The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-04
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

John s. .Branner went to Tecumseh
today to do some surveying work.
The fair grounds Is a busy place.
Beginning today and until the fair the
hounds will undo<go a transformation.
George E. CLARK. secretary Of the fair.
went to Kansas City today to see ex-
hibitors, who are coming to the fair.
The Kansas State Agricultural coll.
Iegc famous nerd of eighteen steers
! week after next.
Lemons which advanced from $4.75 to-
- crate Aug. 10. before the re-
cent government investigation Of high
food prices. have dropped back to $500.
An executive meeting Of local Demo-
Gratis was held at the Throop hotel last
evening to make arrangements for the
organization of Young Democrats
club for Shawnee county.
The Kansas Children's Home society
is looking for home for a boy Is
years old who desires to work his way
, through school. The boy Is bright.
and Is said to have a good record.
This is genuine state fair weather.
Every member of the state fair office
force is watching the sky, reading the
aimanacs and guessing, hoping and
praying for good weather fair week.
The meeting of the Brotherhood Of
the Swedish Lutheran church has been
postponed until Friday. September II.
! The meeting will be held at the parson-
age. SIG West Fourth street, at p. m.
bob" Tasker will go into life in
surance when he retires from the Of
flee of register of deeds next January.
He will be associated with E. E. Mar
shall in the representation Of the
American Central.
The famous old Booge barn at the
corner of Sixth street and Buchanan has
been demolished and removed. A few
nights ago an attempt to wreck the CID
structur., was made by boys. The owner,
Col. H. d. Booge. ordered the job COM
pleted.
A part Of the library of the late
Judge Dillon Of New York city, father
Of Hiram Price Dillon of Topeka. has
been procured for the Washburn law
school through the efforts of w. r.
Arthur, dean. Dean Arthur has been
in New York city.
The Kansas City Motor Car Dealers
association members will be in Topeka
the night of September IS on the re-
turn lap of their annual trade tour
! which will be run from September II
to 20. Officials were in Topeka late
Thursday making plans for the trip.
The department encampment for the
| Spanish war veterans will be held next
summer in Topeka. The local vets
will plan a big time for the visitors.
The members of Armstrong camp No.
3, United Spanish War Veterans, met
| in the I. o. o. F. hall in regular session
Thursday night.
The baseball game between the State
Journal and Daily Capital reporters
will take place Sunday morning at 10
o'clock at the League park. The last
game between the two papers was
played two years ago, the evening pa
per coming off with the bigger end Of
tremendous score,
| In settlement fer the death of Walter
Stevens, who was killed by q cavern
in the excavation for the new Auburn
dale sewer on August II. Mrs. Mary
Saunders. his mother, has received $1.49e
from the contractor. James A. Pringle.
A friendly suit with an agreed verdict
was filed IN the district court .
Kansas and Missouri bankers, who
i are members OF the American Bank
ers association, have chartered q train
on which they will travel to Richmond.
Va. to attend the annual meeting OF
| the association. A number Of Topeka
! bankers expect to go on the trip. The
special train. will leave from Kansas
City.
| The Young Republicans of Shawnee
county have dropped the word Mems.
from the official name Of their club
with the intention Of admitting women
members into their organization Regu-
La meetings of the organization will be
held every Monday night beginning Sep
| TENDER IA. at the Republican headQuar-
tiers in the Office block
| One enthusiast, who hes been carried
away by the White Way idea wants To-
pexa to look like bathtup. He recon-
mends that every business houFe facing
on the White Way lighted streets be
faced in white enamel. 1t would be blue
glasses or scre eyes for everybody who
| comes down town on sunny days. Kan
sas sunshine is hard enough on weak
eyes as 1t is.
The annual tax sale Of Shawnee
county property on which the taxes for
| 1914 are in arrears will begin at the Of
| flee of Matt Weightznan. county treas
urer, at O'Clock Saturday morning.
Places in line by which precedence at
the sale is obtained are already being
he'd by proxy by a couple Of interested
prospective bidders. Tom Vaughan, q
colored man who regularly holds a place
in the line, has been on the job for
several days. r.
DR.. 8. 8. Estey, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, will be in his pull
pit again next Sunday morning and
evening after a vacation Of a month.
He will preach a special Home Com
the evening his theme will be, I'm
SEPARATION From Summer Friends" DR..
Estey spent the summer in camp with
Robert Speer, DR.. John Timothy Stone
and other men who are leaders OF the
church today. and he will give some
personal Impressions Of these men, and
of the inspiration which comes from
their work.