The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-03
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

All Issues OF Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue--Adv.
The old Majestic lobby is piled high
with clothes donated to the Armenian
fund in Topeka.
Charles Matthews of the Mutual
laundry, is in Stormont hospital.
where he was operated on for appen-#
dicitis.
The next meeting of the Topeka
Press club will be held at the rooms
| in the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
evening, September :.
A Topeka landlord told his tenant
/ that he was going to raise the rent.
Go ahead and raise it, retorted the
! renter. 81 can't
The Armenian drive has made life
a hard lot for the secondhand clothes
! dealers who make a living buying and
selling discarded garments
Don't forget to tell your friends over
the state that the railroads will grant
reduced rates for the Free Fair in To-
peka beginning Monday, September
ia.
A man with a barge and a motor
boat could harvest a few days ready
| cash by conducting a navigation sys-
| tenn across the Kaw. The Melan
bridge is closed for repairs.
speaking OF joy riders Said a
| Topekan as he read-the account of the
charges against a police lieutenant
who is alleged to have made trips in
the city's police car with the Queen
of the Bottoms"
Smoke curling up from fireplace
chimneys in the early mornings and
late evenings hardly looks like the first
days of September an Kansas. Small
fires have been comfortable in To-
peka for the last two weeks.
Even the churches seem to have
taken up the headline scare that they
the outside bulletin board of a local
| church reads: -Children's Hour.
Come and hear the great debate!''
| A Topeka tailor: ct enjoy making
| clothes for men who want conserva-
tive, serviceable suits and not rah-rah
stuff that will last only a season. 1
make more money from the sports. of
course but 1t is in better keeping with
the times to deal with men who have
common sense and taste
| The recent police expose has been
written around incidents that should
be under the official supervision of
j Mayor Harry Perry of Smoky row.
Mayor Perry it is understood, is jeal-
GUS of the authority assumed by
Mayor Corwine in that section of town.
Hard Times Note: 81 am having a
garage built" prominent real estate
| IN topeka SAID To-Day Inc
garage is constructed to hold my first
and only motor car-and it is a cheap
one at that. Three carpenters are do
ing the work and these three men come
to work every morning in automobiles
that cest twice as much as mime"
In the east September 1 is straw
hat day" A person caught wearing a
straw hat on or after that date runs
the risk of having it destroyed and he
has no come back. In Topeka Sep
TENDER 5 is designated. Despite the
fall weather Topekans still have the
right to walk under their summer lids.
A Santa Fe office man says he
knows of three couples who have been
married this summer following flirta :
tions started in the Gage park swim
ming pool. The husbands probably
have realized by this time that their
new wives require more clothes than
they wore when first acquaintance de-
veloped.
Dollie Hicks, an employee of the To-
peka laundry. Second and Quincy
streets, may lose her hand as a result
of accidentally permitting her hand to
follow a sheet into an ironer at the
laundry. She was taken to Stormont
that an amputation may not be ne
eessary. The accident occurred
Thursday.
Two men who the police believe
held up and robbed man at Junction
| City, Friday, were arrested near the
Union Pacific station early this morn
ing. They gave the names of Cecil
Judkins and Joe Mcneil. The police
say they alighted from a Union. Pa
, cific freight, which had come from
Junction City. Sixty dollars was found
J hidden in a shoe worn by one of the
men.
A housewife telephones: ST am in
favor of the new water works bonds
and all that but I am tired hearing
about what awful shape we are in. II
is all propaganda-this scare talk
about the city water II the people
behind the bonds will only talk com
mon sense and argue from a point OF
economy and service, voters will sup
port the bonds more readily. The
slush read is piffle.''
The Eldorado lodge of the l. o. O
F. passed thru Topeka this Afternoon
on Santa Fe train No. 10, bound fol
Kansas City. where they will attend
the annual convention of the I. o. o
F. The lodge was accompanied b.
the Eldorado Municipal Boys band
and altho it was raining. they scurrieC
under shelter and played two selec
itfons. Nebraska. Kansas, Oklahom:
and Missouri will be represented at thu
convention.
ct got on a Santa Fe train in tn
n union station at Kansas City Sunda,
, us NJ a 1oPena man WIG " n
State Journal today. 81 had my twi
small daughters with me. Altho I wa
at the gate when it opened I foun'
the chair car filled when I reached il
1T was filled with Santa Fe employe
of Topeka who were smartenough t
take the gate for another train Oh
which they were not allowed to rid
with passes and make the transfer.
had to take my two small daughters il
the smoker. 1 am Aot man of mean
and could not afford Pullman seats.
M rV,TUG nm N-U-AEDArC