The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-21
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

City Loans; see Davis Welcome
Mtg. Co.-Adv.
Elks dance Friday night-Wem
meet you there.-Ady.
List your property with the Shaw
nee Investment Company. Phone $3.50.
ADV.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 53z Kansas avenue.-Adv.
Mrs. James Hamilton will entertain
the Friendship club for an all-day
meeting at her home, Twentieth and
Branner streets, Friday, October %.
Sixty boys OF the Lowman Memorial
church attended the dinner given by
the boys work department of the
church IN the church basement
Wednesday evening. S. c. Carroll is
superintendent of the department.
The program which will be used in
their tour over the Santa Fe system
was rendered by the members of the
Santa Fe Glee club Wednesday night
at the high school auditorium before
an audience of 400 people. The tour
will probably start about January 1.
The Reds won in the membership
contest between the Reds and Blues of
the Oakland Presbyterian church. The
contest ended Sunday. The Reds will
be the guests of the Blues at a dinner
in the church this evening at $3.50
o'clock. Glenn Swogger will be toast
master.
Scarlet fever holds the lead in con-
tagious diseases in Topeka, with "a
cases to date. Four new cases have
been reported so far this week. Nine
reported Wednesday, bring the measles
total to %. Typhoid fever only claims
10 cases.
Perusal of the school histories re-
veals no account of George Washing
ton having domestic troubles. but his
namesake, Topeka negro, has a few.
Ada Washington, his wife, filed a di-
district court, charging him with
drunkenness, cruelty and neglect.
Today will be busy day in the reg
istration office in the city hall, for only
today and tomorrow remain for those
who have not registered to get their
names on the books for voting eligi-
bility. Books will be open until 10
o'clock tonight and will close at 10
O'Clock Friday night,-not to open again
until after the election.
Three new diaries will be supplying
milk to Topeka by next spring. The
first will be started by F. o. Blecha,
county agricultural agent, and Scott
Kelsey, who will put thirty head OF
Ayreshires to work for them on the
about November 1. DIR. G. W. Hill, OF
the city food department, had in
formation of two other contemplated
diaries.
The patents of the only device com
peting with the Bracket Stripping
Machine companys product, have
been purchased by the Topeka COM
pany, according to E. NJ. Bracket,
president of the company. An option
has also been taken on a feeding ma
chine owned by the same company,
the Leonard ]. FROM company, OF
Brooklyn, n. Y. The manufacture OF
the feeding machine in Topeka may
be started, in which case there will be
an expansion of the Bracket COM
pany's plant at sos Jackson street. !.
A meeting of the Kansas division
of the National Council of Administra-
tive Women in Education will be held
in Topeka Friday, October 20 at
o. clock In the afternoon, at the First
Methodist church, Sixth and Harrison
streets. All women holding admins
trative positions in educational work
| including superintendent, principals
heads of departments, supervisors
school board members, etc, are invit'
| ed to the meeting, where matters o.
| importance will be discussed. Dinner
will be served. Reservations for plate.
for the dinner should be made with
Miss Anna D. Speer, Atehison, Kan.
| hafore Tuesday October 26.