The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-09
SNAP SHOTS
At HOME NEWR

Dr.. E. P. Skaggs is i'll at his home.
1852 Van Buren, street, of pneumonia
Last nights rain is keeping golf
and tennis players of Topeka indoors.
A meeting of the Topeka Ministerial
union will be held at the First Presby-
| terrain church Monday morning.
Harry Rowland, advertising agent
| of the Santa Fe railway, is spending
several days in Texas, on business.
The billiard and pool tables at the
Y. NJ. c. A. building are being over
hauled and rebuilt for the winter sea-
| son.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
United Brethren church will meet
Friday afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock at the
church parlors.
| The Foreign Missionary society of
the Walnut Grove M. E. church will
| hold a social at 1913 Topeka avenue
tomorrow evening.
Lodges No 2 and No. 757, Fraternal
Aid Union, will serve a West Point
sundae lunch after the. lodge meeting
next Tuesday evening.
E. F. Strain, division freight agent
of the Rock Island, has shipped all
the fruit from his thirty acre peach
farm in Oklahoma to the Topeka mar
kets.
Gus Greenbaunn, a brother of Her
man Greenbaum of Topeka, will start
an exclusive ladies' store in Independ-
ence, Kan. He expects to be ready to
open within ten days.
Morris P. Williams, %, of Topeka,
and Mary Roberts, 81, of Topeka,
were married by Judge Hugh Mac
Farland at the probate court today. A
marriage license was issued to George
c. Lane, "a, and Viola Belcher, %,
both of Topeka.
The dummies in the Greenbaum
store, where the explosion occurred
Tuesday, were still in plain view this
morning. Several enterprising young
photographers took pictures of the
wax figures, which will look like the
real thing in a film.
A forty-year-o affidavit concern
ing a woman's name in connection
with deed was filed this morning at
the office of r. w. SQuires, register of
deeds. The affidavit bore the date,
May 81, 1875, and was signed by Will
liam Hall Jenkins, we'll known in
Topeka.
r. F. Squires, register of deeds, has
made an addition to the books and
files in his office of a book for the
record of releases and assignments of
mortgages. Up to today no such rec
ord has ever been kept by the register
Of deeds. From now on any persons
having business to do with releasing
or assigning mortgages will find the
business at the register of deeds of
flee greatly facilitated.
Not long ago an article to the eff
feet that rooms would be needed for
visitors at the Topeka free fair ap-
p0dTSo III the state Win Inc
request by ]. Will Kelley that owners
of rooms notify the Commercial club.
Since the item appeared, Miss Jones,
stenographer in the secretary's office,
has been busy listing the names of
persons with available rooms. Ac
commodations for at EAST 1900 per-
sons may be had by applying to the
secretary's Office.
John Jock" Mcbride probably read
the news dispatches of the sinking of
the steamer Hesperian with greater
interest than any other Topekan. Nc
Bride, with his sister Martha, now
Mrs. James Boutwell,, of Wamego,
came to the United States on the Hes
perian in April, 1911, and last week
when the ship went to the bottom the
victim of German submarine,
Jock remembered that he had the
program of a grand concert that was
given on board during his voyage to
America for the benefit of the Sailors
Orphan society of Scotland. Mcbride
treasures the program very highly as
the memento he has of the good ship
that brought him to the land of
liberty