The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Ice cream social, First Methodist
church lawn. Saturday night--Adv.
All issues of Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. 534 Kansas avenne--Adv.
Boy Scout troop No. will go to
Gage park Saturday to study bird
nests. They will number and describe
the various bird homes.
The members of the Epworth
League of the First Methodist church
will hold an ice cream social on the
church lawn Saturday night.
E. E. Brayman, local agent for the
American Railway Express company,
has returned from short vacation
spent il. the Ozark mountains of Mis-
souri,.
George Bell, night station master at
the Rock Island. who recently SUI
fsred a stroke of partial paralysis. has
recovered sufficiently to return to his
home today or Saturday.
Miss Margaret Kitchener, baby well
fare nurse on the staff of the Public
Health Nursing association, will leave
Saturday for Long Beach, Cal, to
spend a months vacation.
The bridge over Shunganunga creek
at Seventh and Hancock streets, is be-
ing repaired with new steel beams,
Commissioner w. S. Hancock said to-
day The bridge repairs will be COM
plete in a few days.
Local G. A. r. members were guests
of the Grand theater management ct
the showing of In the Heart of Mary
land Thursday night. Lincoln post
members marched from their hall at
Sixth and Quincy to the theater.
Louis A. Black, president of the Y.
M. c. A. Employed Officers Associa-
ton of Kansas is conducting a CAM
r,oi low 70, n
Railroad Y. M. c. A, which was par
TALLY destroyed by the recent floods
in Pueblo.
Howard Patten of the Wichita
Street Railway company, is in Topeka,
attending a meeting of the Wichita
and Topeka Railway company Off
GERS, and visiting his brother, Albert
Pdtten, manager of the Topeka Rail-
ways company
Word has been received by County
Attorney Veale that Mrs. Emma Max
well, alias Mrs. Leila Wells, who was
sent to the penitentiary on shop lift
ing charges from Topeka recently, is
charges. She will probably be sent
there after her present term expires,
it was said.
Four cars of flour left Topeka
Thursday for Ireland. They are going
via the Rock Island to New Orleans.
anu lIGAC6 ny cars
of flour will be exported this month
by the same route to different Euro
pean points. The Topeka flour mills
shipped the consignment which went
Thursday.
Company 1 of the Girl Reserves of
the Y. W. c. A. will meet at the asso-
citation building at lis o'clock Satur-
day afternoon for a free swim. Com
pany is composed of girls from Bran
ner, Harrison, Lafayette, Lincoln,
Quincy, State and Highland Park. Com
pany will meet at o'clock. Com
pany includes girls from Central
Park, Clay, Lowman Hill, Polk, Pot
win, Sumner and Van Buren, schools.
Not all boys are fond of city life
for D. F. Shirk of the Kansas Orphans
Home society is endeavoring to find
farm homes for several boys. The
boys are under IL years, who would
like to spend the summer on a farm,
working their way until school begins.
one 15-year-old boy wants home
from which he can go to high school
or a summer farm home where he can
earn money to pay for schooling in the
fall.
A rare treat for patients at the To-
peka tuberculosis sanatorium, three
miles east of the city, will be a band
concert Friday night of next week by
MarshalPs band, in Sanatorium park.
The concert will begin at o'clock
as there are no lights on the grounds
at the sanatorium. The public is in
vited to the concert. Last summer
when a similar concert was given the
concert was well attended by visitors
from the city and was hugely enjoyed
by the sanatorium patients.
A champion is about to pass. Bob
Wonder, former worlds champion, is
awaiting the execution of the death
sentence which has been laid upon
him. Bob Wonder didn't win his
championship in a square, rope
bounded ring. but in the show ring.
Once he was the worlds best and big
gest Poland China boar. At that
time he weighed 1900 pounds. Now
he weighs but go pounds Still, he
has to be assisted to rise after he has
been lying down, and he cannot sup
port his own immense weight for
long. Bob was owned by F. B. Caldwell.
near Gage park. and has been ex-
hibited over the entire country. He has
been sold to the Wolff Packing COM
pany and is to be slaughtered there.