The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Judge Yates of police court is teach
ing a class in agency" at the wash
burn summer school.
F. L. Clemmons of 905 Fillmore
street is spending a month visiting in
the east.
No deaths have been reported in
Topeka within the twenty-four hours
up to o'clock today.
A marriage license has been granted
to Harry b. Atwell and Edna b. UNI
pleby. They will live at 223 Elmwood
street.
H. B. Wilson, superintendent of
city schools, has named Mrs. b. II.
Ross as school census taker OH the
North side.
Mrs. E. 1. Peterson, 11O9 East Firth
street, June IA, was reported to the
city clerk today.
Four divorce suits and four licenses
to wed were recorded in local courts
Tuesday-an even break for the days
adventures in matrimony.
Edward Ray Franks and Miss
Veona Smelser have obtained a Ii
cense to wed. They will make their
home at 2003 McVicar avenue.
Next semester at the high school
the amount of work that may be
taken by students who fail in a part
of their work will be limited.
"A
home of Charles Guilkie. 629 North
Tyler street, damaged the roof to the
amount of IS Tuesday. The fire de-
partment was called.
A ten-year-old boy living at $50 Lib
erty street Tuesday was discovered to
have smallpox. He was removed to
the city detention hospital. The house
in which he lived is under quaran-
tine.
Sheriff L. L.. Kiene is at jefferson
City, where he went to support his
application for the eXtradition of
John HoffSette, wanted in Topeka on
a charge of deserving his family.
Hoffsette is fighting eXtradition.
The Topeka council of the Sons and
Daughters of Justice adjourned at .
o'clock last night and the members
went in q body to Garfield park to at
tend the dance. Jitneys were fur
nished to haul the crowd to the park.
Suit in equity for foreclosure of a
deed of trust was filed today with
Mort Albaugh, clerk of the United
States district court, against James M.
Chase and Charlotte w. Chase of
Brown county by Missouri trust
company.
The Jackson County club. composed
of forty families. will hold it's an
nual picnic at Garfield park, Satur-
day. 1t will be an all-day affair.
Both dinner and supper will be eaten
on the grounds. All former residents
of Jackson county are invited to at
tend.
A S. Thomas formerly a we'll
known citizen of Topeka, is seriously
i'll at his home in Silver Lake. He is
past eighty years of age and for some
time has been in failing health. Tues
day night his condition became serious
and little hope is entertained for his
recovery, on account of his advanced
age.
rf frI.
school, believes that the five period
plan at the high school, in vogue
last semester, mas been conducive to
good scholarship. In the fall term,
before the plan was adopted. the per
cert Of failures in all studies was 12.2;
in the spring term it was reduced to
S.3, and there are usually more fail-
ures in the spring semester.
For every I. w. w. harvest hand in
Kansas there are three in Oklahoma,
according to Fred Robertson, United
States district attorney, who returned
Tuesday evening from Enid, Okla.
The number of harvest hands down
there is creating a great problem,
said the district attorne.-. 1T is not
uncommon to see three thousand
sleeping at night in the government
park at Enid.
Highland Park people are signing
the petition asking for the creation of
the benefit district necessary for the
improvement of the road that is to be
a part of the Topeka boulevard sys-
tenn on that side of town. The road
improvement proposal has been under
discussion there for several weeks and
is reported to have the requisite
amount of support to procure the nee
essary petition
Three weddings were solemnized in
the probate court Tuesday. Those
who assumed the responsibilities of
matrimony were Peter Mathes Of
Smith Center and Alice Tarble of Mar
tisonville, ILL.,; Henry o. White and
Hazel Haag OF Mayetta. ana John l..
Gilmore and Helen Beard of Topeka.
A license to marry was granted to
James Gray of Orchard Park, l.. l..
and Lula Pence of Topeka.
Louis Petros the Greek who was
examined on an insanity charge and
set free last Saturday, was found in
sane by the commission of doctors
summoned in his case after a second
investigation yesterday. During his
absence Petros INDUCED in conduct
which appeared to convince The alien
lists of his demented condition. Judge
Hugh MaCFarlahd of the probate
court has ordered his commitment to