The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-13
LOCAL MENTION.

LOCAL MENTION.
owns the Walnut Park subdivision. is
at the National hotel. Mr.. Doran pro-
poses to build for North Topeka par
ties several houses on Wabash avenue.
ADV.
H. e. Shaffer, S. A. Jones and f. ].
Smiley and his two sons, Ralph and
Harold, will leave Saturday evening
for Galena, Mo. Next Monday they
will take boats at that point and float
down the st. James river and into the
White river. They will land at Bron-
son, a distance by water from Galena
of LA miles, but only 5 miles the
way the crow flies. The trip will take
a week.
The Commercial club pep" COM
mittce will be organized Saturday
noon. Those who attended the meet
ing today for the purpose of forming
the committee were sidetracked in
their aim, as other business was pre-
scented.
1t will payyou to get our estimate on
that lumber bill. Phone ]. b. Whelan
& Co., I'll E. 4th.-Adv.
Friday. the 18th, was not a busy
day in the marriage license depart
ment at the county court house.
Brides apparently are just as suspi-
cious of this eventful day as they are
prejudiced toward Wednesdays. One
couple, however, braved the faces and
took out a license. The two are:
David Perkins. q and Harriet Hob
son, IS, both of Topeka.
Property of the Western Plating
and REFINING company, Ala Jackson
street, has been sold to H. Ward Page
for $500 by Marshal j. b. Frost of the
court of Topeka, who was authorized
to sell the property for judgment.
The sale of the tools and equipment
was the result of judgments being
rendered in two damage suits brought
by j. n. Dolley and w. j. Ricken-
S296.75, money claimed wages by
George S. Burt, and Rickenbacher
sued for $29S.11, money which was
due Louis Van Dorp for services.
company Marshal Frost took the prop
erty and sold it for judgment
DIR. c. C. Lull. county physician.
made a trip to Rossville and Silver
Lake this morning to inspect some
bad water holes that are causing trou-
BILE by becoming breeding places for
mosquitoes.
Being elected justice of the peace
as a joke was not pleasant expert
ence for ]. NJ. Tomson, well known
stockman of Dover, Kan, and he has
been trying for several weeks to get
out of the Job. A letter to the county
clerk brought Mr.. Tomson relief and
now he is free again, his petition for
release having been granted by the
state.
George Thompson, colored. has
been arrested on a warrant charging
him with having brought liquor into
the county Jail. When arrested sew
eral weeks ago Thompson walked out
of the Jail while no one was watching.
He was picked up this morning by the
authorities.
F. w. Turpin, who has been in the
county Jail for twenty-five days for
away with IS advance money
given him by an insurance company,
was paroled this morning by Hugh t.
Fisher Judge of the court of Topeka.
He was instructed to get out of Shaw
nee county on the first train.
The meeting of the East side tax
payers will be held Tuesday evening
instead of Wednesday evening as was
Thursday.
Mrs. Sarah SaywelI will celebrate
her eighty-seventh birthday anniver-
sary at her home 1927 North Kansas
avenue, Monday, August is. All her
friends are invited to call.
O. o. Tresner, 126 addison street. a
brother of Clyde Tresner. clerk to w.
Porter. city commissioner of parks.
is seriously i'll.
The following birth was reported at
he office of the city clerk today:
James Holloway and wife, 427 Liberty
street, August IL, a girl
The city of Topeka received 1912 az
IS portion of the receipts from the
boating, amusement and refreshment
concessions in Garfield park during
he month of July
Inez McMurphy and Frank Parkin-
on are booked at the police station
IN a charge of assault According to
Information in the hands of the po-
zee, the two had an argument with
ised him