The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-04
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Dr. Eva Harding. office and resi-
dence, 61S West 10th.-Adv.
The Tully-McFarland Drug COM
pany has installed an electric sign on
the front of their ReXa1 store at S35
Kansas avenue.
Anyone knowing of weed patches in
the city needing cutting should tele-
phone J. A. Ramsey, city sanitary
sergeant. He is the city's official
weed-cutter.
c. D. Mcpherson, of Kansas City,
paid court costs and IS to Harry
Stevenson for paSturing his horses,
and succeeded in getting the case
against him dismissed in the court of
Topeka. Mcpherson was charged
with stealing his own horses.
J. NJ. Leeper, proprietor of the Pal
ace garage, accompanied by his ma
chinist, brought two new Paige cars
from Kansas City Tuesday over the
Red Line and he reports the roads as
being in excellent condition along the
whole route.
The expected August census Of flies
will not be taken. A census of the
flies in che city was taken July 1 and
it was announced then that another
count would be made August 1. Pow
erS higher up called it off, said J. A.
Ramsey, city sanitary sergeant.
Because of the cool weather the
fete which was to have been held at
the East Side Fairgrounds Tuesday
night has been postponed until Friday
night at q. o clock The Santa Fle Apa
drsn will do some stunts. Refresh
ments will be served.
Mrs A B. Hollis, who lives in the
/ 500 block, on Lincoln street, fell and
suffered a painfully sprained knee to-
day at noon, when she attempted to
step off a street car at Seventh and
Kansas avenue. The street car was
not in motion at the time of the acct
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an auto.
Manager Roy Crawford has an
nounced that the Novelty theater will
close Saturday night and will not be
opened until the fall season, begins
The Bobby Barker company will con-
clude its stay in Topeka with the pre-
sentation of Widow Brown tab
loid musical comedy, which will be
shown the last half of the week.
A charter for a firm to be known
as the Frank Furniture company and
which will operate in Topeka, has
been granted. The new concern will
take over the Thompson Brothers
Furniture company establishment 1t
is capitalized at $4,000 1t was in
corporated by Sci s. Frank, Mrs.
Frank. Irwin Snattinger and Clarence
PaUlsgrave
]. Will Kelley, secretary Of the
Commercial club, has returned from
Omaha, where he attended a musical
comedy, The Isle of Pep presented
by the famous AkSarben Orga nizatiOn
for merchants week event. He got
some pointers for the organization
that will be formed in Topeka to fur
nish entertainment for the conven-
tions that come here.
Frank Newland, city commissioner
of water and lighting, is doing the
work of two men-hiS own and that
of Jesse Shaw, superintendent of the
water plant. who is taking a vacation.
The homes of persons living in Sea-
brook and between that suburb and
Topeka are to have their homes
lighted by electricity. The Topeka
Edison company set a force of men
at work today planting poles and
stringing wires to SeabroOk.
Topeka will put in a bid for the
1916 meeting of the international
kindergarten union. Invitations will
be presented at the annual meeting
at San Francisco, August 1929, writ
ten by the following persons: Mrs.
June r. Chapman, president of the
Kansas State Kindergarten aSSocia-
ton; Governor Capper, H. e. Wilson,
superint sndent of city schools; j. VIII
Kelley, secretary of the Commercial
club; Mayor Jay E House, Topeka
Congress of Mothers, Child ConSerVa =
ton League of Kansas, Good Govern
ment club, Topeka Federation of
Women, Child Study club, and the
Central Park Kindergarten club. Mrs.
Chapman is the leading spirit in the
movement looking towards bringing