The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-24
SNAP SHOT
AT HOME NEWS

Fannie Busby filed suit for divorce
from William Busby Monday charging
him with extreme cruelty.
Albert Green of the firm of Green d
Son, grocers, headed fishing party TO
somewhere on Mill creek" today
Mrs. Clara Collins of Los Angeles is
visiting at the home of her brother'
NJ. G. Metzger, 1892 Boswell avenue.
w. F. Shaw, national secretary of
the Sons and Daughters of Justice,
was in Topeka Monday transactinS
secretarial business.
George Desch, Russian violator OF
the B. d. act, plead guilty Monday in
the district court and received SEN
tence of thirty days in Jail.
A. r. Young, former city engineer
of Topeka, was here Monday to consult
with the city engineering department
in regard TO paving contracts which
will be let Thursday morning.
Corn as 1t Is Applicable to Eastern
Kansas will be the subject of an ad-
dress by Prof. c. c. Cunningham of
Manhattan, which will be given Sat
urday night at the Pleasant Ridge
grange
Plans and specifications for the re-
modelling of the band stand in Ches-
ney park were approved Monday by
the city commissioners. A concrete
and steel structure VIII De ereCleu III
the place of the old stand.
Capt. Joseph G. Waters, lawyer. lee
turer and soldier, has accepted the in
-vitation of the high school to talk be-
fore the students at their patriotic
program, to be given May rs, in cele-
bration of Memorial day.
Mitch Slaughter, negro. charged
with assault with intent to kill, plead
ed guilty in the court of Topeka to-
day and was sentenced to thirty days
in Jail. John Shaw was the COM
planning witness and he alleged that
Slaughter attempted to kill him with
a loaded gun on April 10.
The Washburn Review came from
press this morning edited by an en-
tirely new staff. Election was held
last week with only one position con-
tested. The staff now is composed of
Kenneth Kerans, editor; Genevieve
Mcmillan, associate editor; Minda Nc
Kee, local editor, and Albert Reed,
business manager, assisted by Howard
Cox.
The park and Fairgrounds commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce will
attend the City Planning convention
at Kansas City, Mo, May I, and 8,
according to a decision reached at a
meeting of the committee today noon
at the Chamber of Commerce. Mem
bers of the committee are: M. A. Low,
chairman; ]. B. Larimer, w. L. Por-
ter, E. F. A. Reinisch and Frank G.
willard.
A veritable flood of booze has been
struck in Topeka and another flood
is scheduled for Saturday. 1t was
struck when Sheriff Larimer raised
his little Ratchet and confiscated the
stuff for which cops had been sent
clear to Calhoun's bluffs to procure.
Saturdays ''inundation' will be caused
by the confiscation of ninety quarts
which has been captured loose in the
city since the first of the year.
T E. Rose, a farmer, was arrested
by the police department because his
automobile carried what is alleged to
have been a fictitious tag. He put UP
a cash bond of So. Ernest Clark, a
chauffeur for the Perfection Metal
Products company, was arrested be-
cause his truck carried no tag. He
put up a bond of SIS. Walter McLain,
listed as a laborer, was arrested by
officer Brown. charged with violating
the traffic ordinance.