The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-27
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Sand bars have begun to show up in
the KaW river.
A. W. Dunbank has taken out a
permit to remodel the dwelling at 134
Woodruff avenue.
Buy Johnson's prepared wax to pol
ish your cars with Southwick's, e25
Kansas avenue.-Adv.
The assembly room at the Y. w c.
A. building has been retinted and the
lighting system changed.
H. B. Wilson, superintendent of city
schools, is expected to return from the
Pacific coast next week.
Work of refinishing and remodeling
rooms on the fifth floor of the state
house is progressing rapidly.
| number of persons took delight in
/ clubbing bat that fluttered against
an awning of the Commerce building
| late Thursday.
George Clark, the Texan who holds
| a Carnegie medal for his heroic
work on auto race tracks, will be one
| of those who will compete in the big
| free fair races.
The first meeting of the Y. w. C. A.
millinery class will be held September
| s. The class was so popular last sea-
| son that it became necessary to divide
it into two sections.
Fred Robertson, United States dis
| trict attorney, spent a few hours in
Topeka today and then left for west
ern Kansas to look after wheat lands
of which he is the owner.
Earl Lunger, an assistant at the
| Central Y. NJ. c. A, and Ilsyn Kim, a
Korean, have gone to the big
Brother camp at Buffalo Mound to
| assist in the camp leadership.
mo thorn without it's rose" trans
posed the Quotation Fiend, as he di
rected attention to the fact that the
vicinity of the state house grounds is
redolent, at any rate, of new-mown
hay.
Miss Ruth Nygren is acting as
stenographer to Joseph Hanlon, chief
of the fire department., during the ill
ness of her sister, Miss Hildur Ny
gren, who has held the position five
years. Miss Hildur Nygren who has
been absent several weeks, is reported
improving.
In the opinion of DR.. Harold B.
Wood, city physician, only spinsters
like cats. DIR. Wood has no kindly
feeling for the felines, and the old eX-
preston, clean as a cat" has no
meaning to him. He says cats are
filthy and unsanitary and should be
abolished.
A check for $25-one of the 1arg-
est paid out of the county treasurer's
office in some time-waS given to the
Topeka school board by Matt Weight
man, county treasurer, this morning
The money is the school boards re-
naming share of the money due II
from the 1914 tax.
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the grave of Don the fox terrier,
belonging to J. s. Weir, custodian at
the city hall The dog was killed by
an automobile. A neatly painted oak
slab is being lettered by DR.. Leslie
Rowles, city milk inspector. 1t will
read Don, Our Pet"
Mrs. George E. Burnam, $50 East
Sixth avenue, has the honor of hav-
East side sewer. Mrs. Burnam did
not wait to be notified, but went to the
office of Miss Eta Covell, city clerk,
inquired the amount, and paid it. The
assessment on her property was
$23.09.
A co-partner petition in voluntary
bankruptcy has been filed in the
United States district court by John
D. Graham and Anna w. Graham,
both doing business at Emporia under
the name of the Graham Book and Art
store. In their petition the Grahams
place their liabilities at $6,O5S.0S and
their assets at $1,150.
County Clerk Swayze has five per-
fectly good certificates of appointment
to supply to five persons who desire
to attend the twenty-second annual
internationa irrigation congress, to be
held in California September 1 8 to 20.
There is no provision made for pay
ing the expenses of these delegates.
J. B. Case of Abilene is president of
the congress.
Mae Pickett and Nellie Patterson,
owners of the Anderson Beauty shop
located in the Orpheum building, want
$500 because a rain on July 2S dam
aged the shop The theater building
was being repaired at the time. A
damage suit has been filed in the
court of Topeka against The Electric
Amusement company and George
and Heinie Gordon for that sum.
The engine at the city electric light
plant is to be overhauled. The cylin-
ders are to be bored out and other re-
pairs made. While the work is being
done, the city will receive current
from the Topeka Edison company. Mr..
Newland figures that the city will pay
the Edison company approximately
$50 a day for the ten days or two
weeks in which current is purchased.
Medals earned in recent Y. NJ. C. A.
athletic events will be presented at
the farewell dinner and reception at
$50 O'Clock this evening for Joseph
F. ReiSner, whose resignation as
physical director will become effec-
has been arranged. John Cleveland is
chairman of the committee that has
made the arrangements for the re-
ception.
by Benz. Mayer, 507 Polk street,
Thursday and sold to J. A. Ramsey,
city sanitary sergeant The trap in
which they were caught was located
near Scott Brothers ice cream factory
and had been in operation since early
spring. In an inspection of ice cream
factories recently made by DR.. Leslie
Rowles, city milk inspector, the Scott
factory was found more nearly free of
flies than most of the factories.
Topeka was third in the number of
delegates at the recent Y. w. c. A.
conference, according to local dele
pekanS at the conference were: Miss
Kate Williams, physical director of
the Y W. C. A, Miss Ethel Dodge,
office secretary; Miss Anne Sweet and
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