The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-30
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Masquerade and Tacky Dance Mon
! day night. Steinberg' s.-Adv.
List your property with the Shaw
| nee Investment Company. Phone 5050.
ADV.
Big Moose Masquerade Dance, Hal
! loween eve, Saturday, Oct. S0th, p.
m, Moose hall.-Adv.
A permit for building barn on his
property at 1907 Western avenue was
issued today to C. S. Holmes.
An issues of Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
| Co. 534 Kansas avenue--Adv-
The boys department of the Central
! Y, NJ. C. A. will give Halloween party
| tonight at the association building,
/ Trash in the basement started
small fire at the home of Mrs. E. H.
| Price 1898 Clay street, at IL o'clock
this morning.
| w. J. Whelan of Tipperary. ireland.
state organizer of the F. o. L F., will
speak at memorial exercises tomorrow
afternoon. He will describe conditions
in Ireland now.
! The memory of Terrence Mac
Swiney, lord mayor of Cork, ireland,
will be eulogized Sunday afternoon at
| 8 o'clock by the local organization of
the Friends of Irish Freedom.
On Sunday evening the double quar-
tette choir of the First Baptist church
| will give the harvest cantata entitled,
Sowing and Reaping." by Foster The
choir has been singing together for the
| last six years.
/ By putting chemicals on hay to stop
! n box car fire, city firemen made use
] less about twenty tons of hay Friday
! afternoon. The COX car was in the
| Union Pacific yards. Estimated dam
ages were $500.
! Eva Deyo today filed a petition in
| the district court asking a divorce
from Charley Deyo, whom she charges
with extreme cruelty, gross neglect and
| abandonment. The Deyos were mar
ried in May, 1913.
| Store room for rent, 90 Kan. ave.
viii be vacated soon and for lease
| Nov. l. 1920. A desirable business
location in the coming big block on
Kansas avenue. Call sol East Fourth
street. Phone 601.-Adv.
The county commissioners have
ordered that the polls in East and West
Soldier precincts open at O'Clock in
the morning election day. Unless
otherwise ordered, the polls in other
county precincts will open a o'clock.
Miss Eta Covill continues to receive
numerous requests for ballots from
persons from other parts of the state
and from other states who suppose
that they can mail in their votes. Only
government employees can do so, Miss
CoveII repeated today.
The Rev. Ralph D. Ward. D. D.,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Warrensburg, Mo-, will ac-
cupy the pulpit of the Westminster
Presbyterian church Sunday morning.
He was pastor of that church for four
teen years, leaving in 1917.
/ i One case of whooping cough three.
cases of measles and one case of scar
let fever were reported to the city
health board Friday. There are now
forty-four cases of measles in the city,
according to DR.. Earle G.. Brown, city
health officer. Only ten active cases
of scarlet fever are on the city health
report today.
A very interesting address was
given at the meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce at noon today by r. c.
.Eccles, of Baker, Ore. He is secre-
tary- treasurer of the W. H. Eccles
Lumber company. dealers in white
pine lumber. Eccles told his audi
ence of the conditions of the lumber
business in his section of the country.
The properly entered lists of men
and women voters for every precinct
in the city seventy-two books in all.
are causing the city clerks office force
energetic work both day and night.
The books, which include separate
lists of men and women for the pre-
cinct polls, are nearly completed.
It is not necessary to take the face
out of face powder. the "old nick
out of nicotine and the zig out of the
dance to make the world safe for
teachers or pupils, according to J. c.
Fink, superintendent of schools at
jamestown. Kan. Fink was formerly
the head of the northwest district of
the Kansas State Teachers association
He is proud OF the fact that he did