The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

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Miss Blanche White, GIG West Sixth
street, is i'll at her home
A marriage license was issued this
morning to Stewart Boyd of Topeka
and Stella Blanche Kesinger of Oska-
loosa, Kan. Both are over 81 years
old.
Farmers along the Kaw valley are
now optimistic. The corn is showing
fields will make an exceptionally heavy
yield.
A jitney belonging TO Otto Ander-
son was damaged slightly when it ran
into the curb at Sixth and Western
avenues this morning. Nobody was
injured.
Council Grove man here for the
circus today says that a friend paid his
fare here on a $500 bet that the c. G.
man couldn't take a mutual girl
friend to the show.
There was a fair sized crowd at
Gage park Sunday, but the real attrac-
ton was the circus on the fair
grounds. One street car conductor
said last night he had collected 1900
fares.
years first deputy in the office OF
Ralph Squires, register of Deeds has
resigned her position. Miss Mae Ora
ham has been promoted to the first
OepulySnlp.
Leaving Mayetta Sunday morning
Indians from the Mayetta reservation
got drunk before they arrived at the
depot in Topeka. They are booked at
the police station.
A suit for divorce has been filed by
Ida Verlander against Charles f. Yer
lander, to whom she was married in
1897 at New Orleans. She claims her
husband struck at Eer with chair i'll
1912 and deserted her in 1913.
On account of the heavy amount of
work in the office of the clerk of the
court of Topeka the office will be
closed at II o'clock every Saturday
until further, notice. This order has
been made by Douglas A. Graham,
clerk, and Hugh T. Fisher, Judge of
the court.
The Boy Scout camp will open at
Paw-Paw Bend, twelve miles south
west of Topeka, Tuesday morning.
Medals will be awarded to the win
ners in events. The general public is
invited to visit the camp that day and
on Sunday.
The Golden Belt road between To-
peka and Kansas City is now little
used. The heavy traffic is going over
the Red Line. This is due to the poor
condition of the Golden Belt especially
in Jefferson county where the county
commissioners have not interested
y.
A motorcar belonging to w. c. West
who lives north of the city was stol-
en- from Garfield park about % O'Clock
Sunday evening and later abandoned
at L 400 North Quincy street The po-
lice believe that the theft was a
practical joke engineered for the ben
eft of West by a number of his
friends.
Mrs. Mary E. Chaplin, chief clerk in
the office of the probate court, return
cd fnd frnr 6l<e' 90 on
in Colorado. Mrs. Chaplin made the
trip to and from Colorado by auto and
even though her party was caught in
a hail storm at Marion, Kan, on the
return trip they got back to Topeka
without much troublel
In answer to the temporary injunc-
ton issued last week by Judge George
H. Whitcomb of the second division of
the district court, to three Rossville
farmers against the Union Pacific the
company has filed a suit for $4,000
damakcs against G.. w. Greenwood,
the first to ask for an order restrain
ing the Union Pacific. The company
also asks for possession of the land.
Dancing, games, theater-going and
most other modern amusements
spring from fundamental impulses of
human nature and the church must
cease to treat that fact with contempt
if it is to retain the respect and allie
glance of thinking people, according
to Harry G. Mccain. extension secre
tary of the Methodist Temperance So
ciety, who spoke Sunday night at the
Lowman Memorial Methodist church.
When the street railway company
the Asylum car to State Hos
pital it started something with the
people who patronize the Cemetery
line. While they are making changes |
they might as well add one to the list |
and Cnange :he Cemetery line to East |
Sixth, say the people in that part of
town. a lady who lives on Locust |
street said Sunday: we are not dead |
ones by any means and if the company |
can change the Asylum signs they GER |
tainly ought to make a change on this |
line"
AS he stood on the curbing at Sixth |
and Kansas avenue with the local de- |
tachment of the Salvation Army, |
James Henderson was arrested Sunday |
evening. According to information in |
the hands of the police, Henderson
brandished a revolver at the home of |
Mrs. L. L. FORMER, 525 Tyler street, |
the evening before to impress upon the |
FORMER family his opposition to the |
of his marriage with |
Miss Mabel FORMER. Henderson has
been employed at the Mullin meat
market.