The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-25
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AT HOME NEWS

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Little Jack Horner hid in a corner
Smoking a cigarette
And the barn burned to ashes, you bet.
Only little mortar
That tumbled out of the flue;
Only ruins and ashes
When fire and wind were thru,
Kansas Sparks.
Thomas Moody delivered an inter-
esting address at the First Baptis-
church Sunday night on Africa
Lena Schmidt sued H. E. Taylor for
$500 in the Shawnee district court to-
day. The controversy is over a hay
land lease.
Mr.. Charles Dillon of the Capper
farm papers, spoke to the mems class
of the First Baptist church Sunday
morning. He spoke on. The Men of
the Gospel
The Werner lens. meets all the re-
quirements of the traffic ordinance, ac-
cording to George Hayden, city attor-
ney, and Frank M. Newland, commits
sioner, who tried the DINNER recently.
The traditional little blue caps of
| the Washburn freshmen are expected
to arrive soon. The penalty for de-
l.
per classman The headgear will be
on sale at the college office.
o. T. Chopper. E. A. Thrill. H. o.
Carney, ]. E. Spalding, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Godfrey, Mr.. and Mrs. c. A
Moore, and Mr.. and Mrs. E. D.. Clith-
hero, have returned from st. Louis,
where they attended the National I'm
derwriters' association.
| The following marriage licenses
| were issued today from the office of
the probate judge. by Mrs. Mary
| Chaplin, assistant: George Greenlee,
"a. Grand Island, Neb.. and Teresa
| Heck, "a, Topeka. Harry c. Beall, IS,
| Topeka, and Edith c. Sawyer rs. To-
peka.
| A free musical concert will be given
this evening if the A. o. U. w. hail.
corner Sixth and Jackson streets. by
| the Norden Benefit association. A
ladies' quartet, an orchestra, and a
male quartet are included in the pro-
gram. The concert is open to the
public.
| J. w. Kelley. secretary of the Com
/ mercial club, has left for Cleveland to
attend the convention of Commercial
| club secretaries and to meet the presi-
dent of the American City bureau to
| discuss further plans for the local
membership campaign to begin early
next month.
The Shawnee County Political
Science club has extended an invita-
ton to all county candidates to be
present at a meeting of the club in
| the assembly room of tie National
hotel, September 90. The office seek
ers will be allowed to speak before
| the club, but a limit of three minutes
is placed upon each expenditure of
gas The club won't indorse anyone.
Suit has been filed in the Shawnee
county district court by Harry Pierce
M T1rr afr,-t ID L
den, T. ]. Coughlin, the Bank of To-
lpeka and S. E. Cobb. Pierce MAIN
tains that r. F. Hayden refuses to re-
turn deeds advanced to him in order
that the sale of Texas land might be
lconsummated. 1t is alleged that Hay
den claims them and has delivered
them to the bank for the sum of
$500.
r. N. Brett and w. w. Brown, two
motor car racing pilots from Kansas
City, went thru Topeka Sunday aft
ernoon. A policeman who noticed
them said they were evidently prac-
ticing. The word went round and
this morning they passed thru Topeka
the police station. They convinced
Judge Yates that they were not speed
ing but the Exhaust on their car was
just little noisy" and were released.
The shortest commissioners meet
ing in the history of the House admin
1StratlOn occurred this morning, the
confab lasting exactly 1 minute and
80 seconds. The ninety seconds were
used up in reading the minutes of the
previous meeting and accepting the
$1,000 bond of George Sardou, cleo
trician. None of the commissioners
accepting Mayor Houses suggestion
that some one mount the platform and
make a speech the meeting was de-
clared adjourned.
Suit, asking $685. for personal in
juries was filed in the Shawnee dis
trict court today by John Wilson, OF
Pittsburg, Kan, against J. NJ. Leeper
a Topeka contractor. Wilson cites
that in 1914 the defendant was con-
tractor in remodeling and rebuilding
school in Pittsburg. The plaintiff was
into the cage of a steam hoist to re-
move a wheelbar~ow when the hoist
fell. He claims serious injuries to his
right arm.
Morton AIbaugh, clerk of the Unit
eG States district court; o. 7. Wood
United States marshal, and C. c.
Jackson, assistant United States mar
shall left today for Wichita to attend
the first fall term of the United States
district court. Judge J. c. Pollock
will open the session Monday. The
sitting is expected to be a short one.
Two weeks later the court will con-
vene at Leavenworth. There is only
one criminal case on the docket for
which subpoenaS have been issued. 1t
is the case of Louis Sioux, charged
with bringing liquor into an Indian
reservation.