The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-03
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Noon lunch. Cremerie Cafeteria.-Adv.
A case of diphtheria was reported to
the city health department at 1923
North Topeka avenue Friday The
victim is Glen Adams, j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Reynolds left
today for their new home in Portland
Ore, after a short visit with Mrs.
Joseph Takemire. of Elmont; her sis
ter, Mrs. H. A. Ostrand, and brother
L. B. Takemire, of Silver Lake.
Red Cross courses in home hygiene
and care of the sick will be resumed
at the high school building Monday
morning, Mrs. D. W. Mulvane an
nounced today. The classes have been
held at the Y. w. c. A. since the be-
ginning of the coal shortage.
d. D. Mote. United states natural
tzation examiner for the St Louis dis
trict comprising eight states is spend
ing his vacation at his home, S19 Nor
RE avenue. Mote was a lawyer in To-
pel5a before he took up the work OF
making citizens out of the foreigners
in the United states.
Gasoline again put old Dobbin out
of a lob in Topeka. W. .. RlgDy,
nostmaster. announced today that
motorcycles with side cars Woulo pc
used in the future in coilectlng mails
in the CITY ana TcSANCAiIahA 1855
This innovation will make II posslple
TO make more collections each day.
while crossing Kansas avenue at
n-;,,tt street about 1870 o'clock last
,,ioht Frank A. Parcel, 6S, 931 Madl-
son street, was knocked down by a
street car. His right collar bone was
fra ctured and his right arm was oadly
snrained. Parcel has been a member
Of the Topeka police department nine
teen years and for the last elgnt years
has been a desk sergeant.
The National hotel will open its
dining room closed for a number OF
naont6s sunday, according to J. F..
NSosb1- manager A Ia carte meals
will be served. The Coffee Shop. an
nev has been closed. Equipment used
in that place has been transferred 10
the National kitchen. No arrange
ments for use of the vacated room
have been made.
IIoyd w. Buck, %. died Friday
night at 42s Sumner street. He was
member Of the 139th Field hospital |,
10th Sanitary train. Buck graduated
from the Topeka high school in 1919.
He spent two years at Washburn be-
fore entering the army On his return
from the service Buck again TOOK up
his work in the Washburn law school:
For some time he has handled one or
The state JOu1Hdl paper AOuNSS- 49,
was taken i'll last Saturday.
An appeal is going out to Topeka
citizens to provide places for the leg
islators to stay while IN IopeKa' Ine
administrative council of the state
Teachers association will be here
January 1918. Housing facilities Will
be taxed to the limit. Friday AFTER
noon C. C. Sickler, convention secre-
tary of the Chamber of commerce,
appealed to Topeka householders IN
an endeayor to secure rooms as speed
ilv as possible Persons having rooms
to- rent can assist the Chamber OF
Commerce by phoning in data on
what they have to offer
An ordinance creating sewer district
No. so and embracing all the territory
between Munson and Huntoon from
Washburn to High in Lowman Hill
was passed by the city commissioners
at their meeting today. The contract
will be let soon. The sewer will be in
dependent. but will attach to one al
ready in by an extension of only about
100 feet. A petition for paving the al
lev between Lane and West and be-
tween Fifth and Sixth street was re-
ferred to Commissioner Hancock.
Picturesque Indian dances in cos
tune were given Friday night at the
Royal Arcanum during the reception
given in honor OF the great o11lcers OF
| Kansas elected at Emporia last Octo-
Der. w. A. S. Bird. past great In
| cohonee of the United States, delivered
an address representing Shawnee
Tribe No. IA. and Mrs. Mary A. Sipes
great Pocahontas for Kansas, spoke
| for Minerva council No. 1, Degree OF
| Poncahontas. Rev. John A. Bright
held a song service. A. P. Crooke1
and Miss Ella Sipes. great finance
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