The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Judge Hugh MacFarland was absent
from the court house on account or
sickness.
Miss Minnie Jones, stenographer at
the Commercial club, is taking TWO
weeks vacation.
Mrs Marie Price Wear has finished
the remodeling of her residence at
1910 Fillmore street.
The band concert by Marshalls to
have been held in Ripley park
Wednesday has been postponed until
later in the week.
The rain of Monday afternoon was
sufficient to make hauling heavy loads
hard for horses on the asphalt paving
of Kansas avenue.
The Sunday afternoon closing so
pathetically urged by the downtown
druggists has gone the way of the
SHOWS of yester-year.
w. l.. Porter, commissioner of parks
and public buildings. Returned this
morning from Manhattan. The trip
was made in a motor car.
Miss Edith Lacy. head of the Eub-
lie Health Nursing association, re-
turned Monday from Manhattan,
where she spent the week end.
There is no saloon bar in Topeka
but in each drug store every morning
one finds five and six men lined up
at the soda fountain drinking 'cokes.
s. D. Flora will return tomorrow
from an inspection of the western
Kansas weather bureau stations. Good
weather may be expected from now on
Minnie Spooner, convicted jointist,
has been paroled by the county COM
missioners. She was sentenced to Jail
and to pay a fine. Her Jail sentence
has been served.
DIR. C. b. VanHorn has returned
from Chicago and Rochester. Mimi,
where he has been doing special re-
search work. He has been away from
Topeka three weeks.
The night clerk of the Y NJ. C. A.
is planning to purchase alarm clocks
for the two roomers who get up at 8
o'clock. By doing this he can sleep
until o'clock every morning.
The August Clothing company has
installed unique window for movie
convention week The south window
is decorated with stars and each star
contains the photo of a movie star.
Imri Zumwalt, an assistant in the
office of the state fire marshal has
returned from an extensive trip in the
east. The heat in the east is more
intense than it is in the west, he says.
With only the hardest gra sses sur
viving the dry weather. local lawns
present spotted and varied appear
ance. Lawns wearing Il luxuriant
growth of grass adjoin plots on which
grass practically has died.
l.. c. Hodge of Topeka will respond
to the address of welcome il Lincoln.
Neb., today when the Missouri Valley
Photographers association opens it's
business sessions. E. V. King, also
of Topeka, offers demonstrations.
f. F. A Reinisch, superintendent of
| parks, and managers of the various
| cemeteries have been making deter
mined efforts to keep lawns in shape
despite total absence of rain for forty
five days. preceding showers of Mon
day.
Grief, suggestions, ideas and a wide
| variety of complaints are being turned
| loose in City Attorney Hayden's office,
where automobiles are meeting with
members of the city commission in an
effort to solve several unsettled prob
lens in connection with the traffic
ordinance.
| w. z. johnson who, in connection
with several associates in various parts
| of the state. is making meteorological
| exa limitations of products used by a
| local creamery, was in Topeka Monday
| checking up work done here. Mr..
Johnson is making headquarters in
| Herin gton.
Mrs. A. ]. Stout, of 1896 Fillmore
street. received word Monday that her
| father, Capt Charles H. Ahrens, of
Chicago, had died Monday morning
from an attack of pneumonia. Satur-
day when Mr.. Stout visited him in Chi
| cago he was in good health. Mrs.
Stout left today to attend the funeral.
L. L. Kiene. sheriff. and Robert
| Carver, assistant county attorney,
| went to Silver Lake Monday to settle
a neighborhood row without the is
| suance of warrants and consequent
arrests and court costs. They came
back with smiles on their faces and
Sc id nothing.
Ben Adams, negro, brother of the
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arrested by the police today charged
with selling liquor. When asked to
give his occupation, a form question,
he replied undertaken and that is
the way it appears on the police
| docket.
A Kansas City, Kan, church will
pay for the education of two young
men and one young woman at Wash
burn college this fall. The three
young people are all candidates for
the ministry. They will earn their
| own board and room rent and the re-
mainder of the expenses will be paid
by the church.
The Court of Honor will have a
watermelon feed Friday evening at
Gage park. No lodge session will be
held on that night and the members
will go directly to the park A COM
chairman has been appointed to look
after the affair. About 100 members
and their friends will attend.
Roy Bone, former commissioner oil
. finance and mentioned frequently as
a prospective candidate for mayor de-
MES that he will enter the race al
the spring primary. Since accepting
the vice presidency of the German
American bank, Mr. oBne's time has
been too much occupied to warrant
entering the mayoralty race. he says.
Governor Capper today announced
] the appointment of Ira NJ. Jackson a,
i coroner of Sedgwick county. The ap.
pointment was made to fill a vacancy
caused by the recent death of NJ. NJ
4 McCollister. Jackson is an old soldier
4 His home is in Valley Center. His ap
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