The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

| Look for the guarantee tag on Guar
anteed Banquet F1our.''-Adv.
The Indianola school starts Monday.
The school house has not been COM
| pletely finished yet.
Arch F. Williams of Seattle, Wash,
formerly of Topeka, will be in Topeka
F., tomorrow. on a short business trip.
| Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Lewis leave to-
day for Dallas. Tex, to visit their son,
Harry, who is manager of the Merry
1 Optical company's wholesale house at
| that place.
| Chief of Police Josiah Ross has
not made any decision in the appoint
ment of first sergeant to succeed
himself. Several officers will be tried
| before the appointment is made.
Mrs. D. K. Livingstone of Rhode
| Island will talk Sunday evening at
the First Baptist church. Rev. Robt.
Gordon's address on Christian
| Science has been postponed a week.
| For the third time this fall there
has been raid on the raincoat depart
ments of the clothing stores. This
| morning extra clerks were placed in
that department in many of the stores.
Polk school had Victrola concert
at the school given by a local store.
The school purchased a good machine
and records and the pupils intend to
! use the Victrola often in their work
and play.
their annual fall reception at the club
! house, 800 Topeka avenue, tonight. The
affair will be held in honor of the ten
mis- players in the city tournament. IL
is open to the general public and
large attendance is expected.
The finals in the city tennis tour
nament to be played this afternoon
between Will Collinson and Clarence
Jordan have been postponed until
Monday. The winner of this set will
receive a loving cup and play Robert
Shoemaker for the championship of
the city.
Tom c. Powell has announced that
his new soccer team will hold it's first
practice at League park Sunday morn
ing at 10 o'clock. Mr.. Powell says he
team this season. Most of the old play
ers and several new ones intend to
play.
The Commercial club membership
campaign is being carefully planned
out by Chairman Harry Snyder of the
membership committee and ]. Will
Kelly, secretary of the club. When the
campaign starts Tuesday morning it
is expected to have all the plans for
boosting the club completed.
The following licenses issued
this morning from the office of the
probate court: William J. Curtis, age
SO, and Alice Lakin, age so, of Topeka;
L. L..
and Hattie v. Phillips, age 81, of Pax
leo; Charles E. Reynolds, age %. and
Ruth E. Mohler, age 10, of ST. Marys.
Hugh Jones, a prisoner at the fed
eral penitentiary, was refused release
from prison on the grounds of habeas
corpus before Judge Pollock in Kan
SaS City this morning. Jones was con-
victed this year in Texas of selling
opium in violation of a federal law and
sentenced to one year. His petition
was presented by T. w. Bell, a col
ored lawyer of Leavenworth.
Rosalia Huerta, released from Jail
Friday after serving part of a 100
day sentence, was arrested again last
night on the charge of being drunk
and was fined SIS in police court this
morning. Huerta was released
through the efforts of Sergeant A. L.
Sauls. The Mexican found a diamond
ring belonging to the sergeant and was
paroled by Judge Huron on that ac-
count.
Because he signed his name William
Mccoy when it was Clarence Reveley,
ReVeley was fined 800 in the city court
this morning and sentenced to 30 days
in Jail. Reveley was charged with vio-
lation of the Mahin liquor law-one of
the first violations in the county. Last
June the man signed a Union Pacific
slip for a barrel of beer, declaring his
name was William Mccoy and his adj
and address were fictitious. Reveiey
lives at $40 North Jackson street.
Unless the commission men and
gardeners who gather with their wag-
onS on lower Kansas avenue use more
judgment and care as to the amount
of space they occupy on the street they
may meet with the embarrassment of
a rigid enforcement of the city'S traf
f1c ordinance, according to Mayor Cof |
ran. The commission men and team
etc hox oil 1CiI DOR h 10
liberty in excess of the privileges
granted by ordinance, and a result
complaints have been made not only |
of the drivers being forced to take to |
the wrong side of the street, but |
street cars have also been delayed.
Troop of the Boy Scouts left To-
peka Friday at 4:30 and linked" to |
Granville for an all night camping |
party. The scouts made a fire in the |
bluffs and ate supper around the blaze. !
They reached Granville at Z O'Clock, |
wrapped themselves in their blankets |
and were asleep at 10. They returned /
this morn, reporting a bully time. |
The following boys "hiked': Edwin /
Nellis, Stanley, Snyder, Justin Hillyer, |
Glare Menninger, Wilbur Cole. William
Diefendorf. Conrey Bell, George Neil. !
Professor Woods and Assistant Scout
Master Leigh Carver chaperoned the |
scouts.
While the location of the big cleo
trio street sign, advertising Topeka to
passengers passing through the Santa
Fee depot. was under consideration by |
the city commission and the White !
Way committee, the complaint was
made by some of the residents of |
Fourth street that the cluster lights
installed on the Fourth street White
Way were not up to the standard
specified in the contract. This is Il
mistake. At the time specifications
were drawn and estimates were pre-
nared iOh of two rnuyerS xUarp in