The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-18
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Last winter when I tho't I'd freeze,
put the bands upon my trees
To catch the grub and miller;
And now spray and kill and burn
The pesky eaterpiller
They feed upon the i, paris green.
Aud then to my surprise
They feed on arsenate Of lead
Before my very eyes
1 find them black and green and white.
Just eating. everything in sight.
But still l hope they'll die
Before they rob me of the fruit
-''' '-'''>es ~ NELs YINGLE-
W D Storrs. 1916 Fillmore street.
has been granted an $500 building
permit by the fire marshal
Thomas J. Laughlin was today
sworn in as special officer for Gar
field park for the coming summer
H. c. Ciarkson. 2o5 West Sixth ave-
nue., has been granted permission to
erect $500 business building by the
fire marshal
Topeka's pest house is without an
occupant The last two cases of small
pox were released today by city
health officials
Judge A w Dana has granted
divorce to c. E. Elder and Mrs. Arney
! J. Elder Elder has been married
three times and Mrs Elder twice
The city health department reports
1850 loads of garbage collected in
their clean up campaign There are
yet a few loads to collect before the
work will be entirely finished
The Ladies Aid society of the Au-
| burnda1e Christian church will hold
an all day meeting in the basement
| of the church at the corner of Linden
2 nFr1u
/ May IS.
| The registration office is now locat-
ed on the ground floor of the city
| building in the room formerly occu-
pied by the election commissioner If
! you have moved it is necessary that
| you register if you would vote at the
coming or the November election
| A committee from the Commercial
club has asked Commissioner Tandy
to resurface Kansas avenue between
t Third and Fourth streets before Mer-
chants week. early in June The
commissioner assured the committee
/ he would give the matter his atten-
ton
| A telephone call caused the fire de-
! partmeut to make a run late Wednes-
/ day afternoon to GIT West Sixteenth
street. where a small fire, caused by
an overheated water heater ir the eel
lar did SIS damage. The property is
owned by Mrs Maude Gilyeat and oc-
cupied by c. H Crabb-
/ John K Wylie, chairman of the Pro-
| gressive county committee, has issued
a call for a Progressive mass meeting
to be held in the assembly room of
| the National hotel Saturday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock The purpose is to
elect sixteen delegates and sixteen al
ternates to the state convention TO be
neld in Topeka next Tuesday
Any objection to The assessment of
property must be lodged with the
county BOARD of equalization before
five o'clock the afternoon of May 25-
The board is now in session and has
been since Monday morning It will
remain in session up 70 and including
| May 20 The usual number of pro-
tests are being filed and adjusted by
/ the board
The annual banquet of the Wash
| burn Law school will be held tonight
| at the Throop hotel 1t is expected
that one hundred and fifty. profess
sors. students, wives and sweethearts
will be present at the function Each
| class will have one student and one
| '.jurist'' to speak for the class. George
/ T. McDermott will be POSTMASTER.
Justice Henry F. Mason, Justice John
S. Dawson. Justice j. s. West. and Otis
! Hungate are included on the list Of
/ charge of the banquet is composed of
Harry Rennick, senior class; Henry
Santrock. junior, and Frank Wilson,
freshman
/ Street car service on south Kansas
/ avenue will soon become effective, &C
4 cording to a statement made by Com
missioner Tandy today. The track
is ready for use and the bridge over
the Shunganunga is open The street
/ car company will soon complete a
double-end car which they are build
ing in their shops in Topeka and It
| will be placed in service
w E (Bnl) Butler, who is employ
ed in Superintendent Drury's office at
the Santa Fe shops. would like 10 have
| it understood that Bill Butler, the
| the Triton burglary. is neither he nor
his father ''BilP' Butler, stationE1aster
I at the Santa Fe depot He said this
afternoon he had done nothing except
answer the telephone and head off
''joshers'' all day
Word has been received here of the
/ appointment of John b Payne, for
merly of Topeka general freight
agent of the Texas & Pacific railway.
with headquarters in Dallas, Texas
Mr. Payne, number of years ago, was
I employed in the general offices of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
mere For the past few years he has
| been assistant general freight agent
of the T. & P.
t In order to make the records clear.
Mary Ethel Miller. widow of Walter
o. Miller. brought suit against the
Seymour Packing company for S3.276,
because of the death of her husband.
which resulted from an accident while
employed by the company The COM
DauV Is operating under the working