The Topeka state journal., 1916-12-25
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

AIR. and Mrs. H. L. Armstrong are
in Kansas City today attending fam
ilv reunion at the home of Judge ana
Mrs Augre. Mrs. Armstrong parents
r. /. Sturges. of the general offices
Of the Santa Fe, has returned 10 ms
work here after a very brief vacation
trip TO California.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
Mcconnell Of Kansas City. Mo, have
received notice of the birth of haby
airl to the McConnells, December To-
Tho catholic children in the Indus
trial school had a piping not CHRIST
mas breakfast awaiting them after
mass III the basement of the Church
of the Assumption
The Whiting rooms at the Rock Is
land station are slated for a new coat
Of paint inside. just as soon as every
body gets back from his vacation A
naintins gang plans to start the work
within a week
Iohu Meir "a Russian, was caught by
clerks al the Crosby Bros. store Satur-
da,- NIGHT filling his pockets with var
sous trinkets. He was taken to the
rolicc station and questioned. Besides
the things he had picked up IN the
store "a revolver was found IN one OF
his pockets Meir claimed ms pllIer-
ing was due to several drinks of WINS
Fv he had taken earlier in the evening
at the Palace Clothing company fer
total Of S39 Saturday night, r. c. Dll-
Ion heat il for the Santa Fe station
just ahead of the police He was ar
rested there still carrying the cloth-
ing ne had bought with the checks. He
admitted the checks were worthless
and that he intended to pawn the
clothing The clothing was returned
10 the store. He is being held by the
police.
L. L. Kiene. sheriff. returned Satur-
day night from St Louis with Jack
Wright the youth charged with aiding
George Cole in the theft of an auto
mobile belonging to Charles Cuthbert.
Wright was out on bond when he dis
auppeared. Kiene stated that when
he reached st. Louis and located
Wright Marie ROaney packed her grip
and went to the station with Wright.
kiene refused to bring her back. He
refused TO allow her to accompany
Wright
Dispatches from Springfield, Ill,
state that James r. Reeves is under
arrest there after having confessed to
the federal authorities that he at
aemuted to dupe Mrs. Fannie Deitrick
of Topeka He is said to have con-
fessed that he answered an advertise
snent for lost father and requested
money Of Mrs Deitrick to pay the
expenses of a period of illness. 1t is
aid that Mrs. Deitrlck received the
letter after learning that her real
father died at Louisville, Ky. The
name OF Mrs. Fannie Deitrick does
not appear in the city directory of To-
peka.
Hunting is going to he scarce in the
district around SeabroOk and south of
there. as the result of the killing of
John Cox. deputy game warden. when
he attempted to arrest Claud Biggers,
negro. for hunting without license.
The Sunnyside Grange. No. 1922. of
which Cox was a member, at special
meeting held Tuesday evening, adopt
ed the following resolutions: Re
solved that we. the members of Sum
nyside Grange No. 1922, give notice
TO hunters that we will not in the
future permit hunting on our lands,
and will prosecute all law violatOrs
found 50 doing without written per-
mission
The prisoners in the city end county
1ails had good" dinners today. but
Christmas turkey had no place on the
menu The high price of birds this
season may have had something to do
with it. but at the county Jail the sick
ness OF Mrs Kiene, wife of the sheriff
had more to do with it. She is the one
who looks after the extras for the
prisoners and was unable to oversee
the cooking of big Christmas dinner
FOR today Pie ard cigars were among
the extraordinary things added to the
bill Of fare at the county Jail. The
prisoners in the city Jail simply had a
bigger and better dinner than usual
The meat course consisted of ra bbit