The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Where are the girls who have ears to
Pink and white sea shells, the kind mother
why do young men. in this land of the
Wear their hair trimmed like a heather
when viii they know it don't add to their
To wea H"a a BELT way up ugeer their arms
Walt " Drummond-
Everything new in wall paper.
Doering. 90s Kansas Ave.-Adv.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue-Adv.
The first jury trial in Judge George
H. WhitcOmb's division of the district
court will be held September 20.
Miss Eva Kelley. formerly office
secretary of the state office of the Y
NJ. c. A. has gone to Minneapolis,
MINI, for an extended stay.
Fishing never was better than it is
now. lazy Topekans report. The fresh
waters coming in such an unusual
its summer slumber.
Kansas avenue today has been
crowded with school children loaded
down with new books and tablets and
pencils. 1t is the opening day of
school. Lessons start in earnest to-
morrow.
1.-THE various civic water committees
haven't painted any ealamities in To-
peka for more than a week" a sub
scriber writes to The State Journal
today. I guess we must be barely
on the verge of the precipice."
A book on Prohibition in Kansas"
has just been published by William E.
Johnston. and W. J. Herwig. 1t is
brim-full of facts. and quotations
from hundreds of authorities showing
the effects of prohibition in the Sun
flower state.
Bernard Moore and Arthur Erskine
left today for Des Moines, Ia. to visit
relatives The boys are on an eX-
tended tour and from Des Moines they
will go to New York City, then to
London. Eng. and intend TO spend
about three months in the British
Isles.
The Topeka Press club meets to-
night at the rooms of the Chamber of
Commerce in farewell to Cliff J. STRAIT
ton of the Daily Capital. who leaves
this week for Manhattan where he
will become secretary of the Kansas
State Agricultural college Alumni
association.
A West side man has found a cure
for midnight cat fights. Since he laid
a loaded shotgun down beside his bed
on the sleeping porch awaiting an
opportunity to kill off the neighbor-
hood pests the cats haven't been near.
An ounce of prevention is worth
pound of cure"
The city commissioners today au-
thorized the city clerk to advertise for
bids for the building Of new con-
crete bridge across Ward creek on
Walker street in Auburndale. This
is on the cinder road to the water
works. Bids must be accompanied by
a check for $500
A collision between Vigneron &
SautS truck loaded with crushed stone
and a motor car driven by ]. n Beeler
at Eighth and Kansas avenues this
morning resulted in damage to the
lighter car Neither Beeler nor the
driver OF the truck, L. b johnson. col
ored, was injured.
Mrs. Lottie ellis. mother-in-law of
F. a. Seaman, of the office of the state
superintendent OF public instruction,
was Clarence Darrow's first school
teacher when he began school at the
age of eight back in Kfnsman, Ohio.
She was an interested listener TO the
labor attorneys speech Labor day at
Gage park.
A Topekan who owns motor car
and never rides a street car except in
weather unfavorabIe to the finish of
his automobile. climbed aboard
trolley this morning and howled like
a mad man because he had to pay
.71z cents for a ride down town. Street
car fares wouldn't have to be hiked
to the regular users who cannot at
fodr autos If there were fewer motor
lists in town.
Galen Finch. a minor. thru George
F. Finch, his first friend, today filed
suit for S16O.75 against Roy Payne,
owner OF the Payne Auto & Baggage
company. for injuries suffered when
the boy was knocked from a bicycle by
a Payne taxi. The accident occurred
on North Quincy street 1t is charged
that the driver was exceeding the
speed limit at the time the car struck
the bicycle. Galen Finch lives at 1924
North Monroe street.
The Shawnee county commissioners
today awarded n. E. Marsh Co,
Des Moines. Ia. a contract for build
ing the FoItz bridge. The money to
be paid by the county for the new
bridge is s3S.751.41. NJ. Peterson &
Son. Wamego, were awarded contracts
for building the Keck. Black and
Thomas bridges at a cost of S4625.
each Under the contract the Foltz
bridge is to be completed June 3, 1921,
and the other three bridges will be
completed February 5. 1921. All four
bridges were washed out in the sum-
mer flood on Wakarusa creek.