The Topeka state journal., 1913-10-30
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Contract has been let for the paint
ing of the National hotel.
A Halloween social will be given
Friday night at the Seabrook school
house.
J. Will Kelley, secretary of the To-
peka Commercial club, has returned
from a business trip to st. Joe.
Come in and see our new raincoats
at $3.50 each. Southwiclx's Auto Sup
ply Co, 925 Kansas Ave.-Adv.
Eggs have taken a jump in price.
Fresh "hen fruit" is now selling at
thirty-three cents a dozen at down
town stores.
z Every grocer in town has caught
on" to Banquet Flour. Every up-to-
the-minute grocer will fill your order
without delay.-Adv.
J. c. Dorcas, 314 Van Buren street,
charged with maintaining a nuisance
and fined in police court, appealed his
case and has been acquitted by the
jury in the second division of the dis
trict court.
petition for the paving of Taylor
street and Western avenue between
the meeting of the city commission
this morning and referred to the
committee on public improvements.
The Woodman circle and Woodmen
OI the w ORIG Will give a masquerade
ball Thursday night and the K. P.
hall, Sixth and Quincy streets. This is
the first annual ball given by the
lodges, and a large attendance is eX-
pected. Miss Maggie Beede is in
charge of the ball.
a meeting has been called for
Thursday night by n. H. Wolff, at 429
Kansas avenue, for the purpose of de-
Gliding the date of the Democratic ban
quet. The banquet is to be held Janu-
a nr fn chi he Of
Secretary Bryan and the committee
in charge will decide the exact date.
County superintendent Eby has
been urging all teachers in Shawnee
county to attend the state convention
to be held in Topeka Nov. and z.
He expects that 100 per cent will at
tend. Last year, out of 142 teachers,
139 were present at the state conven-
ton.
The case of T. w. Cartmin, which
was taken under advisement several
days ago by Judge Hugh MacFarland,
was decided this morning. Cartmill,
who lives at Tenth and Wear streets,
was charged with being a delinquent
parent. The court decided to leave
the three minor children in his charge
but under the supervision of the law.
One of the members of the school
board said today he considers it
doubtful if the board will decide at it's
ize the installation of a telephone sys-
tenn in the city schools The cost of
maintenance as submitted by the Bell
company was more than the board
could well afford to pay at this time,
he said.
A crate of strawberries occupies the
attention of the jury and judge in the
second division of the district court
today. Earl Pagan, charged with
stealing a crate valued at $2.50, was
fined $50 by Police Judge Huron. The
warrant was sworn out by Samuel E.
Lux, commission merchant, who al
leges that Fagan stole the crate from
a car. The case was appealed after
its hearing last spring.
Several errors in preparing the tax
rolls for local Improvements were cor
rected by the city commission this
morning on the recommendation of A.
R. Young, city engineer. Most of the
errors were for small amounts. In
one instance property was charged
for the construction of a sidewalk
which was never built, being elimi-
mated after the contract was let, and
have the frontage indicated in the
maps.
At meeting of the city commission
this morning commlunlcaton
Wilmarth, fire chief and build
ing inspector, recommending that the
city adopt ordinances for a moro
strict regulation of dyeing and clean
ing shops, automobile garages and
other places where gasoline, infam-
mable oils and acids, and calcium car
bide are used or stored. Gasoline ex-
plosions are said to have been respon-
sible for two fires recently, and it is
the present ordinances do not
give the city authorities the power to
properly regulate the handling of
such materials.
Three Kansas brothers, Roger, Max
we'll and Lanier Droke, are making
good in North Carolina All three
formerly lived in Holton, Kansas, and
the Oldest is under 81 years of age.
Roger Droke is resident manager of
the Hot Springs Prospecting company,
an iron mining corporation. Maxwell
Droke is secretary to the general
of the Laurel River
Logging company, and L.anier Droke
is assistant purchasing agent of the
same company. All are drawing
large salaries and are examples of
what Kansas boys are doing in other
parts of the country.