The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-17
SNAP SHOTS

The electric fans were shut OF for
two days. anyway. Blankets were in
order last night.
The Topeka railway company is lay
ing new rails. on the Washburn car
tracks on College avenue.
Commissioner Bone. who has spent
two weeks in Boise City. Idaho, is ex-
pected in Topeka tomorrow.
A new safe is being installed today
in the Topeka State bank, 1876 Kan
sas avenue The safe weighs 10000
pounds.
Municipal market tomorrow. Four
wagons were drawn up to the curb
before the city building on Tuesday.
Business was good.
The birth of boy. to Mr.. and Mrs
John Wesley Parsons, 211 Harrison
street, was reported today at the Of
flee of the city clerk.
A. A. Rodgers, Whoe broke his ankle
when a ladder collapsed at his Office
a month ago, is still confined at his
home. 1119 Tyler street.
Many of the eggs that have been
received recently at the big storage
plants have been in bad condition
due to the hot weather of the first
half Of June.
Registration fine today, according
to the commissioner of elections
Twice as many women as men. July
% is the last day to register-tsl
days before the primaries.
The contractors are-at work on the
addition to the Topeka high, school
and have graded the vacant ground
at the rear of the old building prelim-
mary to laying foundations for the
new part.
Several Sunday school picnics have
An1o ~ he in,
June is the time little boys and girls
who have washed their hands and
trotted to Sunday school every sew
enth morning are rewarded.
Rev. ]. H. Carlson of Escanaba.
Mich, will speak in the Swedish Mis-
sion Bethel church, Polk and Sixth
streets, Thursday evening, June 18th.
While in the city, Rev. Mr.. Carlson
will be the guest of his sister, Mrs.
John Broberg, 335 Clay street.
The ratio of births to deaths in To-
peka since the first of June is as three
to one. An unusually large number
of births has been reported at the
since June l. Only eight deaths have
occurred in the city since the last Of
May.
The Kansas Association of Life I'm
derwriters has adopted a resolution Of
sympathy and appreciation in men,
DRY of the late E. w. Thompson, for
merly president of the organization.
the Thompson family and one placed
on file.
Tuesday was busy day at the mar
riage license counter in the probate
court. ten couples applying for the
rights of married. This will help to
bring the June total up to the lead
ing place which this month usually
takes as compared with the rest of
the year.
Ed Rooney, probation officer, who
aspires to higher things. is now taking
the state bar examinations for which
he has been preparing for several
years. Rooney has been a busy man
with his duties in the juvenile court,
which call for his attention at all
hours of the day and night.
1.-THE Parish Priest" comedy
drama, will be given at the Grand
Opera house tonight as feature OF
the closing exercises of the Assump-
will speak. Diplomas and medals
will be awarded. Mrs. John Griley
will have charge of the music.
The business of the federal offices
in the pOstoffice building is crippled
seriously by the activities of plum
bers, plasterers, carpenters and other
artisans. Yesterday the district attor-
dust from old plaster. and today they
are kept busy lodging the splashes Of
the fresh mortar.
]. H. Leeper is remodelling the
house at the corner of Sixth and Blu
chanan streets, formerly used as the
cry detail of the old building and will
turn it into a thoroughly modern
home for his own occupancy. The
Leeper home on College avenue near
Washburn will be occupied by the Beta
Sorority chapter this summer
Jackson's 2srd' Regiment band will
play, Friday evening at the Second
Baptist church. Third and Quincy.
Tickets for the concert to have been
given June 9, postponed because of
the rain. will be accepted. Jackson is
master of the only colored band in the
city. He wants two French horns
and invites the public to help pay for
them by listening to some rip-rollick-
ing music.
The rush of late taxpayers at the
office of County Treasurer Weightman
has kept the force busy all this week
and thousands of dollars of the last
half of the 1913 tax are being received
daily. AS. the penalty for non-pay-
ment becomes effective Saturday, June
20. the big rush will be over by that
time. Taxpayers are Obliged to stand
in line and the line becomes longer
daily. mere IS no unusual mum Der,
however, and Treasurer Weightman
| believes business will be finished by
the end of the week.
A new concrete sidewalk has been
laid in front of the store building at
42S Kansas avenue. This fact in itself
is of little consequence, but there is
a plate embedded in the walk, that is
of more than passing interest The
building at 429 Kansas avenue which
was torn down about two years ago
preparatory to the erection of a new
structure was the old Constitutional
hall. On the plate in question is this
inscription: Constitutional hall where
| the Topeka Constitutional convention
met in 1855 and the Topeka legisla-
tlEo diSperSod h. ral