parture of John Barleycorn. kansans
can't quite understand why people.
should cry about liquor when il hasn't
been available publicly for thirty-five
years.
A farmer on the East Sixth hard
surfaced highway three years ago was
trying to find a buyer for his little
farm at $3.50 an acre. Now he is
operating a Ford, plans to send son
TO college and is refusing $500 an acre
for his land. It all goes to show what
hard surfaced roads will do.
THE Armenian clothes drive today
reminds me of Topeka in 1850" L. NJ.
Crawford. who came here in 1853, said
this afternoon. "In 1850 there WASH
drop of rain in Shawnee county in
thirteen months and an appeal went
out in the early winter for clothing
The stuff came here by carload and
boat1oad."
Theodore NJ. Smith, or any infor-
nation concerning him. is wanted by
United States public health service, to
receive the medical care and compen-
sation he is entitled to. The local Red
Cross chapter, phone 2024, asks for
any information concerning him. All
mail sent to Smith at st. Louis Mo, is
returned unclaimed.
This has not been considered good
peach year but Topekans who have
neglected and forgotten their backyard
trees have been surprised the last two
weeks to find the FINEST fruit in his
tory. Monster peaches. one enough
for three full dishes. have been plucked
this season In the stores they are