The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-13
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.


A petition for the paving of Hunting
ton avenue from Van Buren, to Harrison
streets, was presented to the city COM
dian school in New Mexico last year, has
been transferred TO the Kickapoo school
topeka Saturday on her way to Horton.
-, The ef following births were reported at
fne 0fIlce an OF ne city clerk TO-DAY j.
gust q, boy; Clark Stewart Berry and
wife, 126S College avenue, September 6,
girl.
A. L. Shoup, an instructor in history
at Washburn last year, has gone to Rich
I mo,nd' Ind, where he has accepted po-
Monies at Earlham college. He gradu-
ated from Washburn in 1911.
to compel, the state printing commission
to allow him the contract for compiling
Until to emena his
tition. Judge George H. .Whitcomb
thea f 6ee fpr iday and
mammoth chorus, consisting of 1000
school children will furnish the part of
Commercial club at the COM ention of the
Kansas State Teachers association. The
announcement of the clubs program was
ments are being completed for, carrying IT
out.
lilies has been pitched at the fair grounds
by the Shawnee County grange. The
tent Il located near agricultural hall and
its are also displayed by the grange. Of
ficers are: G. G. Burton, master; A. B.
Smith, lecturer, and. J. a. Ostend, secre
tary.
The yearly election of officers for
Marshall's BAND was held Sunday morn
ing in the band rooms. d. G. Kline, who
has been the director for a number of
years, was Reelected to the same posi-
ant director and secretary, J. A. SheetZ,
treasurer: c. W. Chapman, president; II.
e. Barnes, vice president, and c. M.
Morrow, librarian.
An independent jitney car collided with
the information booth ar Eighth and Kan
The top Of the machine was torn by the
projecting roof of the booth. the stand was
the booth were badly scared. A policeman,
car men, eXtricated the machine and re-
stored order in the booth.
The street car men imported by the To-
peka railway company for fair week were
to to- stay at the e M 6n
the third floor of the building. OFFICIALS
of the fire marshal's office interfered, on
men were forced to seek lodgings else
where. Sixteen of them are staying at
house across the street from the Y. M.
C. A.
Another chapter in the Topeka Com
mercia! clubs fight for smoother pave,
and Fourth street, will tie added to the
already long serial when the good roads
in hand sometime next week. 1t is the
Commercial clubs plan to pave half the
street with asphalt or other smooth sub
stance for autos and Ieave the other half
paved with cobblestones-
Elmer Gibbons, u barber, talked himself
into trouble Sunday afternoon when he
went to see his father, who lives next door
to H. H Delk, 504 Chandler street. Glib
bons got "peeved' because Delk's dog
barked at him and began to swear, the
police report. The stream of oaths dis
turbed the entire neighborhood, so Delk
said at police headquarters this morning.
Gibbons with disturbing the peace.
Speed is the slogan upon which the To
peka police are working this week. Chief
Harvey Parsons has five automobiles at
the disposal of his officers, and any call re-
ceived at police headquarters will be an
swered Immediately. One car will be kept
at the fair grounds to answer emergency
calls. I'VE want to keep the city just as
quiet this week as if there were no fair"
explained Chief Parsons this morning,
land to do this we have lined up. these
possible"
Motion pictures Biblical subjects
are proving popular at the Central Congre-
shown all summer. Sunday was John
Bunyan Day at the church. In the morn
ing the life of the great writer was used
as the Sunday school lesson. The Rev. w.
L. Goldsmith, associate pastor, preached on
Bunyan and Pilgrims Progress in the
service and moving pictures of the
story were presented at night Among the
'.Samson and Delilah.'' "Joseph's Trial in