The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-12
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Miss Sallie Glass, girls work secre-
tary of the Y w. c. A, will leave Sat
urday for her home in Uniontown,
Ala, to spend month.
Mrs. Florence Hall, who underwent
an operation recently, is rapidly re-
covering. She is at the John Feldner
home, 929 East Eighth street.
Water which covered two-thirds of
Eastlawn, the new East side park, has
receded today, according to E. T. A.
Reinisch, superintendent of parks.
The board of directors of the XII
wants club held its regular meeting
this noon at the Chamber of Com
merce. Only routine business was
transacted.
Troop No. 2 of Topeka Boy Scouts,
under the leadership of Zeke Schilling.
will hike to forty foot hole, west of
the brick yards, for an all night camp,
Saturday night.
H. G. West, president of the Farm
ers' National bank, returned to Topeka
Thursday after a three weeks trip in
Mexico. He left Immediately for st.
Joseph, where he has some important
business to transact before he will re-
turn TO his office here.
1t was a 'pruney" trial in the court
of Topeka this morning. Merle
Thompson, a white man, was bound
over to the district court by Judge
Paul Heinz on a charge of stealing
box of pruneS consigned to the state
hospital in March, 1920.
Harrison Flanders has opened
new phonograph and sewing machine
repair shop at los West Sixth avenue,
in quarters formerly occupied by the
Payne Taxicab company. Flanders
will also handle secondhand phono-
graphs and sewing machines.
E. H. Hogueland, commerce counsel
e., xoIr ps,-af a., oil CT,
pers' associations, with his family. will
leave Saturday on motor car trip to
Sulphur Springs, Ark, for a vacation
The family will remain there until
school opens, while Hogueland says
he will return within a week or ten
days.
The Topeka Traffic association has
received advice that on and after Sep
TENDER 1, shippers will have six
months in which to file claims for loss
and damages against express compan-
les, as against four months time at
present. The shippers have had six
months in which to file such claims
against railroad companies for some
time.
The redecorating of the Y. w. c. A.
interior is progressing rapidly. Walls
of the entire first floor are being tint
ed a cream color. Two rooms of the
second floor have been thrown to-
gether and redecorated to make
large and attractive club room for
the second floor also is being redeco-
rated. -
A suit to collect s4.s25 from A. L.
Bose. proprietor of a paint and paper
store in Kansas City, Kan, was filed
here today in the federal court by the
Northern Linseed Oil company, OF
Minneapolis. The plaintiffs charge
breach of contract, alleging that Bosse
refused to accept part of a large con-
signment of linseed oil when the mar
ket was falling.
The championship baseball game
will be played between the city hall
and fire department teams at Ripley
park Saturday afternoon Each team
has won two games. The police de-
partment team has not been able to
compete with the batting averages of
the city hall employees and the fire
men. The game, Saturday afternoon
will begin at O'Clock.
The Eighth Illinois Regimental
band an overseas organization, will
arrive in Topeka Saturday afternoon
at 4 o'clock over the Union Pacific in
their private car to attend the colored
knights of Pythias world convention
They will be met by the ways and
means committee and a delegation OF
the Topeka uniformed rank and
escorted TO In6 hdHSdS HIG6 L oil
grounds. Tonight they are giving
concert in st. Louis, Mo.
The Lewis Green company, dealing
in wall paper and millinery, will open
for business Saturday at 208 East
Sixth avenue. The firm is composed
of II. o. Lewis, who has been employed
by the Santa Fe, and w. S. Green, who
has been employed for some time by
the Security Benefit association. Both
men were formerly in the wall paper
business, and rs Mrs Lewis and Mrs.
Green are experienced in the millinery
line, the combination business has
resulted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Worley re-
turned today to their home in Ken
singtona kan, after a short visit with
friends IN Topeka. For thirty-five
years, Worley was employed by the
Rock Island as pumper at kensington,
retiring last spring on pension, ana
as an additional reward for his long
services. both, he and his wife have
passes on the Rock Island for life. The
sight of Worley. with moustache ana
cigar, was a familiar one to everyone
who Travelled to any extent over the
Rock Island thru Smith county.
E. ]. Wright, the new Industrial
secretary of the state Y. NJ, c. A. ar
rived in Topeka Thursday to take up
his new duties. Wright spent the first
Omaha, Nebraska, where he studied
the industrial system - the Y. NJ. c.
A. in those cities. He will probably
leave here Monday for an extended
trip, over the state to take a study of
the industrial conditions in Kansas,
after which he will complete the or
ganization work of the industrial di
vision in all towns which have a Y.
NJ. c. A. organization.
A restraining order to prevent Will
liam Brown, 1920 Tyler street, from
selling his motor carr which she says
she helped pay for, was granted
Thursday afternoon to Mrs. Elizabeth
Brown, former Russian Red Cross
worker. Brown, former member of
the A. E. F., filed a petition in the
district court Wednesday asking for a
divorce. Brown and his wife met at
Vladiv ostok. Russia, and were married
two years ago. Their matrimonial
troubles began when he brought her
TO the home Of relatives in TODeka