The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-18
SNAP SHOT S
AT HOME NEWS

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The members of the D. A r. will
meet Saturday afternoon with Mrs j
G. Stricken, at SIS Harrison street
Mrs. L. c. Campbell of SIS POLK
street who was operated upon at 81
Francis hospital Thursday, is recover
ing.
The Holy Name baseball team de-
feated the team of the Assumption
church Thursday morning at League
park. The score was 16 to Is.
June 5 is the last day that sidewalk
petitions can be presented to the Guy
commissioners. Bids will be asked on
that date and no more petitions can De
fled thereafter.
Battery A baseball team will open
the season this afternoon with the Sill
yer Lake high school team. Cap:
/ Hugh Mclean will be manager anu
probably umpire. The game Will De
played at Silver Lake.
Police officers spent a large part
of the night looking for Sam King, ne
gro, of 24l7 Union avenue, whose Wl1e
charged that he had come home
+ her life. King was not located
Delegates to the state convention of
the Fraternal Order of Eagles, to be
held in Pittsburg May 81, p and %,
have been elected by the local acre
They are: Tom Powell, Spencer Ar
-
wick and Ira Order.
L. H Cameron, who will succeed
George H. Hart as manager CT the To-
cal branch of the Remington Type
writer company, arrived in topeka
Thursday. Cameron has been con-
nected with the company at its Kansas
City offices for the last ten years. HIS
family will move to Topeka next week.
Altho Pups less than six weeks OLD
are exempt from dog tax, w. K
Pease, 1926 Lawrence street, owner
of two pups, four weeks old, was ar
rested by the police Thursday when
he took his two pups from the dog
catchers wagon. B. F. Payne, dog
catcher. complained and warrant
was issued.
mer student at the Industrial school.
was arrested Thursday after he had
| tried to cash a check at Pelletiers
! signed with the name of William Car
! ter, principal for the colored boys III
! dustrial school. The alleged forged
check was written for $3.50 and had
been given to Spradley, according to
| his statement.
AT a farewell party staged by
the Masons for George Hart
bers in making a farewell speech,
| said: George, we'd take off our
shirts for you" He suited action to
| the words and pulled a new red
! sweater OIL ana presented 1t 10 Hart
Mr.. Hart received word from his son,
Floyd, yesterday that he has Joined
the navy.
i Charles Weiskirch won the cham
| pionship singles tennis match Thurs
day afternoon from A. Beal, by a set
score of GA and So. The tournament
was staged on the Y. M. courts under
| the direction of the high school athle-
| tic department. The doubles tourna-
ment has already started in the boys
department and Monday the girls will
step off in the singles fray. Girls
| doubles will follow the singles.
With the coming of harvest season,
the farmers wife is as badly in need
of help as the farmer, himself, accord
j ing to Miss Glee Stallard, of Ottawa,
who has come to Topeka to ask the
/ council of defense to solicit the help
| of city girls during the summer.
Harvest hands and farm labor have
/ to be fed this summer and some one
| must do the cooking and homework,
| she argues. The city and college girls
can come to the rescue of the country
| woman in this.
| To send the record winning relay
team of the Topeka high school to the
| sixteenth annual interscholastic meet,
to be held at Chicago, June 2, is the
| big thing before the athletic depart
ment of the high school Two boys
have promised to pay their own rail-
i road fare but the other two cannot
4 spare the money. Expenses of the
| trip will be betrayed by the associa-
| ton, expenses other than railroad
i fare. The team is made up by H.
Bruce. E. Miller. w. Rogers and Chas.
McCallen.
A farewell dinner and reception in
/ honor of George H. Hart, who is leav
ing Saturday for Denver, where he will
| become manager Of the Denver district
| of the Remington Typewriter COM
pany, was given THURSDAY night by the
/ Scottish Rite Ma sons of Topeka Con-
sistory No. 1. L. M. Penwel, Judge
| A w. Dana and Fred Voiland were the
speakers of the evening, wishing Hart
the best of fortune il his new position.
The music consisted of program by
the Rite orchestra and two vocal solos
by Marguerite Gohlke-
c. R. Foster, charged with stealing
| the cattle found on the S. E. Grimes
farm south of Topeka by Sheriff
Hugh Iarimer, was arrested WedneS-
day night in Cowley county by Off
GERS there. He declared a man nam
ed Thomas had given him the TWEEN
ty-two steers as he did not need them
nor the money. The cattle, officers
say, were stolen from Sam Thompson
a ranchman near Winfield Foster is
believed to be mentally unbalanced. s.
E Grimes was an innocent purcha ser
thru Kansas City commission house.
Anna Wade, negro, is determined
that Tom Wade. her husband, shall
support their two children, Johnnie
and Clayton, whether he lives with
her or not. When he picked up his
belongings and beat it for Kansas City
leaving her and the children penniless
she appealed to Robert Carver, coun-
ty attorney, and Carver issued a COM
plant charging him with wife deser-
ton. A warrant followed and Robert
Miller, under sheriff, went to Kansas
City Thursday, located Wade and
brought him back to Topeka. He
pleaded not guilty in the court of To-
peka today and his bond was fixed at
$500. He couldn't raise it and is in
the county Jail. His case will come