The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

LO0dy Ol1 DQS1ACoS-
A new glass walk is being installed
in front of the Jackson street Santa Fe
general office building.
The concert which was to have been
given by Marshalrs band last night at
Garfield park will be held tonight
Mrs. Harry Landow, of San Francis
co, left for St Louis today after a
short visit to Miss Sadie Downing
c. J. Weld, 1909 Kansas avenue. has
a peach tree in his yard producing
fruit measuring II inches in circum-
ference.
Chester Wahle, who has been with
the Santa Fe at Wellington, Kan, this
summer, has returned home to enter
Washburn college.
Amie1 Knight has returned to his
position in the Santa Fe shops after
being confined 20 his home in At
Gibson FOR several days with an in
jured foot
for violation of the prohibitory law,
was paroled this morning by Judge A
w. Dana of the first division of the
district court.
Two births are reported today: To
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Logan, 1176 Clay
Mrs. Grover D. Logan, 1919 Madison
street, September 4, boy.
Charles Clary, a Burlingame boy
who is now a widely known movie
star, plays opposite Bessie Eyton, lead
ing woman of The Spoilers" in a
picture at the Hip theater tonight
The committee meeting to arrange
for the opening of the Current
Topic club of the Y. M. c. A, which
was to have been held Monday noon,
has been postponed Until tomorrow
at noon.
a surveyor on the Santa Fee engineer
ing corps at Wellington, Kan, for
the past fifteen months, is now in To-
peka and will enter Washburn college
this term.
Matt Weightman, county treasurer,
City and Hutchinson, where he has
been for a few days. He says that
prosperity is evident in every town
and field between Hutchinson and To-
peka.
Topeka temple, No. 10, Pythian Sis
tiers, held their regular meeting Mon
day evening. A reception was held
after the meeting for Mrs. Arsula
Jones, supreme representative. Music
was furnished by Jessie Miller's ladies'
orchestra.
Hubert Dawson, son of John S.
Dawson, justice of the supreme court,
has returned home from Kansas City
where he has been employed in the
Union Pacific freight house for sew
eral months He will attend the Kan
haitian this year.
The Mercer touring car stolen from
DIR. E. S. Pettyjohn two weeks ago.
has not yet been recovered The car
was taken from the Pettyjohn garage
at the home, Sixth and Taylor streets.
The machine is a gray one, equipped
electrically. No trace has been found
of the car or the motor thieves.
The Santa Fe reports that southern
Kansas suffered from heavy rains last
night. From lola to Chanute the rain
fall was 4 inches and at Garrett 1T was
Z inches. The water was high in many
places and caused slew schedules OF
trains. No serious damage was done
and the water receded rapidly today.
Will Stickel, chief clerk to Ferd Rob-
who, with Randall Harvey of Topeka
motored to Colorado Springs last
month, was the subject of a lengthy
in the Manitou Springs Daily
Journal of Manitou, Col Mr.. St1ckel
was quoted as being an ardent enthu-
siast in the goods roads movement.
There will be no new faces in the
force of ianitors employed at the city
school buildings during the coming
school year. All the old Jan1tors ex-
the school board and the new jan1tor
was formerly an assistant Jan1tor. Al
though the janitors have been en-
pIoyed, they have not yet Deen as
signed to their buildings
Down at Topeka, that place OF re-
nown a duffer named Archibald Sim
hung roun' An Sim had habit OF
lickin' his wife an runnin her off
the place with knife. She sued for
divorce an she got the decree and
Sim has to pay her as alleymonee,
a half of his wages-the- pesky old
sneak. An the wages of Sim were
twelve pIunkers per week.-Hoyt
Booster.
While the open season on Palm
Beach suits and straw hats was Of
ficiaIly declared nearly week ago,
yet with the thermometer above nor
NAL today there was no scarcity OF
warm weather clothing. Many To-
peka men were unable to De attlred
with the thin clothing during August
on account of the summer resort
weather and their only opportunity to
shine in spotless white is in Sep
TENDER.
Attorney General S. NJ. Brewster,
S. N. Hawkes., assistant attorney gem
aral and r. E. Mcintosh, appeared be-
fore Judge A w. Dana in the first di-
vision of the district court this morn
ing and made a motion to quash the
Injunction petition filed last week by
A. A Graham Graham wants the
contract for compiling the 1915 stat
ltes taken away from Mcintosh ana
awarded to himself as the lowest bid
Ter. Judge Dana took the case under
advisement.
With the baseball season over and
ennis on the wane, Topeka sporting
people will devote their attention to
golf and football. The Lincoln state
Journal, in referring to the Washburn-
Nebraska game of october 16, says:
fWashburn, the second outfit on the |
Nebraska slate, never fails to give the |
Tornhuskers a stiff argument Last |
rear the Washburn eleven scored on |
Nebraska and the chances are that
Coach Grays Ichabods may prove to
De no snap"
company was awarded 2 contract to |
supply coal for the school buildings of |