The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-01
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

E. c. Malone is booked at the police
station on a charge of reckless driving
Jay E. House, mayor, returned to-
day from Erie, Kansas, where he spent
Memorial day.
| Marie Sanders and Henrietta Per-
kins were arrested Monday evening
and booked on a charge of keeping
and maintaining nuisance.
The pool at the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
will be closed for repairs for few
days.
One hundred and eighty-five arrests
were made by the Topeka police force
during the month of May. Fines as
'essed amounted to $3.50.
Edward Raymond of Newton, gen
oral superintendent of the Santa Fe
railways is in Topeka today on bust
hess with officials of the road.
Nick Chiles, editor of the Topeka
Plaindealer. is in Hutchinson for few
Evans. He delivered an address Mon
day at the A. M. E. church.
The members of the Topeka fire de-
partment remembered their dead Mon
day by placing flowers on the graves
of Nels Anderson, Benjamin McCarter,
H. Garrett and George 0. Wllmarth,
former chief.
George T. Mattingly. city license col
lector, collected license taxes during
the month of May amounting to
$2,667. For the same month last year
the amount collected was S2,423.
The June meeting of the Woman's
Missionary society of the First English
Lutheran church will be held at the
home of Mrs. B. F. Younger, 622 Polk
street, Wednesday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock. Mrs. J. H. Ulsh will be in
charge of the Bible study.
Oxie Anderson is being held at the
police station for investigation. Ac-
cording to the police, Anderson was
caught carrying a quantity of wet"
goods from house to a jitney. When
he saw the officers coming he smashed
the bottles on the pavement.
The Central Y. M. c. A track meet
which could not be held last week on
account of adverse weather conditions,
will take place at the fair grounds
Saturday. The juniors will compete at
$3.50 o'clock in the morning and the
seniors and young men at o'clock
in the afternoon.
N. H. Wolff, the tailor, has moved
his establishment from 429 Kansas
avenue to the second floor of 519
Kansas avenue. Mr.. Wolff opened up
IN his new location this morning. with
an excellent suite of rooms. He is
one of the veteran tailors of Topeka
and has been at 429 Kansas avenue
for twenty years.
H. Johns, a colored man, was ar
rested this morning on the charge of
drunkenness and discharging a fire
arm in the city limits. He is alleged
to have fired a shotgun near Park
Place. Recently he complained to
the police that several of his neigh
bors were latter him." and that he
needed protection.
The Topeka fire department has a
new chief today. E. E. Babcock,
whose appointment was confirmed by
the city commission last week, began
his duties. Joseph Hanlon left today
for months tour of the west He
will visit the San Francisco and San
Diego fairs, and study the fire de- |
partments of the leading coast cities. |
Mrs. Hanlon is with him.
Unless personal application is made |
at the office of the city water depart |
ment, users of water can not avail |
themselves of the reduced rate for |
sprinkling purposes. A city ordinance |
states the manner in which application |
must be made. Requests by telephone |
are not sufficient for granting sprink-
ling license. 1.-The licenses cost moth
ing, but they must be asked for in per-
son." said Frank Stevens, cashier of |
the water department.
The Florists Review, published in
Chicago, and which has a wide circula-
ton among seedsmen and florists has
the following to say about the free |
state fair, Topeka: 1.-The first free
state fair in the United States will be
held in Topeka next September, by the
Kansas State Fair association. A spe-
cial tax levy has been voted with
this enables the fair association to an
nounce that the general admission
gate will be thrown open for the en-
tire week"
Lenders-"Say, I've been carrying |
those 1. o. us of yours until they are |
about worn OUT Burrows-"Sorry. l