The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-19
SNAP SHOTS
AT HONE NEWS.

J. C. Witt of this city has purchased
the H ]. Muth grocery store in En-
poria.
A meeting of the Y. P. B. will be
held Friday evening at Z o'clock in
Chesney park
Employees of the Capper publica-
tions will hold their annual reunion
at Garfield park. Friday. July 2S.
The ladies of the G. A. R. will give
an ice cream social on the lawn of the
| S. NJ. Wood home Thursday night,
July 20.
An election will be held in Dover
| township August 4 to decide whether
| or not a rural high school will be
created there
Peter Lang, colored, was taken to
| the police station Tuesday from $50
| Kansas avenue suffering from de-
| lirium tremens.
Suit for divorce has been filed in
| the district court by Lucy Brown
against Walter Brown, the wife al
leging abandonment.
A water meter to obtain water from
the city of Topeka for use on passen-
ger trains is being installed near the
| Santa Fe tracks on Fourth street.
The appraisement of lands for the
Silver Lake drainage district was up
| held by decision handed down by
Judge A w. Dana in the district court.
| Mrs. A. L. Davis, Oklahoma City,
She will make her home here with her
son, Hobart C. Davis, relief operator
for the Associated Press.
| The posters of the county candi-
dates are rapidly playing havoc with
Topeka street corners. City ordi-
nances are violated and trolley and
electric light poles re plastered.
| You don't need to go to the sea-
shore for the beach views" a Topeka
man said today. lust slip up to
Wakarusa over Sunday and watch the
| river surf there-no censorship wells
| this
A band concert and political meet
ing will be held at City park tomor-
row evening under the auspices of the
L. d. & w. club Permission will be
given tc Republican candidates to
speak five minutes.
Since it has been announced that
| one Topeka firm has sold 5000 horses
to the allies, every cowardly animal
in town has begun to limp, a small
boy 'phoned in this afternoon. Surely
not. Willie. surely not!
Those who think bicycles are down
west porch of the Wolff Packing
company. Fifteen bicycles are lined
up each day by the employees who
ride to and from work
L. H Bowyer, a laborer on the Sixth
street viaduct was overcome by heat
L
mediately to his room, 113 e. Fourth
street, and this morning had almost
| recove red from the shock
Any number of temporary widowers
can be found each day in Topeka res
| taurants, swearing at restaurant food
| and wishing for their wives early re-
turn from a vacation. There is some
talk of advertising their telephone
| numbers.
Doctor Crumbine issues a bulletin
today suggesting to men that they
dress as skimpily the law allows
would like to be enlightened on this
| point-he would like to know, too, if
| the law covers female attire.
A Topeka soda-fountain squirt"
while washing the glasses. told this
story on girl friend of his: Every
hanging out over East, Eighth avenue
| just off from Kansas avenue, she
| bushes
| The Western Union boys still ride
the hot streets with their heavy jack
cts buttoned up around their necks.
at home Why this kind of a uni
form in hot weather? A ten to one
bet that the officers of the company
dress in white flannels.
New York troops took Kansas ave-
nue. by storm last evening. They
nOppeQ duIOInODlleS, street cars ana
were given the privileges of both with
out groWl. The mail boxes this
morning were filled with picture post
cards of Topeka-the soldiers favor
lite form of travelling amusement.
One caddy at the Shawnee Golf
links lost three balls in nine holes for
his player yesterday afternoon. When
they reached the clubhouse the
Peeved One turned to the boy and
remarked: You carry the bag lovely
your stance near the water bucket
is eXcellent-oh, you're a peach!"
Jesse Shaw, of the city water de-
partment. will go to Kansas City in
a few days to make a valuation of the
Kansas City, Mo, pumping station and
water department property in Kansas
Shaw will be assisted by two other eX-
perts whom he will name. The valu-
alton will be used in Kansas taxation
of the plant.
the n. E A. convention at New York
has returned home. The delegation
made an extensive eastern trip, fol-
lowing the convention. Next year the
association will meet either in Port
land, Oregon, or Asbury Park, N. j.
John F. Eby, county superintendent,
was elected director of Kansas for
the association for the next year.
The Second Ward Republican club
will hold rally tonight in sos East
First street. J. T. Botkin, secretary
of state, will be the principal speaker.
A. E. Crane, formerly a Holton law
yer and for the last two years asso-
ciated with Bale Waggener as Mis-
souri, Pacific attorney; Robert s.
Heller, son of Judge Heller in Usage
City; Richard F. Hayden and George
P. Hayden have formed a new law
firm here.
Eighty people attended a picnic for
the Cooperative club, given Tuesday
evening by Dick Hodgins on his farm
near Silver Lake. supper of sand
witches, watermelon. ice cream and
soda pop was served Among the
speakers were Judge w. F. Schoch,
candidate for the Republican nominal
ton for state senator; A. A Rodgers,
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