The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-12
SNAP SHOTS
At HOME NEWS

of the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A was held
today at Gage park
The Rev. Dr. Gordon has returned
from a hike into the country and will
fill his Sunday engagement in the pull
pit
Henry Williams was arrested this
/ morning by Officer Frazier on a
I charge of riding a bicycle on the side
walk
Joseph Longshore. who has been on
/ an extended trip in the east and Can
ada, IS spending a few days in Co
pearance of a small ranch this sum-
ner- Numerous cows are pastured
there.
I Elaborate programs have been pre-
pared for the playground fetes this
evening at the Lincoln and Chesney
grounds
W H Culp, printer who has been
III for some time, has lapsed into a
dangerous condition and his life is de-
SPARED Of
headquarters on charge of drunken
ness following his arrest ny Officer
Woodward.
The Temple Builders, spiritualists
will hold an ice cream social at their
hall. 122 East Sixth street. Thurs
day evening.
C w Bower. clerk OF the Shawnee
county district court has left for
Palmer Lake. Colorado. where he Will
spend his summer vacation
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Sullivan have
left on business trip to Chicago and
New York. The Sullivans are the
owners of local art store
There are many race horses quar-
tered on the fair grounds They are
given daily workouts on the track
which is in excellent condition
William Simpson and Jaraes Miller
are booked at the police station on a
charge of keeping and maintaining
nuisance They were both arrested
by Chief Parsons
George Godfrey Moore has returned
from trip to the Pacific coast The
week of July 19 he represented the
Topeka Rotary club at the national
convention in San Francisco
The Santa Fe has offered the Modoc
coast early next year provided that
organization will furnish music en-
route at. Santa Fe reading rooms.
R. r: Jones. president of the Tast
Side Taxpayers League, has an
nounced- a meeting of league members
Wednesday evening, August Is, in the
VI. E. church. Seventh and Lime
streets.
George A Allen. secretary of the
state reading circle and superintend
ent of Sabetha schools. is in Topeka
arranging for the publication of the
catalOg of the reading circle pub
locations.
Roy Winner formerly deputy
county clerk of Shawnee county. has
returned from three months outing
trip in Missouri. Winner resigned his
position deputy county clerk be-
cause of ill-health-
G. Briklund and Ray TriTnble were
arrested Wednesday evening ON a
of stealing harness FROM T. II CuIp,
the Iiveryman. Officers Summers and
McGovern made the arrest
Another attempt has been made to
register the Nickerson high school
bonds amounting to $1,000 Two years
ago w. E. Davis. state auditor. turned
them down. a long litigation re-
suited. the courts upholding Davis
The last legislature passed an act
validating the bond issue
Because J. H Smalley failed to pay
a pronIiSsory note of $50 which he
made to A s Thomas suit was filed
in the court of Topeka this morning
by Mr. Thomas TO collect the money.
The note was made in May and ac-
cording to the petition was to have
been paid in $40 installments-
The standard of fines for speeders
was raised Wednesday afternoon in
W. H Free and l. H Costa were
fined SO each on the charge. Judge
Yates made formal announcement of
the raise and states that speeding Is
becoming altogether TOO mucn OF 4
nuisance in Topeka
To procure information concern
ing dams across the Kaw river, w J.
Rickenba cher. local real estate dealer,
is in Manhattan consulting with en-
gineers of the Agricultural college.
Rickenbacher is behind a scheme TO
build dam across the kaw river
near Topeka to furnish power for Z
hydrO-eIectric plant
Postmaster W. o. Rigby will take
a prominent part in the good roads
crusade August Is and 1s by report
ing to township trustees bad stretches
of road which he discovered while in
speeding rural routes Better high
ways mean better mail service. ex-
plains Mr.. Rigby- Two hundred and
twenty-five miles of rural route run
out of Topeka
of the resolutions committee of the
Kansas State Teachers association has /
been made by D. A Ellsworth. secre- /
tary of the association. The members: I
F. L Pinet- Parsons; Lillian Scott. Z
Baldwin; B. F. Martin. Newton: Louis /
Christensen. Hays. and A J. McAIlis- Z
ter. Efnngham. The committee will 4
meet this month
This summer has opened a new era 4
of prosperity for the passenger de- /
partments of Kansas railroads. All /
railroads running through Topeka /
report that summer travel is excep- /
I1OnalIy ReaVy- Inc COLORADO travel 4
IS especially heavy while Pacific coast i
travel and the See America First 4
campaign have served TO boost west +
ern passenger receipts
a large fly of the kind which car +
ries a WeII-driIIfng affair on his latter
part which he uses in making boringS
wherein to plant young grubs which /
develop into bots. assaulted the edi- F
torial writer of a Topeka newspaper /
today While boring in the bald ed +
itorial dome. the fly was overpowered /