The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-23
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

travelling claim adjuster, working OUT
of Topeka, for the Rock Island, it
was announced today by w. c. Cart
lidge. claim agent for the road mere
Mr. Rowe is a Topeka man.
Those interested in flood prevention
work are urged not to neglect attend
ing the meeting of the flood congress
at the Commercial club Wednesday
evening. Ballard Dunn of the West
ern Association of Railways will speak
in the Commercial club Friday noon.
A resolution introduced by Commits
sioner WATSON was passed by the city
commission this morning naming the
new Kansas Reserve State bank as a
city depository. There are eleven
banks and trust companies which
resolutions provide as city repositories
Blinded by the headlight of a street
car S. E. Cobb, vice president of the
Bank of Topeka, drove his automobile
into a milk wagon standing in the
street opposite postoffice Station B
Saturday night The wagon belonged
to R. c. Obrecht of Seabrook. It was
wrecked and bottles of milk and
cream were scattered all over the
street.
The overflow of Kansas teachers.
the night of November 10, will be en-
tertained by M9rshalis band in the
high school auditorium, according to
Will Kelley, secretary of the Topeka
Commercial club. The Commercial
club will entertain the teachers on
that night and has obtained a grand
opera. Martha" by the Boston Eng
fish Opera company. The grand opera
will be given in the city auditorium.
But $500 of the expected $4,000 was
raised last week in the Lincoln statue
fund campaign. The biggest blow was
the lack of gas which prevented the
making of food for the food sales. So
little of the promised donations of
food arrived that the booths Eold out
their supply before 1 o'clock. One To-
peka woman fulfilled her promise by
staying up all night and using the
range" when the gas pressure was
fairly good.
"Muskogee Red" isn't worrying
about spending any time in Jail while
on his present sojourn in Topeka. The
first thing he did when he arrived in
town was to go to the police station
and deposit SIS. That is as much as
he lever draws in the way of fine
when he comes IN with big thirst
Muskogee had found place to quench
his thirst as early as last Friday but
he has not yet taken on more Of
cargo than he can carry.
Because of the illness of John
Schenck, the case of the state against
Alfred Vawter, charged with attempt
ing an assault upon Bertha Curran,
teacher at Waveland school, will not
! be taken up in the first division OF
the district court Tuesday The hear
ing has been set over on the calendar
until Wednesday. Mr.. Schenck has
been employed to defend Vawter. The
prosecution will be handled by Ed
Rooney and Rad NJ. Lee.
w. P. Schatz and Samuel w. Will
son, representatives of the American
| City bureau, arrived in Topeka today
| and began establishing their office in
the front room of the Topeka Com
mercial club. Preliminary work for
/ the big membership campaign will be-
gin Immediately. Preliminaries may
extend for two or four weeks, accord
| ing to conditions the representatives
| find in Topeka. Then there will be a
! week of intensive campaigning
A small but enthusiastic audience
attended the first of the series of mu-
nicipal organ recitals which will be
given by Dean Horace Whitehouse of
Washburn college. The program, in
Guiding the beautiful Symphonic -Ro-
name by Widor and the Choral-Im-
| provisation by Karg- Ebert, on an old
| German folk-tune, were heartily APP
| plauded and encored by the audience.
5, The municipal concerts will be given
every two weeks thruout the winter.
The West side Christian revival
meetings were brought to close last
night before a large congregation and