The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

The banks of the city will be closed
Columbus day, Monday. October IL.
G. G. Harmon. who has disposed
Of his interests in the Avalon bakery,
will go with his family to California
to live.
The war zone will have to put forth
additional decisive results to combat
with the news of the worlds series in
the United States.
This is Fashion Week in Topeka.
Keep the streets and the "Petticoat
Lane Of Kansas crowded! Topeka
merchants deserve your support.
One political headquarters in To-
peka has handled 48 sacks of mail
since the campaign opened from the
capital city. The mails are flooded
with campaign literature.
Major A. M. Harvey left Topeka last
night for Mcpherson county points,
where he Joined Arthur Capper on q
speaking tour in the latter's campaign
for governor on the Republican ticket.
Marriage licenses were issued today
to Earle n. Whitman, %, Topeka, and
Hettie E. Brackney, %, Burlingame;
and to William r. West, Jr, %, Man
haitian. and Irene ". Thompson. 20.
Topeka.
Francis M. Brady, assistant United
0s0sCS OAStAAC OAASJs Has HCSOI ACO
from the court term at Wichita.
United States Attorney Robinson will
return to his ONCE in Topeka this
evening.
The city health department
reports that no new cases Of diph-
liberia have developed in Topeka this
week. Last week a dozen or fifteen
cases were reported from various Sec
tons of the city.
Tsy>a c<o<~ To,--ov ~,x911 t,,n><S- 49,
worlds series baseball games which
start Friday on its large score board.
Play begins at p. M. Topeka time.
If you want the score by telephone.
please call No. 2S4.
Don't forget the free MONDAY pipe
organ concerts at the Auditorium ev-
cry noon. They are given by Profess
the guest. The city invites persons to
bring their lunches with them.
Vegetation has taken on a new lease
Of life in Topeka The parks are
green and present an attractive ap-
pearance. Lawns are in good condi-
ton. and many varieties of flowers
have taken on second growth.
Normand Ballard, Of the advertis-
ing department Of the State Journal.
was taken seriously i'll several days ago
with an attack OF typhoid fever. He
was taken to 81. Francis hospital Tues
day where today he r reported to be
Several eastern newspapers have
been running pictures Of Gene Cocre-
ham recently. Cocreham is the for
mer Topeka baseball pitcher who is
making a. reputation with the Boston
Braves, pennant winners of the Ma
tional league.
The following are officers of Par
ent-Teachers' association of the Lin
~ k1.Se L.. Ne
l. D. Mckee, president: Mrs. Frank
Holloway, vice president; Mrs William
Eckert. secretary. and Mrs. Evan
Thomas, treasurer.
Thomas Page Of Topeka, president
OF tho Manhattan Milling company
and John F. Norton and David Bowie
Of Topeka, stockholders in the same
company, have been in Manhattan in
speeding the improvements the COM
pany has made the last summer.
Soccer football practice viii be held
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at West
ern League park. A melting Of all
soccer enthusiasts has been called for
tonight for the purpose of organizing
the 1914 team under Tom Powell. The
meeting will be held at o'clock at $50
Kansas avenue.
A report Of George 7. Mattingly.
city license collector, shows that up
until October licenses had been col
as compared with $12.292.42 for the
same period last year. In September
$294.82 was collected. Since Mr.. Mat
tingly began his work in April, 1903,
he has collected $79,815.61 in license
money.
A Topeka doctor. in rushing to an
swer q call from a frantic young
mother in the west end recently, struck
a slippery road and, together with his
automobile, slid into a deep ditch. With
difficulty he emerged from the mess.
fastened to the supposedly Ill child only
to find the baby laughing and playing
with her rattle. Fond, frivolous
mothers!
washburn is out again for the state
championship football title and her
showing against Nebraska last Satur-
day indicates that the Topeka school
will have a good chance for a strong
showing in the Missouri valley. WASH
burn plays Baker on the Washburn
field Saturday afternoon. Topeka
should turn out q good crowd in COM
plimtnt to the college athletics.
]. c. Thompson and James Arnold
were today bound over to the district
court by Judge Carver Of the court of
Topeka under $500 bond to stand trial
on a charge Of stealing chickens from
Perry Doyle, who lives one mile north
east Of Topeka Three little bantams
out of a flock Of eighty-nine chickens
taken by Thompson to the Seymour
packing plant and sold caused his ar
rest.
Rev. F. Linden OF Portland, Ore,
will speak at the mid-week service in
Swedish Baptist church tomorrow
evening. Rev. Linden. who is a noted
and powerful speaker and one Of the
foremost in the denomination, Is on
his way home from the annual meet
ing Of the Swedish Baptist general
conference of America which was held
at St. Paul, Mimi, some two weeks
ago.
Suit for collection ON a note and
for an accounting. the total amount
In controversy not exceeding $3.50,