The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-25
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AT HOME NEWS

The worst paved street in Topeka is
lower Quincy street Such IS the as
sertion made by automobiles
John Purcell, assistant to the vice
president of the Santa Fe railroad
stopped in Topeka Tuesday on his
way to Chicago
Grace GiIby of the Santa Fe has re-
signed her position in the freight au-
ditor's office and will go to Wichita,
where she will become cashier for the
Universal Motor Car company
Half a dozen more benches on the
state house grounds would be welcome
these hot evenings Always there are
more people toafing on the grounds
than there are benches 10 accomno-
date them
Not tancying the ninety-day SEN
tence TO jail and the s300 fine which
he received from the police court
Tuesday on a charge of possessing
liquor and of maintaining a nuisance,
Ed Davis. coIored. appealed 10 the
district court
Ed Addison was assessed $40
Tuesday in police court for hitting J.
T Howard proprietor of the Howard
restaurant on Kansas avenue. over the
head with a chair When Addison
was thrown in the city jail he had the
distinction of being the sole male &C.
cupant of the building
fire in a one-story barn at 1911
North Tyler street called out the
horse-drawn chemical wagon of fire
station No 1. Tuesday The barn be-
longs to Rudolph Fletcher and is To-
Gated outside of the city limits. wh"re
no water could be obtained. Esti-
mated damage to the building
amounted to 800.
r O. Wales. advertising solicitor
for the Topeka State Journal has ten
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i've Aug. l. He will open an independ-
ent advertising agency down town and
will write and handle advertising for
Topeka and Kansas firms Wales
came here from Leavenworth, where
he was employed on the Leavenworth
Times.
Commissioner w. L. Porter warns
all swimmers in municipal swimming
holes to place cotton in their ears be-
fore going in If there is any di-ease
floating around in the pools, the city
officials will be among those who get
it, The city bacteriologist, who tests
the water, swirns there two or three
times a week as well as other city
officials
A quit claim deed, recording the
transfer of the Fifth avenue hotel
from William D. Ferry to w NJ
Forbes. a deal that was made several
years ago, was filed today in the office
A deed transferring the property from
w A De Moss to Ferry was also re-
corded The deed was made more
than twenty years ago
The city health department snder
Commissioner W. L Porter is patting
itself on the back following a visit
of inspection by Wichita city officials
Wichita has the city manager form of
government yet admits it has no
health system equal to that of Topeka
under the commission form of govern
ment- The Wichita officials stated
that they had been told that the To-
peka health department was the most
efficient in this part of che west
--a The work of raising money for the
purchase of the 800 acres of land on
Martins Hill addition donated by the
city for the Knights and Ladies of Sc
curity Home and Hospital awaits the
return OF H A Auerbach, chairman
of the committee of the Chamber of
Commerce appointed for that purpose
s E Cobb chairman of the committee
which obtained options. has prepared
a contract which when signed will
specify that the lodge must spend
/ 100000 the first two years Failure
to fulfill the contract reverts the 800
acres to the men who donated the
money!.