The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
SNAP SHOT
AT HOME NEWS


Vera Carter is booked at the police
| station on charge of having liquor
in her passion"
There is a man in Topeka who has
! just completed an expenditure of $3.50
| on a Ford. He gave it new body
and an electric starter.
The sights at the Gage park beach
were more blushing on the shore
benches than in the water. a well
known Topeka bachelor reports today.
! Judge r. NJ. Lee of the court of To-
peka left last week for a trip thru
western Kansas. During his two
weeks trip j. E. Arlington will sit in
| his place at the court.
The Red Cross war council an
nounces a gift of $25O.000 to the
! American Red Cross from the West
| ern Union Telegraph company, thru
its president. Newcomb Carlton.
A skeleton ordinance which, when
prepared, will put a fine on drivers
of vehicles cutting thru funeral pro-
cesSions, was placed on first readlnS
today by the city commissioners.
The Third Regiment band still
needs a few musicians, it was an
| nounced this morning The company
is nearly recruited to its full war
strength but a few more applicants
can be accepted.
The identity of a pretty girl wear
| ing a white and red swimming cap at
the lake in Gage Park Sunday after
noon is being sought by many. She
put many of the best swimmers to
shame during the afternoon by fancy
diving and swimming.
Dr. A B. Jeffrey. Topeka physician,
is in America again after serving sew
eral months in base hospital in
Great Britain. DIR. Jeffrey is N Chi
cago today and before returning to
Topeka will spend two weeks at Ce-
dar Falls, Iowa, where Mrs. jeffrey S
parents are living.
Drivers of vehicles paying no heed
to danger signals of approaching
trains are breaking the law from now
on. An ordinance was placed on sec
ond reading and passed today by the
city commissioners making the driv-
ers committing this offense liable to
fine of from IS to $50.
More than 1000 officers-in-the-
making passed thru Topeka Saturday.
1t was probably the heaviest travel on
the Union Pacific since the opening of
the officers training camp at Fort
Riley Two engines and sixteen
coaches make up the train which is
run every Saturday to Topeka and
Kansas City.
Hundreds of automobiles are ex-
pected to attend the annual picnic of
the IOpeka AulOHlODIIe CIuD tI Mo
Fadden's grove at Wakarusa- There
will be plenty of entertainment and
a fruit freeze" feed. Those attend
ing the picnic should arrive at the
grove not later than o'clock Wednes-
day evening.
Members of the Topeka Life Under
writer's association at their regular
weekly meeting today noon at the
Chamber of Commerce discussed a
plan to bring general agents to To-
peka once a month to give talks.
Music and a banquet would be other
features of such meetings. A definite
decision will be reached later.
The deed recording the transfer of
the property from Jacob M. D1ck1n-
| son, receiver, to the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific railway company,
made under the railroads reorganiZa-
| ton, was filed today with Ralph w.
| Squires, Shawnee county register of
| deeds One of the deeds, to record
! the transfer, must be filed in each
| county in which the road runs.
| The Kansas Automobile Indemnity
! company's affairs have been merged
into those of the Western Automobile
Indemnity association of Fort Scott,
| according to announcement sent out
to members of the first named COM
pany. Officers of the Kansas Auto
Indemnity company are: Napoleon S.
Burge, E. C. Seger, c. W. Horn, A. A.
GODDARD, f. C. Arnold, j. N. Dolley,
Louis Van Dorp, E. c. Seger and c. B.
\ Burge.
Harlow Price, son of c. J. Price,
143O Polk street, left today for Ur-
bana, ILL.,, to begin training as an Off
| Ger in the aviation corps of the United
| States army. He has been attending
the officers training camp at Fort
| Riley and was one of the first of the
| students to receive a commission.
/ ThnTn 70 CT OF he
training camp seeking commissions in
the aviation corps. Harlow Price is
| only 81 years of age.
Word was received in Topeka this
| morning of the death of Mrs. Ora
Manning Hill at Asheville, N. c. Mrs.
Hill was a daughter of the late o. H.
| Manning, former governor of Iowa
and prominent lawyer of that state.
She was a former resident of Topeka
and moved to Denver several years
| ago. Later she moved to New York
She was taken to Asheville a month
ago where she was treated for lung
i trouble. She died Sunday night.
Kansas bankers will enjoy the dis.
| tinction of riding on "the PRESIDENT
| special to the national convention OF
| the American Bankers association al
Atlanta, September "a and %. The
special train is to be given that name
on account of P. w. Goebel of Kansas
City, Kan, president of the national
association, being one of the passen-
gers. w. W. Bowman of Topeka, sec.
rotary of the Kansas Bankers asso-
citation, has issued a pamphlet fol-
the members outlining the details OF
the trip.
The war is affecting the personne
at the Topeka postoffice. w. o. Rigby
postmaster. today announced tina
Charles n. Youngdoff, Richard L
Walker and E. T. Spencer have beer
appointed substitute carriers. Georg,
e. Swartz and Dennis w. Alden hav,
been aDDOinted S11bStituta cIarl1s MI.