The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-01
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

The number of arrests made by the po-
lice during May totaled III. Only lSS per
sons were arrested the month before.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 534 Kansas avenne.-Aov-
Mrs. n. w. Benning and children left this
morning for Estes Park, Colo, to spend the
summer. They were accompanied by Miss
Mary Stitt
In order to have larger quarters, the G.
H. Bowman Real Estate company IS NOV
building to the ground floor of that build
ing.
Judge George H. whitcomb will attend
college the latter part of June. He will be
accompanied to New Hampshire by his
daughter, Isabel.
Gartner's All Stars defeated the Machinist
Apprentices to 2 on the Santa Fe diamond
Monday Batteries for All stars, Brite and
Feiger: for Apprentices. Moses and Rogers.
The feature Of the game was the pitching
I Of Brite.
o. W. Hascall. boys work secretary of
the Central Y. NJ c. A., will return to
morrow from Blue Ridge, n. G., where he
has been attending an international 0lder
Arch williams, formerly of Topeka, now
OF FL Dorado. is candidate on the Republi-
can ticket for county attorney OF Butter
county. according TO w. N. Calkins, MS
opponent for the nomination, who was in
Topeka today.
A. w. Melton today purchased the coun-
from seabrook one of the finest country
places in Shawnee county, valued at $4,000
The purchase was made thru the L. H.
Bowman Real Estate company.
Children of 10 years or younger conduct
ed an initiation service Mt the shawnee
Council No. 8, Security Benefit association
Monday hight at the lodge nail, 81 Nof So
itiated. A childrens orchestra furnished
music.
Judge Rad NJ. Lee. 1920 West street. has
! ct. y, n oil
ing him this week and attending commence
ment at the college. They are Mr.. and
R Rrs 'r Trnll Of ni MidfieId. Tex and Mr.
and Mrs. Dewitt Lee, of York, Neb.
Prof. E. d. schoenberger. dramatic art
instructor at Washburn; Mrs, Schoenberger
cast of comedy sketch. Suppressed De
sires." to be presented Thursday afternoon
at the woman's club meeting in MacVic9r
chapel Mt Washburn coiiege. The play is
satire on psycho-analysis.
total of 173 cases of infectious or con-
tnglous diseases reported In Topeka for the
week ended May 20, according to Earl G..
Brown. city health officer, showed an in
crease of 46 cases over the preceding week.
Diseases were listed as follows: Measles les
I gonorrhea. -: smallpox, o.; scarlet fever,
g. syphilis, 1; tuberculosis, l; mumps, 1;
pneumonia, 1.
The workers and farmers over the
county are selecting their candidates from
the Democratic and Republican parties, it
| is reported. The workers POLITICAL head
! quarters here in Topeka representing sew
eral thousand men are now beginning to
| Jockey their candidates into position for
the primaries, it is said. At their next
! regular meeting Saturday evening, which
will be heavily attended. county conven-
| ton will be set Committee meetings arc
being called every night and contrary to
reports no secret meetings are being held.
The doors are open wide.
1--WE see in the establishing of prohi-
| bition some of the first fruits of the mod
ern method of dealing with social evils.
stated the Rev. Mark Mohler. in his sermon
/ at the Unitarian church Sunday. "The
old. individualistic method, by which the
| church sought to save few victims of
societys folly, has given way to the effort
| to eliminate tn system that crentes the
victims. We must now turn our hands to
| other conditions-such as, for instance,
| the Industrial system-and see if we can
J not reorganize every department Of the
/ life of society, so as to prevent the VIC
! timizing of any group True religion has
always been the friend of the fatherless
| and the widow; but henceforth. as never
| before. st n ust apply its ministry to the
correcting of these conditions which are
| the chief cause Of the desperate plight of
so many orphans and widows"