The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-10
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS,

i Four swanseeggs became swans Al
Cages park Sunday
| DR.. Leslie Rowles, city milk inspec.
4 tor, quit work this morning and wen
home ill.
Something in favor of English spar.
rows has been discovered. They de-
4 strOy web-wormS.
I The Y w. c.. A. swimming poo
which was opened last week for the
i season. is now a popular place.
| There will be meeting of the parks
| and Fairgrounds committee of the
Commercial club next Friday noon at
the club quarters. j. B. Larimer is
chairman.
An overheated oil stove caused the
fire department to be called to the
home of S. Younkin, 306 Van Buren,
street, at $50 O'Clock Sunday night.
The damage was trivial
The Fort Scott session of the United
States district court concluded its term
Saturday and Fred Robertson, district
attorney. has returned to Topeka. The
session was a light one
| Holland & Son, Topeka architects,
will furnish the plans for the new Ma
sonic building at Harrington. An
artistic Masonic building will be built
at cost of about $4,000.
Miss Eva Corning gave talk Sun
day morning to a class of young wom-
en- of Washburn college on Women
Police Service The class has a mem
bership of seventy young women.
An early start is being made by the
two companies having paving con-
tracts with the city of Topeka. Pay
ments on first estimates of work done
have been allowed by the city.
Hundreds of persons who were at
first againststhe free state fair propo-
sition are now strongly in favor of it.
The trouble was they did not under
stand the plan when they first heard
of it.
From some source untraced, a ru-
NOR became current in Topeka today
that President Wilson had been as
sassinated. The State Journal re-
ceived several telephone inquiries. The
report was without basis in fact.
In a talk before the State Fedora
Topeka outlined a plan for a vacation
home for Kansas working girls
Twenty thousand Kansas women will
be asked to contribute 81 apiece to a
fund for building the home.
The combination of warm weather
ton has reduced the volume of bust
ness on the Washburn- Huntoon cleo
trio line until it is being crowded
regularly into the old fashioned "pint
size" street cars.
The revival meetings at the Pente-
costal Church of the Nazarene, ITO
Buchanan street, are continuing with
Increased interest These meetings
will continue indefinitely. Services at
p. m through the week and on
Sunday three services. James j. Bal
linger, pastor. ~
. A claim against the city of Topeka
for injuries alleged to have been suS-
tanned by George H. Gustin when he
slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk on
Quincy street, between Fourth and
Fifth streets, last January was allow
ed George H. Gustin at meeting OF
the city commission today.
Sunday picnic parties at Cages
park are. already in order. Several
such parties took their dinners on the
park grounds yesterday but the sea-
sons rush has not yet started. The
sions from the grounds makes the
park seem -unnaturally quiet.
The home of Mrs. Sylvia Harries, an
old negro woman living at SIG North
Western avenue, was destroyed by fire
of unknown origin Sunday night. The
loss is estimated at $3.50. The location
is beyond the city water service, and
firemen used only chemicals to pre-
vent nearby buildings from burning.
1t was discovered by physicians that
the jawbone of Margaret Morrison,
aged 8, who was struck by a jitney
driven by a. woman in front of the
home of her parents, DR.. and Mrs. L.
S. Morrison. 1414 Buchanan street,
was not broken by the acc1Qenu. one
of the bones of her ankle was fraC-
tured.
An automobile drived by J. J. Short
hill of Perry, Kan, and an American
Express company wagon, H. L.
Schmidt. driver, collided near the
Rock Island depot Saturday evening.
Neither driver was injured. The auto
was slightly damaged and the horse
put out of commission for the next
two weeks.
A meeting of the special committee
to arrange for the campaign to raise
the additional $4,000 to make up the
full 100000 for the Washburn en-
dowment fund will be held Tuesday |
noon at the Commercial club quarters |
Members of the committees: A. A. |
GODDARD, E. W. Rankin, E. A. Thrill, |
Mrs. A Marburg, and Dean D. L. Nc |
Eachron. |
A reward Of 500 has been offered
by Governor .Capper for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of
the murderer-of the unknown man
found with bullet holes through his
skull on Chase county farm last
week. Probability of finding the
IDENTIFY lain where he left it for many
days before it's discovery
An automobile driven by H. Briten-
stein, 617 North Van Buren,, was hit
by a bicycle ridden by Will Reed, col
ored at Seventh and Kansas avenues
Sunday evening and Reed was knock
ed unconscious. The injured boy was
taken to the Campbell drug store
where his injuries were treated. He
will recover. Reed lives at ITS Lane
street and is employed at the Santa Fe
shops.
Mayor ]. E. Houses appointment of
Mrs. Georgia Hall as clerk and stenog-
rapher in the police department was
confirmed by the city commission to-
day. Mayor House explained that the
duties of two city employees had been
com bined and that Mrs. Hall will do
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