The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-13
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Don't forget Marshall's band dance
at auditorium Saturday. Nov. 20.-Adv.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue--Adv.
New classes in Arithmetic, also
Higher Accountancy, will begin Mon
day, November Is, at Strickler's Bust
ness college. Enroll immediately
Adv.
Miss Anna w. Heartburg, private
secretary to A. D. Gray, assistant
treasurer of the Santa Fe. will return
Monday from Texas, where she has
been spending her vacation.
Material for the repair of the Rock
Island bridge across Mill creek, be-
delivered at the ground. Twenty car
loads are already in place and there is
more to come.
Ladies' night will be observed by
the Inter-Service club at their next
regular meeting Monday night at the
Chamber of Commerce. Dinner at $3.50
o'clock will be followed by a program
of entertainment.
A special train carrying a detach-
ment of American marines from a fort
in the eastern part of the country
passed thru Topeka this morning on
its way to California, where the
marines are to be stationed.
Cases of measles are piling up a
heavy score in Topeka with fifty cases
reported to the city board of health
to date. AT present there are eighteen
scarlet fever cases, three of diph-
liberia and two of whooping cough.
The Topeka Christian Ministers As
ISOLATION, R. A. ScheIl, president, will
hold regular business meeting at the
Y. w. c. A. Monday evening-at 5
O'Clock. The families of the ministers
are invited to attend. Dinner will be
served.
The regular luncheon and meeting
of the Topeka Life Underwriters was
noon today. Prof. w. J. Morgan of
Washburn college delivered another of
his series of talks on Psychology in
craftsmanship"
In memory of the soldiers, sailors
and marines who gave their lives dur
ing the worlfwar, flags on all federal
buildings in the United States VIII be
flown Sunday at half mast, according
to an order received by w. o. Rigby,
Topeka postmaster.
A commentator of the Kansas child
welfare survey is given an entire page
in the Dearborn Independent, the Ford
international weekly. The article was
written by Frank NJ. Chase of Topeka.
1t is accompanied by a photograph Of
DR.. Florence Brown Sherbon, head of
the child hygiene department OF the
state board of health.
V. B. Kist1er and sons, NJ. V. Kist-
Ter and E. G. Kistler, partners in the
McCord-Kistler Mercantile company,
are in Emporia where they are at
tending a convention of the sales and
mana ing forces being held in connec-
ton with the opening of the new build
ing there which is to house the En-
poria branch of the business.
A farewell banquet was given at the
Westminster Presbyterian church Fri
day night by Troops Three, Four and
Five of the Boy Scouts, honoring A. A.
Graham, scout commissioner and for
mer leader of Troop Three, who will
leave soon to go to Amarillo, Tex.
Troop Three presented Graham with
silver loving cup and Troops Three
and Four gave him a ten dollar gold
piece engraved appropriately. Two
hundred persons were present, includ-
ing scouts their fathers, mothers and
scout masters
The city hall denizens stood strictly
at attention when Mayor Corwine ap-
peared Friday. carrying a walking
stick. The interest attracted was
'geater than has been displayed in most
of the critical affairs of the city's gov
eminent, and required far more dis
cussion. The engrossing problem of
"how come" superseded all other top
les. The pros and cons of the matter
we're well threshed out but Mayor
Corwine presented ~ brief, simply
hung to the cane. and the city officials
are still in a ouandary-