The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-27
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The Shawnee Taxpayers League
will meet tonight in Lincoln Post hall
| Commissioner H. P. Miller, who has
been ill at his home for a week, was
at city hall this morning.
! DR.. D. M. Campbell, former city milk
| inspector, now living in Chicago, has
been spending several days in Topeka.
| The story of Kansas will be told by
tabl-aux and living portraits at the
Central Congregational church this eve
ming at eight O'Clock.
| Captain A. M. Fuller, assistant post
master, spent Sunday in Emporia. The
state association of assistant postmas-
| tiers will meet in Emporia May 1920.
Captain A. M. Spivey has received
word of the serious illness of his 3
year old granddaughter, Mary Alta,
who is with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gill Updegraff in Sioux Falls. S. d.
John L. Harrison, United States mar
shall, and Frank Campbell, United
States commissio er, spent today in To-
peka but will return tomorrow to the
= ansas City term of the federal court.
The following birth have been re-
ported at the office of the city clerk:
To Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Gilchrist, S24
Golden avenue, boy; to DIR. and Mrs.
H. w. Putnam, 1882 College avenue, a
boy
The Highland Park Grange will hold
a closed meeting at the Highland Park
school-house Tuesday evening. There
is some important business to come
before the meeting. consequently full
attendance is desired.
DR.. B. F. Culp, of the Abbot Aka
loidaf company has been in Topeka, and
has induced DIR. George F. Babb, city
milk inspector, to assist him in his ex-
periments relative to the diagnosis of
contagious abortion among cattle.
Several protests were filed in city
commission meeting this morning
against the paving of Fifteenth street
between College avenue and McVicar.
paving of Buchanan from First street
to Third.
Children playing with matches set
fire to the bedding in a back room at
313 West Seventh street, an apartment
occupied by Mrs. Mary Semple. Bedding
was burned, but the fire was confined
to one room, the damage not amount
ing to more than $50.
The consolidation of the Bank of To-
peka and the Prudential State bank will
take place next Saturday. A week from
today the two banks will be doing BUSH
ness as one institution, and the -Pru-
Dental Trust Co. will have quarters In
the Mulvane building.
Twenty-six members of the Sunday
school of the Eucl1Q Avenue hSlHOu-
ist church united with the church Sun
day as a result of a series of revival
meetings that have been held the last
three weeks under DR.. Edwin Locke
These services will be continued
throughout this week.
Tickets for the Kansas Day club
banquet which will be held at $50
O clock "Wednesday evening are on
sale at the following places: National
hotel, Throop hotel, Rowley's drug
store and RurghartS cigar stand.
They may also be had from Fred Jew
ell, the secretary of the club
1.-THE knights of the Siege Perilous,"
an organization of boys of the Central
CONGREGATIONAL church had charge of
the program at the church Sunday eve
ming. The boys were in costume, and
gave a part of their ritual. A troop of
Boy Scouts also participated in the
program There were 500 persons in at |
tendance. /
The new brick plant bridge, three |
quarters of mile from Gage park, is !
rapidly springing into existence. The
piers are completed, and the south 4
span is in place. When finished the
bridge will be 1910 feet in length. 1t
will consist of, ten spans, four of them |
so feet long, two las feet long, and |
four 175 feet long. The roadway
to the bridge on the south side
iS Graded