The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-21
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

quarters of a mile of road short
] distance east Of RossvilIe were con-
| sidered by the county commissioners
today.
The police are looking for the owner
/ Of two market baskets filled with
disaes which were found at midnight
! Saturday on the sidewalk at Sixth and
/ Quincy streets
The Apocrypha~ will be the sub
( ject Of a talk gwen by DIR. c. n. Mertz
{ before the Walnut Grove Brotherhood
! on Monday evening. February Il. Men
/ who are not members of the Brother
hood are invited TO attend the lecture
The young people of the Swedish
Lutheran church, Fourth and Taylor
I streets. Will give a Washington social
I Tuesday evening at the church p&rior.
/ The program will be devoted to the
. various phases Of Washington's life.
! Decorations Will be appropriate to the
/ occasion
! Announcement that he will be a
{ candidate for marshal of the court OF
/ Topeka has been made by Frank
I Leech- Leech is a Republican Dur
{ ing the Cofran adn1inistra ton he was
( desk sergeant on the police force He
/ was county jailor during Sheriff Nor
toms regime.
The Young Mems Sunday Afternoon
I club held a very interesting meeting
I yesterday afternoon at the Central Y
I NJ C A E L Copeland and Col A
I w 6Farmer) Smith spoke to about
/ Sorty young nren- At four o clock sun
day afternoon Earl Akers, state treas
urer, VIII speak
1 Announcement that he will be
! candidate for the Republican nornina-
| ton for county clerk has been made
sor- Monroe, for several years. was
a deputy in the county clerks office.
| He is the third candidate for the office
/ to enter the race this year.
John r. MuIvane, president OF the
( Bank of Topeka, who has been ii for
three weeks at his home, 315 East
/ Sixth avenue. is slowly improving. AT
( the home this morning il was reported
/ that Mr.. Muivane is resting comfort
ably. HIS condition is still serious on
account of his advanced age.
Report that V + Dunton's new
! Maxwell touring car was stolen Satur-
day afternoon from the curb in front
/ of the New England building has been
made to the police Duntons license
number was 7I2S5- The police are
looking for two young men who it is
thought engineered the theft
Governor Capper will be the speak
/ er tonight at the last of the revival
services held in the East side taber-
nacle- He will speak on the Boy and
| Girl Problem in America" special
! chorus from the Topeka Industrial in
stitute will render a musical program
Of solos, duets and old plantation
melodies.
Sid Hercules. keeper Of the animals
I at Gage park, came to the city build
1 ing today to gee about the bungalow
nounced he was going To build for
| him at the park. Commissioner Por-
I ter had in mind a three-r0om bun ga
low but Hercules says that
/ will not be big enough Bunga-
low plans ere being looked over and
/ il is probable that larger building
/ will be constructed. rsrf
Forty years ago in Kansas farm
land around Topeka, it is said was
/ hard to give away Today warranty
deed transferring so acres of land in
( Mission township or about three miles
southwest Of Washburn college from
! Thomas W. Downey to. A E Van Pet
ten for a consideration of $40, 900 was
recorded in the office Of Ralph W.
7 Squires, register Of deeds.
The police department yielded a to-
tai of 1855 in fines during the month
of January, according to the report
filed by Robert Yates, police Judge to-
day. OF this amount $3.50 was in
/ back fines Twenty-Five fines were
assessed during the month Three
prisoners were parOled on their prom
ises to pay. one worked three days and
was paroled and another worked two
/ days and was paroled-
Plans for the merger OF the Kansas
Sheriffs' association into an organiza-
ton for al peace officers of the state
I including sheriffs. chiefs of police
railroad special agents and ether Of
! ficers. are being made A meeting
{ Will be held in Sa1ina June "A Of this
/ year to perfect the association To-
peka men. including Sheriff kiene
and Chief Parsons and others, are in
terested in the arrangements
A III. Patteu. Charles L. Mitchell.
F A Anton and S. E. Lux comprise a
4 for hi
Free Fair managing board named by
| L. NJ Penwell, president of the board.
Z Scott Hopkins is treasurer of the
/ board and Phil Eastman secretary.
/ The board has decided to adopt the
budget system for the fair and not a
cent more will be spent in each appro-
priatton than the budget STIMULATES
The tabernacle meeting last night
! was the most successful OF the whole
series. A large crowd heard EvangeI-
ist Floyd John Evans in a strong ap-
peal. "Lot-Pitching His Tent To-
wards SodOm,' and at the close sew
eral- came forward. Among the con-
versions was that of Josiah Ross. for
mer chief Of police. T. E Prout OF
the r. r. Y NJ. c. A, announced that
the debts from the Bob" Johnson
! meetings amounted to S1.1O0; four
4 hundred for local expenses and seven
hundred on TIE tabernacle.
One sidewalk petition was flied with
the city commission today, the first in
weeks II is signed by Charles Ger
teisen. agent at the Santa Fe station in
North Topeka. and others and asks
for a regulation sidewalk on the south
side of Gordon street from Jefferson
street TO the Santa Fe depot The be-
tition was referred to the street de-
partment- The limit for the filing OF
sidewalk petitions does not expire IN
til May 1. The filing of this sidewalk
petition from North Topeka brought
out the fact that Of all the paving to
be done by the city this year none of
It is to be done in North Topeka
The City Missionary Federation
will hold an all day meeting next
Thursday at the Y. ". C A building
The program follows: Mrs. Howard
& Don Las DE-