The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-24
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Whoop-ee, They're cutting the hay
crop on the state house grounds
The new Pep committee of the
Topeka Commercial club will meet
Thursday noon.
Buy Johnson's prepared wax to pol
ish your cars with. Southwick's, SIS
Kansas avenue.-Adv.
n marriage license was issued in
Kansas City, Mo-, Monday to James
p. Reed and Anna Cunningham of To-
peka.
Louis Poison. foreman of the water
department construction gang, has
been equipped by the department with
| a new wagon.
| Miss Glare Armstrong, new secre-
tary of the girls employment bureau
/ peka the first of september
Finest line of stand lamps ever
brought to Topeka on sale at E. L.
! OVerton's, LOT West Sixth. Come and
see them Something special.-Adv.
Mrs P. Adds and Mrs. Mamie
| Ewing, of Kansas City, have returned
to their homes, after spending sew
eraI days in Topeka visiting friends
| and relatives.
VIII Joyce, negro workman on the
Palace building, was injured when a
joist fell on his foot Several toes
We're badly mashed. 1t will be several
days before he will be able to work.
The Atchison Champion of Monday
carries story TO the effect that a
name, narrowly escaped drowning in
Bean lake, a near Atchison bathing
pond.
Several Topeka undertakes will
join the special train that will pass
through Topeka over the Rock Island
headed for San Francisco where the
annual meeting of the National AS
ISOLATION of Funeral Directors will be
held.
AT a meeting of the city commits
sion today motion by W. G. Tandy,
city commissioner of streets, was
adopted, ordering the Missouri Pa
ciflc railway company to lower its
tracks and pave its right of-way at
Seventh and Adams streets.
The Sunday school of the First
United Brethren church will hold
picnic at Gage park Wednesday after
noon. The members will meet at the
church al 2:30 o'clock. They will go
to the park in a special car leaving the
corner of Kansas and Twelfth avenues
at 3 o'clock.
The small son of Fred Painter. IT'S
Kansas avenue, came running to his
father with a bathing suit. Upon ex-
animation it was found that it had
been taken from Gage park The
small boy had discovered 1t between
the walls of two barns where it prob
ably had been hidden by boys.
Alleging that the defendant threw
her downstairs at 1924 Kansas avenue
last Sunday, Mrs. Norman Prescott
has filed suit for divorce in the Shaw
nee county district court against Nor
man Prescott. Prescott is employed
at the Santa Fe depot The couple
We're married at Denver in 1901.
Details in connection with the meet
ing of the Master Bakers association
of Kansas were discussed at a meet
ing of the local committee Monday
night. w. H Kientz is chairman of
this comnlittee. and Louis He'll, see
rotary. An exhibit in the A. O. L w
hall will be feature of the meeting.
Lee Harrison, who will become sec
rotary to the state board of admins
tration after September L, has moved
to Topeka with his family and has
taken home at 1903 Van Buren,
street d. NJ Bowen, the present sec
rotary of the board, will be head of
the state normal training school at
Pittsburg after September l.
A mass meeting. under the auspices
of the Jewish Workmen's circle of
Topeka, will be held at the city audi
forum during September to promote
plans for extending relief to Jews who
are suffering as a result of the Euro
pean conflict. A local committee con-
sisting of Ike Gilberg, Ben Singer and
Abe Shub are in charge of the plans
for the meeting
Tickets for the Brougher lecture on
Whats Under Your HAITI" to he Civ
en- at the First Baptist church, Tues
day evening, August 81, may be Sc
cured at the Tully- Mcfarland drug
store and also at the Weiss & Co. gro
Gerry. To cover the necessary expenses
OF bringing DIR. Brougher to Topeka,
an admission charge of 25 cents is be-
ing made or so cents for a reserved
seat.
Starting tonight. a prophetic con-
ference will be held at The Salvation
Army hall, 400 Kansas avenue. The
Rev. William NJ. Smith of Indiana
will be in charge of the services, as
sisted by the Rev. L. w. Williamson
of Topeka The sermon for tonight
will be bible Causes or War" and for
the other two nights, HAS Christian
ity Failed? ' for Wednesday, and 1.-The
Second Coming of Christ for Thurs
day.
c. S. De Pass, the Topeka insur
ance man, arrested here for passing
$50 worth of bad checks at Atchi-
son authorities. - De Pass claims to
have thought that he had sufficient
funds in the Topeka banks to cover
his drafts He made good the
amount OF all the bad paper with the
exception of an IS check, which he
forgot and which was refunded by
his wife.
Because the law allowing cities of
the third class to issue bonds for out
standing Indebtedness has been re-
pealed a $500 bond issue for Assaria,
kans-, filed this morning at the office
of the state auditor was turned down.
Before refusing the bond issue Frank
Organ, assistant state auditor. obtain
ed an opinion from the attorney gem
eral which stated that cities of the
third class in the state had no right
to issue bonds to cover outstanding in
debtedneSs
Flies are increasing in Topeka. The
city is longer a near-flyIess town.
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