The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-21
SNAP SHOTS
You Tell Elm, Mill, I Haven't the Wind.
You Tell I'm, Mackerel. I'm Soused.
You Tell 'Em, Dictionary. You Gotta Word
You Tell EN-, wheel. You Spoke.
You Tell EN-, Arrow. I'm In q Culver.
You Tell EN-, Anger, I'm Bored.
You Tell EN-, Taxi. 1 Gotta Payne.
AT HOME NEWS

marriage license was issued in Kansas
p, and Helen J. Foster, Topeka, IS.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co. 534 Kansas avenue ADV.
The Rev E. C. Silberson preached his
first sermon pastor of the First English
Lutheran church Sunday morning. He
came to Topeka from Loveland, Colo0
The regular meeting of the Sons of
Veterans AUXILIARY No: 10 vii be 81, held 10 at
ison street, Tuesday night
Dougherty ihorthand makes better ste
nographers in alf the time. Day School,
Night School or by Home Study. Dougher-
ty Business College.-Adv-t
The girls who make their home at the
Y. w. {. A. and the Y. W. c. A. annex are
planning a picnic for Thursday evening.
Forty girls are housed in the two build
ings.
Mrs B. NJ. webb, police matron, went
to Lansing today, accompanying two white
women and one colored woman OF To-
peka sentenced to the women's industrial
farm.
Richard f. Hodgins, of Topeka, has pur-
chased an S0-acre farm lying just south
west of Menoken from John X. and Bessie
Reed, of oregon. according to the deed
filed with Oran Layton, register OF deeds.
Ralph Taylor, 16. 1929 Western avenue,
and a member of Troop 2. boy scouts. will
tional Boy Scout 1amboree in July. He
was presented with a silver medal Saturday
for passing twenty-one scout tests.
Oliver William, night patrolman, owns a
police by a small boy from the East Side
who told the officers the neighbors OBJ
jected to its bowling and its marvellous
appetite for chickens.
The first carload of watermelons arrived
in Topeka Saturday. A negro bought one
from local grocery store, altho it cost
on his front steps and eat 1t, then throw
the rind out on the sidewalk to make his
neighbors jealous.
The report that the sheriff went to 1901
East Sixth street Friday afternoon to get
Elwood Parkinson. charged with white
slavery. was an error. The residence at
East tSe
found in another part of the city.
Ralph Matheny. local negro police
character, was captured by Patrolman Alb
streets Sunday night after he had given
the police the slip for week He was
wanted for stealing butter from a wagon
belonging to the Farmers Creamery q
Ice Cream company.
At meeting of the Monday Lunch club
composed of insurance men of Topeka, the
matter of a filtration system for Topeka
was discussed. Altho no action will be
taken by the club. every man present was
unanimous in believing that Topeka should
have a new system of water filtration.
Some action will be taken by the club soon.
Whooping cough headed the list of dis
eases reported to the city health depart
ment in the week ended June 10. according
to DIR. Earle G. Brown, city health officers.
Fifty nine cases of the disease were re-
ported. The rest Of the report follows +:
Gonorrhea. o: syphilis, 1; measles, 80 I;
chicken pox, 16: small pox, 3; meningitis,
L Il DEATH, scarlet fever, 1, and diph-
iberia, ..
Twenty five ex-service men who have
completed the required studies in law were
to be admitted to the Kansas bar this after
noon in the senate chamber. A ruling by
the state board of bar examiners permitted
all ex-service men who have completed the
required work in the law course to be ad-
mitted to the bar. Twenty five more who
were. not in the service will take their
exams in the near future.
warrant was issued today by Tinkham
Veale, assistant county attorney, for the
errest of II. Henry, n contractor engaged
| in making an excavation at lis East Sixth
street, charging him with giving T. Bald
S19.75. Baldwin worked for Henry four
| days, 1t was said. County officers said
they had Information that Henry had pass
ed other worthless checks
A request that John Ebrel. and John and
Vester Mason, recently sentenced to the
penitentiary for auto thefts, be returned
to Colorado to serve a sentence for violation
of their paroles, was received by Sheriff
Hugh Larimer. The boys had been SEN
| fenced. it was said, for stealing a Ford, but
paroled without serving time. Larimer
already received the order for their COM
mittment to the state penitentiary.
Kansas has lost the lead of the United
| States in the per capita net sale of war
tificates. according to report made by
| John Il. Wayland, director of the govern
ment savings organization for the Tenth
| federal reserve district. Ohio has the
| lead now with per capita record of 81
| cents for the first four months in 1920.
while Kansas has record of only 60
cents. Oregon has third honors with II
cents and New Hampshire fourth with ii
cents.