The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Il. l.. GrlSham OF COTTONWOOD rams
was in town yesterdays
Harry Sturges has returned from
vacation trip to Galveston.
G. c. Lockwood, of Emporia, is visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs H. A. Sturges of this
city.
F. F. Hadsell, Rock Island ticket
agent at Purcell, is in town today on
business.
Miss Grace Close of Pratt was in To-
peka today to undergo treatment for
an affection of the eyes.
The upstairs force at the state print
ing office returned to work yesterday
after two weeks lay off.
The directors of the Topeka grocers'
association will meet tonight at the
Commercial club rooms.
T. E. Stevens, formerly secretary of
the State Temperance union, addressed
the men at the Santa Fe shops today.
George. Simmons was arrested last
evening for an assault on Vera Noel last
Sunday, and will have a hearing this
evening.
Ringling's circus is to be in Atchison
on Wednesday, September II, and
ought, in the natural course of events.
to srtike Topeka few days later.
Prof. Gormley, formerly of Topeka.
and now of Ottawa has arranged to go
to Garnett twice a week for the purpose
of instructing the Garnett band in the
art and science of their work.
Drs. F. H. Martin and H. L. Alkire
have gone to New York city to spend
a month. DR.. Martin will take special
work in surgery, and DR.. Alkire will
specialize on the diseases of the eye
and ear.
It is not surprising that Judge Francis
NJ Grover returned home so hastily
from his recent visit in Indiana when
the name of the disease with which he
was attacked is known. 1t is called
herpes zoster frontalis.''
Another meeting of the license COM
mittee was held last night at the city
the new license ordinance. The commit
tee has nothing to report yet except
progress and that is rather slow.
Will Hewitt, who was tried in city
court yesterday for aSsaulting an old
colored man with a pair of tongs, was
not of the same race as the assaulted
party, but white. The court let Hew<
lit off because he was defending his
father.
There are some rumors that Samuel
T. Howe will move away from Topeka
and make his home at Fairplay, Colo.
where he is the manager of the Colorado
and Kansas Mining company. If he de-
cides to do so. he will resign his place in
the city council.
Jessie A. Shines wants a divorce from
Frank Shines. whom she charges with
beating her, threatening to make him
self instrumental in her demise and
spending his wages. not for groceries.
but for booze. Ts The couple have been
married less than, a year.
Dr. r. s. Magees secretary of the Kan
sas Medical college, will return to the
city tomorrow, and Immediately confer
with a committee about the work of
the college for the ensuing year. DR..
Magee has been in Chicago, taking some
special work iaapathology.
The entertainment committee of the
Commercial club is looking for bids on
the contract of erecting a fence around
part of the fair grounds which will be
reserved for vaudeville and other extra
dime attractions The fence will take
in a space of $50 by 300 feet. and be
eight feet high.
Clifford Foster, a small boy brought
before Judge Pagan yesterday as an
incorrigible, will not go to the Reform
school for awhile, at least. The school
is full of pupils at present, so bad little
boys will please be good until the build
ings are enlarged or some of the present
scholars graduate.
Carpenters union No. 499 of Leaven-
worth is arranging to run an excursion
to Topeka Labor day and indications
are that from 600 to 1000 people will
come from there and Lawrence to par
ticipate in the events to be given in
this city. The Sixth cavalry band will
accompany the special train.
President Norman Plass, of Washburn,
intimates that the Washburn and Medic
football teams will have to quit theiS
fighting about the Thanksgiving day
game. He says that he does not ap
prove of a game between the rival
teams, and suggests that unless the
matter is fixed up, the faculty may
take a hand and stop the ceremony.
Kansas City is reported as having a
shortage of peaches so that they are
now selling at 81 per crate. Topeka
CON mission men are not having this
same trouble. and charge only IS to 80
cents a crate. However. Kansas is
using few peaches of her own raising
this year. getting the large part of her
supply from Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Other fruits will be plentiful and of
good quality.
Automobiles complain that the brick
dropped on the streets by wagons haul
ing bricks Injuries the tires of their N a.
chimes. The pieces of brick become
crushed into sharp pointed, triangular
shapes, which sometime puncture and
always cut the tires of the automobile.
The little pieces of brick, which often
remain on the streets for weeks, are
particularly dangerous at night Il
the street sweepers would frequently
extend their perambulation to the
streets west and east OF the. avenue the
automobile man would have less to wor.
nv him.
E. B. Good, who follows the fee buy
ing business, and seems to have the
local field to himself, has entered suit
against the city OF IOpekd 10 recover
$40 which he says is due him on fees
purchased in police court from witnesses
subpoenaed by the city. He has several
times submitted to the council a bill for
1920 for fees at $3.50 per- At hast the
council allowed him 75c each. just half
what he wanted. He wants the balance
with 6 per cent interest from February
of this year. During the last year the
city fathers have changed the price of
police court fees from $1.50 to IS cents,
but Mr.. Good will see whether the city
has the right to make the change.
Largest Liner Adoat.
Belfast, Ireland, Aug 2l-The White
| Star line stamer Cedric of q, 600 tons
| the largest liner af1Oat, was successful