The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-06
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Better strike oil at home by belonging
, Co, Eiks' Bldg. Phone 4s2-Ady.
! the rea ppointment of Matthias Noll of
Atchison on the state board of pharmacy.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. s34 Kansas ayenue--Adv.
w. E. Guy. Topeka negro lawyer, has
ed doorkeeper- of the Republican national
convention in Chicago. =
Careless use of gasoline caused fire in
the garage at the home of O. y. Himei-
burger, Ills West Sixth street, this morn
ing. There was no damage. s4
The Shorey girls baseball team won
from. the Lyman girls, team by a score S,as Of
any girls team in the state
A meeting Of the state livestock board,
scheduled for today, was postponed until
of Joe Mercer, state livestock commits
siorer.
The North Topeka Civic club will organ
posed municipal league at the community
house, Laurent and North Jackson Streets
| tonight.
| The governor continues to maintain his
office in the suite of rooms set aside for
the board of administration. Workmen
are still busy redecorating the interior OF
his office. as
| A OF S4,0OO was appropriated from
the water department sinking and interest
| funds to pay for water department. per
! cent bonds in an emergency ordinance
! passed today by the city commissioners.
; C. L. Rowe. international county work
secretary of the International Y. Nj. c. A
| committee, was in Topeka a few hours
Monday his way to Pratt, Kan, where
| he will assist in the county Y. M. C. A
campaign
! The melting snow will add to the To-
/ peka city water supply. according to Fred
Dot ivrfr don
helped to raise the level in the wells and
the melting snow, he says. will be absorbed
in even greater quantity than RAIN
The PFovident association reports today
without authority. funds to undergo an
! operation in St Louis The boy is being
| taken care of here and if necessary the
| operation can be made in this city.
Two of the busiest departments In the
state house today were empty of every
thing excepting stenographers and chew
| ing gum. All assistants in the attorney
! generals office and all members of the
court of industrial relations We're out OF
the city.
While peaches. plums and apricots were
4 killed by the freezing weather, there Is
still chance for good crops of apples,
pears and cherries, according to o: F.
turai society. Cherries are not injured in
the leAst, he says.
| he sum of s., 200 interest on taxes and
penalties collected by the county. for the
| Topeka school district. in the last five
years should be paid to the board of educa-
ton. according to the opinion of the board
members; set forth In a resolution last
commissioners for the amount
Charles L. Mitchell, president of the Kan
sas State Stationers' association. leaves to-
Stationers' association at Tulsa. wednes-
| day and Thursday, at Tulsa. He will be
accompanied by T. H. Gades the manager
of the stationery and office equipment de-
| partment for Crane Company.
| J. E. Spaulding. former state manager
| of the Central Life Insurance Company.
Red Cross work and will be connected with
| the Kansas Bank Holders corporation, he
announced. He was in the national bead
| quarters of the Red Cross during the wa Z
/ and afteri7ard in the war risk department.
For a week now the highest priced sales
men of eastern book companies have been
the bidding of the half million dollars
! worth of high school text books to be
purchased by the state this year. Those
| end of fun watching the book agents
watching each other.
Richard French, 60, learned Monday that
he couldn't tel, man afta Thas the thought
French, a farmer living near Manhattan,
was arrested by federal authorities on a
charge of using indecent language in the
United States mails. letter in the hands
of authorities. alleged to have been written
by. French, expresses very unfayorable
| T.
a former business partner of French.
Mrs. George arper, living next door to
the Methodist church at Silver Lake, was
! Saturday night when lightning struck the
! church. Several ether persons residing
near the church were stunned. Lightning
| tore big whole in the roof, broke all the
! windows in the church and windows of
some of the neighboring homes, tore a pail
from the wall in the church and threw it
| against >the pulpit. An electric meter III
I the church was thrown fifteen feet.
The Shawnee County Medical society, at
| It's regular monthly meeting at Christ
| hospital Monday night, appointed the fol-
| lowing delegates to. the meeting of the
| State Medical society at Hutchinson, May
5 and 6: Doctors W. NJ Mills, J. H.
| Cooper. W. E. McVey, A. K. owen and
> NJ. B Miller Six cases were demonstrated
| at the meeting by members of the local
nee County Medical Society now has LOG
members. according to DR.. Earle G. Brown,
| secretary, today.
Mrs. Ida NJ. Olney's cow died from stom-
ach trouble some other malady; the
| tuberculin test administered by the city
was "just a coincident," according to a re-
| port filed with the city commissioners to-
i day by G. W. Hill. city sanitary officer
Reports of authorities on the tuberculin
test also were read, testifying that the test
had been used on thousands of lowing
kline turnout the country without adverse
effects. Whereupon the commissioners
adopted a report of the Cow committee
iisallowing Mrs. Olney's claim of $50
damages for the death Of "Bossie''
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