The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

4 \ successful playground fete was
held at the Lincoln grounds Thursday
night.
/ Fred Morns has taken out a permit
for a garage at 1905 North quincy
street.
The Shawnee Investment company
has taken out permits for the erection
/ of seven dwellings.
w H. Clark evangelist, is attract
/ ing many persons to the meetings in
the tent at Twiss and Seward avenues
/ Sunday night he will quote from the
Bible showing why he is a Seventh
Day Adventist.
The Topeka Jitney company will get
/ $3.50 rebate from the Ford Automo-
! bile company for the fifteen cars that
/ they are operating in the city. Ed F.
1 Maxwell, manager of the company,
sent the rebate checks to the Ford
people today.
Ohio Woods, United States marshal,
/ has returned from Wichita, Kansas,
where he arrested j. b. Erven, 4 drug
gist at 500 North Main street. on Il
charge of violating the Harrison anti
narcotic law. The charge is based on
the sale of 235 half-grain doses of
morphine.
Following election of officers. the
annual convention of Prince Hall
Grand Chapter, Eastern Star. will
close this evening. The order is hold
ing its thirty-second session at Rep
! reS6nlaClFe nail -FOUR MEM
/ bers of Kansas and Colorado lodges
are attending the convention
J. Earl Tanner who is taking his va
| cation on the Pacific coast is boasting
of the large catches of fish he has
! made. He has even been photo
/ graphed against a background of fish.
His friends are intimating that he
bought the fish, and they will ask for
an accounting Of his deeds upon his
return.
Members of Troop 3. Boy Scouts,
will receive instructions tonight rIla
! tive to the scout camp at Paw-I'aw
bend, twelve miles southwest of 10
peka, at the Westminster Presbyteri In
church. Instructions will be given to
the boys of troops and ID at 1O2S
Taylor street tonight. The camp will
| open Tuesday.
Interest in the Missouri valley vol
/ leybaH tournament which will be held
next fall in Thomas gymnasium is on
the increase PittSburg and Wichita
/ have sent word that teams will be en-
tered. Other cities that viii be repre-
! sented: HeringtOn and St Joseph Sa-
| lima may send team. Stewart G.
/ Thompson is looking after the cor
/ reSpOndence.
The whistle on the Agard planning
mill, 42O-30 Van Buren, street blew
continuously from 10 until IL o'clock
Thursday night while cops attempted
! to locate the source of the trouble.
They finally found that the steam
valve of the whistle had slipped off a
roller. A little work on the part of
the police stopped the noise. Small
boys are thought to be responsible for
the noise.
A boys character building club was
organized at a picnic under the aus
pieces of the Railroad Y. NJ. Z. A,
which ended late Thursday at Gage
/ park. Earl Carmain and Tom Will
Jams organized the picnic. The picnic
was for boys not connected with
| either of the Y. NJ. c. A. organizations
in
/ present Earl Carmain was chosen as
president of the club.
More than half of the delinquent
personal tax warrants for 1914 have
Weightman, county treasurer. Sher-
| if L. L. kiene has been doing some
good work in getting these warrants
collected and has turned in $2,527-57.
The total amount out on these war
rants is estimated at $4,000 by the
county treasurer so more than half of |
the money has been paid in. The war
rants were issued last March.
The playground fete at Chesney
park Thursday night netted $40 which
will go towards defraying playground |
expenses. Next year the board of edu- |
cation will have available money to
pay the cost of the playground work !
and it will not be necessary to hold |
special entertainments. An average of |
but $40 has been cleared ar the play /
ground fetes thus far. Marshall'S band /
was an attraction at Chesney park /
Thursday night giving a high class |
musical entertainment. The program |
put on subsequently by the play /
ground children attracted attention.
Rock Island officials started a rigid |
investigation which is likely to prove |
prove embarrassing to some one; |
when Otis Jones, a country boy
at the local Rock Island offices |
and stated that a man representing !
himself to be an official of the COM |
pany sent him to Topeka to take a job !
as conductor on a Rock Island train. /
The boy appeared before official |
Thursday evening and said that he had |
been hired" The boy was 6 years |
hard circumstances and ne had left |
home to look for work. The Rock Is !
land paid his fare back to Phillipsburg |
and started a special agent on the trail |
of the man who hired" the boy
The children of the East side are |
causing James A Pringle, contractor. |
to worry. The children are all inter /
ested in watching the men and ma |
chinery at work constructing a sewer. |
keeping the children away from oan-
ger during working hours. But when
all the men except the Waterman are
gone those kids swarm over the ma
chinery and down into the ditch. 1t
ISN'T any use for the Waterman to try n
to keep them away. 1t cannot be
done, but their parents should make II
them understand the danger of being 4
buried alive when they climb down n
into a trench We dug 500 feet of II
ditch Thursday and had two caye-ins II
One cannot tell by looking at the II
ground whether it is safe or not