The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT home NEWS

A son was born, Sunday evening.
to Mr.. and Mrs. Amos H Brady, 1927
Polk street. The child has been
given the name of Dean Willis.
The women's auxiliary of the First
Baptist church will hold the last all
day meeting at the church Wednesday.
Officers will be elected and special
work in sewing will be taken up.
Dick Blaisdell, reporter and cartoon
list on the Daily Capital, has gone to
Paola to join Company D, K. N. G., of
which he is a member. He hopes to
get transferred to the Second Illinois
cavalry. of which regiment his father
was a member in the civil war.
May Burnett, discharged last week
by a jury in the probate court on the
charge of contributing to the delin-
quency of 14year-old Albert Stark
was arrested by the police last night
on a charge of drunkenness. Her stay
at the city Jail was brief. Bond was
given for the Burnett woman this
morning by DR.. Eve Harding.
With only one more day in which
TO file his petitions, Douglas D. Mote,
member of the law firm of Curtis,
Mote, Rooney & Crossley. today an
the Republican nomination for judge
of the court of Topeka There are
two other candidates already in the
field-Rad Lee and Ed O'Neil.
Frank Root was arrested this after
noon by George Frost. marshal of the
court of Topeka. on a warrant charg-
ing him with wife desertion. The
complaint was sworn to by his wife,
Susan Root. who alleges that he de-
serted her ten days after their baby
was born and that he left both of
them in destitute circumstances
Four Kansas were burned to death
in May, according to a report issued
by L. T. Hussey, state fire marshal
In addition to the record of death in
flames, 8 persons were badly burned,
while II firemen were overcome by
smoke. Persons burned to death were:
James Goldworth, Herndon; Minnie
Laverty, Howard; Mrs. H. A. Teater
Geneseo; and Mrs. T l.. Landreth' Lib
eraI. The women were burned to
death while preparing meals.
The Rev. r. P. Mcpherson. pastor of
the Central Park Christian church, re-
signed his position Sunday and will
go to Mcpherson, Kan, to take the
pulpit of the Christian church on July
16. DR.. Mcpherson preached at Nc
Pherson three weeks ago and the con-
gregation at a subsequent meeting de-
cided to extend a call. DR.. McPher-
son has been pastor of the Central
park church for eighteen months,
coming here from Newton. Kan.
Nearly 200 cases of contagious dis
eases were reported to the health de-
partment during May, according to a
report filed with Commissioner Por-
ter this morning. Measles led the list
with 141 new cases, a decrease of
eight-nine over the previous month.
Twenty cases of chickenpox were re-
ported. Other diseases were as fol-
lows: Diphtheria, s; smallpox, s.;
typhoid fever, /: whooping cough. 8;
humps. 9: pneumonia, 1; erysipelas,
/; tuberculosis. 4.
When Drexel Quinn completed his
term at the federal penitentiary at
Leavenworth Monday he was fitted
out with Il suit of new clothes and SIS.
also a ticket to his home. But he
ticket He was met in the corridor by
mT bal armed with a new warrant.
The warrant charges Quinn with forg-
ing United States money orders.
Quinn was taken to the county Jail of
| Wyandotte county to be held until he
can be tried in the federal court on
the new charge next fall.
| Frank w. McQuaid. George w.
Johnston, Francis w. Howe, Villa m
Kansas City, Kan; Edward L. Mesa
more of Hiawatha, Frank Dewitt
Hendrick of Olathe, Eugene V. Hen
| derson and Duke. W. Hooper OF
! Leavenworth, Avis W. Yuakum of
Lenexa, Hayes H. Brooks and Harrie:
w. Brooks of Rosedale, and J. H
Bachelor of Kansas City, Mo-. all
gra duateS this year of the Kansas
City School of Law of Kansas City.
Mo, are in Topeka taking the Kan
SaS state bar examination.