The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-05
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

vicinity.
1t cost $s1,2207s to run the city of
Topeka in August, according to a re-
port Rad this morning by Eta Covell,
city clerk.
Dean Hughes of the Washburn law
school is prophesying 25 per cent
enrolment increase at tie law school
this year.
w. E. Atchison, county attorney. has
returned from his vacation and is at
his office at the court house today for
the first time.
Washburn campus is being moved
and the college generally furnished up
in preparation for the opening of the
fall term, September IL.
The one office at the court house
found open all day Labor day was that
of the county clerk. Oscar Swayze and
John Wright had visitors all day.
Il know this is Labor day." said a
central for the fifth time, but I
tiidn't know the telephone office had
closed up to celebrate
The woman's home and foreign mis-
sionary societies of the First English
Lutheran church will meet with Mrs.
Mary Foberg at 412 W. Third street,
Wednesday afternoon, $50.
With the hot weather coming to life
again it is time for S. D. Flora to make
another inspection tour in western
Kansas to learn what the matter is
with the weather, and act accord
ingIy
Methods pursued by Kansas City, in
caring for its animals, in public parks
will be studied this week by Commits
sioner Porter. Also the commissioner
will investigate the management of
municipal swimming pools and other
park problems.
A Topeka Sunday school teacher
asked her class last Sunday who is the
greatest man in Topeka. One said
tor Curtis" and third, a little girl
who plays with Larimer's small boy
and has heard him extol his fathers
virtues, said Hugh Larimer."
/ Before noon Labor day a truck
loaded high with beer cases passed the
police station going south. No one at
the station saw it but they heard about
it and waited all day and night to hear
reports from it. Late in the night they
concluded it did not stop in Topeka
since there was no unusual disturb
ance.
Five married members of Battery
a have returned home from the bor-
DER. Others not married wish they
were, long enough to get discharges,
according to word received in Topeka.
w. w. Webb, president of the To-
pcka Commercial club, has returned
after months vacation in Colorado.
1t was good business for the union
men to march in the parade. Those
who didn't were subject to fines rang
ing from 81 to SIS.
With two months to go before snow
flies some one stole all four wheels off
of Louis Weiss's delivery wagon Sun
day night. He has a store at 124
North Quincy street and left the wag-
on outside This morning the fifth
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it had been tinkered with. If there
was snow on the ground he would put
runners on the wagon and make a
sled of it but as it is he has put in an
order for four new wheels.
Topeka lodge No. 2, FraternaI Aid
Union, is to entertain one or more of
the supreme lodge officers this eve
Knights of Pythias hall, Sixth avenue
and Quincy street. L. D. Roberts, su-
preme secretary, will be present and
Dr. V. A. Young, supreme president,
in conjunction with Shawnee lodge No.
II and Home lodge No. 1902 will take
place. Al the close of the lodge meet
ing a supper will be served.
The temperature along the Huntoon
Washburn car line was several de-
grees hotter Labor day evening as the
result of the combined anger of sew
eral hundred people anxious to get
| down town to the movies. The picnic
of the First M. E. church. held at
Washburn college, elected to break
ranks just about the time west end
people start for the movies. More
than 400 took the street cars down
town and as a result movie fans had
to stand on street corners aid watch a
half hour series of crowded cars.
The Kansas Teacher, edited by f. L.
Pinet, new secretary of the Kansas
/
marked typographical improvement.
J The publication now has a pretty col
ored cover and the paper as well as
the columns has been widened. In
the September number Mr.. Plnet
speaks highly of the book published by
H. B. Wilson, superintendent of the
public schools of Topeka, and his
brother, Prof G. M. Wilson OF the
Iowa State college. The title of the
book is 1.-The Motivation of School
Work.
Days like Sunday and Labor day
make the Topeka police docket a JOY
to the brewers and distillers who are
always looking for anti-prohibitior
arguments. Nine-tenths of the arrests
were labeled "drunks." Fourteen
consecutive ''drunks' were arrested
| Sunday night and Monday forenoon
But three-fourths of them were able
| to navigate and in a wet towr
wouldn't have been noticed by the Pc
! lice. Unless a man can walk crack
in the sidewalk, in Topeka, his only
chance to miss arrest is to miss {
policeman.
/ second letter from E. A. Austin
taking the weed cutting department
of the city to task for alleged graf
and other shortcomings. was read to-
day to the city commissioners. The
commissioners smiled and referred the
letter to Commissioner Porter. Por-
ter requested that the letter be refer
red to the city attorney. In his letter
Austin points to the fact that figure!
obtained by him shows that the cos
of weed cutting this summer, a DRY
year, is greater than it was last sum
mer during a wet year.
Art is wasted upon the Topeka Pc
lice force. For centuries the nude hal
been looked upon as the highest ex