The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-30
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

j SNAP SHOTS
4 AT HOME NEWS.
j Herman G. Green and Miss Mary E.
Slaughter of Topeka have been grant
i ed a license to marry.
marriage license was issued this
| morning to Herbert T. Frost of Bloom
ington. Ill, and Miss Mary J. Barber
of Perry, Kansas.
j. F. Preshaw, county clerk of
Franklin county. was visitor here
from his home at Ottawa Friday.
l.. F. Filson, recently appointed to
a position with the public utilities
commission, has left for his former
! home at Salina where he will wind up
his affairs preparatory to returning to
Topeka with Mrs. Filson to remain
here.
Following a vacancy in the city
| board of elections, w. H. WATSON,
commissioner of finance. was today
| appointed to fill the place by the city
commission and in the words of Mayor
| House was decorated with another
| office
bid from Richard Johnson to fur
| nish to city prisoners meals at 121z
cents each was read before the city
commission this morning and &C
cepted. johnson has been furnishing
prisoners at the city jail with meals
for many years.
is appearing in local vaudeville the
alter, has been mistaken the street
for Jess Willard, who is due here to-
morrow. Anger is several sizes larger
than Willard but he isn't any larger
than most Kansas folks think Willard
must be.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Carver this
morning made the arrest of Oscar
wanted in the district court for viola
ton of parole from a sentence for wife
desertion. Hartman was recently re-
turned to Kansas from Colorado by
A. P. Ahlstrom & Sons, contractors
have received the contract for remod-
cling the residence of George Staeb-
Ter, 800 Woodlawn avenue. New
porches will be added 70 the house
and brick addition will be built.
Charles D. Cuthbert, of this city is
the architect. srs
John Leeper has his new garage on
West Sixth street nearly ready for oc-
cupancy. In spite of some delays in
delivery of steel window castings
Leeper has made almost record time
thus far in the erection of the big
building and exeepfs to have it ready
for use early in May.
A request for Sixteen copies of To-
pekas municipal charter under the
commission form of government was
today received by Miss Eta CoveI,
city clerk, from an investiga ton COM
mission of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The letter states that Grand Rapids
has recently adopted the commission
rule which will be effective in a short
time.
Miss June Ebey, formerly a student
in the Washburn school of music, sang
the role of Queen" in the produc-
ton of Balfe's bohemian Girl" Civ
en- this week by the Kansas State
Music Festival. Miss Ebey is we'll
known a church so1oist in Topeka,
S. Ebey an uncle of Miss Ebey, lives
at 10 Lane street.
Following first reading of an ordi-
nance providing for a special election
to decide the voting machine question
in Topeka at the city commission
meeting this morning it was voted by
mayor and commissioners to hold a
special meeting at $50 o'clock Satur-
day morning to take up the ordinance
for final decision. The passage of
the ordinance is practically assured.
The orchestra of Third Presby-
terrain church has been asked to play
on next Tuesday evening at the big
Presbyterian rally banquet to be held
in First church on Harrison street,
where it is expected that hundreds of
Presbyterians from all over this state
will be present. The orchestra will
play Sunday evening at Third Presby
terian church at the O'Clock services.
"Oh, how I do love my books and
classes, declared a Washburn girl
who has been devoting her time to the
campaign for the endowment fund |
during the intermission in school work /
made for that event in the past week. |
Besides her experiences of being
snubbed and disappointed and acquir- !
ing blisters on her feet while plodding |
over unsympathetic territory, the bus
mess of learning lessons and reciting /
them looks easy.
An agreed statement OF facts in the |
Williamson Sunday theater case was |
submitted to Judge A. w. Dana in the |
f1Tc-f n -1e-T.1 49,
terday afternoon and a decision is |
promised for Saturday. Williamson |
was arrested by the police after put
ting on free Sunday exhibition at |
benefit of charity. 3 He is charged with
a technical violation of the anti-Sun-
day theater ordinance.
Opportunities For Girls Who
Choose Salesmanship Is a Vocation"
was the subject of a talk w. w. Mills,
of the Mills Dry Goods Company gave
before the class in craftsmanship at
the Topeka High school Friday morn
have been properly trained in bus1-
ness methods, and the advantage
gained by girls who choose salesman
ship as their life work was explained
by Mr.. Mills.
One OF Topeka's clever automobile
owners thinks he'll develop 4 device
for which there would likely be a
large demand. But he proposes to
patent II anu preserve II IOT MS eX-
elusive use. 1t will be an attachment
on the wind shield. A press of a but
ton will elevate and expose to public
view small sign with the magic
word, --Jitney." on it. THE pcssibili-
ties of such an automobile adjunct are
obvious" explains the embryo inVen-
tor. LAS you are driving along the |
streets and come across a woman |
waiting for transportation OF some
kind to some destination, all you have I
to do is press the button-if she is
good looklng-and you are reasonably Il