The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-19
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

parks. is making plans for immediate
| improvements in the new East side
park.
Members of the Modoc club of
Topeka will give an entertainment at
indian creek grange at o'clock Tues
day evening
George MCGEE is booked at the
municipal menagerie on a charge of
drunkenness. He was arrested by Of
ficer Cook.
Roads in the vicinity of Topeka,
especially north of the Kaw, have
reached midsummer form as far as
dust is concerned
Frank L. Snow will tell the MEM
bers of the Brotherhood of the Walnut
Grove Methodist church tonight of life
IN South Central Africa
The ninety-sixth anniversary of the
founding of the Odd Fellows will be
celebrated in Topeka, April 26, by
members of the local lodge.
Many of those who have gardens in
topeka are complaining that the sur
face soil is dry and seed is conse-
quently slow in terminating.
George M. Stone is painting a drop
for the high school auditorium stage,
depicting an Italian water scene. He
is now at work on a big canvas.
Nearly four thousand people were
carried to Gage park Sunday by the
Topeka Street Railway company. and
as many more went in automobiles or
walked.
Joe bdIIOu was arrested SUNDAY by
Officers Walker and Richardson on a
charge of drunkenness. He was fined
the usual ten in police court this
morning by Judge Huron.
DR.. Benjamin Young, pastor of the
First Methodist church, spoke this
morning before the members of the
Topeka Ministerial union at the First
Presbyterian church on Martin
Luther and Freedom
The commissioners of Barber coun
V. V. @. SIpenr Harhan0h
Riley Lake, were in Topeka Sunday
and with County Engineer Arnold and
H. S. Putnev, president of the auto
club, inspected the roads of Shawnee.
c. C. Blake: This intense drouth
started promptly at the time 1 pre-
dicted, and it has covered most of the
United States except New Mexico and
Lake Superior, but there will be some
rain in places during the first half of
May"
DR.. c. F. Malinberg of Midland col |
lege, Atchison, Kan, stopped over in
Topeka to meet his brother, c. E. |
Malinberg, today. The doctor is tour
ing the state in the interest of Mid I
land with the Midland Concert COM 4
pany.
Press johnson was fined SO this
in police court by Judge HUI
ron on a charge of drunkenness He
was arrested Sunday by Officer Cook.
Brush Carper was fined $40 in po-
lice court this morning for drunken
ness. He was arrested Sunday by Of
ficer Bryant.
cupied by F. w. McGrath at AT Kan
sas avenue Sunday morning and /
escaped with a pocketbook containing
$50. Sunday he reported the matter
of two men who he believes know
the present status of the money and /
pocketbook.
Darius Cobb's most famous paint
ing, The Master was presented at
the First Congregational church Sun
day morning and at the Central
church Sunday evening. Mr.. Cobb ac-
com panies the picture and at the two
exhibitions Sunday he Id of the
years he had spent in painting the
Saturday night Harvey Parsons,
chief of police, invaded the district at
the foot of the town at the head of a
party from the police station
and arrested Jess Mcdowell and Lii
liam Davidson on a charge of main
tanning a nuisance. The two were ar
rested at 512 East First street. Several
bottles of "evidence" were found at
the place.
Invitations are out for the seventh
annual banquet of the Norden Benefit
association which will be held Friday
evening, April 80, in the Masonic tenn
between $50 and 400 persons is ex-
pected. Carl J. Peterson will offici-
ate POSTMASTER. Harold ]. Olson
of Kansas City, Mo-, will be one of
the speakers.
Topekans to the number of several
thousand took to the woods and the
open country Sunday. and most of
those who did not leave the city took
an outing in city parks Many crack
ed the sabbath by fishing, but most
of the eXcurSionists were out merely
for a Sunday airing. Evening trains,
Topeka bound, gathered large crowds
at every little way station within a
radius of twenty-five miles.
Walter Bourbonias, Topeka's
French-Indian of noble lineage, was
again arrested Sunday evening on a
charge of drunkenness. Bourbonias
was arrested and fined in police court
on the same charge about two weeks
ago and was paroled to join base
ball club in the northern part of the
state. He was arrested Sunday by
Brush and Abbott. He was fined $40
IN police court by Judge Huron this
new and mysterious secret society.
The Military Order of the Serpent"
will have a lair in Topeka a the state
of the Spanish war vet
Grams this year. 1t is an organization
limited to Spanish war veterans and
asst night Commander Robinson of ,
he Frank c. Armstrong camp: Bob ,
rasker, S. A. Hammil, w. B. Heller !,
md H. NJ. Jennings returned from ,
-eavenworth, where they were Initial :
ID into the society. l
Gus Anderson was arrested Sunday
~ Chief Parsons and Tim Donovan, !
plain clothes man. Anderson is book
I'd at the police station on a charge of Z
and assault. According
o officers who made the arrest, An I
1erson attacked his wife at the Ander- Z
son home on East Eighth street just e
East of the Santa Fe railroad tracks. {
When the Officers arrived the woman {
vas lying the porch bleeding from S
bruises and wounds. The police say /