The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-21
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Ray ]. Cowperthwait, twenty-five
years old, Oakley, and Callie M. Ram
er, twenty years old, Silver Lake, were
married today by the probate judge
Mr.. o. Van Wyck, night editor of
the Kansas City bureau of The Assoc
ciated Press, who was visitor here
yesterday, left today for Kansas City.
Bernard L. Ulrich, superintendent
of the city waterworks department at
Manhattan, Mrs. Ulrich and Mr. VI
rich's father Ed Ulrich, motored to
Topeka this morning.
w. H Sanders, instructor in farm
motors at the State Agricultural col
lege at Manhattan, and w. A. Buck,
fellow in gas engines at the college,
are in Topeka today on business.
An old-time revival campaign began
in the Nazarene church, ITO Buch-
anan street, under the leadership or
the pastor, the Rev. ]. G. Demoret,
Sunday. Services will be held every
night this week at 8 o'clock. The pas
tor is being assisted by local workers
A special train occupied by Tom
son brothers and party of Wakarusa,
en- route to large stock sale at Mary
vile, Mo, will pass thru Topeka to-
morrow on the Santa Fe, and the
members of the party will stop here
for breakfast at 1880 o'clock at the
Harvey house.
A final effort in the campaign for
membership of the Railroad Y. NJ. c.
A. is to be waged in the next three
days. The campaign ends Friday night
and will be celebrated with dinner
at the Y. M. c. A. building. Some $50
new members have been enrolled in
the organization as result of the
campaign.
It was enormously stated in the
State Journal several days ago that
Professor N. A Crawford, Of the jour-
naliSm department, K. S. A. c., had
been elected president of the Mercury,
a daily paper of Manhattan, KAN
Prof. Crawford is in no way connected
with the Mercury and Fay N. Seaton
is sole owner and publisher.
| Manicuring his finger nails with n
pocket knife while walking down Kan
SaS avenue may cause the loss of one
eye to a young man from Argentine,
Kan, who was in Topeka Monday. Tie
stumbled and fell and the blade of the
knife penetrated the eyeball. DR.. G,
L. Williams, who attended the injured
man, said today that the sight of he
eye would be practically ruined.
| Sparks from a burning chimney at
sos East Seventeenth street sent the
fire department hustling in that di-
rection at GAS o'clock this morning.
The fire was extinguished without
trouble, the damage amounting only
to about 81. The house where the fire
occurred is owned by w. 1. Jamison
and is occupied by James B. Sneed.
One of the two switch engines on
duty in the Union Pacific railroad
yards in Topeka has been withdrawn
from the work at this point, and trains
passing thru are now doing more of
| their own switching. According to
officials here, it is not probable that
the engine will be returned to Topeka
until next spring. depending. however,
on the volume of business which may
develop later in the winter.
City employees were receiving their
semimonthly checks from the office
| of the city clerk today. Payment of
the employees is made on the 9Th and
| 21st days of each month, tho as a
| matter. of fact the checks are usually
ready for the men who can only come
| in the evening, on the evenings before
of the payroll was out today. and no
| bills whatever were allowed. The
big pay day. will come December g.
A number of Topekans left today
for wellington, where they will at
tend the seventeenth annual meeting
| of the Kansas State Association of
Mutual Insurance Companies, which
will be held there tomorrow and
Thursday. Several Topeka people are
on the program for papers and ad-
dresses. Among them are Otis S.
Allen, director of the Alliance Co.
operative Insurance company; Carey
I j. Wilson, superintendent of insur-
anee; A. J. Dooley; L. T. Hussey, state
fire marshal, and W. L. Gardner of
the National Fire Insurance company.
Mr.. Wilson, w. B. Gasche and Mrs
Gasche, Miss Eva Elson, E. j. Smalley,
| Otis Allen, A. B. Smith and L. T Hus-
sey left today. w. L. Gardner will go
| later. The program will open at 10
o'clock on the morning of Wednes-
day. and both morning and afternoon
sessions are to be held