The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

w P. Smith, state printer, was a
Kansas City visitor Tuesday.
Holy Name parish will give a lawn
party Thursday evening at 1401-1 All
Clay street.
Ralph Squires. register of deeds. is
spending several days near Euporia
on a fishing trip
The finest bit of tattooing seen in
Topeka for a long time appears on
the arm of a downtown waitress
Whenever an Atchison paper chron-
lcles crime in Topeka this city is
always spoken of as good old To-
peka."
Several Topeka tennis players are
contemplating entering the Missouri
Valley tournament TO be held at Kan
sas City next. week.
The Provident association met ex-
penses of $500 in the month of July
and came thro the month with
cash balance of 500.
One woman in Topeka not only
marks the variety of fruit canned this
summer, but the various dates on
which the work was donc-s
Miss Catharine McAuliffe has re-
signed her position in the auditors Of
flee of the Santa Fee to enter training
as nurse at st. Francis hospital
Gasoline today is selling at 17-2 a
gallon, a decrease of more than a
cent Predictions to this effect have
been current for several weeks.
Those who work nights suggest
that a few of the white way Hshts
besides those on the Kaw river bridge
be left burning after IL o'clock at
night.
The first carload of brick for the
paving now in course of construction.
has arrived and will be used on East
Ninth street between Madison and
Monroe
Your Country Needs Your Help,"
z sign reads on Kansas avenue 1.-The
groceryman needs mine" said street
car crouch as he was jerked down to
his daily labors-
Ten babies were registered this
morning for examination at the baby
clinic in the Warren NJ Crosby store
this afternoon. under auspices of the
Public Health Nursing association.
Despite the hot days. interest in ten
mis- on the public park courts has not
decreased. The installation of the
courts has been one of the most popu-
lar moves ever made in the parks
Callie McCord of 912 North Western
avenue has caused the issuance OF a
warrant from the court of Topeka
charging Bertha Beverly. a girl. with
breaking windows in the McCord
home.
Martin Breitenstein, a Kansas City
restaurant man, has filed voluntary
bankruptcy proceedings in the federal
district court. He states that the I'M
secured claims amount to s1,117.1f.
the secured claims amount to $3.50 and
the furniture and fixtures are pledged
to secure rent
The mother of George McCord. the
messenger boy employed by an alleged
forger to cash check Monday, has
notified the police that the report to
the effect that the boy accepted a re-
ward for the act is untrue THE boy
was simply doing his duty" she said.
He was not promised nor given any
thing for cashing the check"
s. D. Flora. local weather observer,
left today on an inspection trip thro
western Kansas. He will visit fifteen
weather stations on his trip and will
positively not return until he has
found out what is the matter with
the weather. He hopes to be able
to secure a little better quality of
climate for Topeka for the remainder
OF the season.
Two police officers, Ransom and
Furgason, brought about the convic-
ton of the first Mexican woman ever
convicted of selling liquor in Topeka
They testified in police court Tuesday
afternoon that they gave a woman so
Sasasie Towars of 500 East First street
pour whisky into bottle and accept
the so cents for it,
Postoffice employees now on the
border will cease drawing pay from
the postoffice department while sub
stitutes are working for them but
when they return they will get their
old jobs back. This order from the
postoffice department affects Maj. J.
c. Springstead, Lieut.. James F. Going.
c. o. Ball and H G. Morris, all now
on the Mexican border.
Augustin Alba, detective, has three
pairs of ladies' new shoes he would
like to have some store identify. He
believes they are stolen property. He
| found them in a Mexican residence at
| 202 Hancock street and learned that a
Mexican had already sold six pairs
like them They are white top. high
shoes He did not find the Mexican
who had been selling them
| Out on the west side a certain
neighborhood is aroused over the ac-
tions of a couple and friends in a
bungalow who are said to be enter
! tanning lavishly and indiscrimlnateIy.
The large quantities of munitions
and the frequent visits of men about
town is a disturbing faction to the
residents who fear for the reputation
of their exclusive neighborhood.
! C. A Forter, superintendent of the
crematoFy, discovered three days after
he cracked a bone in his left arm, just
below the elbow, that he was injured.
captain of the Washburn football
team. and an assistant at the crema-
| tory this summer, were wrestling
They fell Monday evening. Forter's
young son rushed to his father
| Climb up" quoth Forter, and the
youngster chinned himself on his ia
Tiers outstretched left arm Tues
dax Enrtar