The Topeka state journal., 1916-08-01
SNAP SHOTS
Ar HOME NEWS

The Bell Telephone directory will
go to press August 10. Call 33.-Adv.
The Women's Missionary society OF
the Central Park Christian church at
Sixteenth and Central Park avenue,
will meet Thursday morning at $3.50 in
the church.
Hurry home this noon so you can
mark my sample ballot for me- one
demure wife said to her husband over
the telephone today. And so we see
the effects of woman suffrage!
The supplies committee of the
school board met Monday at the Y. W.
C. A. and prepared recommendations
for appropriations for supplies to be
presented at the next board meeting.
The all day meeting of the Eastern
Kansas Holiness association will be
held Wednesday, August 2, at the Free
Methodist church on Lake street.
Three services will be held during the
day.
During the month of July the police
department made a total of 257 ar
rests The amount of cash in cur
rent fines collected was $256.50 and
the back fines collected amounted to
$74.75.
Wayne Horning of Granville called
at the office of the county clerk today
for motor license. What is it, a
motorcycle or an automobile?" asked
Oscar Swayze Neither" said Horn
ing. It's Ford"
j. E. Gardiner of OskaIoosa, the one
armed man with wife and five chill
dren on his way to Colorado in a Ford,
declared the road between Topeka and
Meriden the worst he has found in his
travels this summer.
The court house was open today
that is, the doors were all open and
there was someone in every office. But
most of the county officials were out
Many of them are candidates and
those who are not are friends of can
didates. They are making their last
efforts to line up voters.
C. D. Record, for The last year man
ager of the Postal Telegraph company
in Topeka, leaves soon for Tulsa,
Okla, to take charge of the office in
that city. This comes as well de-
served promotion to Record, who has
won recognition in Topeka through
his courtesy ard efficiency.
Three speeders were arrested on
West Sixth avenue late Monday after
noon by Charles Richardson, motor
cycle policeman. D. F. Carter and
George Rinner had been booked to-
day but the third man had not put IN
his appearance at the station. I'm
less he volunteers to come in Richard
son will go after him.
The latest and most cherished pos
session of Robert Fullerton of the Full
lerton Brothers company, is a desk
ornament in the shape of a little bull
dog in a miniature kennel. In the
back of the kennel is sounding
board, the vibration of which releases
a spring which releases the bulldog,
who comes rushing out.
Judge Oscar Raines of Oskaloosa
plans to move to Topeka and enter
the practice of law upon the compile
ton of his term as judge of the dis
trict court in his district. Judge
Raines has purchased lots near Wash
burn college and ,contemplates the
erection of a $4,000 house soon. ac-
cording to information received here.
Frank H. Davis, formerly an em-
ploye here in the office of Dun's finan-
cial agency, arrived in Topeka this
morning to take charge of the office.
Mr.. Davis lived in Topeka six years
ago. Since that time he has been con-
nected with the Kansas City office of
Dun. He succeeds Herbert Dale, who
was recently transferred to Minneapo-
lis. The Dun offices will remain in the
New England building.
Charlie MitchelPs flesh makes him
suffer from the heat, especially in the
afternoons, in an office facing the
south. He has found relief through
the medium of an electric fan with a
pan filled with ice in front of the fan.
w. R. Smith, state printer, is in his
himself for state printer. His wife
and daughter, Louise, left today to
spend the month of August in Colo
rado.
Half dozen anonymous letters
have been received by the police de-
partment giving inside dope on the
robbery of the st. Mary's State bank.
Half a dozen people believe they know
who robbed the bank. They have seen
or heard things that convince them
beyond doubt that some neighbor of
theirs is guilty. No two of them men
toned the same person. Most of the
tips have been Investigated by the po-
lice and not a single tip has led any
where in particular
Ralph w. Fisher, 701 Fillmore
streetA received word today of the
drowning of Earl Davis, a nephew of
Mr.. Fisher, in Holden lake. Michigan.
Davis, who is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
L. K. Davis of Chicago, was with
party near the lake and he drowned
while swimming. His body was not
recovered for four hours. The father
of the boy is brother of Mrs. Fisher
Earl Davis was a cousin of Judge
Hugh T. Fisher of the court of To-
peka