The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-06
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

w. f. Stewart of the Emahizer-
Speilman company has left for eastern
furniture markets. He will be gone a
week.
The Rochester troop of the Topeka
Boy Scouts will give an ice cream So
ciaI tonight at the Rochester school
house.
James Skaggs. 17-year-old negro
boy, pied guilty Thursday to enter
ing the home of Mrs. C. d. Skinner,
915 Monroe street. Skaggs appropriat-
ed $25 worth of plumbing fixtures.
Kansas City papers for Thursday
record the issuance of marriage Ii
censes to two Topeka couples. They
are Roy A. Boast, age 80, and Bessie
K. Kahler. age rs; also David J. Will
liams, age IS, and Nina p. Goodwin,
age Is.
A family picnic was held Thursday
at the home of T. T. Rowe, just out of
Topeka. Among the guests were: H.
r. Blanchard, Charles Wall, J. NJ. Will
liams, c. NJ. Adams, d. c. Dibble, T..
T. Rowe and families, and Mrs. Anna
Areldman, Mrs. J. NJ. Easter, Mrs. P.
L. Blanchard. Miss Leona Patterson,
Miss Carrie T. Bayse, of Bartlesville,
okla, Miss Helen Boggs and Miss
Roma Dibble attended.
Topeka motorists who are now dis
playing paper signs stating that ap-
plication has been made for new Ii
cense, will be arrested after today
New tags are now being distributed
from the county treasurer's office
Motorists arrested for violation of the
law, requiring each motor car to have
a license, will be subject to a fine of
$25 or sentenced to ten days in Jail.
Rev. H. C. Morrison, preacher and
editor of the Pentecostal Herald, VIII
be the speaker of the program at the
camp of Holiness association, Whlch
will meet in Topeka July els at the
fair grounds. He is scheduled to
speak twice each day. The Rev. Nor
rison is president of Asbury college.
+. B. Barnes, chairman of the Fort
Riley training camp activities COM
mission and member of the national
committee for the preservation of the
morals of the nation in war times. ad-
dressed the woman'S committee of the
state council of defense at their meet
ing in Memorial hall this afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock.
The swim in Gage park that nearly
cost Mrs. H. S. Spencer $3.50, only
took 25 cents from the family budget.
Mrs. Spencer went swimming the
her Jewels, valued at $3.50, The jew
els were found shortly after Mrs.
Spencer left the park and were turned
over to her Thursday afternoon by
MISS DeolIlSc IGdh, ooO WABASH ave-
nue..
Members of the Luwman Hill and
of the First Methodist churches will
meet Saturday in a tennis tournament
on the First Methodist church courts,
500 Topeka avenue. The tournament
will include four matches in the girls
singles, four in boys singles and four
teams of doubles players. Later in
the season a second tournament will
be staged among the churches.
w. e. Collins, manager of the To-
peka branch of the Standard Oil COM
pany plant, has been transferred to
Kansas City to be manager of the au-
tomobile lubricating oil department.
Fred c. Migliario has been promoted
to the position vacated by Mr. Collins
Mr.. Collinsz will go to Kansas City
soon, but his family will remain in
Topeka until September.
The issuance of marriage licenses is
a good index of business at the court
house, Business seems to rise and fall
with licenses. If couples are rushing
the probate judge other offices are
busy with other things. When the
couples stay away everything slows
up. No marriage licenses were issued
TODAY