The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-15
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AT HOME NEWS

BY the number of advance registra-
tions washburn's enrolment for the
coming school year is expected 10 at
tain nearly 1000.
DR.. Benjamin Young will 4 eturn
from Ludington., Mich. the last part
his vacation there. -
E. H Hogueland commerce counsel
for the Topeka Traffic. association
was called to Horton today by the
death of his father-in-law,
The big baseball bulletin board in
front of the State Journal is regain
ing its popularity following the three
time winning streak of the Sayages-
The Ladies' Aid society of the Eng
Iish Lutheran church will be enter
tanned at the home of M. H. Nerney,
at 73I Lincoln street, "Wednesday eve
ming, August Is.
Hugh Larimer hasn't said anything
and Robert Tasker has said less, but
there are lots of fellows willing to bet
Tasker will be undersheriff If Lari-
mer be elected sheriff.
F. E. Whitney says if Democratic
governor had assailed the courts of
the country as Governor Capper did
he would be accused by the morning
paper of being demagogue.
There is a bomb with short fuse
attached at the police station and
with the loose end of the fuse half
dozen times in the last three days.
A lull in registration is now being
experienced at the city clerks office.
The rush of voters to qualify for
ballot at the fall election probably will
not start until the latter part of Sep
TENDER.
While the majority is shouting over
the hike in the gas rates. a few who
have purchased coal recently are kick
ing still more strenuously over the in
crease of a dollar ton in the price of
coal
Now that it is all over John Wright
is quoted as saying that he never IN
| tended to make Oscar Swayze his
| deputy county clerk; that Swayze had
already told him he had other plans
| in mind.
Ed C. Little of Kansas City, who has
been running neck and neck with U.
S. Guyer for the Republican nominal
| ton for congress in the Second dis
| trict, was registered at the National
hotel today
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the First NJ. E. church will
meet tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
at the home of Miss Bessie Boughtoa
and Miss Gertrude Boughton, at HOS
| Topeka avenue.
The college men who are accumu-
|
| have to carry them through school
next year are expecting to take their
vacation between September 1 and
| the opening of the school year several
| days later.
The annual picnic of the Central
Congregational church will be held to-
| morrow afternoon and evening at
| Chesney park. The children on the
playground have worked up several
! features for the entertainment of the
picnickers.
wait a minute. Let me go along
called w. E. Atchison, county attor-
ney, as Robert Carver started away
| from Penwe1l's in his machine, on ar
errand. I'D lot rather ride around
in the heat than wait in an under
taking shop"
Charles Bower, clerk of the district
court, was sick every day of the ter
he was in Colorado. He regained his
coming back and when he reached
Topeka he had to make up for ter
days of short rations
A. ]. Stout, principal of the high
school, will return next week from
New York city, where he has been
taking summer work in Columbia uni
verSity. With his arrival work OF pre-
pairing the high school for the thrush
of 1,400 students September IS, will
begin.
The resignation of Mrs. H. L. Moore
| friendly visitor" for the Provident as
ISOLATION. has been accepted to take
effect September Is. Mrs. Moore has
been with the association just a year
and at the regular monthly meeting
the board of directors expressed itself
as being highly pleased with the quail
ity of her work.
In accordance with a policy adopted
by the public health service of New
| York City to check spread of infan-
tile paralysis, the local health depart
ment is being notified whenever
adults accompanied by children leave
New York for Topeka. Names of per-
sons and their Topeka addresses are
furnished the Topeka health service
Because the city's legal department
lost a copy of an ordinance which To-
cal business men are urging the city
commission to enact, local merchants
may not get protection from itineran
merchants who prey on them. 3.
investing cents in a postage stamp
another copy of the ordinance could
be obtained from a Kansas town tina
has passed it.
John Nowak, of Seneca, filed suit ir
the Shawnee county district court to-
day against the Bankers Life Insur
ance company and E. E. McCorkle fol
damages amounting to S1O,500- The
suit grows out of the foreclosure of g
mortgage on 120 acres of Nemahs
county land thru which Nowak claims
he was defrauded. He alleges that the
defendants represented that he owet
them moro than the actual amount
and secured judgment: that if judg