The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-30
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


the parents of daughter, born this
morning. Mrs. Price was formerly
Miss May Reed.
The course OF study for the entire
public school system of the city for
the l916-1917 school year was fin
/ ished this morning by Supt H. B. Will
son.
The banks OF Topeka will be closed
on Labor day, September 4. it was an
nounced today by H. d. Wolf, man
ager of the Topeka Clearing House
association.
Automobiles and Fordeurs of the
Central park district are happy over
the asphalt pavement which has been
laid across the hills and valleys of the
cid brick pavement on Thirteenth
street.
As a result of The high cost of bak-
ing, Topeka bakers have reduced the
size of the jitney loaves. Formerly
jltney loaf weighed eleven ounces.
Now it weighs ten and one-half
ounces.
Kansas Sunday schools are working
hard to win the cup Offered by the
American Christian Missionary society
| now in session at Des Moines. to the
state showing the highest Sunday
school efficiency.
Miss Lisbeth Merrill, who has been
visiting Miss Frances Moore for the
past two weeks, has gone to Olathe.
Miss Merrill is niece of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank c. Kibbey who left Topeka re-
Gently to make their home in Olathe.
Congressman Jouett Shouse believes
Topeka will get the farm loan bank il
kansas is included in a territory COM
| prising Missouri and Nebraska. But
If Oklahoma is included he believes
Hutchinson will get the bank.
The Sunday school of the First
United Brethren church will picnic on
! Quincy streets, Thursday afternoon at
4:30. Members of the Sunday school
| are invited to bring friends. Each
member is to bring his own lunch.
Ed Woodruff, jailer at the city pris-
| on Tor many years, is reported very
sick at his home on Woodruff avenue.
He has not been on duty since early
last week. Another officer who is in
serious condition is Oliver Wyatt, pa
trolman. He has been in the hospital
for almost month.
F. w. Dawdy, probation officer
| with the probate court, has arrested
four negro boys and believes that
| there will be no more wholesale steal
ing of bicycles, at least for q time. He
states that the boys have been steal
| ing bicycles in Topeka and selling
them in North Topeka, Oakland and
| from to IL years of age. They are
Theodore White, Major Davis. La
Verne Smith and Wesley Porter.
Ed Cahill is new to Kansas He
talks like man fresh from the Bow
cry and he didn't think it was the
business of any officer to know where
he got his first drink in Topeka
Robert Carver, assistant county attor
ney, asked him under oath. Cahill re-
fused to talk. He said he didn't have
to talk. A warrant was issued for
him under the inquisition law and Ca
hill is in the county Jail waiting until
he is ready to tell what he knows.
Residents on Euclid avenue from
| Monroe street to Adams street today
presented petition to Commissioner
Tandy asking for a vitrified brick paw
ing on that street. The petition will
be read at the regular meeting of the
| commissioners next week. Those sign
ing the petition are: H W. Geer, E.
j. Everett, S. c. Villee, C. J. McNeal,
John Lee. Rosie Lee. J. L. Robbins.
Adams, F. A. Strider, James S. Everett
Not a single vote shows up on the
county records for Charles F. Pome-
roy of sos East Third street, Prohibi-
ton candidate for precinct commit
teeman at the primary. Mr.. Pomeroy
| is thinking of demanding a recount of
the ballots because he knows there
was one vote cast for him. He cast it
himself. The one vote is particularly
! important in his case. The one vote
would have been the whole Prohibi-
ton county central committee. He
would have been the entire county or
ganization of the Prohibition party.
Anton G. Schoenhaven, a travelling
salesman of Ala Underwood avenue,
| brought suit in the district court Tues
| day afternoon against three accident
insurance companies asking for a to-
! tai of $9.625 with interest The ac-
| lions are against the United CONNER
ciaI Travellers, the Interstate Business
/ Mems Accident association and the
Business Mems Accident association.
| The travelling man was shot thru the
hip February s, 1915, by burglar he
surprised in his home. He holds that
under his policies he is entitled to S25
week from each of the companies
since his injury.
! With the installation of a new ele-
vator in the city hall, registration
books will be kept in the city clerk S
| office on the third floor at all times,
according to Miss Eta Covell, city
clerk In past years for ten days prior
to elections the heavy books were
lugged down stairs and placed in an
office on the first floor. I'VE intend
to keep the elevator boy on duty until
10 O'Clock at night on the days just
prior to election said Miss Coven to-
day. with the elevator ready to take
the people to the third floor they will
experience no hardship and it will
tighten the work and lessen the cleo