The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Bids on sewers in districts No. Al
and 46 will be opened by the city
commissioners at an adjourned meet
ing Thursday morning.
The Fraternal Aid Union No. 7S4
will have their annual picnic supper
at Cages Park. Thursday, July %.
Supper at Z o'clock.
The mail carriers are the healthiest
looking convention delegates seen in
Topeka for many months. Their
tanned faces are seen everywhere.
The Rev. Leroy Highlands. the
blind representative, will occupy the
pulpit of the First United Brethren
church next Sunday. Sunday evening
he will lecture on Immortality" ,.-.,--
The meetings by the Seventh Day
Adventists in the tent at the corner
of Seventeenth and Tyler streets viii
continue throughout the week. They
are under the leadership of the Rev.
w H. Clark.
Lincoln Post No. 1, G. A. L. has
passed a resolution thanking the
Knights and Ladies of Security hand
members for playing without cost on
the occasion of the exhibition of Lib
erty Bell in Topeka.
The Wolff Packing company is hav-
ing constructed a standpipe for better
fire protection at the plant. The pack
ing house is already protected by
sprinkler and the standpipe will be
used only in case of emergency.
Work on the white way around the
state house grounds soon will be start
ed, according to F. NJ. Newland, COM
missioner of water and lights. a con-
ference on the plans for the plant was
held Monday by Mr. Newland and E.
G.. Stahl. with c. H. Chandler, state
architect.
Many old cases in the federal court
will be dismissed when a special rep
resentative of the attorney generals
office arrives in Topeka to look over
the files in the office of Fred Robert
SON, L. S. district attorney. Some of
these cases date back to 1870. In
many of them the defendants have
died or disappeared.
A cheap and efficient way of rem
dering we'll water free from danger
Gus germs is advocated by DR.. Harold
B. Wood, city physician. He says
teaspoon level full of chloride of lime,
mixed with water to make a paste and
then diluted in a pail of water and
dumped into a we'll will kill typhoid
germs without injuring the water Tor
drinking purposes.
mass meeting of the taxpayers
of the East Side Drainage district will
O'Clock in Notes hall, 913 East Sixth
street. The object of the meeting is
to discuss the question of whether or
not 1t is good business to spend more
money on the creek. The city engineer
has been invited to attend and tell
about the proposed east side sewer.
The state board of movie censor
ship cut out several parts of the film,
Ghosts" which will be presented at
the Novelty tonight. This picture, ac-
cording to the board, had a few OBJ
jectonable scenes which would cast
demoralizing influence over the young
people of Topeka. The regular plot of
the story, while it was criticised to
some extent on account of the more or
less suggestive trend, was finally pass
ed and the film will be shown tonight.
Through an action of the supreme
court Monday William Rose, the game
warden of Olathe convicted in the
Wyandotte county district court OF
impersonating a sheriff is to be re-
leased. The ruling was on the grounds
that he was convicted on the WRONG
charge, and that although he was La
bic to prosecution he could not be
made TO serve the sentence of three
months in the county Jail under the
charge on which he was tried.
At mass meeting of citizens of
Shunganunga drainage district OBJ |
jectfons were made to the work pro-
posed by the officers of the district. |
The officers had decided to build a
dixie through the fair grounds to |
construct Spillway beginning n block |
east of the Santa Fe tracks and run
ming east 425 feet. Those attend |
way and wanted a dixie built instead. I
They made no objections to the plan /
to build a dixie in the fair grounds. |
w. r. Farley, commissioner of con |
Citation of the federal labor bureau, I
is in Topeka for conference with 4
state officials preparatory to an in /
vestigation of conditions in the coal i
came in response to a request from |