The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

A marriage license was issued today
to John c. Stapel of Rock Port, Mo-,
and Miss Portia Penwell of Topeka
Clarence c. Cool and Miss Eta NJ.
Eiserman, both of this city, were mar
ried by Judge Hugh MacFarland to-
day.
Irwin Snattinger has removed his
law offices from 32y New England
building to room No. 314, in the same
building.
DR.. w. C. McDonough has. moved
his office to rooms 427-8 New Eng
land building. Special attention to
stomach and intestinal diseases.-Adv.
Most of the members of the Topeka
Gun club spent the afternoon at the
the big. annual shoot which will be
held Thursday and Friday.
Excavation is in progress for the
erection of the new three-story rein
forced concrete building to be built on
the site of the one which was burned
company fire. J. M. Leeper has the
contract.
Miss Ethel Coover, instructor of
music in Bethany college, Lindsborg.
Kan, and in charge of the department
of music in the city schools there, has
arrived to spend a part of the summer
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. N.
Coover, 1910 West Fifteenth street.
After spending month here she plans
to visit in Seattle, Wash.
Examinations for the position of
city bacterioIogist VIII be held at
Washburn college Thursday afternoon
under the supervision of DR.. Edith M.
Twiss, DR.. Leslie M. ROw1es and DR.
A. B. Jeffreys. Persons wishing to
take the examination should make ap
p1ication to DR.. Leslie M. Rowles at
the office of the city milk inspector
in the city hall.
Nevermore will the bull pen at the
municipal menagerie ring with I. W.
w. oratory- Ed Hays and Roger
O'Malley, who for several days have
been outlining the benefits and con-
veniences of the 1 Won't Work organ
ization to fellow prisoners at the Jail,
have been turned over to the county
on a charge of stealing brass from the
Kaw Paving company.
The second trial of the suit of
Dennis P. Hinchey, or Junction City,
against William Starret, formerly of
Salina, and J. c. Wharton, of La
Crosse, Kan, is in progress in the first
division of the district court of this
county today. Hinchey is suing for
$4,000 in damages, real and punitive,
desired as a result of trade into
which he claims to have been in
weighed by the two defendants.
James White, one of the partners in
the Shawnee Drug store at 301 Kansas
avenue, pleaded guilty to maintaining
a nuisance while James Harris, the
other member of the firm, was dis
charged in the district court yesterday,
where the pair had been arraigned for
trial for selling liquor. They are col
ored men. Whites sentence has not
been pronounced by Judge A. w. Dana
in whose court he pleaded guilty.
From the standpoint of attendance,
the first college alumni dinner to be
held in Topeka tonight promises to be
n big success. Paul Lovewen, who
has been directing ticket sales, says
500 reservations have been made and
that from the rate of sales in the past
Sc hours there will be a number of
disappointed college people who put
off ordering too long. The dinner will
take place in the Masonic building.
Sheriff L. L. Kiene has been asked
by Mrs. Williams to institute a search
for her husband, Elgin c. Williams,
age 80, of 1915 Clay street, who has
been missing since Sunday morning.
Williams was a conductor on the To-
peka street railway and when seen
last by his wife he told her he was go
ing to the car company's office to ask
for days layoff. That was early
Sunday. They have one son, a boy 1 0 |
years of age.
Farmers of the northern part OF |
Shawnee county whose property has |
suffered damage by the recent |
freshets in Soldier creek have engaged |
V. r. Parkhurst, former county en- |
gineer, to make a reconnaissance and |
report upon further work necessary
along that water course At a meet |
considerable animation, differences of |
opinion among individuals interested |
giving rise to disagreements which |
were resolved by turning the whole |
problem over to the engineer.
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