The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-02
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

A marriage license was issued
Tuesday in Lawrence to Vernon b.
Warnock and Leslie Moncrieff, both
of Topeka.
F. B. Mentzer, of Winchester. Kan.
formerly of Carlisle, Pa, is visiting
Rev. G. X. Hartman and attending the
state Sunday school convention
George E. Lyon. secretary of the
Kansas Christian Missionary society,
will go TO Asherville, Sunday. to ded-
icate the enlarged Christian church
there.
Rev. jackson Brown was given
surprise party Monday evening at his
home, at sos Western avenue In Gel
ebration of his seventy-first birthday
anniversary.
The special assembly at the Tope-
ka high school scheduled for this
morning was indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Schwegler, who was to speak, did
not arrive.
Miss Margaret Slattery, of Boston,
who is giving series of talks before
the Sunday school convention. will
speak at $3.50 o'clock in the morning
at the high school.
| 'Clem Peters is charged by his wife
with deserving her while she was in
necesSitous circumstances. A warrant
has been issued from the court of To-
peka calling for Peters's arrest
| Four hundred Topeka automobiles
| tested their lights on the blackboard
in front of the city hall Tuesday night.
A similar test will be in progress until
IL o'clock tonight. Frank Southwick
and Leroy Powell are in charge of the
tests.
New officers of the Washburn Ath-
letic association have been elected.
They are: president, James Perry;
treasurer, John Mahaffy; vice-presi-
dent, Arthur Dean; senior representa-
resentative, Paul Rice.
Baughman Bros, manufacturers of
ice cream. pleaded guilty in the court
Tuesday afternoon to misbranding ice
cream, and were fined $40. The costs
in the case amounted to SS.05 more
making the total expense $1S.05. The
defendants waived the issuance of a
complaint.
| r. r. Baumgardt, of Los Angeles
Cal, who has been giving a series OF
entertainments in the east for the last
two months, will appear before the
members of the Railroad Y. M. c. A.
Thursday night. He will talk on THE
Rise of the Slav, or Russia Today and
Tomorrow
News has been received in Topeka
of the resignation of E. H. ReiSner
associate professor of education at tbs
Kansas State Agricultural college. who
plans to go to New York to accept "a
faculty position at the Teachers col
lege of New York City. Professor
Reisner was head of the department
of education and philosophy at Wash
burn college for number of years.
]. W. Semple, manager of a res
taurant, suffered a stroke of some sort
while in the court room of the court
of Topeka today and was t-ken away
from the court house on a stretcher
Frightened court house employees tele
phoned to eleven physicians before
one could be located and he had nj
automobile. ]. j. Kings Ford was
Communicated and the physician was
taken to the building. Semple i'm
proved rapidly after the physician ar
rived.
Because of the conditions of the
country roads the sheriff's force must
resort to almost forgotten methods OF
locomotion. There is a 100-mile trip
to be made. nearly all in the country
posting notices. The county automo-
bile is too new to be used thru 10O
miles of mud on low gear, and il
would take a team to pull buggy SC
Sheriff Larimer has about decided
upon a saddle horse. And Robert
Miller, undersheriff, is scheduled to
ride the horse.
The Topeka Cooperative club has
done its ''bit" for Topeka's soldier
boys. 1t will purchase a fly tent for
use over the mess camp of the First
for double purpose. 1t will furnish
shade during meal hours and also keep
the hot sun from the engineers eyes
while they are studying. The tent will
be 20X63 feet in size. c. E. Neil, John
S. Dean, j. c. Emahizer and Harry
Wardin will look after the purchase
of the tent.
On the theory that Harry E. Lyman
and Albert Hall had conspired to de-
stroy a laundry business formerly con-
Quoted at 1923 Kansas avenue, a jury
in the first division of the district
court Tuesday afternoon awarded $500
to Sarah c. Kiehl She charged that
Lyman and Hall conspired to ruin her
business after Hall had been ousted
from the Harris laundry; that they
were successful at a time when she
was making 500 a month and that
they made impossible a sale of the
laundry for s1,575.
]. A Shoemaker, state rural school
! inspector. and John Eby, county
superintendent, Tuesday accredited the
| West Union District school No. At, as
a standard rural school. 1t is one of
nine in the county and one of 900
in the whole state. Practically every
thing that goes to make up the school
is taken into consideration in making
up the credits. The conditions involve
buildings, surroundings, library, light.
teachers, salaries and teachers GER
| tificates. The standard school must
have at least eight months of instruc-
ton, the salary of the teacher be SIS
a month or more and the teacher must
have a second class certificate. Miss
Bessie Higgins is the teacher at West