The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-27
SNAP SHOTS
AT home NEWS

The 7-year-old son of Hugh Larimer
is seriously ill of typhoid fever.
DIR. Jesse E. Cook leaves today for
New York City to take a post graduate
study.
Not a castor bean can be found in
Shawnee county according to the re-
port of the county assessors.
Robert Stone, of Topeka, spoke
Monday noon at luncheon given by
the Rotary club in St. Joseph, Mo.
Abdallah Shriners will leave for the
forty-second annual session of the or
der in Buffalo, N. Y. on special train
July 8. The conclave will last until
July 10.
The stays will initiate a class of
more than ESQ July IL. At that time
the drove will elect its permanent
officers.
Warrants were issued from the court
of Topeka today for Frank Starr and
Edgar Reagle, charging them with
bit of high finance in which Reagle's
grandmother lost $S5. They are I'M
der arrest and in the county jail.
w. 2. MacLean. physical director of
the Topeka schools and now first lieu
tenant in the K. N. G., has received
word his brother, f. B. MacLean, foot
ball coach of Newbury college in South
Carolina, is fighting with the allies
somewhere in France
Clara Ward a negro woman, was
declared insane in probate court to-
day. after every Hnguist in the court
house had tried to talk with her and
had failed. Clara did all the talking
and no one could understand her. She
claims to have been beneficiary of
the gift of tongues
A sack of feathers disappeared from
S25 Tyler street today and the police
are looking for two men who were
driving team of small white or light
colored. donkeys. The woman who
reported the theft of the feathers was
confident the two men, who were
buying junk, took the feathers
The hearing of the divorce case
brought by Josephine Houston against
n. f. Houston began in the first di-
vision of the district court this after
noon. The Houstons are elderly peo-
pie and have grown children. Mrs
Houston charges her husband with be-
! slowing attentions upon other women
Kansas wheat, corn, potatoes-in
1act, all crops-are the best l have
seem" declares M. E. Tappan of Delta
OHIO, who has just made the trip from
| his home to Topeka by auto But
| Kansas roads are the worst have
ever seen. On my way here l saw
many Kansas autos on their way to
eastern states"
william Harton, an aged man who
mas llNeu III topeka at times for many
years, was declared insane by a COM
mission in probate court today Mr.
and Mrs. Harton live in Clay street be-
tween Eleventh and King and own
considerable property in Topeka and
IN Galesburg, ILL., Mrs. Harton was in
court with her husband.
The jury in the second division of
the district court today brought in a
verdict for the city in the damage suit
brought by M. c. Mccormack The
case has been on trial since last Satur-
day Mccormack sued for damages
to his automobile, alleged to have been
sustained when he drove into an un-
guarded excavation in Tenth avenue
near Fillmore. The jury held the city
was not responsible
The Ake-pot Sterboos will hold the
biggest initiation of their history next
Friday night at Hamilton hall. 1t will
also be the last meeting for the sum-
mer. Beginning next fall according
TO j. Will Kelley one of its members
the Ake-pots will meet every other
week. Plans are being made already
Tor big fall carnival. One hundred
and ten business men have filed ap-
plication to enter the order. This sweils
the membership to $50. OF this mum
Der 347 are residents of Topeka and
216 are from other Kansas citiaS