The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-11
snap SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Four car loads of race horses ar
rived for the big fair. Topeka. this
morning.
The Commercial club urges all
business firms to prepare for decor
| ating for fair week
! Davis and Holmes from Marshall,
Mo-. arrived at the fair grounds this
morning with their entries for the
| horse sho,
! Fairy Gillian Of Topeka were united in
marriage by Judge Hugh Mcfarland
! In the probate court Thursday.
| Crosby Brothers, the Mills, Dry
Goods company, and the Warren M.
| Crosby company are preparing dis
plays in the Arts building on the fair
grounds.
| taken from lis office to his home Tues
day suffering from an attack of hay
fever, is still confined to his bed & /
| she VS. very little improvement
! The principals Of the city schools will
meet at 2:15 o'clock Saturday afternoon
in the assembly room Of the manual
J training building for final instructions
before the o ening of the city school
Monday. The general meeting Of teach
ers will be at the same place at )
| o'clock.
| Rev. Arthur S. Henderson will lee
ture his Bible class tomorrow at 10
a. m. at the First Congregational
! church. corner Seventh and Harrison
streets. Subject. The Geography of
the Old Testament World and the Re-
| lation of Israel to the Nations" All
| men cordially welcomed.
Only two births have been repor ed
at the office Of the city clerk in the last
three days. Frequently a dozen births
are reported in one day. 1.-The stork
loot &c in, Cny,fo ov1d To
C. B. Burge. city clerk. Fewer births
are reported in September than in any
| Otf r month - the year. j lnus-- is
the next ligttest month";
A. J. Carrel, a West Eighth street
livery stable keeper who was sued for
divorce last week. was brought back
from LeavenwOrth yesterday by Sher-
| iff L. L. Kiene to straighten out other
complications in his private affairs.
Carrel is charged with issuing to c. G..
Boomer, local transfer man, a check
on u bank where he had no deposit to
protect it.
For many persons Topeka's mu-
nicipa1 market Is not as accessible as
| it should be, This is the opinion of
r. L. Cofran, mayor. He believes g.
| city market located in the east part of
the city, and another in the west part.
the city hall. would be we'll patronized
and that many more persons would
take advantage of them than now
patronize the one market.
Although the Commission of the
| members of the board supposed to ex-
anime automobile and motorcycle driv-
! ere and to issue drivers licenses expired
July l. the hoard is still issuing licenses.
The city commission, having under con-
sideration new ordinance regulating
| automobiles and motorcycles. has failed
to make appointments and the old
members of the board will serve until
| their successors are appointed.
Topeka people have until Saturday
at noon to inspect the remarkable col
lection of coins and paper currency ex-
hibited by Farran Zerbe in the lobby
OF the Merchants National bank 1t
has been a center Of interest through
out the present week, presenting as it
does coins of almost every epoch of
the worlds civilization. Some of the
pieces of money shown date back
| thirty centuries before Christ. The
proprietor of the collection. which has
been brought here as q free educa-
tional exhibit, Is q prominent mem
Der Of the American Numismatic as
ISOLATION and of the United States
assay commission