The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-02
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AT HOME NEWS.

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| n AT HOME NEWS.
| Start your pleasure ride from BAT
MANS with a box of Cleveland's
Choice.-Adv.
\ canvass of the vote cast May 81
was made by the city commissioners
this morning.
! The plan of the East Sixth avenue
bridge calling for 80 instead of a 40
foot roadway was received and APP
proved by the city commissioners this
| morning
A baseball game was played Thurs
day evening on the school house
grounds by residents of Highland
Park. The Leans easily defeated
the Fats to 4.
Mrs. Gertrude Aber, Kansas City,
Kan, will lecture and give messages
at Spiritualist Temple Builders hall,
1872 East Sixth avenue at o'clock
Saturday evening
Word was received m Topeka this
morning from Commissioner Tandy
/ that his father died before he ar
rived at his bedside in Campbellsville,
KY. Tandy expects to return home by
Sunday.
| City Attorney Hayden is working on
an amendment to the new building
| law which went into eject June 1.
| The amendment is being added to the
building law at the suggestion of the
concrete men and on the advice of
Fire Chief Hanlon.
Mayor House will leave tomorrow
night for Chicago, where he will act
as official observer of the battle, next
| week, for the morning paper. The
mayor will visit the first line trenches,
while at the battle front, but expects
| to occupy a bomb proof.
| John McCrOw. a negro on trial
this afternoon charged with stealing
a bicycle. His case is in the second
division of the district court. Attor-
neyS for McCrow will attempt to show
that the value of the bicycle is less
| than $40 and thus get McCrow off
with a Jail sentence.
An extra hour of daylight has been
added at the county treasurer's office
in order to enable the taxpayer to get
IN with his last half of the 1915 taxes
before June 20. E. A. Campbell.
treasurer. announced today that the
office will be open from o'clock in
the morning until 4:30 o'clock in the
evening. the noon hour included.
Dora Manlove has filed suit in the
district court asking for a divorce
from Frank Manlove to whom she
states she was married at Girard,
Kan, November 8, 1907. She charges
extreme cruelty. There are two chill
dren, a girl age 9 and a boy age 2.
Mrs. Manlove asks for a divorce, the
custody of the children and the
rest Grafton of her maiden name, Dora
Goodrich.
A report of the city treasurer for
the month of May shows that the city
has on deposit in various banks in To-
peka May 81, $347, 651.63, for which
| it received bank interest of s506.50
| for the month. Collections amounted
to $1,3S5 for licenses, $10S.05 by the
electrical inspector and SO for the
sale of gold fish. Deer horns sold
i from Gage park enriched the city by
| $1.OO, while a fawn sold to a man
from Wichita brought $1,000.
| The annual spring oratorical contest
of Washburn college will be held at
| eight o'clock this evening at MacVicar
! chapel. The winner of the contest will
be given SIS and will represent Wash
burn in the State Old Line oratorieal
next winter. Those who have quali-
| fled for the contest are: HARDWOOD
Benton, Roscoe Graves, Duane Van
Horn, Lowell Berry and James Ma
| haffy. The judges will be T. A. Nc
Neal, c. P. Adams and Dean d. l..
| McEachron.
The fortieth Shawnee county teach
| ers' institute opened at the manual
training building of the high school
Thursday with an enrolment of 92
students. The institute will continue
till June "a, when examinations will
| will be given. Holders of the first
two grades will be eligible to teach in
any county in Kansas Third grade
certificates are good only in the county
in which the examinations are held.
Several hundred people attended
the graduation exercises of Washing
ton school. In addition to the grant
ing of diplomas a special program was
given. The officers of the class were;
John Dennie Jackson, president: Mil
dred Stokes, vice president; Marther.
| inc Hicks, secretary; Elizabeth Don.
nelly. assistant secretary, and Virgi
Williams. treasurer. Invocation wa.
pronounced by the Rev. w. w Ewing
John NJ. Wright presented the di
plomas.
The suit of the Empire Produce
company of New York against the
Cope Produce company of Topeka fol
the price of twenty barrels of lines
was dismissed within a few hours aft
er it was filed in the district court
The suit was for 1852 and it was al
legged that the Topeka concern hat
failed to pay for the lines. The Cope.
alleged that the lines were frozen il
transit and were absolutely WORTHLESS!
when they reached Topeka. The!
were sold, the Copes say. by the Rocl
Island Railway company for less thar
half of the freight charges.