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

Such goodly town that her neWSDOyS
pitch peanuts instead of pennies.
DR.. H. L. Alkire has received a new
Cole 8, seven passenger car The au-
tomobile is painted a battleship gray.
The following birth was reported at
the ONCE of the city clerk today:
Charles H. Gale and wife, 316 Klein
street, August 8, boy.
Licenses collected by the city dur
ing the month of July amounted to
$2,477.06. OF this amount the cleo
trical inspector collected $166.
The peach crop in Shawnee coun-
ty will not be up to the standard this
| season Where the trees have been
sprayed there will be half a crop.
A meeting of Troop Three, Coy
Scouts, will be held at the Westmin-
ster presbyterian church at I'So
o'clock. The scoutmaster is Arthur A.
Graham.
Judge John Marshall of the SUI
preme court will make the Sunday
evening address at the First United
Brethren church on why Should
Man Be a Christian"
Justice John Marshall of the su-
preme court will speak at the First
United Brethren church next sunday
evening at o'clock on why Should
a Man Be a Christian"
The autoists who attend the band
concert at Chesney park tonight have
been requested to drive to the Catho-
lie ice cream social, Tenth and Clay
streets, after the concert
Samuel E. Lux, general manager OF
state fair, is in Chicago. making ar
engagements with large number OF
exhibitors who expect to show in To-
peka September 8 to II.
The action for divorce filed by G.
n. Ware in the district court has been
withdrawn. Mr.. Ware advises the
court that charges were made in the
petition hastily and in moment of
anger
Alex ]. Jennings, "a years old, of
Montrose, Colo, and Miss Delete M.
Boyer, 8 years old. of Knob Noster,
Mo-, were married this morning by
Judge Hugh MacFarland in probate
court.
Although more than hour
was needed in which to eXtlngu1Sh the
flames there was no damage when
when the city fire department was
called to stop blaze in the city dump
at the foot of Harrison street last
night.
Since two persons have been fined
for failing to comply with city or
dinance prohibiting keeping manure
boxes in alleys, one hundred Such
boxes have been removed and the city
is experiencing no more trouble In en-
forcing the ordinance.
O. A. Peck, city weighmaster, issued
1850 scale slips to persons patron1z-
ing the city scales at Fifth and Jack
son streets, during the month OF july,
collecting $3.50 which he turned over
to the city. In point of service Peck
is the city'S Oldest employee
Fred Denman, who has been in
charge of the Hutchinson revising de-
partment of the Santa Fe railroad for
several years, has been promoted TO
the Topeka office of F. E. Wilson,
chief of the revising department Den
man was succeeded at Hutchinson by
c. A. Thomas of Winfield.
S. D. Flora, the local weather OBJ
server. left today for the lake coun-
try near North Manchester, Ind He
will be gone three weeks. Before his
return he will visit weather offices at
Chicago, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, st.
Louis, and Kansas City. He will COM
bine business and pleasure on the trip.
Tonight at the East Side Methodist
Episcopal church a meeting of tax
payers of the East Side ShungaEunga
district will be held to hear report
of a committee which audited the
books of the board. 1t is understood
that members of the drainage board
will not be present If the meeting is
up to advance notices, 1T will be inter-
eSting.
S. B. Stone of 1905 East Fifth street
rescued Kenneth Bailey, age IL. who
lives on Swygart avenue on the East
side, from the lake at Gage park when
cramps made it impossible for him to
reach shore. The boy had been in the
water for some. His cries were first
taken as a mere joke by the onlook-
ers This incident took place at the
playground picnic.
A crap game was rudely disturbed
by a raiding party from the police
station, led by Sergeant Lon Sauls,
when the cops descended upon a
game on the bank of the Shunga-
nunga near the blacksmith shop :! a. OF y
street. Hippensteel and Will Mont
Iovy were later fined $50 and $40 re-
spectively in police court.
The following births are reported
at the office of the city clerk today:
street, July 81, girl; Archie Rufus
Mitchell and wife, West Sixth road,
Aug. 8, girl; Charles Mccoy and wife
Topeka, Aug. 1. girl; Robert Earl Dav-
is and wife, S3s North Quincy street,
! Aug 2, girl; Otto Bennett and wife,
| 1877 Boswell avenue, Aug 1, girl.
The much talked of four by four
elevator at the federal building is to
be repaired and put in first class work
| ing order, according to statement
! by w. o. Rigby, postmaster. Bids for
vertised for. Practically the whole car
will be rebuilt. New cables, govern
ors and brakes will be installed. The
work will be completed as soon as pos
sible.
A wordy alteration that developed
| into a fight with rocks caused Gilbert
Bjorklund and Ray Trimble to be ar
rested on a charge of assault with in
/ tent TO KILL a d. sutherland, IOI eIiidH
of the Topeka milling company's mill,
swore to the complaint The fight
took place near Fourth and Adams
street. The two men were released on
$500 bond, given in the court of To-
peka.
A new bridge over the Shunga-
nunga creek on Lincoln street is to be
built by the city soon. W. G. Tandy,
| city commissioner of streets, said to-
day that he hoped to be able to cali
for bids on its construction within a
week. The new bridge will be of the
Lutens type for which the city will
! ROYALTY Of nor rent of IFS