The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-29
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Matinee Dance. Saturday $3.50 to
$50, Steinberg' s.-Adv.
List your property with the Shaw
nee Investment Company Phone $3.50.
ADV
L. F. Strain, division freight agent
for the Rock Island, is in Kansas City
today on business.
Big Moose Masquerade Dance, Hal
loween eve, Saturday Oct. 30th, 9 p.
m, Moose hall-Adv.
All issues OF Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue ADV.
Persons wearing masks on Topeka
streets late at night cause uneasineSs
among the pedestrians who are hold
up scary. Halloween parties are re-
sponsible.
There will be a Republican rally to-
night at the Pierce's addition school
house, south OF Topeka. Fred Seaman,
Mrs. c. B. Van Horn and Mrs. George
M. Crawford will be the speakers.
The Halloween masquerade and
dance given by the Woodmen in the
NJ. W. A. hall Wednesday night was
attended by members in all varieties
of fancy dress. Music was furnished
by the Ripley Park orchestra.
Literature boosting the proposed
good roads amendment is being sent
out in the business letters of more
than 5000 automobile dealers in the
state, it was said at the headquarters
of the Good Roads association.
Canton Topeka, No. 8, I. o. o. F.,
will have a Halloween party and free
dance in the hall on the third floor of
Odd Fellows temple Saturday night.
There will be an entertainment fur
nished by the Odd Fellows and the
Rebekahs.
Tomorrow is pay day for the Rock
Island employees who are paid from
Topeka. The Topeka payroll includes
all the local employees, the employees
at the legal and claim offices. the di-
vision freight offices. the yard crews,
f, two bridge gangs, and a number of
freight crews.
! A real gypsy fortune teller will be
the feature of an entertainment to be
given by the odd Fellows and Re
! bckahs Saturday afternoon and eve
| Quincy street. The fortune teller is
Harrietta Ceresa. who is with a tribe
of gypsies now making Topeka head
| quarters.
The old persons and shut-ins of the
Washburn district are especially in
vited guests to the service Sunday
morning at the Euclid Avenue Metho-
dist church, Seventeenth and Lane
/ streets. Motor transportation will be
| furnished those who cannot walk and
/ requests for such transportation may
i be granted by telephoning Blue 1874.
| Scarlet fever cases decreased from
/ twenty-three to seventeen on Thurs
day with six cases released from
| quarantine. But measles had a heavy
| increase in nine cases. making a total
of forty-one cases in the city. A new
diphtheria case is reported, making
I fCt IN 1olr of
| chickenpox were reported from
Shorey district.
Rock Island trains came in over the
Santa Fe tracks nearly all day Thurs
day as the result of the derailment of
| two box cars just south of the bridge
north of the city Thursday morning.
Broken flanges on the wheels were re-
sponsible for the accident, it was said.
! Both cars were empty and no one was
injured. The wreckage had been
| cleared away by $50 o'clock in the
afternoon.
Thru crossed wires into the city fire
department headquarters last night.
i one false alarm sent in from the Union
Pacific station caused two stations to
respond to the alarm. Wires from
boxes No. at the station and No. 10
| at Second and Kansas avenues were
crossed, and the fire department sent
| equipment to both places, with no fire
at either place.
A suit to collect $3.50 damages
| from the Topeka Railway company
for damages she claims to have sus-
| tanned last March was filed Thursday
| in the district court by Emily c. Snive-
ly, a nurse. She declares that after
| boarding a car at Eighteenth and
Kansas avenues and before she had
time to reach a seat the car struck a
switch with such violence that she was
thrown against the door and perma-
nently injured.
thirty-pound volume containing
autographs and messages by some OF
the most prominent people in the
world is among the possessions OF
Josef F. Mikulec, who arrived in To-
peka Thursday. Mikulec has Travelled
over a large part of the world in
search of historical matter for a book
he said he intended to write. Auto
graphs from prominent persons in this
city will be gathered by the visitor to-
day. He is a native of Croatia, Jugo-
Slavia. Among the names in the large
volume Mikulec carries are those oil
. Theodore Roosevelt. General Pershiag
Calvin Coolidge. Andrew Carnegie
Governor Cox. Senator Harding, The
Prince of Wales, President Wilson. ex-
| President TAFT. Thomas A. Edison. L
Yen Hung, former president of China