The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-18
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AT HOME NEWS


All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue.-Adv.
One of the hardest bills to meet is the
coal bill. Join our Coal Savings Club and
have the satisfaction of knowing that the
coal is in the bin aud paid for before win
ter sets III. Some system. Topeka Coal
Company.-Adv.
The late John W. Winters. well known
Dover merchant, left his entire estate
valued at $4,000, to his widow, according
10 terms of the will filed in probate court.
His three sons. Fred ". Winter. Clyde q,
were named as executors.
Dwight Thatcher Harris, well known Kan
sas newspaper man. is back in Topeka
Several months ago Harris went to A1bu-i
qUerque, y. NJ, and engaged in advertising
business there. lie was accompanied by.
his wife who was Obliged TO 20 there for
her health. Harris now plans TO return
to the newspaper business in Kansas. II
The appearance If gingerale containing
capsicum, hut no SO labeled on tn Topeka
market, has been reported to Miss Annetta
Nicoll. chief ef the city food department.
Federal agents have been instructed TO
seize the product it. was said Putting
capslcum. which is an extract of cayenne
pepper, IN the ale would noe be an ofchse
in the eyes of the law If the bottles were
labeled 10 show it. The effect of the drug
on the drinker does not cause undue ex-
hilaration.
Students in the Fine Arts department 1T
Washburn college will give a recital in TIE
The public is cordially invited to attend.
Miss Grace Perry and Miss Ethel Evering-
ham will open the program with duo
piano number. Following them will b.
piano numbers by Dick Morrow, Dean
Bickford, Eva Howell. Helen Early, Mary
Higgins, Jessie Young and Mrs. Hugh
Fisher. Miss Silvia Silverthorne and Mr..
John Darstow will sing.
The Y VI. c. A. Mothers club will meet
Friday afternoon at ? 80 o'clock at the
Central Y. VI. c. A. The program will in
cude a discussion of the question of
whether sex hygiene shall be taught in the
public schools. Mrs. g. J. Hamilton will
give a review of the first chapter of AL
Miss Clara colledge will give a centrally
solo. All mothers of the city are invited.
The Tots Toggery, which has furnished
Topeka with distinctive, handmade
clothes for infants and children, is to be
closed soon, because the proprietors. Miss
ing, are planning to 90 to San Francisco,
Cal, where they will operate a similar
business. The Tots Toggery location in
the Orpheum b6ildiLg is to be remodeled
alter auditorium. Rather than seek a new
location in Topeka the Misses Spalding
have advanced the date OF their intended
move TO California and will leave soon.
Mrs. Laura Hoada has filed a petition
for # divorce from Bruce f. Hoada, well to-
do farmer living near Lecompton. She
charges her husband has an ugly temper
and rough, rude" disposition which
makes it impossible for her to live with
him any longer. She also complains In
her petition because she is obliged so
/ she alleges to carry water a long distance
and do all the homework while there are
| between three and six hired men about the
| place all the. time. According to her az
| her health. They. have two children. The
| property IS estimated at S1S,000