The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-02
SNAP SHOTS
When in doubt, put on war revenue
AT HONE NEWS.

| tax stamp.
A big ring around the moon last
night! The old timers say it means an
impending storm.
There will be a Commercial club
minstrel show rehearsal at the club
quarters at 1880 o'clock this evening.
| Charles Anderson and Miss Mamie E.
Kennedy, of Denison, KAN, were mar
| ried in the probate court today by
Judge Hugh MacFarland.
The scandal thirsty loving high
school and college youngsters have
been flocking to the federal building to
| hear the details of the white slave
case"
II hope it gets cold quick" declared
Clarence Scott. who has never gotten
over the fact that he was born in
Canada. The colder 1t is the better !
like it, & :
The Washburn Review this week
| comes out in its annual football dress:
The college won the state football
championship this year and the
schools newspaper did not overlook
the fact.
Matt Weizhtman, county treasurer.
will keep his office open daily from
now until December 20 on which date
the penalty for non-payment of taxes
becomes effective The first half Of the
1915 tax is now being paid.
The Washburn Glee' club, full of
pep" and ginger" appears before
the Topeka public in the college
chapel on the campus this evening. A
strong and creditable organization
promises an excellent concert.
Marriage licenses have been issued
to Mahlon Baird and Dora A. Inlay OF
Topeka; Albert Taylor and Sarah Mar
tin of Topeka, and to Walter Mulanax
| and Bessie Sherrai of Mayetta. The
last named couple are Indians.
H. E. Chubbuck. general manager
| of the Illinois Traction company has
been in Topeka two days and there has
been no concentrated effort on the
| part of interurban promoters to
swamp him with requests. Time
bringeth forth many changes!
! A lot Of fine Arkansas white oak
planking for bridge flooring. part of a
! carload not Immediately demanded,
has been stacked in the rear OF the
court house. After a plank has been
condemned in a bridge floor it is pulled
out and used for building road drags.
Officers of Sunflower Camp No. 526
NJ. w. A.. elected last night were: w.
A. Bolinger. consul: r. NJ. Lee. ad-
visor; NJ. W. Saxon. clerk; H. L. Grice,
assistant clerk; Louis Holman, bank
er; P. B. Brownfield, escort: John
Worstell, Waterman. and John Parsons.
sentry.
An entertainment for members Of the
organization and their wives will be
given by the United Commercial Trav-
elers Saturday evening, December 5. at
the U. c. T. hall, East Eighth street
between Kansas avenue and Quincy
street. The Santa Fe Watch company
will furnish musical instrument for
the evenings entertainment. REFRESH
ments will be served.
Topeka stores are beginning to put on
their holiday season dress and few
more days will show the shop windows
full of Christmas displays. Toys ap-
pear to be as plentiful as ever, due to
the early importations Of such goods as
are manufactured abroad. Enough of
these things for this Christmas were
delivered to American soil before the
European war started.
Il really know how to write, although
you wouldn't think so to look at that;
but I'm scared confessed Mark Combs
of Salina as he viewed his own scraWl-
ing signature on his application for a
marriage license in the probate court
this morning. He recovered his nerve,
however. and went through the cere-
mony of his marriage to Miss Mamie
! Mcdaniel of Silver Lake in fine form.
Even with a copy of the law in front
of you. you can't tell much about this
new federal war tax" declared Bob
! Tasker, register of deeds, as he puzzled
| over his office copy in an effort to find
out whether stamps should be put on
deeds issued by the sheriff after public
+, sale of real estate under judicial or
ders. Seeing nothing expressly pro-
hibiting it he has concluded to call for
! the stamps.
Frank Brewer. manager Of the
Underwood typewriter agency in To-
peka, has been transferred to the man
agement of the branch at Wichita.
and w. O. Synnamon, of Kansas city
! Mo, has been selected to take his
| place here. Mr.. Synnamon arrived in
! Topeka this week to take active
f, charge of the work and will probably
move his family here from Kansas