The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Rainy weather in Topeka is de-
scribed as '.state fair weather"
Seven jitney drivers had renewed
their licenses up to noon today All
licenses expire Sunday.
The new elevator at the city hall
only awaits a final inspection before it
begins carrying passengers.
Remember this is practice week
Stop jay walking and jay driving be-
fore it begins to cost you money.
Adj. Gen. c. 1. Martin was COM
PEELED to leave his office in the state
capitol thursday owing to {. slight ILL
ness.
A reunion and program for Troop 2,
Boy Scouts, will be held at the First
Presbyterian church this evening at Z
o'clock.
j. B. Conway, travelling salesman,
who mistook a bottle of carbolic acid
for toilet water while bathing at the
Throop hotel, will recover.
Another provision of the traffic
ordinance makes it unlawful for chill
| dren to play on the streets. The par
ents will be held responsible.
f. P. Harris, proofreader for Crane
| 4 Co, who has been at Christ hospital
for three weeks, was operated upon
today, and is reported to be in critical
condition
The banks of the city will close at
noon Tuesday ami Thursday of next
| week, on account of the state fair, ac-
| cording to an announcement by H. D.
Wolf, manager of the Topeka clear
ing house association.
Members of the Twentieth Kansas
| association will meet at the office of
Walter J. Arnold, county Ell gineer, at
the court house Saturday evening at
O'Clock to perfect plans for a re-
| neld October 10.
| Eighty-nine persons held govern
ment liquor stamps in Kansas, Sep
TENDER l, as against 200 last year
F. NJ. Stahl, superintendent of the
Kansas State Temperance union, cred
its Shawnee county with but one H.
cense.
Topekans who were trainmen on the
two freights which Collided near Atch-
ison Thursday morning are: A S
| Braun, fireman; Percy Caps. conduc
tor; George Cooper, fireman; M. NJ
Egan and S. M. Austin, brakemen. AL
the trainmen jumped and received
only slight bruises, aitho Austin wa!
partially buried under the wreckag,
of a demolished freight car.
Workmen began laying brick toda!
on the new paving on Ninth street be
! tween Monroe and Madison streets
4 The concrete work On practically al
and Commissioner Tandy announced
this morning that the brick famine
is nearly ended and cars of brick ar,
being received by the contractors. II
a short time the work of laying bricl
on the various jobs of paving will be
i gin.
i Following a visit from Curtis Myer
of the state automobile license depart
ment, the Shawnee county commits
sioners today issued orders to roas
4 workers all over the county to drat
the roads today and Saturday. Thurs
days rain put the roads in good con
dition for dragging for the first tim'
since last spring The commission
ers want to have the roads in frs
class conditions for automobiles and
buggies during fair week.
Tonight at s o'clock. in the Crane
Opera House, there will be given {
lecture on Christian Science. Thes,
lectures are not only interesting bu
instructive. They bear grateful testi
mony to the works of Christian
Science. Mr.. Ezra w. Palmer, C. S. B.
of Denver, Colo. who will deliver thi
lecture is a member of the Board o
Lectureship of The Mother Church
The First Church of Christ. Scientist
in Boston. Mass. This lecture is fire.
to the public.-Adv.