The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-02
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

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Homer Baltzen of Sedalia, Mo-, for.
merly treasurer of the Grand theater
was in Topeka Tuesday.
The annual meeting of the Topeka
Traffic association Will be held at the
Commercial club quarters at $3.50
! o'clock this evening
| Licenses to marry have been issued
to Tillman Massery and Miss Nora
| Duncan and w. W. Stewart and Miss
Gertrude Hoffman, all of Topeka
The Ladies Aid society of the First
German NJ. E. church will be enter
| tanned Thursday evening, June 3, at
the home of Mrs. Charles Dreyer, 134
Harrison street.
Merchants, residents, all Topekans
decorate your store, your house.
your motor car, your horse and buggy
in Washburn blue next Monday. Tues
DAY and Wednesday,!
| Rufus Frazier and E. E. Ransom
| have replaced John Anderson and W.
B. Bryant as patrolmen on the To-
peka police force. Bryant and Ander-
ment.
Suit for divorce has been instituted
in the district court by Mrs. Emma
Kelsey who desires legal separation
| in 1895. They have lived apart for
EIGHT years. SCI
: The beginning CT June was marked
with sudden burst of business in the
marriage license department at the
court house Six couples sent in for
per- nits on the first day several of the
interested persons being from out of
town.
Will -rarkins was arrested and fined
$40 in police court Tuesday afternoon
on a charge of petit larceny Accord
ing to charges brought against him,
Harkins stole feather bed from
Harry Crumbine, waiter in a res
taurant on East Fourth street.
The Lowman branch of the w. c.
T. u. will meet with Mrs. A. A Park,
1870 Washburn avenue, Thursday aft
ernoon at 2:3O o'clock. The East Side
union will have charge of the pro-
gram. The meeting will be open to
the public.
The police department has been in
formed that two boys calmly walked
noon in broad daylight, from private
court on the West side: The boys
were seen by a person living in the
neighborhood, but they were too far
away for identified ton.
Those who are sending for my
weather forecasts are showing quick
wit in preparing for harvest which
can only be done by knowing what the
future weather will be- Germany will
need part of our crop-when they can
get it.''-C. C. Blake
w. P. FEEDER has returned to his
home in Topeka after spending a few
weeks in Great Bend. Mr.. FEEDER is an
insurance agent and has been making
this territory for some time. This is
probably his last trip to Great Bend
as he expects to be transferred to some
other territory.
Charles Chandler, state architect,
has been instructed by the state exec
utive council to prepare plans for the
white way around the state house
grounds. The legislature appropriat
ed $3.50 for the illumination of the
grounds. Topeka will furnish the cleo
tricity. as
w. E, Doughty of New York. execu-
tive secretary of the Laymen's Mis-
sionary movement, will speak at the
Central Y NJ c. A tonight at O'Clock
relative to a big missionary campaign
and that will be one of 100 similar
campaigns in cities of the United
States. All clergymen and laymen of
Topeka churches are invited to attend
the meeting.
County Attorney w E. Atchison has
filed applications for injunctionS
against the sale of intoxicants at STA |
East First street and at ia North |
Madison street and naming nine per-
sons who have been complained of as |
against whom the injunc-
ton is sought are Kate Hoffman, Jess
Lillian Davidson, Ed Green,
L. o. Hoffman, S. NJ. Hoffman. Harry |
Smith and Ed and Ethel Davis.
The postoffice depa has found !
t necessary to issue special circular
setting forth the fact that property
belonging to the federal government
s not BILE to taxation for local or
any other purposes. copy of this
circular has just been received by Os-
,ar Swayze, county clerk, in answer to
recent notification, published by the
county treasurer, to the effect that the
Topeka postofice was about to be sold
or taxes.
A plan is being formulated looking
owards the formation of University
Tub for Topeka at the big intercol-
egiate banquet at the Masonic hall
text Tuesday evening. There are
many Topekans who are members of
he Kansas City University club. The
dea is to make the Topeka organiza-
ion just as important a club as that
n the city at the mouth of the Kaw.
Reservations for the banquet are COM
ng in rapidly. Indications are that
he stunts that will be pulled off, at
he banquet will be unusually clever.
Joseph F. Reisner, who for three
ears has served as physical director
# the Central Y NJ c. A., has ten
september l. The attendance at
gym" classes has materially increased
ince Reisner took hold of the work.
'he aggregate attendance in the last
ear has been 1850. The number
ctually enrolled in classes was $50
n round numbers Mr.. Reisner has
lot announced his plans for the flu
'e an instructor at the summer camp
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