The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-27
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEws.

Thanksgiving day. The weather was
ideal for tennis.
T. S. Wolf. a plumber at States
Brothers, was severely burned about
the face and hands in a gas explosion
Wednesday evening.
Some silverware was taken last
night at 400 Madison street. me
house was entered by tearing out a
screen in the rear of the residence
A marriage license was issued to
James Fl. White, AZ, Chicago, ana
Anna L. Reeder, 20, Wichita, today by
the Shawnee county district court.
The younger juniors of the Central
Y. NJ. c. A. will go on hike Satur-
day after gym" class. They will eat
dinner in the neighbOrhood OF Bur-
netts mound.
Many Topekans are now doing their
Christmas shopping. Early shopplns
Christmas buyers. but lightens the
work of the clerks when the eleventh
hour rush arrives
Adam Degand, Floyd Carter and
David Underwood. are today being
tried in the court of Topeka on a
charge of burglarizing a locker in the
Santa Fe roundhouse and stealing
diamond ring and some money
Sergeant E. L. Walker, of the po--
lice department. is taking his annual
vacation. His place is being taken by
Officer A. A. Woodward, who has just
returned from vacation trip to Caney
and other points in southern Kansas.
Theodore O'Hare, charged with as
saulting Policeman Ferguson, was
bound over to the district court on
charge of assault with intent to KILL
O'Hare struck Ferguson with a brick
hi
oner to Jail.
A farmer named John Smith had
an accident in North Topeka last
night The horse he was riding col
lided with white way pole, throwing
Smith several yards away. He was
slightly injured, but the horse received
several broken bones.
Persons whose occupations or bust
ness transactions are such that they
must pay war" tax to the federal
government, can secure the necessary
stamps by writing to w. H. Pepperlll,
internal revenue collector for the dis
trict of Kansas, Leavenworth, Kansas.
Rally day. will be observed Sunday
at the First United Brethren church
A short program of instrumental and
vocal music and recitations has been
arranged for the Sunday school hour
at 9:45 o'clock There will be member
ship rally at the II o'clock church serv-
ices.
The Stag pool hall was entered last
night and a small sum of money was
taken from the cash drawer. Nothing
else apparently was disturbed. En-
trance was effected through rear
transom. The police investigated, but
have found no clue to the identity of
the thief.
Walter Bourbonais an Indian, was
paroled last night from the city Jail,
where he had been serving a term for
drunkenness. Early this morning he
was again brought to the police sta
ton, arrested by Officer Garrett on
the same charge. He was fined S10]
by Judge Huron.
The following births were reported
today: Hubert Davenport Conwell
and wife, Twenty-third and Pennsyl-
yania streets, November 25, boy;
Davis Lester Montgomery and wife,
Robert Nelson Turner and wife, Rural
Route No. 3, November %, boy.
w w. Mills will give a recention
Monday evening at his home. 1902 To-
peka avenue, for Frank Mohler of
Hong-Kong, China, and H. W. White
of India. These men are both in Y
NJ. G. A. work. Members of the Cen
trail Y. NJ. c. A. and their friends are
invited to attend the reception.
The Current Topic club of the Cen
trail Y. NJ. c. A. will be addressed next
Monday evening by S. D. Sunny
Flora, the local weather man. Supper
Will be served at 6:15 o'clock The
club is made up of members of the Y.
NJ. c. A, who with their friends are
invited to attend the meetings
The High School club will meet for
lunch 1T the high school cafeteria at
six o'clock next Monday night Frank
Mohler. former Rhodes scholar, and
who spent some time in China in Y
NJ c. A work, will speak. There will
be discussion at tt e close of the talk
and the meeting will be over by 1880
o'clock. Paul Bush is president of
the club.
Leila Beard, 1925 North Monroe
street. has filed suit for divorce from
Joseph H. Beard, who is now alleged
to be in Phoenix, Ariz. They were
married in Kansas City, September p.
1911. She charges abandonment
Arthur E. Bond. on the same grounds,
seeks divorce from Maggie L. Bond.
in petition also filed today They
We're married in Muncie, Ind, March
3, 1895.
Running water has been installed
throughout the city's detention hos
pital. More equipment has been add
ed. Flowers from the city parks have
been put in ali places available for
the purpose, and now the heating
plant is to be overhauled. Since the
building was first constructed there
has been difficulty with the heating.
Larger pipes will replace those he
iieved to be inadequate.