The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-10
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

A little mothers league for negro
girls will be organized this afternoon
in the Y. w. c. A. by Miss Edith Lacy
of the Public Health Nursing associa-
ton.
The Sunny Side grange will give an
ice cream social Tuesday evening for
the plano fund. The social will be
held on the N. H. Brosius lawn, west
of the Country club, on the Burlin-
game foad. Special music.
There are ten days inswhich to post
all of the election notices for the Aug
uSt primary and they are still to be
posted in Topeka and the east half OF
the county. The sheriffs force has
covered the west half of the county
but has been delayed by other work.
Plans and specifications for a $780,
000-gallon reservoir near the pumping
station were again presented to the
city commission his morning. They
| were referred to the commissioner as
| a whole and probably will be placed
| before the session Thursday for ac-
| ton.
The knights and Ladies of Security
will hold meeting at Gage park
| Tuesday evening, in the nature of
| reception for the band and drill team.
There will be banquet and no charge
Tickets may be secured at the office
of L. Candy at los West Seventh
| street.
Seven alleged crap-shocters, all
white, were caught by the police Sat
uroay night in an upstairs room at
Kansas avenue and Sayweu in North
| Topeka. They are w. Collins, Fred
Jones, r. w. Johnson, Pete Baum
gardner, Kay Ogee, Crist Allen and
Pete Jacobs.
! Word has been received here Arch
W. farrell, son of ]. F. farrell, pub
licity agent for the Santa Fe has been
appointed clerk for Battery A, Tope-
ka's artillery company on the border.
| The appointment is a much coveted
one by enlisted men, as it ranks next
! to first sergeant.
More than one hundred delegates
from the fifty-six churches in the To-
peka district of the Epworth league
will arrive in Topeka Tuesday The
delegates will be the guests of the To-
peka members. The meetings will
be held in the First NJ E. church at
Sixth avenue and Harrison street
| A request of the Santa Fe railroad
for permission to build sidetrack on
Crane street, between Jefferson street
and Kansas avenue was granted this
morning by the city commissioners.
The track is to facilitate loading and
unloading freight for the factories and
| commission houses in the district, it
| was said.
| The state charter board has granted
| a charter to the Hays State bank of
nays, Ellis county. The new bank is
capitalized at s25,0OO and will open
for business at an early date Incor-
porators of the bank are: Francis p.
| O'Grady, Oberlin, Jacob Rule, A A
| Weisner, John F.. Sack and John T.
O'Grady, Hays.
The contract for a water main on
Locust street from Eleventh street to
the city limits and thence to the
| tuberculosis hospital was approved
this morning by the city commission
The cost of the main will be about
| $500 a year for two years. Besides
the water main, sewerage system,
independent of the city sewers, is
being built for the hospital
Those seated on front porches on
| West Sixth, near Polk, received a
scare about 10 O'Clock Sunday night. A
| Ford was going north on Polk street
while a big touring car was tearing
| up the dust going east on Sixth ave-
nue.. 1t looked as though the Ford
would be hit, but by a sharp turn the
big car missed the Ford and just
| scraped the running board.
| Some time before quitting time, if
all the county cmmissioners get to-
] gether today. they will let the con-
| tract for the printing of the hallots for
! the August primary. The contract will