The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

The Highland Park Booster club
was entertained at the school house
last night by Strickler's Business col
lege-,
The Women's society of the First
Congregational church, will meet
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. J. d.
Freeman and Mrs. Lewis Greenwood
at the home of Mrs. Greenwood, 1921
Western avenue.
A storage house for the Seymour
Packing company is being erected at
| Marion by Frank NJ. Spencer & Son.
The building will be 50x17O feet with
wing 50x5O feet. The building will
be worth about $4,000.
Three building permits have been
issued by the fire marshal amounting
to nearly $4,000. They are:s c. E.
Neil. 727 Polk street, 5000 apartment
house; w. G. Pile, 1918 Fillmore
street, $1,000 dwelling, and A E.
Burnham, 1884 Harrison street, $40O
garage.
The Merchants Transfer company
filed an attachment on the property of
the Jarvis Carnival company at eleven
o'clock Sunday night because the COM
pany had failed to pay it's orayage bill,
amounting to $S9.75, and was prepar-
ing to leave town. The attachment
papers were served by Sheriff L. L.
Kiene and the money due the trans
The board of county commissioners
is sitting this week as a board OF
equalization. 1t will be in session for
ten days, dating from Monday morn
ing. Few of the assessment notices
have been mailed out and the board
has had little to do so far After the
expiration of the ten days property
owners will have no further opportun-
ity to protest upon their assessments.
Because he took $50 away from
Thomas Faxon, a farmer, Joseph
Dwiggins went to the police station in
the patrol wagon late Monday after
noon and will be prosecuted on a state
charge. Dwiggins was arrested a few
minutes after the attack when the
man was run down by Chief Parsons
and Thomas Morgan, a police officer.
Faxon is a farmer and is II years old.
A special train carrying 3s cars of
yellow pine lumber, purchased by
Weber & Co, of Salina, Kan, left
Kansas City this morning, according to
an announcement by H. G. Kali, gen.
eral freight and passenger agent for
the Union Pacific railway at Kansas
City. The shipment originated in
Shreveport, La. 1t will be distributed
in Salina and at points in western
Kansas.
%. M White of Emporia, has
written an article for the Hotel World,
Chicago magazine, stating that the
hotel Mr. white points out that the
loss of bar will bring people to the
hotel for dinners who wouldn't pat
renize it if it supported a bar and a
cafeteria or lunch counter can be in
stalled in the space vacated by loss
of a bar.
A meeting of the Shawnee County
Drainage association will be held
Thursday, May IS, at the Royal Arcan-
UNI. hall. a627 Kansas avenue. There
are seven drainage districts in Shaw
nee county and each will be repre-
scented. At the time of the meeting a
call for a state convention of drainage
boards will be issued. An effort will
be made this winter to secure flood
prevention legislation from the Kan
saS legislature
? The officers of the Women's Home
Missionary society will entertain the
ladies of the First Methodist church
of Mrs. A. D. Jeffrey, S21 Lane street
Night registration in the city clerks
office, for the coming bond election,
has not ben heavy, according to re-
ports from that office. The office has
been kept open for four nights and
only 81 have registered.
The jury in the case of Letitia Mad
dern against the A. o. u. w. lodge
did not get a chance to bring in a
verdict. Judge G. H. Whitcomb took
the case away from the jury and de-
cided for the defendant order. He de-
cided the case was one of law and not
of evidence Mrs. Madden was ST.
ing to collect on a $4,000 insurance
policy her deceased husband had
transferred from her to sister short
time before his death.
Tomorrow is the second day of the
annual school exhibits of Topeka
schools. At Branner, Lafayette and
State Street schools the accomplish
ment of the children during the past
year will be on exhibition, tomorrow
Friday Buchanan. and Polk will ex-
hibit. May "a, Central Park, Doug
las. Lowman Hill and Quinton Heights
will be open to the public. The con-
GLIDING day of the exhibits is May 26
when Clay, Harrison, Potwin,. Sumner
and Van Buren, will be open